Oh, boy, talk about a question that opens a can of worms. First of all, you have to look at what is going on, and how we Americans perceive Muslims. I think you will find, most Americans do not outright hate Muslims, but we certainly do have reason to hate acts committed by Muslims, against Americans, and other people around the world. .
Lets start with the date of 9/11, when Muslim extremists hijacked several planes. Two of them were flown into the world trade centers, the pentagon, and then one that crashed in Pennsylvania. A total of over 3000 INNOCENT people were killed by Muslims, for what?
The reason given by the terrorists were many. The old argument at America was out to destroy muslims and irradicate Islam. . This is not, and never was true. Consider Desert storm I, when Iraq invaded Kuwaite. The people of that country were killed in mass and their country looted by Sadam Hussain. The resonse of the Arab world? Well, I did not see the Saudi's or Iranians rushing in to stop Hussain. . No, it was the good old US. . and did we stay in your sacred Saudi Arabia? No, Did we conquer Saudi Arabia? How about Kuwait? No, we pulled out, after Hussein was driven back. .
Jump forward a few years. There were many that were convinced that Hussein had weapons of Mass destruction. . now remember that Hussein used chemical weapons against the Kurds in the North. . Muslim outcry? Nope, not a word. .
We had to go back, and take Hussein out of power, because he kept ignoring UN Weapons inspectors. And what do we find when we get there? Atrocities upon atrocities committed by Hussein and his family against Muslims. Was there any outcry from the Muslim world? No, none. . .
Now, lets jump forward a bit. . We watch Television and what do we see? Angry Muslims chanting "Death to America" , footage from Iran? "Death to America". . Islam is continually foisted as the "Religion of Peace" Let me give you a short list of crimes fomented by islamic people aginst others in the last two months:
List of Islamic Terror Attacks For the Past 2 Months
Date Country City Killed Injured Description
11/30/2007 Somalia Borbhere 1 0 A man is shot to death in a mosque by three Islamic radicals.
11/29/2007 India Baramulla 1 0 A 60-year-old civilian is shot to death by the Mujahideen.
11/29/2007 Somalia Mogadishu 15 23 Islamic militants open fire on a security team hunting for munitions in a residential area. Some fifteen civilians are killed.
11/29/2007 Iraq al-Salaam 12 25 A Jihad rocket attack leaves a dozen villagers dead.
11/29/2007 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A 58-year-old orchard worker is shot to death by radical Muslims.
11/29/2007 Pakistan North Waziristan 5 4 Religious militants bomb a convoy, killing five local soldiers.
11/29/2007 Afghanistan Baghlan 1 1 The Taliban shoot a local police officer to death.
11/28/2007 Iraq Haditha 5 30 Jihadis lob mortars into a residential area, killing five civilians.
11/28/2007 Pakistan Punjab 1 0 A father chops his daughter to death with an axe over her affair with a boy.
11/28/2007 Thailand Narathiwat 2 0 Two Buddhist fishermen are abducted and brutally murdered by Islamic terrorists, who then cut off their heads.
11/28/2007 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 Islamists shoot, stab, then nail a man to a wooden cross and leave on the road to die.
11/28/2007 Chechnya Grozny 1 0 A local cop is gunned down by the Mujahideen.
11/27/2007 Afghanistan Kabul 2 7 A suicide bomber kills two civilians walking along a road.
11/27/2007 Somalia Mogadishu 1 1 Islamic militias gun down a vendor at a market.
11/27/2007 Iraq Baqubah 9 15 A suicide bomber disguised as a shepherd manages to kill nine Iraqis, including three women.
11/26/2007 Somalia Mataban 6 0 Six civilians are killed when Islamic militias attack Ethiopian troops in a populated area.
11/26/2007 Afghanistan Paktia 4 2 Religious extremists kill four Afghans with a roadside bomb.
11/26/2007 Iraq Mosul 4 2 Jihadis murder four people. A woman is also gunned down in Basra.
11/26/2007 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 Islamic terrorists shoot a civilian off his motorcycle, then walk over and put a bullet in his head.
11/26/2007 Thailand Yala 1 0 A 54-year-old man is murdered by Muslim terrorists on his way to work.
11/26/2007 Afghanistan Kabul 4 0 Four civilians are killed by a bomb planted by religious extremists.
11/25/2007 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A disabled woman is shot to death as she leaves her plantation.
11/25/2007 Iraq Baghdad 11 36 Eleven civilians are killed in two separate car bombings.
11/25/2007 Iraq Baghdad 9 0 Nine Iraqi cops are taken hostage, force to kneel, and shot in the back of the head by their Muslim brothers.
11/25/2007 Iraq Shab 11 0 Seven children are among eleven family members slaughtered by sectarian rivals in their home.
11/25/2007 Iraq al-Zab 1 5 A suicide bomber kills one Iraqi and injures five more.
11/24/2007 Thailand Narathiwat 2 0 An older Buddhist couple are murdered by Islamic gunmen in a drive-by attack.
11/24/2007 Thailand Yala 1 0 A middle-aged man is shot to death by Islamists while sitting in a tea shop.
11/24/2007 Iraq Fallujah 2 0 Two people are kidnapped, tortured and murdered by Islamic radicals.
11/24/2007 Pakistan Rawalpindi 30 55 Suicide bombers kill thirty Pakistanis in two separate attacks, one on a bus.
11/24/2007 Afghanistan Kabul 7 9 Three children are among seven people murdered by a Fedayeen suicide bomber.
11/23/2007 Iraq Baghdad 15 55 Fifteen innocent people are slaughtered by Jihadi bombers at a pet market.
11/23/2007 Afghanistan Kandahar 7 6 Religious extremists behead seven Afghan police officers.
11/23/2007 India Uttar Pradesh 14 80 Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islamia terrorists bomb three separate Indian cities, killing at least fourteen Hindu.
11/23/2007 Iraq Mosul 21 21 Islamic terrorists massacre twenty-one Iraqis with twin bombings.
11/23/2007 Thailand Yala 1 0 A 45-year-old man is killed outside his home by Islamic militants.
11/23/2007 Pakistan Parachinar 50 0 Renewed violence between Shia and Sunni reportedly leaves about fifty dead.
11/23/2007 Iraq Jalawla 2 0 A husband and wife are beheaded in front of their children by religious extremists.
11/22/2007 Pakistan Lower Kurram 3 0 Three people are killed in sectarian attacks.
11/22/2007 Philippines Kidapawan 1 7 A gang linked to Islamic militants plants a bomb at a shopping mall, killing one person.
11/22/2007 Iraq Mosul 3 22 Jihadis kill two people with a car bomb and behead a university professor in a separate incident.
11/22/2007 Iraq Howr Rajab 22 8 al-Qaeda terrorists attack two Iraqi villages, killing over twenty innocent people.
11/22/2007 Somalia Mogadishu 3 5 Three civilians are killed in an ambush by Islamic militants.
11/22/2007 Russia Bratsk 5 13 A young girl is among five people are killed when Islamic radicals bomb a passenger bus.
11/22/2007 Thailand Narathiwat 2 0 Two brothers are shot to death by Muslim militants as they are riding a motorcycle.
11/22/2007 Pakistan FATA 2 0 Two civilians are shot to death in separate attacks by sectarian rivals.
11/21/2007 Iraq Ramadi 6 22 Sunni radicals bomb a courthouse, killing six people.
11/21/2007 Pakistan Swat 4 0 Four members of the same family are killed in a mortar attack by Muslim militants.
11/21/2007 Thailand Pattani 4 6 Islamists shoot four Buddhists to death at point-blank range, then plant a bomb that injures six others.
11/21/2007 Iraq Muwaili 40 0 An al-Qaeda mass grave is found containing forty bodies, including that of children.
11/21/2007 India Rajouri 1 0 A civilian is abducted and beheaded by the Mujahideen, who also torch his house.
11/20/2007 Afghanistan Ghazni 2 4 Islamic extremists attack a road construction crew, killing two people.
11/20/2007 Pakistan Parachinar 28 27 Twenty-eight more people are killed in clashes between Sunni and Shia.
11/20/2007 Iraq Baghdad 37 25 Thirty-seven people are killed in various attacks by Islamic terrorists around the country.
11/20/2007 India Baramulla 2 0 The Mujahideen shoot two people to death in separate attacks.
11/20/2007 Pakistan Parachinar 6 4 A fourth day of Sunni-Shia violence yields six more bodies.
11/20/2007 Pakistan North Waziristan 1 3 A civilian is killed in an Islamist rocket attack.
11/20/2007 India Kulgam 1 0 A baker is abducted and murdered by the Mujahideen.
11/19/2007 Pakistan Darra Adamkhel 3 0 Three truck drivers are kidnapped and beheaded by the Taliban.
11/19/2007 Afghanistan Nimroz 7 14 Seven people are blown to bits by a suicide bomber.
11/19/2007 Russia Nalchik 1 2 A Russian policeman is killed in a shooting attack by Mujahideen.
11/19/2007 Iraq Basra 6 2 Jihadis kill five children and their mother with a Katusha rocket.
11/19/2007 Iraq Tikrit 8 0 Five policemen are found murdered as the bodies of three civilians, including a 3-year-old boy, are discovered elsewhere.
11/19/2007 Pakistan Kurram 8 18 Sectarian extremists lob a mortar into a market, killing eight people.
11/19/2007 Pakistan Parachinar 12 50 A dozen more people are killed in Sunni-Shia mob violence.
11/19/2007 Pal. Auth. Kedumim 1 0 A 29-year-old Israeli father is shot to death by Palestinian terrorists.
11/18/2007 Iraq Baghdad 10 21 Islamic terrorists detonate a car bomb along a city street, killing ten Iraqis.
11/18/2007 Iraq Mosul 3 16 Three civilians are killed by a car bomb detonated by Sunni radicals.
11/18/2007 Afghanistan Uruzgan 5 0 Five local policemen are kidnapped, tortured, and murdered by religious extremists, who hang the mutilated bodies on display.
