Only the Natives Understand Islam
In my article Islam to Blame for Barbarism Not Culture I noted that Muslims and their apologists offer many excuses for Muslim atrocities: it's not Islam at fault it is the culture, the ethnic group, the political system, the geographic area, whatever.
Now comes before us reader Nadeem who in response to my article Why Do Muslims Abuse Women? tells us that we cannot judge or comment on what is happening in Pakistan because:
Have you ever been to Pakistan? If Not then isn't it talking about a place that you don't know jack about Personally. Like you have no personal experience of what the place is like and yet you comment and make assumptions. AMAZING...
So now we have a new excuse: if you don't live there you cannot blame Islam because you cannot understand a possibly alternative reason for what in your eyes appears to be a savage, brutal atrocity. If only you visited or lived there you would readily see how wrong you are about Islam and its followers.
Well, my itinerant friend, I have traveled to many countries and hundreds and hundreds of foreign cities (1) and spoken with the natives in their own language in more than a dozen countries and I can tell you that despite all that, as educational and enlightening as the experience might have been, all that visiting and talking has exposed me to less than a tenth of one percent of our planet. I believe I have learned more about the world from reading foreign newspapers for more than 45 years than spending a few months or years abroad.
But living in Pakistan for 50 years and only in Pakistan, blinds a person to the evil under which he is living. This applies not just to Pakistanis: there are Canadians, for example, who do not know they are living under an oppressive system of government. I cannot write what I write in my blog if I were living in Canada without getting arrested and put in jail. The same for most of the rest of the world.
In countries with socialized medicine I cannot legally choose whatever medical treatment I want; I have to take whatever they deign to give me.
I have a very distant cousin living in Poland who I have tried for years to persuade to come to America, at least for a visit if not to live. His response? "What does America have that Poland does not?" Ahhh, lived all his life in Poland and completely clueless.
Most foreigners do not know how repressive their economic systems are. I have set up telecommunications operations in many parts of the world and I needed to ask government permission and in some cases pay off corrupt officials to get my operation started. In America, there is nothing that you cannot do if you have the skill and the will. In most countries I deal with I am forced to get a local partner to be at least a 50% owner in order to do business in that country, once I pass countless, pointless, ridiculous bureaucratic hurdles.
And while I personally cannot go to Pakistan for fear of my life, I have a number of friends and associates who do business there, have been there numerous times, and have even engaged in illegal activities there, and who have shared some of their insights into the country with me. In addition, I have no doubt that I have read more newspaper articles (translated into English) about Pakistan than the average Pakistani has in his lifetime.
So your complaint that I should not make a comment if I have no personal experience of the place, would limit me to a very small, tiny, teeny portion of the world. Perhaps, dear Nadeem, you would prefer infidel newspapers not to report on anything involving Muslims at all since they cannot truly understand or appreciate the cultural, ethnic, geographical aspects of the events they are reporting.
Perhaps the non-Muslim world should just turn a blind eye to the following reports because there is probably some good non-Islamic reason behind them. Please note this report is only for the past 60 days, and only what was reported ( many tens of thousands of other attacks against women and infidels go unreported), and anyway if I were forced to list every Muslim atrocity since 2000 it would constipate my server with the data overload:
List of Islamic Terror Attacks For the Past 2 Months
| Date | Country | City | Killed | Injured | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010.06.09 | Iraq | Baghdad | 2 | 5 | A husband and his wife are brutally executed in their own home by Mujahideen. |
| 2010.06.09 | Thailand | Yala | 1 | 23 | A 5-year-old girl is murdered in a grenade attack by Islamic separatists. |
| 2010.06.09 | Iraq | Shurqat | 2 | 2 | Two Iraqis are gunned down by suspected al-Qaeda. |
