Islam Factor Forum

Islam Factor is a bold experiment in Muslim freedom of expression, freedom of speech and cooperation with people from all walks of life. Some who follow, agree with or are amicable to Islam and some who are opposed. Whether you agree with or follow Islam or not, whether you oppose Islam or not, no matter the nation, race, religion or creed we are from, we all have one thing in common. We all are human-beings with the same basic needs, hopes and emotions.

Our forum hopes to promote an almost unheard of tolerance (that eludes many Muslim groups) that transcends all of our differences while discussing the critical issues that divide us as human-beings. Issues involving Islam on all levels (inside and outside of the Islamic community) will be discussed on our forum openly. This forum will be a mode communication that allows for dissention and encourages methods to overcome the critical problems that concern us all. On the issue of Jihad now.

The use of the word Jihad in reference to a holy war is an entirely incorrect usage. Since the aggression of earlier Christians in the 11th century the term Holy War has been used in the Christian sense. A Holy War is waged without rational justification but by the warped vision of a religious leader to conquer the Promised Land (i.e. in the Crusader's mind it was Palestine which was promised to the descendants of Prophet Abraham (a.s.)) and spread their religion. In the 4th century the standards for such wars was set by the Papacy (i.e. the Pope). The first criteria for a holy war was that it was to be violent. Killing was not seen as evil and was to be done deliberately or not. The second criteria for a holy war was the establishment of the Christian Republic. Christ was seen as a political figure who had political ambitions set for his people, i.e. the Christians. The Christian Republic was to be ruled by Christ whose representatives on earth were the Pope, bishops, emperors and kings. The Muslims in Palestine were seen as tyrants who occupied Christian territory which was sanctified by the presence of Christ. Pagans in the Balkans were seen as a threat to Christendom, as well as, Muslims in Spain. The Jews were viewed as a people rejected by God for murdering their Messiah.

Prior to the first millennia, the predominant thought in the Church was that Jesus (a.s.) second coming would come, along with the end of the world, which would occur at the turn of the first millennia. The calendar years were calculated according to the Roman calendar. One Christian writer wrote, "On new year's eve, 1000, a crowd gathered at Rome, awaiting the end of the world. Midnight came, nothing happened and the pope, Sylvester II, blessed the crowd and sent them home."1 Not long afterwards came the crusaders.

At the request of various popes, beginning with Pope Urban II, between 1095-1270 A.D., military expeditions against the Pagans, Jews and Muslims were carried out from Europe. Christ was seen to have authorized the Crusades himself and the Pope, who exorcised his authority, was his representative on earth. Many Christians in Palestine, and elsewhere refused to join in on the wars even though the Crusades were seen as an international event. The crusaders believed that if they began to conquer Palestine then Jesus (a.s.) would return, fulfill the promises of the Bible and finish establishing the Kingdom of God on earth. This meant that they must launch a Crusade to liberate Palestine from Muslim rule and rid the land of the Jews who, in their opinion murdered Jesus (a.s.) and forfeited their right to God's promises. The European Christians united under the belief that the conquest of Palestine would usher in the second coming of Jesus (a.s.), and the kingdom of God on earth (i.e. the Christian Republic), swept in massive force across Europe and Asia murdering and burning Jews in their synagogues and attacking Muslim and Pagan settlements. Those Jews who did not die and were found out were forced by the sword to abandon Judaism and confess Christianity. Those who did not were murdered on site! Those Jews who did were sometimes exiled but most were murdered by the sword anyhow. Many Jews did confess but in secret reneged on it and sought forgiveness from God or even committed suicide out of the guilt of not forgoing the persecution. A popular remembrance of these events among Jewish circles is the playing of the Kol Nidre (pronounced kole nidray), a song created and played Jews to plead God's forgiveness and renounce the forced Christian vows. The Crusades were the Holy Wars! A holy war waged by religious zealots with a false man inspired vision base on a man made Bible. A Holy War is aggressive, irrational and waged against a people without cause. There is no doubt that this is the reason why the United States adopted the concept of the separation of Church and State. Islam does not condone, nor recognize forced conversions. According to what God revealed to the Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.), "If somebody does not accept Islam truly but does so by compulsion or fear of being killed, then that man is not a believer." (Bukhari)2

The word Jihad literally means, to struggle against. Jihad does not initiate aggression, nor does Jihad have to be used in cases of war. There are three ways in which Jihad can be described. First, Jihad is the literal struggle (non-violent) against the sinful temptations of the heart. One can Jihad against him or herself. If one is tempted to steal and takes the appropriate measures to insure that the thought is stricken from his or her mind, through prayer or whatever it takes, then he or she has waged Jihad against his or her heart. Jihad is a character building mechanism and is the constant struggle against sin in our hearts. Second, Jihad is a struggle (non-violent) against the philosophies of society at large, such as atheism or humanism. Jihad of this type is through discourse. Muslims will engage in debates about facts and opinions to insure that people do not abandon the belief that God exists, is active in our lives, relevant in our society and must be worshipped. This type of Jihad spreads our religion, is non-violent and non-aggressive discourse. The third type of Jihad is what the Christian and christianized west attempts confused with their own transgressions and wrongfully propagates spreading falsehood. Jihad is, also, the defense of our families from invading armies and tyrants! As seen in many parts of the world, every side has an aggressor and a defender. Jihad (violent defensive struggle) is a defensive action and not aggressive! It is a nation defending itself from an aggressor. It is the right of every person on earth, Muslim and not, to defend their family from impending destruction and aggression. Qur'an 2:190-193 sets the terms about Jihad of this type:

Fight in the cause of Allah those who fight you but do not transgress limits; for Allah loveth not transgressors. And slay them wherever ye catch them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out; for persecution is worse than slaughter; but fight them not at the Sacred Mosque, unless they (first) fight you there; But if they fight you, slay them. Such is the reward of those who reject faith. But if they cease, Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful. And fight them on until there is no more persecution and the religion becomes Allah's. But if they cease, let there be no hostility except to those who practice oppression.

