All Muslims Are Terrorists

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The first reason why Americans should not assume that all Muslims are terrorists is because terrorists can be members of any religious group. Danios, who is a writer from Loonwatch, shows a database that was taken from the FBI of all the terrorist attacks committed on the U.S. from the years 1980 to 2005. The results are not surprising because Islamic Extremist only make up 6 percent of the terrorists attacks. Yet, most Americans still continue to live in fear of Islam. The data also shows that there were more Jewish acts of terrorism with 7 percent more than Islam within the time period in the U.S. The Jews committed acts of terrorism based on their religion passions, just like Al-Qaeda and company did. 42 percent of the terrorist’s attacks

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