Americans who complain about Muslim passengers on their flight aren’t just being intolerant — they’re factually incorrect about who, statistically speaking, is more likely to be a danger to them.
This is the perfect answer to people who say they don’t want Muslims on their flight
So when this guy said on Twitter that he didn’t want to fly with “a guy with a turban” (a common Islamophobic stereotype in the US, even though turbans are worn by Sikhs, a religious group that originated in what is today India, and not by Muslims) ...
... an American musician named Ashishpal Singh had the perfect response:
The number of Americans who have been killed by Islamic extremists in the United States since September 2001 is just 21 — less than two per year — and none of them on airplanes. Statistically speaking, you’re several times more likely to be fatally attacked on an American schoolyard: in just the year and a half since the December 2012 Sandy Hook attack, 28 people have been killed in US school shootings. And meanwhile, right-wing extremists — virtually all of them white — have killed 37 people since 2001.
So Singh is right: he should be much more worried about a white male like Ryan Carr than Carr should be worried about him.
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