Muslims and terrorists

[magogian]

Really good op Ed on this subject:

Ali Eteraz: The Myth of Muslim Condemnation of Terror

That author is an idiot. I didn't read past this: "Second, heaping an expectation on Muslims - to call out "their" criminals - is absurd when no similar expectation is placed on any other religious, ethnic, or ideological group. Is it appropriate for a white man to tell "the hispanics" to make proclamations against the drug trade? Why should a hispanic who has never even touched drugs speak out against drug lords? His abstention from engaging in the drug trade is condemnation enough."

Hispanics that engage in the drug trade don't say they are drug traffickers because it is part of their obligation as Hispanics.

What is probably a far more apt analogy is as follows. There have been a few abortion bombers. They say they conduct the bombings because of their belief that abortion is murder--it is required. The vast majority of pro-lifers however strongly object to such methods and consistently and repeatedly condemn it. Whenever a bombing occurs, the American public and media expect them to do so, and they, rightfully, do so.

 

[Rizzophil]

The fact of the matter is and I'm sure some many find this hard to believe but Islam is as diverse as Christianity, including all of its insane and goof ball iterations. Shocker I know.

The thing about truth is that it is true. It really can't be argued.

Therefore, I would encourage anyone on this board (or in life) that spends their time defending Islam to actually read their book, the Quran. It is not a nice book. You will find their views to be very clear about woman and anyone that doesn't submit to their views.

The Quran contains at least 109 verses that call Muslims to war with nonbelievers for the sake of Islamic rule. Some are quite graphic, with commands to chop off heads and fingers and kill infidels wherever they may be hiding. Muslims who do not join the fight are called 'hypocrites' and warned that Allah will send them to Hell if they do not join the slaughter.

You can try and tell people that Islam is a peaceful religion. Unfortunately, when you go back to their book (manual) it is a violent religion that is all about conquering.

Lastly, for those that want lump Christianity into a violent religion, I would encourage you to read the book - the Bible. Specifically the New Testament. The Old Testament has been fulfilled because of the sinless life and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

 

[Bogtrotter07]

Bogs.... per the OP, we were talking over the past decade in America. Obviously, the Klan, IRA, etc. etc. etc. became defunct in their terrorist activities before that line that was drawn in the OP.

Thank you for responding with love and understanding. And I appologize if I am not sharp enough to see the point. But, that seems to exactly be my point! It is a bad time to look at such individuals who have probably not coalessed as a group, but probably more fittingly represent an illness, and it is entirely too short of a time for a clear frame of reference for anything, including a comparison with any accurate historical perspective.

Many people are doing things and mask themselves in religious camouflage; they have nothing to do with religion.

To see this more clearly in an equivalently mature Christianity, I believe, you have to look at someone like Martel's grandson. He did a lot to standardize Christianity, and develop the face of the church today, but the overwhelming truth is he wanted to be the Holy Roman Emperor, have the Pope work for him, and rule the world! As an aside, no one did more to lock in the feudal system, trample the rights of a broad group of Christian souls, and diminish personal freedom as Charlemagne. His assault on one of the biggest groups of European Christians did not begin to relinquish until the Magna Carta, in 1215, and didn't get a lot better until the birth of the United States.

Megalomania has the same footprint, no matter what date and time. It borrows one or two points from whatever it uses to cloak itself, and then it advances its own position, sometimes adopting the entirety of a dogma, or cause to advance itself.

 

[magogian]

You can try and tell people that Islam is a peaceful religion. Unfortunately, when you go back to their book (manual) it is a violent religion that is all about conquering.

I'm not 100% up on my Hadiths, but I think they are important to an understanding as well.

 

[Bluto]

That author is an idiot. I didn't read past this: "Second, heaping an expectation on Muslims - to call out "their" criminals - is absurd when no similar expectation is placed on any other religious, ethnic, or ideological group. Is it appropriate for a white man to tell "the hispanics" to make proclamations against the drug trade? Why should a hispanic who has never even touched drugs speak out against drug lords? His abstention from engaging in the drug trade is condemnation enough."

Hispanics that engage in the drug trade don't say they are drug traffickers because it is part of their obligation as Hispanics.

What is probably a far more apt analogy is as follows. There have been a few abortion bombers. They say they conduct the bombings because of their belief that abortion is murder--it is required. The vast majority of pro-lifers however strongly object to such methods and consistently and repeatedly condemn it. Whenever a bombing occurs, the American public and media expect them to do so, and they, rightfully, do so.

Well you should have continued reading the article because he posted several links that documented hundreds of cases of Muslim public figures condemning terrorism.

 

[Redbar]

Megalomania has the same footprint, no matter what date and time. It borrows one or two points from whatever it uses to cloak itself, and then it advances its own position, sometimes adopting the entirety of a dogma, or cause to advance itself.
---Bogtrotter07

Enlightened and beautifully stated.
__________________

 

[Jason Pham]

There is a thread of thought here that asserts that the cause of a pattern of action by a group of persons or religious adherents is caused by something that is innate to that culture or religion. But how comfortable would those forwarding this argument be with looking at incarceration rates in the U.S. and arguing that persons of a certain race or culture are criminals because of something that is innate to that race or culture. Finding a pattern and providing statistics is not a substitute for asking why a pattern exists and whether there is a cause, external to the target group, that contributes to the pattern.

Before turning to those external factors, I'd like to offer a few thoughts on factors internal to a religious creed to see whether and to what extent the tenets of a religion determine the actions of its adherents. It is facile to look at a pattern exhibited by a group of religious persons and then to look to the religion as the cause. But I have found that religious tenets, at least as they are applied to the society and to the politics of the day, are more malleable than is initially thought. Looking at the first wave of democracy in nineteenth century Europe, responses of Catholic and Christian leaders to democracy were varied from country to country, depending on the place of religion in the state. Despite this variation, the emerging notion was that Catholicism especially was fundamentally incompatible by its own tenets with democratic principles and regimes. In fact, this very argument was asserted in the United States as a reason for restricting immigration of Catholic immigrants and forcing Catholic immigrant children into public schools so to instill in them a love for democracy that was perceived to be lacking. Yet, during the third wave of democracy in the 1970s and 1980s, Catholic leaders, especially in Eastern Europe and South America, were calling for democratic rule as inextricable from the dignity of the human person. The point of this is to say that a religion with as rich of a text as any of the Abrahamic religions is not easily reduced to an innate or unmovable pattern of action or thought at least as it pertains to social and political issues.

I'll end with a few thoughts on the external factors. It would likely be more articulate to say structural--because I mean to offer the role of the interactions between groups as a source of explanation for the actions of one among those groups--but I say external because the discussion in this thread seems to take one group in isolation of any of its interactions with other groups. To just offer a few thoughts, British and French rule in the Middle East may have been brief but the instability it initiated reverberates into this century. Borders were drawn up according not to any religious or ethnic lines but according to the interests, especially in terms of oil, and the politics of the British and French. Installing those amenable to their interests in the highest offices, the British and French "protectors" left their protectorates with leaders with little legitimacy and with multiple religious and ethnic groups with which to contend. You know what an easy way to galvanize a group of persons under your leadership? Create enemies outside of the group, whether it be along religious, ethnic, or political and national lines. The current state of affairs is therefore in part a consequence of the instability and division created by Western influences.

Now all of this is not meant to deny that there are internal issues at play here. But the above discussion is filled with conversations about these issues while quite a bit less has been devoted to a discussion of the bigger picture. If the study of history is useful for anything, it is to show us that most things began earlier than we think they did and are more complicated than we think they are.

 

[magogian]

If the study of history is useful for anything, it is to show us that most things began earlier than we think they did and are more complicated than we think they are.

Those damn Ottomans.

 

[Redbar]

There is a thread of thought here that asserts that the cause of a pattern of action by a group of persons or religious adherents is caused by something that is innate to that culture or religion. But how comfortable would those forwarding this argument be with looking at incarceration rates in the U.S. and arguing that persons of a certain race or culture are criminals because of something that is innate to that race or culture. Finding a pattern and providing statistics is not a substitute for asking why a pattern exists and whether there is a cause, external to the target group, that contributes to the pattern.

Before turning to those external factors, I'd like to offer a few thoughts on factors internal to a religious creed to see whether and to what extent the tenets of a religion determine the actions of its adherents. It is facile to look at a pattern exhibited by a group of religious persons and then to look to the religion as the cause. But I have found that religious tenets, at least as they are applied to the society and to the politics of the day, are more malleable than is initially thought. Looking at the first wave of democracy in nineteenth century Europe, responses of Catholic and Christian leaders to democracy were varied from country to country, depending on the place of religion in the state. Despite this variation, the emerging notion was that Catholicism especially was fundamentally incompatible by its own tenets with democratic principles and regimes. In fact, this very argument was asserted in the United States as a reason for restricting immigration of Catholic immigrants and forcing Catholic immigrant children into public schools so to instill in them a love for democracy that was perceived to be lacking. Yet, during the third wave of democracy in the 1970s and 1980s, Catholic leaders, especially in Eastern Europe and South America, were calling for democratic rule as inextricable from the dignity of the human person. The point of this is to say that a religion with as rich of a text as any of the Abrahamic religions is not easily reduced to an innate or unmovable pattern of action or thought at least as it pertains to social and political issues.