| 2010.06.09 | Iraq | Muqdadiya | 2 | 4 | A suicide bomber on a motorcycle murders two civilians. |
| 2010.06.09 | Somalia | Mogadishu | 5 | 0 | Five government workers are blown to bits by an Islamist roadside bomb. |
| 2010.06.09 | Pakistan | Mohmand | 2 | 0 | Two local soldiers are killed by a Taliban ambush. |
| 2010.06.09 | Pakistan | Karachi | 1 | 0 | A Shia is shot to death by sectarian rivals. |
| 2010.06.09 | Afghanistan | Kandahar | 1 | 0 | Religious fanatics drag a local city official from his home and murder him. |
| 2010.06.09 | Afghanistan | Nadahan | 40 | 73 | Forty people at a wedding are incinerated by a Fedayeen suicide bomber. |
| 2010.06.08 | Iraq | Kirkuk | 1 | 0 | A Christian father is murdered outside his home by Islamist gunmen. |
| 2010.06.08 | Pakistan | Quetta | 1 | 0 | A Hindu trader is shot to death by Muslim kidnappers. |
| 2010.06.08 | Pakistan | Punjab | 4 | 3 | Four drivers are burned to death when Mujahideen set fire to a supply convoy. |
| 2010.06.08 | Pakistan | Orakzai | 6 | 8 | Religious fanatics storm a police checkpoint, killing six officers. |
| 2010.06.08 | Iraq | Mosul | 2 | 0 | Islamic militants gun down an unmarried couple. |
| 2010.06.08 | Iraq | al-Halla | 3 | 1 | Jihadis spray the inside of a vehicle with automatic weapons, taking out three civilians. |
| 2010.06.08 | Afghanistan | Sangin | 1 | 0 | A 7-year-old boy is kidnapped and hanged by Sunni fundamentalists. |
| 2010.06.07 | Iraq | Abu Ghraib | 3 | 2 | An imam and his family are cut down in front of their house by Religion of Peace rivals. |
| 2010.06.07 | Iraq | Baghdad | 6 | 37 | A series of bombs packed with ball-bearings shred at least six Iraqis. |
| 2010.06.07 | Iraq | Sunidij | 3 | 1 | Three brothers are shot to death in their home by Muslim terrorists. |
| 2010.06.07 | Afghanistan | Kandahar | 2 | 0 | An American civilian training Afghan police officers is among two killed in a Fedayeen attack. |
| 2010.06.07 | Algeria | Bejaia | 3 | 5 | Fundamentalists kill three security personnel with two planted bombs. |
| 2010.06.06 | Thailand | Pattani | 3 | 0 | Three Buddhist workers, including a woman, are shot to death by Islamic terrorists on a shrimp farm. |
| 2010.06.06 | Thailand | Narathiwat | 1 | 0 | A 34-year-old man is gunned down in front of his home by Muslim radicals. |
| 2010.06.06 | Iraq | Baghdad | 6 | 18 | Six people are ripped apart by two Jihad bomb blasts. |
| 2010.06.06 | Afghanistan | Kandahar | 1 | 11 | At least one person is killed by a Taliban roadside attack. |
| 2010.06.05 | Yemen | Marib | 3 | 0 | An al-Qaeda ambush leaves three locals dead. |
| 2010.06.05 | Pakistan | Khyber | 2 | 0 | Two passersby are killed in a shootout between rival Islamist groups. |
| 2010.06.05 | Iraq | Mosul | 2 | 0 | Two politicians are assassinated by Muslim terrorists in separate attacks. |
| 2010.06.05 | Afghanistan | Kandahar | 1 | 15 | Muslim terrorists set off a bicycle bomb in front of a Red Cross office, killing a bystander. |
| 2010.06.04 | Pakistan | Datta Khel | 1 | 0 | An elderly man is beheaded by Religion of Peace zealots. |
| 2010.06.04 | Dagestan | Makhachkala | 1 | 1 | Muslim radicals shoot a rival imam to death in front of his mosque. |
| 2010.06.04 | Iraq | Missan | 2 | 2 | Two Iraqis are killed when Muslim radicals rocket an airport. |
| 2010.06.04 | Iraq | Mosul | 2 | 4 | Terrorsts murder two civilians with a roadside bomb. |
| 2010.06.04 | Pakistan | Miranshah | 1 | 0 | A civilian is captured by the Taliban and shot to death. |
| 2010.06.04 | Philippines | Sumisip | 2 | 1 | Two residents are killed when Abu Sayyaf fire into a village. |
| 2010.06.04 | Ingushetia | Malgobek | 1 | 16 | An attack on a shop by Islamic militants leaves one person dead. |
| 2010.06.04 | Philippines | Basilan | 3 | 0 | Abu Sayyaf members kidnap and murder three villagers. The victims were manual laborers. |
| 2010.06.04 | Ingushetia | Sagapshi | 2 | 21 | A grocery store clerk is gunned down by Islamists who plant a bomb that then kills a rescue worker. |
| 2010.06.03 | Turkey | Iskenderun | 1 | 0 | A Catholic bishop is stabbed to death by a Muslim who says it was Allah's will. |
| 2010.06.03 | Thailand | Pattani | 1 | 0 | A Buddhist schoolteacher is gunned down by Religion of Peace proponents. |
| 2010.06.03 | Pakistan | Quetta | 2 | 0 | A man murders his sister and her lover for having 'illicit relations'. |
| 2010.06.03 | Iraq | Sinjar | 4 | 14 | Four people are killed when Islamic fundamentalist bombers target and liquor stores. |
| 2010.06.03 | Somalia | Mogadishu | 2 | 5 | Two Uganadan peacekeepers are murdered by al-Shabaab terrorists. |
