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January 12, 2015
It simply blows my mind how some of you can still ask why this is happening. Maybe...just maybe, people are fed up with the intrusive, invasive, insidious, creeping presence of Islam trying to push it's ways on the world. These people are ready to start fighting fire with fire. Radical islam is reaping what it has sown. You can dislike it all you want, you can act all incredulous and dumbfounded, but these are the facts.
Reaping what they have sown
After the last 15 years at the very least of terror attacks by Islamic Radicals in dozens of places across the globe here's a few reasons why.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Islamic_terrorist_attacks
1990–1999
Osama bin Laden (1957–2011) was the founder of Al-Qaeda, the jihadist organization responsible for many high profile attacks, including the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings.
The 1998 United States embassy bombing in Nairobi where 214 people were killed including 12 Americans, 4000 others were wounded.
United States February 26, 1993 – World Trade Center bombing, in New York City. 6 killed.[4]
India March 12, 1993 – Serial blasts in Mumbai kill 257 people.
Algeria December 24, 1994 – Air France Flight 8969 hijacking in Algiers by 3 members of Armed Islamic Group of Algeria and another terrorist. 7 killed including 4 hijackers.[5]
Saudi ArabiaUnited States June 25, 1996 – Khobar Towers bombing, 20 killed, 372 wounded.[6]
Egypt November 17, 1997 – Luxor massacre, 6 armed Islamic terrorists attacked tourists at the Luxor ruins. 62 killed, 26 injured.[7]
India February 14, 1998 – A total of 58 people were killed and over 200 injured in 12 bomb attacks in 11 places, in the city of Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.
Tanzania Kenya United States August 7, 1998 – 1998 United States embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya. 224 dead, 4000+ injured.[8]
2000–2009
The north face of Two World Trade Center (south tower) immediately after being struck by United Airlines Flight 175
Hasib Hussain, who detonated the bus bomb in Tavistock Square in the 7 July 2005 London bombings, is captured on CCTV leaving
YemenUnited States October 12, 2000 – Attack on the USS Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden. 17 American sailors were killed, 39 injured.[9]
India December 22, 2000 – Attack on Red Fort in Delhi.
Indonesia December 24, 2000 – Christmas Eve 2000 Indonesia bombings of churches in eight cities, 18 killed.[10]
United States September 11, 2001 – 4 planes hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda hijackers: two planes crashed into World Trade Center and one into the The Pentagon. Nearly 3000 dead.[11]
India October 1, 2001 – Attack on the Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly.
India December 13, 2001 – Suicide attack on Indian parliament in New Delhi by Pakistan-based Islamist terrorist organizations Jaish-E-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Toiba, aimed at eliminating the top leadership of India and causing anarchy in the country. 7 dead, 12 injured.[12]
India March 30, 2002 – Attack on the Raghunath temple
Indonesia October 12, 2002 – 2002 Bali bombings in the tourist district of Kuta on the Indonesian island of Bali, killing 202 people and injuring 240.[13]
India November 24, 2001 – Attack on the Raghunath temple
India January 22, 2002 – Attack on an American cultural centre in Kolkata
India May 14, 2002 – three terrorists attacked a tourist bus near the town of Kaluchak in the Indian state Jammu and Kashmir .
India July 13, 2002 – Militants kill 29 Hindu labourers in Qasim Nagar on the outskirts of Jammu in Jammu and Kashmir.
India September 24, 2002 – Akshardham Temple attack
India August 25, 2003 – Twin car bombings killed 54, and injured 244 people in Mumbai.
Indonesia August 5, 2003 – 2003 Marriott Hotel bombing in Mega Kuningan, South Jakarta, Indonesia; suicide bomber detonated a car bomb outside the JW Marriott Jakarta lobby, killing 12 and injuring 150
Turkey November 15–20, 2003 – 2003 Istanbul bombings, killed 57 people and wounded 700.
Spain March 11, 2004 – Madrid train bombings, killed 191 people and wounded 1,800.[14][15]
Russia September 1, 2004 – Beslan school hostage crisis, approximately 344 civilians including 186 children killed.[16][17]
Indonesia Australia September 9, 2004 – 2004 Australian Embassy bombing in Jakarta, Indonesia; suicide bomber exploded a one-tonne car bomb, which was packed into a small Daihatsu delivery van, outside the Australian embassy at Kuningan District, South Jakarta killing 9 and injuring over 150
Netherlands November 2, 2004 – The murder of Theo van Gogh by Amsterdam-born jihadist Mohammed Bouyeri.[18]
India July 5, 2005 – Attack on the Hindu Ram temple in Ayodhya, India. 6 dead.
United Kingdom July 7, 2005 – Multiple bombings in London Underground. 53 killed by four suicide bombers. Nearly 700 injured.
Egypt July 23, 2005 – Bomb attacks at Sharm el-Sheikh, an Egyptian resort city, at least 64 people killed.
Indonesia October 1, 2005 – 2005 Bali bombings in Jimbaran & Kuta, Bali, Indonesia; a series of bombings kills at least 20 and injures over 100.
India October 29, 2005 – 2005 Delhi bombings, India. Over 60 killed and over 180 injured in a series of three attacks in crowded markets and a bus.[19]
Jordan November 9, 2005 – 2005 Amman bombings. a series of coordinated suicide attacks on hotels in Amman, Jordan. Over 60 killed and 115 injured.[20][21] Four attackers including a husband and wife team were involved.[22]
India March 7, 2006 – A series of bombings occurred across the Hindu holy city of Varanasi killing at least 28 people and injuring 101 others.
India April 30, 2006 – 2006 Doda massacre: Thirty-five Hindus killed by terrorists in Doda district in Jammu and Kashmir.
India July 11, 2006 – 2006 Mumbai train bombings: Seven bomb blasts over a period of 11 minutes on the Suburban Railway in Mumbai. 209 killed and over 700 injured.[23]
United Kingdom February 1, 2007 – The 2007 plot to behead a British Muslim soldier – A group of British Pakistanis in Birmingham, England planned to kidnap and behead a British Muslim soldier in order to undermine the morale of the British Army and inhibit recruitment of Muslims.[24]
Iraq August 14, 2007 – Qahtaniya bombings. Dour suicide vehicle bombings in two predominantly Yazidi towns in northern Iraq. 796 killed, 1,562 wounded.[25]
India May 13, 2007 – Jaipur bombings
India July 26, 2008 – 2008 Ahmedabad bombings. 56 dead, over 200 injured.[26][27]
India September 13, 2008 – Bombing series in Delhi, India. Pakistani extremist groups plant bombs at several places including India Gate, out of which the ones at Karol Bagh, Connaught Place and Greater Kailash explode leaving around 30 people dead and 130 injured, followed by another attack two weeks later at the congested Mehrauli area, leaving 3 people dead.
