There are around 10 times more white people in Britain than Asian people…
Trying to break it down by a race in a headline seems a pretty dangerous direction to me. I thought generalizations like this are what we should be trying to avoid.
So in other words, asian people massively overrepresented, and white people massively underrepresented.
Nice try at a spinny headline though, Independent. Well done.
Isn’t that because the UK is a white country predominantly.
I feel this is a bit of the twisting of statistics used when discussing the grooming gangs, conflating ethnic british teens with underage girlfriends, with same as 12-14 year old british girls being passed around by pakistani muslim family-relatives as sex toys for years.
The drottningatan truck attacker was uzbeki, the bomber at the same street before was iranian, and there have been a ton of chechnyan(incidentally as caucasian/white as you can be) attacks in Europe- it wasnt their race that united them, it was **Islam.**
In addition “whites” have different ideologies, as every other group- its not your race that defines the motive of your political attacks. Im pretty sure most of these people are also leftists, not nazis- its the most dominant political movement among the young people most prone to terrorist attacks.
We need a complete shutdown of white men n the UK until we can figure this out
Little kids being daft drawing chalk swasticas is terrorism apparently.
The Independent knows which ethnic group they’re trying to spread hate for…
I assume these figures are heavily skewed by Northern Ireland as any supporter of certain dissident groups are automatically labelled terrorists.
I wonder what the figures look like if they exclude Irish dissidents.
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Misuse of statistics really annoys me. Just like when any famous person says “Do X cos its what i did n succeeded” without taking into account the tens of thousands that did it n failed.
It’s good that we’re also on the lookout for non-Muslim terrorists and radicals. But a third of terror suspects being “Asian” (and we know that means a particular subset of ethnicities) is still a huge over-representation, and they are the main danger (in so far as any of them are) to ordinary people. The white supremacists are being arrested for downloading something off the internet, not killing people.
I’m also not at all convinced that “owning materials useful to a terrorist” should be illegal. That gets worryingly close to thoughtcrime. Why shouldn’t I be able to read about bomb making, or even carry out practical experiments, as long as I only do it in my own property and follow environmental regulations?
It becomes very obvious its a cover up or lie by statistics, when they have to split people along racial lines. A majority of the left-wing terrorists dominating the statistics below are white, not represented at all by the swastika in the article.
-Right-wing Single-issue Ethno-nationalist and separatist: 14
When about 60% of “asians” are muslims, and only about 10-20% of UKs pop is Asian, the over-representation of muslim terror becomes likely even more extreme than would be expected looking at the popularity of the religions/ideologies.
What a strange way to say “Asians are massively more likely to be terrorists than other races”.
Very surprising, considering there’s 20-times as many white people in the country than there is Muslim… That still shows that “Asians” / Muslims are massively overrepresented.
That’s a weird way of saying that there’s a much higher chance of the average Asian being a terrorist than the average white person.
Still don’t understand why “Asian” is such a wide racial category in these studies because we all know that the terrorists aren’t coming from south or east Asia.
Didn’t think the Independent could get much worse
Skeptical when I see this sort of story. Race doesn’t have alot to do with it really. Many Islamists are white converts. Many are not. The introduction of race identity politics to this issue doesn’t help anymore than when the KKK talk about ‘blacks’
I bet that some redditors are feeling very called out by this headline lol.
Fuck this terminology: Asian.
The largest Asian group is Indians. Not many terrorists amongst them. Then there are the Nepalis and Sri Lankans. Not may from those either.
Why are journalists such pussies when it comes to Islam is beyond me
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There are around 10 times more white people in Britain than Asian people…
Trying to break it down by a race in a headline seems a pretty dangerous direction to me. I thought generalizations like this are what we should be trying to avoid.
So in other words, asian people massively overrepresented, and white people massively underrepresented.
Nice try at a spinny headline though, Independent. Well done.
Isn’t that because the UK is a white country predominantly.
I feel this is a bit of the twisting of statistics used when discussing the grooming gangs, conflating ethnic british teens with underage girlfriends, with same as 12-14 year old british girls being passed around by pakistani muslim family-relatives as sex toys for years.
The drottningatan truck attacker was uzbeki, the bomber at the same street before was iranian, and there have been a ton of chechnyan(incidentally as caucasian/white as you can be) attacks in Europe- it wasnt their race that united them, it was **Islam.**
In addition “whites” have different ideologies, as every other group- its not your race that defines the motive of your political attacks. Im pretty sure most of these people are also leftists, not nazis- its the most dominant political movement among the young people most prone to terrorist attacks.
We need a complete shutdown of white men n the UK until we can figure this out
Little kids being daft drawing chalk swasticas is terrorism apparently.
The Independent knows which ethnic group they’re trying to spread hate for…
I assume these figures are heavily skewed by Northern Ireland as any supporter of certain dissident groups are automatically labelled terrorists.
I wonder what the figures look like if they exclude Irish dissidents.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in_Great_Britain#2020s
Lets cross-reference.
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Misuse of statistics really annoys me. Just like when any famous person says “Do X cos its what i did n succeeded” without taking into account the tens of thousands that did it n failed.
It’s good that we’re also on the lookout for non-Muslim terrorists and radicals. But a third of terror suspects being “Asian” (and we know that means a particular subset of ethnicities) is still a huge over-representation, and they are the main danger (in so far as any of them are) to ordinary people. The white supremacists are being arrested for downloading something off the internet, not killing people.
I’m also not at all convinced that “owning materials useful to a terrorist” should be illegal. That gets worryingly close to thoughtcrime. Why shouldn’t I be able to read about bomb making, or even carry out practical experiments, as long as I only do it in my own property and follow environmental regulations?
It becomes very obvious its a cover up or lie by statistics, when they have to split people along racial lines. A majority of the left-wing terrorists dominating the statistics below are white, not represented at all by the swastika in the article.
[https://www.europol.europa.eu/cms/sites/default/files/documents/tesat_2021_0.pdf](https://www.europol.europa.eu/cms/sites/default/files/documents/tesat_2021_0.pdf)
**2020 terrorist attacks:**
-Jihadist: 14
**-Left-wing and anarchist: 25**
-Right-wing Single-issue Ethno-nationalist and separatist: 14
When about 60% of “asians” are muslims, and only about 10-20% of UKs pop is Asian, the over-representation of muslim terror becomes likely even more extreme than would be expected looking at the popularity of the religions/ideologies.
What a strange way to say “Asians are massively more likely to be terrorists than other races”.
Very surprising, considering there’s 20-times as many white people in the country than there is Muslim… That still shows that “Asians” / Muslims are massively overrepresented.
That’s a weird way of saying that there’s a much higher chance of the average Asian being a terrorist than the average white person.
Still don’t understand why “Asian” is such a wide racial category in these studies because we all know that the terrorists aren’t coming from south or east Asia.
Didn’t think the Independent could get much worse
Skeptical when I see this sort of story. Race doesn’t have alot to do with it really. Many Islamists are white converts. Many are not. The introduction of race identity politics to this issue doesn’t help anymore than when the KKK talk about ‘blacks’
I bet that some redditors are feeling very called out by this headline lol.
Fuck this terminology: Asian.
The largest Asian group is Indians. Not many terrorists amongst them. Then there are the Nepalis and Sri Lankans. Not may from those either.
Why are journalists such pussies when it comes to Islam is beyond me