I Haven't Changed My Stance

After putting yesterday's post up over on Facebook, I got some blow-back. Not a lot and not too strong because I think the people doing the blowing-back know that as distasteful as my position is, it's the right one. It isn't nice, but it is how I see it and the comments received haven't changed my mind.

Think of it this way. You have invited a family into your home. Your mother, sister, a trusted friend, or someone else in whom you have confidence says, 'take them in, they're good people' or 'take them in, they need a safe place to stay'. So you do. You open your home and let them in and, for a while, all is well.

You get along okay although they have different ways and a different language. Still, it's no more than a little awkward at times. When you bump up against one another there's a nervous chuckle, an awkward smile and you get on with things.

Then, after a while, one or two of them start fussing. They want more space in the refrigerator, or a different kind of food, more or different selection. They don't like the television shows you do, so they start to insist on having the right to pick what shows you all watch. Then they want a different bathroom schedule. They start pushing back against basic courtesy and fight against living by your rules. They aren't assimilating to your standard.

Still, while you're less than thrilled with how things are going, you made a promise. You said that they could stay so you shrink back and bite your tongue, watching as they take more and more territory. The others reassure you, 'it's okay. It's just his/her way. S/he doesn't mean anything by it.' But the territory is gone, handed over, and until they leave there is no going back. It's the new normal.

This is what has happened in the EU and, to a lesser extent, in America with the people we have accepted from the Middle East.

They came and most, the vast majority slid into place without a ripple - and that's great. Welcome to my home.

Some, however, got to fussing, to pushing back and demanding that they wanted things done differently.

In Britain, instead of assimilating to the standard and trying to fit into their new home, some Muslims started fussing. They wanted more control, a separate system within the system so they could be 'free' and kept apart from the rest of the population.

As a result of that non-assimilation, eighty-five Shari'a courts have been set up and instituted to settle disputes within the Muslim community. They don't (yet) have more power than the British courts, but how long will it be before that's not good enough either? How long will it be before the Muslim Imams and leaders demand still more control over their communities?

It's called creeping incrementalism.

First it's a baby step. Nothing big, nothing overt or threatening. Just a teeny-tiny accommodation to keep folks happy. It settles into place, becomes the norm and people adjust and accept it. Then, months or years later another step is taken. That first quarter-inch becomes half-an-inch. It happens again sometime later and then it's an inch, then a foot and finally a mile.

Eventually, what was unthinkable becomes not only thinkable but actuality - and going back is no longer an option.

That is what is happening in Europe right now. That is why this situation is so dangerous.

After yesterday's post I was corrected - there have been protests against ISIS in the streets of Europe but, according to those who corrected me, they're not being covered by the media.

Why not? Well, golly! Let me guess. It's because it would be seen as one of two things: 1) it would be racial profiling and that is not politically correct; or, 2) it would foment reaction from the other citizens which might lead to violence. Either way the result is the same. Media silence is giving a pass to the violent factions and that is encouraging the violent factions to keep doing what they are doing - like bombing airports and subways and killing dozens of innocent people.

By hiding it, by not showing the disgust of the good people for the behavior of the bad, it's opening a door to more of the bad.

What would be far more effective is if those protests against the wicked were carried live on national television. What if those marches and protests were shown to all and sundry? What if it was made clear that the radicalized are pariah and not accepted by the larger community? What if people known to be in sympathy with Daesh or ISIS or IS or whoever it is today are shown to be shunned by their communities? Could that possibly have an effect?

I think so. People are herd creatures. We don't do well in isolation. If parents shun their radicalized children and it's seen by others, that would be a step. If family members of all stripes shun their radicalized parents or siblings or other family members, that would also be a step. If neighbors and colleagues and others in the community do the same, that's another step.

If not-yet radicalized people see that the behavior is unacceptable, if they recognize that there are serious negative consequences within their social network to that life-style, that might deter at least some of them from following that path. Isolation can be a powerful tool - but it must be total or it won't work.

It's also not something that's going to turn the tide in a day or a week or a month. It will take time and persistence, but it can be done and if we start now, all of us who might be able to encourage or support or engage, we could save untold numbers of lives in the future.

Most importantly, though, people within the Muslim community have got to speak up. If they know of something being planned, or something suspicious is going on, they have got to speak up and tell someone who can do something about it. Otherwise they are just as guilty as the perpetrators of the act - accessories before the fact - and they deserve to be vilified and treated just as the guilty.

The people within the community have also got to stand up directly to the Imams and religious leaders - to make it crystal clear that their children are not available to be taught to hate. Madrassas are fertile training grounds used to indoctrinate the next generation to hate. Hate the Jew. Hate the Christian. Hate the secularist. Hate the Shi'a and hate anyone who doesn't think, look, act or worship as you do. That has got to change. Faster than the rest, the drip-drip of hate mongering has got to stop.

If the Madrassas came under the control of good people, loving parents who worship as the Koran allegedly intends based on what we're all being told - that it's the Religion of Peace - that would save a generation.

Parents throughout the society have also got to make it clear that their children are not there to be used as cannon fodder. And that statement is not hysterical hyperbole. It is a well documented fact that families are handing their children over to ISIS to become 'soldiers'. It is a sick and disgusting trend that makes the battlefield that much worse. How does one fight against child soldiers, after all?

If the good upright people in these groups are not willing to take a hard and fast stand, to make it known with no doubt whatsoever that the behavior will not be tolerated to any degree, the battle will be lost before it's begun. Only Muslims can make the fundamental change within the Muslim community that is required for it to be effective.

If they are not willing, if they will not take charge and take back the hearts, minds and souls of their children and brothers and sisters, then my position stands as it did yesterday. Round them all up - the good, the bad and the ugly - and send all of them back to where they came from so they can fight and kill and live or die by the rules they are willing to tolerate.

The alternative is that Western culture disappears under a burqa. Women who now live free and independent become less than sheep and goats on the social scale. All of us will lose our rights and our liberty.

Take your pick because it is glaringly apparent there is no middle road in this fight.

Best~
Philippa

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Now That I'm Calmer

I took the last couple of days away from writing opinion about what happened in Paris last Friday evening, and about the vermin who perpetrated the act. It's been an angering time, a depressing time, and futile time for the West.

Personally, I'm depressed and disillusioned enough that I don't even want to be doing this, but I'm forcing myself to do it. Quitting is not an option. Not for me, anyway.

In the Coliseum of history, the radical Muslims are leading the rest of the world by a fair amount in the body count column.

Yes, the West continues to bomb places inhabited by the vermin who scurry out from under their rocks to infiltrate the peaceful society that is the majority of humanity, and blow themselves up, taking as many innocents with them as they can. Unfortunately, those bombs that are dropped on the places these vermin live are just as indiscriminate as the suicide vests worn by the vermin. They kill far more peaceful people than they do murderers. I'm sorry to break it to you but there is no such thing as a "surgical" airstrike. Not unless the surgery involves removing healthy tissue to ensure the sick tissue is entirely gone. A radical mastectomy kind of surgery.

I have been away for the past couple of days because I am angry at both the East and the West, and at people who see only one point of view and who will not tolerate another. And in that, I am not speaking of our Middle Eastern friends. There is that kind of shouting down alive and well in Western society.

For the East, I am angry the Muslims themselves because while there are articles being written and words being spoken, those things alone are not going to have any effect on the vermin.

It's like talking to gang members and expecting words to change behavior. When has talking to people who have no soul left inside them ever worked?

The psychology of gang members has been well studied and documented.

Gangs tend to be made up of people who feel that they have been left behind, are separate from their families and society. Many have been victimized, abused or neglected. In the gang they find a place to be, where they are accepted and where hyperbolic speech of hate and destruction is actively encouraged. The louder, the better. These vermin are too far separated from joy and laughter and living and humanity to be swayed by words. They have found a place to be who they have become over time, a home where they are welcomed. Where words of hatred are spewed so regularly they replace the fabric of the soul they once had. They don't see, or perhaps they do but don't care, that the gang leaders look down on them as nothing more than cannon fodder.