This type of Jihad (defensive) is not a holy war, which is aggressive in nature. If violence is perpetrated against the Islamic community then God has authorized the means by which they can defend themselves and their families. God has set the guidelines and limits by which such a defensive action may take place. There is no support in the Qur'an or Sunnah for Jihad to be used in any other manner than defense. Islam condemns non-provoked attacks and anyone who claims to be Muslim who does such a thing is not following Islam! During the Crusades Christians waged a Holy War against the Jews and Muslims. Muslims went to Jihad against them to defend their way of life!

More people are killed by Islamists each year than in all 350 years of the Spanish Inquisition combined.

By the way, the crusades ended over 800 years ago. I guess the Islamists didn't get the word.

List of Islamic Terror Attacks For the Past 2 Months

Date	Country	City	Killed	Injured	Description
7/5/2008	Thailand	Yala	4	4	Muslim gunmen open up on a crowd eating breakfast at a tea shop, killing four.
7/4/2008	Thailand	Yala	1	1	Islamists behead a Buddhist and then set his body on fire. The man's son is seriously injured as well.
7/4/2008	Thailand	Pattani	1	0	A retired schoolteacher is gunned down by Islamic militants.
7/4/2008	Thailand	Yala	1	0	Muslam radicals shoot a 42-year-old man to death.
7/4/2008	India	Kupwara	5	0	Five Indian army personnel are massacred in a Mujahideen ambush.
7/4/2008	Afghanistan	Maidan-Wardak	2	5	Two Afghan security personnel are taken out in a Taliban bombing.
7/3/2008	Iraq	Baghdad	4	8	Four Iraqis are blown apart by an Islamist bomb.
7/3/2008	Somalia	Hiiran	10	0	Ten civilians are killed in an ambush by Islamic militia.
7/3/2008	Afghanistan	Kandahar	8	3	Eight local police are killed in a brutal ambush by Sunni militants.
7/3/2008	Pakistan	Khyber	5	4	Five people are killed when rival Islamist groups clash.
7/3/2008	Iraq	Samarra	14	0	Fourteen victims of Sunni terrorists are discovered in a mass grave.
7/3/2008	Thailand	Yala	1	0	A school principal is shot to death by Muslim radicals.
7/2/2008	Afghanistan	Logar	5	0	The Taliban murder five local soldiers with a roadside blast.
7/2/2008	Afghanistan	Nimroz	5	2	Five people are murdered by a Fedayeen suicide bomber.
7/2/2008	Iraq	Baghdad	3	6	A streetsweeper is among three people killed in a Mujahideen roadside bombing.
7/2/2008	Israel	Jerusalem	3	57	Two teachers, including a mother, are among three people are killed when a Palestinian goes on a violent rampage with a bulldozer.
7/2/2008	Thailand	Narathiwat	1	0	Islamic gunmen murder a woman shortly after she drops her daughter off at school.
7/1/2008	Pakistan	Swat	5	3	An elderly woman is among five people shot to death by Islamists in four separate attacks.
7/1/2008	Iraq	Mandali	4	16	A Fedayeen suicide bomber sends four Iraqis to Allah.
7/1/2008	Philippines	Aleosan	1	0	A Christian man is shot to death after refusing to give up his property to Moro Islamic Front raiders.
7/1/2008	Iraq	Mosul	2	32	Two Jihad bombs leave two dead and about forty wounded.
7/1/2008	Somalia	Mataban	53	40	Fifty-three people are killed in a series of ambushes by Islamic militants.
7/1/2008	Afghanistan	Lashkar Gah	2	7	Taliban bombers kill two local policemen.
7/1/2008	Iraq	Buhriz	3	1	Three members of the same family are murdered by Mujahideen bombers.
6/30/2008	Thailand	Yala	1	0	A 46-year-old man is shot to death by Islamic terrorists.
6/30/2008	Somalia	Mogadishu	1	0	Muslim radicals kidnap and kill a humanitarian aid worker.
6/29/2008	Iraq	Duluiya	7	3	A Fedayeen suicide bomber murders seven Iraqis.
6/29/2008	Afghanistan	Farah	4	5	Religious extremists attack a local police post, killing four officers.
6/29/2008	Pakistan	Swat	1	0	A civilian is beheaded by Sunni radicals.
6/29/2008	Iraq	Udhaim	3	0	Mujahid kill two women and a child with a mortar attack on their home.
6/29/2008	Pakistan	Swat	6	5	Islamic militants kill six people in at least two separate bombings.
6/28/2008	Lebanon	Tripoli	2	25	Shia terrorists detonate a bomb in an apartment building, killing two residents.
6/28/2008	Afghanistan	Faryab	8	0	Eight local cops are ambushed and killed by Talibanis.
6/28/2008	Iraq	Samarrah	50	0	A mass grave is discovered containing women and children among fifty people rounded up by Sunni militants and executed.
6/28/2008	Pakistan	Khyber	8	5	A sectarian disagreement leaves eight dead.
6/28/2008	Iraq	Samarrah	7	0	Seven dead torture victims, including a woman, are found in an al-Qaeda hideout.
6/27/2008	Chechnya	Vedeno	4	0	Four police are ambushed and killed by Jihad fighters.
6/27/2008	Pakistan	Damadola	2	0	A mob screaming "Allah Akbar" slits the throats of two Afghans, then beheads them.
6/27/2008	Iraq	Khanaqin	1	2	Islamic militants kill a shepherd with a well-placed bomb.