| 2010.06.03 | Pakistan | Sahiwal | 0 | 3 | A pastor and his pregnant wife are brutally assaulted by angry Muslims accusing them of evangelism. |
| 2010.06.03 | Iraq | Abu Ghraib | 8 | 0 | Eight victims of a Shiite death squad are found in a mass grave. |
| 2010.06.02 | Afghanistan | Nawzad | 4 | 0 | Two young boys are among four civilians taken out by Islamist roadside bomb. |
| 2010.06.02 | Afghanistan | Marjah | 4 | 0 | Four civilians are killed in their home during a Taliban ambush on a security patrol. |
| 2010.06.02 | Iraq | Mosul | 1 | 0 | Islamic militants kidnap a local soldier and slit his throat. |
| 2010.06.02 | Iraq | Abu Ghraib | 1 | 3 | A Jihad bomb blast leaves one Iraqi dead. |
| 2010.06.01 | Pakistan | Karachi | 1 | 0 | A Shia is brutally shot to death in a sectarian attack. |
| 2010.06.01 | Pakistan | Muslimabad | 2 | 0 | A woman and her new husband are murdered by her former in-laws in an honor killing. |
| 2010.06.01 | Iraq | Mosul | 3 | 1 | Mujahid successfully kill three Iraqis with an incendiary bomb. |
| 2010.06.01 | Pakistan | Mohmand | 3 | 0 | Three civilians are gunned down by Taliban militants. |
| 2010.05.31 | Iraq | Baghdad | 2 | 10 | Jihadis gun down a man sitting in a cafe and successfully kill a civilian in a separate bomb attack. |
| 2010.05.31 | Pakistan | Lahore | 6 | 6 | Six people are killed when Islamic militants storm a hospital. |
| 2010.05.31 | Pakistan | Quetta | 2 | 0 | A prayer leader and his companion are murdered by sectarian rivals. |
| 2010.05.31 | Ingushetia | Malgobek | 1 | 2 | Islamic militants kill an off-duty policeman at a gas station. |
| 2010.05.31 | Jordan | Amman | 1 | 0 | A 20-year-old woman is stabbed to death by her older brother in an honor killing. |
| 2010.05.30 | Afghanistan | Khost | 19 | 23 | A Fedayeen suicide bomber takes out nearly twenty local recruits. |
| 2010.05.30 | Iraq | Mosul | 1 | 3 | One civilian is killed in a shooting attack by Muslim radicals. |
| 2010.05.30 | Thailand | Pattani | 1 | 0 | A 50-year-old Buddhist is shot to death by four Muslims while sitting in a tea shop. |
| 2010.05.30 | Afghanistan | Badakhshan | 7 | 1 | Taliban fundamentalists murder seven local cops with a roadside bomb. |
| 2010.05.29 | Dagestan | Kaspiysk | 1 | 2 | Islamic militants send a police officer to Allah with a roadside bomb. |
| 2010.05.29 | Iraq | Mosul | 2 | 0 | Terrorists gun down a farmer and his son in their field. |
| 2010.05.29 | Pakistan | Lahore | 3 | 1 | Three police officers are cut down by Islamic gunmen at a checkpoint. |
| 2010.05.28 | Pakistan | Karachi | 1 | 0 | One person is killed when rival Islamic sects clash. |
| 2010.05.28 | Pakistan | Lahore | 98 | 110 | Orthodox Sunni terrorists stage a bloody grenade and firearms assault on two mosques belonging to a minority sect. Nearly one hundred worshippers are murdered. |
| 2010.05.28 | Pakistan | Faisalabad | 0 | 5 | Muslims fire into a Christian community, hitting five innocents. |
| 2010.05.28 | Somalia | Mogadishu | 3 | 1 | Two children are among three civilians blown to bits by Islamic milita bombers. |
| 2010.05.28 | Pakistan | Quetta | 4 | 0 | Lashkar-e-Jhangvi gunmen take down four policemen at point-blank range. |
| 2010.05.27 | Iraq | Mosul | 1 | 11 | Mujahid gun down a civilian and mortar a factory, woulding eleven people. |
| 2010.05.27 | Pakistan | Bajur | 3 | 1 | A married couple and their son are brutally gunned down in their home by Islamic fundamentalists. |
| 2010.05.26 | Pakistan | Lahore | 1 | 0 | Terrorists murder a lawyer outside a courthouse with a grenade. |
| 2010.05.26 | Somalia | Mogadishu | 6 | 20 | Six people are counted dead following an al-Shabaab militia attack around a city square. |
| 2010.05.26 | Iraq | Mosul | 3 | 0 | Three policemen are murdered by Mujahideen. |
| 2010.05.26 | Thailand | Yala | 2 | 52 | Islamic militants set off a bomb in front of a car dealership, killing two people. |
| 2010.05.26 | Russia | Starvropol | 7 | 40 | Two young girls are among seven killed when terrorists bomb a concert hall. |
| 2010.05.25 | Philippines | Talipao | 3 | 3 | Three members of a family are blown apart, when Abu Sayyaf members throw a grenade into their home. |
| 2010.05.25 | Iraq | Baghdad | 15 | 3 | al-Qaeda radicals gundown fifteen people working at a gold market. |
| 2010.05.24 | Afghanistan | Faryab | 1 | 2 | Taliban terrorists assassinate an Afghan elder and peace advocate. |
| 2010.05.24 | Afghanistan | Khost | 6 | 0 | Six residents of a small village are shot to death in cold blood by Islamic fundamentalists. |
| 2010.05.24 | Iraq | Mosul | 2 | 1 | Religious extremists assassinate a secular lawmaker and his driver. |
| 2010.05.24 | Pakistan | Quetta | 2 | 15 | Women and children are among the casualties when Sunni bombers target a Shia scholar. |