I'll end with a few thoughts on the external factors. It would likely be more articulate to say structural--because I mean to offer the role of the interactions between groups as a source of explanation for the actions of one among those groups--but I say external because the discussion in this thread seems to take one group in isolation of any of its interactions with other groups. To just offer a few thoughts, British and French rule in the Middle East may have been brief but the instability it initiated reverberates into this century. Borders were drawn up according not to any religious or ethnic lines but according to the interests, especially in terms of oil, and the politics of the British and French. Installing those amenable to their interests in the highest offices, the British and French "protectors" left their protectorates with leaders with little legitimacy and with multiple religious and ethnic groups with which to contend. You know what an easy way to galvanize a group of persons under your leadership? Create enemies outside of the group, whether it be along religious, ethnic, or political and national lines. The current state of affairs is therefore in part a consequence of the instability and division created by Western influences.

Now all of this is not meant to deny that there are internal issues at play here. But the above discussion is filled with conversations about these issues while quite a bit less has been devoted to a discussion of the bigger picture. If the study of history is useful for anything, it is to show us that most things began earlier than we think they did and are more complicated than we think they are.

Bravo! Bravo!

 

[BGIF]

And if you back up 6-700 years christianity wasnt the (largely) well behaved child it is today, maybe just growing pains? or does it take that long to realize maybe we should chill a bit?

I don't see a puberty/maturity rite of passage analogy here.

The Quakers (Friends) didn't exist 600 years ago. They were champions for equality (religion, women, children) in their early days and persecuted for their beliefs. When they came to America many owned slaves but they saw the wrong in that and stood up against the practice. And unlike John Brown, they didn't hack their neighbors to death if they didn't share their opinion.

 

[magogian]

To just offer a few thoughts, British and French rule in the Middle East may have been brief but the instability it initiated reverberates into this century. Borders were drawn up according not to any religious or ethnic lines but according to the interests, especially in terms of oil, and the politics of the British and French.

This is a common point. While mostly correct, I don't think it proves much.

If the borders had been drawn to more accurately reflect ethnic and/or religious groups, it would have mostly converted was has been intrastate conflict into interstate conflict. For example, if Iraq had been divided by into 3--Kurd, Sunni, and Shia. Sure, you may not have had decades of Iraqi Sunni oppression of the Shia and Kurds. Rather, you would likely have interstate conflict amongst the three over territory, resources, and particularly oil (which is mostly in the Kurdish and Shia areas).

The far bigger problem is what I stated before--i.e. lack of strong civil institutions or democratic norms, strength of religious institutions, practically inevitable rise of autocrats and their concomitant use of the natural tools to maintain their power, etc. Given that situation, I doubt there is much the West could have done to make it better. Frankly, I think it is Western conceit to think we could have made it much better. Historically, they were screwed before we got our hands on them. And the geopolitical climate of the Cold War combined with their geography and the "natural resource curse" did the rest.

 

[Jason Pham]

This is a common point. While mostly correct, I don't think it proves much.

If the borders had been drawn to more accurately reflect ethnic and/or religious groups, it would have mostly converted was has been intrastate conflict into interstate conflict. For example, if Iraq had been divided by into 3--Kurd, Sunni, and Shia. Sure, you may not have had decades of Iraqi Sunni oppression of the Shia and Kurds. Rather, you would likely have interstate conflict amongst the three over territory, resources, and particularly oil (which is mostly in the Kurdish and Shia areas).

The far bigger problem is what I stated before--i.e. lack of strong civil institutions or democratic norms, strength of religious institutions, practically inevitable rise of autocrats and their concomitant use of the natural tools to maintain their power, etc. Given that situation, I doubt there is much the West could have done to make it better. Frankly, I think it is Western conceit to think we could have made it much better. Historically, they were screwed before we got our hands on them. And the geopolitical climate of the Cold War combined with their geography and the "natural resource curse" did the rest.

I shouldn't pretend to know too much about Middle Eastern politics and you may be right re: interstate conflict replacing intrastate conflict, but I wonder if issues of political representation and ethnic/religious self-determination haven't contributed to the strife and violence in the region. There seems, at least initially, to be something different about interstate and intrastate conflict, i.e. ethnic/religious tension + self-determination/national sovereignty?

 

[magogian]

I shouldn't pretend to know too much about Middle Eastern politics and you may be right re: interstate conflict replacing intrastate conflict, but I wonder if issues of political representation and ethnic/religious self-determination haven't contributed to the strife and violence in the region. There seems, at least initially, to be something different about interstate and intrastate conflict, i.e. ethnic/religious tension + self-determination/national sovereignty?

There is a lot to that.

Speaking to the rise in religious extremism, it was largely created and is perpetuated by the political oppression. Lacking civil or other rights, the citizenry turned to religion for empowerment. And the autocrats encouraged it as long as it could be co-opted or at least direct elsewhere (against another minority or an outside force).

However, whether the Brits and French drew the lines accurately or not, I don't see a way they could have created a system that would have caused the development of democratic institutions and norms, especially in the limited time they had (and, by that time, the Brits and French had little appetite for massive colonial projects).

Basically, the situation was ******. We were very unlikely to see beacons of democracy (not just 50% +1 voting but democratic norms) break out across the region. We knew the countries would be horrible. So, if they would be horrible, we needed to at least try to keep them out of the Soviet sphere of influence. So, that is what we did. I don't think we had any real choice.

And, of course, over time the power of the religious institutions grew and radicalized. Although, it is worth noting that democratic norms and institutions have infiltrated, with some limited success in some countries. That said, the religious institutions are often as powerful, if not more powerful, than before and more radical.

We are now seeing various attempts at democracy: Iraq, by the barrel of a gun; Egypt, by withdrawing our support for the autocrat; and Gaza and the West Bank. Iraq is working, sort of. Egypt, Gaza, and the West Bank are largely confirming our fears. "Democracy" is used to vote their religious ideologues into power who then use the trappings of the state to solidify their power, make their position largely impervious to future changes in public opinion, and strip away most democratic norms that might have existed under the autocrat.

At some point, the move to "democracy" has to happen. And the exigencies of this current period, as compared to the Cold War, make it a better possibility. But, ****, is it messy. And is largely a move to a different kind of totalitarian state, even if nominally democratic.

 

[Bogtrotter07]

There is a thread of thought here that asserts that the cause of a pattern of action by a group of persons or religious adherents is caused by something that is innate to that culture or religion. But how comfortable would those forwarding this argument be with looking at incarceration rates in the U.S. and arguing that persons of a certain race or culture are criminals because of something that is innate to that race or culture. Finding a pattern and providing statistics is not a substitute for asking why a pattern exists and whether there is a cause, external to the target group, that contributes to the pattern.

Before turning to those external factors, I'd like to offer a few thoughts on factors internal to a religious creed to see whether and to what extent the tenets of a religion determine the actions of its adherents. It is facile to look at a pattern exhibited by a group of religious persons and then to look to the religion as the cause. But I have found that religious tenets, at least as they are applied to the society and to the politics of the day, are more malleable than is initially thought. Looking at the first wave of democracy in nineteenth century Europe, responses of Catholic and Christian leaders to democracy were varied from country to country, depending on the place of religion in the state. Despite this variation, the emerging notion was that Catholicism especially was fundamentally incompatible by its own tenets with democratic principles and regimes. In fact, this very argument was asserted in the United States as a reason for restricting immigration of Catholic immigrants and forcing Catholic immigrant children into public schools so to instill in them a love for democracy that was perceived to be lacking. Yet, during the third wave of democracy in the 1970s and 1980s, Catholic leaders, especially in Eastern Europe and South America, were calling for democratic rule as inextricable from the dignity of the human person. The point of this is to say that a religion with as rich of a text as any of the Abrahamic religions is not easily reduced to an innate or unmovable pattern of action or thought at least as it pertains to social and political issues.

I'll end with a few thoughts on the external factors. It would likely be more articulate to say structural--because I mean to offer the role of the interactions between groups as a source of explanation for the actions of one among those groups--but I say external because the discussion in this thread seems to take one group in isolation of any of its interactions with other groups. To just offer a few thoughts, British and French rule in the Middle East may have been brief but the instability it initiated reverberates into this century. Borders were drawn up according not to any religious or ethnic lines but according to the interests, especially in terms of oil, and the politics of the British and French. Installing those amenable to their interests in the highest offices, the British and French "protectors" left their protectorates with leaders with little legitimacy and with multiple religious and ethnic groups with which to contend. You know what an easy way to galvanize a group of persons under your leadership? Create enemies outside of the group, whether it be along religious, ethnic, or political and national lines. The current state of affairs is therefore in part a consequence of the instability and division created by Western influences.