6/27/2008	Iraq	Shurqat	2	3	al-Qaeda takes out two Iraqis with a roadside blast.
6/27/2008	Thailand	Narathiwat	1	1	A 36-year-old civilian is shot to death by Mujahid after dropping his children off at school.
6/27/2008	Algeria	Jijel	6	14	Six security personnel are taken out by al-Qaeda gunmen.
6/27/2008	Thailand	Pattani	1	0	A 64-year-old man is murdered by Islamic gunmen.
6/26/2008	Pakistan	Barikot	7	0	Islamists burn down a girls school and kill a family of seven.
6/26/2008	Iraq	Karma	20	24	A Fedayeen suicide bomber murders twenty innocents.
6/26/2008	Iraq	Mosul	17	62	Jihadis succussfully take out seventeen Iraqis with a well-placed car bomb.
6/25/2008	Pakistan	Jandola	28	0	Twenty-eight members of a local peace council are murdered by the Taliban.
6/25/2008	Somalia	Deynile	9	0	Nine local police are ambushed and killed by Islamic militia.
6/25/2008	Iraq	Baghdad	5	25	Two Jihad bombings leave five Iraqis dead.
6/24/2008	Afghanistan	Herat	1	0	A policewoman is murdered by fundamentalists as she is walking home from work.
6/24/2008	Iraq	Baghdad	11	11	Eleven people are killed when Islamic militants set off a bomb at a government building.
6/24/2008	Lebanon	Tripoli	1	0	Another person is killed in a sectarian clash.
6/24/2008	Somalia	Kismayo	1	2	A local official is assassinated by suspected Islamists.
6/24/2008	Iraq	Mosul	2	75	A baby is among two people killed by a Fedayeen suicide bomber.
6/23/2008	Pakistan	Kurram	11	0	Eleven kidnapped Shias are brutally beheaded by Sunni radicals.
6/23/2008	Lebanon	Tripoli	2	0	Two more people are killed in sectarian violence.
6/23/2008	Afghanistan	Kandahar	3	0	Taliban militants kill three local police in a brutal ambush.
6/23/2008	Dagestan	Buinaksk	1	0	A police chief succumbs after being sprayed with automatic weapons fire.
6/23/2008	Pakistan	Jandola	16	10	Islamic militants attack pro-government tribesmen, killing at least sixteen.
6/23/2008	Iraq	Mosul	4	2	A woman and a university student are among four murdered by Islamic gunmen.
6/23/2008	Afghanistan	Shindand	5	19	A suicide car bomber takes out five Afghan civilians.
6/22/2008	Iraq	Khalis	7	12	Jihadis murder seven Iraqis in a mortar attack on a residential neighborhood.
6/22/2008	Iraq	Kirkuk	3	2	Two women are among three killed in a Mujahideen bombing.
6/22/2008	Lebanon	Tripoli	9	35	Nine people are killed in sectarian clashes within the Religion of Peace.
6/22/2008	Iraq	Baqubah	17	42	A female suicide bomber massacres seventeen Iraqis.
6/22/2008	Somalia	Dharkenley	3	4	Three local soldiers are killed in an Islamic militia bombing.
6/22/2008	India	Srinagar	1	0	Lashkar-e-Taiba members ambush and kill an Indian soldier.
6/21/2008	Afghanistan	Kunar	1	2	Extremists send a rocket into a hospital, killing at least one person.
6/21/2008	Iraq	Baquba	2	0	Two brothers are kidnapped and killed.
6/21/2008	Afghanistan	Khost	4	8	A woman and three children are taken out by a Mujahid rocket attack.
6/21/2008	Pakistan	Khyber	29	50	Fueding religious sects clash, leaving about thirty people dead.
6/21/2008	Thailand	Narathiwat	4	0	Four railway workers are gunned down in cold blood by radical Muslims.
6/20/2008	Afghanistan	Helmand	7	10	Children are among the casualties when a sucide bomber detonates in a crowded market.
6/20/2008	Afghanistan	Zabul	2	3	Two local soldiers are killed in a bomb attack by religious extremists.
6/20/2008	France	Paris	0	1	A 17-year-old Hassidic Jew is beaten into a coma by Muslim immigrants.
6/20/2008	Iraq	Baghdad	3	8	A Jihad car bombing kills eight Iraqis.
6/20/2008	Thailand	Yala	1	4	Islamic gunmen open up on a truck, killing an occupant.
6/20/2008	Somalia	Mogadishu	13	30	At least two children are among thirteen civilians killed in attacks by Islamic militia.
6/20/2008	Israel	Neveh Tzuf	0	2	Masked Palestinians shoot two Israelis in a brutal drive-by attack.
6/19/2008	Thailand	Yala	2	0	A 3-year-old boy and his father are gunned down by the Religion of Peace.
6/19/2008	Pakistan	Kurram	4	0	Muslim radicals ambush a food relief convoy, killing the driver and three others, and then setting fire to the goods.
6/19/2008	Pakistan	Kurram	7	10	Clashes between Sunni and Shia leave at least seven dead.
6/19/2008	Iraq	Tuz Khormato	1	0	A man is kidnapped and tortured to death by Mujahid.
6/19/2008	Pakistan	Kharian	1	0	A man shoots his sister-in-law to death on suspicion of 'bad character.'
6/19/2008	Pakistan	Hajira	4	3	Four local soldiers are killed by Islamic terrorists.
6/18/2008	Somalia	Mogadishu	4	3	Four local police are killed by a roadside bomb detonated by Islamists.
6/18/2008	Thailand	Pattani	2	5	Two members of a security patrol die from shrapnel injuries following a roadside blast set off by Mujahideen.
6/18/2008	Afghanistan	Khost	4	3	Four local cops are killed in a Taliban bombing.