The only thing these gang members understand is violence and death. So, the people who see and know these vermin need to do something direct. They need to figure out, within the confines of their societal structure, how they can best solve the problem. It could be a matter of withdrawing young people who are heading down that path from the realm of influence. Perhaps sending them to another place, family in another town or province, or to a reform school of some sort, where goodness is taught in place of hatred.

I'm sure some families do, but others don't, and that is their weakness. Intervention is not a universal will or a goal. If it were, the tide could be turned inside a generation. And that's what this has got to be, a systemic generational change throughout the Muslim community.

Parents must diligently teach their children the teachings in the Quran that speak of peace and the other 'people of the book' - Christians and Jews who also worship facets of Allah. They must teach against violent jihad.

That is one place where I think the Christian Bible has it all over other religious teachings. It is pure, simple and direct: Thou shalt not kill. Pretty much says it all, don't you think?

When they see their children being influenced by the sickness that has infiltrated their communities the parents need to intervene, to take whatever steps are necessary to separate their children from the vermin. Just as they would if their child took to hanging around with flea ridden diseased rats.

If these parents teach their children, show their children that life is good and worth living and enjoying, maybe the radicals will find it harder to find people willing to detonate themselves in innocent crowds.

It will take at least one generation, probably two, before this kind of radical thinking that is at the core of ISIS, Al Qaeda, the Taliban and the other groups is wiped out, put in its proper place - the garbage bin.

I am angry at the West for continuing to do precisely the wrong thing. How many hearts and minds are we winning by bombing the towns and neighborhoods and homes of law-abiding people? How many friends are we winning by blowing up the innocent along with the guilty?

I am also angry at the West because honest exchanges of ideas are suppressed, denounced, vilified. Say the right thing in the wrong way and you're marginalized, insulted. It's insidious and it is precisely that kind of behavior that leads to ISIS. Marginalized people draw together, seek brotherhood to share their ideas, developing new and becoming a group.

France is currently blowing up towns and neighborhoods and homes. So is Russia and so is America. Again, I ask: how many hearts and minds are we winning by this?

How many people are being persuaded by bombs falling from the sky accompanied by the cacophanous chatter coming from the Western media? Particularly when the messages vary from "blow all of 'em up" to "withdraw and let them fight it out amongst themselves".

Within the spectrum of thought and opinion are the centrists. The people in the middle who, for the most part, naively believe words will do the trick and spend their time alternately wringing their hands and vilifying the extremes - even though those on the ends may have a few solid ideas. Instead, the centrists pooh-pooh the statements made by the ends. They twist them and say the speaker is "ignorant" or willfully not paying attention. They wring and whine and don't come up with anything meaningful in the way of plans or potentials.

It's a frustrating situation, deadly frustrating because Paris will not be the last time or the next to last time these vermin scurry from under their rocks. This isn't a matter of killing more people and blowing things up to get them to stop. This is a test for the intellect of humanity, and its will to solve what appears to be an insolvable problem.

Have a peaceful day.

Best~
Philippa

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It is NOT the Religion of "Peace"

It's Friday night. You and your friends have been planning for weeks to go out for dinner and then to a concert. All week you've been looking forward to Friday night, through all the hours of work and normal living. You end your Friday afternoon phone call with your best friend, "I'll see you at the restaurant at nine, okay?"

"Great! This is going to be so cool. Jennie says she bought a new dress, just for tonight. I'll see you later!"

You meet. Hugs and kisses are swapped because it's been a while since you were last together. Jennie comes racing down the street, her face alight with pleasure at seeing you. More hugs, more kisses, happy chatter of friends out for an evening.

And then...

Yeah, I'm sure you can tell where this is going. After Paris, after last night and what was done there.

Now, can you tell me why people would hate people like I've described above? What harm have they done? Who have they hurt or damaged in any material way?

Switch up the gender. Make them guys going out for an evening of brews and soccer and bird watching. What harm is there?

And yet, last night, if my girls had chosen the wrong time and the wrong place, harmless as they are, they might well have ended up among the dead or injured.

By what right do other people have to harm them, to hunt them and kill them? None? Is it no right? Are you sure?

In America people shut you down if you say "Islamist terrorist". We're not allowed to say such things because it's "racial profiling" or just pure "racist". We cannot call out and say what we think about Islam and its teachings - we're bigots and ignorant if we do.

Just yesterday Obama was lying through his teeth - knowingly telling people what he knew was completely and utterly untrue: ISIS is not getting stronger. And then, hours later, more than one hundred people were slaughtered - massacred while they were out for a simple evening of pleasure with friends.

If the West, Europe and America in particular, deny this mess, why can ISIS not grow stronger, become bolder, wreak more havoc? If we look away and pretend - fingers in our ears and lalalala from our lips - why shouldn't they plan another attack, bigger perhaps?

ISIL and its parents - the PLO, Taliban and Al Qaeda - have been growing for years. Israel has a long history of being attacked by Muslims. Muslims have targeted buses, cafes, schools, stores, every place where innocent people going about their business tend to gather. And what do we do? We tut-tut and shake our heads and fingers and, for all intents and purposes say, "You really shouldn't do that."

If Islam truly were the Religion of Peace as advertised - where are the mullahs, the clerics and the people who pursue that form of belief? Why are they not standing up, shouting from the rooftops and screaming, "STOP!" Why are Muslim parents not teaching their children that this is wrong, that it is the evil that it is?

Where is that outrage, that moral certitude that what these people are doing is worse than evil?

They say actions speak louder than words. But do you know what speaks more loudly than actions? Silence. And the silence from the Muslims around the world is deafening.

We have fed the poison that is ISIS and Al Qaeda and the Taliban because we have done nothing to stop it in its tracks. In the 1980s when Osama Bin Laden was fighting against the Russians that had invaded and were trying to occupy Afghanistan, we armed him and his "freedom fighters". All in a good cause, right?

What we have got to understand is that these people don't look at life through the same prism we do. To them, death is welcome - anticipated and glorified. To us, it's something to fear, to avoid and to hope never to experience. It is why young Muslim men and women are perfectly willing to strap explosives to their bodies, to walk into a crowded theater or market or restaurant and press a button. They. Don't. Care.

They don't care about themselves or about you or about me or about anything. They are taught from the moment of birth to hate, to hate anyone who does not think like them or worship like them. They hate our freedom and our zest for living and it galls them.

By the time they reach their teens, these people are so blinded, so indoctrinated in hate - of themselves and of others - that killing is, to them the right and only thing to do.

Talk about zombies. And these zombies are coming for us - for you and me. This is not new. This is nowhere close to being new.

Take a few minutes and peruse the list below. It comes from Wikipedia  and even they admit it is not complete. I can tell you straight up, for instance, they did not include the 1972 Munich attack on the Israeli compound in which eleven Jewish athletes were murdered by members of an off-shoot of the PLO.

1980s

• August 29, 1981 – 1981 Vienna synagogue attack. 2 dead 30 injured.
• October 2, 1982 – 1982 Great Synagogue of Rome attack. 1 dead 37 injured.
• November 11, 1982 – Tyre headquarters bombings. 91 dead. 55 injured.
• April 18, 1983 – The April 1983 U.S. Embassy bombing, in Beirut, Lebanon by the Islamic Jihad Organization. 63 dead, 120 injured.^[1]
• October 23, 1983 – The 1983 Beirut barracks bombing by the Islamic Jihad Organization. 307 dead 75 injured.
• December 12, 1983 – 1983 Kuwait bombings. The 90-minute coordinated attack of six key foreign and Kuwaiti installations including two embassies, the airport, and the country's main petro-chemical plant, was more notable for the damage it might have caused than what was actually destroyed. What might have been "the worst terrorist episode of the twentieth century in the Middle East," succeeding in killing only 6 people because of the bombs' faulty rigging.^[2]
• September 20, 1984 – The 1984 United States embassy annex bombing in Beirut, Lebanon. 24 dead.
• April 12, 1985 – 1985 El Descanso bombing. 18 dead 82 injured.
• October 7, 1985 – Achille Lauro hijacking. 1 dead.
• December 27, 1985 – Rome and Vienna airport attacks. 23 dead 139 injured.
• June 14, 1985 – TWA Flight 847 hijacking. 1 dead.
• April 2, 1986 – TWA Flight 840 bombing (1986). 4 dead. 7 injured.
• September 6, 1986 – Neve Shalom Synagogue Attack. 22 dead.
• December 21, 1988 - 1988 Lockerbie bombing 270 dead, also includes 11 on the ground
• July 7, 1989 – Tel Aviv Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack, near Kiryat Yearim. 16 dead.^[3]

