Speaking of self-expression, here's the old boy weighing in on terror attacks in Europe.

Backward, primitive, tinted. They might do 2% of the attacks, but they're not improving anything.

I like Danish. I blame Islam.

Frank wrote on Sep 29^th, 2018 at 9:05pm:

greggerypeccary wrote on Sep 29^th, 2018 at 5:40pm:


I didn't think you would. Not because you don't want to; because, as I said, elsewhere, you haven't got anything.

greggerypeccary wrote on Sep 30^th, 2018 at 8:55am:


"The vast majority of terrorist attacks in E.U. countries have for years been perpetrated by separatist organizations."

Less Than 2 Percent Of Terrorist Attacks In The E.U. Are Religiously Motivated

" ... in the last five years, less than 2 percent of all terrorist attacks in the E.U. have been “religiously motivated.”

"In 2013, there were 152 terrorist attacks in the EU. Two of them were “religiously motivated.” In 2012, there were 219 terrorist attacks in EU countries, six of them were “religiously motivated.”

"In 2011, not one of the 174 terrorist attacks in EU countries in 2011 were “affiliated or inspired” by terrorist organizations.

"2010, 249 terrorist attacks, three of them were considered by Europol to be “Islamist.” In 2009, of 294 terrorist attacks, only one was related to Islamist militancy ..."

greggerypeccary wrote on Sep 30^th, 2018 at 9:16am:



A total misrepresentation of those Europol reports.  What these reports actually say:

The first paragraph of the 2014 report:

The terrorist threat in the EU remains acute and diverse. The largest proportion of terrorist attacks in the EU was related to separatist groups, although the number significantly decreased in 2013 compared to previous years. Most separatist incidents, however, were small-scale. The majority of EU Member States continue to consider religiously inspired terrorism as a major threat, as evidenced by the significant increase in the number of arrests.


In 2013, 535 individuals were arrested for offences related to terrorism, a number similar to 2012 (537). Most of the arrests occurred in France (225), Spain (90) and the UK (77). A continuous increase in the number of arrests for religiously  inspired terrorism has been observed since 2011, whereas
arrests for separatist terrorism have significantly decreased.


In 2013, as in the previous year, all court decisions in Austria, Belgium and the Czech Republic concerned religiously inspired terrorism.

In 2013 left-wing terrorism verdicts received the highest average prison sentence (18 years), followed by separatist terrorism verdicts (13 years). These average prison sentences were considerably higher than the averages reported in 2012 (8 and 9 years respectively). The average prison sentence
given for religiously inspired terrorist offences in 2013 decreased to 4 years, compared to 6 years in 2012.


Etc, Etc, Etc

greggerypeccary wrote on Sep 30^th, 2018 at 12:55pm:


You have referenced only one of these quotes (Beenish Ahmed's story in the ThinkProgress (natch) ) and I have shown how your Ahmed completely misrepresented the Europol reports on which her 'report' was supposedly based. She also restricts herself to 2012-13 to slant heer defence of her fellow Muslims.


I expect the same sort of distortion and misrepresentation for all your other quotes.


https://www.statista.com/statistics/746578/number-of-arrested-terror-suspects-in...

freediver wrote on Sep 30^th, 2018 at 6:53am:


He has backed it up, FD. It's your claim that it's false.

Now, will you attempt to back up your claim or are you too scared?

Frank wrote on Sep 30^th, 2018 at 12:32pm:


Here's how you do it, FD. The old boy's having a go.

His source says religious terrorism is still less than left-wing and separatist terrorism, but the religious (Muslim) threat appears to be growing.

Would you like to have a go? You can paraphrase Abu if you like.

Frank wrote on Sep 30^th, 2018 at 1:11pm:


Good show. Your statistics show the number of Muslim terrorist crimes.

Do you have a similar statistic for separatist attacks?

FD won't say.