India September 27, 2008 – 27 September 2008 Delhi blast: An explosion in Mehrauli's Electronic market called Sarai, killed 3 and injured 23 others.
India November 26, 2008 – Muslim extremists kill at least 166 people and wound numerous others in a series of coordinated attacks on India's financial capital, Mumbai. The government of India blamed Pakistan based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba and stated that the terrorists killed/caught were citizens of Pakistan, a claim which the Pakistani government first refused but then accepted when given proof. Ajmal Kasab, one of the terrorists, was caught alive.[28][29]
United States June 1, 2009 - 2009 Little Rock recruiting office shooting by Abdulhakim Muhajid Muhammad. 1 killed and 1 injured
Somalia June 18, 2009 – 2009 Beledweyne bombing by Al-Shabaab. 35 dead.
Indonesia July 17, 2009 – 2009 Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Hotels bombing in Mega Kuningan, South Jakarta, Indonesia; suicide bombers hit the Marriott and 5 minutes later the Ritz-Carlton. 9 killed and 53 injured
United States November 5, 2009 – Fort Hood shooting, at Fort Hood near Killeen, Texas. 13 dead, 33 injured.
2010–current
Russia March 29, 2010 - Moscow Metro bombings. 40 dead, 102 injured. Caucasus Emirate claimed responsibility[30]
United States May 1, 2010 – 2010 Times Square car bombing attempt, New York, New York, USA. Faisal Shahzad, an Islamic Pakistani American who received an American citizenship in December 2009, attempted to detonate a car bomb in Times Square working with the Pakistani Taliban or Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan.
Pakistan May 28, 2010 – Attacks on Ahmadi Mosques Lahore, Pakistan. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed attacks on two mosques simultaneously belonging to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, killing nearly 100 and injuring many others.[31]
India December 7, 2010 – 2010 Varanasi bombing, India. 2 dead, 37 injured.
Sweden December 10, 2010 – 2010 Stockholm bombing, Sweden. killing the bomber and injuring two people.
Russia January 21, 2011 - Domodedovo International Airport bombing. 37 killed, 173 wounded[32]
Germany March 2, 2011 – 2011 Frankfurt Airport shooting, Frankfurt, Germany. 2 dead, 2 injured.
China July 18, 2011 – 2011 Hotan attack, Hotan, China. A group of 18 young Uyghur men who opposed the local government's campaign against the full-face Islamic veil perpetrated a series of coordinated bomb and knife attacks and occupied a police station on Nuerbage Street, killing two security guards and taking eight hostages. The attackers yelled religious slogans, including ones associated with Jihadism, 4 killed, 4 wounded.
China July 30, 2011 - A series of knife and bomb attacks occurred in Kashgar, China. Uyghur men hijacked a truck, killed its driver and drove into a crowd of pedestrians. They then got out of the vehicle and attacked pedestrians with knifes. On July 31, a chain of two explosions started a fire in a restaurant, 15 killed, 42 wounded.
Nigeria December 25, 2011 - Christmas Day bombings were bomb blasts and shootings at churches in Madalla, Jos, Gadaka, and Damaturu. Over 41 people are reported dead.[33]
Iraq 5 January 2012 Iraq bombings, Baghdad and Nasiriyah, Iraq by Islamic State of Iraq. 73 dead, 149 injured.
Thailand February 14, 2012 - A series of explosions occurred in Bangkok, Thailand, 5 wounded.
Iraq 23 February 2012 Iraq attacks, Baghdad, Iraq by Islamic State of Iraq. 83 dead, 250+ injured.
Iraq 20 March 2012 Iraq attacks, Baghdad and at least 9 other cities, Iraq. 52 dead, ~ 250 injured.
France March 20, 2012 – Toulouse and Montauban shootings in France. 7 dead, 5 injured.
Russia May 3, 2012 - Makhachkala attack. 14 dead, including 2 suicide bombers, 130 wounded[34]
Bulgaria July 18, 2012 - 2012 Burgas bus bombing - 7 dead, including the suicide bomber and 32 injured at Burgas Airport, Burgas, Bulgaria.
LibyaUnited States September 11, 2012 – 2012 Benghazi attack on the U.S. Consulate. 4 dead, 11 injured.
India February 21, 2013. – 2013 Hyderabad blasts, two bomb blasts killed 16 people and injured 119.
United States April 15, 2013. – Boston Marathon bombings. Two brothers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnev, planted two bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The blast killed 3 and injured 183 others.[35]
Turkey May 11, 2013 – Reyhanlı bombings, killed 52 people and wounded 140.
United Kingdom May 22, 2013 – Two men with cleavers kill British soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich.[36][37]
Kenya September 21, 2013 – Westgate shopping mall attack, 67 killed, 175 wounded.[38][39][40]
Pakistan September 22, 2013 – Peshawar church attack, 80-83 killed, 250 wounded.
Nigeria September 29, 2013. - Gujba college massacre. 44 students killed by Boko Haram
China October 28, 2013 - A 4x4 vehicle crashed into a crowd and burst into flames in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, 5 killed, 38 wounded.
China March 1, 2014 - A group of 8 individuals attacked civilians at Kunming Railway Station, 28 dead, 143 wounded.
China April 30, 2014 - Two assailants attacked passengers and detonated explosives at the Ürümqi railway station, 1 dead, 79 wounded.
China May 22, 2014 - Two SUVs which carried 5 assailants were driven into a street market in Ürümqi and up to a dozen explosives were thrown at shoppers through the windows of the SUVs. The cars then crashed into shoppers and collided into each other and exploded, 39 dead, 90+ wounded.
Syria August, 2014. - Islamic State fighters massacred some 700 people, mostly men, of the Shu'aytat tribe in Deir ez-Zor Governorate.[41]
Australia September 23, 2014. – 2014 Endeavour Hills stabbings. Numan Haider, an Afghan Australian stabbed two counter terrorism officers in Melbourne, Australia. He was then shot dead.[42]
Nigeria February 14, 2014. - Borno Massacre at least 200 killed by Boko Haram[43]
Nigeria May 20, 2014. - Jos bombings at least 118 killed and over 56 injured[44]
Belgium May 24, 2014. - Jewish Museum of Belgium shooting. Gunman opened fire at the Jewish Museum in Brussels killing 4 people.