1990s

• February 4, 1990 – A bus carrying Israeli tourists in Egypt was attacked by Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine. 11 people, including 9 Israelis died and 17 others were injured.^[4]
• February 2, 1992 - 1992 Ürümqi bombings 3 dead 23 injured
• March 17, 1992 – The 1992 attack on Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires. 29 killed 242 injured.
• January 25, 1993 - 1993 shootings at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. 2 killed, 3 injured.
• February 26, 1993 – World Trade Center bombing, in New York City. 6 killed, 1,042 injured ^[5]
• March 12, 1993 – Serial blasts in Mumbai kill 257 people.
• July 2, 1993 – Sivas Massacre, Arson attack at a gathering in Sivas killing 35 intellectuals from Turkey, most of whom were Alevis.
• April 6, 1994 – Afula Bus suicide bombing killing 8 wounding 55.
• April 13, 1994 – Hadera bus station suicide bombing. killing 5 wounding 30.
• July 18, 1994 – Buenos Aires Jewish Center AMIA bombing. killing 85 wounding 300.
• July 26, 1994 – The 1994 London Israeli Embassy attack. 20 injured.
• October 19, 1994 – The Dizengoff Street bus bombing was a Hamas suicide attack on a passenger bus driving down Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv. 22 killed 50 injured.
• November 11, 1994 – Netzarim Junction bicycle bombing killing 3 and wounding 12.
• December 24, 1994 – Air France Flight 8969 hijacking in Algiers by 3 members of Armed Islamic Group of Algeria and another terrorist. 7 killed including 4 hijackers, 25 injured.^[6]
• January 22, 1995 – The Beit Lid suicide bombing was a suicide attack by Palestinian Islamic Jihad. 20 dead 69 injured.
• January 30, 1995 – A car bomb exploded outside of a police station. 42 dead and 286 injured.^[7][8]
• July 20, 1995 – A bomb on a motor scooter exploded at a marketplace in Jammu. Harkat-ul-Ansar claimed responsibility for the bombing. at least 17 killed 100+ injured.^[9]
• July 24, 1995 – The Ramat Gan bus bombing was a suicide attack by Hamas. 6 dead 33 injured.
• July 25-October 17, 1995 – The 1995 Paris Métro and RER bombings were a series of attacks by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria in France. 8 killed 100+ wounded.
• October 20, 1995 – In the 1995 Rijeka bombing a suicide bomber attempted to destroy a police station by driving a car with a bomb into the wall of the building. killing 1 (assailant) injured 29.
• February 25 & March 3, 1996 – The Jaffa Road bus bombings Two attacks on Jerusalem route 18 buses by Hamas. 45 killed 52 injured.
• March 4, 1996 – The Dizengoff Center suicide bombing was a terror attack by Hamas on the eve of the Jewish holiday of Purim. 13 killed 130 injured.
• April 18, 1996 – Islamist gunmen fire on the Europa hotel in Cairo. 18 killed 17 wounded.^[10]
• June 25, 1996 – Khobar Towers bombing, 20 killed, 372 wounded.^[11]
• February 25, 1997 - Three bombs explode on three buses in the Xinjiang capital of Ürümqi. 9 dead 74 injured
• March 21, 1997 – The Café Apropo bombing was a Hamas suicide bomber who detonated at a Tel Aviv sidewalk café. killing 3 wounding 46.
• July 30, 1997 – The 1997 Mahane Yehuda Market bombings were two consecutive suicide bombings carried out by Hamas militants at the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem. killing 16 wounding 178.
• September 18, 1997 – The 1997 Mostar car bombings. 29 people injured.
• November 17, 1997 – Luxor massacre, 6 armed Islamic terrorists attacked tourists at the Luxor ruins. 62 killed, 26 injured.^[12]
• February 14, 1998 – A total of 58 people were killed and over 200 injured in 12 bomb attacks in 11 places, in the city of Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.
• August 7, 1998 – 1998 United States embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya. 224 dead, 4000+ injured.^[13]