Now all of this is not meant to deny that there are internal issues at play here. But the above discussion is filled with conversations about these issues while quite a bit less has been devoted to a discussion of the bigger picture. If the study of history is useful for anything, it is to show us that most things began earlier than we think they did and are more complicated than we think they are.

I just thought I would edit this so everybody could see it if they may have missed it. This is a thought so great, that I may be willing to give my life for the preservation of it. (I hope non of you sombiches show up at my doorstep to take me up on it.) I certainly wanted everyone else to have the true pleasure of contemplating it. Jason, don't get a swelled head, okay?

 

[Bogtrotter07]

Megalomania has the same footprint, no matter what date and time. It borrows one or two points from whatever it uses to cloak itself, and then it advances its own position, sometimes adopting the entirety of a dogma, or cause to advance itself.
---Bogtrotter07

Enlightened and beautifully stated.
__________________

"The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history."

Bertrand Russell

 

[gkIrish]

Those damn Ottomans.

Don't get me started on the Ottomans

 

[Bluto]

Don't get me started on the Ottomans

Great! Now were arguing about chairs?! SMDH

 

[Bogtrotter07]

Great! Now were arguing about chairs?! SMDH

Stools.

 

[Bogtrotter07]

That was really funny when you think about it.

 

[Bluto]

That was really funny when you think about it.

What came first though? Because those who choose to ignore history are doomed to repeat it and ill be damned if I'm gonna let Al Qeuda plant a stool on my Ottoman!

 

[Jason Pham]

There is a lot to that.

Speaking to the rise in religious extremism, it was largely created and is perpetuated by the political oppression. Lacking civil or other rights, the citizenry turned to religion for empowerment. And the autocrats encouraged it as long as it could be co-opted or at least direct elsewhere (against another minority or an outside force).

However, whether the Brits and French drew the lines accurately or not, I don't see a way they could have created a system that would have caused the development of democratic institutions and norms, especially in the limited time they had (and, by that time, the Brits and French had little appetite for massive colonial projects).

Basically, the situation was ******. We were very unlikely to see beacons of democracy (not just 50% +1 voting but democratic norms) break out across the region. We knew the countries would be horrible. So, if they would be horrible, we needed to at least try to keep them out of the Soviet sphere of influence. So, that is what we did. I don't think we had any real choice.

And, of course, over time the power of the religious institutions grew and radicalized. Although, it is worth noting that democratic norms and institutions have infiltrated, with some limited success in some countries. That said, the religious institutions are often as powerful, if not more powerful, than before and more radical.

We are now seeing various attempts at democracy: Iraq, by the barrel of a gun; Egypt, by withdrawing our support for the autocrat; and Gaza and the West Bank. Iraq is working, sort of. Egypt, Gaza, and the West Bank are largely confirming our fears. "Democracy" is used to vote their religious ideologues into power who then use the trappings of the state to solidify their power, make their position largely impervious to future changes in public opinion, and strip away most democratic norms that might have existed under the autocrat.

At some point, the move to "democracy" has to happen. And the exigencies of this current period, as compared to the Cold War, make it a better possibility. But, ****, is it messy. And is largely a move to a different kind of totalitarian state, even if nominally democratic.

This makes sense. Thanks for the convo.

 

[BobD]

Throughout history there have been aggressive militant factions attempting to act under the guise of almost every religion out there. The unfortunate thing for Muslims is they currently have the largest group of jackass extremists going. Peaceful Muslims are scared to death of the extremists and many Muslims aren't 100% sure their Qur'an (Koran) doesn't actually validate terrorism, so they say little and do nothing against the ****tard jihadists.

We have tons of wannabe extremists here in America too. They get together on weekends wearing camouflage and crosses in compounds in places like Idaho, Montana and many southern states. Fortunately they're mostly happy going to rallies and taking group pictures holding guns.

 

[MJ12666]

Throughout history there have been aggressive militant factions attempting to act under the guise of almost every religion out there. The unfortunate thing for Muslims is they currently have the largest group of jackass extremists going. Peaceful Muslims are scared to death of the extremists and many Muslims aren't 100% sure their Qur'an (Koran) doesn't actually validate terrorism, so they say little and do nothing against the ****tard jihadists.

We have tons of wannabe extremists here in America too. They get together on weekends wearing camouflage and crosses in compounds in places like Idaho, Montana and many southern states. Fortunately they're mostly happy going to rallies and taking group pictures holding guns.

You left out Indiana. Just watched a show that included a segment on the "Indiana Watchman" organization. They looked pretty scary.

 

[Bogtrotter07]

Currently the European Union is deciding whether to keep sanctions in place against Burma. Evidence of ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity have been substantiated. It is mostly religious; Muslim and Buddhists. The Buddhists have been slaughtering the Muslims by the bushel.

 

[magogian]

This quite disturbing. Here is a list of Islamic terror attacks in the last 30 days:

List of Islamic Terror Attacks For the Past 30 Days (First number is killed; second number is injured)

