Incidents of rape is lower in Europe than in the United States... Germany has less than1/3rd the incident of rape in the US (9.4 per and 27.3 per 100k). So any report of widespread Muslim gangs (or anyone else) running around is vastly overblown. Any individual instance is, of course, intolerable.
But pretending this is some sort of widespread atrocity worthy of excluding an entire group of people is clear hyperbole, if not xenophobia.
Damn facts, all getting int he way of a good anecdote.
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And yes, there are many who have an irrational fear of terrorism in the US. Lets list the entirety of terrorist attacks in the last 6 years:
1) 2011 Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords shot and 6 others killed but an American young suburban white guy
2) 2012 Benghazi riots/attack/whatever killed 4 Americans in Libya by a mob of angry Libyans (terrorism, not terrorism... lets count it)
3) 2012 Sikh Temple in Wisconsin shot up, 6 killed by a middle class conservative Christian American white supremacist
4) 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing kills 3. American Citizens with roots in Russia blow up people to show off to Muslim terrorists.
5) 2015 Charleston church shooting kills 9 people. Shooter was white protestant American male who really loved the confederate battle flag.
6) 2015 San Bernardino shootings killed 14 people, an immigrant and his wife murdered people in the name of Allah
17/42? The Muslim terrorists aren't even keeping up. Let alone leading the pack.
In that same period of time there were more than 1,700 mass shooting in the United States that weren't committed by a Muslim terrorist. For some reason we dont officially count as terrorism:
- Community College shooting in Oregon, white guy kills 9 people
- Military Recruitment shooting in SC, Kuwaiti Muslim kills 5
- Maryland school shooting, white guy kills 5
- Alturas shooting, white girl kills 4
- Navy Yard shooting, white guy kills 13
- Arson shooting in Florida, hispanic guy sets apartment building on fire and murders 7 as they run out
- White guy kills 6 on a kill spree in Santa Monica
- Family murder by a white guy in Washington kills 5
- Newton school shooting, white kid goes crazy and kills 28
- White engineer in Minneapolis learns hes going to be laid off and kills 7
- Crazy white kid thinks he's the joker and shoots 12 people in a movie theater
- White guy kills 6 people in a coffee shop in Seattle
- University gets shot up in California by a white dropout, kills 7
- An Asian guy shoots up a sauna in Georgia, killing 5
- White guy shoots up a beach in California, kills 8
- Hispanic guy shoots up an IHOP in Nevada kills 5
That's just scratching the surface in the last 5 years. There were more than 350 mass shooting in just 2015:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/heres-a-map-of-all-the-mass-shootings-in-2015/ The portion committed by Mulsims in the US is insignificant.
More than 5,000 people will be shot and killed by police (most of them deserving to be shot, but still a big number). Heck, 188 people have been executed in the United States in the same 5 years = more people have been executed by the US government than killed by terrorists (though, nearly certainly all of the people executed deserved it). I say all these statistics to point out that the threat from Islamic Terrorists is not such that it should be anywhere near the top of our priority list.
On average, less than 4 Americans are killed each year by Muslim terrorists. More people die from accidents with mules, let alone the numbers killed by the terrors of bacon. Yet we are obsessed with the issue like it is an existential threat.
Terrorism is a serious threat, one that we need to address in order to keep that number low. But it has more power if we over react. The odds of destroying America by over reaction to terrorism vastly outweighs the actual threat of the terrorists.
