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TheReligionOfPeace.com claims that since 9/11, Muslims extremists have committed 17,000+ terrorist attacks.
Islam: Making a True Difference in the World - One Body at a Time
The author of this website seems to be the authoritative source for these numbers. He gives minimal details and a lot of spin. He provides no references or way to verify his claims that these attacks, they were religiously motivated and not robberies, crimes of passion, revenge, war, legitimately resisting a foreign occupation.. . We have to take the author's word that these attacks occurred and the people responsible were motivated by Islamic beliefs.
2011.10.08 Iraq Kirkuk 1 1 Muslim gunmen shoot an elderly Christian and a woman.
robbery?
2011.10.05 Thailand Narathiwat 1 5 A Buddhist woman is shot to death in her own house by Muslim militants.
We have home invasions here in Toronto too. Do they also count as Muslim terrorist attacks?
2011.10.03 Iraq Anbar 6 13 At least six people are killed in a bank siege by a suicide squad from the 'Islamic State of Iraq'.
Sounds like a bank robbery gone wrong
2011.10.03 Nigeria Maiduguri 2 0 A tea seller and customer are shot at point blank range by local Islamists.
Another robbery?
2011.10.02 Nigeria Maiduguri 1 0 A pharmacist is murdered in his store by Boko Haram Islamists.
another robbery?
2011.10.01 Thailand Pattani 1 0 Terrorists shoot a truck driver to death near a tea shop.
another robbery?
2011.10.01 Iraq Kirkuk 1 0 A 60-year-old Christian is shot to death by Muslim assassins.
Besides the victims religion, what other other indication supports the author's claim this was religiously motivated?
2011.10.01 Iraq Buhriz 3 5 Two family members are among three killed during an al-Qaeda home invasion.
Another home invasion, which was religiously motivated and not a robbery?
2011.09.28 India Batmaloo 1 0 An Islamist shoots a police officer to death in cold blood.
Criminals shoot police officers here in Canada too. Can we also classify them as Muslim terrorism if the attacker is Muslim?
2011.09.28 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A 48-year-old trader is shot to death at a market by Muslim 'insurgents'.
Someone murdered in a market. Did they capture the attackers. How do they know the insurgents were motivated by religion and not common thieves trying to rob a merchant?
2011.09.26 Iraq Kirkuk 3 1 Holy Warriors take down three civilians traveling in a car.
I heard the roads are dangerous in Iraq. Is it possible that this was highway robbery? Maybe they didn't pay protection money and bribe local officials.
2011.09.26 Iraq Diwaniya 1 1 An imam nearly loses his life to Religion of Peace rivals, who do manage to kill his companion.
this is a good one, even when both the victim and the perpetrator of a violent attack are both Muslims, its still Islamic terrorism???
2011.09.22 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 'Insurgents' shoot a man twice in the head and then set his body on fire.
Were the "insurgents" even Muslim?
2011.09.08 Somalia Coast 1 2 Muslim 'pirates' shoot an unarmed French sailor on his own yacht.
Apparently religion and not greed was the primary motivation???
2011.09.06 Afghanistan Kabul 1 0 The Taliban are suspected of killing a U.S. citizen.
Apparently suspecting the Taliban were responsible is enough to confirm this as an act of Islamic terrorism
That's enough of my time wasted on this unverifiable list, much of which seems to be regular murders and robberies. BTW, I'm not saying that every violent act in the author's list weren't motivated by religious intolerance. Some obviously were. But given the lack of references and supporting information,....
If you want to see what a real verifiable body count looks like, I suggest you visit this site, where you can actually verify the source(s).
Iraq Body Count
If the author of thereligionofpeace.com was able to determine all these crimes were religiously motivated, then he should be a police detective. Our police often take months or even years to determine what exactly happened during a crime and who was responsible. This guy solves dozens of crimes from around the world from the comfort of his American home every day.
Also, I found this:
17,000 “Islamic terrorist” attacks exist in fevered Islamophobic brains
by Sheila Musaji
Robert Spencer objects to an MSNBC News Report by Michael Isikoff which discussed an increase in right-wing attacks over the past several years. Spencer claims In this one, Isikoff claims that there has been a “surge” of “right wing attacks” in the last couple of years—since Obama has been president (racism implication noted). This is sheer Leftist fantasy; meanwhile, Isikoff and NBC completely ignore the very real and readily documented surge in jihad plots in the U.S. over the last two years.
Of course, any recognition that we face a serious problem from EXTREMISTS no matter what their ideological or religious underpinnings is an argument that Spencer must attempt to refute because it gets in the way of his paranoid delusion that all or most terrorists are Muslims.