| 2010.05.24 | Iraq | Ramadi | 1 | 0 | Jihadis kill a young man with a bomb planted outside his kitchen. |
| 2010.05.24 | Afghanistan | Farah | 5 | 8 | Five civilians riding a bus are blown to bits by Taliban bombers. |
| 2010.05.24 | Iraq | Mosul | 1 | 0 | An elderly woman is murdered inside her home by Mujahideen. |
| 2010.05.23 | India | Sopore | 1 | 0 | Islamic militants are suspected in the murder of a local official. |
| 2010.05.23 | Nigeria | Jos | 2 | 0 | Two Christians are hacked to death with machetes by passing Muslims. |
| 2010.05.22 | Pakistan | FATA | 1 | 0 | A tribesman, abducted the Taliban, is found dead. |
| 2010.05.22 | Russia | Prokladnyi | 3 | 0 | Two women and one man are gunned down in cold blood by suspected Islamic insurgents. |
| 2010.05.22 | Pakistan | Baizai | 1 | 3 | A member of a peace committee is murdered in an Islamist ambush. |
| 2010.05.22 | Somalia | Mogadishu | 20 | 55 | Twenty civilians are crushed and dismembered during an Islamic mortar attack. |
| 2010.05.22 | Thailand | Narathiwat | 2 | 0 | Two civilians are shot to death by Muslim terrorists. |
| 2010.05.22 | Thailand | Yala | 2 | 0 | Two women, one of whom was pregnance, are murdered in cold blood by Mujahid gunmen. |
| 2010.05.22 | Iraq | Mosul | 2 | 4 | Two Iraqis are taken out in a bomb blast. |
| 2010.05.21 | Iraq | Diyala | 35 | 69 | A Fedayeen drives an explosives-laden minibus into a crowd of shoppers and cafe patrons. |
| 2010.05.21 | Somalia | Mogadishu | 3 | 5 | Three civilians are killed during an al-Shabaab attack. |
| 2010.05.21 | Pakistan | Mir Ali | 1 | 0 | Hardliners abduct and murder a local tribesman. |
| 2010.05.21 | Iraq | Muqdadiya | 4 | 1 | Mujahideen invade a home and shoot four family members to death. |
| 2010.05.21 | Thailand | Pattani | 1 | 0 | Holy Warriors shoot a Buddhist nurse in the head as she is riding to work. |
| 2010.05.20 | Thailand | Yala | 1 | 0 | A Buddhist woman is gunned down in her grocery story by Muslim terrorists. |
| 2010.05.20 | Thailand | Narathiwat | 1 | 0 | Muslim gunmen murder a 56-year-old villager. |
| 2010.05.20 | Pakistan | North Waziristan | 2 | 0 | The Taliban strap explosives to two civilians and detonate them in a public execution. |
| 2010.05.20 | Iraq | Mosul | 3 | 8 | A Shahid suicide bomber takes out three Iraqis. |
| 2010.05.19 | Algeria | Boumerdes | 2 | 18 | An al-Qaeda roadside blast takes out two local soldiers. |
| 2010.05.19 | Thailand | Yala | 1 | 0 | A 46-year-old civilian is shot and then set on fire by Religion of Peace separatists. |
| 2010.05.19 | Russia | Dagestan | 3 | 0 | Muslim radicals gun down two local cops and kill a third with a bomb in neighboring Chechnya. |
| 2010.05.19 | Iraq | Mosul | 2 | 1 | Mujahideen gun down two local soldiers at a checkpoint. |
| 2010.05.19 | Iraq | Mussayab | 6 | 19 | Six people at a restaurant are blown to bits by Islamic bombers. |
| 2010.05.19 | Philippines | Basilan | 2 | 2 | Abu Sayyaf militants ambush and kill two policemen. |
| 2010.05.19 | Somalia | Mogadishu | 1 | 0 | An African peacekeeper is taken out by an Islamist bomb. |
| 2010.05.19 | Somalia | Mogadishu | 2 | 0 | Two children are killed when Islamic militia fire a mortar into their home. |
| 2010.05.18 | Afghanistan | Kabul | 18 | 47 | At least eighteen people are massacred by a Fedayeen suicide bomber. |
| 2010.05.18 | India | Poonch | 2 | 3 | Two Indian soldiers are murdered in a Jihad ambush. |
| 2010.05.18 | Iraq | Yathrib | 2 | 1 | Islamic terrorists blow up two Iraqi women in their home. |
| 2010.05.18 | Pakistan | Dera Ismail Khan | 14 | 17 | A bicycle bomber blasts fourteen souls to Allah, including a small girl. |
| 2010.05.18 | Afghanistan | Kabul | 1 | 9 | A Taliban rocket attack kills a US citizen. |
| 2010.05.17 | Thailand | Yala | 1 | 0 | A Buddhist school administrator is murdered by Muslim assassins on his way to work. |
| 2010.05.17 | Thailand | Pattani | 1 | 0 | Three Muslims shoot a Buddhist public works official to death. |
| 2010.05.17 | Pakistan | Tank | 1 | 0 | A pro-government tribal elder is murdered by Islamists on his way home. |
| 2010.05.17 | Iraq | al-Bushaneen | 1 | 0 | A cleric is shot to death in front of his family by Muslim radicals. |
| 2010.05.17 | Iraq | Sadiyah | 1 | 0 | al-Qaeda behead a rival cleric and hang his head from a utility pole. |
| 2010.05.16 | Afghanistan | Kandahar | 1 | 0 | Muslim gunmen on a motorcycle murder a man sitting in his car. |
| 2010.05.16 | Afghanistan | Kunar | 3 | 0 | A pro-peace cleric is gunned down along with two family members by Islamic hardliners. |