6/17/2008	Somalia	Mogadishu	3	17	Three civilians are killed when Islamic militia open fire on government troops.
6/17/2008	Iraq	Mosul	1	0	Religious extremists gun down a journalist who had presented segments on Islam and culture.
6/17/2008	Pakistan	Hangu	4	0	Four members of a Shia family are murdered in their car by Sunni gunmen.
6/17/2008	Thailand	Narathiwat	1	0	A 45-year-old widow and mother of five is chased down and shot by Holy Warriors.
6/17/2008	Iraq	al-Saba Abkar	4	2	A suicide bicycle bomber pedals to paradise, taking four Iraqis with him.
6/17/2008	Iraq	Baghdad	63	78	Shiite radicals bomb an open-air market, slaughtering over sixty shoppers and vendors.
6/17/2008	Somalia	Mogadishu	3	2	Islamic militants fire a mortar into a home, killing three civilians.
6/16/2008	Pakistan	Dera Ismail Khan	4	5	Four Shiites praying at a mosque are blown to bits by radical Sunnis.
6/16/2008	Pakistan	Torchapar	1	0	Local Islamists kidnap and murder a village elder.
6/16/2008	Lebanon	Bekaa	3	4	Three people are killed in a sectarian clash.
6/16/2008	Chechnya	Grozny	3	5	Three border guards are murdered in a Jihad ambush on their vehicle.
6/16/2008	Iraq	Baghdad	4	31	A double suicide bombing is one of two attacks that leaves four civilians dead.
6/15/2008	Pakistan	FATA	5	7	Islamic militants kill five people in two landmine attacks.
6/15/2008	Afghanistan	Helmand	1	1	The Taliban kill a local police chief with a remote-controlled bomb.
6/15/2008	Iraq	Mosul	2	1	A college professor is among two people shot to death by Freedom Fighters.
6/15/2008	Iraq	Baghdad	3	1	Three members of a family, including two women, are murdered by Sunni militants in a home invasion.
6/15/2008	Iraq	Baghdad	0	34	A female suicide bomber targets soccer fans celebrating a victory.
6/15/2008	Afghanistan	Khost	1	0	A 12-year-old boy is killed by Taliban bombers as he is walking to school.
6/14/2008	Pakistan	Sanghar	1	16	Sunni extremists are thought responsible for a bomb at a tea shop that kills a young boy.
6/14/2008	Somalia	Mogadishu	4	0	Two women are among four civilians abducted and murdered by suspected Islamic militia.
6/14/2008	Afghanistan	Helmand	4	1	Religious extremists kill four US Marines training local security forces.
6/14/2008	Iraq	Mosul	2	0	Two brothers are shot to death outside their home by Holy Warriors.
6/14/2008	Iraq	Baghdad	2	7	Jihadis kill two people with a bomb on a minibus.
6/13/2008	India	Watsar	5	0	Five local soldiers are ambushed and killed by Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists.
6/13/2008	Chechnya	Benoi-Vedeno	3	0	Mujahideen kill three locals in a sustained attack on their village.
6/13/2008	Dagestan	Makhchkala	1	0	A bomb planted by suspected Islamists kills a jogger.
6/13/2008	Iraq	Tuz Khormato	3	0	A father and son are among three people shot to death by Mujahideen.
6/13/2008	Ingushetia	Naran	4	4	Islamic fundamentalists detonate a bomb at a building storing alcohol, killing at least four innocents.
6/13/2008	Afghanistan	Kandahar	15	0	At least fifteen local prison guards are killed when Taliban militants storm the facility with two suicide bombers.
6/12/2008	Gaza	Beit Lahiya	4	0	Four civilians, including a 4-month-old baby, are among seven killed in a Hamas explosion.
6/12/2008	Somalia	Leego	1	0	A UN food convoy driver is shot by suspected Islamic milita gunmen.
6/12/2008	Bangladesh	West Bengal	0	15	Fifteen Hindu pilgrims, including women and children, are burned by Molotov cocktails thrown by a Muslim mob.
6/12/2008	Somalia	Mogadishu	5	5	A child is among five civilians murdered by the Mujahideen in a mortar attack.
6/12/2008	Pakistan	Dattakhel	5	0	Five local family members are pulled out of a house and mudered by Islamic fundamentalists.
6/12/2008	UK	Forest Gate	0	1	A Hindu man is set on fire for dating a Muslim girl.
6/11/2008	Pakistan	Bajaur	1	0	A prostitute is murdered by religious fundamentalists.
6/11/2008	Somalia	Mogadishu	2	0	The head of a humanitarian agency and his driver are shot to death by Muslim militia.
6/11/2008	Iraq	Fallujah	5	0	Five Iraqis are kidnapped and tortured to death by Sunni terrorists.
6/11/2008	Pakistan	Bajaur	1	0	A civilian is shot to death by Muslim radicals.
6/11/2008	Iraq	Baghdad	5	10	Jihads successfully kill five people with a bombing attack on a minibus.
6/11/2008	Thailand	Pattani	1	2	Islamist gunmen kill a father in an attack that leaves his two daughters injured as well.
6/10/2008	Somalia	Baidoa	2	0	A taxi driver and another civilian are shot to death by Islamists.
6/10/2008	Somalia	Mogadishu	1	0	A government official is murdered by Islamic gunmen.
6/10/2008	Somalia	Mogadishu	6	2	Islamic hardliners kill six Somalis in a savage ambush.
6/10/2008	India	Kangan	1	0	Hizb-ul-Mujahideen abduct a 42-year-old civilian from his home and then murder him in captivity.
6/10/2008	Thailand	Narathiwat	2	0	Mujahideen shoot and kill two young men riding a motorcycle.
6/9/2008	Thailand	Yala	1	0	Thai Islamists ambush a local police chief, then set his body on fire in front of his wife.