Russia October 5, 2014 - 2014 Grozny bombing. 5 officers and the suicide bomber, were killed, while 12 others were wounded.[45]
Canada October 20, 2014 - 2014 Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu ramming attack. Lone attacker used his car to run over two Canadian soldiers. 1 killed, 1 injured
Canada October 22, 2014 – 2014 shootings at Parliament Hill, Ottawa. Lone attacker shot a soldier at a war memorial and attacked Parliament. 1 killed, 3 injured[46]
United States October 23, 2014. – Zale H. Thomson, also known as Zaim Farouq Abdul-Malik, attacked four New York policemen in the subway with a hatchet, severely injuring one in the back of the head and injuring another policeman in the arm before being shot to death by the remaining officers, who also shot a bystander.[47]
Nigeria November 28, 2014. - Kano bombing. Around 120 people were killed and another 260 injured.[48][49][50][51]
Russia December 4, 2014. - 2014 Grozny clashes. 26 total dead, including 14 policemen, 11 Jihadist from Caucasus Emirate, 1 civilian[52]
Australia December 15, 2014. – 2014 Sydney hostage crisis.[disputed – discuss] 2 dead, 4 injured.[53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60]
Pakistan December 16, 2014. – 2014 Peshawar school attack. Over 140 people dead, including at least 132 children.[61]
Yemen December 16, 2014. - Two suicide car bombers rammed their vehicles into a Shiite rebels' checkpoint killing 26, including 16 students.[62]
Nigeria December 18, 2014. - 2014 Gumsuri kidnappings. Boko Haram insurgents killed 32 people and kidnapped at least 185 women and children.[63]
Syria December 18, 2014. - Mass grave of 230 Tribesmen killed by Islamic State found in Eastern Syria.[64]
France December 20, 2014 - 2014 Joué-lès-Tours attack. A man yelling Allahu Akbar attacked a police office with a knife. He was killed and 3 police officers were injured
France December 21, 2014 - 2014 Dijon attack. A man yelling Allahu Akbar ran over 11 pedestrians with his vehicle. 11 injured
France December 22, 2014 - 2014 Nantes attack. A man driving a white van ran over 11 pedestrians at the city's Christmas market before unsuccessfully attempting suicide. 1 killed, 10 injured
Nigeria December 22, 2014. – Boko Haram insurgents bombed a bus station in the city of Gombe, killing at least twenty people.[65]
Iraq December, 2014. - Islamic State militants execute 150 women Iraqi province of Al-Anbar, some of whom were pregnant at the time, who refuse to marry their fighters.[66]
Iraq December 24, 2014. - A suicide bomber killed 33 people and wounded 55 others in Madaen, about 25 km (15 miles) south of Baghdad.[67]
Somalia December 25, 2014. - Al-Shabaab (militant group) attack in Mogadishu leaves 9 dead.[68]
Cameroon December 28, 2014. - Boko Haram attacks village in Cameroon leaving 30 dead.[69]
France January 7, 2015. - At least 12 killed in shooting at office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, Paris [70]
Nigeria January 8, 2015. – 2015 Baga massacre. Boko Haram attacks town of Baga in northern Nigeria killing at least 200 people. Another 2000 are unaccounted for.[71]
France January 9, 2015. - 4 hostages killed in Porte de Vincennes hostage crisis, Paris.
Germany January 11, 2015. - Rocks and an improvised incendiary device has been thrown through a window inside the headquarters of the daily newspaper Hamburger Morgenpost in Hamburg. The reason behind this attack, is that the Hamburger Morgenpost, has included one of the Charlie Hebdo's (shooting at office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo) caricature of Mohammed in their newspaper. No one was killed.
Osama bin Laden (1957–2011) was the founder of Al-Qaeda, the jihadist organization responsible for many high profile attacks, including the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings.
The 1998 United States embassy bombing in Nairobi where 214 people were killed including 12 Americans, 4000 others were wounded.
United States February 26, 1993 – World Trade Center bombing, in New York City. 6 killed.[4]
India March 12, 1993 – Serial blasts in Mumbai kill 257 people.
Algeria December 24, 1994 – Air France Flight 8969 hijacking in Algiers by 3 members of Armed Islamic Group of Algeria and another terrorist. 7 killed including 4 hijackers.[5]
Saudi ArabiaUnited States June 25, 1996 – Khobar Towers bombing, 20 killed, 372 wounded.[6]
Egypt November 17, 1997 – Luxor massacre, 6 armed Islamic terrorists attacked tourists at the Luxor ruins. 62 killed, 26 injured.[7]
India February 14, 1998 – A total of 58 people were killed and over 200 injured in 12 bomb attacks in 11 places, in the city of Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.
Tanzania Kenya United States August 7, 1998 – 1998 United States embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya. 224 dead, 4000+ injured.[8]
2000–2009
The north face of Two World Trade Center (south tower) immediately after being struck by United Airlines Flight 175
Hasib Hussain, who detonated the bus bomb in Tavistock Square in the 7 July 2005 London bombings, is captured on CCTV leaving
YemenUnited States October 12, 2000 – Attack on the USS Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden. 17 American sailors were killed, 39 injured.[9]
India December 22, 2000 – Attack on Red Fort in Delhi.
Indonesia December 24, 2000 – Christmas Eve 2000 Indonesia bombings of churches in eight cities, 18 killed.[10]
United States September 11, 2001 – 4 planes hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda hijackers: two planes crashed into World Trade Center and one into the The Pentagon. Nearly 3000 dead.[11]
India October 1, 2001 – Attack on the Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly.
India December 13, 2001 – Suicide attack on Indian parliament in New Delhi by Pakistan-based Islamist terrorist organizations Jaish-E-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Toiba, aimed at eliminating the top leadership of India and causing anarchy in the country. 7 dead, 12 injured.[12]
India March 30, 2002 – Attack on the Raghunath temple
Indonesia October 12, 2002 – 2002 Bali bombings in the tourist district of Kuta on the Indonesian island of Bali, killing 202 people and injuring 240.[13]
India November 24, 2001 – Attack on the Raghunath temple
India January 22, 2002 – Attack on an American cultural centre in Kolkata
India May 14, 2002 – three terrorists attacked a tourist bus near the town of Kaluchak in the Indian state Jammu and Kashmir .
India July 13, 2002 – Militants kill 29 Hindu labourers in Qasim Nagar on the outskirts of Jammu in Jammu and Kashmir.
India September 24, 2002 – Akshardham Temple attack
India August 25, 2003 – Twin car bombings killed 54, and injured 244 people in Mumbai.
Indonesia August 5, 2003 – 2003 Marriott Hotel bombing in Mega Kuningan, South Jakarta, Indonesia; suicide bomber detonated a car bomb outside the JW Marriott Jakarta lobby, killing 12 and injuring 150
Turkey November 15–20, 2003 – 2003 Istanbul bombings, killed 57 people and wounded 700.
Spain March 11, 2004 – Madrid train bombings, killed 191 people and wounded 1,800.[14][15]
Russia September 1, 2004 – Beslan school hostage crisis, approximately 344 civilians including 186 children killed.[16][17]
Indonesia Australia September 9, 2004 – 2004 Australian Embassy bombing in Jakarta, Indonesia; suicide bomber exploded a one-tonne car bomb, which was packed into a small Daihatsu delivery van, outside the Australian embassy at Kuningan District, South Jakarta killing 9 and injuring over 150
Netherlands November 2, 2004 – The murder of Theo van Gogh by Amsterdam-born jihadist Mohammed Bouyeri.[18]
India July 5, 2005 – Attack on the Hindu Ram temple in Ayodhya, India. 6 dead.