| 2010.05.16 | Afghanistan | Heart | 2 | 2 | Two Italian peacekeepers succumb to injuries from a roadside bombing. |
| 2010.05.16 | Somalia | Mogadishu | 16 | 31 | Sixteen civilians are killed during a vicious mortar attack by Islamic militia. |
| 2010.05.15 | Afghanistan | Khost | 4 | 0 | The Taliban kidnap and brutally slaughter four Afghan members of a wedding party, including the groom. |
| 2010.05.15 | Yemen | Hibailin | 1 | 2 | Suspected al-Qaeda assassinate a guard. |
| 2010.05.15 | Iraq | Mosul | 3 | 0 | A child, shepherd and mosque official are killed in separate Mujahid attacks. |
| 2010.05.14 | India | Srinagar | 1 | 5 | One officer is killed when Islamists hurl a grenade toward a group of local cops. |
| 2010.05.14 | India | Hyderabad | 1 | 0 | Tehreek Galba-e-Islam terrorists on a motorcycle gun down a cop. |
| 2010.05.14 | Iraq | Mosul | 1 | 0 | A tailor who makes military uniforms is shot to death by Mujahideen. |
| 2010.05.14 | Iraq | Baghdad | 4 | 8 | Four people are killed when terrorists detonate a bomb at a park. |
| 2010.05.14 | Iraq | Jbala | 0 | 20 | Twenty Shias are injured when rivals blow up their mosque. |
| 2010.05.14 | Thailand | Narathiwat | 1 | 0 | Islamists shoot a public health official six times in the chest and head. |
| 2010.05.14 | Iraq | Tal Afar | 25 | 108 | Muslim terrorists stage a huge suicide bombing on a soccer game, leaving at least two dozen spectators dead. |
| 2010.05.14 | Afghanistan | Ghazni | 5 | 0 | Five private security guards are murdered in a Muslim ambush. |
| 2010.05.13 | Dagestan | Makhachkala | 8 | 4 | Eight workers on their way to repair a cell phone tower are blown to bits by Islamic bombers. |
| 2010.05.13 | Pakistan | Karachi | 1 | 0 | A child is shot dead in a suspected sectarian attack. |
| 2010.05.13 | Iraq | Baghdad | 5 | 12 | Five Iraqis are sent to paradise by Mujahideen bombers. |
| 2010.05.12 | Pakistan | Peshawar | 3 | 3 | Islamic bombers send three seminary students to Allah. |
| 2010.05.12 | Afghanistan | Uruzgan | 3 | 0 | A Fedayeen suicide bomber takes out three local cops. |
| 2010.05.12 | Afghanistan | Kandahar | 1 | 0 | Islamic militants claim credit for the targeted assassination of a prison official. |
| 2010.05.12 | Pakistan | Chaman | 2 | 2 | A teenager is among two killed when Muslim extremists blow up a tanker truck. |
| 2010.05.12 | Iraq | Baghdad | 9 | 39 | Nine Iraqis are brought down by two terrorist bombings. |
| 2010.05.12 | Pakistan | North Waziristan | 2 | 0 | Tehreek-e-Taliban members kidnap and shoot two civilians to death. |
| 2010.05.12 | Somalia | Mogadishu | 1 | 5 | An al-Shabaab bombing leaves one person dead. |
| 2010.05.12 | Iraq | Baghdad | 7 | 22 | Jihadis detonate a bomb outside a caf�, murdering seven patrons. |
| 2010.05.11 | Iraq | Baghdad | 5 | 16 | A Christian community may have been the target of a double bombing that leaves five dead. |
| 2010.05.11 | Afghanistan | Kandahar | 1 | 0 | Islamic hardliners shoot a civilian to death inside his home. |
| 2010.05.10 | Pakistan | Orakzai | 9 | 5 | Islamic fundamentalists attack a local army post, killing nine defenders. |
| 2010.05.10 | Iraq | Baghdad | 114 | 350 | Suicide bombings at a textiles factory and a wave of other terror attacks on Iraqis, including at marketplaces and mosques, leave over one-hundred dead. |
| 2010.05.10 | Pakistan | Karachi | 1 | 0 | A Shia doctor and father of two is gunned down in a sectarian attack. |
| 2010.05.09 | Philippines | Cotabato | 1 | 9 | Militant Muslims are suspected of tossing a grenade into a rival mosque, leaving at least one dead. |
| 2010.05.09 | Iraq | Mosul | 1 | 0 | An elderly man is shot to death in front of his home by terrorists. |
| 2010.05.09 | Iraq | Tehran | 5 | 0 | The Islamic Republic executes five political prisoners, calling them 'enemies of Allah.' |
| 2010.05.09 | India | Ganderbal | 1 | 0 | Hizb-ul-Mujahideen murder the young brother of a former militant in his home in revenge for his leaving. |
| 2010.05.08 | Afghanistan | Herat | 4 | 0 | Talibanis behead four Afghans. |
| 2010.05.08 | Iraq | Mosul | 3 | 2 | A woman is among three people gunned down in separate Mujahideen attacks. |
| 2010.05.08 | Iraq | Amirli | 3 | 5 | A mother and her son are among three killed when Islamic terrorists plant a bomb in a home. |
| 2010.05.07 | Iraq | Rashad | 3 | 4 | Three Iraqis are taken down in a suspected al-Qaeda ambush. |
| 2010.05.07 | Somalia | Shabelle | 4 | 10 | Four hospital guards are shot dead by Hizbul Islam members while working their post. |
| 2010.05.07 | Dagestan | Derbent | 1 | 5 | A woman standing on a railway platform is shredded by a Jihad bomb. |
| 2010.05.07 | Iraq | Mosul | 1 | 0 | A 16-year-old boy dies from gunshot wounds to the head, suffered during an Ansar al-Islam kidnapping. |
