Extremism from both sides: What does the research tell us about Islamist extremism and far-right ext

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Extremism from both sides: What does the research tell us about Islamist extremism and far-right extremism?

by WILLIAM PARKIN, BRENT KLEIN, JEFF GRUENEWALD, JOSHUA D. FREILICH AND STEVEN CHERMAK, THE CONVERSATION at Salon

http://www.salon.com/2017/02/22/whats-more-dangerous-islamic-extremism-or-christian-extremism_partner/

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Between 1990 and 2014, the ECDB has identified 38 homicide events motivated by Islamist extremism that killed 62 people. When you include 9/11, those numbers jump dramatically to 39 homicide events and 3,058 killed.

The database also identified 177 homicide events motivated by far-right extremism, with 245 killed. And when you include the Oklahoma City bombing, it rises to 178 homicide events and 413 killed.

Although our data for 2015 through 2017 are still being verified, we counted five homicide events perpetrated by Islamist extremists that resulted in the murders of 74 people. This includes the Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando, which killed 49 people. In the same time period, there were eight homicide events committed by far-right extremists that killed 27 people.

These data reveal that far-right extremists tend to be more active in committing homicides, yet Islamist extremists tend to be more deadly.


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