President Trump says his executive order blocking immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries is about national security. A recent study by the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, doesn't help Trump's case. It identified all 10 terrorist attacks in the U.S. since Sept. 11, 2001, that were carried out by radicalized followers of Islam. He was born in New York to Afghan parents. The second biggest death toll came in December 2015, when Tashfeen Malik, a Pakistani woman, and her husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, who was born in the United States, killed 14 people at a holiday party in San Bernardino.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 07, 2017 22:38 UTC