2000s

• April 23, 2000 – September 19, 2000 – 2000 Sipadan kidnappings by 6 Islamist militants. Several injured.
• October 12, 2000 – Attack on USS Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden. 17 American sailors were killed, 39 injured.
• December 22, 2000 – Attack on Red Fort in Delhi.
• December 24, 2000 – Christmas Eve 2000 Indonesia bombings of churches in eight cities, 18 killed.^[14]
• March 4, 2001 – The 2001 Netanya bombing was a suicide bombing in Netanya, Israel. 3 killed 60+ injured.
• April 14, 2001 – 2001 Ramna Batamul bombings. 10 dead, many wounded.
• May 18, 2001 – The 2001 HaSharon Mall suicide bombing in Netanya, Israel. 5 killed 100+ injured.
• May 27, 2001 – The Dos Palmas kidnappings with more than 40 deaths and numerous injured.
• June 1, 2001 – In the Dolphinarium discotheque suicide bombing 21 people were killed and 100+ were injured.
• 9 August 2001 – The Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing was a Hamas terrorist attack on a pizzeria in downtown Jerusalem. 15 killed 130 injured.
• September 9, 2001 – The Nahariya train station suicide bombing was executed by an Arab-Israeli who was sent by Hamas and detonated himself on the crowded platform. 3 dead 94 injured.
• September 11, 2001 – 4 planes hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda members: two planes crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City, New York; one into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia; and one into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. 2,977 victims killed.^[15]
• October 1, 2001 – Attack on the Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly.
• November 29, 2001 – The Pardes Hanna bus bombing was a suicide bombing on a bus from Nazareth to Tel Aviv. 3 dead 7 injured.
• December 2, 2001 – Haifa bus 16 suicide bombing. 15 killed 40 injured.
• December 13, 2001 – Suicide attack on Indian parliament in New Delhi by Pakistan-based Islamist terrorist organizations Jaish-E-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Toiba, aimed at eliminating the top leadership of India and causing anarchy in the country. 7 dead, 12 injured.^[16]
• January 22, 2002 – Attack on an American cultural centre in Kolkata
• January 23, 2002 – The kidnapping and murder of Daniel Pearl – Israeli-American journalist Daniel Pearl was kidnapped by Pakistani Islamic militants. He was later beheaded on February 1.
• January 25, 2002 – The 2002 Tel Aviv outdoor mall bombing was a terrorist attack which occurred in which a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up in Tel-Aviv, Israel, injuring at least 24 civilians.
• January 27, 2002 – 2002 Jaffa Street bombing. 1 dead.
• March 2, 2002 – The Yeshivat Beit Yisrael massacre was a suicide bombing which occurred in the Beit Yisrael neighborhood in downtown Jerusalem. 11 killed 54 injured.
• March 9, 2002 – The Café Moment bombing was a Palestinian terrorist attack in a coffee shop in downtown Jerusalem, Israel. 11dead 54 injured.
• March 20, 2002 – The Umm al-Fahm bus bombing was a suicide bombing which occurred on a bus which was passing through Umm al-Fahm in northern Israel
• March 21, 2002 – King George Street bombing. 3 dead 42 injured.
• March 27, 2002 – The Passover massacre was a suicide bombing carried out by Hamas at the Park Hotel in Netanya. 30 dead 140 wounded.
• March 29, 2002 – Kiryat HaYovel supermarket bombing. 2 dead 28 wounded.
• March 30, 2002 – Attack on the Raghunath temple
• March 31, 2002 – The Matza restaurant suicide bombing occurred, when a Palestinian Hamas suicide bomber detonated his bomb inside the Matza restaurant in Haifa, Israel, near the Grand Canyon shopping mall, killing 16 Israeli civilians and injuring over 40 people.
• April 10, 2002 – Yagur Junction bombing. 8 killed 19 injured.
• April 11, 2002 – Ghriba synagogue bombing A natural gas truck rigged with explosives detonated in front of the ancient El Ghriba synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba, killing 14 Germans, 3 Tunisians, and 2 French. More than 30 people were wounded.
• April 12, 2002 – 2002 Mahane Yehuda Market bombing. 6 killed 104 wounded.
• May 7, 2002 – The 2002 Rishon LeZion bombing was a suicide bombing which occurred at a crowded game club located in the new industrial area of Rishon Lezion. 16 killed 57 injured.
• May 8, 2002 – 2002 Karachi bus bombing A man driving a car bomb detonated next to a bus carrying mostly French engineers. 11 Frenchmen and 2 Pakistanis were killed (not including the bomber).
• May 14, 2002 – three terrorists attacked a tourist bus near the town of Kaluchak in the Indian state Jammu and Kashmir .
• May 19, 2002 – Netanya Market bombing. 3 dead 56+ injured.
• June 5, 2002 – Megiddo Junction bus bombing. 17 dead 43 injured.
• June 11, 2002 – 2002 Herzliya shawarma restaurant bombing. 1 dead 15 injured.
• June 14, 2002 – The first of several attacks targeting the U.S. consulate in Karachi. 12 killed, 51 injured.
• June 18, 2002 – Patt Junction Bus Bombing. 19 dead 74 injured.
• June 19, 2002 – 2002 French Hill suicide bombing. 7 dead ~50 injured.
• June 20, 2002 – A British national was killed when a bomb placed under his car detonated in Al Nakheel.^[17]
• July 13, 2002 – Militants kill 29 Hindu labourers in Qasim Nagar on the outskirts of Jammu in Jammu and Kashmir.
• July 16, 2002 – 2002 Immanuel bus attack. 9 dead 20 injured.
• July 17, 2002 – Neve Shaanan Street bombing. 5 dead 40 injured.
• July 31, 2002 – Hebrew University bombing. 9 dead ~100 injured.
• August 4, 2002 – Meron Junction Bus 361 attack. 9 dead 38 injured.
• September 19, 2002 – Allenby Street bus bombing. 6 dead ~70 injured.
• September 24, 2002 – Akshardham Temple attack
• October 2, 2002 – The first of three bomb blasts in Zamboanga City kills 4 people, including one United States Green Beret and wounds 25 others, including another United States Green Beret.
  • September 29, 2002 – A German national was killed by a car bomb in central Riyadh.^[18][19][20]
• October 6, 2002 – An explosive-laden dinghy rammed the French-flagged tanker Limburg in the Gulf of Aden off of Yemen, killing one crewman and seriously damaging the ship.
• October 8, 2002 – Faylaka Island attack Two Kuwaiti jihadists attacked a group of United States Marines, killing one and injuring another. Both attackers were killed.
• October 12, 2002 – 2002 Bali bombings in the tourist district of Kuta on the Indonesian island of Bali, killing 202 people and injuring 240.^[21]
• October 17, 2002 – The second of three bomb blasts targets a shopping centre in Zamboanga City, killing at least 7 and wounding about 150 people.
• October 21, 2002 – The third of three bomb blasts targets Fort Pilar, a Catholic shrine in Zamboanga City, killing a Philippine Marine guarding the church and wounding 18 others.
• October 21, 2002 – Karkur junction suicide bombing. 14 dead +40 injured
• October 23, 2002 – The Moscow theater hostage crisis was the seizure of the crowded Dubrovka Theater by Islamists. 170+ dead (including 40 perpetrators) 700+ injured.
• October 27, 2002 – Sonol gas station bombing. 3 dead 18 injured.
• November 21, 2002 – Kiryat Menachem bus bombing. 11 dead 50 injured.
• November 24, 2002 – Attack on the Raghunath temple
• November 28, 2002 – 2002 Mombasa attacks Islamic terrorists launch simultaneous attacks against an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa and an Israeli charter plane. 13 people (10 Kenyans and 3 Israelis), not including 3 suicide bombers, were killed and 80 injured at the hotel, but the plane was missed by the two missiles fired at it.
• January 5, 2003 – Tel Aviv central bus station massacre. 23 dead 100+ injured.
• February 20, 2003 – An American employee of BAE Systems was shot to death in his car in Riyadh.^[22][23][24]
• February 28, 2003 – A gunman opens fire on the U.S. consulate in Karachi. 2 police officers killed, 5 police officers and 1 civilian injured.
• March 5, 2003 – Haifa bus 37 suicide bombing. 17 dead 53 wounded.
• April 30, 2003 – Mike's Place suicide bombing. 3 dead 50+ injured.
• May 1, 2003 – A man dressed in a Royal Saudi Navy uniform penetrated an American base, killing one American, before escaping unscathed.^[25]
• May 12, 2003 – Several heavily-armed gunmen open fire and detonate vehicle bombs outside three housing compounds in Riyadh occupied by Westerners, killing 27 people (12 attackers also were killed). More than 160 people were wounded.
• May 12, 2003 – The 2003 Znamenskoye suicide bombing. 59 killed 200 injured.
• May 16, 2003 – A series of suicide bombings in Casablanca killed 45 people and injured over 100 others.
• May 18, 2003 – 2003 French Hill suicide bombings. 7 dead 20 injured.
• May 19, 2003 – Afula mall bombing. 3 dead 70 injured.
• June 11, 2003 – Davidka Square bus bombing. 17 dead ~100 injured.
• August 5, 2003 – 2003 Marriott Hotel bombing in Mega Kuningan, South Jakarta, Indonesia; suicide bomber detonated a car bomb outside the JW Marriott Jakarta lobby, killing 12 and injuring 150.
• August 19, 2003 – Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing. 24 dead 130+ injured.
• August 25, 2003 – Twin car bombings killed 54, and injured 244 people in Mumbai.
• September 9, 2003 – Tzrifin bus stop attack. 9 dead 15 injured.
• September 9, 2003 – Café Hillel bombing. 7 dead 50+ injured.