2013.04.21 Iraq Fallujah 9 24 Nine people at a restaurant are taken out in mid-bite by Mujahid bombers.
2013.04.21 Thailand Pattani 1 1 A 49-year-old Buddhist woman is gunned down in a targeted attack by Muslim militants.
2013.04.21 Afghanistan Paktika 3 5 Three civilians at a shopping mall are blown to bits by a Shahid suicide bomber.
2013.04.20 Pakistan Khar 4 4 A female Fedayeen blows herself up outside a hospital, taking four innocents with her.
2013.04.19 USA Boston, MA 1 1 Jihadists gun down a university police officer sitting in his car.
2013.04.19 Pakistan Wana 4 8 Taliban extremists send rockets into an election rally, killing four people.
2013.04.19 Iraq Khalis 7 14 A Mujahideen mortar attack on a rival mosques leave seven dead.
2013.04.18 Pakistan Hyderabad 1 0 A secular politician is assassinated by religious radicals.
2013.04.18 Kenya Garissa 9 3 al-Shabaab gunmen burst into a hotel and mow down nine people having dinner.
2013.04.18 Iraq Baghdad 32 65 Children are among nearly three dozen people at a coffee shop obliterated by a Shahid suicide bomber.
2013.04.17 Afghanistan Shindad 7 4 Seven women and children are dismantled by a Mujahid shrapnel bomb.
2013.04.17 India Bangalore 0 16 The Indian Mujahideen detonate a bomb outside a Hindu party office.
2013.04.16 Afghanistan Mali Zai 8 0 Religion of Peace bombers take down eight members of the same family.
2013.04.16 Pakistan Khuzdar 3 0 Islamists are thought responsible for the cold-blooded murder of a politician's family.
2013.04.16 Pakistan Peshawar 16 35 Two children are among sixteen innocents torn to shreds by a Holy Warrior suicide bomber.
2013.04.16 Pakistan Syed Gai 9 8 A Shahid suicide bomber at a checkpoint sends other nine souls to Allah.
2013.04.16 Pakistan Jamaldinwali 2 0 Two women are 'honor killed' by their families for moral crime.
2013.04.16 Afghanistan Jawzjan 2 1 Two health care workers are brutally gunned down by Islamic radicals.
2013.04.16 Nigeria Kaduna 2 0 Islamists gun down two police officers on their way home from work.
2013.04.15 Iraq Fallujah 2 14 A Fedayeen suicide bomber takes out two innocents along a city street.
2013.04.15 Pakistan Dera Ismail Khan 2 3 Sunni militants murder two election workers.
2013.04.15 Iraq Kamaliya 4 13 An al-Qaeda bombing near an elementary school leaves four dead.
2013.04.15 Iraq Habibiya 10 12 At least ten Iraqis at an auto mall are taken out by Mujahid car bombers.
2013.04.15 Iraq Umm al-Maalif 4 15 Islamic bombers destroy a market, along with four patrons.
2013.04.15 Iraq Baghdad 4 29 Two Mujahid bombings leave four dead at a commercial district.
2013.04.15 Iraq Tuz Khurmatu 6 67 Six people are torn to shreds by al-Qaeda bombers.
2013.04.15 Iraq Khalis 1 8 Mujahideen bombers murder a child.
2013.04.15 Iraq Nasiriyah 2 14 Two civilians are sent to Allah by al-Qaeda bombers.
2013.04.15 Iraq Mussayab 2 13 Religious extremists car bomb an open air market, killing at least two.
2013.04.15 Pakistan Karachi 1 0 Lashkar-e-Jhangvi murder a man for being a Shiite.
2013.04.15 Pakistan Banjot 1 0 A secular-leaning politician is blown to bits by fundamentalist bombers.
2013.04.15 Afghanistan Mali Zai 7 4 Seven civilians are pulled into pieces by Taliban bombers.
2013.04.15 USA Boston, MA 3 173 Foreign-born Muslims describing themselves as 'very religious' detonate two bombs packed with ball bearings at the Boston Marathon, killing three people and causing several more to lose limbs.
2013.04.15 Iraq Kirkuk 9 79 Six car bombs leave at least nine Iraqis dead.
2013.04.14 Somalia Mogadishu 29 58 Twenty-nine civilians are sent to Allah when six suicide bombers storm a courthouse.
2013.04.14 Somalia Mogadishu 5 0 Aid workers are among those killed by Islamists bombers.
2013.04.14 Afghanistan Darzab 2 6 Two Afghan policemen are shot to death by Taliban fundamentalists.
2013.04.14 Jordan Amman 1 0 A pregnant woman's throat is slit in an honor killing, after which her body is burned.
2013.04.14 Pakistan Gulshan-i-Iqbal 2 0 Sectarian Jihadis murder a father and son at a mobile phone shop.
2013.04.14 Pakistan Manglawar 1 0 Taliban bombers take out a peace committee member.
2013.04.14 Iraq Shura 6 14 Five policemen are killed when Islamic militants booby-trap the body of another murdered policeman.
2013.04.14 Iraq Diyala 4 0 A moderate and three family members are blown to bits by radical Sunnis.
2013.04.14 Iraq Baji 1 0 A secular politician is assassinated by suspected Islamists.
2013.04.13 Pakistan Matani 9 19 Women are among nine killed when Mujahideen bomb a passenger bus.
2013.04.13 Yemen Hadramout 1 0 Two al-Qaeda gunmen assassinate a government official.
2013.04.13 Nigeria Monguno 3 0 Sharia advocates ambush students from a local university, tie them up and slit their throats.
2013.04.13 Pakistan Karachi 1 0 A secular political activist is found tortured to death following Taliban threats.
2013.04.12 Afghanistan Nari 13 0 More than 100 Sunni fundamentalists pump rockets and grenades into a remote outpost, killing thirteen Afghan defenders.
2013.04.12 Thailand Pattani 1 0 Muslim militants machine-gun a 46-year man on his way home.
2013.04.12 Afghanistan Shiberghan 1 0 A man beheads his wife over 'moral crime'.
2013.04.12 Iraq Mosul 3 0 Three security personnel are kidnapped and executed by al-Qaeda.
2013.04.12 Mali Kidal 3 0 At least three people are killed by a suicide bomber.
2013.04.12 Pakistan Mach 1 0 Sipah-e-Sahaba gunmen take out a Shia civilian.
2013.04.12 Iraq Kanaan 12 30 Mujahideen detonate two bombs at a Sunni mosque, leaving a dozen worshippers dead.
2013.04.12 Pakistan Karachi 1 0 A Shia religious scholar is murdered by Sunni rivals from the Ahl-e-Sunnat wal Jamaat terror group.
2013.04.12 Dagestan Buinaksk 1 3 One person is killed when Islamists set off a bomb near a school.
2013.04.11 Nigeria Babangida 4 2 Islamic extremists enter a police station and gun down four officers in cold blood.
2013.04.11 Afghanistan Marjah 1 2 One civilian is killed by Sunni bombers.
2013.04.11 Afghanistan Chora 3 0 Taliban militants murder three local cops.
2013.04.11 Pakistan Sindh 1 0 The Tehreek-e-Taliban assassinate a secular politician.
2013.04.11 Egypt Khusus 1 0 A 26-year-old Christian is doused with gasoline and set ablaze.
2013.04.11 Syria Homs 20 0 Six children, including a baby, are among twenty people executed by Hezbollah.
2013.04.11 Iraq Fallujah 2 0 Mujahid snipers pick off two civilians, including a young boy.
2013.04.11 Bangladesh Kazirhat 3 100 Jamaat-e-Islami radicals bludgeon three people with sticks and knives.
2013.04.10 Thailand Pattani 2 6 Muslim 'insurgents' bomb a community center, killing two people.
2013.04.10 India Srinigar 0 9 Two children and five women are among nine Christians attacked in their home by a mob whipped into a frenzy by an imam.
2013.04.10 Pakistan Mardan 1 1 A guard for a polio vaccination team is shot to death on the job by fundamentalists.
2013.04.10 Nigeria Bama 4 0 Two teachers and the wife and 12-year-old child one are slaughtered and burned by Sharia advocates.
2013.04.10 Nigeria Dikwa 4 0 Islamists brutally murder three education officials and their driver, including one in charge of a program to feed poor students.
2013.04.10 Pakistan Shahkas 1 0 Terrorists gun down a 28-year-old man at a cricket match.
2013.04.09 Afghanistan Paron 2 0 A Taliban attack leaves two local cops dead.
2013.04.09 India Pulwama 1 0 Islamic militants gun down a 45-year-old man in his own home.
2013.04.09 Afghanistan Marjah 5 4 A bomb planted by Sunni extremists leaves five dead civilians along a city street.
2013.04.09 Pakistan Hayatabad 0 23 Two dozen people are injured when Islamic militants send mortars into a residential neighborhood.
2013.04.09 Afghanistan Char Borjak 4 2 Sunni extremists kill four local cops with a roadside bomb.
2013.04.09 Philippines Ungkaya Pukan 1 0 A local soldier is murdered by Abu Sayyaf.
2013.04.09 Nigeria Gwoza 3 0 Islamists shoot three people in the head while they are playing cards, including a pastor's son.
2013.04.08 Iraq Abu Ghraib 4 4 Two bombings kill four local cops.
2013.04.08 Bangladesh Chittagong 0 20 Twenty people are hurt when Hifazat-e-Islam riot over a decision not to impose a blasphemy law.
2013.04.08 Somalia Hiran 1 0 A 22-year-old woman is executed by Islamic militia.
2013.04.08 Syria Damascus 15 53 A Fedayeen suicide car bomb rips through a crowded street, leaving at least fifteen dead.
2013.04.08 Afghanistan Wardak 9 22 Religion of Peace hardliners detonate a bomb under a bus, killing nine passengers.
2013.04.08 Nigeria Borno 1 0 A guard at a market is killed during a Boko Haram attack.
2013.04.07 Egypt Cairo 2 89 Muslim radicals attack a group of mourners leaving a church, killing one on the spot and another in subsequent clashes.
2013.04.07 Pakistan Jaffar Tayyar 1 0 Lashkar-e-Jhagvi gunmen murder a Shiite near a cricket field.
2013.04.07 Pakistan Taunsa 1 0 A 15-year-old boy is gunned down in a mosque by Sipah-e-Sahaba because he is Shia.
2013.04.07 Thailand Narathiwat 2 0 Two local soldiers are knocked off their motorcycle by Muslim militants, who proceed to execute them at point-blank range.
2013.04.07 Iraq Mosul 4 7 al-Qaeda bombers take out four Iraqis.
2013.04.07 Pakistan Peshawar 1 1 Sunnis fire on a Shia mosque, killing the custodian.
2013.04.07 Thailand Yala 1 0 Muslim militants behead a plantation worker.
2013.04.07 Pakistan Mathra 1 0 The body of a man kidnapped and tortured to death by the Taliban is found along a roadside.
2013.04.06 Iraq Samarrah 3 5 A teenage boy is among the casualties of a Mujahideen bombing.
2013.04.06 Pakistan Karachi 1 0 A Shia schoolteacher loses his life to sectarian Jihadis.
