Tiny populations can command outsized media attention after attacks.

Evidence

While they constitute less than 1% of the U.S. population (Mohamed, 2018), U.S. Muslims have received disproportionate media focus, in part because of the attacks of September 11, 2001, when the militant Islamist terrorist group al-Qaeda coordinated four terrorist attacks in the United States. — Emily Greene-Colozzi, Amy Adamczyk, and Senahan Kiyal Keles, Differences in Religious Framing of…, 15

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Maps, both of which dramatize the post-9/11 scrutiny of Muslim lives in America.
• CANDY: Under 1% of the population generating a decade of national coverage is a clean, tweetable disproportionality stat.