A candlelight vigil on the Las Vegas Strip following the mass shooting at a country music festival. Sheriff Joseph Lombardo of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department announced that the Las Vegas attack was not terrorism, because it was perpetrated by “a solo actor. (Monica Akhtar/The Washington Post)If the perpetrator is Muslim, are we quick to label an incident as “terrorism”? One question often raised in these incidents is whether violence is more likely to be characterized as terrorism when the perpetrator is a Muslim. If instead we hold all else equal but describe the perpetrator as Muslim, the probability of viewing it as terrorism increases to 46 percent.

Source: Washington Post October 04, 2017 09:07 UTC