Claim that all terrorists are Muslims ignores history
by Sheila Musaji
There has been plenty of terrorism and violence committed by human beings from every religious background. Were you aware that according to the European Police Office (Europol) in 2006 “There were 498 incidents in eleven EU countries last year labelled as “terrorist attacks.” The Basque separatist group ETA did best (136 terrorist attacks) and was responsible for the only deadly attack, killing two in Madrid. The remaining 497 fortunately cost no human lives.” Muslims only carried out one out of the 498 terrorist attacks in the European Union in 2006. Full report Did you know that The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam a Hindu separatist group in Sri Lanka “had carried out more suicide bombings than any other organization on the face of the earth. According to the experts at Janes securities, between 1980 to 2000, LTTE had carried out a total of 168 suicide attacks on civilians and military targets. The number of suicide attacks easily exceeded the combined total of Hizbullah and Hamas suicide attacks carried out during the same period”
Many Americans are unaware of the fact that of all the religious groups, Muslim Americans have the lowest crime rate, and that prior to the first WTC attack, there was no violence directed against the western culture by its members. A survey of 175 recorded incidents of terrorism in the US from January 1982 to January 1996 showed that of these: 77 were committed by Christian Puerto Rican nationalists, 31 were the work of Christian animal rights and Christian environmental groups, 23 were blamed on Christian left wing organizations, 18 were committed by what the FBI called “Jewish extremists” and 12 were by Christian anti-Castro Cubans. The total number committed by Arabs or Muslims over a period of 14 years was 3 (three).[2] Muslim Americans: Patriotic or Fifth Columnist?, Habib Siddiqui
The U.S. Department of Justice Report on Terrorism 2002 to 2005 also lists incidents from 1980 to 2005 and clearly shows that most terrorist incidents were not carried out by Muslims.
In Europe the number of arrests connected to terrorism doubled in the European Union in 2007, while the overwhelming majority of attacks carried out in its territory were linked to separatism, the EU’s police office, Europol, said in a report released on Monday (7 April).
Even if we just look at extremist violence and terrorism in the U.S. from 1970 and after committed by non-Muslims, it really isn’t possible to hold to the claim that all terrorists are Muslims. If we add to this brief list all of the KKK and white supremacist violence over the years and all of the hate crimes like the hate crimes motivated by a hatred of immigrants, or gays, or African-Americans, or a particular political group, etc. Then this list would number in the thousands.
1970’s - Sterling Hall bombing at the UW–Madison, JDL bombings of Aeroflot office and Soviet offices in NYC, Weatherman bombings at U.S. Capitol in D.C. and Gulf Tower in Pittsburgh, shooting of Governor George Wallace of Alabama, Croatian terrorist hijacking of a TWA airliner, car bomb murder of Chilean gov’t officials by DINA,
1980’s - Armed members of FALN raid campaign headquarters of Jimmy Carter in Chicago and George H. W. Bush in NYC, Reagan assassination attempt, bombings at Pan Am terminal in NY by the Puerto Rican Resistance Army, FALN explodes bombs outside of the FBI office in NY and the US courthouse in Brooklyn, James W. von Brunn attempted to kidnap members of the Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C., Turkish diplomats in CA and MA killed by members of the Justice Commandos Against Armenian Genocide, U.S. Senate bombing by The Armed Resistance Unit, James Oliver Huberty went into a McDonald’s in San Ysidro, CA and killed 21 people and injured 19 others before being killed himself, Rajneeshee bioterror attack in OR, 751 became ill, The Order murders Alan Berg in CO, JDL murders Alex Odeh in CA, George Hennard drove into Luby’s diner in Killeen, TX and killed 23 people and wounded more than 20 before committing suicide, Dr. David Gunn murdered in Pensacola, Florida,
1990’s - Dr. John Britton and an assistant murdered in FL by Rev. Paul Jennings Hill, Frank Eugene Corder attempted to hit the White House with a single-engine Cessna, Francisco Martin Duran fired at least 29 shots with a semi-automatic rifle at the White House, Two receptionists were killed in two clinic attacks in Brookline, MA by John Salvi, Ted Kaczinski, the Unabomber, Sgt. William J. Kreutzer, Jr. killed one officer and wounded 17 other soldiers when he opened fire on a formation at Fort Bragg, NC., Oklahoma City bombing by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, Centennial Olympic Park bombing and abortion clinic bombing in Birmingham AL by Eric Robert Rudolph, Dr. Barnett Slepian was shot to death at his home in Amherst, NY by James Kopp, U.S. Capitol shooting by Russell Eugene Weston kills two, Eric Harris & Dylan Kleboldat Columbine H.S. killed 13 people and wounded 24 before commitng suicide, Arson attack on Agriculture Hall of MSU and office complex in Monmouth, OR by Earth Liberation Front, a two-state shooting rampage by Benjamin Nathaniel Smith, a right-wing extremist and member