Terrorism Deaths Rose in 2007, Including a Big Jump in Pakistan

The American State Department released its yearly Country Reports on Terrorism. The National Counterterrorism Center reported more than fourteen thousand attacks around the world last year.

The number was about the same as the year before. But deaths increased almost nine percent, to more than twenty-two thousand last year.

The report said well over fifty percent of those killed or injured were Muslims, and most were victims of attacks in Iraq.

In Iraq, the number of attacks fell but the number of people killed, injured or kidnapped increased. In Afghanistan, both numbers were higher.

A wounded man is helped after a suicide bombing last year in Mingora, in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province. Police said 19 people were killed.

Is there anyone who could realistically deny how the word "terrorism" is synonomous with "Islam"? That's because Islam is a political movement founded on jihadist philosophy, aka terrorism, violence, murder, mayhem.

Is not jihadist philosphy aka terrorism the underlying force in engendering Islam towards the expansion it had attained early in its history?

Is that not how Islamic fundamentalism sees as the only way for Islam to regain the pre-eminence it so desperately seeks to attain?

The irony of it all is that the majority of its victims are the Muslims themselves.

“The report said well over fifty percent of those killed or injured were Muslims”

The radical loser (Long Read)
Der Spiegel ^ | 1/12/05 | Hans Magnus Enzensberger
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1694568/posts
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Contrary to what the West appears to believe, the destructive energy of Islamist actions is directed mainly against Muslims. This is not a tactical error, not a case of “collateral damage”. In Algeria alone, Islamist terror has cost the lives of at least 50,000 fellow Algerians. Other sources speak of as many as 150,000 murders, although the military and the secret services were also involved. In Iraq and Afghanistan, too, the number of Muslim victims far outstrips the death toll among foreigners. Furthermore, terrorism has been highly detrimental not only to the image of Islam but also to the living conditions of Muslims around the world.

The Islamists are as unconcerned about this as the Nazis were about the downfall of Germany. As the avant-garde of death, they have no regard for the lives of their fellow believers. In the eyes of the Islamists, the fact that most Muslims have no desire to blow themselves and others sky high only goes to show that they deserve no better than to be liquidated themselves. After all, the aim of the radical loser is to make as many other people into losers as possible. As the Islamists see it, the fact that they are in the minority can only be because they are the chosen few.
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