Scholar Kelly James Clark reports that there have been a total of 207 mass shootings this year (which is defined as four or more people killed in one incident), and in only one of these atrocities, was the perpetrator a Muslim (the July 16, 2015 Chattanooga murders).
Professor Clark sees an unfortunate pattern, “For every non-Muslim shooting suspect, the media never mentioned their religion. Yet the media immediately identified the motivation of Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez when he recently killed five U.S. soldiers in Chattanooga: radical Islam. Unlike the preceding 206 mass shooters, his religion was not ignored; his religion was the only thing that mattered.”