11/18/2007 Iraq Baqubah 6 7 A suicide bomber wades into a group of children receiving candy from US soldiers and detonates. At least six are killed.
11/18/2007 Pakistan Nowshera 1 0 Muslim militants kill a railway worker with a bomb.
11/18/2007 Afghanistan Badakshan 2 0 Islamists kill a teacher and her driver in a highway ambush.
11/18/2007 Afghanistan Girishk 2 3 Two local policemen are killed in a Taliban ambush.
11/17/2007 Afghanistan Nangarhar 1 2 An Afghan civilian is killed by a suicide bomber.
11/17/2007 Pakistan Mir Ali 1 0 A woman is killed by an al-Qadea bomb planted outside her home.
11/17/2007 Somalia Mogadishu 2 6 Two civilians on a minibus are killed in a roadside bomber attack by Islamists.
11/17/2007 Iraq Mosul 10 0 Ten people are gunned down or found dead at the hands of Sunni terrorists.
11/17/2007 Pakistan Parachinar 46 80 Another forty-six people are killed in sectarian violence between Sunnis and Shia.
11/17/2007 Thailand Yala 2 0 Islamists shoot a middle-aged married couple to death in their home.
11/17/2007 Afghanistan Sangisar 3 0 A Taliban road mine kills two Canadians and their Afghan interpreter.
11/17/2007 Iraq Baghdad 30 0 Thirty Shia bodies, many of them children, are discovered in a house in a predominantly Sunni area.
11/16/2007 Iraq Sadiyah 2 0 Two brothers are kidnapped and murdered by sectarian rivals.
11/16/2007 Pakistan Parachinar 45 100 At least forty people, including two doctors, are killed in a bitter street clash between Sunni and Shia.
11/16/2007 Afghanistan Kandahar 2 1 Taliban kill two newly-married women with a rocket assault on their vehicle.
11/16/2007 Somalia Mogadishu 1 0 A 'street boy' is killed when Islamic terrorists attack a group of Ugandan peacekeepers.
11/16/2007 Afghanistan Kabul 13 0 Religious extremists kill thirteen local police in two ambushes in eastern provinces.
11/16/2007 Afghanistan Kandahar 4 0 Four local policemen are blown to bits by a bomb planted by religious extremists.
11/16/2007 Thailand Yala 1 0 A 42-year-old hospital worker is murdered by Islamic gunmen on his way to work.
11/15/2007 Pakistan North Waziristan 2 3 Two local soldiers are killed in separate terror bombings by Taliban militants.
11/15/2007 Iraq Baghdad 1 0 A female school principal is shot to death by Islamic radicals.
11/15/2007 Iraq Mahaweel 1 0 A 25-year-old woman is tortured to death by militant Muslims.
11/15/2007 Thailand Narathiwat 1 1 A woman is shot and killed by Muslim terrorists while riding home with her daughter.
11/15/2007 Afghanistan Paktia 3 0 A teacher, killed for teaching English, is among three people shot to death by the Taliban.
11/15/2007 Thailand Pattani 1 0 Islamic terrorists open fire on an off-duty policeman sitting in his truck, killing him.
11/15/2007 Iraq Kirkuk 6 24 Children walking to school account for the bulk of casualties as a suicide car bomber detonates in front of them. Six are killed.
11/14/2007 Iraq Hilla 2 10 Two people are killed by a Fedayeen suicide attack on a home.
11/14/2007 India Srinagar 1 0 Islamists assassinate a political leader outside a mosque.
11/14/2007 Iraq Iskandariya 2 6 A suicide bomber kills two Iraqis at a tribal chiefs meeting.
11/14/2007 Pakistan Saidu Sharif 4 4 Two civilians are among four killed when Islamic militants fire rockets into an airport.
11/14/2007 Ingushetia Nazran 1 0 A police officer is assassinated by Muslim separatists as he leaves his home.
11/14/2007 Tajikistan Dushanbe 1 0 A street-sweeper is killed by a bomb planted outside a government building.
11/13/2007 Iraq Qadir Kam 5 0 al-Qaeda is suspected to be behind the brutal slaying of a family of five in their home.
11/13/2007 Iraq Mosul 5 0 A woman and child are among five people killed by Islamic terrorists.
11/13/2007 Pakistan Peshawar 1 0 Islamic fundamentalists kill a 12-year-old boy inside an Internet cafe with a planted bomb.
11/13/2007 Iraq Kirkuk 2 1 A policeman is killed in his car along with his 13-year-old son. The boy's mother is injured in the Sunni attack.
11/13/2007 Philippines Manila 4 9 A lawmaker, his driver and two staffers are blown apart by a bomb planted by Muslim militants.
11/12/2007 Pal. Auth. Gaza 7 50 Hamas gunmen open fire on an Arafat rally, killing seven participants.
11/12/2007 Pakistan Miranshah 1 9 Talibanis bomb a convoy of vehicles, killing a local soldier.
11/12/2007 Iraq Baqubah 1 0 Fundamentalists gun down a university professor.
11/11/2007 Afghanistan Herat 6 1 Six tribal elders are brutally ambushed and shot to death by Islamic radicals.
11/11/2007 Somalia Mogadishu 2 0 Two local guards are gunned down at a market by Islamic militia.
11/11/2007 Iraq Baqubah 1 1 Sunni gunmen attack a university, killing one student.
11/11/2007 Iraq Baghdad 8 9 A 12-year-old girl is among eight innocents killed by Islamic terrorists in various attacks.
11/11/2007 India Kishtwar 1 0 A political activist is kidnapped and murdered by the Mujahideen.
11/11/2007 Afghanistan Helmand 3 0 A suicide bomber takes out three Afghan civilians.
11/11/2007 Afghanistan Helmand 3 0 A woman and two children are killed when Talibanis use them as human shields.
11/11/2007 India Sopore 1 0 Islamic militants ambush a road-opening ceremony, killing a security guard.
11/10/2007 Afghanistan Kunduz 1 3 A civilian is killed in an attack by a Fedayeen bomber.
11/10/2007 Iraq Baghdad 16 30 Sixteen people are killed in various attacks by Islamic terrorists around the country.
11/10/2007 India Baramulla 1 6 Mujahideen kill one police officer in an attack on a hotel.
11/9/2007 Pakistan Peshawar 4 3 Four people are killed when a suicide bomber on foot darts into their home.
11/9/2007 Iraq Baqubah 1 6 Islamic terroists kill a child in a bomb attack on a family.
11/9/2007 Iraq Albu Ajeel 3 3 Three villagers are killed in an assault by Muslim gunmen.
11/9/2007 Afghanistan Zabul 4 2 Religious extremists murder four local cops by firing point-blank into their vehicle.
11/9/2007 Iraq Khalis 7 4 Seven Iraqis are murdered in a suicide bombing.
11/9/2007 Iraq Balad Ruz 3 5 Three children are killed in a Jihad mortar attack.
11/9/2007 Iraq Baghdad 2 0 Two male gynaecologists are killed by Islamic fundamentalists determined that men should not see the private parts of women.
11/9/2007 India Pattan 4 3 Lashkar-e-Toiba militants gun down four local soldiers.
11/9/2007 Thailand Yala 2 0 A woman and her son are murdered by Islamic gunmen while walking home.
11/9/2007 Thailand Narathiwat 2 0 Two civilians are shot to death by Muslim radicals while talking out on their front yard.
11/8/2007 Afghanistan Zabul 7 0 Seven local cops are brutally ambushed and murdered by religious extremists.
11/8/2007 Pakistan Tank 1 0 A Shiite cleric is gunned down by Sunni radicals.
11/8/2007 Iraq Garma 6 4 Radical Sunnis kill six local cops with a roadside bomb.
11/8/2007 Iraq Mandali 12 0 Twelve Iraqis are killed over a 24-hour period by Islamic terrorists.
11/8/2007 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A local businessman is shot to death by Islamic radicals.
11/8/2007 Pakistan Bannu 1 0 The Mujahideen shoot a man to death inside his home.
11/8/2007 Thailand Yala 1 0 A 59-year-old civilian is gunned down outside his home by Islamic militants.
11/8/2007 Iraq Tal Asquf 1 5 One woman is killed, and five others injured, when a Fedayeen bomber detonates at a campaign office.
11/7/2007 Thailand Pattani 3 1 Three policemen are killed by a powerful Muslim bomb that throws them into a canal.
11/7/2007 Thailand Yala 1 5 Islamists attack a security patrol, killing one member.
11/7/2007 Iraq Baghdad 8 0 A female teacher is among eight people gunned down by Islamic radicals.
11/7/2007 Iraq Diwaniyah 2 3 Jihadis manage to kill two children in a mortar attack on their village.
11/7/2007 Pal. Auth. Nablus 1 2 Terrorists kill a fellow Palestinian in a roadside attack. The victim was a laborer.
11/7/2007 Iraq Wassit 2 0 Two children are killed by a roadside bomb planted by Islamic terrorists.
11/7/2007 Pakistan Razmak 3 1 Three local soldiers are abducted and killed for 'resisting Islam.'
11/7/2007 Iraq Hashimiyat 17 0 Seventeen kidnap victims are found bound and executed.
11/6/2007 Thailand Narathiwat 2 0 Two Buddhist teachers are murdered by Islamic radicals.
11/6/2007 Afghanistan Baghlan 75 96 Sixty schoolchildren are among more than seventy innocents blown to bits by a Fedayeen suicide bomber at a sugar factory.
11/6/2007 Thailand Yala 0 27 Muslim bombers injure twenty-seven people at a fresh food market. Several victims lose limbs.
11/6/2007 Iraq Mosul 6 0 Six local policmen are shot to death by Jihadis, who then burn the bodies.
11/6/2007 Iraq Latifiya 4 0 Two people are tortured to death by Islamic terrorists. Two others are beheaded in Dhuluiya.
11/6/2007 Somalia Baladweyn 1 0 A businessman is shot twice in the head by two suspected Islamic assassins.
11/6/2007 Afghanistan Lashkar Gah 1 0 A government official is murdered by Taliban gunmen.
