Singling out Muslims as main terrorist threat in US is unfair

She said she did not see the order as “being anti-Islamic. However, it was a recognition of the fact that most terrorist attacks have been carried out by people originally from Muslim-majority countries, and some refugees and failed asylum seekers from those countries.”

This is oft-repeated misinformation about a voiceless group of asylum seekers, refugees and immigrants who are repeatedly belittled. Even The New York Times reported in 2015 that, since 9/11, almost twice as many people have died at the hands of white supremacists than those of radical Muslims.

Also, 96 per cent of domestic terrorism in the US is committed by white men. The exact figure is disputed, but all statistics have it at more than 90 per cent. This reveals a vast difference between public perception and the number of actual cases in which Muslim extremists have claimed lives in the West.

Over the years, white Christians have walked into schools and churches, and slaughtered children and religious study groups.

Christian activists have bombed gay bars, shot or killed abortion staff and bombed their clinics. However, Baptists, Catholics, Lutherans, Presbyterians, atheists or whatever background the terrorist happened to identify himself with, will not be collectively quizzed to see whether they condemn terrorism.