Here is the facebook message I’ve sent to the suspected culprit:

Hi if you are the “some swedish sounding name” behind the following:

Terrordåd i Europa 2006-2009 enligt Europol:
Totalt antal: 1770
Islamic: 6 (0.34%)
Right Wing Ethno-Nationalist and Separatist: 1596 (90.17%)
…Left Wing: 106 (5.99%)
…Other/Not Specified: 62 (3.50%)

Then I think I’ve found some errors in your numbers. Feel free to have a look at my analysis here: http://blog.fairchild.dk/2010/12/building-political-lies-with-dishonest-summaries/
And tell me if I’ve completely misunderstood you. And no, I’m not righted winged, but I don’t like people constructing lies like this to further their own stupid little agendas. Especially not when larger issues are at stake.

I mean the fact that Islamic terrorism is so underrepresented is obvious in the original numbers without manipulating them, so you (or whoever is behind this) only help muddle an important message with your actions.

Besides from that, I have no beef with you personally, and I don’t seek to have one either.

regards
Daniel

@airaM: Well I guess the underlying numbers still represents “lies, damned lies and statistics” as the old saying goes. By which I mean that the EUROPOL reports of course also have a bias, which is partly stated in the definition of the different categories (section 3.1 on page 9 in the TE-SAT 2010 report).
My point however was never to start a discussion of the definitions used in these reports, only to point out that someone is lying to promote his own agenda at the possible detriment of making people aware of an eye-opening fact about terrorism in Europe.

@Mr. Sörenby:
First I’d like to thank you for having the courage to come here, I have used strong words against your summary and more than hinted at the person behind that summary having deviant traits in his character. I would like to apologize to you for the parts of my writing that are easily read as attacks on your character, I was really angry when I wrote that.

When you write this:
“The most important part was that many times representation goes very wrong and the once that point to Muslim Terror ar often the once that are behind majority of terror Ethno-Nationalist!”

Are you then telling me that you find it okay to put your own interpretation on top of numbers from a credible source, and then attributing your interpretation to the original credible source without any mention of how you have altered the meaning of the original numbers?

That is what it seems to me, and I think this is very wrong. Especially since I’ve seen several people who based on your original summary have drawn the conclusion that EUROPOL finds that Right-Wing extremists are behing 90% of all terrorist acts in Europe. A conclusion that is horribly misleading, and cannot be made in a credible way from the EUROPOL numbers.

If you’ve only added an explanation to your note that explained that you’ve merged those two columns, because your personal belief is that Separatist are all Right-Wing extremists, then I would have no problem with your summary at all. But what you actually did has been very misleading for a lot of people, who didn’t take the time to go back to the sources.
You might see above that I consider the reports open for interpretation of their statistical bias, so I’m open for a discussion of the criteria the reports are based on. But in doing so I would insist that the outmost care is taken to clearly state every step that is taken in the reinterpretation of the original material. If you don’t do this, you’re misleading your readers, make yourself look ridiculous and produce results that are worthless for others to build on.

And even worse, you’re taking away attention from a very interesting truth that is very obvious in the numbers. The fact that Islamic terrorism in Europe currently is as insignificant as it is, according to EUROPOLS reports.

If you want to make the Right-Wing look bad, producing false claims is not the way to do it. I rather think that it is counterproductive to your aim.
Rather you should spend your time record what they say and shout it from the rooftops every you catch them in putting forth a false claim. And politicians do this often, and I think the ones on the far Right (Dansk Folkeparti in Denmark) maybe even warp the truth more often than other politicians (my personal opinion which I have no supporting data for).

So just to reiterate once again what my problem with your summary is: You’ve falsely represented the numbers from EUROPOL in a way that make it seem like what is in fact your personal opinion comes directly from EUROPOL. The harm is that a lot of people have read your original statement and now thinks that EUROPOL is behind the claim that 90.17% of all terrorism in Europe stems from the extreme Right.

By doing so you are harming both your own agenda, and drawing attention away from what could be used to form a more nuanced view on the extent to which Islam is a major culprit for terrorism in Europe.

Only three countries in the report have any separatist/ethno-nationalist incidents of significance: vastly most in Spain (Basque country), then France (Corsica) and Ireland.

ETA is a marxist organisation. Both Basque and Irish nationalism are strongly linked with the left wing (I don’t know so much about the Corsican variety). Left-wingers from all over Europe have traditionally supported Basque and Irish nationalism, for reasons hard to understand, since left-wingers typically oppose nationalism in their home countries.