11/5/2007 Pakistan Kharqamar 1 1 A local soldier is killed in a roadside bombing attack by Taliban militants.
11/5/2007 Iraq Baghdad 20 11 Twenty Iraqis are killed in various Jihad attacks in the capital and in Mosul.
11/5/2007 Somalia Suq Bacad 1 0 An Ethiopian security guard at a market is assassinated by Islamic gunmen.
11/5/2007 Ingushetia Magas 3 1 Radical Muslims enter a brick factory and shoot three workers to death.
11/5/2007 Thailand Pattani 3 0 Muslim radicals shoot three people to death as they are riding in a vehicle.
11/5/2007 Thailand Yala 2 0 Two men are gunned down by Islamic extremists.
11/5/2007 Thailand Narathiwat 2 0 Two imams are shot to death by religious extremists.
11/4/2007 Iraq Baqubah 2 1 A woman and girl are killed when Jihadis bomb their home.
11/4/2007 Afghanistan Ghazni 4 2 Religious extremists kill four local cops in a roadside attack.
11/4/2007 Iraq Baghdad 9 7 Two female school principles are among nine people killed is separate attacks by Islamic terrorists.
11/4/2007 Iraq Tikrit 6 13 A child is among six people killed in two separate Sunni attacks.
11/4/2007 Russia Kabardino-Bal. 9 0 Islamic militants capture, bind, and shoot nine civilian hunters to death in a heavily wooded area.
11/4/2007 Thailand Yala 2 0 A 12-year-old boy and his father are murdered by Islamic gunmen.
11/4/2007 Iraq Samarra 5 15 Five Iraqis are killed by a car bomb set by Islamic terrorists.
11/4/2007 Iraq Ramadi 40 0 Security forces discover the remains of forty civilians kidnapped, tortured and executed by al-Qaeda.
11/3/2007 Iraq Khalis 7 10 A roadside bombing and separate shooting attacks leave seven people dead.
11/3/2007 Afghanistan Rashidan 2 0 The Taliban kidnap and behead a man and woman.
11/2/2007 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A 58-year-old man is shot to death by Islamists while returning home from market.
11/2/2007 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 A 28-year-old plantation worker is murdered by Islamic radicals while walking home.
11/2/2007 Somalia Mogadishu 5 0 Five Ehtiopians are killed in an ambush by Islamists, who then drag the bodies through the streets.
11/2/2007 Iraq Tuz Khormato 1 1 Sunni extremists gun down a university student.
11/1/2007 Thailand Narathiwat 3 10 Islamic radicals kill three men in separate shooting and bombing attacks.
11/1/2007 Pakistan Sargodha 8 40 A suicide bomber rams a bus, killing eight local security personnel.
11/1/2007 Afghanistan Nad Ali 5 3 Religious extremists attack a police checkpoint, killing five officers.
11/1/2007 Iraq Baqubah 1 2 Jihadis manage to kill one child with a bomb and injure two others.
11/1/2007 Pakistan Bajaur 2 0 Two people are killed when Taliban militants shell their house.
11/1/2007 Iraq Baghdad 11 25 Two bombs (the second in Saadiya) leave eleven Iraqis dead.
10/31/2007 Somalia Mogadishu 1 0 Islamic militias are thought responsible for the brazen murder of a gentle businessman.
10/31/2007 Russia Togliatti 8 50 A bomb set on the floor of a commuter bus by suspected Islamic militants kills eight.
10/31/2007 Iraq Mosul 9 0 Sectarian terrorist kidnap and murder nine people, burning the bodies afterwards.
10/31/2007 Thailand Yala 2 7 Islamic radicals bomb a karaoke bar, killing one patron, then shoot a 37-year-old man in a separate attack.
10/30/2007 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 Radicals shoot a religious teacher to death.
10/30/2007 Pakistan Rawalpindi 7 24 A Fedayeen suicide bomber detonates in a public park, killing seven people.
10/30/2007 Thailand Yala 1 3 A 13-year-old Buddhist girl is murdered by Islamic gunmen, who also injure her mother.
10/30/2007 Iraq Baghdad 8 16 Jihadis pick off eight ordinary Iraqis in various bombing and shooting attacks.
10/30/2007 Iraq Samarrah 4 8 Four local cops are murdered by a Sunni car bomb.
10/30/2007 Iraq al-Shahimiya 1 0 Islamic terrorists kidnap and murder an elderly farmer.
10/30/2007 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A man is shot to death by Muslim radicals while sitting in a tea shop.
10/30/2007 Pakistan Bannu 4 4 Four local soldiers are killed by a remote-controlled bomb set by pro-Taliban militants.
10/29/2007 Iraq Baquba 30 25 A suicide bomber on a bicycle murders thirty Iraqi police officers.
10/29/2007 Afghanistan Lashkar Gar 5 10 A teenage suicide bomber kills three Afghans civilians and two police.
10/29/2007 Iraq Baiji 8 13 Jihadi car bombers target a pair of homes, killing at least eight people.
10/29/2007 Iraq Mosul 8 0 Four women are among eight killed by Islamic gunmen, who catch half their victims after storming a house.
10/29/2007 Thailand Yala 2 0 A young couple in their 20's are murdered by Islamists while standing outside their home.
10/29/2007 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A 35-year-old teacher is killed by Muslim gunmen.
10/29/2007 Thailand Narathiwat 2 0 Two civilians are murdered in a drive-by shooting by Islamists.
10/29/2007 Somalia al-Baraka 1 0 A woman is killed by a bomb set by Islamic militias.
10/28/2007 Iraq Kut 2 0 A woman is among two people gunned down by Islamic terrorists.
10/28/2007 Iraq Kirkuk 8 28 A suicidal Sunni bomber targets innocent Shia at a bus terminal, killing at least eight.
10/28/2007 Iraq Baghdad 2 13 Two people are killed in a Jihad bombing.
10/27/2007 Afghanistan Paktika 5 5 A civilian and four local soldiers are killed by a Fedayeen suicide bomber.
10/27/2007 Thailand Narathiwat 1 14 Muslim radical bomb a restaurant, killing at least one female patron.
10/27/2007 Iraq Baghdad 34 27 Freedom Fighters kill thirty-four innocent Iraqis in various attacks.
10/27/2007 Somalia Mogadishu 3 3 Islamic militias kill three civilians in an RPG attack.
10/27/2007 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A 50-year-old plantation worker is beheaded by Islamic militants.
10/27/2007 Thailand Yala 1 1 Muslim radicals gun down a 68-year-old man riding home from a tea shop.
10/27/2007 Pakistan Swat 9 0 Islamic militants behead two policemen and seven civilians.
10/27/2007 Afghanistan Ghazni 2 0 Two local police are killed in an ambush by religious extremists.
10/26/2007 India Baramulla 1 0 A 25-year-old man is shot to death by Islamic terrorists.
10/26/2007 Pakistan Mingora 4 0 Religious extremists publicly cut the heads off of four security personnel taken hostage.
10/26/2007 Iraq Adhaim 6 5 Sunni radicals murder six innocent truck drivers.
10/26/2007 Iraq Muqdadiyah 1 3 A woman is killed by a suicide bomber along a sidewalk.
10/25/2007 Iraq Baghdad 6 0 A Sunni school teacher is among six innocents killed by sectarian Jihadis.
10/25/2007 Dagestan Adil-Otar 1 1 Isalmic militants shoot a police officer to death.
10/25/2007 Somalia Mogadishu 4 7 Islamic militants bomb a livestock market, killing four participants.
10/25/2007 Iraq Diyala 4 0 Holy Warriors kill four children with mortars.
10/25/2007 Pakistan Mangora 24 33 At least two dozen local soldiers are blown apart by a Fedayeen suicide bomber.
10/25/2007 Iraq Khalis 4 0 Two woman and two children are killed when Holy Warriors lob mortars into a residential neighborhood.
10/25/2007 Thailand Pattani 2 1 A married couple are murdered in their own home by Islamists, who then torch the house.
10/25/2007 Thailand Narathiwat 0 3 A man and his two sons are shot by Muslim gunmen in a drive-by shooting as they are on their way home from a wedding.
10/25/2007 Iraq Baquba 19 26 Four children are among nineteen people murdered by Islamic terrorists in separate attacks.
10/24/2007 Iraq Baghdad 9 25 Sunni radical bomb a Shia mosque, killing nine innocents.
10/24/2007 Somalia Mogadishu 5 16 Islamic militias use a roadside bomb to kill five passengers on a minibus.
10/24/2007 Macedonia Tanusevci 1 2 Muslim terrorists kill a police officer and injure two others in a shooting attack.
10/24/2007 Iraq Baqubah 3 24 Jihadis lob mortars into a village, killing three residents.
10/24/2007 Iraq Iskandariya 1 0 Muslim gunmen kill an Iraqi girl.
10/24/2007 Pakistan Miranshah 2 2 Two local soldiers are killed when their vehicle crosses a landmine planted by Islamic militants.
10/24/2007 Afghanistan Khost 1 4 A suicide bomber takes down an Afghan official.
10/24/2007 Thailand Yala 2 0 Two young men are gunned down by Muslim radicals as they are walking along a street.
10/24/2007 Iraq Zaghanya 3 0 A man and his two sons are shot to death in their home by sectarian terrorists.
10/23/2007 Iraq Basra 1 3 Jihadis mortar a home, killing a mother and injuring her three children.
10/23/2007 Iraq Baquba 5 10 A bombing attack and a separate drive-by shooting leave five civilians dead.
10/23/2007 Dagestan Kazbek 1 8 A grenade blast rips through a minibus, killing own woman and injuring seven other passengers.
10/23/2007 Iraq Fallujah 15 0 Police discover fifteen people bound and shot to death by Sunni terrorists.
10/23/2007 Thailand Narathiwat 2 0 Two women are shot to death by Islamic radicals.
10/23/2007 Thailand Narathiwat 2 4 Two infant children (ages 10 and 12 months) are murdered by Muslim gunmen.
