Use this tag for questions about terrorism or terrorist groups. Questions regarding recent news might be unanswerable.
Questions tagged [terrorism]
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Does America not lead the world in mass shootings?
According to an OpEd in the NY Post by John Lott and Michael Weisser that cites a report by the Crime Prevention Research Center, America doesn't lead the world in mass shootings.
"Of the 86 countries where we have identified mass public…
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Are Americans more likely to be killed by vending machines than terrorist refugees?
The Financial Times did some analysis of Donald Trump's controversial immigration restrictions (which were claimed to be about protecting Americans from terrorism).
They focus on analysing risk from refugees since (my emphasis):
President Donald…
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Did toddlers with guns claim more American lives than terrorism in 2015?
The Economist isn't a fan of Donald Trump as a presidential candidate.
In an analysis of his ascendence to the Republican nomination they try to discern some of the factors. As part of their list of factors driving Trump support they argue that…
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Are thousands of Islamic terrorists entering the United States?
In an interview with an Ohio television station, the 2016 Republican nominee for President said:
when you have radical Islamic terrorists probably all over the place, we’re allowing them to come in [to the United States] by the thousands and…
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Did 122 Guantanamo prisoners released by Obama return to the battlefield?
A recent tweet by Donald Trump says:
122 vicious prisoners, released by the Obama Administration from Gitmo, have returned to the battlefield. Just another terrible decision!
According to a Business Insider article, the president was probably…
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Did this Twitter bot predict the Paris shootings 2 days before they happened?
A (now suspended) Twitter bot under the handle PZFeed Ebooks (@PZbooks) posted this tweet on November 11th, at 11:44 AM. Note the date carefully, that's November 11th, 2015.
It reads:
BREAKING: Death toll from Paris terror attack rises to at least…
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Was there a Bowling Green Massacre in 2011?
A number of news outlets are publishing claims by Kellyanne Conway that the Obama administration put a moratorium on refugee admissions following a "Bowling Green massacre" in 2011.
However, I can't find any reference to such an event in the usual…
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Are right-wing extremists a bigger terrorist threat than islamic extremists in the USA?
The Cato Institute claims the following (my highlight):
The ongoing controversy and litigation over the Trump administration’s “Muslim ban” has reignited a debate that has raged since the 9/11 attacks: Who commits more domestic terrorism–violent…
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Did Hillary Clinton refuse to designate Boko Haram a terrorist organisation when the FBI, CIA and the Justice Department asked?
Tera Dahl at Breitbart writes:
As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton refused to designate Islamic State affiliate Boko Haram in Nigeria, which was named the deadliest terrorist organization in 2015, a terrorist group. She not only refused, but she…
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Is this map of terrorist attacks in Europe accurate?
Recently this map of terrorist attacks in Europe went viral and was reposted many times in social media. Does it present actual data about terrorist attacks?
Background: The map gained popularity because of ongoing discussion about immigrants.…
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Have there been more than 27,000 Islamic terrorist attacks since 9/11?
I was browsing a hashtag on twitter (#StepsToReverseClimateChange to hopefully find how I can help myself), and saw a post by someone with this image attached:
The image reads:
More than 27,000 Islamic terrorist attacks since 9/11
More ice in…
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Does this map show every car bomb explosion in Baghdad since 2003?
My friend shared this with me, from The AsiaN:
A map of every car bomb explosions[sic] in Baghdad since 2003
Is this for real? Is there any evidence for this?
Some other references:
BBC: Baghdad: Mapping the violence
Maps on the Web
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Is the number of Muslims correlated with terrorist attacks?
As reported in The Guardian, the Australian TV host Sonia Kruger has recently kicked up a storm by claiming that
There is a correlation between the number of people in a country who are Muslim and the number of terrorist attacks
Putting aside…
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Were the Paris attackers youths from Syria?
Recently, Bill Nye was interviewed by Huff Post Live.
In one excerpt of the interview he draws a line of causation from a water shortage in Syria to the November 2015 Paris attacks.
He was transcribed by the Washington Times (note: not the…
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Does the TSA have a fail rate of 95% in breach tests?
Does the TSA fail at a rate of 95% at detecting (fake, "test") terrorists in breach tests, as reported in this news story? The best information that I have about this is a news report. Is there any official source confirming it?
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