United Kingdom July 7, 2005 – Multiple bombings in London Underground. 53 killed by four suicide bombers. Nearly 700 injured.
Egypt July 23, 2005 – Bomb attacks at Sharm el-Sheikh, an Egyptian resort city, at least 64 people killed.
Indonesia October 1, 2005 – 2005 Bali bombings in Jimbaran & Kuta, Bali, Indonesia; a series of bombings kills at least 20 and injures over 100.
India October 29, 2005 – 2005 Delhi bombings, India. Over 60 killed and over 180 injured in a series of three attacks in crowded markets and a bus.[19]
Jordan November 9, 2005 – 2005 Amman bombings. a series of coordinated suicide attacks on hotels in Amman, Jordan. Over 60 killed and 115 injured.[20][21] Four attackers including a husband and wife team were involved.[22]
India March 7, 2006 – A series of bombings occurred across the Hindu holy city of Varanasi killing at least 28 people and injuring 101 others.
India April 30, 2006 – 2006 Doda massacre: Thirty-five Hindus killed by terrorists in Doda district in Jammu and Kashmir.
India July 11, 2006 – 2006 Mumbai train bombings: Seven bomb blasts over a period of 11 minutes on the Suburban Railway in Mumbai. 209 killed and over 700 injured.[23]
United Kingdom February 1, 2007 – The 2007 plot to behead a British Muslim soldier – A group of British Pakistanis in Birmingham, England planned to kidnap and behead a British Muslim soldier in order to undermine the morale of the British Army and inhibit recruitment of Muslims.[24]
Iraq August 14, 2007 – Qahtaniya bombings. Dour suicide vehicle bombings in two predominantly Yazidi towns in northern Iraq. 796 killed, 1,562 wounded.[25]
India May 13, 2007 – Jaipur bombings
India July 26, 2008 – 2008 Ahmedabad bombings. 56 dead, over 200 injured.[26][27]
India September 13, 2008 – Bombing series in Delhi, India. Pakistani extremist groups plant bombs at several places including India Gate, out of which the ones at Karol Bagh, Connaught Place and Greater Kailash explode leaving around 30 people dead and 130 injured, followed by another attack two weeks later at the congested Mehrauli area, leaving 3 people dead.
India September 27, 2008 – 27 September 2008 Delhi blast: An explosion in Mehrauli's Electronic market called Sarai, killed 3 and injured 23 others.
India November 26, 2008 – Muslim extremists kill at least 166 people and wound numerous others in a series of coordinated attacks on India's financial capital, Mumbai. The government of India blamed Pakistan based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba and stated that the terrorists killed/caught were citizens of Pakistan, a claim which the Pakistani government first refused but then accepted when given proof. Ajmal Kasab, one of the terrorists, was caught alive.[28][29]
United States June 1, 2009 - 2009 Little Rock recruiting office shooting by Abdulhakim Muhajid Muhammad. 1 killed and 1 injured
Somalia June 18, 2009 – 2009 Beledweyne bombing by Al-Shabaab. 35 dead.
Indonesia July 17, 2009 – 2009 Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Hotels bombing in Mega Kuningan, South Jakarta, Indonesia; suicide bombers hit the Marriott and 5 minutes later the Ritz-Carlton. 9 killed and 53 injured
United States November 5, 2009 – Fort Hood shooting, at Fort Hood near Killeen, Texas. 13 dead, 33 injured.
2010–current
Russia March 29, 2010 - Moscow Metro bombings. 40 dead, 102 injured. Caucasus Emirate claimed responsibility[30]
United States May 1, 2010 – 2010 Times Square car bombing attempt, New York, New York, USA. Faisal Shahzad, an Islamic Pakistani American who received an American citizenship in December 2009, attempted to detonate a car bomb in Times Square working with the Pakistani Taliban or Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan.
Pakistan May 28, 2010 – Attacks on Ahmadi Mosques Lahore, Pakistan. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed attacks on two mosques simultaneously belonging to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, killing nearly 100 and injuring many others.[31]
India December 7, 2010 – 2010 Varanasi bombing, India. 2 dead, 37 injured.
Sweden December 10, 2010 – 2010 Stockholm bombing, Sweden. killing the bomber and injuring two people.
Russia January 21, 2011 - Domodedovo International Airport bombing. 37 killed, 173 wounded[32]
Germany March 2, 2011 – 2011 Frankfurt Airport shooting, Frankfurt, Germany. 2 dead, 2 injured.
China July 18, 2011 – 2011 Hotan attack, Hotan, China. A group of 18 young Uyghur men who opposed the local government's campaign against the full-face Islamic veil perpetrated a series of coordinated bomb and knife attacks and occupied a police station on Nuerbage Street, killing two security guards and taking eight hostages. The attackers yelled religious slogans, including ones associated with Jihadism, 4 killed, 4 wounded.
China July 30, 2011 - A series of knife and bomb attacks occurred in Kashgar, China. Uyghur men hijacked a truck, killed its driver and drove into a crowd of pedestrians. They then got out of the vehicle and attacked pedestrians with knifes. On July 31, a chain of two explosions started a fire in a restaurant, 15 killed, 42 wounded.
Nigeria December 25, 2011 - Christmas Day bombings were bomb blasts and shootings at churches in Madalla, Jos, Gadaka, and Damaturu. Over 41 people are reported dead.[33]
Iraq 5 January 2012 Iraq bombings, Baghdad and Nasiriyah, Iraq by Islamic State of Iraq. 73 dead, 149 injured.
Thailand February 14, 2012 - A series of explosions occurred in Bangkok, Thailand, 5 wounded.
Iraq 23 February 2012 Iraq attacks, Baghdad, Iraq by Islamic State of Iraq. 83 dead, 250+ injured.
Iraq 20 March 2012 Iraq attacks, Baghdad and at least 9 other cities, Iraq. 52 dead, ~ 250 injured.
France March 20, 2012 – Toulouse and Montauban shootings in France. 7 dead, 5 injured.
Russia May 3, 2012 - Makhachkala attack. 14 dead, including 2 suicide bombers, 130 wounded[34]
Bulgaria July 18, 2012 - 2012 Burgas bus bombing - 7 dead, including the suicide bomber and 32 injured at Burgas Airport, Burgas, Bulgaria.
LibyaUnited States September 11, 2012 – 2012 Benghazi attack on the U.S. Consulate. 4 dead, 11 injured.
India February 21, 2013. – 2013 Hyderabad blasts, two bomb blasts killed 16 people and injured 119.
United States April 15, 2013. – Boston Marathon bombings. Two brothers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnev, planted two bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The blast killed 3 and injured 183 others.[35]
Turkey May 11, 2013 – Reyhanlı bombings, killed 52 people and wounded 140.