| 2010.05.07 | Pakistan | Ghazi Kot | 4 | 1 | Religious extremists machine-gun four local cops taking shelter from the rain inside a shed. |
| 2010.05.06 | Pakistan | Cantt | 1 | 0 | A civilian is murdered by a Shahid suicide bomber. |
| 2010.05.06 | Pakistan | Bahawalnagar | 1 | 0 | A 15-year-old teenager dies from shrapnel injuries after militants throw a grenade into his home. |
| 2010.05.06 | India | Rafiabad | 2 | 0 | Two security personnel are killed when Mujahid open fire on them from a house. |
| 2010.05.06 | Iraq | Baghdad | 2 | 4 | Jihadi bombers take down two locals at a town square. |
| 2010.05.06 | Thailand | Yala | 1 | 0 | A 52-year-old man is shot to death by Mujahideen while sitting in this truck |
| 2010.05.05 | Afghanistan | Nimruz | 4 | 15 | A woman is among four Afghans murdered by a Fedayeen assault on a government building. |
| 2010.05.05 | Somalia | Mogadishu | 1 | 0 | An anti-Islamist journalist is kidnapped and slain by his abductors. |
| 2010.05.05 | Iraq | Mosul | 1 | 0 | A college student is kidnapped and murdered by Ansar al-Islam. |
| 2010.05.05 | Iraq | Ameriya | 4 | 0 | Four people, including a rival imam are murdered by Sunni gunmen. |
| 2010.05.05 | Iraq | Mosul | 2 | 1 | Islamic terrorists gun down two Iraqis in cold blood. |
| 2010.05.04 | Somalia | Hawa Abdi | 1 | 0 | A man is assassinated by Islamic gunmen as he leaves a mosque. |
| 2010.05.04 | Somalia | Xarardheere | 1 | 0 | Islamists pull a 57-year-old Christian father of three from his home and execute him for running an underground church. |
| 2010.05.04 | Iraq | Mosul | 3 | 0 | Freedom fighters gun down a pharmacist, woman, and rival imam in separate attacks. |
| 2010.05.04 | Afghanistan | Kunduz | 3 | 0 | Three civilians are captured and executed by the Taliban. |
| 2010.05.03 | Iraq | Sharqat | 2 | 4 | Jihadi bombers take down two Iraqis. |
| 2010.05.03 | Iraq | Kirkuk | 0 | 0 | An accused sorcerer is shot to death outside his home. |
| 2010.05.03 | Afghanistan | Khost | 1 | 2 | A civilian is blown to bits by a Shahid suicide bomber. |
| 2010.05.02 | Iraq | Mosul | 4 | 171 | Four people are killed, and over one-hundred injured when Islamic bombers target buses carrying young Christian students. |
| 2010.05.02 | Pakistan | Swat | 1 | 3 | A young woman is killed when religious extremists throw a grenade into her home. |
| 2010.05.02 | Afghanistan | Paktia | 8 | 14 | Religion of Peace hardliners massacre a busload of women and children with a roadside bomb. |
| 2010.05.02 | Somalia | Kismayo | 2 | 12 | Two people are killed when Muslim terrorists toss a grenade into a rival mosque. |
| 2010.05.01 | Iraq | Baghdad | 3 | 2 | Three Iraqis are killed by a car bomb. |
| 2010.05.01 | Somalia | Mogadishu | 45 | 70 | Forty-five people die from shrapnel and burn injuries when Islamists bomb a rival mosque. |
| 2010.05.01 | Russia | Nalchik | 1 | 29 | Muslim radicals set off a bomb at a race track, killing an elderly veteran of World War II. |
| 2010.05.01 | Pakistan | Swat | 3 | 12 | Three innocents are incinerated by a suicide bomber at a shop. |
| 2010.05.01 | Iraq | Mosul | 1 | 0 | Sectarian Jihadis gun down a teacher leaving a mosque. |
| 2010.04.30 | India | Batamaloo | 1 | 0 | Angry Muslims stone an innocent civilian to death over the cancellation of a religious march. |
| 2010.04.30 | France | Strasbourg | 0 | 1 | A Jewish man is stabbed in the neck and hit in the face with an iron bar by a Muslim yelling about a Zionist conspiracy. |
| 2010.04.30 | Pakistan | Karachi | 1 | 5 | Islamists murder a civilian with a bomb attached to a motorcycle. |
| 2010.04.30 | Pakistan | Karam Kot | 1 | 0 | The body of a brutally slain intelligence officer is found three weeks after being kidnapped. |
| 2010.04.30 | Iraq | Garma | 3 | 10 | Three patrons are killed when Islamic militants toss a bomb into a marketplace. |
| 2010.04.29 | Dagestan | Kazbekovsky | 2 | 17 | Two local cops are blown to bits by a Fedayeen suicide bomber. |
| 2010.04.29 | Somalia | El Bahay | 6 | 10 | Six people are taken out by an al-Shabaab attack on a village. |
| 2010.04.29 | Iraq | Baghdad | 8 | 20 | Suspected fundamentalists bomb a liquor store, killing eight civilians. |
| 2010.04.29 | Iraq | Baghdad | 1 | 0 | A car bomb at a rival mosque leaves one dead. |
| 2010.04.28 | Pakistan | Quetta | 1 | 0 | A Christian man is gunned down by suspected Muslim militants as he is washing a car. |
| 2010.04.28 | Thailand | Pattani | 1 | 2 | A 41-year-old female health volunteer is shot in the head by Muslim rebels. |
| 2010.04.28 | Yemen | Damaj | 4 | 0 | Shiite rebels kill four people in two separate attacks. |
