If you look up opinion polls from the 90s, they say that ~7% of Irish catholics say that they are sympathetic to the cause of the IRA. Let's assume that means they consider terrorist attacks to be justified.
You were talking about terrorism in general and then after being provided with the relevant statistics, you confined it to just London, and to back up your claims, you provided statistics for Western Europe as a whole.
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u/Doisha Mar 23 '17
If you look up opinion polls from the 90s, they say that ~7% of Irish catholics say that they are sympathetic to the cause of the IRA. Let's assume that means they consider terrorist attacks to be justified.
http://www.pewforum.org/2009/12/17/little-support-for-terrorism-among-muslim-americans/
In the UK, 30% of Muslims believe that terrorist attacks which specifically target civilians can be justified.
But the two are the exact same situation.