originally posted by: Hefficide
a reply to: Violater1
Not in the least sarcastic, and what has been going on since the shootings in France qualifies quite certainly as Islamaphobia.
According to
www.merriam-webster.com... an exaggerated usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a
particular object, class of objects, or situation.
There is nothing exaggerated, illogical or imagined about the Islamic terrorism happening around the world.
Here are just a few examples.
· April 18, 1983 – The April 1983 U.S. Embassy bombing, Beirut, Lebanon by the Islamic Jihad Organization. 63 dead, 120 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.
· July 7, 1989 – Tel Aviv Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack, near Kiryat Yearim. 16 dead.
· February 26, 1993 – World Trade Center bombing, in New York City. 6 killed.
· 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.
· 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.
· June 25, 1996 – Khobar Towers bombing, 20 killed, 372 wounded.
· November 17, 1997 – Luxor massacre, 6 armed Islamic terrorists attacked tourists at the Luxor ruins. 62 killed, 26 injured
· 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
· October 12, 2000 – Attack on the 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.
·September 11, 2001 – 4 planes hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda hijackers: two planes crashed into World Trade Center and one into the The Pentagon. Nearly
3000 dead.
· October 1, 2001 – Attack on the Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly.
· 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.
·March 30, 2002 – Attack on the Raghunath temple
· October 12, 2002 – 2002 Bali bombings in the tourist district of Kuta on the Indonesian island of Bali, killing 202 people and injuring 240
· November 24, 2001 – Attack on the Raghunath temple
· January 22, 2002 – Attack on an American cultural centre in Kolkata
· May 14, 2002 – three terrorists attacked a tourist bus near the town of Kaluchak in the Indian state Jammu and Kashmir .
· July 13, 2002 – Militants kill 29 Hindu labourers in Qasim Nagar on the outskirts of Jammu in Jammu and Kashmir.
· September 24, 2002 – Akshardham Temple attack
· August 25, 2003 – Twin car bombings killed 54, and injured 244 people in Mumbai
· 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
·November 15–20, 2003 – 2003 Istanbul bombings, killed 57 people and wounded 700.
· March 11, 2004 – Madrid train bombings, killed 191 people and wounded 1,800.
· September 1, 2004 – Beslan school hostage crisis, approximately 344 civilians including 186 children killed
·September 9, 2004 – 2004 Australian Embassy bombing in Jakarta, Indonesia; suicide bomber exploded a one-tonne car bomb, which was packed into a
small Daihatsu delivery van, outside the Australian embassy at Kuningan District, South Jakarta killing 9 and injuring over 150
· November 2, 2004 – The murder of Theo van Gogh by Amsterdam-born jihadist Mohammed Bouyeri
· 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 23, 2005 – Bomb attacks at Sharm el-Sheikh, an Egyptian resort city, at least 64 people killed.
·October 1, 2005 – 2005 Bali bombings in Jimbaran & Kuta, Bali, Indonesia; a series of bombings kills at least 20 and injures over 100.
· 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
· November 9, 2005 – 2005 Amman bombings. a series of coordinated suicide attacks on hotels in Amman, Jordan. Over 60 killed and 115 injured Four
attackers including a husband and wife team were involved
· March 7, 2006 – A series of bombings occurred across the Hindu holy city of Varanasi killing at least 28 people and injuring 101 others.
· 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.
· February 1, 2007 – The 2007 plot to behead a British Muslim soldier – A group of British Pakistanis in Birmingham, England planned to kidnap
and behead a British Muslim soldier in order to undermine the morale of the British Army and inhibit recruitment of Muslims
· August 14, 2007 – Qahtaniya bombings. Dour suicide vehicle bombings in two predominantly Yazidi towns in northern Iraq. 796 killed, 1,562 wounded
· May 13, 2007 – Jaipur bombings
· July 26, 2008 – 2008 Ahmedabad bombings. 56 dead, over 200 injured.
· 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 27, 2008 – 27 September 2008 Delhi blast: An explosion in Mehrauli's Electronic market called Sarai, killed 3 and injured 23 others.
· 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.
· 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
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