• October 4, 2003 – The Maxim restaurant suicide bombing was a suicide bombing in the beachfront "Maxim" restaurant in Haifa, Israel. 21 people were killed in the attack and 51 were injured. Among the victims were two families and four children, including a two-month-old baby.
• November 8, 2003 – A suicide truck bomb detonated outside a housing compound in Laban Valley, west of Riyadh, killing 17 and wounding 122.
• November 15–20, 2003 – 2003 Istanbul bombings, killed 57 people and wounded 700.
• January 10, 2004 – 2004 Palopo cafe bombing An IED underneath a table, killing 4 and wounding 3.
• January 14, 2004 – 2004 Erez Crossing bombing. killed 4 injured 10.
• January 29, 2004 – Gaza Street bus bombing. killed 11 injured 50+.
• February 6, 2004 – The February 2004 Moscow Metro bombing. 41 killed up to 120 injured.
• February 22, 2004 – Liberty Bell Park bus bombing. killed 8 injured 60.
• February 27, 2004 – The sinking of SuperFerry 14 by Abu Sayyaf terrorists results in the deaths of 116 people.
• March 9, 2004 – March 9, 2004 attack on Istanbul restaurant Two Islamic militants open fire and detonate pipe bombs, killing one and wounding 5 others. One attacker was killed and the other was seriously injured.
• March 11, 2004 – Madrid train bombings, killed 191 people and wounded 1,800.^[26][27]
• March 14, 2004 – 2004 Ashdod Port bombings. 10 dead 16 wounded.
• April 21, 2004 – A car bomb explodes outside a building originally used by the Saudi police, killing 5 and wounding 148.
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• May 1, 2004 – 2004 Yanbu attack At least four militants stormed the offices of Texas-based ABB Lummus in Yanbu' al Bahr, Saudi Arabia, killing 7.
• May 29–30, 2004 – 2004 Khobar massacre Four Al Qaeda-linked militants attacked two oil industry installations and a residential compound in Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia, killing 22 and injuring 25.
• June 6, 2004 – BBC journalist Simon Cumbers and correspondent Frank Gardner were attacked by Al Qaeda sympathizers while filming an Al Qaeda safehouse in Al-Suwaidi, Riyadh. Cumbers was killed, while Gardner was seriously injured.
• June 8, 2004 – An American employee of Vinnell Corp. was killed in Riyadh.^{[29][30][31][32]}
• June 13, 2004 – In Riyadh, American Paul Marshall Johnson was kidnapped at a fake police checkpoint. He was later beheaded on June 18.
• July 28, 2004 – The 2004 Baqubah bombing on police volunteers killing 68 injuring dozens.
• August 1, 2004 – The 2004 Iraq churches attacks killing at least 12 people and wounding 71+.
• August 3, 2004 – An Irish national was shot and killed in Riyadh.^[33]
• August 21, 2004 – The 2004 Dhaka grenade attack was carried out by members of Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami against an anti-terrorism rally, killing 24 and injuring over 300.
• August 31, 2004 – The August 2004 Moscow Metro bombing. 10 killed 50 injured.
• August 31, 2004 – Beersheba bus bombings. 16 killed 100+ injured.
• September 1, 2004 – Beslan school hostage crisis, approximately 344 civilians including 186 children killed.^[34][35]
• September 9, 2004 – 2004 Australian Embassy bombing in Jakarta, Indonesia; suicide bomber exploded a one-ton car bomb, which was packed into a small Daihatsu delivery van, outside the Australian embassy at Kuningan District, South Jakarta killing 9 and injuring over 150.
• September 15, 2004 – A British national working for the Marconi Company was shot to death in his car in Riyadh.^[36]
• October 7, 2004 – The 2004 Sinai bombings targeting tourist hotels in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula killed 34 and wounded 171.
• November 2, 2004 – The murder of Theo van Gogh by Amsterdam-born jihadist Mohammed Bouyeri.^[37]
• November 13, 2004 – 2004 Poso bus bombing An IED targeting a bus travelling to the majority Christian village of Silancak kills 6 and wounds 3.
• December 6, 2004 – Five militants attacked the American consulate in Jeddah, killing 9 and wounding about 10. Three attackers were killed by Saudi security forces, who wounded and arrested the other two.^[38]
• January 13, 2005 – Karni border crossing attack. 6 killed 4 injured.
• February 14, 2005 – Assassination of Rafic Hariri The former Prime Minister of Lebanon, Rafic Hariri, was among 22 people killed when 1,000 kg of TNT exploded near his motorcade in Beirut.
• February 25, 2005 – Stage Club bombing. 5 killed 50+ injured.
• May 28, 2005 – The 2005 Tentena market bombings in Indonesia kill 22 and wound about 90.
• July 5, 2005 – Attack on the Hindu Ram temple in Ayodhya, India. 6 dead.
• July 7, 2005 – Multiple bombings in London Underground. 53 killed by four suicide bombers. Nearly 700 injured.
• July 12, 2005 – 12 July 2005 HaSharon Mall suicide bombing. 5 killed 90+ injured.
• July 23, 2005 – Bomb attacks at Sharm el-Sheikh, an Egyptian resort city, at least 64 people killed.
• August 17, 2005 – The 2005 Bangladesh bombings, carried out by Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh, kill 2 civilians and wound 50 others.
• October 1, 2005 – 2005 Bali bombings in Jimbaran & Kuta, Bali, Indonesia; a series of bombings kills at least 20 and injures over 100.
• October 26, 2005 – Hadera Market bombing. 7 killed 55 injured.
• October 29, 2005 – 2005 Delhi bombings, India. Over 60 killed and over 180 injured in a series of three attacks in crowded markets and a bus.^[39]
• October 30, 2005 – Muslim militants on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi behead three Christian girls.
• November 9, 2005 – 2005 Amman bombings. a series of coordinated suicide attacks on hotels in Amman, Jordan. Over 60 killed and 115 injured.^[40][41] Four attackers including a husband and wife team were involved.^[42]
• December 5, 2005 – 5 December 2005 HaSharon Mall suicide bombing. 5 dead 40+ injured.
• December 31, 2005 – A nail bomb explodes in a butcher's shop frequented by Christians in Palu, Indonesia, killing 8 and wounding 53.
• March 2, 2006 – A suicide car bomb exploded outside the Marriott Hotel, about 20 yards away from the U.S. consulate in Karachi. 4 killed and 30 injured.
• March 7, 2006 – A series of bombings occurred across the Hindu holy city of Varanasi killing at least 28 people and injuring 101 others.
• May 30, 2006 – Kedumim bombing. 4 dead.
• April 17, 2006 – 2006 Tel Aviv shawarma restaurant bombing. 11 killed 70 injured.
• April 24, 2006 – 2006 Dahab bombings. 23 killed ~80 injured.
• April 30, 2006 – 2006 Doda massacre: Thirty-five Hindus killed by terrorists in Doda district in Jammu and Kashmir.
• July 11, 2006 – 2006 Mumbai train bombings: Seven bomb blasts over a period of 11 minutes on the Suburban Railway in Mumbai. 209 killed and over 700 injured.^[43]
• September 15, 2006 – The September 15, 2006 Yemen attacks were two attempted bombings of oil facilities in Yemen. 5 dead (4 attackers).
• January 29, 2007 – Eilat bakery bombing. 3 killed.
• April 18, 2007 – The Zirve Publishing House massacre. Three employees of the Bible publishing house were attacked, tortured and murdered by five Muslim assailants.
• May 13, 2007 – Jaipur bombings. 80 dead 216 injured.
• June 30, 2007 – 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack, 5 injured.
• July 10, 2007 — July 11, 2007 – 2007 Basilan beheading incident by Moro Islamic Liberation Front 14 dead 9 wounded.
• August 14, 2007 – Qahtaniya bombings. Four suicide vehicle bombings in two predominantly Yazidi towns in northern Iraq. 796 killed, 1,562 wounded.^[44]
• February 4, 2008 – 2008 Dimona suicide bombing. 1 killed 9 injured.
• July 26, 2008 – 2008 Ahmedabad bombings. 56 dead, over 200 injured.^[45][46]
• September 13, 2008 – Bombing series in Delhi, India. Pakistani extremist groups plant bombs at several places including India Gate, out of which the ones at Karol Bagh, Connaught Place and Greater Kailash explode leaving around 30 people dead and 130 injured, followed by another attack two weeks later at the congested Mehrauli area, leaving 3 people dead.
• September 20, 2008 – Islamabad Marriott Hotel bombing: A dump truck filled with explosives detonated outside the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, killing at least 54, including 2 American servicemen.
• September 27, 2008 – 27 September 2008 Delhi blast: An explosion in Mehrauli's Electronic market called Sarai, killed 3 and injured 23 others.
• October 2008 – January 2009 – 2008 attacks on Christians in Mosul. 40+ dead.
• November 26, 2008 – Muslim extremists kill at least 166 people and wound numerous others in a series of coordinated attacks on India's financial capital, Mumbai. The government of India blamed Pakistan based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba and stated that the terrorists killed/caught were citizens of Pakistan, a claim which the Pakistani government first refused but then accepted when given proof. Ajmal Kasab, one of the terrorists, was caught alive.^[47][48]
• June 1, 2009 – 2009 Little Rock recruiting office shooting by Abdulhakim Muhajid Muhammad. 1 killed and 1 injured
• June 18, 2009 – 2009 Beledweyne bombing by Al-Shabaab. 35 dead.
• July 17, 2009 – 2009 Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Hotels bombing in Mega Kuningan, South Jakarta, Indonesia; suicide bombers hit the Marriott and 5 minutes later the Ritz-Carlton. 9 killed and 53 injured
• November 5, 2009 – Fort Hood shooting, at Fort Hood near Killeen, Texas. 13 dead, 33 injured.