of the World Church of the Creator, left two individuals dead and eight others wounded before Smith killed himself, A firearms attack on a Jewish Community Center in Granada Hills, California, by Buford O. Furrow, a former member of the Aryan Nations, wounded three children, a camp counselor, and a receptionist, Santurce and Carolina Puerto Rico Pipe Bombings by Brigada Internacionalista Eugenio Maria de Hostos de las Fuerzas Revolucionaries Pedro Albizu Campos, Urbana, IL Attempted Firebombing by Mexican Revolutionary Movement, Chicago, IL Car Fire and Attempted bombing by Boricua Revolutionary Front, Tacoma, WA Pipe Bombing by American Front Skinheads, 9 incidents of firebombing in Chicago, IL by Animal Liberation Front, Vail, Colo. Arson Fire at Ski Resort Claim of responsibility issued by Earth Liberation Front, Franklin Township, N.J. Bombing of Circus Vehicles Claim of responsibility issued by Animal Liberation Front,
2000’s - Former leader of the Texas Militia plot to attack the Federal Building in Houston, a Catholic priest drove his car into the Northern Illinois Health Clinic and pulled out an ax before being shot at by a security guard, JDL plot by Irv Rubin and Earl Krugel to blow up the King Fahd Mosque and the office of Congressman Darrell Issa in CA foiled, Anthrax attacks by Bruce Ivins kill five across the U.S. with politicians and media officials as the apparent targets, Clayton Waagner mailed hoax letters containing a white powder to 554 clinics, Robert Pickett discharged a number of shots from a weapon in the direction of the White House, Lucas John Helder rigged pipe bombs in private mailboxes to explode when the boxes were opened, white supremacists planned to bomb a series of institutions associated with the black and Jewish communities including the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Two members of Project 7 are arrested plotting to kill judges and law enforcement officials in order to kick off a revolution, An Idaho Mountain Militia Boys plot to kill a judge an a police officer and break a friend out of jail is uncovered, William Krar is charged for his part in the Tyler poison gas plot, a white supremacist related plan, Jeffrey Weise killed his grandfather and his grandfather’s girlfriend on the Red Lake, MN Chippewa reservation, then went to Red Lake H.S. where he killed 7 people and wounded 5 others before committing suicide, Patricia Hughes and Jeremy Dunahoe threw a Molotov cocktail at a clinic in Shreveport, LA, Two officers were killed at Forward Operating Base Danger in Tikrit, Iraq by a deliberately placed mine, Staff Sergeant Alberto B. Martinez was charged, but was acquitted in a court martial trial at Fort Bragg, NC, The Animal Liberation Front targets a UCLA professor with a firebomb due to her research on animals, Charles Carl Roberts IV went into an Amish school in Lancaster County, PA and killed 5 girls before committing suicide, Dennis & Daniel Mahon send mail bombs to a diversity office in Scottsdale AZ that injure three, Demetrius Van Crocker a white supremacist from rural TN attempted to acquire Sarin nerve gas and C-4 explosives that he planned to use to destroy government buildings, A man rammed his car into a women’s clinic that he thought was an abortion clinic and set it ablaze in Davenport, Iowa, Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people and wounded many others at Virginia Tech before committing suicide, Five members of a Birmingham, Alabama area anti-immigration militia were arrested for planning a machine gun attack on Mexicans, A bomb was left in a women’s clinic in Austin but failed to explode, Jim D. Adkisson opened fire in the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville TN killing two and injuring seven (a note found in his SUV indicated this was intended as a suicide attack and said the church was apparently targeted because of its support of liberal social policies), UC-Santa Cruz molecular biologist David Feldheim’s home was firebombed. A car belonging to another researcher from that University was destroyed by a firebomb in what is presumed to be related. FBI is investigating incidents as domestic terrorism related to animal rights groups, plot by two white power skinheads to target an African American High School and kill 88 blacks and decapitate 14 more (the numbers 88 and 14 are symbolic to white supremacists) and although expecting to fail try to assassinate Barack Obama, Jomar Falu Vives a Fort Carson, CO soldier and Iraq war veteran accused of killing 2 people and wounding another in drive-by shootings, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting by James Wenneker von Brunn, Assassination of Dr. George Tiller by Scott Roeder, bombing of a Starbucks in Manhattan’s Upper East Side by Kyle Shaw, shooting at Muslim home in Oregon by Vadim Ignatov, Keith Luke went on shooting spree in MA to kill as many non whites and Jews as possible, Three Pittsburgh police officers are fatally shot and a fourth wounded by Richard Andrew Poplawski, who had posted his racist and anti-Semitic views on white supremacist websites
The Southern Poverty Law Center has a list entitled: Terror from the Right: 75 plots, conspiracies and racist rampages since Oklahoma City which also shows that not all terrorists are Muslims.