United Kingdom May 22, 2013 – Two men with cleavers kill British soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich.[36][37]
Kenya September 21, 2013 – Westgate shopping mall attack, 67 killed, 175 wounded.[38][39][40]
Pakistan September 22, 2013 – Peshawar church attack, 80-83 killed, 250 wounded.
Nigeria September 29, 2013. - Gujba college massacre. 44 students killed by Boko Haram
China October 28, 2013 - A 4x4 vehicle crashed into a crowd and burst into flames in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, 5 killed, 38 wounded.
China March 1, 2014 - A group of 8 individuals attacked civilians at Kunming Railway Station, 28 dead, 143 wounded.
China April 30, 2014 - Two assailants attacked passengers and detonated explosives at the Ürümqi railway station, 1 dead, 79 wounded.
China May 22, 2014 - Two SUVs which carried 5 assailants were driven into a street market in Ürümqi and up to a dozen explosives were thrown at shoppers through the windows of the SUVs. The cars then crashed into shoppers and collided into each other and exploded, 39 dead, 90+ wounded.
Syria August, 2014. - Islamic State fighters massacred some 700 people, mostly men, of the Shu'aytat tribe in Deir ez-Zor Governorate.[41]
Australia September 23, 2014. – 2014 Endeavour Hills stabbings. Numan Haider, an Afghan Australian stabbed two counter terrorism officers in Melbourne, Australia. He was then shot dead.[42]
Nigeria February 14, 2014. - Borno Massacre at least 200 killed by Boko Haram[43]
Nigeria May 20, 2014. - Jos bombings at least 118 killed and over 56 injured[44]
Belgium May 24, 2014. - Jewish Museum of Belgium shooting. Gunman opened fire at the Jewish Museum in Brussels killing 4 people.
Russia October 5, 2014 - 2014 Grozny bombing. 5 officers and the suicide bomber, were killed, while 12 others were wounded.[45]
Canada October 20, 2014 - 2014 Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu ramming attack. Lone attacker used his car to run over two Canadian soldiers. 1 killed, 1 injured
Canada October 22, 2014 – 2014 shootings at Parliament Hill, Ottawa. Lone attacker shot a soldier at a war memorial and attacked Parliament. 1 killed, 3 injured[46]
United States October 23, 2014. – Zale H. Thomson, also known as Zaim Farouq Abdul-Malik, attacked four New York policemen in the subway with a hatchet, severely injuring one in the back of the head and injuring another policeman in the arm before being shot to death by the remaining officers, who also shot a bystander.[47]
Nigeria November 28, 2014. - Kano bombing. Around 120 people were killed and another 260 injured.[48][49][50][51]
Russia December 4, 2014. - 2014 Grozny clashes. 26 total dead, including 14 policemen, 11 Jihadist from Caucasus Emirate, 1 civilian[52]
Australia December 15, 2014. – 2014 Sydney hostage crisis.[disputed – discuss] 2 dead, 4 injured.[53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60]
Pakistan December 16, 2014. – 2014 Peshawar school attack. Over 140 people dead, including at least 132 children.[61]
Yemen December 16, 2014. - Two suicide car bombers rammed their vehicles into a Shiite rebels' checkpoint killing 26, including 16 students.[62]
Nigeria December 18, 2014. - 2014 Gumsuri kidnappings. Boko Haram insurgents killed 32 people and kidnapped at least 185 women and children.[63]
Syria December 18, 2014. - Mass grave of 230 Tribesmen killed by Islamic State found in Eastern Syria.[64]
France December 20, 2014 - 2014 Joué-lès-Tours attack. A man yelling Allahu Akbar attacked a police office with a knife. He was killed and 3 police officers were injured
France December 21, 2014 - 2014 Dijon attack. A man yelling Allahu Akbar ran over 11 pedestrians with his vehicle. 11 injured
France December 22, 2014 - 2014 Nantes attack. A man driving a white van ran over 11 pedestrians at the city's Christmas market before unsuccessfully attempting suicide. 1 killed, 10 injured
Nigeria December 22, 2014. – Boko Haram insurgents bombed a bus station in the city of Gombe, killing at least twenty people.[65]
Iraq December, 2014. - Islamic State militants execute 150 women Iraqi province of Al-Anbar, some of whom were pregnant at the time, who refuse to marry their fighters.[66]
Iraq December 24, 2014. - A suicide bomber killed 33 people and wounded 55 others in Madaen, about 25 km (15 miles) south of Baghdad.[67]
Somalia December 25, 2014. - Al-Shabaab (militant group) attack in Mogadishu leaves 9 dead.[68]
Cameroon December 28, 2014. - Boko Haram attacks village in Cameroon leaving 30 dead.[69]
France January 7, 2015. - At least 12 killed in shooting at office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, Paris [70]
Nigeria January 8, 2015. – 2015 Baga massacre. Boko Haram attacks town of Baga in northern Nigeria killing at least 200 people. Another 2000 are unaccounted for.[71]
France January 9, 2015. - 4 hostages killed in Porte de Vincennes hostage crisis, Paris.
Germany January 11, 2015. - Rocks and an improvised incendiary device has been thrown through a window inside the headquarters of the daily newspaper Hamburger Morgenpost in Hamburg. The reason behind this attack, is that the Hamburger Morgenpost, has included one of the Charlie Hebdo's (shooting at office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo) caricature of Mohammed in their newspaper. No one was killed.
It simply blows my mind how some of you can still ask why this is happening. Maybe...just maybe, people are fed up with the intrusive, invasive, insidious, creeping presence of Islam trying to push it's ways on the world. These people are ready to start fighting fire with fire. Radical islam is reaping what it has sown. You can dislike it all you want, you can act all incredulous and dumbfounded, but these are the facts.
January 11, 2015
fred....
You just can't handle it can you, the fact there are now two tribes on the liberal side of this issue can you ?
Most are still being apologists for islam (religion) like yourself, and the others accept the reality that the radicals of the religion are farmed from it's moderates by it's extremist divisive preachers who instruct their followers to act literally on the violent hate filled passages in the quran . That's a fact fred and you can't make it go away any more than you can make the quran itself go away. As for the fact of the shop owner being muslim, so what, it's not like he was made by any "god" do what he did, he acted as a decent human being should completely of his own cognizance. He acted good for goodness sake in the heat of the moment, even though later he may later credit it to "god" himself. It wasn't even about the shoppers being jewish, it was about them being human. (The same go's for the police officer who died needlessly, she was doing her duty, and was a decent person).
Who did act violently in the name of their god/faith/religion in this situation fred ?
Heres a great point on Religious moderates you may have heard before, or maybe not:
" Religious moderates also tend to imagine that there is some bright line
of separation between extremist and moderate religion. But there isn’t.