2010s

2010 – 2014

• January 7, 2010 – The Nag Hammadi massacre was a massacre of Coptic Christians carried out in the Egyptian city of Nag Hammadi. 11 killed 11 injured.
• February 3, 2010 – February 2010 Lower Dir bombing. 8 dead 70 injured.
• March 3, 2010 – The 2010 Baqubah bombings were a series of three bombings that killed at least 33 people and injured 55 others.
• March 29, 2010 – Moscow Metro bombings. 40 dead, 102 injured. Caucasus Emirate claimed responsibility^[49]
• May 10, 2010 – The 10 May 2010 Iraq attacks were a series of bomb and shooting attacks that occurred in Iraq. 100+ dead 350+ injured.
• May 28, 2010 – Attacks on Ahmadi Mosques Lahore, Pakistan. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed attacks on two mosques simultaneously belonging to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, killing nearly 100 and injuring many others.^[50]
• July 11, 2010 – The July 2010 Kampala attacks were suicide bombings carried out against crowds watching a screening of the 2010 FIFA World Cup Final match. 74 dead 70 injured.
• July 15, 2010 – The 2010 Zahedan bombings were two suicide bombings, that targeted Shia worshippers in Iran, including members of the Revolutionary Guards. 27+ dead 270+ injured.
• August 17, 2010 – 17 August 2010 Baghdad bombings. 69+ dead 169 injured.
• August 25, 2010 – 25 August 2010 Iraq bombings. 53+ dead 270+ injured.
• October 31, 2010 – 2010 Baghdad church massacre. At least 51 dead 78 injured.
• November 5, 2010 – 2010 Darra Adam Khel mosque bombing. At least 66 people, including children, were killed, 80 others were wounded.
• December 7, 2010 – 2010 Varanasi bombing, India. 2 dead, 37 injured.
• December 10, 2010 – 2010 Stockholm bombing, Sweden. killing the bomber and injuring two people.
• January 1, 2011 – The 2011 Alexandria bombing. 23 dead 97 injured.
• January 18–20, 2011 – The January 2011 Iraq suicide attacks. 137+ killed 230 injured.
• January 21, 2011 – Domodedovo International Airport bombing. 37 killed, 173 wounded^[51]
• January 27, 2011 – 27 January 2011 Baghdad bombing killing 48 wounding 78.
• February 12, 2011 – 2011 Samarra bombing. 48 dead 80 injured.
• March 2, 2011 – 2011 Frankfurt Airport shooting, Frankfurt, Germany. 2 dead, 2 injured.
• March 8, 2011 – 2011 Faisalabad bombing. 25+ dead 127+ injured.
• March 29, 2011 – The 2011 Tikrit assault was an attack by the Islamic State of Iraq that took place in the city of Tikrit, Iraq. 65 dead 100 injured.
• May 5, 2011 – 2011 Al Hillah bombing. 24 dead 72 injured.
• May 7, 2011 – The 2011 Imbaba church attacks were a series of attacks against Coptic Christian churches. 15 dead 232 injured.
• July 18, 2011 – 2011 Hotan attack, Hotan, China. A group of 18 young Uyghur men who opposed the local government's campaign against the full-face Islamic veil perpetrated a series of coordinated bomb and knife attacks and occupied a police station on Nuerbage Street, killing two security guards and taking eight hostages. The attackers yelled religious slogans, including ones associated with Jihadism, 4 killed, 4 wounded.
• July 30, 2011 – A series of knife and bomb attacks occurred in Kashgar, China. Uyghur men hijacked a truck, killed its driver and drove into a crowd of pedestrians. They then got out of the vehicle and attacked pedestrians with knives. On July 31, a chain of two explosions started a fire in a restaurant, 15 killed, 42 wounded.
• September 7, 2011 – 2011 Delhi bombing took place in the Indian capital Delhi. 17 dead 76 injured.
• September 4, 2011 – 2011 Mogadishu bombing. 100 dead 110+ injured.
• October 7–13, 2011 – October 2011 Baghdad bombings. 64 dead 190 injured.
• October 28, 2011 – A Wahhabi Islamist attacked the US embassy in Sarajevo with a firearm. He wounded a police officer before being shot and injured by police.^[52]
• December 22, 2011 – The 22 December 2011 Baghdad bombings were a series of coordinated attacks. 60+ dead. 160+ injured.
• December 25, 2011 – Christmas Day bombings were bomb blasts and shootings at churches in Madalla, Jos, Gadaka, and Damaturu. Over 41 people are reported dead.^[53]
• December 28, 2011 - 15 Uyghur youths kidnap two goat shepherds en route to Pakistan for jihadist training. 8 dead 5 injured
• January 5, 2012 – Iraqi bombings, Baghdad and Nasiriyah, Iraq by Islamic State of Iraq. 73 dead, 149 injured.
• February 14, 2012 – A series of explosions occurred in Bangkok, Thailand, 5 wounded.
• February 23, 2012 – Iraqi attacks, Baghdad, Iraq by Islamic State of Iraq. 83 dead, 250+ injured.
• March 20, 2012 – Iraqi attacks, Baghdad and at least 9 other cities, Iraq. 52 dead, ~ 250 injured.
• March 20, 2012 – Toulouse and Montauban shootings in France. 7 dead, 5 injured.
• May 3, 2012 – Makhachkala attack. 14 dead, including 2 suicide bombers, 130 wounded^[54]
• May 21, 2012 – 2012 Sana'a bombing against Yemeni Army soldiers practicing for the annual Unity Day military parade. 101+ dead 220+ injured.
• June 13, 2012 – The 13 June 2012 Iraq attacks were a series of simultaneous bombings and shootings occurred in Iraq. At least 93 people were killed and over 300 wounded.
• June 29, 2012 - Tianjin Airlines Flight 7554 is diverted after an attempted hijacking which led to a fight with the 6 Uyghur men subsequently being restrained. 2 dead 14 injured
• July 18, 2012 – 2012 Burgas bus bombing. 7 dead, including the suicide bomber and 32 injured at Burgas Airport, Burgas, Bulgaria.
• July 23, 2012 – 23 July 2012 Iraq attacks. 116 dead 229 injured.
• August 16, 2012 – 16 August 2012 Iraq attacks. 128 dead 417 injured.
• September 9, 2012 – 9 September 2012 Iraq attacks. 108+ dead 371+ injured.
• September 11, 2012 – 2012 Benghazi attack on the U.S. Consulate. 4 dead, 11 injured.
• January 10, 2013 – January 2013 Pakistan bombings. 130 dead 270 injured.
• January 16, 2013 – In Amenas hostage crisis. 67+ dead.
• February 16, 2013 – February 2013 Quetta bombing. At least 110 people were killed and 200 injured after a bomb hidden in a water tank exploded at a market in Hazara Town.
• February 21, 2013 – 2013 Hyderabad blasts, two bomb blasts killed 16 people and injured 119.
• March 19, 2013 – 19 March 2013 Iraq attacks 98+ dead 240+ injured.
• April 15, 2013 – Boston Marathon bombings. Two brothers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnev, planted two bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The blast killed 3 and injured 183 others.^[55]
