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This list
of 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. This is not ordinary crime. We include
violent incidents that can
reasonably be determined to have been committed 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.
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 very rarely include
those in which a woman is killed by their husband, since this is often
indistinguishable from a crime of passion (barring explicit 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 only recorded 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.
The incidents are collected each day from public news
sources. There is no rumor or word-of-mouth involved. Although every
attempt is made to be accurate and consistent, we are not making the
claim that this is a scientific undertaking.
No other religion inspires the sort of terrorism that
the "Religion of Peace" produces. We hope that this list offers a dose of
perspective against so-called "Islamophobia" and other Muslim complaints that
are petty by comparison. As the site
Bare Naked Islam puts it, "It
isn't Islamophobia when they really are trying to kill you."
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 self-absorbed whining for true contrition and an end to the violence.
Go back to the List of Islamic
Terrorist Attacks
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