| 2010.04.28 | Iraq | Baghdad | 6 | 18 | Jihadi bombers manage to take down six Iraqis along a city street. |
| 2010.04.28 | Afghanistan | Khost | 12 | 0 | Islamic hardliners murder a dozen civilians, mostly women and children, with a roadside bomb. |
| 2010.04.28 | Pakistan | Peshawar | 4 | 15 | A Shahid suicide car bomber plows into a group of Pakistanis, killing at least four. |
| 2010.04.27 | Iraq | Baghdad | 2 | 12 | Two local soldiers are killed when Jihadis fire mortars from a residential neighborhood. |
| 2010.04.27 | Iraq | Baghdad | 4 | 2 | A family of four is obliterated by sectarian bombers. |
| 2010.04.27 | Somalia | Mogadishu | 2 | 8 | Islamists attack a rival mosque, killing two. |
| 2010.04.27 | Afghanistan | Kandahar | 3 | 35 | A Fedayeen suicide bomber sends three airport workers to Allah. |
| 2010.04.27 | Somalia | Afgoi | 0 | 0 | A respected humanitarian worker is shot to death by suspected Hizbul Islam. |
| 2010.04.27 | Iraq | Kirkuk | 1 | 1 | Jihadis take down a student in a drive-by attack. |
| 2010.04.26 | Afghanistan | Kunduz | 3 | 4 | Three people die from a Taliban rocket attack. |
| 2010.04.26 | India | Budgam | 1 | 1 | Islamic militants gun down a local cop. |
| 2010.04.26 | Iraq | Fallujah | 3 | 2 | Three Iraqis are taken out by Jihadi bombers. |
| 2010.04.26 | Iraq | Baqubah | 2 | 7 | Two people are murdered in separate Mujahideen bomb blasts. |
| 2010.04.25 | Thailand | Pattani | 1 | 4 | Islamists fire on a garbage truck, killing one worker. |
| 2010.04.25 | Afghanistan | Zabul | 4 | 12 | A suicide bomber detonates at a bazaar, blowing four innocents straight to Allah. |
| 2010.04.24 | Pakistan | Akwal | 3 | 1 | Three guards are gunned down when Taliban terrorists attack NATO tankers. |
| 2010.04.24 | Nigeria | Jos | 5 | 0 | Three Christians stabbed to death and two others hacked to pieces with machetes by a Muslim mob. |
| 2010.04.24 | Iraq | Baghdad | 3 | 19 | Jihadis bomb a marketplace, taking down three Iraqis. |
| 2010.04.24 | Iraq | Mosul | 3 | 0 | Two civilians and one defense volunteer are gunned down by Muslim militants. |
| 2010.04.24 | Somalia | Mogadishu | 2 | 2 | al-Shabaab Islamists kill two government soldiers with a landmine. |
| 2010.04.23 | Iraq | Baghdad | 69 | 303 | Devoted Sunnis slaughter seventy Shiite Iraqis in at least five deadly bomb blasts at mosques, homes and a shopping district. |
| 2010.04.23 | Pakistan | Datta Khel | 7 | 16 | Religious extremists ambush a Pakistani military convoy, killing seven. |
| 2010.04.23 | Pakistan | Miranshah | 4 | 0 | Four captives are butchered by Islamic hardliners, two of whom are beheaded. |
| 2010.04.22 | Pakistan | Charsadda | 4 | 0 | The Taliban spray a car with automatic weapons, slaying the four occupants. |
| 2010.04.22 | Iraq | Souz | 1 | 3 | Terrorists set off a bomb at a home, killing a resident. |
| 2010.04.22 | Thailand | Narathiwat | 1 | 0 | A young man is gunned down by Muslim radicals at a nightclub. |
| 2010.04.21 | India | Jammu | 1 | 0 | Mujahideen shoot an Indian police officer to death. |
| 2010.04.21 | Thailand | Pattani | 2 | 52 | An Islamic insurgent throws a grenade into a group of policemen. |
| 2010.04.21 | Somalia | Mogadishu | 5 | 0 | Five construction workers are kidnapped and beheaded by Islamic fundamentalists. |
| 2010.04.21 | Iraq | Baqubah | 3 | 14 | Jihadis bomb a restaurant near a school, a teacher and student are among three who die from shrapnel. |
| 2010.04.21 | Pakistan | Khyber | 1 | 4 | A woman is killed, and her four children injured, by mortar shell fired by suspected militants. |
| 2010.04.21 | Thailand | Pattani | 1 | 0 | A 56-year-old man is murdered by Muslim gunmen. |
| 2010.04.21 | Thailand | Narathiwat | 1 | 0 | Islamists shoot a 20-year-old man to death in his home. |
| 2010.04.21 | Pakistan | Sargodha | 1 | 1 | Two young Christian brothers (ages 12 and 14) are beaten with an iron rod by a Muslim yelling religious slurs. One dies. |
| 2010.04.21 | Iraq | Baghdad | 2 | 0 | Two victims of sectarian violence are found dead. |
| 2010.04.20 | Iraq | Tarmiyah | 5 | 0 | Three young children are beheaded along with two women in a home by suspected al-Qaeda. |
| 2010.04.20 | Pakistan | Hangu | 4 | 12 | Four locals are blown to bits by Sunni bombers. |
| 2010.04.20 | Iraq | Hit | 3 | 0 | Three Iraqis are murdered by a roadside bomb. |
| 2010.04.20 | Dagestan | Makhachkala | 3 | 0 | Islamic militants ambush two policemen with automatic weapons. |
| 2010.04.19 | Afghanistan | Kandahar | 3 | 4 | Three children are brutally killed when Islamists set off a bomb hidden in a donkey cart. |
