Americans face vanishingly low odds of dying from foreign terrorism yet fund expanded surveillance.

Evidence

But these practices, as shown in this book, are not effective in reducing terrorism but instead create racial hierarchies. Statistics show that Americans have a 1 in 45,808 chance of being killed by a foreign terrorist attack, based on data collected from 1975 to 2015 (Nowrasteh 2016). Americans are more likely to die due to health issues, like heart attacks and cancer, or even an animal attack, than from foreign terrorism. Yet the fear of Muslims and terrorism drives support for increased surveillance. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 678

Categorization

• CANDY: The statistic that Americans are likelier to die from an animal attack than foreign terrorism is an easy conversational hook.
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Jihadi terrorism kills far fewer Americans than gun deaths or the war on terror — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 92

Related

• The statistical odds of dying in a foreign terror attack are minuscule (similarity 0.94)
• Surveillance investment creates hierarchies without reducing terrorism risk (similarity 0.91)
• Airport surveillance does not reduce terrorism but builds racial hierarchies (similarity 0.86)
• Foreign terrorism kills vanishingly few Americans relative to other risks (similarity 0.86)
• Jihadi terrorism kills far fewer Americans than gun deaths or the war on terror (similarity 0.84)
• US terrorist attacks declined sharply from 1970 to 2011 (similarity 0.84)
• Americans are far likelier to die from animals than foreign terrorism. (similarity 0.84)
• Jihadi terrorism killed only 107 Americans from 2001 to 2020. (similarity 0.83)
• Terrorism declined while mass shootings rose, yet only Muslims faced surveillance (similarity 0.82)
• Mass shootings by non-Muslims produce no surveillance, while innocent Muslims do (similarity 0.82)
• Each terrorist attack triggers renewed citizen anger and state surveillance against Muslims. (similarity 0.81)
• Global terrorism actually declined steadily from its 1987-88 peak until 2004 (similarity 0.81)
• Terrorism kills far fewer Americans annually than mundane causes like cars and bicycles. (similarity 0.81)
• White supremacist violence kills nearly as many Americans as Muslim terrorism. (similarity 0.80)
• Most Americans accept unjust profiling to prevent terrorism. (similarity 0.80)