About the List of Terrorist Attacks

 

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.

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