Another report from the FBI makes a lot of interesting points. Here are a few highlights:
APPROXIMATELY 641 terrorist incidents occurred in the United States between 1971 and June 1975. Among these attacks were 166 bombings, 120 fire bombings, and 118 shootings. (During the first six months of 1975 alone, 24 attacks occurred in California, 12 took place in New York, and 11 were directed at targets on the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.) Some of these attacks were carried out by extremist ethnic groups and international terrorists. But the vast majority were attributed to leftwing/antiwar extremists, many operating within such organizations as the Weather Underground, Armed Forces of Puerto Rican Liberation (FALN), the Black Liberation Army, and the Symbionese Liberation Army. p35
WAVES in domestic terrorist activity are not absolute or all encompassing. During the 1970s and early 1980s, at the height of violent antiwar/left-wing activism, there were dozens of terrorist attacks carried out by Jewish extremist groups (such as the Jewish Defense League and the United Jewish Underground) and other extremist ethnic groups (such as the Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide). There were also sporadic incidents involving special interest groups supporting nuclear disarmament and other causes. During the 1990s, when antigovernment right-wing groups became a primary counterterrorism focus, left-wing extremist Puerto Rican separatists continued to conduct the majority of successful terrorist attacks in the United States–primarily on the island of Puerto Rico. (The majority of terrorist acts prevented by law enforcement during the decade, however, were being planned by antigovernment right-wing terrorists–underscoring the potential threat posed by this element.) p 37 to 38
But a study of the past reveals some potentially helpful patterns. Violent domestic extremism in the United States has been closely linked to contemporary political/social concerns. In each of the three identifiable waves, violent extremism has represented a small, radicalized component of broad-based, largely
peaceful movements sharing similar concerns. With regard to left- and right-wing terrorism, aggressive prosecution of group leaders, violent offenders, and those plotting attacks contributed significantly to limiting the overall threat posed by groups with these orientations. p 38
The abilities to spread propaganda and recruit new members are important to the long-term viability of extremist movements. Leftist radical movements of the 1970 and early 1980s conducted much of their propaganda and recruiting through lectures and the distribution of handbills. While right-wing groups in
the 1980s and 1990s began to exploit the Internet and cable access programming to spread their views, they largely depended on videotapes and books to attract new adherents to their antigovernment, race-supremacist ideologies. By contrast, animal rights and environmental extremists rely on sophisticated computer capabilities to exploit the communications potential of the Internet to disseminate propaganda, provide information updates to adherents, recruit new members, and make claims of responsibility for terrorist activities and acts of vandalism. The communications opportunities afforded by the World Wide Web can be expected to have a far-reaching impact on the ability of contemporary extremist groups to perpetuate propaganda and attract new members. p 38
CONCLUSION - BROAD TRENDS in domestic terrorism can be identified throughout the past four decades. These trends demonstrate the fluidity of causes that can inspire acts of terrorism within a culture. A society as large, diverse, and complex as the United States can be expected to continue to yield divergent concerns and beliefs among groups and individuals who view extreme actions as the most effective means to convey their sentiments. An appreciation of the largescale shifts in terrorist trends may assist law enforcement in understanding general patterns in the threat posed by domestic extremists over several decades. The emerging challenges confronting the law enforcement community underscore more than ever the importance of interagency cooperation, effective analysis, and aggressive investigation to counter these threats. p 40
UPDATE 12/30/2009
An article was written by Jeffrey Weiss in which he made the claim: “And we’re still left with a terrible problem for a free and multicultural society: Even though 99.999 percent of Muslims abhor attacks on innocent civilians on moral and theological grounds, 100 percent of attempted terrorist attacks on the U.S. (and, with the exception of the Basques in Spain, terrorists attacks on all Western nations) since the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing have been committed by people claiming to act in the name of Islam.” Glenn Greenwald responded to this article and listed a number of terrorist incidents that were not committed by Muslims. Greenwald closed his article with “I could spend all day listing more of the same. And that’s using the narrowest definition possible of “terrorism”—i.e., excluding any state-sponsored terrorist acts. We’re currently at various forms of war in five different Muslim countries, so it’s not surprising that some of the violence directed at us is from Muslims. But to claim that “100 percent of attempted terrorist attacks on the U.S. (and [other than Spain], terrorists attacks on all Western nations)” since 1995 are by “people claiming to act in the name of Islam” is so blatantly, demonstrably, obviously false that you really have to wonder about a person who would utter such a thing. And while most don’t veer quite as deep into the falsehood department as Weiss did, one would get the sense from listening to our standard political discourse that “Terrorism” and “Islamic-inspired Terrorism” are synonymous. It’s the kind of myth-based demonization that is as familiar as it is false, dangerous and repugnant.” Weiss issued an apology: [MEA CULPA:I stupidly broke one of my own writing rules there: Do not use an absolute unless you are absolutely, positively certain beyond any and all doubt. As sure as you use the words “never” or “always,” or “100 percent” someone will provide an exception. Glenn Greenwald on Salon.com provides several. I could quibble with some of his list or engage in some rhetorical dance about the definition of terrorism or try a numbers game about whether I was almost right or not. But the truth is, mine was a needless and incorrect reach that was not necessary to make my point. Which is that there are many more Muslims who oppose terror compared to the relatively few, very dangerous people who would use that faith to justify the murder of innocents. And it behooves us to do what we can to appreciate when those in the larger group do what they can to shut down the violence in spite of the potential consequences to themselves. I will surely make other mistakes down the road, but I will probably not repeat this one any time soon.]
Depending on how you define terrorism, there have been four successful terrorist attacks on American soil during 2009 — the Tiller assassination, the Holocaust museum shooting, the Knoxville church shooting, and Fort Hood.
UPDATE January 6, 2010 “Despite last year’s spike in the number of terrorism cases involving American Muslims, fears of growing radicalization in the American Muslim community may be greatly exaggerated, according to a new study. Researchers at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill say that while homegrown Islamic terrorism is a serious issue, it remains a limited problem.” According to Time Read the full report Anti-Terror Lessons of Muslim-Americans at http://www.sanford.duke.edu/news/Schanzer_Kurzman_Moosa_Anti-Terror_Lessons.pdf
UPDATE January 20, 2010 - Loonwatch has published a must read article All Terrorists are Muslims…Except the 94% that Aren’t which takes information from the FBI report mentioned above and analyzes the list of incidents and creates an interesting pie chart that makes all the information come clearly into focus. Loonwatch states: “According to this data, there were more Jewish acts of terrorism within the United States than Islamic (7% vs 6%). These radical Jews committed acts of terrorism in the name of their religion. These were not terrorists who happened to be Jews; rather, they were extremist Jews who committed acts of terrorism based on their religious passions, just like Al-Qaeda and company.”
