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Islamist terrorism is still perceived as being the biggest threat worldwide, despite the fact that the EU only faced one Islamist terrorist attack in 2008. This bomb attack took place in the UK…Separatist terrorism remains the terrorism area which affects the EU most.

. Of course, the reality is that there are other groups that engage in terrorism on a much larger scale, yet these terrorist incidents are minimized. Acts of terrorism committed by Muslims are purposefully sensationalized and focused upon, culminating in the idea that “(nearly) all terrorists are Muslims.”

Terrorism from Islamic extremists is certainly a cause for concern, but it need not be an issue that creates mass hysteria. Nor should it be allowed to be such a critical issue that we are willing to sacrifice our ideals or civil rights for fear of it. Neither should we be reduced to a status of absolute sissitude. We have analyzed data from America and Europe (a good portion of the entire Western world), and the threat from Islamic terrorism is much more minimal than commonly assumed; in the U.S., it accounts for 6% of terrorist attacks, and in Europe not even half of a percent.

It is only through sensationalism and fear mongering that the topic of Islamic terrorism is allowed to be used to demonize a religious community that happens to be a minority in the West. When confronted by such lunacy, we ought to respond with the facts and the truth.

event horizon wrote:

Separatists

The blast at the rear of the civil guard barracks in Burgos, northern Spain, caused significant damage to the 14-storey building and surrounding dwellings.

Around 120 people were sleeping in the building, at least a third of them children, when the bomb hidden in a van exploded shortly before 4 am. Most of the injuries were from flying glass, and 38 of the wounded were treated in a hospital before being released.

Authorities believe the blast was designed to kill and expressed surprise that no-one died in the attack, which came without any warning.

"The attack aimed to cause deaths," Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, Spain's interior minister, told reporters at the scene. "Forty-one girls and boys were sleeping and could simply have been killed in what was a major car bomb.