
Are 95 % of Terrorism Victims Muslim?
More Or Less checks out a claim that most terrorism victims worldwide are Muslim, Trending reports on the debate about freedom of expresion and the Why Factor looks at loyalty.
More Or Less, presented by Tim Harford, checks out a claim that most terrorism victims worldwide are Muslim. Erin Miller of the Global Terrorism Database gives her view of the statistics. The reported death toll of the Boko Haram attack in Baga, Nigeria, this month has ranged from 150 to more than 2,000 people. More Or Less speaks to Julian Rademeyer of Africa Check, who has been trying to get to the truth.
Trending with Mukul Devichand launches a series of free speech reports, exploring the limits of who can say what. Anne-Marie Tomchak reports from Madrid on the controversy surrounding the satirist Facu Diaz who is accused of mocking victims of terrorism but he says he is being targeted because he is linked with opposition to the government, and there is news of a blog designed to expose racists and get them fired from their jobs. Has online vigilantsim - or digilantism - gone too far?
In the Why Factor, Mike Williams asks why we show loyalty and to whom. He talks to people whose loyalty has been challenged and asks if we are ultimately only really loyal to ourselves?
(Image: Activists of Jamaat-e-Islami pray for the victims of Taliban attack on a military-run school in Peshawar. Credit: Associated Press)
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