6/9/2008	Algeria	Bouira	20	0	Islamic fundamentalists bomb a bus stop, killing twenty ordinary people.
6/9/2008	Afghanistan	Ghazni	5	0	The Taliban murder five local police in two shootings.
6/9/2008	Iraq	Baghdad	4	12	Militant Sunnis detonate a bomb along a city street, killing four passers-by.
6/9/2008	Pakistan	Kurram	1	6	al-Qaeda-backed militants kill a civilian in his hom with a mortar attack.
6/8/2008	Algeria	Lakhdaria	13	8	Fundamentalists stage a double bomb attack, killing those who rushed to help victims of the first blast.
6/8/2008	Pakistan	Matani	4	1	Four police are ambushed and killed by Jihadis while sitting in their van.
6/8/2008	Afghanistan	Ghazni	8	0	Eight Afghan are murdered in a Mujahideen ambush.
6/8/2008	Iraq	Baghdad	8	38	Jihadis take out eight innocents in two bombing attacks.
6/8/2008	Somalia	Mogadishu	20	44	Islamists ambush a military convoy in a civilian district, leaving some twenty people dead.
6/8/2008	Afghanistan	Khost	4	0	Four Afghans are shot to death at point-blank range by Talibanis while sitting in their car.
6/8/2008	Somalia	Baidoa	1	0	A government official is assassinated by religious radicals.
6/8/2008	Ingushetia	Nazran	1	0	A local cop is gunned down by suspected Islamists.
6/8/2008	Pakistan	Chitral	4	0	Four children are killed in an explosion triggered by Holy Warriors.
6/8/2008	Iraq	Aziziya	6	0	Six shepherds are brutally murdered by Mujahideen.
6/8/2008	Iraq	Khanaqin	5	0	Five people at a market are gunned down by Sunni militants.
6/7/2008	Afghanistan	Helmand	1	0	Holy warriors kidnap and murder a journalist.
6/7/2008	Thailand	Narathiwat	1	0	Islamists gun down a 23-year-old civilian.
6/7/2008	Iraq	Baghdad	4	18	Jihadis take out four Iraqis with a roadside bomb blast.
6/7/2008	Iraq	Baghdad	2	7	A suicide bomber murders two innocents.
6/7/2008	Iraq	Wihda	8	0	Eight victims of suspected al-Qaeda are found in a mass grave, tortured and executed.
6/7/2008	Iraq	Kanaan	1	3	A small child is killed by Sunni radicals in a roadside attack.
6/7/2008	Somalia	Kismayo	1	0	A journalist is shot to death by Muslim militants.
6/6/2008	Afghanistan	Nimroz	1	5	A suicide bomber targets Indian engineers working on a road, killing one of them.
6/6/2008	Somalia	Huriwa	5	5	Five civilians are killed during an ambush by Islamic militia.
6/6/2008	Thailand	Narathiwat	1	0	A middle-aged man is shot to death by Muslim radicals while returning from work.
6/6/2008	Iraq	Ramadi	4	6	A female suicide bomber is used in one of two attacks that leave four dead.
6/6/2008	Thailand	Yala	1	0	A Budhhist woman is murdered by Islamic gunmen.
6/6/2008	Pakistan	Dera Ismail Khan	5	7	Five people are killed in a bombing by suspected Islamists.
6/6/2008	Thailand	Songkhla	2	0	Two construction workers are murdered by Muslim militants.
6/5/2008	Algeria	Bordj El Kiffan	6	4	Two al-Qaeda suicide bombers leave six Algerians dead at a caf� and military post.
6/5/2008	Pakistan	Bajaur	1	0	A Pakistani soldier is kidnapped and tortured to death by Islamic fundamentalists.
6/5/2008	Afghanistan	Ghazni	2	0	Sunni extremists murder two local police with a roadside bomb.
6/5/2008	Israel	Nir-Oz	1	3	A father of three is murdered by Palestinians firing rockets into an Israeli residential area.
6/4/2008	Pakistan	Kohat	3	3	Three people are killed in a wave of bombings against video stores by Islamic fundamentalists.
6/4/2008	Afghanistan	Ghanzi	2	0	Two policemen are killed in a bombing by religious extremists.
6/4/2008	Aghanistan	Qarabagh	2	3	The Taliban attack a convoy of fuel tankers, killing two guards.
6/4/2008	Iraq	Fallujah	8	12	Freedom Fighters murder eight Iraqis in two attacks.
6/4/2008	Afghanistan	Khost	1	19	A civilian is killed by a suicide bomber.
6/4/2008	Algeria	Bordj El Kiffan	2	0	Two civilians are taken out by a blast from a bomb planted by Islamic fundamentalists.
6/4/2008	Thailand	Narathiwat	2	0	Mujahideen open fire at the half-time of a soccer match, killing the referee and a player.
6/4/2008	Thailand	Yala	1	0	A 30-year-old man is killed by Muslim gunmen while out with friends.
6/4/2008	Iraq	Baghdad	25	86	Twenty-five Iraqis are killed in two explosions, one caused by a truck carrying weapons for Shia militia in a residential area.
6/3/2008	Thailand	Yala	1	1	Muslim gunmen fire into a home, killing a 15-year-old boy and injuring his 4-year-old sister.
6/3/2008	Afghanistan	Helmand	1	23	A suicide bomber kills a young child and injures two dozen others.
6/3/2008	Somalia	Kismayo	1	1	Islamic militia ambush a government official, killing one of his guards.
6/3/2008	Thailand	Narathiwat	3	0	A teenager is among three civilians killed in separate attacks by Muslim militants.
6/3/2008	Thailand	Pattani	1	0	A 45-year-old Buddhist is shot to death by Islamic radicals.