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originally posted 1/7/2007, updated 06/12/08 - and section divided
Some articles on “religious” extremism and terrorism
- A Terrorist By Any Other Name, Jane Chastain
- A long history of injustice ignored article collection
- A spiritual jihad against terrorism, Sheila Musaji
- A new face for racism and fascism
- Against the Nihilism of Terror: Jihad as Testimony to Transcendence, Dr. S. Pervez Manzoor
- American Foreign Policy on Genocide
- Anatomy of Terror, John Chuckman
- Can Only Muslims Be Terrorists, Kamran Memon
- The Changing Face of Genocide, Mark Levine
- Christian terrorism - the Islamic mirror
- Christian violence in history
- Cruelty and Violence in the Bible
- Deaths by Mass Unpleasantness: Estimated Totals for the Entire 20th Century
- DEATH TOLLS for 20th Century Wars
- Defending Christian Terrorism
- Detailed database of global terrorism incidents
- Domestic terrorism in the U.S.
- Double Standards, Dubious Morality and Duplicity of the Fight Against Terror, Robert Fisk
- Fearsome extremists massing in their pews, Jonathan liu
- Hirabah - Jihad - Terrorism - Violence - Just War - Crusades - article collection
- History of the car bomb
- Islam is not the source, but the solution to terrorism, Harun Yahya
- Judeo-Christians: Pied Pipers for Serial War, Charles E. Carlson
- List of terrorist incidents by year
- List of Zionist terror incidents and [2]
- List of non state terrorist incidents http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_non-state_terrorist_incidents
- Looking Away, Stephen Holmes
- Mass Crimes Against Humanity in the Last 50 Years
- Media Asked Not to Call Miami Terror Suspects Muslims
- Muslim Holocausts and Genocide Remembrance Day, M.A.T.
- Myth of Muslim Support for Terror, Kenneth Ballen
- Not All Muslims Are Terrorists, But…, Hesham A. Hassaballa
- Not all terrorists are Muslim, Iftekhar Hai
- Not All Terrorists Are Muslims, the latest falsehood from the advocates of civilizational war, Shahid Alam
- 9 “The other kind of terror”, David Neiwert
- Realpolitic and terrorism - article collection
- Religious Extremism, Religious Right - article collection
- Religious terrorism is an oxymoron, Sheila Musaji
- Soldiers of Christ, Sit Down Kevin Beck
- Terrorist attacks within the U.S. or on Americans abroad
- Through the Looking Glass: Muslim Timeline for World Rule, Sheila Musaji
- U.S. State Dept. list of significant terrorist incidents 1961-2003
- Violence in the name of God
- Violence in Christian Theology, J. Denny Weaver
- The War on Terrorism: Muslims Look for Responsible Journalism Mahboob Khawaja
- When terrorism is not news largest bombmaking hoard discovered in Britain
- Whose taking the blame for Christian violence?, Calvin White
Afghanistan: Afghan Massacre: Convoy of Death
- Kunduz: America’s Srbenica?
Algeria: Injustice Ignored: Muslims of Algeria
Azerbaijan: Genocide Debate Complicates Effort for Peace
- Russian crackdown on Azerbaijan
Bosnia: A Genocide of Muslims
- Four Serbs sentenced for videotaped Muslim killings 4/07
- Genocide of Bosnian Muslims by Christian Serbs
- Serb sentenced to 15 years for rape & torture of Muslims 4/07
- U.S. Arms Embargo
Brazil: Criminal terrorist gangs organized gang attacks in Brazil, left 18 people dead, the attacks in Rio followed similar attacks in Sao Paulo in May and August last year, which left more than 200 people dead.
Britain: Combat 18
- White extremists use terror videos to threaten British Muslims - Christian
- National Socialist Movement
- Bishop receives death threats from Christians for backing request to allow call to prayer from Mosque 3/08
Burma: Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA)
- God’s Army - Christian
- Injustice Ignored: Rohingya Muslims: the Forgotten People of Our Time
- Massacre of 100,000 Muslims 1942
- Muslim Minorities Attacked in Myanmar
- Rangoon bombing by North Koreans
- 60 years of genocide against Burma’s Muslims
- Massacre of monks in Burma 10/07
Cambodia: Cambodian genocide
Canada: FLQ Quebec Liberation Front - Christian
- Freedomites - Christian
- October Crisis 1970 kidnapping, murder - Christian
Chechnya: Chechnya’s secret slaughter
- Injustice Ignored: Muslims of Chechnya
- Injustice Ignored: the Smashing of Chechnya
- Russian war crimes in Chechnya and more
China:
- China cracks down on Muslims
- Injustice Ignored: the Muslims of China
- Massacre of Muslims in China
- U.N. says abuses against Muslims increasing
Columbia:
- National Liberation Army, ELN
- 19th of April movement - guerillas set off car bomb 2/2007
- Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia FARC
- United Self Defence Forces of Columbia
Congo: Genocide by Belgium - Christian
Cyprus: Kach attacks ferry - Jewish
El Salvador: Death Squads
France: Muslim Charity in France has office attacked by Jewish extremists
Germany:
- Gypsies in the Holocaust
- The Jewish holocaust
- Non-Jewish Victims of the Holocaust
East Timor: Genocide
France & Corsica: National Front for the Liberation of Corsica (FLNC)
Greece:
- Revolutionary Nuclei
- Revolutionary Organization 17th of November
Haiti: Tonton Macoute - Christian
India:
- Ananda Marga Hindu
- anti-Christian violence by Hindus in India
- anti-Sikh massacres 1984 - Hindu
- Extremists attack jailed Christian - Hindu
- Indira Gandhi assassinated - Hindu
- Golden Temple massacre of Sikhs by Hindus
- Khalistan Zindabad Force - Sikh
- Babar Khalsa - Sikh
- Dal Khalsa - Sikh
- Massacre of Muslims in Gujarat
- Nagaland rebels
- National Liberation Front of Tripura - Christian.
