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The respected Florida-based Poynter Institute, whose mission is to improve journalism in support of democracy, is trying to help journalists cover Islam more effectively by offering a new on-line course free of charge. So I registered.
And I learned, among other fairly uncontroversial facts about what has been among the world's fastest growing religions, that while approximately 3,000 people were killed on 9/11, approximately 15,000 people in the U.S. are murdered each year.
I also learned that in most years, "jihad organizations" have accounted for "well under 1 percent" of the half million people who are murdered annually. At its "peak" – of what, Poynter.news University doesn't tell us– the jihad groups have accounted for under 2 percent of the toll.