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Eight injured in "terrorist" stabbing attack Sweden
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One Swedish paper rang the older brother in Qasaba, Kabul.
Described as a Haven of Peace for Kabul’s middle class
Why isn't Tamim Sultani living in safety with his brother instead of in a Nordic country thousands of miles away?
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My reference was presented in an entirely normal way one would provide a reference.
Highlighting and copy/pasting the title I provided into your search engine of choice would've given you the document in question as the first result. If that is too much effort for you, I don't hold much faith in your ability to rebut anything very well. It is quite bizarre to moan about it when just doing so would've taken less effort than your post.
Nonetheless, to save you the incredible amount of effort it would have required, the document can be downloaded in its entirety from here;
https://www.iss.europa.eu/content/trends-terrorism
Good man, that wasn't too difficult!
As per earlier, inference from stats is tricky, especially when arguing about apples using pictures of oranges.
Your link refers to all terrorist attacks...
Staying on topic , with more specific statistics on Jihadi attacks, that which were discussing, the following is the situation:
Link:
http://www.terrorismanalysts.com/pt/index.php/pot/article/view/553/10970 -
MikeOxsgreen wrote: »Good man, that wasn't too difficult!
As per earlier, inference from stats is tricky, especially when arguing about apples using pictures of oranges.
Your link refers to all terrorist attacks...
Staying on topic , with more specific statistics on Jihadi attacks, that which were discussing, the following is the situation:
Link:
http://www.terrorismanalysts.com/pt/index.php/pot/article/view/553/1097
Yes, my link refers to all terrorist attacks......because my comment was about all terrorist attacks.
"The peak numbers of terrorist attacks per annum specifically in Western Europe occurred during the 70s and 80s" is what I stated, this is supported by the document I provided.
Simply put, you are less likely to be killed by a terrorist attack today than you would've been in the 70s and 80s. I would consider this more significant than the precise ideology of who is committing each attack.
It is entirely unsurprising that we do not have any Daesh attacks in the 70s or 80s, they were formed in 1999. It is entirely unsurprising that we have very few Al-Qaeda attacks during the 70s and 80s as they were formed in 1988 and so were only present for two years of those two decades.0 -
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Because the thread is about a terrorist attack.....and as per the statistics I provided, you are less likely to be killed in a terrorist attack now than you were in the 70s and 80s. My suggestion is that perhaps fears of terrorist attacks are somewhat overblown given that we live in a period of (relatively) low terrorist attacks.
Yet in a thread about an Islamic Jihadi attack, not terrorism, and amid a discussion of irrational fear of an Islamic attack, clear evidence of a rise in the number of Islamic Jihadi attacks in Europe supports the view "Islamphobia" of a Jihadi attack is not irrational, but a reasonable position, and far more relevant than using historic ETA/IRA etc attacks to try hide this simple fact, for whatever reason.
Maybe you'd have better luck plying your wares in a new thread about terrorist attacks in general?
You've now made a new claim - "less likely to be killed in a terrorist attack" today than than the 70s/80s in "Europe".
This is a function of the probability of both dying and being in a terrorist attack. In Europe.
Anyway, for Europe:
https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-37085042
(See, you can argue what you want, how you want with stats unless the criteria are set)0 -
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MikeOxsgreen wrote: »Yet in a thread about an Islamic Jihadi attack, not terrorism, and amid a discussion of irrational fear of an Islamic attack, clear evidence of a rise in the number of Islamic Jihadi attacks in Europe supports the view "Islamphobia" of a Jihadi attack is not irrational, but a reasonable position, and far more relevant than using historic ETA/IRA etc attacks to try hide this simple fact, for whatever reason.
Maybe you'd have better luck plying your wares in a new thread about terrorist attacks in general?
You've now made a new claim - "less likely to be killed in a terrorist attack" today than than the 70s/80s in "Europe".
This is a function of the probability of both dying and being in a terrorist attack. In Europe.
Anyway, for Europe:
https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-37085042
(See, you can argue what you want, how you want with stats unless the criteria are set)
The thread is about a terrorist attack. I responded with comments on terrorist attacks. Perhaps if you think discussing terrorist attacks in a thread about a terrorist attack is off topic, it isnt me who needs to find a new thread in which to ply their wares?!
Myself, I'll leave it to a moderator to decide if my posts are off topic....
From your own link though,However, researchers pointed out that the 1970s saw several years with higher terrorism death tolls, so Western Europe is not "in a downward spiral".
Isn't it wonderful when someone sticks up a link without reading it and it states the opposite of what they're trying to argue.0
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