With calls from Donald Trump, one of the current GOP front runner for America’s Presidency, along with several other prominent political figures, for the marking of Muslims, the monitoring of mosques, and a total maiming of the world’s immigration and travel reforms in order to face “Islamic terrorism,” it is no surprise that the American people have gathered some misconceptions about the state of both terror and Islam in the modern world.

Obviously, there are people who have committed atrocious acts in the name of Islam, but the same can be said for any other religion. For example, the Oklahoma City Bombing, the Knoxville Unitarian Universalist church shooting, and the Wisconsin Sikh Temple Massacre were all committed by Christians, along with many other recent acts of terror.

In the United States 94 percent of federally classified terrorist attacks are carried out by non-muslims according to the FBI’s 2005 terrorism report. Worldwide, according to the University of Maryland’s National Terrorism Database, Muslims have carried out 0.00009 percent of the 140,000 terrorist attacks committed since 1970.

The Islamic religion accounts for approximately 23 percent of the world’s population, or 1.6 billion people, according to a 2015 PEW study. The 2014 United States’ State Department’s Country Reports on terrorism reported that there were just 184,000 Islamic affiliated terrorists on Earth.

It is obvious that the modern stereotype associated with Islam in America has no standing. Maybe it has been the clash of culture that has occurred as a result of recent wars between Western and Middle Eastern countries that has brought this stereotype into popular view. Things like international participation, funding from countries in the Gulf, and a more prominent social media presence within Muslim extremist groups may also have popularized this stereotype- but it is still just that- a stereotype.