Excavating Truth Through Spiritual Activism (On the Fear of Muslims)

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As for deaths caused by terrorism, leaving aside the 2,908 American fatalities in the US in 2001, the Global Terrorism Database shows that the other 14 years in the period 1999-2014 accounted for a total of 73 American fatalities in the US (averaging 5 per year) and a total of 219 (16 per year) worldwide. In 2014, there were 32,685 deaths from terrorism worldwide, up 80% from 2013, out of which only 38 deaths (a mere 0.11%) were recorded in the West, including 18 in the United States, which ranked 35th on the Index.