Thought this was interesting in light of the discussion going on in the other thread. The "map" link is pretty fascinating. Might spend some more time looking at it later when I have time. A few excerpts:
The [Global Terrorism Database], housed at the university's National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, includes information on 58,000 bombings, 15,000 assassinations and 6,000 kidnappings going back to 1970 - anything that falls under the database's definition of terrorism....
The preliminary findings of the [causation] study already have yielded some basic demographic patterns about which extremists in the U.S. are most likely to resort to violence. Compared to violent domestic terrorists on the Far Left and Far Right, Islamists stand out. They're more likely to be young (between 18 and 28 years old), unmarried and unassimilated into American society. They are also more likely to be actively recruited to an extremist group.
But in other important ways, Islamist extremists in the U.S. as a whole - violent and[/I] nonviolent - are not so different from other extremists. People in the three groups were equally likely to have become radicalized while serving time in prison - complicating the narrative that Muslim prisoners are unusually likely to commit to extremism from behind bars - and to be composed of individuals who have psychological issues, are loners, or have recently experienced "a loss of social standing."
Tracking 125,000 Incidents Of Global Terrorism
The [Global Terrorism Database], housed at the university's National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, includes information on 58,000 bombings, 15,000 assassinations and 6,000 kidnappings going back to 1970 - anything that falls under the database's definition of terrorism....
The preliminary findings of the [causation] study already have yielded some basic demographic patterns about which extremists in the U.S. are most likely to resort to violence. Compared to violent domestic terrorists on the Far Left and Far Right, Islamists stand out. They're more likely to be young (between 18 and 28 years old), unmarried and unassimilated into American society. They are also more likely to be actively recruited to an extremist group.
But in other important ways, Islamist extremists in the U.S. as a whole - violent and[/I] nonviolent - are not so different from other extremists. People in the three groups were equally likely to have become radicalized while serving time in prison - complicating the narrative that Muslim prisoners are unusually likely to commit to extremism from behind bars - and to be composed of individuals who have psychological issues, are loners, or have recently experienced "a loss of social standing."
Tracking 125,000 Incidents Of Global Terrorism