6/3/2008	Indonesia	Jakarta	0	12	Radical Muslims with machetes attack a group of Christians at a religious tolerance rally, shouting 'Repent or die!'
6/3/2008	Iraq	al-Katoun	1	0	A 5-year-old boy is kidnapped and hung by sectarian Jihadis.
6/3/2008	Pakistan	Kurram	4	7	Two children, ages 11 and 9, are among four killed in a landmine attack by religious extremists.
6/3/2008	Thailand	Yala	1	4	Islamic bombers kill a woman in an attack on a commercial district.
6/3/2008	Iraq	Baquba	1	0	An 11-year-old boy is shot to death by Freedom Fighters.
6/2/2008	Iraq	Mosul	11	45	A suicide bomber takes out eleven Iraqis in a brutal attack.
6/2/2008	Pakistan	Islamabad	8	17	Islamists bomb the Danish embassy, presumably over cartoons, killing eight people.
6/1/2008	Afghanistan	Kabul	1	5	The Taliban kill a woman with a remote-controlled bomb.
6/1/2008	Thailand	Narathiwat	1	0	A Chinese carpet salesman is murdered by Muslim gunmen while sitting in a tea shop.
6/1/2008	Iraq	Baghdad	2	5	A Jihad car bomb kills two people.
6/1/2008	Iraq	Jalula	2	4	Islamic terrorists murder a 3-year-old boy and his mother with a roadside bomb.
5/31/2008	Somalia	Mogadishu	1	5	A young girl is killed during an ambush by Islamic militia.
5/31/2008	Iraq	Hit	13	18	Thirteen Iraqis are blown apart by a religious extremist with a suicide vest.
5/31/2008	Thailand	Narathiwat	1	0	A 40-year-old motorcycle dealer is murdered by Islamic gunmen while walking home.
5/31/2008	Lebanon	al-Abedeh	1	0	The Islamic terrorist group, Fatah, kills a local soldier with a bomb blast.
5/31/2008	Afghanistan	Zabul	2	0	Taliban gunmen shoot two Afghanis to death.
5/31/2008	Pakistan	Mamad Ghat	1	0	An innocent bystander is killed when a Taliban bomb explodes prematurely.
5/30/2008	Afghanistan	Kandahar	1	2	A small child is killed by a bicycle bomb planted by Sunni extremists.
5/30/2008	Yemen	Amran	10	26	Ten people are killed when a gunman opens fire inside a mosque in an apparent honor attack.
5/30/2008	Pakistan	Kurram	2	0	Two people are murdered by suspected Islamists.
5/30/2008	Iraq	Diyala	6	8	Three women and a child are among six Iraqis killed by Freedom Fighters.
5/29/2008	Ethiopia	Nagele	3	5	An Islamic group claims responsibility for a bomb blast at a hotel that kills three people and leaves five others maimed.
5/29/2008	Iraq	Sinjar	16	14	A suicide bomber targets young police recruits, sending at least sixteen to their death.
5/29/2008	Iraq	Mosul	3	9	Three Iraqis are murdered by a suicide bomber.
5/29/2008	Philippines	Zamboanga	3	17	Three civilians are murdered in a bomb attack by Islamic terrorists.
5/29/2008	Thailand	Pattani	1	0	A 36-year-old man is shot to death by Muslim radicals while sitting in a teashop.
5/29/2008	Afghanistan	Kabul	3	2	Two children and a truck driver are blown away by a Religion of Peace car bomb.
5/29/2008	Afghanistan	Ghazni	9	0	Taliban terrorists overrun a small town, killing nine people.
5/28/2008	Thailand	Yala	3	11	Guests at a wedding party are among the casualties of a series of Jihad attacks that leave 3 people dead.
5/28/2008	Iraq	Qara Tara	2	1	Jihadis bomb a family vehicle, killing a father and son.
5/27/2008	Afghanistan	Farah	8	1	Eight civilians are blown to bits by a Taliban bombing attack against their minibus.
5/27/2008	Afghanistan	Shorabak	9	3	Sunni extremists kill nine local police in two bombing attacks.
5/27/2008	Afghanistan	Kandahar	3	0	Three young children playing near by are murdered by a bomb planted under a bridge.
5/27/2008	Iraq	Baiji	3	0	Three pipeline workers are shot to death by Sunni radicals.
5/27/2008	Iraq	Tal Afar	4	41	A Religion of Peace car bomb takes out four Iraqis.
5/27/2008	Lebanon	Aramoun	1	0	A local soldier is killed by Hezbollah supporters.
5/27/2008	Pakistan	Khyber	8	13	Islamists clash with each other over religious dispute. Eight are killed.
5/27/2008	Afghanistan	Logar	4	0	Religious extremists murder four local cops with a roadside bomb.
5/27/2008	Somalia	Mogadishu	9	11	Nine civilians are killed when Islamic militia attack government troops along a city street.
5/26/2008	Thailand	Pattani	1	0	Islamic gunmen murder a man inside his home.
5/26/2008	Pakistan	Dera Ismail Khan	4	2	Four Shia are shot to death by radical Sunnis.
5/26/2008	Iraq	Baghdad	3	12	An al-Qaeda suicide bomber on a bicycle pedals to paradise, taking three innocents with him.
5/26/2008	Somalia	Mogadishu	13	8	Thirteen civilians, including children, are killed during an ambush by Islamic militia.
5/26/2008	Iraq	Khan Bani Saad	2	0	A 6-year-old boy is shot to death along with his father by Islamic fanatics.
5/26/2008	India	Kupwara	1	0	Islamic militants ambush and kill a local soldier.
5/26/2008	Iraq	Tarmiyah	6	16	Six Iraqis are killed by an al-Qaeda suicide bomber.
5/26/2008	Pakistan	Dera Ismail Khan	0	0	A policeman and a Sunni civilian are killed in separate sectarian attacks.