2013.04.06 Afghanistan Asadabad 2 0 Two children are obliterated by a Taliban rocket.
2013.04.06 Pakistan Orangi 1 0 Militants associated with a Sunni seminary gun down a Shiite.
2013.04.06 Nigeria Midlu 11 5 Muslim radicals shoot, hack and slit the throats of eleven people.
2013.04.06 Egypt Khusus 7 17 Angry Muslims torch a church and kill seven Christians over alleged desecration.
2013.04.06 Iraq Baqubah 22 60 A Fedayeen suicide bomber sends two dozen souls to Allah.
2013.04.06 Afghanistan Qalat 6 3 American civilians and a doctor are among six killed by a Shahid suicide bomber as they are delivering books to a school.
2013.04.05 Indonesia Beaver Ridge Canaan 8 6 Eight Buddhists are beaten to death by Muslims in an attack at a detention center.
2013.04.05 Afghanistan Alingar 1 3 Terrorists kill a cop with a bomb attached to a donkey.
2013.04.05 Thailand Yala 2 1 Muslim bombers kill two people and put another into a coma.
2013.04.05 Iraq Hillah 5 15 Mujahideen murder five people in a series of attacks, including a bombing at vegetable market.
2013.04.05 Pakistan Hayatabad 1 5 A young boy is killed when Islamic terrorists shell a town.
2013.04.05 Pakistan Syedabad 1 0 A Shia schoolteacher is murdered in a suspected sectarian attack.
2013.04.05 Bangladesh Dhaka 1 0 Hifazat-e-Islam murder a fruit vendor.
2013.04.04 Kenya Garissa 3 24 al-Shabaab Islamists toss a hand grenade into a packed restaurant, killing three patrons.
2013.04.04 Afghanistan Batikot 3 2 Three schoolchildren are dismantled by a Taliban roadside bomb.
2013.04.04 Pakistan Manga Mandi 1 0 A 20-year-old Christian is shot in the head by Muslims calling their religion 'supreme'.
2013.04.04 Somalia Marka 1 0 An elderly man is gunned down by suspected al-Shabaab.
2013.04.03 Pakistan Karachi 4 5 Four security personnel die when Islamic militants throw a grenade at their vehicle.
2013.04.03 Afghanistan Farah 53 91 Over fifty people are slaughtered when nine religious radicals storm a court and self-detonate.
2013.04.03 Thailand Yala 1 19 Muslim bombers take out a bus passenger.
2013.04.03 Iraq Baghdad 3 0 al-Qaeda gunmen enter a home and shoot a woman and her two sons to death.
2013.04.03 Pakistan Gujranwala 0 18 Eighteen Christians are injured by a Muslim mob whipped into a frenzy by a cleric.
2013.04.03 Tanzania Tunduma 2 3 Two Christians are murdered by Muslim extremists for selling non-halal meat.
2013.04.02 Pakistan Malir 1 0 Sunnis shoot a Shia shopowner to death.
2013.04.02 Pakistan Peshawar 7 4 Sunni extremists attack a power station, killing two on the spot and then executing five people taken as hostages.
2013.04.02 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 Muslims abduct a local soldier from his home, blindfold and execute him behind a mosque.
2013.04.02 Iraq Baghdad 2 5 Two civilians are sent to Allah by Mujahid bombers.
2013.04.02 Ingushetia Sunzhensky 1 5 Islamic 'insurgents' set off two bombs that leave one person dead.
2013.04.02 Kenya Garissa 3 0 Three guards at an Internet cafe are shot to death at point blank range by Islamists.
2013.04.01 Iraq Akkas 3 2 al-Qaeda attack an oil field, killing several engineers.
2013.04.01 Nigeria Pulka 1 0 Religion of Peace radicals shoot a man to death in front of his wife and children.
2013.04.01 Somalia Mogadishu 1 0 A boy is gunned down by al-Shabaab fundamentalists.
2013.04.01 Yemen Ghail Bawazir 1 0 Suspected al-Qaeda gunmen murder a man on his way home.
2013.04.01 Pakistan Jani Khel 2 7 The Tehreek-e-Taliban murder two tribal elders with a planted bomb.
2013.04.01 Iraq Tikrit 11 59 A Fedayeen suicide bomber massacres eleven Iraqis.
2013.03.31 Mali Asongo 2 0 Two people are dismantled by an Islamist landmine.
2013.03.31 Pakistan Wali Noor 2 6 Two members of a 'secular-leaning' party are blown to bits by religious radicals.
2013.03.31 Bangladesh Rajshahi 0 50 Jamaat-e-Islami radicals injure 50 people with bombs and bricks, including an innocent who had both hands blown off.
2013.03.31 Iraq Fallujah 3 1 An imam is shot to death along with two others by Religion of Peace rivals.
2013.03.31 Iraq Abu Ghraib 2 11 Two other people are blown up by a Shahid suicide bomber.
2013.03.31 Pakistan Darsamand 3 0 Islamic militants kidnap and murder three villagers.
2013.03.31 Nigeria Ataka 19 12 Muslim 'nomads' attack a Christian village, butchering nineteen people, including women and children.
2013.03.31 Pakistan Gulbahar 1 0 A 30-year-old Shiite is gunned down by Sipah-e-Sahaba.
2013.03.30 Israel Samaria 0 1 A young woman suffers a head injury when young Arabs hurl rocks at her car.
2013.03.30 Pakistan Tirah Valley 2 1 An 18-year-old is among two women killed in their home by a mortar fired by an Islamist group.
2013.03.30 Thailand Pattani 2 4 A Religion of Peace motorcycle bomb leaves two dead.
2013.03.30 Pakistan Karachi 1 8 Terrorists throw a grenade at a middle school, killing the principal.
2013.03.30 Pakistan Mardan 1 6 A Fedayeen suicide bomber takes out one other person.
2013.03.29 Syria Aleppo 1 0 Muslim rebels behead a rival cleric and parade his body.
2013.03.29 Iraq Qahira 4 20 Four Shiites are taken down by Islamic Army of Iraq bombers.
2013.03.29 Iraq Zafaraniyah 3 15 Sunni bombers slay three Shiites outside their mosque.
2013.03.29 Iraq Binook 5 14 Five Shiites are blown to bits by al-Qaeda bombers.
2013.03.29 Iraq Kirkuk 3 70 A suicide car bomber targets Shiites leaving a mosque, killing at least three.
2013.03.29 Pakistan Karachi 1 0 Muslims shoot a Hindu man to death.
2013.03.29 Iraq Kut 2 0 Two primary school teachers are shot to death by suspected Islamists.
2013.03.29 Iraq Baghdad 7 25 al-Qaeda car bombers murder seven worshipper as at a Shiite mosque.
2013.03.29 Nigeria Ratas 9 0 Fulani 'militias' murder nine villagers.
2013.03.29 Pakistan Saddar 12 16 A dozen people are torn to shreds by a Shahid suicide bomber at a parking lot, including women and children.
2013.03.29 Pakistan Risalpur 1 0 A cleric is shot to death in his own mosque during prayers after trying to stop sectarian Jihadis from pasting hateful posters.
2013.03.29 Thailand Narathiwat 1 14 Muslim 'separatists' kill one Thai with a planted bomb.
2013.03.29 Thailand Pattani 1 1 Islamic 'separatists' murder a 75-year-old plantation worker and severely injure his son.
2013.03.28 Pakistan Damadola 2 0 Taliban bombers take down two local soldiers on patrol.
2013.03.28 Thailand Narathiwat 3 5 Muslim bombers kill three local soldiers.
2013.03.28 Syria Damascus 15 30 Sunni terrorists deliberately send mortars into a university, massacring at least fifteen innocents.
2013.03.28 Nigeria Barkin Ladi 9 3 Nine Christians are machine-gunned during a Muslim raid on their village.
2013.03.27 Afghanistan Shinwar 1 0 An American soldier playing with children is stabbed in the neck by an Islamic militant.
2013.03.27 Lebanon Hasbaya 1 0 A Druze cleric is shot to death in a suspected sectarian attack.
2013.03.27 Pakistan Gulbahar 1 1 Sectarian Jihadis kill a Shia man and severely injure his son.
2013.03.27 Iraq Baghdad 4 26 Terrorists kill four Iraqis in separate attacks.
2013.03.26 Pakistan Shakas 1 0 Religious militants shoot a female teacher to death near a girls' school.
2013.03.26 Pakistan Karachi 1 2 A Shiite factory owner is killed when Sipah-e-Sahaba gunmen open up on him.
2013.03.26 Pakistan Kasur 0 5 Muslim clerics enter the home of an Ahmadi family and severely beat them into unconsciousness.
2013.03.26 Syria Damascus 3 3 A Shahid suicide bomber wipes out three locals.
2013.03.26 Nigeria Riyom 36 12 Fulani 'militia' attack two Christian villages, hacking and shooting three dozen to death.
2013.03.26 Iraq Tikrit 3 0 Three family members are machine-gunned in their home by Mujahideen.
2013.03.26 Afghanistan Jalalabad 5 4 Fedayeen bombers attack a local police station, killing at least five officers.
2013.03.25 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A Buddhist woman is murdered by Muslim 'separatists'.
2013.03.25 Pakistan Shamsabad 0 5 A Sunni mob attacks an Ahmadi home and beats the family.
2013.03.24 Thailand Narathiwat 1 1 A man is killed and his wife injured when Islamic 'separatists' fire on them as they are working their farm.
2013.03.24 Mali Gao 3 0 Two civilians and a local soldier are killed during an Islamist assault on a town.
2013.03.24 Iraq Mosul 12 20 A dozen Iraqis are taken out by Mujahideen.
2013.03.24 Somalia Mogadishu 1 0 A female journalist is shot to death in an attack blamed on Islamists.
2013.03.24 USA Ashtabula, OH 1 0 A Muslim convert walks into a church service with a Quran and guns down his Christian father while praising Allah.
2013.03.24 India Sopore 1 1 An elderly man dies from injuries after being shot by in the neck by Muslim terrorists at a market.
2013.03.23 Egypt Cairo 0 1 Muslim Brotherhood cadres abduct a Christian and take him to a mosque for a brutal round of torture.
2013.03.23 Afghanistan Kandahar 4 2 Four children are killed by a bomb left by religious fundamentalists.
2013.03.23 Nigeria Dakata 1 0 One person is shot to death by Boko Haram.
2013.03.23 Somalia Bulo Marer 0 1 A Christian convert is jailed and tortured for leaving Islam.
2013.03.23 Yemen Sanaa 3 0 Three Shiites are gunned down in the street by sectarian Jihadis.
2013.03.23 Somalia Mogadishu 1 0 A woman working for a human rights agency is assassinated by suspected al-Shabaab.
2013.03.23 Somalia Haraale 2 3 Two children are killed when a bomb is brought into a Quran school.
2013.03.23 Thailand Pattani 1 1 Muslim gunmen on motorcycles murder a 46-year-old official on his way to work.
2013.03.23 Pakistan Miranshah 22 35 A suicide bomber obliterates two dozen Pakistanis.

