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The Sidereal Record Straightener
Posted by muriel_volestrangler in Latest Breaking News
Sun Jul 24th 2011, 05:23 AM
Since 2007, Europol has issued an annual report on terrorism in the EU.

See https://www.europol.europa.eu/latest_publi... and subsequent years

The stats for the EU countries added up:

('Islam'=Islamist; 'Separ'=separatist; 'Left'=left wing and anarchist'; 'Right'=right wing; 'Single'=single-issue; NotSpec=other or not specified)
Attacks (attempted and successful):
Islam Separ Left Right Single NotSpec Total
2006 1 424 55 1 - 17 498
2007 4 532 21 1 1 24 583
2008 0 397 28 0 5 11 515
2009 1 237 40 4 2 10 294
2010 3 160 45 0 1 40 249

Arrests:
Islam Separ Left Right Single NotSpec Total
2006 257 226 52 15 - - 706
2007 201 548 48 44 - 0 1044
2008 187 501 58 0 3 4 1009
2009 110 413 29 22 2 11 587
2010 179 349 34 1 0 48 611
(UK arrests not classified, so total higher than parts)

Trial verdicts
Islam Separ Left Right NotSpec Total
2007 198 214 27 1 9 449
2008 190 155 27 2 10 384
2009 268 89 39 1 11 408
2010 201 84 37 4 6 332

Convictions (not classified)
2006 257
2007 221
2008 272
2009 337
2010 241
As you can see, most attacks have been separatist, and the majority of arrests in most years too. In the last 2 years, trial verdicts have been mainly in Islamist cases, but still by no means an overwhelming majority. The number of actual Islamist attacks has been very small. In previous years, there have been a very few high casualty Islamist attacks.

Simply, one should not leap to conclusions about terrorist acts.
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