Terrorist killings up by 80% in 2014, fuelling flow of refugees, report says

Guardian UK ^ | 17 November 2015 | Mark Anderson

[Lorianne]

surge in activity from Nigeria’s Islamist insurgency Boko Haram – now the world’s deadliest terrorist group – and Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has driven an 80% increase in the number of people killed by terrorists in 2014, this year’s Global Terrorism Index showed. In total, 32,658 people were killed in terrorist attacks in 67 countries last year, according to the index, released on Tuesday by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP).

The world is reeling from the terrorist attacks in Paris last Friday, which killed at least 129 people. But the index showed that 80% of last year’s terrorist killings were carried out in just five countries: Iraq, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Syria.

“We can see the trauma [terrorist attacks] create in the west, but think how much trauma they create in all these other countries in the world,” said Steve Killelea, executive chairman of the IEP.

[Lorianne]

That's odd. I was sure it was Bush's fault.

[dfwgator]

I thought it was Climate Change.

[The Toll]

If these fake refugees actually came from warzones this retard might have a point.

[Steely Tom]

Western cultures are going to learn that not every culture sees life itself as a sacred value.

There are many cultures that think nothing of slaughtering hundreds of thousands of people to make a rhetorical point, or for a photo-op.

The people who run things in these cultures see their fellow countrymen and co-religionists as nothing more cannon fodder, or perhaps media fodder.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[kingu]

I've seen dozens and dozens of messages from liberals, almost all of them simply re-posting what others are saying, as original thoughts are mostly beyond them, about how the French attacks are the result of US attacks in the Middle East and this solution of bombing them more will just create more attacks.

My typical response is ‘So explain why most of the attacks happen in the Middle East against others who mostly share their culture, religion and aren't attacking them. Explain why the most deadly terrorist groups are in Nigeria, murdering, kidnapping and enslaving others. Why the second most deadly terrorist group is in Indonesia? Why the third most deadly is in the Philippines?

‘Where are these magical attacks by Western governments? How does the ‘genocide by Israeli against the Palestinian people’ fuel these thousands of deaths?

‘The one constant is the Islamic death cult. We try to bury our heads in the sand and call them ‘radicalized’ when more than half of all Islamics around the world think that it is a more than acceptable response to kill anyone who offends the Prophet.

‘We need to stop denying this. These aren't radical actions nor radical beliefs, they are the mainstream viewpoints of the death cult. If these were Christians, every one of you would be out there marching in the streets demanding that every church be shut down immediately.’