What amazed me beyond the obvious is that there are terrorist acts/violence in the US that you never really hear about. For example of March 24, a Muslim convert walks into a church and shoots his father dead while saying "The Will of Allah."
‘The Will of Allah’: Ohio Church Service Turns Deadly After Man Reportedly Yells Islamic Rhetoric, Shoots His Father | TheBlaze.com

 

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This quite disturbing. Here is a list of Islamic terror attacks in the last 30 days:

List of Islamic Terror Attacks For the Past 30 Days (First number is killed; second number is injured)

2013.04.21 Iraq Fallujah 9 24 Nine people at a restaurant are taken out in mid-bite by Mujahid bombers.
2013.04.21 Thailand Pattani 1 1 A 49-year-old Buddhist woman is gunned down in a targeted attack by Muslim militants.
2013.04.21 Afghanistan Paktika 3 5 Three civilians at a shopping mall are blown to bits by a Shahid suicide bomber.
2013.04.20 Pakistan Khar 4 4 A female Fedayeen blows herself up outside a hospital, taking four innocents with her.
2013.04.19 USA Boston, MA 1 1 Jihadists gun down a university police officer sitting in his car.
2013.04.19 Pakistan Wana 4 8 Taliban extremists send rockets into an election rally, killing four people.
2013.04.19 Iraq Khalis 7 14 A Mujahideen mortar attack on a rival mosques leave seven dead.
2013.04.18 Pakistan Hyderabad 1 0 A secular politician is assassinated by religious radicals.
2013.04.18 Kenya Garissa 9 3 al-Shabaab gunmen burst into a hotel and mow down nine people having dinner.
2013.04.18 Iraq Baghdad 32 65 Children are among nearly three dozen people at a coffee shop obliterated by a Shahid suicide bomber.
2013.04.17 Afghanistan Shindad 7 4 Seven women and children are dismantled by a Mujahid shrapnel bomb.
2013.04.17 India Bangalore 0 16 The Indian Mujahideen detonate a bomb outside a Hindu party office.
2013.04.16 Afghanistan Mali Zai 8 0 Religion of Peace bombers take down eight members of the same family.
2013.04.16 Pakistan Khuzdar 3 0 Islamists are thought responsible for the cold-blooded murder of a politician's family.
2013.04.16 Pakistan Peshawar 16 35 Two children are among sixteen innocents torn to shreds by a Holy Warrior suicide bomber.
2013.04.16 Pakistan Syed Gai 9 8 A Shahid suicide bomber at a checkpoint sends other nine souls to Allah.
2013.04.16 Pakistan Jamaldinwali 2 0 Two women are 'honor killed' by their families for moral crime.
2013.04.16 Afghanistan Jawzjan 2 1 Two health care workers are brutally gunned down by Islamic radicals.
2013.04.16 Nigeria Kaduna 2 0 Islamists gun down two police officers on their way home from work.
2013.04.15 Iraq Fallujah 2 14 A Fedayeen suicide bomber takes out two innocents along a city street.
2013.04.15 Pakistan Dera Ismail Khan 2 3 Sunni militants murder two election workers.
2013.04.15 Iraq Kamaliya 4 13 An al-Qaeda bombing near an elementary school leaves four dead.
2013.04.15 Iraq Habibiya 10 12 At least ten Iraqis at an auto mall are taken out by Mujahid car bombers.
2013.04.15 Iraq Umm al-Maalif 4 15 Islamic bombers destroy a market, along with four patrons.
2013.04.15 Iraq Baghdad 4 29 Two Mujahid bombings leave four dead at a commercial district.
2013.04.15 Iraq Tuz Khurmatu 6 67 Six people are torn to shreds by al-Qaeda bombers.
2013.04.15 Iraq Khalis 1 8 Mujahideen bombers murder a child.
2013.04.15 Iraq Nasiriyah 2 14 Two civilians are sent to Allah by al-Qaeda bombers.
2013.04.15 Iraq Mussayab 2 13 Religious extremists car bomb an open air market, killing at least two.
2013.04.15 Pakistan Karachi 1 0 Lashkar-e-Jhangvi murder a man for being a Shiite.
2013.04.15 Pakistan Banjot 1 0 A secular-leaning politician is blown to bits by fundamentalist bombers.
2013.04.15 Afghanistan Mali Zai 7 4 Seven civilians are pulled into pieces by Taliban bombers.
2013.04.15 USA Boston, MA 3 173 Foreign-born Muslims describing themselves as 'very religious' detonate two bombs packed with ball bearings at the Boston Marathon, killing three people and causing several more to lose limbs.
2013.04.15 Iraq Kirkuk 9 79 Six car bombs leave at least nine Iraqis dead.
2013.04.14 Somalia Mogadishu 29 58 Twenty-nine civilians are sent to Allah when six suicide bombers storm a courthouse.
2013.04.14 Somalia Mogadishu 5 0 Aid workers are among those killed by Islamists bombers.
2013.04.14 Afghanistan Darzab 2 6 Two Afghan policemen are shot to death by Taliban fundamentalists.
2013.04.14 Jordan Amman 1 0 A pregnant woman's throat is slit in an honor killing, after which her body is burned.
2013.04.14 Pakistan Gulshan-i-Iqbal 2 0 Sectarian Jihadis murder a father and son at a mobile phone shop.
2013.04.14 Pakistan Manglawar 1 0 Taliban bombers take out a peace committee member.
2013.04.14 Iraq Shura 6 14 Five policemen are killed when Islamic militants booby-trap the body of another murdered policeman.
2013.04.14 Iraq Diyala 4 0 A moderate and three family members are blown to bits by radical Sunnis.
2013.04.14 Iraq Baji 1 0 A secular politician is assassinated by suspected Islamists.
2013.04.13 Pakistan Matani 9 19 Women are among nine killed when Mujahideen bomb a passenger bus.
2013.04.13 Yemen Hadramout 1 0 Two al-Qaeda gunmen assassinate a government official.
2013.04.13 Nigeria Monguno 3 0 Sharia advocates ambush students from a local university, tie them up and slit their throats.
2013.04.13 Pakistan Karachi 1 0 A secular political activist is found tortured to death following Taliban threats.
2013.04.12 Afghanistan Nari 13 0 More than 100 Sunni fundamentalists pump rockets and grenades into a remote outpost, killing thirteen Afghan defenders.
2013.04.12 Thailand Pattani 1 0 Muslim militants machine-gun a 46-year man on his way home.
2013.04.12 Afghanistan Shiberghan 1 0 A man beheads his wife over 'moral crime'.
2013.04.12 Iraq Mosul 3 0 Three security personnel are kidnapped and executed by al-Qaeda.
2013.04.12 Mali Kidal 3 0 At least three people are killed by a suicide bomber.
2013.04.12 Pakistan Mach 1 0 Sipah-e-Sahaba gunmen take out a Shia civilian.
2013.04.12 Iraq Kanaan 12 30 Mujahideen detonate two bombs at a Sunni mosque, leaving a dozen worshippers dead.
2013.04.12 Pakistan Karachi 1 0 A Shia religious scholar is murdered by Sunni rivals from the Ahl-e-Sunnat wal Jamaat terror group.
2013.04.12 Dagestan Buinaksk 1 3 One person is killed when Islamists set off a bomb near a school.
2013.04.11 Nigeria Babangida 4 2 Islamic extremists enter a police station and gun down four officers in cold blood.
2013.04.11 Afghanistan Marjah 1 2 One civilian is killed by Sunni bombers.
2013.04.11 Afghanistan Chora 3 0 Taliban militants murder three local cops.
2013.04.11 Pakistan Sindh 1 0 The Tehreek-e-Taliban assassinate a secular politician.
2013.04.11 Egypt Khusus 1 0 A 26-year-old Christian is doused with gasoline and set ablaze.
2013.04.11 Syria Homs 20 0 Six children, including a baby, are among twenty people executed by Hezbollah.
2013.04.11 Iraq Fallujah 2 0 Mujahid snipers pick off two civilians, including a young boy.
2013.04.11 Bangladesh Kazirhat 3 100 Jamaat-e-Islami radicals bludgeon three people with sticks and knives.
2013.04.10 Thailand Pattani 2 6 Muslim 'insurgents' bomb a community center, killing two people.
2013.04.10 India Srinigar 0 9 Two children and five women are among nine Christians attacked in their home by a mob whipped into a frenzy by an imam.
2013.04.10 Pakistan Mardan 1 1 A guard for a polio vaccination team is shot to death on the job by fundamentalists.
2013.04.10 Nigeria Bama 4 0 Two teachers and the wife and 12-year-old child one are slaughtered and burned by Sharia advocates.
2013.04.10 Nigeria Dikwa 4 0 Islamists brutally murder three education officials and their driver, including one in charge of a program to feed poor students.
2013.04.10 Pakistan Shahkas 1 0 Terrorists gun down a 28-year-old man at a cricket match.
2013.04.09 Afghanistan Paron 2 0 A Taliban attack leaves two local cops dead.
2013.04.09 India Pulwama 1 0 Islamic militants gun down a 45-year-old man in his own home.
2013.04.09 Afghanistan Marjah 5 4 A bomb planted by Sunni extremists leaves five dead civilians along a city street.
2013.04.09 Pakistan Hayatabad 0 23 Two dozen people are injured when Islamic militants send mortars into a residential neighborhood.
2013.04.09 Afghanistan Char Borjak 4 2 Sunni extremists kill four local cops with a roadside bomb.
2013.04.09 Philippines Ungkaya Pukan 1 0 A local soldier is murdered by Abu Sayyaf.
2013.04.09 Nigeria Gwoza 3 0 Islamists shoot three people in the head while they are playing cards, including a pastor's son.
2013.04.08 Iraq Abu Ghraib 4 4 Two bombings kill four local cops.
2013.04.08 Bangladesh Chittagong 0 20 Twenty people are hurt when Hifazat-e-Islam riot over a decision not to impose a blasphemy law.
2013.04.08 Somalia Hiran 1 0 A 22-year-old woman is executed by Islamic militia.
2013.04.08 Syria Damascus 15 53 A Fedayeen suicide car bomb rips through a crowded street, leaving at least fifteen dead.
2013.04.08 Afghanistan Wardak 9 22 Religion of Peace hardliners detonate a bomb under a bus, killing nine passengers.
2013.04.08 Nigeria Borno 1 0 A guard at a market is killed during a Boko Haram attack.
2013.04.07 Egypt Cairo 2 89 Muslim radicals attack a group of mourners leaving a church, killing one on the spot and another in subsequent clashes.
2013.04.07 Pakistan Jaffar Tayyar 1 0 Lashkar-e-Jhagvi gunmen murder a Shiite near a cricket field.
2013.04.07 Pakistan Taunsa 1 0 A 15-year-old boy is gunned down in a mosque by Sipah-e-Sahaba because he is Shia.
2013.04.07 Thailand Narathiwat 2 0 Two local soldiers are knocked off their motorcycle by Muslim militants, who proceed to execute them at point-blank range.
2013.04.07 Iraq Mosul 4 7 al-Qaeda bombers take out four Iraqis.
2013.04.07 Pakistan Peshawar 1 1 Sunnis fire on a Shia mosque, killing the custodian.
2013.04.07 Thailand Yala 1 0 Muslim militants behead a plantation worker.