So actually it would make much more sense to group the ethno-nationalist-separatists with left extremists.

(I am right-of-centre and have a certain sympathy for both Basques, Corsicans and unified Ireland, although not for the violence…)

Actually what is missed is that I said in my static´s that I did the merger of these groups now this wasn´t with everyone else´s copy of my statistics but to be sure I would say that the hole rapport is extremely bias of a police that won´t rapport its own state terrorism but are still willing to attack many groups. Then I would say that many acts of terror usually are classified in other categories of crime if we look to Sweden I don´t think our Shooter will be classified as a terrorist, but I still think he was. The error in numbers was because in part of the rapport the speak of the UK numbers and then they withdraw them instead + some stress in putting them together! As a phenomenon I would actually call Wahhabis and Ethno-Nationalist a similar movement but just local to that very territory.

If you look at the rapport you can see that the description of the groups they divide into are changing in every rapport so first to just join them is probably wrong even if I don´t think the Europol has made any change in when they put one in one box the main threat to most people are the Ethno-Nationalist! That many time has very little to do with Right-wing or Left-wing unless binding with a totalitarian leader when Ethno-Nationalist movements can go one of these ways!

And when you look at my statistics you can also see that I refer to my sources directly so that people could check it! If we look at my numbers the error was extremely small so there for I don´t really think there is a fuss but if you or someone else fell there was … then I stand corrected and have actually changed my numbers to the more correct one´s even thou I think the hole rapport is extremely misguiding but funny to use when people try to use fear to control populations!

@David Sandelin, you post is not without merit, but these minor deviations was never my reason to take the time to point this out. I’m just going to be lazy and quote my 2nd comment:

“My point however was never to start a discussion of the definitions used in these reports, only to point out that someone is lying to promote his own agenda at the possible detriment of making people aware of an eye-opening fact about terrorism in Europe.”

If you look at the spreadsheet I linked to in my original post you see that I’ve built my summary from numbers from the reports from 2010 and 2007. The former covers 2007-2009 and the latter has a comparable statistic for 2006. I only added the 2007 to try to cover the same range of years that Daniel Sörenby’s summary did.

The Islamic terrors acts that are “missing” in the TE-SAT 2010 summary, are mentioned in the 2009 report as haven taken place in 2007. I did make sure to point out that the UK had been left out of the TE-SAT 2010 in my spreadsheet (if you trust googles timestamp then you’ll see that I haven’t edited the document for the last 32hours as of this writing).

You are right in that I used this statistics and I actually have waited to use it because I have known of it for quite some time. But I waited to see when the Anti-Islamic voices of no knowledge was going to start spewing there hatred. And then I know I actually been trying to put Sverige Demokraterna to a Right-wing party but that is how I see my own error because looking at their politics I can see that they are much more left wing but first an primarily they are Ethno-Nationalists and that was what I wanted to show. That they shouldn´t be throwing stones in a house especially when they have had someone out on the streets shooting people just a month ago (Peter Mangs).

What they are trying to do is building a lie of hate and fear to build a police state in SWEDEN and we don´t want that! We want freedom for our Citizens not fear of what is different!

@Daniel
You might not remember this, but i actually talk to you about this very issue some time ago where i specifically pointed out the lacking statistic and the fact that ETA is a maxist-leneist movement. You totally ignored my advice and posted false statistics.

This proves millisues intent.

About Sweden democrats, its true that they not right-wing. In my opinion most left-wing people talk about all non left-wing party’s of being right-wing. Of cause, in a relative perspective, the are. But in a absolute perspective its not correct.

In a absolute monetary way Sweden democrats is dead center, with a absolute 50/50 state-capitalism/free-market

Sweden democrats is note separatist and only barely nationalistic. Really nationalist terror is far less common as left-wing, so you, with your leftist viewpoint is actually part of one of the larges terrorist ideology. The largest 3 separatist terror-network in Europe is Leftist. (i check up the French one). In a non Europa viewpoint its true to, the Colombian terror group is to leftist, as well as the Brazilian groups. In India, Philippines, Thailand leftist often cooperate with Islamic terrorist.

In wars to Islamic and leftist group is totally dominant in the ongoing wars.

When i see talk about hatted, most hatred seems to published by leftist and Muslim, not about them. You talk about not spreading hatred, but you create lies about right-wing groups.

Its you how actually create hatred.