having a coffee in Martin Place, or walking out of police headquarters in Parramatta, or attending a concert in Paris

hearts and minds are gripped by fears

While acknowledging, addressing, challenging, responding to, and where possible, preventing and correcting the bad things that happen, we must also celebrate the many good things in life

take a chill pill!

“At home” here in Australia (and I use the words “at home” ironically)

they shrink to even less significance

Notwithstanding

take a chill pill!

this means that you are more likely to be struck by lightning in your lifetime than a Muslim is likely to commit a terrorist attack during that same timespan

With an estimated 1.5 billion Muslims around the world and less than 150,000 belonging to organizations such as ISIS, (al-Qaeda, al-Shahbab and Boko Haram) terrorists represent less than 0.001 percent of all Muslims.[xiii]

Even if Muslims were hypothetically behind every single one of the 140,000 terror attacks committed worldwide since 1970, those terrorists would represent barely 0.009 percent of global Islam

According to Australian Bureau of Statistics, in the 36 years between 1978 and 2014, 113 people died from terrorism, but this year alone 730 will die from domestic violence—i.e. on average two women each week—and around 2,500 people will take their own lives.

That is, deaths from terrorism account for 0.025 of the total number of murders, or 2.5%

March 2016

American Muslims have killed less than 0.0002 percent of those murdered in the USA during this period

In fact in 2013, it was actually more likely Americans would be killed by a toddler than a terrorist

How many people did toddlers kill in 2013? Five, all by accidentally shooting a gun

you actually have a better chance of being killed by a refrigerator falling on you

We are safer living among Muslims who have a religious obligation to protect minorities than we are among amoral criminals or citizens who have no regard for the lives of others!

Since 9/11, Muslim-American terrorism has claimed 37 lives in the United States, out of more than 190,000 murders during this period

pproximately 60 were carried out by Muslims. In other words, approximately 2.5% of all terrorist attacks on US soil between 1970 and 2012 were carried out by Muslims.

94 percent of the terror attacks were committed by non-Muslims

Muslim terrorists were responsible for a meagre 0.3 percent of EU terrorism during those years.

meagre

in 2013, there were 152 terrorist attacks in Europe. Only two of them were “religiously motivated”, while 84 were predicated on ethno-nationalist or separatist beliefs

in the 4 years between 2011 and 2014 there were 746 terrorist attacks in Europe. Of these, only eight were religiously-inspired, which is 1% of the total

European Union’s law enforcement agency

official data from Europol

the following statistics from Europe, America, Australia and the world show.

in violation of clear Quranic texts and established Islamic principles

patently false

Contrary to the stereotype, this too is false

Rev Dr Patrick McInerney