10/23/2007 Thailand Narathiwat 5 3 Five local civilians are gunned down by militant Muslims in a sudden drive-by attack.
10/22/2007 Somalia Mogadishu 3 3 Three children playing in a street are killed by Islamists using a roadside bomb.
10/22/2007 Pakistan North Waziristan 2 0 Two local soldiers are killed in separate attacks by pro-Taliban militants.
10/22/2007 Iraq Baghdad 12 21 A dozen Iraqis are cut down by Jihadis in various bombing and shooting attacks.
10/22/2007 Iraq Baqubah 3 0 Three men are kidnapped and torutred to death by al-Qaeda.
10/22/2007 Iraq Mosul 6 4 A female lawyer is among six people murdered by Islamic terrorists.
10/21/2007 Iraq Fallujah 2 4 A suicide car bomber kills two Iraqis at a checkpoint.
10/21/2007 Nigeria Sokoto 3 5 Shia militants kill three innocent people in at least two separate attacks.
10/21/2007 Somalia Mogadishu 7 0 Seven civilians are killed during an ambush by Islamic militias.
10/20/2007 Iraq Baghdad 10 14 Ten civilians are killed in various attacks by Jihadis.
10/20/2007 Pal. Auth. Rafah 1 17 Hamas clashes with a rival group, leaving a 50-year-old woman dead.
10/20/2007 Chechnya Grozny 1 0 A local cop is gunned down by the Mujahideen.
10/20/2007 Afghanistan Paktia 3 4 Three Afghans are killed by religious extremists in a bomb attack on their vehicle.
10/20/2007 Pakistan Bajaur 2 0 Two tribal elders are shot to death by Taliban militants.
10/19/2007 Thailand Yala 2 0 An 81-year-old Buddhist man is murdered along with his wife by Islamists in their fruit orchard.
10/19/2007 Philippines Indanan 2 0 Two members of a rival group are shot to death by Abu Sayyaf.
10/19/2007 Iraq Mussayab 4 0 Jihadis kill three women with mortars and execute a kidnapped university professor in a separate incident.
10/19/2007 Pakistan Dowayzai 12 2 The Taliban brutally executes a dozen villagers, slitting the throats of at least six.
10/19/2007 Thailand Yala 1 0 Muslim gunmen murder a civilian sitting in the back of a tea shop.
10/19/2007 Ingushetia Chermen 2 1 Islamists are suspected in the machine-gunning of local youth at a street corner.
10/19/2007 Thailand Yala 1 0 A 52-year-old man is shot to death by Muslim radicals.
10/18/2007 Iraq Basra 1 7 Freedom Fighters toss a grenade into a school playground, killing one child and injuring seven others.
10/18/2007 Iraq Hawija 3 11 Sunni radicals kill three Iraqis with a car bomb.
10/18/2007 Afghanistan Khost 4 3 Religious extremists kill four local police with a roadside bomb.
10/18/2007 Somalia Mogadishu 3 2 Three Somalis are gunned down by Islamic militias.
10/18/2007 Pakistan Khyber 1 2 A self-proclaimed prophet is quickly shot to death by Islamists, who also injure his family members.
10/18/2007 Pakistan Karachi 138 550 Suicide bombers slaughter over one-hundred and thirty people along a parade route with a double blast.
10/18/2007 Ingushetia Magas 4 0 Four local cops are gunned down when Islamic terrorists open fire on their vehicle.
10/17/2007 Somalia Mogadishu 9 30 Eight civilians are among nine killed when Islamic militants attack a police station with rockets and machine-guns.
10/17/2007 Somalia Mogadishu 3 5 A woman is among three civilians killed by Islamic militias in separate attacks.
10/17/2007 Somalia Kismayo 1 2 A Somali man is gunned down by a Muslim militant.
10/17/2007 Iraq Diwaniya 7 0 Seven local cops are blown to bits by a Jihadi roadside bomb.
10/17/2007 Somalia Mogadishu 3 0 Jihadis kill a government official and two bodyguards with a roadside bomb.
10/16/2007 Iraq Baghdad 14 48 Jihadis rack up fourteen Iraqi civilians over a 24-hour period in various shootings and bombings.
10/16/2007 Iraq Baqubah 4 0 A father and son are among four people killed by sectarian rivals.
10/16/2007 Iraq Fallujah 3 0 Three members of the same family are killed by suspected al-Qaeda.
10/16/2007 Somalia Mogadishu 3 6 Three residents of a home are killed when Islamic militias hit it with a mortar.
10/16/2007 Iraq Mosul 16 80 Sixteen innocents are blasted to death by a suicide truck bomber.
10/15/2007 Somalia Beledwyne 3 0 Three children under the age of 12 are killed when a mortar fired by suspected Islamic militias hits their house.
10/15/2007 India Chandigam 1 2 Muslim radicals kill a policeman inside his home. An elderly woman and 10-year-old girl are shot in a separate attack.
10/15/2007 Afghanistan Uruzgan 4 2 Four members of a family are killed trying to stop a suicide bomber.
10/15/2007 Iraq Baghdad 4 25 Women and children are the casualites of a suicide bombing at a park that leaves at least four people dead.
10/15/2007 Iraq Diwaniya 5 28 Jihadis kill at least five civilians in a mortar and machine-gun attack.
10/15/2007 Iraq Heit 5 8 Five members of the same family are blasted to a pulp by a suicide bomber.
10/15/2007 Iraq Balad 6 8 Six Iraqis are killed by a suicide car bomber.
10/14/2007 Iraq Baghdad 9 13 Women and children are among those blown apart by the Sunni car bombing of a Shiite mosque.
10/14/2007 Iraq Baquba 12 0 A dozen people are kidnapped and killed by sectarian rivals.
10/14/2007 Iraq Ramadi 4 8 A suicide car bomber takes down four Iraqis.
10/14/2007 India Ludhiana 7 30 A 10-year-old child is among seven people killed when Islamic fundamentalists bomb a movie theater.
10/14/2007 Ingushetia Karabulak 3 1 An ethnic Russian family is attacked by Muslim gunmen. Three are murdered.
10/14/2007 Iraq Riyadh 3 2 Three Iraqis are shot to death by sectarian Jihadis.
10/13/2007 Afghanistan Spin Boldak 8 29 A Fedayeen suicide bomber rams into a crowded bazaar, killing at least eight innocents.
10/13/2007 Pakistan Swat 4 1 Four civilians are killed when Islamic militants bomb their vehicle.
10/13/2007 Thailand Narathiwat 1 1 A 47-year-old Buddhist is killed, and his brother injured, in a Muslim terror attack.
10/13/2007 Iraq Samarrah 18 27 al-Qaeda suicide truck bombers take out eighteen innocent Iraqis in a horrific blast.
10/13/2007 Nigeria Gamji Gate 2 0 Two young Christians are murdered by Muslim radicals in separate attacks. One is beaten to death and the other hacked with a sword.
10/12/2007 Iraq Tuz Khormato 4 21 A suicide bomber hides explosives amid candy in order to kill three Kurdish kids and one adult at a playground.
10/12/2007 Iraq Baghdad 4 15 Jihads manage to kill four Iraqis with a car bomb in a commercial district.
10/12/2007 Algeria Tizi Ouzou 1 0 A police officer is murdered by Islamic fundamentalists.
10/12/2007 Afghanistan Helmand 4 7 Religious extremists murder four local policemen in a bomb attack.
10/12/2007 Thailand Yala 4 0 Four civilians from the same family are cut apart by automatic weapons as they leave their car.
10/11/2007 Iraq Baghdad 8 25 A suicide bomber ends the lives of eight people at a caf�.
10/11/2007 Iraq Baquba 5 6 A husband and wife are among five people gunned down by Islamic terrorists.
10/11/2007 India Pattan 7 8 The Hizbul-Mujahideen bombs a canteen at an army base, killing five local soldiers and two civilians.
10/11/2007 Thailand Narathiwat 1 1 A Buddhist man and his wife on their way back from a monastery are shot by Muslim radicals.
10/11/2007 Iraq Kirkuk 8 52 Eight Iraqis waiting at a petrol pum are killed by an Islamic car bombing.
10/11/2007 Iraq Baghdad 2 3 Jihadis kill a father and son with mortar fire on their residence.
10/11/2007 India Ajmer 3 17 Three people are killed in a suspected sectarian bombing of a Sufi shrine.
10/11/2007 India Baramulla 2 0 Two local soldiers are brutally murdered in an ambush by the Mujahideen on their vehicle.
10/11/2007 Pakistan Mohmand 6 0 Six civilians are executed by Taliban extremists for 'anti-social' behavior.
10/11/2007 Iraq Zubaidiya 4 0 Two women are among four people killed in separate attacks.
10/10/2007 Thailand Narathiwat 1 2 Islamic gunmen murder a Buddhist man and severely injure his wife and another relative.
10/10/2007 Somalia Baidoa 3 0 A suicide bomber kills three Ethiopeans.
10/10/2007 Afghanistan Wardak 3 10 The Taliban shoot two people to death at a mosque and one other in a separate attack.
10/10/2007 Somalia Kismayo 2 10 Two civilians are killed when Islamic militias detonate a roadside bomb.
10/10/2007 Pakistan Quetta 1 0 A cleric is gunned down by sectarian rivals.
10/10/2007 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 A 43-year-old man is shot to death in front of his children by Muslim radicals.
10/10/2007 Iraq Tikrit 6 10 A Jihad bombing leaves six Iraqis dead.
10/10/2007 Somalia Baidoa 3 3 A Fedayeen suicide bomber kills three soldiers in an attack on their base.
10/10/2007 Austria Wimpassing 1 0 In an 'honor attack' a Muslim shoots a man, then cuts off his penis.
10/10/2007 Iraq Mosul 7 20 A suicide bomber takes out seven innocents in a blast on a political office.
10/9/2007 India Bandipora 1 0 A woman is shot to death by the Mujahideen.