- Peoples War Group
- Terrorists Kill 44, Wound 118 in Attacks - Christian
- Terrorists bring down Air India flight 182 - Sikh
- State Participation and Complicity in Communal Violence in Gujarat
- Attackers Cut Off Noses & Ears of Muslims in Kashmir http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-239/0606175651144746.htm
- Gujarat, Unbearable Burden of Belief, Zahir Janmohammed http://www.altmuslim.com/opinion_comments.php?id=993_0_25_0_C
- Hindu Persecution of Gujarat’s Christians and Muslims http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=5755
- Indian Catholics Demanding Protection From Hindu Extremists http://www.theindiancatholic.com/newsread.asp?nid=5141
- Indian Hindu Religious Sect, Swadhyaya Parivar, Blamed in Murder Case http://www.indiaenews.com/religion/20060629/13118.htm
- Indian court convicts Hindu extremists for massacre of 116 Muslims in Bihar http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6764957.stm
- Rajneeshee Salmonella murder plot in Oregon 2001 http://www.cultsoncampus.com/shree.html
- Rise of the Hindu Taliban? http://mangalorean.com/news.php?newstype=local&newsid=42563
- Threats From Hindus Force Closure of Art Exhibit http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1784662,00.html
Indonesia: Injustice Ignored: the Muslims of Indonesia
International:
- Christian Zionism: Terror in Jesus’ Name (Yoginder Sikand)
- Crimes against humanity since WWII
Kach and Kahane Chai - Jewish
- Muslim holocaust and remembrance day
- The other kind of terror (David Neiwert)
- USS Liberty attacked by Israel - Cover Up of the Attack, Sarah Weir http://www.counterpunch.org/weir10242003.html - A Fair Probe Would Attack Liberty Misinformation http://www.doublestandards.org/moorer1.html - Time for the truth about the Liberty http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070608/news_lz1e8boston.html
- Espionage against the U.S. - Ben-Ami Kadish, a mechanical engineer at a U.S. Army facility in New Jersey was arrested on charges of relaying secrets to Israel from 1979 to 1985, including nuclear secrets. 4/08
Iraq:
- Has the U.S. Committed War Crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq, Robert Higgs
- Remember Faluja
- Rumsfeld backed Saddam Hussein even after chemical attacks
- 24,000 civilian Iraqi deaths in 2007
- What Happened In Najaf: A Battle or a Massacre? 2/07
Ireland:
- IRA Explosives Expert Arrested in Columbia
- Irish America and the Ulster Conflict
- IRAIrish Americans Provide Money to the IRA
- Irish National Liberation Army - Christian
- Irish Republican Army - Christian
- OrangeVolunteers - Christian
- Red Hand Commandos
- Sein Fein Leader Visits Connecticut
- A Timeline for the events in Northern Ireland including terrorist acts
- The Troubles - Christian
- Ulster Freedom Fighters
- Ulster Volunteer Force - Christian
- U.S. Jails IRA Gun Runners in Florida
Israel-Palestine:
- al Aqsa mosque Jewish extremists try to storm al aqsa mosque
- Hebron Attack that killed three Palestinians, including an infant. All the victims were members of the same family, returning home from a wedding.
- Collective Punishment - Avi Dichter, Israeli Public Security Minister instructed police to demolish the house belonging to the family of an Arab terrorist. Jewish extremists attempt to destroy the home and go through the village randomly destroying property and terrorizing people.
- Effi Eitam, former Israeli cabinet minister said: “The vast majority of West Bank Arabs must be deported ... We will have to make an additional decision, banning Israeli Arabs from the political system … We have cultivated a fifth column, a group of traitors of the first degree.”
- Houses of Worship - Arson Destroys West Jerusalem Baptist Church http://www.jerusalemites.org/crimes/crimes_against_christianity/19.htm
- Hebron evictions: Jewish settlers shoot Palestinians http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2008/dec/05/hebron-settlers-shooting-israel-palestinians
- Injustice Ignored: Timeline of Palestine History
- Irgun terrorist attacks during 1930’s
- Israel Accused of State Terrorism
- Israeli diplomat carrying large amount of explosives arrested in Argentina
- Jewish extremists suspected in attack on Israeli peace activist http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/world/africa/25iht-settlers.4.16485478.html?_r=1
- Jewish underground group set off car bombs that crippled two Palstinian mayors, and plannned to bomb five Arab commuter buses and and blow up Al-Aksa Mosque in Jerusalem, partly in hopes of provoking a war so cataclysmic that it would hasten the arrival of the Messiah. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02E1DD1539F931A25752C1A963958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all - another extremist group plotted to blow up a Palestinian hospital and a girls’ school in Arab East Jerusalem http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/may/13/israel and [2]
- Kach Movement weapons cache A cache of weapons discovered hidden in caves in the West Bank has raised extra alarm bells among Israel’s internal intelligence service because the terrorists are Jewish extremists.The weapons were stolen from the army by members of the same movement that tried to blow up an Arab girls’ school in Jerusalem two years ago using a trailer packed with explosives. Fox News Aug. 16, 2004 - Kach attacks ferry in Cyprus. - Noam Federman former leader of the Kach party involved in many acts of terrorism
- King David Hotel bombing by Irgun kills 91 - first terrorist attack of modern era in the Middle East http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel_bombing King David Hotel bombing celebrated by Jewish extremists.