• May 11, 2013 – Reyhanlı bombings, killed 52 people and wounded 140.
• May 22, 2013 – Two men with cleavers kill British soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich.^[56][57]
• May 23, 2013 – Battle of Agadez and Arlit. Two coordinated attacks perpetrated by Islamists affiliates targeted the two Niger towns of Agadez and Arlit. 26 dead, 30+ wounded.
• May 23, 2013 – 2013 La Défense attack. An Islamic extremist wielding a knife attacked and wounded a French soldier in the Paris suburb of La Défense. 1 wounded.
• May 27, 2013 – 27 May 2013 Baghdad bombings. 71 dead 224 injured.
• June 15, 2013 – June 2013 Quetta attacks by Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. 26 dead 20+ injured.
• June 22, 2013 – 2013 Nanga Parbat tourist shooting. 11 dead 2 injured.
• July 7, 2013 – A series of ten bombs explode in and around the Mahabodhi Temple complex, in Bodh Gaya, India. 5 wounded.
• September 13, 2013 – 2013 attack on U.S. consulate in Herat. 2 dead 20 injured.
• September 21, 2013 – Westgate shopping mall attack, 67 killed, 175 wounded.^[58][59][60]
• September 22, 2013 – Peshawar church attack, 80–83 killed, 250 wounded.
• September 29, 2013 – Gujba college massacre. 44 students killed by Boko Haram
• October 28, 2013 – A 4x4 vehicle crashed into a crowd and burst into flames in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, 5 killed, 38 wounded.
• December 5, 2013 – At the 2013 Sana'a attack at least 56 people died and 162 were wounded.
• January 19, 2014 – 2014 Bannu bombing by Taliban. 26 dead 38 injured.
• February 14, 2014 – Borno Massacre at least 200 killed by Boko Haram^[61]
• March 1, 2014 – A group of 8 individuals attacked civilians at Kunming Railway Station, 28 dead, 143 wounded.
• April 14, 2014 – The April 2014 Abuja bombing by Boko Haram. 88+ dead 200+ injured.
• April 30, 2014 – Two assailants attacked passengers and detonated explosives at the Ürümqi railway station, 3 dead, 79 wounded.
• May 20, 2014 – Jos bombings at least 118 killed and over 56 injured^[62]
• May 22, 2014 – Two SUVs which carried 5 assailants were driven into a street market in Ürümqi and up to a dozen explosives were thrown at shoppers through the windows of the SUVs. The cars then crashed into shoppers and collided into each other and exploded, 39 dead, 90+ wounded.
• May 24, 2014 – Jewish Museum of Belgium shooting. Gunman opened fire at the Jewish Museum in Brussels killing 4 people.
• August 2014 – ISIL fighters massacred some 700 people, mostly men, of the Shu'aytat tribe in Deir ez-Zor Governorate.^[63]
• August 15, - 2014 Quetta Airbase attack, twelve militants dead.
• September 23, 2014 – 2014 Endeavour Hills stabbings. Numan Haider, an Afghan Australian stabbed two counter terrorism officers in Melbourne, Australia. He was then shot dead.^[64]
• October 5, 2014 – 2014 Grozny bombing. 5 officers and the suicide bomber, were killed, while 12 others were wounded.^[65]
• October 20, 2014 – 2014 Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu ramming attack. Lone attacker used his car to run over two Canadian soldiers. 1 killed, 1 injured
• October 22, 2014 – 2014 shootings at Parliament Hill, Ottawa. Lone attacker shot a soldier at a war memorial and attacked Parliament. 1 killed, 3 injured.^[66]
• October 22, 2014 – A Hamas terrorist rammed his vehicle into a group of people waiting at a light rail station in Jerusalem. 2 killed 8 wounded.^[67]
• October 23, 2014 – Zale H. Thomson, also known as Zaim Farouq Abdul-Malik, attacked four New York policemen in the subway with a hatchet, severely injuring one in the back of the head and injuring another policeman in the arm before being shot to death by the remaining officers, who also shot a civilian.^[68]
• November 5, 2014 – In the November 2014 Jerusalem vehicular attack a Hamas operative deliberately drove a van at high speed into a crowd of people. 4 killed 13 wounded.
• November 10, 2014 – An Israeli IDF soldier was stabbed to death by a Lone wolf jihadist.^[69]
• November 14, 2014 – 2014 Jerusalem synagogue attack 5 dead. 7 injured.
• November 28, 2014 – Kano bombing. Around 120 people were killed and another 260 injured.^{[70][71][72][73]}
• December 1, 2014 – A burqa-clad woman stabs a 47-year-old American teacher to death in a mall restroom in Abu Dhabi. She later plants a bomb outside the home of an Egyptian-American doctor, which was safely dismantled.^[74]
• December 4, 2014 – 2014 Grozny clashes. 26 total dead, including 14 policemen, 11 Jihadist from Caucasus Emirate, 1 civilian^[75]
• December 9, 2014 – In the 2014 Bukidnon bus bombing 11 people died and 43 were injured.
• December 15–16, 2014 – 2014 Sydney hostage crisis. A lone gunman, Man Haron Monis, held hostage ten customers and eight employees of a Lindt chocolate café at Martin Place in Sydney. Police treated the event as a terrorist attack at the time. It was however designated as a terrorist attack by the state government but Monis' motives have subsequently been debated. 3 dead 4 injured.
• December 16, 2014 – 2014 Peshawar school attack. Over 140 people dead, including at least 132 children.^[76]
• December 16, 2014 – 2014 Rada' bombings. Two suicide car bombers rammed their vehicles into a Shiite rebels' checkpoint killing 26, including 16 students.^[77]
• December 18, 2014 – 2014 Gumsuri kidnappings. Boko Haram insurgents killed 32 men and kidnapped at least 185 women and children.^[78]
• December 18, 2014 – Mass grave of 230 Tribesmen killed by ISIL found in Eastern Syria.^[79]
• December 20, 2014 – 2014 Joué-lès-Tours stabbings. A man yelling Allahu Akbar attacked a police office with a knife. He was killed, 3 police officers were injured^[80]
• December 21, 2014 – 2014 Dijon attack. A man yelling Allahu Akbar ran over 11 pedestrians with his vehicle. 11 injured
• December 22, 2014 – Boko Haram insurgents bombed a bus station in the city of Gombe, killing at least twenty people.^[81]
• December 2014 – ISIL militants execute 150 women Iraqi province of Al-Anbar, some of whom were pregnant at the time, who refuse to marry their fighters.^[82]
• December 24, 2014 – A suicide bomber killed 33 people and wounded 55 others in Madaen, about 25 km (15 miles) south of Baghdad.^[83]
• December 25, 2014 – Al-Shabaab attack in Mogadishu leaves 9 dead.^[84]
• December 28, 2014 – Boko Haram attacks village in Cameroon leaving 30 dead.^[85]

