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by dragonwriter 3878 days ago
> In fact, a report released in 2009 by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point documented the people killed by al Qaeda between 2004 and 2008. It found that only 12% of the victims of al Qaeda were Westerners. That suggests that al Qaeda has killed seven times as many Muslims as non-Muslims.

Well, if you assume that all Westerners are non-Muslims and all non-Westerners are Muslims, it suggests that.