In a number of recent articles we can clearly see Spencer (and the rest of his Islamophobic cohorts who endlessly repeat each others anti-Muslim memes) newest meme. Spencer makes the claim (as have others) that there have been 17,000+ Islamic jihad terror attacks since 9/11. (He provides a link to a
Islam: Making a True Difference in the World - One Body at a Time). Spencer then says: Two non-Muslim terrorists: Tim McVeigh and, sixteen years later, Anders Breivik. And Scott Shane suggests that the “focus of counterterrorism efforts” should be shifted from Islamic jihadists to “the subculture of anti-Muslim bloggers and right-wing activists.”
Spencer also posted what he calls a “demonization roundup” in which he once again brings up this fake number of 17,000 Muslim terrorist attacks, but this time has upped his non-Muslim number to 4 - That’s four white male terrorists, versus 17,000+ jihad terror attacks since 9/11 committed by Muslim males (many of whom were white, by the way) and a handful of females. To the LA Times, the existence of those four is sufficient to refute the commonsensical call for the TSA to address the actual source of its troubles and reason for its existence.
Lies upon lies. No matter how you define terrorism - Breivik and McVeigh are certainly not the only non-Muslim terrorists. If this is the extent of Spencer’s research abilities, then any claims he makes to being a serious scholar of anything are pretty much undermined.
Spencer could go to legitimate sources to obtain factual information from which to make an informed decision about extremist and terrorist threats.
As Stephen Walt notes ... according to the EU’s 2010 Terrorism Situation and Trend Report, the total number of terrorist incidents in Europe declined in 2009. Even more important, the overwhelming majority of these incidents had nothing whatsoever to do with Islam. The report is produced by Europol, which is the criminal intelligence agency of the European Union. In 2009, there were fewer than 300 terrorist incidents in Europe, a 33 percent decline from the previous year. The vast majority of these incidents (237 out of 294) were conducted by indigenous European separatist groups, with another forty or so attributed to leftists and/or anarchists. According to the report, a grand total of one (1) attack was conducted by Islamists. Put differently, Islamist groups were responsible for a whopping 0.34 percent of all terrorist incidents in Europe in 2009. In addition, the report notes, “the number of arrests relating to Islamist terrorism (110) decreased by 41 percent compared to 2008, which continues the trend of a steady decrease since 2006.”
Spencer could go to
FBI — Homepage which is the site of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, you can access a great deal of information about terrorism in the U.S. You can check out the FBI’s most wanted domestic terrorists. There are 7 listed right now, and none seem to be Muslims. You can check out their Domestic Terrorism In the Post-9/11 Era report.
Spencer could check out numerous existing reports and surveys about terrorism, radicalization, and strategies to counter these that have been produced by respected governmental and academic organizations that clearly paint a very different picture of the facts.
Spencer could check out the ADL or SPLC data bases on terrorism and extremism.
Spencer could check out our TAM collection of information on the topic titled Claim that all terrorists are Muslims ignores history.
Spencer could - but facts get in the way of propaganda. Robert Spencer cites a rabidly anti-Muslim site called the Religion of Peace for his number of 17,000 terrorist attacks worldwide since 9/11. That would be somewhat like citing a KKK or White Supremacist site for their information about Jews or African-Americans. This site lists acts commited around the world - some in wars, some having nothing to do with Islam, but to do with nationalist or political struggles, some in civil wars. No links are given. No sources for any of this just a list of supposed attacks carried out by “Islamic terrorists”. All of my suggestions for Spencer to check out contain lots of links and sources.
Spencer is entering this most recent meme into the anti-Muslim blogsphere, and it will be repeated by all the other Islamophobes, and they will quote each other as “experts” who agree with this number. And, voila, another lie will become just one more “fact” that everyone “knows” about Islam and Muslims.
The Islamophobes regularly make such statements about the only danger being “Islamic terrorists” and then when faced with any evidence to counter their claims respond with the same tired arguments over and over - McVeigh is the exception that proves the rule, these Islamic supremacists will make the most out of this one Huttaree case, of course there is no moral equivalence as their terrorism is more dangerous, etc.
The truth is that the list of non-Muslim individuals and groups involved in extremist or terrorist acts is extensive. There are hundreds of exceptions that prove the rule. We know that Europol says that most terrorism in Europe is carried out by non-Muslims. The same is true in the United States. Attempting to focus only on one possible source of terrorism and excluding the others shows nothing except Islamophobic bigotry, and it makes none of us safer.
The American Muslim (TAM)