10/9/2007 Iraq Baghdad 27 86 Islamic terrorists manage to kill over two dozen innocents in a string of bombings.
10/9/2007 Iraq Hawija 2 0 One man is beheaded and another shot to death by Muslim terrorists.
10/9/2007 Iraq Baiji 22 30 al-Qaeda suicide bombers kill twenty-two Sunni villagers.
10/9/2007 Sudan Muhajiriya 48 80 The Islamic Republic raids another village, executing as many as fifty civilians in cold blood.
10/9/2007 Somalia Mogadishu 3 0 Three civilians are shot to death by the Islamic militias.
10/9/2007 Pakistan North Waziristan 4 4 Four local soldiers are killed in two attacks by Islamic militants.
10/9/2007 Pakistan Peshawar 0 25 Fundemantalists bomb an 'un-Islamic' music shop. Over two dozen are injured.
10/9/2007 India Rajouri 1 0 The Mujahideen force their way into a civilian's home and murder him.
10/9/2007 India Baramulla 1 1 An 8-year-old girl is shot to death inside her home by the Mujahideen.
10/8/2007 Iraq Baghdad 6 36 Islamists car bomb two targets, including a university where women and children are most of the casualties.
10/8/2007 Afghanistan Ghazni 2 0 Two brothers are brutally slain by religious extremists over charges of working for infidels.
10/8/2007 Iraq Tikrit 3 10 A Fedayeen bomber takes out three innocent people.
10/8/2007 Iraq Diljah 13 22 Thirteen civilians are murdered when a suicidal Sunni detonates a car bomb along a street.
10/8/2007 India Warpora-Sopore 1 1 A 6-year-old girl is killed when Muslim gunmen fire into a home.
10/8/2007 Somalia Shiidleey 1 2 A gunman fires into a crowd of people waiting for food, killing an elderly woman.
10/8/2007 Iraq Kirkuk 1 0 Fundamentalists murder a barber.
10/7/2007 Pal. Auth. Gaza 1 0 A Christian bookseller is abducted and stabbe to death by Islamic fundamentalists.
10/7/2007 Ghana Ashanti 1 0 A father beats his daughter to death for immoral behavior and missing a Ramadan curfew.
10/7/2007 Pakistan NWFP 2 0 Two civilians are abducted and murdered by the Mujahideen in separate incidents. One is beheaded.
10/7/2007 Afghanistan Ghazni 3 0 The Taliban attack a road construction crew, killing three guards.
10/7/2007 Chechnya Vedeno 4 10 Holy Warriors attack a police convoy with bombs, killing four local officers.
10/7/2007 Iraq Baghdad 17 18 Various Jihad bombings leave nearly twenty Iraqis dead.
10/6/2007 Pakistan Ahmad Khel 1 19 The Mujahideen detonate a bomb near a convoy, killing one local soldier.
10/6/2007 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A village leader is cut down on the street in a hail of bullets from Islamic radicals.
10/6/2007 Afghanistan Kabul 6 12 A suicide bomber takes out five Afghan civilians and one US soldier guarding a road.
10/6/2007 Sudan Haskanita 86 0 Eighty-six villagers are thought to have been massacred in an attack by forces of the Islamic Republic.
10/6/2007 Iraq Mussayab 2 0 Islamic terrorists shoot a child to death and behead a college student.
10/6/2007 Dagestan Makhachkala 1 0 A policeman is shot to death at point-blank range by a Muslim terrorist.
10/6/2007 Afghanistan Khost 4 2 Two bombings by religious extremists leaves four local police dead.
10/6/2007 Somalia Mogadishu 3 0 Two elderly women and one other person are shot to death on the street by Islamic militias.
10/6/2007 Somalia Mogadishu 1 4 Islamists shoot a security officer to death and injure four civilians.
10/5/2007 Somalia Mogadishu 5 2 Islamic militias kill five civilians by hurling hand grenades at them around a main market.
10/5/2007 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A 90-year-old Buddhist man is murdered by Islamic terrorists.
10/5/2007 Iraq Basra 2 0 Two clerics are gunned down in targeted sectarian assassinations.
10/5/2007 Afghanistan Sangin 2 0 Two children are killed in a suicide bombing by a Holy Warrior.
10/5/2007 Algeria Tebessa 6 0 Six Algerian soldiers are killed in an ambush by Islamic fundamentalists.
10/5/2007 Philippines Kidapawan 2 26 Islamists bomb a department store and a market in separate attacks, killing an 8-year-old girl and a 12-year-old girl.
10/5/2007 Somalia Mogadishu 2 0 Two off-duty military men are brutally murdered in their car by Islamists.
10/4/2007 Iraq Baghdad 20 35 Muslim terrorists kill twenty civilians in various bombings, including one on a minibus and another on a gas station.
10/4/2007 Pakistan Bulandkhel 14 5 Religious extremists bomb a passenger bus, killing fourteen civilians.
10/4/2007 Thailand Pattani 2 0 Two Buddhists (ages 41 and 65) are separately murdered in cold blood by Muslim militants.
10/4/2007 Thailand Narathiwat 3 0 An elderly man is among three people shot to death by militant Muslims in separate attacks.
10/4/2007 Somalia Mogadishu 4 8 Four civilians are murdered by Islamic militias in two grenade attacks.
10/4/2007 Iraq Tal Afar 3 57 A suicide bomber detonates in a marketplace, sending at least three innocents to Allah.
10/4/2007 Pakistan South Waziristan 3 0 Three local soldiers are abducted and murdered in captivity by the Mujahideen. Their heads and hands are chopped off.
10/4/2007 Thailand Yala 1 0 Muslim radicals shoot a man to death as he is having dinner in his home.
10/4/2007 Afghanistan Kabul 1 0 An Italian, taken hostage by the Taliban, dies from injuries suffered during the rescue.
10/4/2007 Algeria Boumeredes 1 2 Islamic fundamentalists shoot a man to death.
10/4/2007 Iraq Iskandariya 5 1 Islamists assassinate the mayor of the town in a bomb attack that kills four others.
10/3/2007 Thailand Yala 2 0 Two civilians are murdered in separate Mujahideen attacks.
10/3/2007 Pakistan Spin Wam 2 3 Religious extremists attack a checkpoint, killing two local soldiers.
10/3/2007 Pakistan Swat 1 2 A civilian is killed by a bomb planted by pro-Taliban militants.
10/3/2007 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A local soldier is shot to death in an Islamist drive-by attack.
10/3/2007 Afghanistan Khost 2 0 Two government employees are gunned down by the Taliban.
10/3/2007 Iraq Baghdad 13 30 Islamic terrorists manage to kil thirteen unsuspecting Iraqis with a car bomb at an intersection.
10/2/2007 Iraq Dyala 3 0 Muslim gunmen shoot a family of three to death in their car, including a little girl and her two parents.
10/2/2007 Pakistan Hangu 3 2 Three members of a security patrol are gunned down at point-blank range by Islamic radicals.
10/2/2007 Iran Khash 1 0 A Shiite cleric is gunned down by Sunni militants.
10/2/2007 Iraq Baghdad 29 33 Thirty people are killed in various suicide bombings and shootings by Holy Warriors around the country.
10/2/2007 Thailand Pattani 4 0 A high school principal is among four civilians shot to death in separate drive-by attacks by Islamic radicals.
10/2/2007 Afghanistan Kabul 12 15 Children are among a dozen innocents massacred by a suicide bomber on a bus.
10/2/2007 Dagestan Ogni 2 0 An Islamists jogs up next to two policemen on patrol and calmly guns them down.
10/1/2007 Pakistan Kurram 2 10 Pro-Taliban extremists kill 2 tribesman in a landmine attack on their vehicle.
10/1/2007 Pakistan Bannu 16 20 A Shadid disguised with a burka 'martyrs' himself at an outdoor market, taking over a dozen innocents down with him.
10/1/2007 India Doda 1 2 A cop is killed in a Mujahideen attack.
10/1/2007 Iraq Mosul 1 7 A Shahid kills a university professor in a suicide attack.
10/1/2007 Iraq Baghdad 19 6 At least one child is among the casualties of several Jihad attacks around the country.
10/1/2007 Thailand Narathiwat 1 14 Buddhist monks are among the casualties of a string of bombings that leave at least one dead.
Oh and then there are these:
* 13 July 2005: Guardian reports that a schoolboy has been attacked in the West Country. (Guardian 13.7.05)
* 12 July 2005: A 16-year-old Asian boy suffers head and facial injuries after an unprovoked attack by a White man. The young boy was walking with an 11-year-old friend on Leith Walk in Edinburgh when they were racially abused and then attacked by the White man. (BBC News 13.7.05)
* 12 July 2005: Independent reports that there have been acts of arson and criminal damage in mosques in Leeds and Telford.
* 12 July 2005: Guardian reports that the BNP has produced a leaflet for a by-election in Barking, east London, with images from the London bombings and the words 'maybe now it's time to start listening to the BNP'. (Guardian 12.7.05)
* 12 July 2005: Glasgow Herald reports that the door of the Pakistan consulate in Bradford was damaged after an arson attack; a 27-year-old man was later arrested. (Glasgow Herald 12.7.05)
* 12 July 2005: BBC News reports that Bournemouth Islamic centre has received three death threats since the London bombings. (BBC News 12.7.05)
* 11 July 2005: The home of a Muslim family is torched in a suspected arson attack in Torquay. The family are not at home when the fire is started.
* 10 July 2005: 48-year-old Kamal Raza Butt, a Pakistani man who is visiting friends and family in Nottingham, is set upon by a gang of White youths. He is allegedly called 'Taliban' and then punched to the ground and dies later in hospital. Two 16-year-old youths are charged with his manslaughter, seven others are baailed pending further inquiries. (BBC News 13.7.05)
* 10 July 2005: The Islamic Centre in Rose Lane, Norwich, is vandalised in a racist attack; four windows are damaged. Police arrest two women at the scene, aged 23 and 26, who are later released on bail. (Eastern Daily Press 13.7.05)
* 10 July 2005: A 20-year-old Muslim student from the United Arab Emirates is racially abused, chased and threatened with a knife by three men in the Charminster area of Bournemouth. (BBC News 13.7.05)
* 9 July 2005: Independent reports that a fire at a Sikh temple in Armley, Leeds, is being treated as suspicious; Kent police are investigating two assaults on Muslim men in Dartford.