Scripture itself remains a perpetual engine of extremism: because, while
He may be many things, the God of the Bible and the Qur’an is not a
moderate. Reading scripture more closely, one does not find reasons to
be a religious moderate; one finds reasons to be a proper religious
lunatic—to fear the fires of hell, to despise nonbelievers, to persecute
homosexuals, etc. Of course, anyone can cherry-pick scripture and find
reasons to love his neighbor and to turn the other cheek. But the more
fully a person grants credence to these books, the more he will be
convinced that infidels, heretics, and apostates deserve to be smashed
to atoms in God’s loving machinery of justice."
~Sam Harris~ From: 'Letter To a Christian Nation'
PS.
As for the Fear mongers on FOX News and National Review Online who are also inciting things with ACTUAL racist agenda's, and patent lies, stirring up christian zealotry....fuck them.... they aren't helping damn thing, everyone here knows that even me.
January 10, 2015
He made the decision to act morally and save lives, it wasn't Islam. In fact no morality is bestowed upon you by a religion or a god of any kind .You are a human, who makes your own choices to act as a benfactor, selfishly, or maliciously. Those choices come from within your own person and define who you are. Yet, here we have just another thread of DU apologists who are refusing face the reality that RELIGION is actually to blame here, and many other places(boko haram). If there is any "narrative" here on DU about relgion in general(yet especially to Islam), it's one of blind apologetics and capitulation. Time to get real DU !
Absolutley ,thank you....
Yeah what exactly does his Religious identification have to do with it anyway?He made the decision to act morally and save lives, it wasn't Islam. In fact no morality is bestowed upon you by a religion or a god of any kind .You are a human, who makes your own choices to act as a benfactor, selfishly, or maliciously. Those choices come from within your own person and define who you are. Yet, here we have just another thread of DU apologists who are refusing face the reality that RELIGION is actually to blame here, and many other places(boko haram). If there is any "narrative" here on DU about relgion in general(yet especially to Islam), it's one of blind apologetics and capitulation. Time to get real DU !
January 10, 2015
This verse, among many others, in the quran advocates the killing of unbelievers, is the evidence that These Terrorists attacks ARE indeed about the religion. So any of you who like to pretend otherwise are fooling yourselves on the most self-deluded level possible.
Wake up and smell the jihad apologists ! You need to stop capitulating to the religion as a whole when it's at least as guilty for not Unilaterally putting forth fruitful efforts to curb the behavior of the radicals within it. I will not give any quarter until that happens, but i won't holding my breath obviously.
Bill Maher said it best on Jimmy Kimmel the other night:
The Transcipt:
JIMMY KIMMEL, HOST: A terrible thing happened today in Paris.
BILL MAHER: Yes. Tell them.
KIMMEL: People were killed. I know a lot of people are on vacation so maybe they don't know what's going on.
MAHER: You're the host so you have to tell them the bad news.
KIMMEL: The bad news is cartoonists, journalists, some other people, a police officer were killed in Paris.
MAHER: This was really big sh*t.
KIMMEL: Yes, especially in our business in particular. Especially in your business in particular.
MAHER: Right. And we have to not avoid who did this. Who did this, Jimmy?
KIMMEL: Well, we presume, and I think it's safe --
MAHER: No, no, it's not a presume. No, no. It's Muslim terrorists.
KIMMEL: Yes, Muslim terrorists.
MAHER: This happens way too frequently. It's like Groundhog Day, except if the Groundhog kept getting his head cut off. And let's also give some credit to this newspaper. This was a satirical newspaper in Paris. These guys have the balls of the Eiffel Tower. Their balls were bigger than Gérard Depardieu, because they kept doing it.
KIMMEL:Their were firebombed, their offices were firebombed.
MAHER: Absolutely.
KIMMEL: They continued. The editor said he would rather die than change with his right to free speech.
MAHER: For the crime of being satirists, for the crime of drawing cartoons. This has to stop, and unfortunately, a lot of the liberals, who are my tribe, I am a proud liberal
KIMMEL: He's about to turn on you, so.
MAHER: No, I'm not turning on them, I'm asking them to turn toward the truth as I have been for quite a while. I'm the liberal in this debate. I'm for free speech. To be a liberal, you have to stand up for liberal principles. It's not my fault that the part of the world that is most against liberal principles is the Muslim part of the world.
There have been studies. We have facts on this. Treatment of women. They studied 130 different countries. 17 of the bottom 20 were Muslim countries. In 10 Muslim countries, you can get the death penalty just for being gay. They chop heads off in the square in Mecca. Well, Mecca is their Vatican City. If they were chopping the heads off of Catholic gay people, wouldn't there be a bigger outcry among liberals? I'd ask you.
So to bring it home to us, because we are are satirists, and I'm a satirist who deals with this subject particularly, it's kind of scary, that some people say you cannot make a joke. That's off-limits. We saw this with Kim Jong-un...
We have to stop saying when something like this that happened in Paris today, we have to stop saying, well, we should not insult a great religion. First of all, there are no great religions. They're all stupid and dangerous. And we should insult them and we should be able to insult whatever we want. That is what free speech is like.
There are certain people in the world who want waivers on free speech. Kim Jong-un in North Korea says you cannot make jokes about our country, and there's a lot of Muslim people in the world. I know most Muslim people would not have carried out an attack like this. But here's the important point. Hundreds of millions of them support an attack like this. They applaud an attack like this. What they say is, we don't approve of violence, but you know what, when you make fun of the prophet, all bets are off.
KIMMEL: You really think hundreds of millions of Muslim support this?
MAHER: Absolutely. That is main stream in the Muslim world that when you make fun of the prophet, all bets are off. You get what's coming to you. It's also main stream that if you leave the religion you get what's coming to you, which is death. Not in every Muslim country in majority numbers, but this is a problem in the world that we have to stand up to.
And again, I'm the liberal in this debate. I was brought up in a liberal family. The reason we were liberals is because we were against oppression. I was a little kid when my father told us, we're with Kennedy and against the Southern Governors who stand in the doorways and don't let black kids go to school. And all my life I've been for people who have been the downtrodden, the oppressed, the minorities. I've been for blacks, gays, women, Mexicans, the bully, whoever it is.
YOU ARE WRONG KMOD !
I'm not afraid to tell you about it either. Stop with the spineless apologetics and wake up to the reality we're actually living and ... dying in.
The religion , which is Islam and it's followers, muslims, is based on a "holy" book called the Quran. Not all Muslims are radicals go's without saying , yet how many more headlines with innocent lives lost have to be made by the radicals in it before it will finally sink into your head that Radicals are farmed from moderates by hardline Imams who advocate and teach the Quran literally.