5/25/2008	Thailand	Pattani	1	0	A 54-year-old policeman is shot to death outside his home by militant Muslims.
5/25/2008	Pakistan	Peshawar	2	0	A police chief and his driver are killed when Islamic militants bomb their car.
5/24/2008	Pakistan	Peshawar	1	3	A civilian is killed by a Taliban roadside blast.
5/24/2008	Iraq	Shohada	3	0	Three members of the same family are shot to death by Islamic terrorists.
5/24/2008	Iraq	Baghdad	3	6	Jihadis place a bomb on a minibus that kills three Iraqis.
5/24/2008	Somalia	Mogadishu	5	1	A child is among five people killed in an ambush by Islamic militia.
5/23/2008	Pakistan	Tall-Mirali	1	0	An Afghan civilian is murdered by Taliban sympathists.
5/23/2008	Somalia	Mogadishu	4	6	Four African Union Peacekeepers are killed in a bombing attack by Islamic militia.
5/23/2008	Afghanistan	Khost	5	6	Five Afghans, including a child, are taken out by a suicidal Sunni bomber.
5/23/2008	India	Doda	1	0	A civilian is murdered by Mujahideen gunmen while collecting flour.
5/22/2008	Afghanistan	Kandahar	1	1	An Afghan is killed by a bicycle bomb set by religious extremists.
5/22/2008	Afghanistan	Ghazni	3	0	Three local guards are kidnapped and murdered by the Taliban with a bullet to the head.
5/22/2008	India	Meerut	3	0	Three Hindu youth are brutally tortured and beheaded by a Muslim gang.
5/21/2008	Pakistan	Swat	1	0	Islamic fundamentalists set fire to two girls' schools and gun down a local cop.
5/21/2008	Afghanistan	Kunar	1	0	The Mujahideen slit the throat of a 32-year-old woman.
5/21/2008	Iraq	Baghdad	11	3	Eleven civilians are killed in a Mujahideen attack.
5/21/2008	Iraq	Rutba	4	3	A female suicide bomber murders four Iraqis.
5/21/2008	Pakistan	Khyber	4	0	Islamic militants are thought responsible for the shooting attack that leaves four family members dead.
5/21/2008	Afghanistan	Kunar	1	3	The Taliban kill a small child in a rocket attack.
5/21/2008	Afghanistan	Paktika	1	4	A suicide bomber takes out a civilian.
5/20/2008	Iraq	Baghdad	2	5	Muslim terrorists bomb a minibus, killing two occupants
5/20/2008	Iraq	Mandali	1	9	A 5-year-old girl is murdered by an al-Qaeda suicide bomber.
5/20/2008	Afghanistan	Ghazni	1	0	An Afghan civilian is killed by a Taliban bomb.
5/20/2008	Thailand	Narathiwat	1	0	Islamists gun down a 46-year-old father as he is gassing up his car.
5/20/2008	Philippines	Patikul	1	4	Abu Sayyaf terrorists ambush a patrol, killing a local soldier.
5/20/2008	Iraq	Balad Ruz	3	9	Jihadis fire mortars into a residential district, killing three people.
5/19/2008	Afghanistan	Wardak	7	0	Seven civilians are killed in a Taliban landmine attack.
5/19/2008	Afghanistan	Kabul	1	0	A driver for a humanitarian agency is shot to death by Islamic militants.
5/19/2008	Afghanistan	Farah	1	0	Taliban extremists kidnap a local policeman and cut off his head.
5/19/2008	Iraq	al-Baaj	11	0	Eleven young police recruits are brutally machine-gunned to death by Sunni terrorists.
5/19/2008	Iraq	Suwayra	2	0	Two people are kidnapped and tortured. One is beheaded. The other shot.
5/18/2008	Afghanistan	Helmand	4	8	A religious extremist detonates himself and ends the lives of four Afghan civilians.
5/18/2008	Afghanistan	Zabul	1	0	A Taliban bombing leaves one civilian dead.
5/18/2008	Pakistan	Mardan	14	22	Fourteen people are blown to bits by a suicide bomber outside a bakery.
5/18/2008	Pakistan	Mamirogha	1	1	Islamists kill a civilian with a remote-controlled bomb.
5/18/2008	Thailand	Pattani	1	13	Islamists set off two bombs, killing one person.
5/18/2008	Iraq	Baghdad	2	6	Jihadis set a car bomb that kills two Iraqis.
5/17/2008	Afghanistan	Kandahar	1	4	A child is killed when Sunni extremists attach a bomb to a bicycle.
5/17/2008	Afghanistan	Paktia	3	0	The Taliban murders three Afghan civilians with a roadside bomb.
5/17/2008	Iraq	Baqubah	3	15	A female suicide bomber blasts at least three Iraqis to Allah.
5/17/2008	Afghanistan	Ghazni	2	4	Two local cops are gunned down by Sunni extremists.
5/17/2008	Iraq	Baghdad	7	19	Suspected Shia militia kill seven civilians, including a mother of three.
5/17/2008	Afghanistan	Helmand	2	4	Taliban bombers kill two Afghan security personnel.
5/16/2008	Pakistan	Khar	1	0	Tehreek-e-Taliban terrorists kidnap a Pakistani man and cut off his head.
5/16/2008	Iraq	Fallujah	4	9	Sunni bomber take down four Iraqis with a bombing attack.
5/16/2008	Somalia	Mogadishu	20	25	Mujahideen stage a rocket attack in a commercial district, killing at least twenty people.
5/15/2008	Pakistan	Kohat Cantt	2	1	Local Taliban kill two Pakistani soldiers on routine patrol.
5/15/2008	Afghanistan	Farah	16	28	Sunni extremists use a burqa-clad suicide bomber to blow sixteen people to bits at a marketplace.