2013.04.07 Pakistan Mathra 1 0 The body of a man kidnapped and tortured to death by the Taliban is found along a roadside.
2013.04.06 Iraq Samarrah 3 5 A teenage boy is among the casualties of a Mujahideen bombing.
2013.04.06 Pakistan Karachi 1 0 A Shia schoolteacher loses his life to sectarian Jihadis.
2013.04.06 Afghanistan Asadabad 2 0 Two children are obliterated by a Taliban rocket.
2013.04.06 Pakistan Orangi 1 0 Militants associated with a Sunni seminary gun down a Shiite.
2013.04.06 Nigeria Midlu 11 5 Muslim radicals shoot, hack and slit the throats of eleven people.
2013.04.06 Egypt Khusus 7 17 Angry Muslims torch a church and kill seven Christians over alleged desecration.
2013.04.06 Iraq Baqubah 22 60 A Fedayeen suicide bomber sends two dozen souls to Allah.
2013.04.06 Afghanistan Qalat 6 3 American civilians and a doctor are among six killed by a Shahid suicide bomber as they are delivering books to a school.
2013.04.05 Indonesia Beaver Ridge Canaan 8 6 Eight Buddhists are beaten to death by Muslims in an attack at a detention center.
2013.04.05 Afghanistan Alingar 1 3 Terrorists kill a cop with a bomb attached to a donkey.
2013.04.05 Thailand Yala 2 1 Muslim bombers kill two people and put another into a coma.
2013.04.05 Iraq Hillah 5 15 Mujahideen murder five people in a series of attacks, including a bombing at vegetable market.
2013.04.05 Pakistan Hayatabad 1 5 A young boy is killed when Islamic terrorists shell a town.
2013.04.05 Pakistan Syedabad 1 0 A Shia schoolteacher is murdered in a suspected sectarian attack.
2013.04.05 Bangladesh Dhaka 1 0 Hifazat-e-Islam murder a fruit vendor.
2013.04.04 Kenya Garissa 3 24 al-Shabaab Islamists toss a hand grenade into a packed restaurant, killing three patrons.
2013.04.04 Afghanistan Batikot 3 2 Three schoolchildren are dismantled by a Taliban roadside bomb.
2013.04.04 Pakistan Manga Mandi 1 0 A 20-year-old Christian is shot in the head by Muslims calling their religion 'supreme'.
2013.04.04 Somalia Marka 1 0 An elderly man is gunned down by suspected al-Shabaab.
2013.04.03 Pakistan Karachi 4 5 Four security personnel die when Islamic militants throw a grenade at their vehicle.
2013.04.03 Afghanistan Farah 53 91 Over fifty people are slaughtered when nine religious radicals storm a court and self-detonate.
2013.04.03 Thailand Yala 1 19 Muslim bombers take out a bus passenger.
2013.04.03 Iraq Baghdad 3 0 al-Qaeda gunmen enter a home and shoot a woman and her two sons to death.
2013.04.03 Pakistan Gujranwala 0 18 Eighteen Christians are injured by a Muslim mob whipped into a frenzy by a cleric.
2013.04.03 Tanzania Tunduma 2 3 Two Christians are murdered by Muslim extremists for selling non-halal meat.
2013.04.02 Pakistan Malir 1 0 Sunnis shoot a Shia shopowner to death.
2013.04.02 Pakistan Peshawar 7 4 Sunni extremists attack a power station, killing two on the spot and then executing five people taken as hostages.
2013.04.02 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 Muslims abduct a local soldier from his home, blindfold and execute him behind a mosque.
2013.04.02 Iraq Baghdad 2 5 Two civilians are sent to Allah by Mujahid bombers.
2013.04.02 Ingushetia Sunzhensky 1 5 Islamic 'insurgents' set off two bombs that leave one person dead.
2013.04.02 Kenya Garissa 3 0 Three guards at an Internet cafe are shot to death at point blank range by Islamists.
2013.04.01 Iraq Akkas 3 2 al-Qaeda attack an oil field, killing several engineers.
2013.04.01 Nigeria Pulka 1 0 Religion of Peace radicals shoot a man to death in front of his wife and children.
2013.04.01 Somalia Mogadishu 1 0 A boy is gunned down by al-Shabaab fundamentalists.
2013.04.01 Yemen Ghail Bawazir 1 0 Suspected al-Qaeda gunmen murder a man on his way home.
2013.04.01 Pakistan Jani Khel 2 7 The Tehreek-e-Taliban murder two tribal elders with a planted bomb.
2013.04.01 Iraq Tikrit 11 59 A Fedayeen suicide bomber massacres eleven Iraqis.
2013.03.31 Mali Asongo 2 0 Two people are dismantled by an Islamist landmine.
2013.03.31 Pakistan Wali Noor 2 6 Two members of a 'secular-leaning' party are blown to bits by religious radicals.
2013.03.31 Bangladesh Rajshahi 0 50 Jamaat-e-Islami radicals injure 50 people with bombs and bricks, including an innocent who had both hands blown off.
2013.03.31 Iraq Fallujah 3 1 An imam is shot to death along with two others by Religion of Peace rivals.
2013.03.31 Iraq Abu Ghraib 2 11 Two other people are blown up by a Shahid suicide bomber.
2013.03.31 Pakistan Darsamand 3 0 Islamic militants kidnap and murder three villagers.
2013.03.31 Nigeria Ataka 19 12 Muslim 'nomads' attack a Christian village, butchering nineteen people, including women and children.
2013.03.31 Pakistan Gulbahar 1 0 A 30-year-old Shiite is gunned down by Sipah-e-Sahaba.
2013.03.30 Israel Samaria 0 1 A young woman suffers a head injury when young Arabs hurl rocks at her car.
2013.03.30 Pakistan Tirah Valley 2 1 An 18-year-old is among two women killed in their home by a mortar fired by an Islamist group.
2013.03.30 Thailand Pattani 2 4 A Religion of Peace motorcycle bomb leaves two dead.
2013.03.30 Pakistan Karachi 1 8 Terrorists throw a grenade at a middle school, killing the principal.
2013.03.30 Pakistan Mardan 1 6 A Fedayeen suicide bomber takes out one other person.
2013.03.29 Syria Aleppo 1 0 Muslim rebels behead a rival cleric and parade his body.
2013.03.29 Iraq Qahira 4 20 Four Shiites are taken down by Islamic Army of Iraq bombers.
2013.03.29 Iraq Zafaraniyah 3 15 Sunni bombers slay three Shiites outside their mosque.
2013.03.29 Iraq Binook 5 14 Five Shiites are blown to bits by al-Qaeda bombers.
2013.03.29 Iraq Kirkuk 3 70 A suicide car bomber targets Shiites leaving a mosque, killing at least three.
2013.03.29 Pakistan Karachi 1 0 Muslims shoot a Hindu man to death.
2013.03.29 Iraq Kut 2 0 Two primary school teachers are shot to death by suspected Islamists.
2013.03.29 Iraq Baghdad 7 25 al-Qaeda car bombers murder seven worshipper as at a Shiite mosque.
2013.03.29 Nigeria Ratas 9 0 Fulani 'militias' murder nine villagers.
2013.03.29 Pakistan Saddar 12 16 A dozen people are torn to shreds by a Shahid suicide bomber at a parking lot, including women and children.
2013.03.29 Pakistan Risalpur 1 0 A cleric is shot to death in his own mosque during prayers after trying to stop sectarian Jihadis from pasting hateful posters.
2013.03.29 Thailand Narathiwat 1 14 Muslim 'separatists' kill one Thai with a planted bomb.
2013.03.29 Thailand Pattani 1 1 Islamic 'separatists' murder a 75-year-old plantation worker and severely injure his son.
2013.03.28 Pakistan Damadola 2 0 Taliban bombers take down two local soldiers on patrol.
2013.03.28 Thailand Narathiwat 3 5 Muslim bombers kill three local soldiers.
2013.03.28 Syria Damascus 15 30 Sunni terrorists deliberately send mortars into a university, massacring at least fifteen innocents.
2013.03.28 Nigeria Barkin Ladi 9 3 Nine Christians are machine-gunned during a Muslim raid on their village.
2013.03.27 Afghanistan Shinwar 1 0 An American soldier playing with children is stabbed in the neck by an Islamic militant.
2013.03.27 Lebanon Hasbaya 1 0 A Druze cleric is shot to death in a suspected sectarian attack.
2013.03.27 Pakistan Gulbahar 1 1 Sectarian Jihadis kill a Shia man and severely injure his son.
2013.03.27 Iraq Baghdad 4 26 Terrorists kill four Iraqis in separate attacks.
2013.03.26 Pakistan Shakas 1 0 Religious militants shoot a female teacher to death near a girls' school.
2013.03.26 Pakistan Karachi 1 2 A Shiite factory owner is killed when Sipah-e-Sahaba gunmen open up on him.
2013.03.26 Pakistan Kasur 0 5 Muslim clerics enter the home of an Ahmadi family and severely beat them into unconsciousness.
2013.03.26 Syria Damascus 3 3 A Shahid suicide bomber wipes out three locals.
2013.03.26 Nigeria Riyom 36 12 Fulani 'militia' attack two Christian villages, hacking and shooting three dozen to death.
2013.03.26 Iraq Tikrit 3 0 Three family members are machine-gunned in their home by Mujahideen.
2013.03.26 Afghanistan Jalalabad 5 4 Fedayeen bombers attack a local police station, killing at least five officers.
2013.03.25 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A Buddhist woman is murdered by Muslim 'separatists'.
2013.03.25 Pakistan Shamsabad 0 5 A Sunni mob attacks an Ahmadi home and beats the family.
2013.03.24 Thailand Narathiwat 1 1 A man is killed and his wife injured when Islamic 'separatists' fire on them as they are working their farm.
2013.03.24 Mali Gao 3 0 Two civilians and a local soldier are killed during an Islamist assault on a town.
2013.03.24 Iraq Mosul 12 20 A dozen Iraqis are taken out by Mujahideen.
2013.03.24 Somalia Mogadishu 1 0 A female journalist is shot to death in an attack blamed on Islamists.
2013.03.24 USA Ashtabula, OH 1 0 A Muslim convert walks into a church service with a Quran and guns down his Christian father while praising Allah.
2013.03.24 India Sopore 1 1 An elderly man dies from injuries after being shot by in the neck by Muslim terrorists at a market.
2013.03.23 Egypt Cairo 0 1 Muslim Brotherhood cadres abduct a Christian and take him to a mosque for a brutal round of torture.
2013.03.23 Afghanistan Kandahar 4 2 Four children are killed by a bomb left by religious fundamentalists.
2013.03.23 Nigeria Dakata 1 0 One person is shot to death by Boko Haram.
2013.03.23 Somalia Bulo Marer 0 1 A Christian convert is jailed and tortured for leaving Islam.
2013.03.23 Yemen Sanaa 3 0 Three Shiites are gunned down in the street by sectarian Jihadis.
2013.03.23 Somalia Mogadishu 1 0 A woman working for a human rights agency is assassinated by suspected al-Shabaab.
2013.03.23 Somalia Haraale 2 3 Two children are killed when a bomb is brought into a Quran school.
2013.03.23 Thailand Pattani 1 1 Muslim gunmen on motorcycles murder a 46-year-old official on his way to work.
2013.03.23 Pakistan Miranshah 22 35 A suicide bomber obliterates two dozen Pakistanis.

