Postings From The Edge...

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So, you think the Ku Klux Klan and the Spanish Inquisition are bad?

So do we, but... Put the Numbers in Perspective:

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

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Islamic terrorists murder more people every day than the Ku Klux Klan has in the last 50 years. (source)

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More civilians were killed by Muslim extremists in two hours on September 11th than in the 36 years of sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland. (source)

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19 Muslim hijackers killed more innocents in two hours on September 11th than the number of American criminals executed in the last 65 years. (source)

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On This Day in Post 9/11 Islamic History

11/5/05
Thailand, Narathiwat
Two Buddhist rubber tappers are slain by Muslim gunmen.

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11/5/05
Iraq, Balad Ruz
Sunni insurgents machine-gun an infant to death along with twelve other Shia family members as they are returning from a minibus trip to a family cemetery.

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11/5/05
India, Rajwar
A villager is gunned down by the Mujahideen.

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11/5/05
Pakistan, Mir Ali
Three children are killed by an al-Qaeda bomb that explodes prematurely.

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11/5/04
Algeria, Relizane
Algerian Islamists ambush and kill two policemen. The fundamentalists have killed about thirty civilians thus far during Ramadan.

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11/5/04
Iraq, al-Muqdadiya
Jihadists kill a 3-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl with a rocket.

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11/5/03
India, Srinagar
A wildlife officer is shot to death by the Mujahideen.

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11/5/03
Iraq, Mahmudiyah
Fedayeen grenade and small-arms attack kills one U.S. soldier and leaves two others injured.

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11/5/03
India, Tangmarg
Militant Muslims invade three homes and kill three civilians, including a mother.

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11/5/03
Iraq, Mosul
Three Iraqis are killed, and at least nine other people are injured in two separate terrorist grenade attacks. The dead include a 10-year old boy.

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11/5/02
India, Doda
Three civilians are killed in separate attacks, including a village leader at a wedding.

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11/5/01
India, Banikhet
A mentally-ill woman is accused of being an informer and killed by Islamic terrorists.

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Still think it has nothing to do with Islam?
Click to View Previous Years' Lists:
Islamic Terror Attacks for First Half 2006
Islamic Terror Attacks for 2005
Islamic Terror Attacks for 2004
Islamic Attacks from September 11th, 2001 through 2003

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Scenes from the jihad
By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist November 1, 2006

A HALF-DOZEN snapshots from the global jihad:

Australia: Australia's foremost Muslim cleric triggers an uproar when he likens women who don't wear an Islamic headscarf to "uncovered meat" and blames them for attracting sexual predators. "If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street, or in the garden or the park . . . and the cats come and eat it," says Sheik Taj al-Din Hilali, "whose fault is it, the cats' or the uncovered meat? If [the woman] was in her room, in her home, in her headscarf, no problem would have occurred."
Afghanistan: The kidnappers of Italian photojournalist Gabriele Torsello threaten to murder him unless Abdul Rahman, an Afghan Christian convert, is returned to Afghanistan and handed over to an Islamic court. Rahman lives in Italy, which granted him asylum earlier this year, when he faced the death penalty under Afghanistan's sharia law for converting from Islam to Christianity.
Iran: The president of Iran calls Israel "a group of terrorists" and threatens to harm any country that supports the Jewish state. "This is an ultimatum," warns Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has called for the elmination of Israel and the United States. "Don't complain tomorrow." Days later, the deputy director of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization confirms another stride forward for the country's illicit nuclear program: With the injection of gas into a second cascade of centrifuges, Iran has doubled its uranium-enrichment capacity.
Thailand: Islamist terrorists bomb a column of Buddhist monks as they collect offerings of food in Narathiwat, a city in southern Thailand. One person is killed; 12 are injured. The attack is the latest in a bloody week that has included multiple shootings and another fatal bombing.
France: Another Muslim intifadah rages in France. Hundreds of cars are torched nightly and passenger buses set ablaze with Molotov cocktails. One such fire in Marseille leaves a 26-year-old woman in a coma with burns covering 70 percent of her body. "We are in a state of civil war, orchestrated by radical Islamists," says police union leader Michel Thoomis. "This is not a question of urban violence any more. It is an intifadah, with stones and firebombs." So far this year, more than 2,500 police have been wounded in clashes with rioters.
Britain: In a "true Islamic state," sexually active homosexuals would be executed, says Arshad Misbahi, an imam in Manchester's Central Mosque. According to interviewer John Casson, the imam explains that while executions "might result in the deaths of thousands," they would be worthwhile "if this deterred millions from having sex and spreading disease."

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Not all the news is bad. NATO forces have recently killed scores of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan . Czech intelligence agents thwarted an Islamist plan to seize the Central Synagogue in Prague on Rosh Hashanah, hold the Jewish worshipers hostage, and then blow up the building with its occupants. A proposal to let Muslim taxi drivers at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport refuse service to passengers carrying alcohol was scrapped in the wake of vehement public opposition. And the world's mightiest fighting force continues to kill Islamofascists in Iraq, currently the key battleground in the global jihad.

But there can't be much question that at this point in the war against radical Islam, the radicals are on the march. From Ahmadinejad's swagger to Hezbollah's war on Israel to the plot to blow up jetliners leaving London, our enemies are aggressive, relentless, and unequivocal in their determination to defeat us. Meanwhile, Western Europe is turning into Eurabia before our eyes, as a fading native population with its effete secular culture of pacifism and relativism is superseded by a surging Muslim cohort. Most Muslims are not Islamists or terrorists, of course. However, most of them keep quiet in the face of the radical offensive. That is all the radicals need to keep driving the jihad forward.
"If this country lets down its guard, it will be a fatal mistake," President Bush said last week. Yet too many Americans seem unable to recognize the threat, or to believe that they, their liberties, and the lives of innumerable human beings are truly at stake in a deadly global war.
But radical Islam is not going away. Like Nazism and communism, it is (in Senator Rick Santorum's words) "an ideology that produces the systemic murder of innocents." Like those earlier totalitarianisms, it will go on murdering until it is crushed. Like them, it is impervious to appeasement and contemptuous of weakness. The longer Americans sleep, the farther the jihad advances.

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/11/01/scenes_from_the_jihad/