5/15/2008	Pakistan	Spinka Raghda	1	1	Taliban militants kill a local soldier with a bomb.
5/15/2008	Dagestan	Gubden	2	1	Local Islamists gun down two cops.
5/15/2008	Afghanistan	Kandahar	1	3	Sunni extremists kill a local soldier with a remote-controlled bomb.
5/15/2008	Iraq	Jalawla	2	4	Jihadis kill two Iraqis with a roadside bomb.
5/15/2008	Germany	Hamburg	1	0	A 16-year-old girl is stabbed to death by her brother in an honor killing prompted by her 'Western lifestyle.'
5/15/2008	Iraq	al-Anbar	11	0	al-Qaeda operatives invade the home of eleven Iraqi policemen, killing each one.
5/14/2008	Iraq	Abu Minasir	25	48	An al-Qaeda suicide bomber detonates at a funeral, killing over twenty innocent people.
5/14/2008	Pakistan	Naurak	1	0	A man is kidnapped and beheaded by religious extremists.
5/14/2008	Iraq	Yusufiya	1	7	al-Qaeda uses a teenage girl as a suicide bomber to kill another Iraqi.
5/14/2008	Pakistan	Khar	1	0	Islamic militants shoot a village guard to death.
5/14/2008	Pakistan	Peshawar	1	1	Islamic militants ambush and kill a local tribal elder.
5/14/2008	Israel	Ashkelon	0	15	A baby is among fifteen injured when Palestinians send an Iranian-supplied rocket into an Israeli shopping mall.
5/14/2008	Thailand	Narathiwat	1	0	An ice cream vendor is shot to death by Muslim terrorists.
5/13/2008	Iraq	Nassiriya	1	3	Jihadis manage to kill one woman and injure three others with a mortar round.
5/13/2008	Pakistan	Bajur	1	1	Islamic militants attack a military post, killing a local soldier.
5/13/2008	Iraq	Mosul	5	4	Five Iraqi secruity personnel are murdered by Sunni bombers.
5/13/2008	Afghanistan	Helmand	2	6	Taliban militants kill two local cops in an ambush.
5/13/2008	Afghanistan	Kunduz	1	0	A teacher is shot to death for saying that suicide bombings are un-Islamic.
5/13/2008	Thailand	Pattani	2	0	Islamists ambush and kill a middle-aged married couple as they are traveling from their job at a rubber plantation.
5/13/2008	India	Jaipur	63	216	A Hindu temple is among several targets of Islamic bombers. Over sixty innocents, including children, lose their lives in the carnage.
5/12/2008	Algeria	Bouira	3	0	Islamic fundamentalists stop a patrol truck with a bomb, then machine-gun three soldiers to death.
5/12/2008	Thailand	Narathiwat	2	0	Two locals are shot to death by militant Muslims.
5/12/2008	Israel	Moshav Yesha	1	0	A 70-year-old woman is killed in her home by a rocket fired by Islamic Jihad in Gaza.
5/12/2008	Thailand	Pattani	3	0	Three men are murdered in separate attacks by Islamic gunmen.
5/11/2008	India	Samba	6	5	A man and his wife are shot to death in their home by Islamic militants. A photographer and three other civilians are later killed by the same group.
5/11/2008	Algeria	Medea	6	0	Six Algerian soldiers on patrol are ambushed and killed by the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat.
5/11/2008	Dagestan	Makhachkala	1	0	Islamic gunmen open up on a local cop with automatic weapons at point blank range.
5/10/2008	Pakistan	Dera Ismail Khan	3	0	Three young Shia men are brutally shot to death by radical Sunnis while sitting in a shop.
5/10/2008	Lebanon	Beirut	2	0	Two funeral mourners are gunned down by suspected Shia snipers.
5/10/2008	Iraq	Basra	2	5	Two civilians are taken out in a roadside bombing.
5/9/2008	Israel	Kfar Aza	1	1	An Israeli father of four is murdered in a Hamas mortar attack.
5/9/2008	Somalia	Mogadishu	2	13	At least two civilians are killed during an ambush by Islamic militia.
5/9/2008	Pakistan	Kabbal	1	2	Islamic militants kill a local police officer with a hail of rockets.
5/8/2008	Iraq	Baghdad	10	25	Mujahideen murder ten Iraqi civilians with a car bombing and rocket attack.
5/8/2008	Iraq	Ramadi	4	8	al-Qaeda gunmen kill four Iraqis in a terror attack.
5/8/2008	Pakistan	Swat	1	1	Fundamentalists blow up a music shop and attack a local security base, killing one soldier.
5/7/2008	Afghanistan	Khost	4	2	A child and a scientist are among four killed in two attacks by Islamic terrorists.
5/7/2008	Thailand	Yala	1	0	A wood factory worker is brutally murdered by Muslim gunmen.
5/7/2008	Somalia	Mogadishu	5	1	A young girl is among five people killed when Islamic militias detonate a roadside bomb.
5/7/2008	Iraq	Yusufiya	1	0	A local teacher is gunned down by religious militants.
5/7/2008	Jordan	Amman	1	0	A man shoots his 20-year-old sister three times in the head after learning that she is pregnant outside of marriage.
5/7/2008	Philippines	Midsayap	3	10	Suspected Islamists detonate a crude bomb, killing three people waiting for a bus.
5/7/2008	Somalia	Mogadishu	13	0	Thirteen civilians are killed when Islamic terrorists ambush an Ethiopian convoy.
5/6/2008	Pakistan	Bannu	3	4	Three people are killed by a suicide bomber pulling a rickshaw.
5/6/2008	Iraq	Tikrit	4	27	Sunni radicals detonate a car bomb outside a restaurant, killing four and injuring dozens of others.

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