What amazed me beyond the obvious is that there are terrorist acts/violence in the US that you never really hear about. For example of March 24, a Muslim convert walks into a church and shoots his father dead while saying "The Will of Allah."
‘The Will of Allah’: Ohio Church Service Turns Deadly After Man Reportedly Yells Islamic Rhetoric, Shoots His Father | TheBlaze.com

Another way to interpret this list would be that US foreign policy has helped create some of the most tribalized and dangerous places on earth but you seem to be hell bent on equating a couple billion people with what statistically ammounts to way less than a handful. Since we're talking about cultures that seem to be hell bent on terrorizing others please revisit US Foreign policy in Indo China as well as the Middle East, Central and South America. Not exactly ancient history. What we as a country did in those regions should give anyone being critical of another cultures "obsession with violence" pause.

 

[magogian]

Another way to interpret this list would be that US foreign policy has helped create some of the most secularized and dangerous places on earth but you seem to be hell bent on equating a couple billion people with what statistically ammounts to way less than a handful.

dictionary.com is helpful. You should try it.

And I've never posited in any way that because of the fact there are some 3-4 Muslim terror attacks a day it somehow means all several billion Muslims are terrorists.

Try again.

 

[DSully1995]

dictionary.com is helpful. You should try it.

And I've never posited in any way that because of the fact there are some 3-4 Muslim terror attacks a day it somehow means all several billion Muslims are terrorists.

Try again.

magogian did the site cite requirements for the crime being classified as an act of terror?

 

[magogian]

magogian did the site cite requirements for the crime being classified as an act of terror?

Good question. I'll check.

The requirements are fairly broad, but I think they are defensible: "These are not incidents of ordinary crime involving nominal Muslims killing for money or vendetta. We only include incidents of deadly violence that are reasonably determined to have been committed out of religious duty - as interpreted by the perpetrator. Islam needs to be a motive, but it need not be the only factor.

We usually list only attacks resulting in loss of life (with a handful of exceptions). In several cases, the deaths are undercounted because deaths from trauma caused by the Islamists may occur in later days, despite the best efforts of medical personnel to keep the victims alive.

We usually don't include incidents related to combat, such as in Iraq and Afghanistan, unless it involves particularly heinous terror tactics, such as suicide bombings or attacks on troops sleeping in their barracks or providing medical care to the local population.

We acknowledge that a handful of incidents on the list may not fit the traditional definition of 'terror attack.' A small portion, for example, are of honor killings - although we usually omit those in which the woman is killed by her husband, since this is often indistinguishable from a crime of passion (barring explicit circumstances). Our stance on honor killings is that the stabbing, shooting or strangling of a woman over "unIslamic" behavior constitutes Islamic terror."

 

[Bluto]

dictionary.com is helpful. You should try it.

And I've never posited in any way that because of the fact there are some 3-4 Muslim terror attacks a day it somehow means all several billion Muslims are terrorists.

Try again.

Yeah right, your posts have been insinuating that very idea from the get go. As for the dictionary thing, whatever try using a android phone to post and get back to me. If we're gonna get into a pissing contest and your analysis of the Middle East and its problems sucked because you completely left out the entire Cold War and post Cold War era, the rise of Isalmic nationalism as embodied by Sadat and on and on. Also, you simply state "the US did as good as it could" which comes across as an apologist crock. Try again I suppose.