This here is in their 'holy' book, which unfortunately, wether they liketo admit it to it or not, DOES get taught by most to be taken literally:
* Quran (5:33) - "The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered/killed or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement"
This verse, among many others, in the quran advocates the killing of unbelievers, is the evidence that These Terrorists attacks ARE indeed about the religion. So any of you who like to pretend otherwise are fooling yourselves on the most self-deluded level possible.
Wake up and smell the jihad apologists ! You need to stop capitulating to the religion as a whole when it's at least as guilty for not Unilaterally putting forth fruitful efforts to curb the behavior of the radicals within it. I will not give any quarter until that happens, but i won't holding my breath obviously.
Bill Maher said it best on Jimmy Kimmel the other night:
The Transcipt:
JIMMY KIMMEL, HOST: A terrible thing happened today in Paris.
BILL MAHER: Yes. Tell them.
KIMMEL: People were killed. I know a lot of people are on vacation so maybe they don't know what's going on.
MAHER: You're the host so you have to tell them the bad news.
KIMMEL: The bad news is cartoonists, journalists, some other people, a police officer were killed in Paris.
MAHER: This was really big sh*t.
KIMMEL: Yes, especially in our business in particular. Especially in your business in particular.
MAHER: Right. And we have to not avoid who did this. Who did this, Jimmy?
KIMMEL: Well, we presume, and I think it's safe --
MAHER: No, no, it's not a presume. No, no. It's Muslim terrorists.
KIMMEL: Yes, Muslim terrorists.
MAHER: This happens way too frequently. It's like Groundhog Day, except if the Groundhog kept getting his head cut off. And let's also give some credit to this newspaper. This was a satirical newspaper in Paris. These guys have the balls of the Eiffel Tower. Their balls were bigger than Gérard Depardieu, because they kept doing it.
KIMMEL:Their were firebombed, their offices were firebombed.
MAHER: Absolutely.
KIMMEL: They continued. The editor said he would rather die than change with his right to free speech.
MAHER: For the crime of being satirists, for the crime of drawing cartoons. This has to stop, and unfortunately, a lot of the liberals, who are my tribe, I am a proud liberal
KIMMEL: He's about to turn on you, so.
MAHER: No, I'm not turning on them, I'm asking them to turn toward the truth as I have been for quite a while. I'm the liberal in this debate. I'm for free speech. To be a liberal, you have to stand up for liberal principles. It's not my fault that the part of the world that is most against liberal principles is the Muslim part of the world.
There have been studies. We have facts on this. Treatment of women. They studied 130 different countries. 17 of the bottom 20 were Muslim countries. In 10 Muslim countries, you can get the death penalty just for being gay. They chop heads off in the square in Mecca. Well, Mecca is their Vatican City. If they were chopping the heads off of Catholic gay people, wouldn't there be a bigger outcry among liberals? I'd ask you.
So to bring it home to us, because we are are satirists, and I'm a satirist who deals with this subject particularly, it's kind of scary, that some people say you cannot make a joke. That's off-limits. We saw this with Kim Jong-un...
We have to stop saying when something like this that happened in Paris today, we have to stop saying, well, we should not insult a great religion. First of all, there are no great religions. They're all stupid and dangerous. And we should insult them and we should be able to insult whatever we want. That is what free speech is like.
There are certain people in the world who want waivers on free speech. Kim Jong-un in North Korea says you cannot make jokes about our country, and there's a lot of Muslim people in the world. I know most Muslim people would not have carried out an attack like this. But here's the important point. Hundreds of millions of them support an attack like this. They applaud an attack like this. What they say is, we don't approve of violence, but you know what, when you make fun of the prophet, all bets are off.
KIMMEL: You really think hundreds of millions of Muslim support this?
MAHER: Absolutely. That is main stream in the Muslim world that when you make fun of the prophet, all bets are off. You get what's coming to you. It's also main stream that if you leave the religion you get what's coming to you, which is death. Not in every Muslim country in majority numbers, but this is a problem in the world that we have to stand up to.
And again, I'm the liberal in this debate. I was brought up in a liberal family. The reason we were liberals is because we were against oppression. I was a little kid when my father told us, we're with Kennedy and against the Southern Governors who stand in the doorways and don't let black kids go to school. And all my life I've been for people who have been the downtrodden, the oppressed, the minorities. I've been for blacks, gays, women, Mexicans, the bully, whoever it is.
January 7, 2015
(False: it go's without saying that not all muslims are radical terrorists, Lamest argument ever, shut up with that already.)
"We can't be sure it was an Islamic radical group yet, wait for the facts."
(False: Yes WE CAN ! It was definitely Islamic terrorists.)
"Only Racists are against Islam"
(False equivocation: A religion is not a race, any more than an apple is an orange)
" You have to prove that the majority acts of terrorism these days are perpetrated by Muslims "
(Easy Odds there: When was he last time any other group of religious extremists hell bent on mass murdering people for drawing their prophet ? How many people have they killed now for this very asinine reason ? It isn't the first time, and probably won't be the last. How many other completely irrational, misogynist terrorist crimes do Extremist versions of islam perpetrate on their own, and other people than any other ? You can easily bet that whatever the final ratio is it's going to heavily favor islamic terrorists.
" Leave Islam ALONE !!!! "
(NOT GONNA HAPPEN!!: The *quran is where these murderers get the ideas in the first place, so... NO..WE WON'T, not until a majority of **muslim countries, their clergy, and most importantly their common people come together and show they will, unilaterally, crack down HARD on the barbaric practices of the MANY, MANY extremists within it. They Must demand reform in Islam itself so that anyone caught literally acting on the violent verses in the quran will be dealt with immediate ridicule and/or excommunication, made to stand trail and to be judged by bias free secular laws for their crimes, No Sharia for them ! zero exceptions.)
* Quran (5:33) - "The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered/killed or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement"
Quran (8:59-60) - "And let not those who disbelieve suppose that they can outstrip (Allah's Purpose). Lo! they cannot escape. Make ready for them all thou canst of (armed) force and of horses tethered, that thereby ye may dismay the enemy of Allah and your enemy."
No reasonable person who is peaceful will act literally on these. Furthermore why would any reasonable person even want to practice this or any religion with these malicious things written in their "holy" book, which their "GOD" demands they follow ?
** Interestingly enough El si-si calls for reform against radicals in Islam : http://www.commdiginews.com/featured/egyptian-president-el-sisi-seeks-enlightenment-reform-in-the-islamic-world-32819/#2EQkhhbohYVQQTKE.99
islamic apologist's be like.....
"Stop painting ALL muslims with a broad brush!!"(False: it go's without saying that not all muslims are radical terrorists, Lamest argument ever, shut up with that already.)
"We can't be sure it was an Islamic radical group yet, wait for the facts."
(False: Yes WE CAN ! It was definitely Islamic terrorists.)
