Why are so many people afraid to attack Islam?

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As for the above link, which has no obvious connection to the topic at hand, according to official Europol statistics, there have been 249 terrorist attacks in Europe in 2010. out of this number, 3 were connected to Islamists. Between 2006 and 2013, 0,7 percent of terrorist attacks have been committed by Islamist groups or persons. Again, according to Europol statistics in the public domain.

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I think this is somewhat misleading. To really understand the impact of religious terrorism you need to look a bit farther than just Europe.

http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog...-to-report

Religious extremism main cause of terrorism, according to report
Since 2001 religious extremism has overtaken national separatism to become the main driver of terrorist attacks around the world, according to the Global Terrorism Index

In recent history the EU has had a lot more political and nationalist terrorism than religious, but then, that's not all that surprising when Europe is probably one of the most, if not the most secular continents on Earth. What you don't seem to take into account is that religious attacks on other continents do still affect Europeans and influence their fears. I mean, just look at what happened in Tunisia with over 30 British holidaymakers dead on the beach because of one mindless dickwad from ISIS.