* 9 July 2005: Six windows are broken at a mosque in Easton, Bristol. (Muslim News 10.7.05)
* 9 July 2005: Abdul Munim is rescued by fire-fighters from the Shajala mosque in Birkenhead, Liverpool, after two White men pour petrol through its letter box and set it alight at 12.35am. The mosque is badly damaged. A 27-year-old man is arrested. (Independent 12.7.05)
* 9 July 2005: The windows at Mazhirul Uloom Educational and Cultural Institution, east London, are smashed. (Muslim News 10.7.05)
* 8 July 2005: Al Madina Jamia mosque in Leeds is petrol bombed at 2am; it causes minor damage and no one is hurt. (Muslim News 10.7.05)
* 8 July 2005: Stones are thrown at a mosque in Totterdown, Bristol. No damage is caused and no one is hurt. (Muslim News 10.7.05)
* 7 July 2005: Two bottles containing an accelerant are thrown through the windows of a Sikh temple in Belvedere, Kent. The bottles do not ignite. Police arrest five men in the Bexleyheath area two days after the attack. (Greenwich Mercury 13.7.05 )
* 7 July 2005: An Asian woman from Hayes, Middlesex, reports an attempted arson attack after she finds petrol has been poured through her door. (Independent 11.7.05)
* 7 July 2005: An Asian family from Southall report an attempted arson attack. (Independent 11.7.05)
* 7 July 2005: Sha Jalal mosque and the Pakistan Community and Cultural Centre in Edinburgh are daubed in racist graffiti. (Edinburgh Evening News 13.7.05)
Religion of Peace? Not even in Islamic countries. What do we see in Iraq? Terrorists detonating car bombs in crowed market areas, killing innocent men, women and children. . Most of which are MUSLIM? How about Dufar? genocide against non Muslims. . . France, riots because two young muslim thugs stole a motor cycle, ran a light and crashed into a police car. . . What are the crowds chanting? Death to France, "we want 2 police dead" . . Or maybe you remember last year, when there were riots because of some cartoons by a danish newspaper. . come to find out, several of the cartoons were actually penned by muslins to inflame and incite other muslins. .
Here in America, after 9/11 there were several imams getting ready to fly, they were overheard chanting "Allah Akbar" which is the same thing that the 9/11 hijackers were chanting as they crashed the planes. . what happens? CAIR files a lawsuit aginst the Airlines, and the people who reported the chanting. .
So far, Muslims are not exactly doing a good job of being the "Religion of Peace" Now before you mention that it will be a "religion of peace" when all the world is Islamic. .But, remember the genocidal acts of Shia against Sunni, and Sunni aginst Shia. . .how about the Taliban killing people in Afghanistan because they do not believe them to be their brand of muslim. Or gee, I remember those videos (now available on youtube) of a woman being shot in the back of the head, or perhaps women being hanged in Iran becasue she was in a car with a man.
But I digress. Most of us know that Muslims believe that theirs is the one true religion, and all other are false. We also know that the Koran says to slay the unbelievers where you find them. . .Oh and don't try to convince me/us that according to the Koran says "There is no compulsion in religion." We know about the doctrine of abrogation. . .
"Al Nasikh Wal Mansoukh" The verse of the sword abrogates the peaceful passage about "No compulsion in Religion"
So, basically, there are a lot of Muslims that believe it is pleasing to God, to kill kufirs. . . We Americans take exception to that. Any Muslim that comes to OUR country with the intention of converting by the sword to Islam, will end up hated and most likely dead.
Oh, something else, what about your doctrine of "Taqiyya" Lying for Islam. . . Basically, it says to us that no muslim can be trusted. . Most of the 9/11 hijackers were well educated and thought of until their little stunt. Oh, yea, its ok to lie for Allah. . .
Now, tell me something, If "allah" is all knowing and all powerful, why is he so impotent? can't he kill the kufirs by himself? If Islam is such a beautiful religion, whey must you lie for it? If it were so perfect, any person reading it would want to convert.
Think of this, of the three great Ahabramic religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Two thirds of that group are wrong? Are you absolutely sure you are in the right religion??? Why would God say in the old testament, "Thou shall not murder" and then change his mind and tell his prophet "Kill all the unbelievers??" And why in Arabic, given that he had recited the old testament and the new testament in Aramaic??
The whole of the text of the Koran, goes against just about EVERYTHING that the Old testament and the New testament says? Is God that emotionally Labile? I don't think so! Your Religion says that God can do anything he wants, at any time, so, why hasn't he reversed gravity, or re flooded the world, or caused the infidels to spontaneously combust?
No, we Americans do not hate individual Muslims. . .but you sure give us reason to pause and question, and to be leery of you and your religion.
I will give you a few more things to think about. When we read the Koran, what do we find?
he Quran contains dozens of verses that call Muslims to war with nonbelievers. Some are quite graphic, with commands to chop off heads and fingers, and kill the 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.
These verses are mostly open-ended, meaning that they are not embedded within historical context (as are nearly all of the Old Testament verses of violence). They are part of the eternal, unchanging word of Allah, and just as relevant or subjective as anything else in the Qur'an.
Unfortunately, there are few, if any, verses of tolerance and peace to abrogate or even balance out the many that call for nonbelievers to be fought and subdued until they either accept humiliation, convert to Islam, or are killed. This proclivity toward violence and Muhammad's own martial tradition have resulted in a trail of blood and bodies across world history.
The Qur'an:
Sura (2:191-193) - "And slay them wherever ye find them, and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution [of Muslims] is worse than slaughter [of non-believers]...and fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is for Allah." There is a good case to be made that the overall context of these verses is defensive war, however, there are two worrisome pieces to this passage. The first is that the killing of others is authorized in the event of "persecution." The second is that fighting may persist until "religion is for Allah."
Sura (2:244) - "Then fight in the cause of Allah, and know that Allah Heareth and knoweth all things."
Sura (2:216) - "Fighting is prescribed for you, and ye dislike it. But it is possible that ye dislike a thing which is good for you, and that ye love a thing which is bad for you. But Allah knoweth, and ye know not."
Sura (3:56) - "As to those who reject faith, I will punish them with terrible agony in this world and in the Hereafter, nor will they have anyone to help."
Sura (3:151) - "Soon shall We cast terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers, for that they joined companions with Allah, for which He had sent no authority". This speaks directly of killing Christians, since they believe in the Trinity (ie. what Muhammad incorrectly believed to be 'joining companions to Allah').
Sura (4:74) - "Let those fight in the way of Allah who sell the life of this world for the other. Whoso fighteth in the way of Allah, be he slain or be he victorious, on him We shall bestow a vast reward."
Sura (4:76) - "Those who believe fight in the cause of Allah…"
Sura (4:89) - "They but wish that ye should reject Faith, as they do, and thus be on the same footing (as they): But take not friends from their ranks until they flee in the way of Allah (From what is forbidden). But if they turn renegades, seize them and slay them wherever ye find them; and (in any case) take no friends or helpers from their ranks."
Sura (4:95) - "Not equal are those believers who sit (at home) and receive no hurt, and those who strive and fight in the cause of Allah with their goods and their persons. Allah hath granted a grade higher to those who strive and fight with their goods and persons than to those who sit (at home). Unto all (in Faith) Hath Allah promised good: But those who strive and fight Hath He distinguished above those who sit (at home) by a special reward,-" This passage not only criticizes "peaceful" Muslims who do not join in the violence, but also demolishes the modern myth that "Jihad" doesn't mean holy war in the Qur'an, but rather a spiritual struggle. Not only is the Arabic word used in this passage, but it is clearly not referring to anything spiritual, since the physically disabled are given exemption. (The Hadith reveals the context of the passage to be in response to a blind man's protest that he is unable to engage in Jihad).
Sura (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 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"
Sura (8:12) - "I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them"
Sura (8:15) - "O ye who believe! When ye meet those who disbelieve in battle, turn not your backs to them. (16)Whoso on that day turneth his back to them, unless maneuvering for battle or intent to join a company, he truly hath incurred wrath from Allah, and his habitation will be hell, a hapless journey's end."
Sura (8:39) - "And fight with them until there is no more persecution and religion should be only for Allah"
Sura (8:57) - "If thou comest on them in the war, deal with them so as to strike fear in those who are behind them, that haply they may remember."
Sura (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."
Sura (9:5) - "So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them."
Sura (9:14) - "Fight them, Allah will punish them by your hands and bring them to disgrace..."
Sura (9:20) - "Those who believe, and have left their homes and striven with their wealth and their lives in Allah's way are of much greater worth in Allah's sight. These are they who are triumphant." The "striving" spoken of here is Jihad.
Sura (9:29) - "Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued."
Sura (9:30) - "And the Jews say: Ezra is the son of Allah; and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before; may Allah destroy them; how they are turned away!"
Sura (9:38-39) - "O ye who believe! what is the matter with you, that, when ye are asked to go forth in the cause of Allah, ye cling heavily to the earth? Do ye prefer the life of this world to the Hereafter? But little is the comfort of this life, as compared with the Hereafter. Unless ye go forth, He will punish you with a grievous penalty, and put others in your place." This is a warning to those who refuse to fight, that they will be punished with Hell.
Sura (9:41) - "Go forth, light-armed and heavy-armed, and strive with your wealth and your lives in the way of Allah! That is best for you if ye but knew."
Sura (9:73) - "O Prophet! strive hard against the unbelievers and the hypocrites and be unyielding to them; and their abode is hell, and evil is the destination."
Sura (9:88) - "But the Messenger, and those who believe with him, strive and fight with their wealth and their persons: for them are (all) good things: and it is they who will prosper."
