Muslims living in the United State were involved in only one-third of 1 percent of all murders in the country in 2016, according to a new study, even as President Donald Trump seeks to portray Muslims as dangerous and ban them from entering the US.
Only 46 Muslim Americans (defined as “Muslims who lived in the US for an extended period”) were linked to violent extremism at home or abroad last year, a study from Duke University sociologist Charles Kurzman has found.
The study shows that of those 46, just 24 Muslims were actually implicated in a concrete terrorist plot. The others did things like attempting to travel to Syria to join the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group.
Overall, 54 people were killed by a Muslim American last year, the vast majority of which (49) came in a single attack — the Pulse nightclub shooting on June 12 in Orlando, Florida.
By contrast, about 11,000 Americans were killed in gun violence in 2016, although Trump has never said…