The NY Times article that Right-wing terrorists are more deadly than Muslim...

[makattak]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/25/us/tally-of-attacks-in-us-challenges-perceptions-of-top-terror-threat.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

According to this, white supremacists, anti-government activists and other non-Muslim extremists have almost twice the death toll of Muslim extremists in attacks in the USA since 9/11.  Huh.

Which MillCreek linked to in the Charleston thread.

Unsurprisingly, even getting past my first problem with the study (which Ms. McCardle nicely notes to begin with), the authors were VERY stringent about who was an Islamic Terrorist but a lot more lax about who was "Right-Wing". Almost as though they had an agenda and a desired outcome...

Ms. McCardle does the work I didn't want to do and goes in a case-by-case search of the study (with less than 90 total dead, that was likely not that time consuming).

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-06-30/tallying-right-wing-terror-vs-jihad

End result? Even with ignoring the massive terror attack that dwarfed by orders of magnitude everything else, the numbers for "right-wing" terrorists and Islamic terrorists are comparable.

What she does not go into is a discussion about percentages of the population... but that's another matter.

[Ron]

They don't count Hassan and Malvo? 

[Pb]

Yes, let's exclude 9/11!   

[brimic]

Pretty meaningless...
Study the number of murders done by 'terrorists' in poor metropolitan neighborhoods and you'll find that the yearly killings in any city dwarf those done by muslim or right win extremists over the last 13 years total.

[Blakenzy]

Terrorist is what they name you when they can't be bothered by due process.

[KD5NRH]

Well, if you cherry pick your data carefully enough, Italian anarchists are the most dangerous terrorist group in America.