"Only Racists are against Islam"
(False equivocation: A religion is not a race, any more than an apple is an orange)
" You have to prove that the majority acts of terrorism these days are perpetrated by Muslims "
(Easy Odds there: When was he last time any other group of religious extremists hell bent on mass murdering people for drawing their prophet ? How many people have they killed now for this very asinine reason ? It isn't the first time, and probably won't be the last. How many other completely irrational, misogynist terrorist crimes do Extremist versions of islam perpetrate on their own, and other people than any other ? You can easily bet that whatever the final ratio is it's going to heavily favor islamic terrorists.
" Leave Islam ALONE !!!! "
(NOT GONNA HAPPEN!!: The *quran is where these murderers get the ideas in the first place, so... NO..WE WON'T, not until a majority of **muslim countries, their clergy, and most importantly their common people come together and show they will, unilaterally, crack down HARD on the barbaric practices of the MANY, MANY extremists within it. They Must demand reform in Islam itself so that anyone caught literally acting on the violent verses in the quran will be dealt with immediate ridicule and/or excommunication, made to stand trail and to be judged by bias free secular laws for their crimes, No Sharia for them ! zero exceptions.)
* Quran (5:33) - "The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered/killed or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement"
Quran (8:59-60) - "And let not those who disbelieve suppose that they can outstrip (Allah's Purpose). Lo! they cannot escape. Make ready for them all thou canst of (armed) force and of horses tethered, that thereby ye may dismay the enemy of Allah and your enemy."
No reasonable person who is peaceful will act literally on these. Furthermore why would any reasonable person even want to practice this or any religion with these malicious things written in their "holy" book, which their "GOD" demands they follow ?
** Interestingly enough El si-si calls for reform against radicals in Islam : http://www.commdiginews.com/featured/egyptian-president-el-sisi-seeks-enlightenment-reform-in-the-islamic-world-32819/#2EQkhhbohYVQQTKE.99
January 6, 2015
Egyptian President El-Sisi seeks “Enlightenment” reform in the Islamic world
I would like any thoughts on The Egyptian Presidents words presented here. Honestly what do you think ..that is all.
http://www.commdiginews.com/featured/egyptian-president-el-sisi-seeks-enlightenment-reform-in-the-islamic-world-32819/
January 6, 2015
As long as that sort of mentality is allowed to persist in humanity no progress will ever be made towards any kind of peace.
It happens.... a LOT.
I'd think anyone a fool if they are actually suggesting that this doesn't ever happen, Especially in America. There are more radical ( yeah there's that word again) christian evangelicals than ever showing up outside of entertainment events hollering thier "JESUS IS THE ONLY WAY REPENT" crap. Brandishing signs, accusing everyone coming and going of every sin they can list on their silly signs. I recently went to Dave Chappelle's stage show and these kooks were out there pushing their holier than thou noise in everyone's faces, waving bibles tauntingly, the whole fire and brimstone indignation. They even had made street sign toppers that said "Retribution Way", I think I was probably the only one to notice it ( I think that could be illegal actually). I... like most in line with me, laughed at them heartily, but some people can actually be intimidated/shamed and leave because of it, and that is wrong.
I've also seen them at just about any rock band, or secular comedian, or anything they don't think is wholesome. Let's not even mention Westboro Baptist Church and all their hate crimes in the name of "god". I know some people like think these some of these same kinds of behavior aren't happening with evangelical radical Islamic groups in Europe, but they are, they so are, and there's plenty of video proof of it all over the internet, all but few clicks on google will most certainly reveal from multiple sources.
Another point that needs to be made clear is that a Religion IS NOT a Race, that is a False Equivocation fallacy. So I'm sorry but no one gets to use the race card on it anymore to dishonestly accuse someone of being racist for pointing it out. There is definitely a difference between a radical and common practitioner in any religion if anyone likes to think so or not. Cosmicone has it spot on above with this:
"The problem comes from some people believing that their way is superior, other people's ways are inferior and the other people should be forced to believe as they do".
As long as that sort of mentality is allowed to persist in humanity no progress will ever be made towards any kind of peace.
January 5, 2015
Why must so many people confuse a race with a religion ? ? ?
There seems to be an intentional use of this 'False Equivalence' by so many to dishonestly accuse someone of being racist, when they know very well that race has nothing to do with it.
Many muslims are Arabic, some are from Iraq, some are from Denmark, some are immigrants, some are white, some are black, some are American, some are Chinese, they can even be combinations of all these, or others. All of these practice islam so there is absolutely no need, or rationale to equate their nationality, race, or ethnicity to their spiritual or religious beliefs. Some people like to take advantage of this fallacy in order to insist otherwise, and often have their own divisive political, religious, or racist motivations to insult, degrade, or otherwise deride others for calling attention to this fact. I'm sure this also happens with other religions/races/nationalities in similar contexts. Just because you practice a certain religion does not mean you are necessarily a certain race and vice-versa. So please take time to understand the difference, and stop comparing apples to oranges, and oranges to onions. You already know better.
False Equivalence: stop using it as an excuse.
Why must so many people confuse a race with a religion ? ? ?
There seems to be an intentional use of this 'False Equivalence' by so many to dishonestly accuse someone of being racist, when they know very well that race has nothing to do with it.
Many muslims are Arabic, some are from Iraq, some are from Denmark, some are immigrants, some are white, some are black, some are American, some are Chinese, they can even be combinations of all these, or others. All of these practice islam so there is absolutely no need, or rationale to equate their nationality, race, or ethnicity to their spiritual or religious beliefs. Some people like to take advantage of this fallacy in order to insist otherwise, and often have their own divisive political, religious, or racist motivations to insult, degrade, or otherwise deride others for calling attention to this fact. I'm sure this also happens with other religions/races/nationalities in similar contexts. Just because you practice a certain religion does not mean you are necessarily a certain race and vice-versa. So please take time to understand the difference, and stop comparing apples to oranges, and oranges to onions. You already know better.
January 2, 2015
Du can hide if they like, My point is solid.
It has less to do with race..... than it has to do with a sect of people pushing a violent, brainwashing dogma. In no way do i think ALL Muslims are like this, nor have i ever suggested it, because that would be intolerant. But I will, without hesitation, point out the radicals as I see them they present themselves. The righteous indignation, and capitulation to any view that would seem to oppose islam in any way here on DU is completely lopsided. People here seem to have to be reminded there is succinct difference between a standard muslim who actually despises all the violent dogma espoused in the quran and would rather die than be seduced by the radicals that do practice it literally word for word. The problem is many of them do die for it, and many not willingly.
These snake headed Imams are nothing but cobra's spiting venom under the guise of tolerance and fairness (and they are obviously influencing state/social policies very well in this way) . It is THEY who are largely responsible for the violence that may occur If even one man in that crowd is ever involved in a stoning, or an honor killing, or some other from of traditional radical islamic barbarism. The more they are subjected to this sort of group think the more likely it is for something tragic to occur. If anyone on DU has a problem with that you know what to do.
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