2015 – 2019

• January 5, 2015 – A car packed with explosives drove up to the headquarters of EUPOL Afghanistan, a European police-training organization, in Kabul and detonated. Taliban claimed responsibility. 1 killed 16 wounded.^[86]
• January 6, 2015 – Two suicide bombers attacked a mosque in the town of Al-Jubba while Iraqi soldiers were resting, killing 10 soldiers plus the two attackers. Clashes following the bombings left 13 security personnel dead and 21 wounded.^[87]
• January 7–9, 2015 – A series of 5 attacks in and around Paris kill 17 people, plus 3 attackers, and leave 22 other people injured.
• January 8, 2015 – 2015 Baga massacre. Boko Haram attacks town of Baga in northern Nigeria killing at least 200 people. Another 2000 are unaccounted for.^[88]
• January 10, 2015 – In the 2015 Jabal Mohsen suicide attacks 9 people died and 30+ were wounded.
• January 29, 2015 – January 2015 Sinai attacks. 44 killed, several wounded.
• January 30, 2015 – Suicide bomber killed at least 55, injuring at least 59 in a Shiite mosque in southern Pakistan.^[89]
• February 13, 2015 – Heavily armed militants killed at least 19 people and wounded more than 40 after they stormed into a Shiite mosque during Friday Prayer in a suburb of Peshawar.^[90]
• February 14–15, 2015 – 2015 Copenhagen attacks. A gunman opened fire at the Krudttoenden café and later at the Great Synagogue in Copenhagen, killing two civilians and injuring five others.^[91]
• March 7, 2015 – Five suicide bomb blasts leave 58 dead and 143 wounded in the 2015 Maiduguri suicide bombing.
• March 15, 2015 – Suicide bombers kill at least 15 people in attacks on two churches in Lahore.^[92]
• March 18, 2015 – Bardo National Museum attack. Militants linked to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) attack the Bardo National Museum with guns, killing 21 people and injuring around 50.^[93]
• March 20, 2015 – 2015 Sana'a mosque bombings. 135 killed in bombings on several mosques by ISIL.^[94]
• March 25, 2015 – ISIL affiliates, The Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries in Libya carried out suicide bombings in the city of Benghazi. Twelve were killed and 25 wounded. Five additional dead during attacks with a local militia.^[95]
• March 27, 2015 – Makka al-Mukarama hotel attack. 20+ dead 28 wounded.
• April 2, 2015 – 148 killed in Al-Shabaab's Garissa University College attack.^[96]
• April 8, 2015 – In the city of Riyadh two policemen are shot dead. ISIL is blamed to be behind the attack.^[97][98]
• April 14, 2015 – Militants of Al-Shabaab attack a government building in Mogadishu in the 2015 Ministry of Higher Education attack. 17 dead 15 wounded.
• April 17, 2015 – A series of bombings by the ISIL occurred through Baghdad. 40+ killed 59+ injured.^[99]
• April 17, 2015 – A car bomb exploded at the entrance of the US consulate in Erbil, Iraq. ISIL took credit for the attack. 3 killed 5 wounded.^[100]
• April 18, 2015 – A suicide bomb detonated in front of a bank in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. ISIL claims responsibility. 33 killed 100+ injured.^[101]
• April 19, 2015 – A 32-year Frenchwoman is murdered by a gunman whose plot to attack a church is foiled shortly after.^[102]
• April 20, 2015 – A minivan of UN workers was bombed by Al-Shabaab in the Puntland region of Somalia. 9 dead 4 injured.^[103]
• April 27, 2015 – At the Zvornik police station terrorist attack in the city of Zvornik, Republika Srpska, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, an armed member of a wahhabist movement opened fire on the police. In the shooting, a police officer was killed, two others were injured, and the attacker was killed by police.^[104]
• May 3, 2015 – Two car bombs were detonated ten minutes apart in Baghdad, Iraq. Nineteen were killed and an unknown number wounded. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attacks.^[105]
• May 3, 2015 – Two gunmen attacked the Curtis Culwell Center during a 'Draw Muhammad' cartoon art exhibit in Garland, Texas . 2 dead (perpetrators) 1 injured.^{[106][107][108][109][110]}
• May 3, 2015 – Taliban militants overran checkpoints in Warduj, killing 17 policemen.^[111]
• May 4, 2015 – A government bus was attacked by a suicide bomber in Kabul, killing one person and injuring 15 others.^[112]
• May 10, 2015 – Two car bombs were detonated ten minutes apart in Baghdad, Iraq and surrounding towns of Taji and Tarmiyah. ISIS claims responsibility. 14 were killed and wounding 30.^[113]
• May 10, 2015 – A bus carrying Afghan government employees was attacked in Kabul by a suicide bomber, killing 3 people and injuring 10. Taliban claimed responsibility.^[114]
• May 13, 2015 – A bus carrying Shia Muslims was attacked by six armed gunman who rode up in motorcycles. Several Islamist groups claim responsibility. 45 dead 13 injured.^[115]
• May 14, 2015 – A hotel that was hosting a cultural event was attacked by Taliban fighters in Kabul leaving 14 dead including an American, an Italian, and 4 Indians.^[116]
• May 17, 2015 – A Taliban suicide attack near the entrance of Hamid Karzai International Airport targeting a European police training vehicle. 3 dead 18 injured.^[117]
• May 19, 2015 – A suicide car bombing detonated in the parking lot of a Justice Ministry building in the diplomatic section of Kabul, killing 4 people wounding 42.^[118]
• May 21, 2015 – A suicide bomber detonated his explosives at a military checkpoint outside of Misrata killing himself and two guards.^[119]
• May 22, 2015 – A suicide bomber attacked a Shia mosque during prayer in the al-Qadeeh village. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack. 21 dead +90 injured.^[120]
• May 25, 2015 – Taliban militants killed 19 policemen and six soldiers during a siege at a police compound in Nawzad District of Afghanistan.^[121]
• May 26, 2015 – Al-Shabaab militants attacked two police patrols which turned into a gun battle north of Garissa, 5 police officers were injured but they were able to kill both of the attackers.^[122]
• May 28, 2015 – Two car bombs were set off minutes apart targeting the Cristal Grand Ishtar Hotel and the Babylon. 10 killed and 30 wounded.^[123]
• May 29, 2015 – A suicide bomber attacked a Shia mosque in Dammam detonating the bomb in the parking lot. 4killed, unknown injured.^[124]
• June 1, 2015 – Three suicide bombers in humvees attacked an Iraqi police station in the Tharthar region in Northern Anbar Province. 41 dead, 63 wounded.^[125]
• June 13, 2015 – Four suicide SUV car bombs went off in an Iraqi police station in the Hajjaj near Tikrit and Baiji. 11 dead, 27 injured.^[126]
• June 26, 2015 – Saint-Quentin-Fallavier attack – Beheading in a factory near Lyon, head marked with Arabic writing and Islamist flags. Gas canisters planted provoked a fire. 1 dead, 11 injured.^[127]
• June 26, 2015 – 2015 Kuwait mosque bombing – 27 people killed in explosion at Shia Imam Sadiq mosque in Kuwait City, medical sources tell Al Jazeera. Claimed by ISIS
• June 26, 2015 – 2015 Sousse attack – Attack in Tunisia against two tourist hotels, over 28 people died.
• June 26, 2015 – Battle of Leego (2015) Attack on AMISOM base in Somalia with a car bomb, assault rifles and RPGs, causing over 30 military deaths.
• June 29, 2015 – 2015 Shuvat Rachel sh
• ooting shooting attack on civilian car, 1 death.
• July 20, 2015 – 2015 Suruç bombing Suicide bombing killed 33 people and injured 104 in Kurdish majority city of Suruç. ISIL claims responsibility.^[128]
• August 13, 2015 – 2015 Baghdad market truck bombing A truck bomb in a Baghdad market killed more than 70 and injures 200.^[129]
• August 21, 2015 – 2015 Thalys train attack Shooting and stabbing in train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris injures 5. The incident is believed by French police to be an Islamist terrorist attack.^[130]
• September 17, 2015 – Two suicide bombings in Baghdad killed 10 and injured 55. ISIL claims responsibility.^[131]
• September 17, 2015 – An Islamist of Iraqi descent attacked and injured a police officer with a knife in Berlin. 1 injured, 1 dead (perpetrator).^[132]
• September 24, 2015 – A bomb attack on a Shia mosque in Sana'a killed 25 and injured dozens more during prayers for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. Claimed by ISIL.^[133]
• September 29, 2015 – Three men on a motorbike shot and killed an Italian aid worker. The attack has been claimed by ISIL.^[134]
• October 1, 2015 – Multiple suicide bombings by Boko Haram in North-East Nigeria killed 14 people (including the bombers) and injured 39.^[135]
• October 1, 2015 – Gunmen opened fire on a car near Nablus on the northern West Bank, killing a man and woman. 4 of their 6 children were also in the car and witnessed the attack, but were uninjured. The attackers have been praised by Hamas.^[136][137]
• October 2, 2015 – 2015 Parramatta shooting. A NSW Police Force civilian employee was shot dead outside NSW Police Force headquarters on Charles Street, Parramatta, Sydney by a 15-year old lone gunman. The gunman then engaged with NSW Police Special Constables in a shootout before being killed, 2 dead.^[138]
• October 3, 2015 – A Japanese man was shot and killed in a similar fashion to an Italian aid worker killed 4 days earlier. The attack has been claimed by ISIL.^[139]
• October 3, 2015 – In Baghdad, two suicide bombings in Shiite majority neighbourhoods kill at least 18 people and injure 61. Attack claimed by ISIL.^[140]
• October 5, 2015 – Two suicide bombings in Kabul targeted an Afghan intelligence centre. 3 people were injured in the attack, claimed by the Taliban.^[141][142]
• October 7, 2015 – Militants of Al-Shabaab ambushed and killed the nephew of Somalia's president, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud. 2 dead.^[143]
• October 10, 2015 - In the 2015 Ankara bombings at least 95 people were killed and 245 injured. According to two high ranked sources in the Turkish security forces ISIL is most likely responsible.^[144][145]
• October 10, 2015 – Multiple suicide bombings in Chad killed 33 people and injured 51. The attack is believed to be the work of Boko Haram.^[146]
• October 11, 2015 – A bomb attack in Kabul, targeting a British military convoy injured 7 Afghan civilians. The attack has been claimed by the Taliban.^[147]
• October 22, 2015 – 20 people were killed in the northeast state of Borno, Nigeria in a Boko Haram attack.^[148]
• October 31, 2015 - Bomb on board a Russian jet brings it down in Sinai, bound for St Petersburg, killing 224 people. ^[149]
• November 12, 2015 - Twin suicide bombings kill 42 people in the capital city of Beirut. ^[150]
• November 13, 2015 A series of 7 attacks kill 153 people in the capital city of Paris. ^[151]

Wikipedia - List of Islamic Terrorist Attacks

Do a body count from this - how many innocent men, women and children have been killed in the name of the religion of peace?


I can tell you that in 2015 alone there have been sixty-six terrorist attacks around the world. From this list and excluding the suicide bomber themselves where I could discern who or how many, 1,775 people have been murdered and 1,857 people have been injured - and that is just since January of this year.

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