- Lavon Affair
- MASSACRES: Deir Yassin - In 1994 Baruch Goldstein an American Israeli doctor opens fire at a mosque and kills 30 Palestinians. also called the Hebron massacre - Hebron massacre (Baruch Goldstein massacred Muslims during Friday prayers at mosque. Goldstein’s tombstone reads Here lies the saint, Dr. Baruch Kappel Goldstein, blessed be the memory of the righteous and holy man, may the Lord avenge his blood, who devoted his soul to the Jews, Jewish religion and Jewish land. His hands are innocent and his heart is pure. He was killed as a martyr of God on the 14th of Adar, Purim, in the year 5754 (1994). After his death there are annual graveside parties to celebrate Goldstein) - Jenin massacre
- Qana Massacre - Sabra and Shatilla masacres - Alan Goodman, an Israeli citizen with a U.S. passport, marches into Al Aqsa with an M-16 rifle and opens fire on worshippers, killing two Palestinians and wounding others. In November 1997, the Israeli government releases Goodman. Unrepentant, Goodman boasts, “I fulfilled my mission.” -
- MURDERS: - Murder at Manara Square, Ramallah - Murder of Rachel Corrie an American citizen by IDF. - Murder of Yitzhak Rabin by Yigal Amir and proclaimed after his arrest that this was justified, even commanded, by the rulings of Din Mosser and Din Rodef, as described in the Jewish religious law. and [2] - Murder of Taysir Karaki - murder of 4 Palestinians by Asher Weisgan - Ami Popper, a former dishonorably-discharged soldier, put on his army uniform on 20 May 1990 and asked men waiting at a bus stop in the Israeli town of Rishon Lezion for their identity cards. After confirming they were Arabs he lined them up and opened fire, killing seven. - Eden Natan-Zada, opened fire in a bus in Shfar’am killing four people and wounding 22. - Stern Gang assassinates Lord Moyne in Cairo 1944. - IDF soldier kills British filmmaker James Miller. Assassination of Count Folke Bernadotte, United Nations mediator in Palestine, and his aide by Lehi Zionist terrorist group. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folke_Bernadotte - Murder of Alex Odeh in California by a bomb (JDL implicated) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Odeh
- Muslim Cemetary in Israel Vandalized by Jewish Extremists
- Orthodox Jew stabs three at Jerusalem gay pride parade
- Orthodox Jews throw stun grenades at rival yeshiva, injure 3 students http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2006/11/stun_grenade_th.html
- Revenge of the Children Jewish extremist group set a bomb which exploded at a Palestinian boys’ school in Arab East Jerusalem, injuring seven children and a teacher. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/may/13/israel
- The rich history of Jewish terrorism
- Rights groups report a sharp increase of attacks by West Bank settlers on Palestinians, as well as rising right-wing violence against left-leaning Israelis http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0930/p06s02-wome.html
- Russian Orthodox nun attacked in Jerusalem http://www.jerusalemites.org/crimes/crimes_against_christianity/28.htm
- Settler Terror Groups - Settlers terrorize palestinians, and more photos of Jewish settler violence
- Swedish human rights worker viciously attacked by Jewish extremists in Hebron. The Israeli army, which was intensively deployed in the area, did not intervene to stop the attacks.
- Three stabbed by ultra-Orthodox Jew at Jerusalem gay parade http://www.mywire.com/a/AFP/Three-stabbed-ultraOrthodox-Jew-Jerusalem/916226
- Ultra Orthodox Jews Suspected in Jerusalem Bombing Protesting Gay Parade
- The Wall - The Wall Maps of “the wall”
- Widespread Illegal Medical Experiments Conducted on Arab Patients in Israel http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/734971.html
- Zionist Action Group attacked airlines and airports in Portugal.