Sura (9:111) - "Allah hath purchased of the believers their persons and their goods; for theirs (in return) is the garden (of Paradise): they fight in His cause, and slay and are slain: a promise binding on Him in truth, through the Law, the Gospel, and the Qur'an: and who is more faithful to his covenant than Allah? then rejoice in the bargain which ye have concluded: that is the achievement supreme."
Sura (9:123) - "O you who believe! fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness."
Sura (21:44) - "We gave the good things of this life to these men and their fathers until the period grew long for them; See they not that We gradually reduce the land (in their control) from its outlying borders? Is it then they who will win?"
Sura (25:52) - "Therefore listen not to the Unbelievers, but strive against them with the utmost strenuousness, with the (Qur'an)." "Strive against" is Jihad, obviously not in the personal context. It's also significant to point out that this is a Meccan verse.
Sura (47:4) - "So when you meet in battle those who disbelieve, then smite the necks until when you have overcome them, then make (them) prisoners,"
Sura (47:35) - "Be not weary and faint-hearted, crying for peace, when ye should be uppermost: for Allah is with you,"
Sura (48:17) - "There is no blame for the blind, nor is there blame for the lame, nor is there blame for the sick (that they go not forth to war). And whoso obeyeth Allah and His messenger, He will make him enter Gardens underneath which rivers flow; and whoso turneth back, him will He punish with a painful doom."
Sura (48:29) - "Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. And those with him are hard (ruthless) against the disbelievers and merciful among themselves"
Sura (61:4) - "Surely Allah loves those who fight in His way"
Sura (61:10-12) - "O ye who believe! Shall I lead you to a bargain that will save you from a grievous Penalty?- That ye believe in Allah and His Messenger, and that ye strive (your utmost) in the Cause of Allah, with your property and your persons: That will be best for you, if ye but knew! He will forgive you your sins, and admit you to Gardens beneath which Rivers flow, and to beautiful mansions in Gardens of Eternity." This verse was given in battle. It uses the Arabic word, Jihad.
Sura (66:9) - "O Prophet! Strive against the disbelievers and the hypocrites, and be stern with them. Hell will be their home, a hapless journey's end."
From the Hadith:
Bukhari (52:177) - Allah's Apostle said, "The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. "O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him."
Bukhari (52:256) - The Prophet... was asked whether it was permissible to attack the pagan warriors at night with the probability of exposing their women and children to danger. The Prophet replied, "They (i.e. women and children) are from them (i.e. pagans)." In this command, Muhammad establishes that it is permissible to kill non-combatants in the process of killing a perceived enemy. This provides justification for the many Islamic terror bombings.
Abu Dawud (14:2526) - The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: Three things are the roots of faith: to refrain from (killing) a person who utters, "There is no god but Allah" and not to declare him unbeliever whatever sin he commits, and not to excommunicate him from Islam for his any action; and jihad will be performed continuously since the day Allah sent me as a prophet until the day the last member of my community will fight with the Dajjal (Antichrist)
Abu Dawud (14:2527) - The Prophet said: Striving in the path of Allah (jihad) is incumbent on you along with every ruler, whether he is pious or impious
Muslim (1:33) - the Messenger of Allah said: I have been commanded to fight against people till they testify that there is no god but Allah, that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah
Bukhari (8:387) - Allah's Apostle said, "I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah
Muslim (1:149) - "Abu Dharr reported: I said: Messenger of Allah, which of the deeds is the best? He (the Holy Prophet) replied: Belief in Allah and Jihad in His cause..."
Muslim (20:4645) - "...He (the Messenger of Allah) did that and said: There is another act which elevates the position of a man in Paradise to a grade one hundred (higher), and the elevation between one grade and the other is equal to the height of the heaven from the earth. He (Abu Sa'id) said: What is that act? He replied: Jihad in the way of Allah! Jihad in the way of Allah!"
Muslim (20:4696) - "the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: 'One who died but did not fight in the way of Allah nor did he express any desire (or determination) for Jihid died the death of a hypocrite.'"
Muslim (19:4321-4323) - Three separate hadith in which Muhammad shrugs over the news that innocent children were killed in a raid by his men against unbelievers. His response: "They are of them (meaning the enemy)."
Tabari 7:97 The morning after the murder of Ashraf, the Prophet declared, "Kill any Jew who falls under your power." Ashraf was a poet, killed by Muhammad's men because he insulted Islam. Here, Muhammad widens the scope of his orders to kill. An innocent Jewish businessman was then slain by his Muslim partner, merely for being non-Muslim.
Ibn Ishaq: 327 “Allah said, ‘A prophet must slaughter before collecting captives. A slaughtered enemy is driven from the land. Muhammad, you craved the desires of this world, its goods and the ransom captives would bring. But Allah desires killing them to manifest the religion.’”
Ibn Ishaq: 990 Lest anyone think that cutting off someone's head while screaming 'Allah Akbar!' is a modern custom, here is an account of that very practice under Muhammad, who seems to approve.
Additional Notes:
Other than the fact that Muslims haven't killed every non-Muslim under their domain, there is very little else that they can point to as proof that theirs is a peaceful, tolerant religion. Few verses in the Qur'an can be construed to fit the contemporary virtues of religious tolerance and universal brotherhood, and those that do are earlier "Meccan" verses that are obviously abrogated by later ones.
Far from being mere theological construct or history, the violent verses of the Qur'an have played a key role in the many massacres in Muslim history, including the brutal slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Hindus for five centuries beginning around 1000 AD with Mahmud of Ghazni's bloody conquest. Buddhism was very nearly wiped off the Indian subcontinent. Judaism met the same fate in the Middle East as did Christianity, there as well as across North Africa and parts of Europe, including Turkey. Zoroastrianism, the ancient religion of a proud Persian people is despised by Muslims and barely survives in modern Iran.
So ingrained is violence in the religion that Islam has never really stopped being at war, either with other religions or with itself.
Muhammad was a military leader, laying siege to towns, massacring the men, raping their women, enslaving their children, and taking what was once the property of others for his own. On several occasions he rejected offers of surrender from the besieged inhabitants and killed those whom he could take prisoner. He inspired his followers to battle even when they did not feel it was right to fight, threatening them with Hell if they did not, promising them slaves and booty if they did. Muhammad allowed his men to rape traumatized women captured in battle. Neither did he leave a clear line of succession, which resulted in internal war after his death and a jagged schism that has left Shias and Sunnis at each others' throats to this day.
It is important to emphasize that Muslim armies waged aggressive campaigns, and it was the companions of Muhammad who made the most dramatic military gains in the decades following his death. The principle set in motion early on was that the civilian population of a town was to be destroyed (ie. men executed, women and children taken as slaves) if they defended themselves. Although modern Muslim apologists often claim that Islam only attacked in self-defense, this is not only an oxymoron, but it is flatly contradicted by the accounts of Muslim historians and others going back to the time of Muhammad.
The strangest and most untrue thing that can be said about Islam is that it is a Religion of Peace. If every standard by which the West is judged and condemned (slavery, imperialism, intolerance, women's rights, warfare...) were applied equally to Islam, the verdict would be absolutely devastating. Islam never gives up what it conquers, be it religion, culture, language or life. Neither does it make apologies or any real effort at moral progress. It is the least open to dialogue and the most self-absorbed. It is convinced of its own perfection, yet never open to critical examination.
This is what makes the verses of violence so dangerous. While Muslim terrorists take them as literally as anything else in the Qur'an, and understand that Islam is incomplete without Jihad, others do little to contradict them. Indeed, what do they have? Speaking of peace and love may win over the ignorant, but when every twelfth verse of Islam's holiest book either speaks to Allah's hatred for non-Muslims or calls for their death, forced conversion, or subjugation, it's little wonder that sympathy for terrorism runs as deeply as it does in the broader community - even if most Muslims personally prefer not to interpret their religion in this way.
In fact, many Muslims are simply unaware of the Qur'an's near absence of verses that preach non-violence. This is because their understanding of Islam comes from what they are taught by others. In the West, it is typical for Muslims to come to believe that their religion must be like Christianity - preaching the New Testament virtues of peace, love, and tolerance - because Muslims are taught that Islam is supposed to be superior in every way. They are somewhat surprised and embarrassed to learn that the evidence of the Qur'an and the bloody history of Islam are very much in contradiction to this.
For their part, Western liberals would do well not to sacrifice judgment and distinction on the altar of political correctness, or look for reasons to bring other religion down to the level of Islam merely to avoid the existential truth that this it is both different and dangerous.
There are just too many Muslims who take the Qur'an literally... and too many others who couldn't care less.
If you ask, "why the violence"
The only thing more shocking than the ridiculous level of violence coming out of the Islamic world is the genuine indifference shown by most of those Muslims who are not directly involved. Though the number of terrorists is relatively small, they are sustained by the apathy of hundreds of millions, even in the heart of the Western world. One of the biggest questions asked in the aftermath of 9/11 was, “Where’s the outrage?” as Americans had trouble understanding why Muslims did not act as people of other religions would have in the wake of a horrific mass murder committed in the name of their faith.
The simple fact is that Islam is not like other religions. The roots of the faith, the history, and the teachings from basic texts compel both the violence and the broad indifference that sustains it. Despite the drive that Westerners have to believe that other people are just like them, and that other religions are just like theirs, it is anti-intellectual to ignore the stark evidence that demands otherwise.
Clever “fifth column” groups, such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), have learned that multiculturalists can be easily manipulated with tactical language that includes broad, but ultimately meaningless, “condemnations against terror” and periodic declarations that “innocents” are not legitimate targets for Jihadis.
Although fooling some into believing what they want to believe, astute observers recognize that these groups almost never define their key terms, such as “terror attacks” and “innocents,” and that a tiny minority of attacks are specifically denounced. CAIR, for example, only acknowledged eighteen acts of terror in the four years following 9/11 – less than 1/2 of 1% of the actual number of documented attacks.
So what explains the violence and the level of comfort that many Muslims have with those who kill in the name of Allah?
