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This list,
of over 10,000 terrorist attacks committed by Muslims since 9/11/01 (a rate of
about three or four a day), is incomplete because only a small percentage of
attacks were picked up by international news sources, even those resulting in
multiple loss of life.
These are not incidents involving nominal Muslims
killing for money or personal pride. We include attacks that can
reasonably be determined to have been committed by Muslims out of
religious duty - as
interpreted by the perpetrator.
We usually list only attacks that result in loss of
life (with a handful of exceptions). In several cases, the victims 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
terrorist tactics. Unprovoked sniper, drive-by or roadside bombing attacks
on military personnel serving normal police duties are sometimes included
depending on the circumstances.
Unfortunately, this list of Muslim terrorist attacks
barely scratches the surface of atrocities committed in the name of Islam that
occur world-wide each day. For that reason, we don't tally up the dead and
dismembered, except on a weekly and monthly basis.
As an example, most news articles on the violence in
southern Thailand note that about 900 people were killed in 2005. We
estimate that 150 of these deaths are of the Islamic militants themselves, which
means they killed some 750 people that year. But TROP was only able to
record the deaths of 314. We underreported more than half in a country
with a decent news infrastructure. Imagine what we don't catch in the
Sudan, where the toll runs into the hundreds of thousands!
The ridiculous level of violence that Islam serves up
to the world makes it impossible to compile a complete list.
Interestingly, people often respond to the list by
disparaging other religions, as if pulling everyone down to the same level
satisfies some sort of moral preconception about religion and culture in
general. Since no other religion inspires the sort of terrorism that Islam
produces, the critic invariably finds it necessary to change the rules of
comparison for one side of the equation in order to contrive preferred results.
Typically, this will take the form of reaching far back
into a religion's history to find the worst that can be found, even if it is in
a time of war or is in utter contradiction to the teachings of the faith.
In a fit of self-congratulation, the critic then holds their straw man up
against our list of attacks - which are bound to a particular timeframe and
constrained by the rules of non-warfare and overt religious motivation - failing
to realize the extent to which they have mitigated their own argument.
We hope that the more open-minded will be educated by
this [non-religious, non-partisan] site, have a better understanding of the
threat that the "Religion of Peace" poses across the globe, and be better able
to put complaints of "Islamophobia" into perspective.
Who knows - perhaps one day Muslims will have a change
of heart and decide to take the sort of action that one might
expect of people who believe that it really is wrong to kill in the name of
their religion. We'll know when this happens because it will be when Islam
exchanges petty complaint for true contrition, and roots out the extremist
elements to end the violence - as opposed to offering occasional lip service
that is designed merely to appeal to Western tastes.
Go back to the List of Islamic
Terrorist Attacks
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