- Zionist terrorists
Italy:
- Bologna massacre by Ordine Nuovo group
- Red Brigades
Japan:
- Chukaka ha
- Haruo Wako
- Japanese Red Army
- Religious group, Aum Shinrikyo, members carried out Sarin gas attack on Tokyo subways - Buddhist
- Yu Kikumura
Kenya:
- Mau Mau uprising
- Mungiki
- 80 children massacred in Kenyan church 12/07
- Violence grows in Kenya 1/08
Kosovo: Genocide in Kosovo
Latin America: The growing terrorism challenge in Latin America 2/2007
Lebanon: Tel al Zaatar massacre - Christian
Namibia: Namibia genocide by Germans - Christian
Nigeria:
- 300 Muslims killed
- Yelwa massacre of 630 Muslim Nomads by Christians
- At least 12 dead in Nigerian violence 1/08
Peru: Shining Path
Phillipines:
- Corregidor massacre of Muslims
- Ethnic cleansing of Muslims in Mindanao
- Injustice Ignored: the Moros
- New People’s Army - Christian
Portugal: Zionist Action Group attacked airlines and airports - Jewish
Puerto Rico:
- Boricua Popular Movement - Christian
- FALN
Russia: Stalin’s deportation of 1.5 million Muslims
Rwanda:
- Army for the Liberation of Rwanda - Christian
- Interahamne - Christian
- Rwandan genocide - Christian
- Surviving genocide, Rwandans turn to Islam
- 2 nuns convicted of genocide
- U.S. and the Genocide in Rwanda
Serbia: First nation charged with genocide in massacres of Muslims - Christian
Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone genocide
- Revolutionary United Front
South Africa:
- Boeremag - Christian
- Role of Dutch Reformed Church in Apartheid
Spain:
- Anti Fascist Resistance Group
- ETA Basque group - Christian
- ETA bombing at Madrid airport
- Explosives haul found in Basque region 4/2/07
- ETA claims responsibility for two bombings in Spain 12/07
Sri Lanka:
- Buddhist Nationalism and Religious violence in Sri Lanka http://www.class.uidaho.edu/ngier/slrv.htm
- Chronology of Tamil Tigers Suicide Attacks http://www.spur.asn.au/chronology_of_suicide_bomb_attacks_by_Tamil_Tigers_in_sri_Lanka.htm
- Buddhist extremists attack Christian childrens home
- 103 Muslims killed by Tamil Tigers - hindu
- Scores killed in Sri Lanka suicide blast - Hindu
- Tamil Tigers fire on U.S. and Italian envoys helicopters 2/2007
- Thousands flee Tamil clashes 4/1/07
- Roadside bomb kills five, wounds 28 in Sri Lanka capital 1/08
- Sri Lankan Tamil MP assassinated in temple 1/08
- Eleven Muslims Butchered in Sri Lanka http://www.asiantribune.com/index.php?q=node/2024
- Tamil Tiger Hindu Terrorists Strike Again in Sri Lanka http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200610/s1766197.htm
Thailand:
- Injustice Ignored: Muslims of Southern Thailand
- Terrorist bombs blamed on ex Prime Minister
- Bangkok Terrorist Bombings Blamed on ex-Prime Minister http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/02/wthai02.xml
- Thai Buddhist Vigilante Squads Suspected in terrorism 8/7/07 http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/08/07/ap3995766.html
Turkey: Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia - Christian
Uganda: Lord’s Resistance Army - Lords Resistance Army has left Uganda and moved into Sudan
USA:
- Anthrax attacks
- Army of God, anti-abortion movement
- Aryan Nations
- Assassination of Martin Luther King by James Earl Ray
- Assassination of Robert Kennedy by Sirhan Sirhan (a Christian Palestinian)
- Birmingham church bombing
- Black Liberation Army
- Bomb blast in Salt Lake City
- Rev. Michael Bray, convicted anti-abortionist
- Centennial Olympic Park bombing
- Christian Identity Movement
- Christian Zionism: Terror in Jesus’ Name http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/christian_zionism_terror_in_jesus_name1/ - Christian Zionists: Mixing Prophecy and Politics http://csmonitor.com/2004/0707/p15s01-lire.html - Christian Holy Warriors Set Sights on Iran http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35896
- Children of Thunder kill five people to raise money to defeat Satan
- Christian Terrorism and more
- Christian Terrorist Cells in the USA
- Creativity Movement
- Croatian separatists bomb Statue of Liberty records room
- Demetrius Crocker - anti-government bomb plot
- Domestic terrorism in the U.S.
- Earth Liberation Front
- Espionage against the U.S. - Ben-Ami Kadish, a mechanical engineer at a U.S. Army facility in New Jersey was arrested on charges of relaying secrets to Israel from 1979 to 1985, including nuclear secrets. 4/08
- Evangelizing Muslims & Jews, a new Crusade - article collection
- Exorcism kills child in 2004
- Genocide against Native Americans
- Robert Ferro 1,500 guns found in Robert Ferro’s home in Riverside, CA in plot to overthrow Castro government
- Buford Furow
- Robert Goldstein plans to blow up 50 mosques in Florida, and [2]
- Hate Crime Charges Filed Against Five Jewish Teenagers in New York http://www.nysun.com/article/42836 Five More Jewish Teens May Be Charged in New York Beating of Muslim http://www.sptimes.com/2006/11/07/Hernando/Evil_isn_t_central_to.shtml
- Heaven’s Gate Cult suicides http://www.religioustolerance.org/dc_highe.htm
- Helzer, Justin & Dawn Godman, In order to raise money to defeat Satan Glenn and Justin Helzer and Dawn Godman slaughtered five innocent people 2000 http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/classics/helzer_brothers/3.html
- Hirabah - Jihad - Terrorism - Violence - Just War - Crusades - article collection
- History of backlash attacks against Arabs and Muslims in America
- Patricia Hughes and Jeremy Dunahoe arrested in abortion clinic bombing plot
- David Wayne Hull Arrested for Abortion Clinic Bomb Plot
- Is terrorism tied to Christian Identity Movement?