Given that Islam’s founder was a military leader who personally conducted terror attacks on caravans, led offensive battles against communities in order to steal and subjugate, who took slaves, broke truces, supervised the execution of captives, advocated the murder of Jews, and even advised his warriors on raping women captured in battle, the wonder is that there isn’t more violence than we see today.
Immediately following Muhammad's death, the "Religion of Peace" turned against itself in a bloody fratricide that continues to this day in the form of sectarian violence between Shia and Sunni. Muhammad's own companions and relatives fought each against other. Three of the first four caliphs were murdered, and many other early Muslims lost their lives including the nearest members of Muhammad's family.
Muhammad’s martial philosophy has been faithfully practiced by his followers, who obeyed his commands to wage Jihad (holy war) against unbelievers, and succeeded in spreading Islam by the sword throughout the Middle East, Central Asia, North Africa and well into Europe.
Unlike the Crusades, for example, which were founded on papal proclamation and not Christian scripture, there are literally dozens of verses in the Qur’an that exhort violence against people who do not follow the ways of Allah as dictated by Muhammad, and only a handful that could be construed as suggesting tolerance. There are literally hundreds more that speak of hate toward unbelievers
Unfortunately, the more violent verses were spoken later in Muhammad's life, which leads most Islamic scholars to believe that they abrogate the handful of earlier, more tolerant ones (as is the tradition with other parts of the Qur'an that are in contradiction). Muhammad and his followers did not have power over the people around them at the time that the more peaceful verses were spoken. As the balance of power shifted, so did the strategy of winning detractors over, from the use of deception to outright military force.
These militant verses, combined with Wahabbi teachings (a radical and violent strain of Islam), are being drummed into the heads of children in religious schools called madrasses well before they are able to develop an independent moral character. Radical mosques throughout the globe do their best to reinforce rigid personalities that are unable to see the world in anything other than dualistic terms, where there is only Dar al-Salaam (the believers) and Dar al-Harb, which literally means “the house of war” and refers to those outside the faith.
The goal of existence, according to the Qur’an, is a struggle for Islamic domination by any means – including deceit and terror, which were both practiced by Muhammad. The world must submit to Allah. There is no other point to life, and this explains the near absence of cultural and technological innovation on the part of Muslims in history, who merely borrowed from the hapless souls they conquered. Knowledge outside of religious teachings is not encouraged, except as it contributes to Islamic goals.
This two-dimensional thought process is responsible not only for the astonishing apathy toward the victims of Islamic violence on the part of those who are trained to view the world in such simplistic terms, but it also explains the dismal economies of Muslim countries. Though the religion comprises about a fifth of the world’s population, for example, the Arab countries combined have non-oil GDP numbers that are lower than the state of Louisiana.
The Middle East before the time of Muhammad was mostly made up of Jewish and Christian communities – in addition to some who practiced pagan and polytheistic religions. Within a century, these people were brought under the heel of rulers who had no interest in them beyond what could be squeezed from them in the form of the jizya (tax on unbelievers).
Slowly, the subjugated began to lose their cultural identity under the pressures of a brutal system that discriminated against them even to the point of stealing their children to make them into Fedayeen warriors in foreign campaigns. Entire populations were consumed.
Most felt they had no choice but to convert to Islam, sacrificing their religion, identity and culture to their masters. Once a person professes Islam, they can only recant on penalty of death. The system is also skillfully set up to ensure demographic triumph by allowing a Muslim man to marry women outside the faith, provided that the children are to be raised Muslim.
By feeding on conquered populations, Islam expanded with an unquenchable appetite, quickly threatening the very center of the Christian world, Constantinople. The siege of this city in 670 exposes the biggest fib that that contemporary Muslims like to tell about Islam's military expansion, namely that it was only as a result of self-defense.
In fact, there were no Byzantine armies threatening Muslims when the fifth caliph, Muawiya, struck at the capital of the eastern Christian world. The citizens of Constantinople were surprised by the naval attack, even though they were well-prepared to defend against it.
More importantly, following the humiliating defeat of the Muslims, there were no "Christian" armies marching into the vacuum to capture land, as might have been expected had there truly been an aggressive threat to Islam. The siege of Constantinople, like the many other campaigns of Muslim aggression was about Jihad and the spread of Islamic rule.
In the west, Islamic fighters invaded Europe and conquered Spain. Attempting to overrun the rest of Europe, they were finally stopped by Charles Martel at Tours. In the East, the empire quickly expanded into the heart of the Indian subcontinent, taking an awful toll on Hindu and Buddhist lives as well as the destruction of their beautiful temples.
All this a mere century after Muhammad’s death. Such was the violent legacy left by the Prophet.
Through horrific massacres and cultural cannibalism, Islam maintained a stranglehold on its occupied territory. The reactive Crusades that followed, as well as the Mongol invasions, were mere setbacks in the religion’s insatiable quest for imperial expansion.
Constantinople eventually fell in 1453, well after the Crusades. Three days of looting, raping and killing followed, as soldier and citizen alike were butchered. Entire families waited in their homes for death or slavery. Churches were ransacked and burned, and a significant part of Christian and Greek heritage in the form of relics and ancient text were completely destroyed.
Jihad and genocide threatened Europe for the next two centuries until the Muslims were finally stopped at the gates of Vienna in 1683 by a determined Christian army of Poles, Austrians, Lithuanians, Germans and others. If not for their victory, and that of France's Charles Martel on the slopes of the Pyrenees nearly a thousand years earlier, the lights of civilization would have been dimmed and the continent overrun before the great contributions to science and medicine could be made.
None of the technology that improves the quality of life for billions in the world would have been possible had the vision of Jihad succeeded. The medicine that we take for granted (that we ship to Islamic countries when they face natural disasters, for example) would not have been discovered, and the miracles of modern science would never have seen the light of day had the Prophet’s followers been able to take the rest of Christian Europe.
Since the religion discourages art, it can be assumed that there would have been no great Renaissance, as there has never been such in the Muslim world, and generations of scholars would have been limited to studies of the Qur’an and Sunnah.
Islam’s mandate to consume and dominate religion and culture means that there is little if any emphasis placed on advancing knowledge or improving life for future generations. Submission to Allah is the only mandate and Jihad is the highest duty. Academic contributions that are often attributed to Muslims, such as the mathematical concept of zero, were actually borrowed and preserved from the civilizations and people they destroyed, much as a looter might keep the ill-gotten gain that he finds useful. The Islamic world has never made a single significant contribution beyond religion and death.
This doesn’t mean that the Muslim sitting next to you is a violent person, or should be treated as such merely by their profession of faith, but it does mean that peaceful Muslims can be said to be that way in spite of their religion. In fact, given the violent history and martial teachings of Islam, it is more of a challenge to explain why most of its members do not participate in warfare or terror than that many do.
There are at least three reasons why the violence is relatively limited.
The first is that Islam is succinctly designed to achieve total domination in areas where it is practiced. Utter hegemony in Muslim countries means a virtual absence of opposition, even in the arena of critical ideas, thus the opportunity for justified violence is reduced. Of course, this doesn’t completely prevent terror attacks against religious minorities in places like Pakistan and Indonesia, where minority communities are completely powerless.
The second reason Islamic violence is more subdued than might be expected is due to the massive amount of global resources devoted to containing it. This includes not only the billions (perhaps more than a trillion dollars) spent by governments and private corporations worldwide each year to protect people from Muslim terrorists, but also the security personnel from Algeria to India that often pay with their lives to keep the planet safer than it would be if religious fundamentalists operated with impunity.
Imagine the number of planes that would be falling out of the sky in the absence of security. Air travel would quickly come to a halt. In Israel, defense forces currently kill over 95% of the Fedayeen attackers at the nation’s borders, and an untold number of attacks are thwarted preemptively by intelligence efforts and retaliatory strikes against leadership. The rest of the West also depends on such measures along with leading-edge technology to stop Muslims from fulfilling their dreams of slaughter.
The third [and most hopeful] factor behind the limited violence in the modern age, however, seems to be the natural law placed in most human hearts that dictates compassion to be of higher moral value than killing. This competes with the Qur’anic command to wage war against unbelievers until they either convert to Islam, are killed, or are forced to submit to dhimmitude (third-class status under Islamic law).
Many Muslims realize the discrepancy between radical Islam and traditional morality, and they seek to bring their religion in line with the modern age – if only in their own hearts.
Reforming Islam is a monumental struggle that will take centuries. It is not a religion that invites introspection within itself or true dialogue with other faiths. Despite the millions of victims of Jihad over the centuries, there are no memorials to lost lives and lost cultures to be found anywhere in the Muslim world. This even includes the Armenian genocide of the 20th century, which claimed over a million innocents.
Whereas Western religion often inspires humility, Islam breeds personal superiority. Though rare exceptions certainly exist, the Islamic community is characterized by a general indifference to the lives and welfare of unbelievers. Anyone who doubts this should contrast the genuine outrage over periodic yet petty slights against Muslims (such as the recent Muhammad cartoons) to the reaction - or lack thereof - that these same people have when unspeakable acts of violence are committed in the name of Allah and Islam. Unless it occurs directly to them, there is nothing that approaches true rage over Islamic terror or honest sympathy for its victims.
And the terrorists themselves? In contradiction to other religions, the most devoted followers of Islam are likely to be the most unpredictable and sociopathic, not because they were born that way, but because it is at the heart of what they have been taught.
Muhammad's legacy was an ideology that commands its followers to fight those outside the faith until they either convert to Islam or accept complete subjugation to Islamic rule. There simply is no such thing as an innocent infidel exempt from the threat of death - except those who demean themselves to subordinate status and pay the jizya to Muslim masters. Armed with religious teachings, today's terrorists are merely continuing what was begun in the prophet's lifetime.
I challenge you to DISPROVE any of the information given here. . .
I hope this has helped. . . As I said, we do not hate individuals, but Islam seems to have all of us (Americans) in the crosshairs. . a recent comment by an imam that the US will be under islamic control by 2050, certainly gives insight into what the mindset of many muslims is here in the United states.