Re: 16 civilians killed by US soldier!!!
The numerator/denominator logic basically means that neo-nazism has nothing to do with Anders Breivik, or a suicide bomber was merely a bad apple amongst religious zealots, or acid throwing guys are merely a bad apples and not indicative of the culture they arise from. There are always far more in the denominator than in the numerator. Even at the worst of times for black people in the American south, only a small minority of people ever took part in lynchings.
The point of the links above, apart from the many, many incidents where religious bigotry has been the underlying cause of shocking crimes, is that this mentality is much more widespread than the isolated whackjob. That is a claim that cannot (usually) be made of aggregate statistics of random crime. Yes there may be sub-cultures where rape is joked about, or women are taunted with or threatened with assault. When someone from that group actually commits the rape dont then say it has nothing to do with the culture.