- Islamophobia & extremist statements about Islam
- JDL - Two leaders of the Jewish Defense League, Irv Rubin and Earl Krugel conspired to blow up Arab and Muslim institutions in southern California, including the offices of Arab-American congressman Rep. Darrell Issa in California. The Jewish Defense League was linked with a bomb explosion outside of Aeroflot’s New York City office, and a detonation outside of Soviet cultural offices in Washington. Also a JDL member allegedly fired a rifle into the Soviet Union’s mission office at the United Nations. Two JDL members were convicted of bomb possession and burglary in a conspiracy to blow up the Long Island residence of the Soviet Mission to the UN. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents%2C_1970 - FBI statistics show that from 1980 through 1985, there were 18 terrorist attacks in the U.S. committed by Jews; 15 of those by members of the JDL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Defense_League#cite_ref-bohn_7-0 - - Victor Vancier head of the JDL ‘‘terrorist bombings’’ in the New York area since 1984 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE4DF1039F934A15753C1A961948260
- Stephen John Jordi, anti-abortionist
- Judge in Schiavo Case Receives Death Threats From Christian Extremists http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0513,mondo3,62472,6.html
- Left Behind ‘Convert or Die’ Computer Game Divides Christians http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/12/12/MNG8TMU1KQ1.DTL
- Timothy McVeigh, 1995 Oklahoma City bombing
- Theodore Kaczynski, the unabomber
- Gordon Kahl and the Posse Commitatus
- Kingdom Identity Ministries
- KKK
- KKK assassination of Medgar Evers
- KKK lynching of Michael Donald
- KKK murder of Emmett Till 1955
- KKK murder of 3 civil rights workers in Mississippi
- William Klar
- James Charles Kopp, murdered an abortion doctor in 1998 and [2]
- William Krar plot to explode a cyanide bomb capable of killing thousands of people, Dallas TX 2004
- Jeffrey Lundgren murders three people who disagree with his cult’s practices and calls it “pruning the vinyard.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Lundgren
- David Robert McMenemy, Christian terrorist attempts car bombing in Iowa
- Mosques in the U.S. that have experienced vandalism or violent incidents
- murder of Viola Liuzzo by KKK in 1965
- Murder of Matthew Shepherd http://www.geocities.com/corkymcg/crime/proj005.html
- Murder of young Mormon wife by zealot Mormon sect
- Gail Nettles plot to blow up Federal Building
- NY Human Rights Activist Threatened By Jewish Extremist Group
- Alex Odeh murdered in bomb attack in California
- Order of the Solar Temple deaths http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/mass/solar_temple/1.html
- People’s Temple and Jim Jones
- Rev. Fred Phelps, The man who loves to hate http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/1999/03/lauerman.html
- Puerto Rican nationalist shooting at U.S. Capitol, House of Representatives 1954
- Radical Domestic organizations in the U.S.
- Religious extremism, religious right - article collection
- Religious hate seen as motive in murder of California Muslim woman
- Christopher Riendeau, Valdosta GA arrested with a stockpile of guns, ammo, and bomb making material, KKK materials 7/30/07
- Jacques Roubidoux starves son to death “following God’s will.” 2002 http://www.courttv.com/trials/taped/robidoux/background.html
- Eric Rudolph, anti-abortionist
- Dena Schlosser kills her child to give her to God
- Seattle Shooting Suspect Was Convert to Christianity http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/279424_convert30ww.html
- Arthur Shelton murders friend because he didn’t believe in God, Michigan
- Sterling Hall Bombing, University of Wisconsin 1970, Karleton & Dwight Armstrong, David Fine & leo Burt
- Terror From the Right - Almost 60 terrorist plots uncovered in the U.S. from 1995 to 2005
- Rev. David Trosch, former priest who publicly advocated violence against abortion providers
- Chris Turgeon and the Gatekeepers, A Killing in God’s Name http://www.sullivan-county.com/news/mine/gods_name.htm
- U.S. Senate bombing Marilyn Buck, Laura Whitehorn, and Linda Evans 1983
- Vermont man attempts to kill Muslim family to protect U.S.
- Clayton Waagner, murderer, domestic terrorist, bank robber, anti-abortionist
- Weatherman organization
- Randy Weaver and Ruby Ridge
- Robert Weiler made a pipe bomb to attack abortion clinic
- Westboro Baptist Church and Fred Phelps
- Andrea Yates, Deanna Laney , and Lawshaun Harris (devout Christians) killed their children because “God told them to”. http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/the_death_of_aqsa_parvez_should_be_an_interfaith_call_to_action/
Uzbekistan: Genocide in Uzbekistan
Yugoslavia: Croat extremists blow up JAT flight 364 - Christians
Vietnam: Tiger Force: Buried Secrets, Brutal Truths
Yugoslavia: Croat extremists blow up JAT flight 364 - Christians
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RESOURCES
Muslim Voices Against Extremism and Terrorism - Resources (collections of articles and references)
- Part I Fatwas
- Part II Statements by Organizations
- Part III Statements and Articles by Individuals
- Part IV A Few Quotes
- Part V The Muslim Majority Who Don’t Get Publicity
- Selective Hearing of Muslim Voices Against Extremism
- Sunni Shia Resource - collection of articles
- Polls, statistics, and surveys relating to Islam and Muslims
- Resources for Responses to Islamophobia and Allegations Against Islam and Muslims
- Claim That All Terrorists are Muslims Ignores History collection of incidents and responses
- Islamophobia - Alarming Statements 1 - 2000 and before
- Islamophobia - Alarming Statements 2 - 2001-2005
- Islamophobia - Alarming Statements 3 - 2006-2007
- Mosques that have experienced vandalism or violent incidents
- Islamophobia - Incidents