I heard an interesting Hidden Brain podcast this morning that said that more terrorism in the United States was carried out by non-Muslims than Muslims, but people more readily classify Muslim violence as "terrorism".
Although I generally trust NPR's programs to have integrity and objectivity, the independent thinker in me researched the subject more.
I found an article from the Atlantic that states that "Between 1975 and 2015, the “annual chance of being murdered by somebody other than a foreign-born terrorist was 252.9 times greater than the chance of dying in a terrorist attack committed by a foreign-born terrorist,” according to Nowrasteh."
The New York Times reports that "Since Sept. 11, 2001, nearly twice as many people have been killed by white supremacists, antigovernment fanatics and other non-Muslim extremists than by radical Muslims"
Business Insider estimates that the odds of being killed by a foreign-born terrorist are lower than being killed by a sharp object accident.
One could argue that the relatively low statistics could be attributed to the government's efforts to thwart attacks, but the added cost-benefit ratio of a travel ban seems quite disproportionate, and ignorant of statistics.
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