Jihadi terrorism killed only 107 Americans from 2001 to 2020.
Evidence
To be sure, while groups such as al-Qaeda and ISIS are responsible for devastating attacks, the threat posed by “Jihadi terrorism,” as it is called, is quite small. A number of scholars, including former counterterrorism specialists, have debunked the state’s overinflated projection of the Jihadist threat. Using US government data on attacks and plots, former CIA operations officer Marc Sageman has estimated that over a ten-year period only a small fraction of Muslims in the West turned to political violence—less than one in a million per year. Moreover, the number of deaths in the United States due to Jihadi terrorism from 2001 (after the 9/11 attacks) to 2020 is 107, a figure dwarfed by gun deaths during that same period or the hundreds of thousands killed in the US war on terror. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 92
Categorization
- XREF: Data point fits the state-driven dialectic thread: quantifies the actual threat behind the ‘standing apparatus’ claim. — connects to: Jihadi terrorism kills far fewer Americans than gun deaths or the war on terror — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 92; Jihadi terrorism killed only 107 Americans in twenty years; Far-right domestic extremists killed far more Americans than Islamist extremists after 2001 (+2 more)
- SHARE: A striking statistic (107 jihadi deaths vs. hundreds of thousands in the war on terror) for anyone discussing threat inflation.
Broader Connections
- Jihadi terrorism killed only 107 Americans in twenty years
#corroborates(1.00) - Far-right domestic extremists killed far more Americans than Islamist extremists after 2001
#expands(0.75) - Foreign terrorism kills vanishingly few Americans relative to other risks
#expands(0.70) - Terrorism kills far fewer Americans annually than mundane causes like cars and bicycles.
#expands(0.70) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 507