Hello
As we know it gets obvious that (nearly) all the terrorism we find about today seeking a religious gain and this is their main cause.
From Hamas, el Qaeda, Boko Haram, Islamic State, Islamic Jihad, Taliban, and further organizations, I believe the other terms claimed by these organizations, it can be wrapped with pretty words like "self determination" of IS, or "liberation of Palestine" by Hamas, and so on, but in the end its all about religious war of ruthless Islamic radicals.
Please try stick to the board rules.
Couldn't help but notice you're only discussing terrorism wrought by people who claim to be Muslim. Little more involved than just that you realize? The impression that a disproportionate number of terrorist attacks are carried out by those claiming to be Muslim is due in large part to a concerted effort by conservatives and right-wing parties needing to scapegoat someone, and being predominantly Christian, they're gonna target whoever isn't. Their choice of scapegoat then is simply a matter of who isn't on their side anyway: statistically, Jews carried out more terrorist attacks than Muslims (7% vs 6%) but without Jewish support, there would be no American right-wing so they can't go blaming the Jews (besides, it's been done, and no one wants the comparison to the Nazis.) Can't blame Christians since that's their own side. Even though over 80% of terrorism is perpetuated by Christians (or rather, those who claim to be Christians.) So who's left? Well, as yet there's no 'log cabin Muslim' wing of the GOP so blame them, they're not sitting here listening to us anyway.
It's the same trick theologians use at services when they blame things on homosexuals. Probably not a lot of out-homosexuals sitting in church on Sundays so they make a good scapegoat. But even if adulterers and Sabbath-breakers account for more 'sinners' since they're sitting right there wondering how much to tithe, best not to upset them. So blame the group or groups that aren't represented (and tithing.)
Same logic with portraying Muslims as disproportionately terrorists. No US political party lives or dies with Muslim participation so if you need to scapegoat someone they're as good as anyone. Plus, the fact that they usually come from a region where we need to secure a constant flow of oil, portraying them as the Bad Guys helps when ever you wanna invade and steal more oil, or make some dictator the US installed a generation ago suddenly look bad and so be replaced by a more cooperative one.
The US media helps by covering whatever will get the best ratings. And since fires and things blowing up is always the highest rated, since terrorists seem to like blowing things up as opposed to Americans with our love of gunplay and shooting people, there's a virtually never-ending stream of footage showing the latest terrorist-incident. Of course, footage of schoolkids running as SRT teams move in to handle the latest shooting incident shows, that's good tv too. But of course no one ever portrays that as an act of Christian terrorism. Yet when it happens in an Arab country, that's usually the headline, "Muslim terrorists invade UN school.'