| 2010.04.19 | Pakistan | Peshawar | 1 | 15 | A young boy is killed when a Fedayeen suicide bomber attacks a school. |
| 2010.04.19 | Afghanistan | Kandahar | 1 | 0 | A popular politician is assassinated by hardliners at a mosque. |
| 2010.04.19 | Pakistan | Peshawar | 25 | 48 | About two dozen patrons at a market are sent to Allah by a Holy Warrior in a suicide vest. |
| 2010.04.19 | Nigeria | Riyom | 4 | 0 | Four Christian farmers are murdered in their field by Muslim terrorists. |
| 2010.04.19 | Iraq | Baqubah | 2 | 2 | Jihadi bombers take down two civilians. |
| 2010.04.19 | Pakistan | Swat | 2 | 3 | Two villagers sitting outside a shop are gunned down by Mujahideen. |
| 2010.04.19 | Pakistan | Landikotal | 1 | 1 | Islamists send a mortar into a school principal's home, killing a woman and injuring her daughter. |
| 2010.04.19 | Afghanistan | Kabul | 2 | 6 | A suicide bomber kills two soldiers at their base. |
| 2010.04.18 | Iraq | Bartala | 1 | 0 | A member of the Shabak religious minority is kidnapped and murdered. |
| 2010.04.18 | Pakistan | Peshawar | 7 | 26 | A child is among seven people blown into pieces by a Shahid car bomber. |
| 2010.04.18 | Iraq | Mosul | 4 | 0 | Three women are among four civilians shot to death in their home by Mujahideen. |
| 2010.04.18 | Somalia | Mogadishu | 16 | 24 | Islamists murder sixteen people with a landmine and mortar attack on an airport. |
| 2010.04.18 | Iran | Urmiye Prison | 2 | 0 | The Islamic republic tortures to Kurdish prisoners to death on the same day. |
| 2010.04.17 | Iraq | Basra | 1 | 2 | Islamists gun down a woman and injure her husband and son. |
| 2010.04.17 | Pakistan | Kohat | 41 | 62 | Two suicide bombers, dressed in burqas, blow up forty-one refugees lining up for food at a displaced persons camp. |
| 2010.04.16 | Pakistan | Quetta | 10 | 35 | A suicidal Sunni detonates in a crowd of Shia protesters outside a hospital, sending at least ten to Allah. |
| 2010.04.16 | Iraq | Baaj | 2 | 0 | Islamists kidnap two men and shoot them in the back of the head. |
| 2010.04.15 | Thailand | Pattani | 2 | 1 | Muslim militants shoot three people, including a pork vendor. |
| 2010.04.15 | Afghanistan | Kandahar | 6 | 16 | A half dozen innocents are sent to Allah by Shahid suicide bomber. |
| 2010.04.15 | Yemen | Shabwa | 2 | 1 | Separate al-Qaeda bomb blasts leave two people dead. |
| 2010.04.15 | Pakistan | Mingora | 2 | 0 | Teenage Talibanis gun down two people in broad daylight. |
| 2010.04.15 | Iraq | Samarrah | 14 | 0 | The bodies of fourteen kidnapping victims of a Sunni terror group are found in a mass grave. |
| 2010.04.15 | Nigeria | Boto | 2 | 0 | A Christian pastor and his wife are abducted by Muslims and burned to a crisp. |
| 2010.04.15 | Turkey | Istanbul | 1 | 0 | An entire family is involved in the 'honor' suffocation of a 2-day-old out-of-wedlock infant. |
| 2010.04.15 | Iraq | Mosul | 4 | 0 | Three women are among four civilians shot to death in their own home by Mujahideen. |
| 2010.04.14 | Thailand | Narathiwat | 1 | 0 | Islamic radicals murder a village defense volunteer by slashing the back of his head and letting him bleed to death. |
| 2010.04.14 | Indonesia | Jarkata | 3 | 156 | Muslims enraged by a rumor of a revered scholar's tomb desecration attack security forces, hacking at least three to death. |
| 2010.04.14 | Iraq | Baghdad | 2 | 6 | A Sunni cleric is cut down by Religion of Peace rivals outside his mosque. A separate al-Qaeda attack leaves another Iraqi dead. |
| 2010.04.14 | USA | Marquette Park, IL | 5 | 2 | After quarrelling with his wife over Islamic dress, a Muslim convert shoots his family members to 'take them back to Allah' and out of the 'world of sinners'. |
| 2010.04.14 | Iraq | Mosul | 2 | 0 | A nurse is among two civilians gunned down by Islamic terrorists. |
| 2010.04.13 | Philippines | Isabela | 9 | 7 | Abu Sayyaf terrorists disguised as policemen attack a Christian town, shooting and blasting nine people to death and destroying a Catholic church. |
| 2010.04.13 | Afghanistan | Kandahar | 1 | 0 | An 18-year-old woman is brutally shot to death by an Islamic fundamentalist. |
| 2010.04.13 | Iraq | Baghdad | 3 | 5 | Suspected fundamentalists plant a shrapnel bomb at a liquor store shredding three patrons. |
| 2010.04.13 | Pakistan | Sargodha | 0 | 1 | A Christian barber is badly beaten and sodomized by an angry mob for cutting a Muslim's beard (per request). |
| 2010.04.12 | Afghanistan | Faryab | 4 | 2 | Four police officers are murdered by Taliban bombers. |
| 2010.04.12 | Somalia | Mogadishu | 6 | 10 | Six Somalis are destroyed by coordinated al-Shabaab bombings. |
| 2010.04.12 | Iraq | Baghdad | 5 | 12 | A Fedayeen detonates along a city street, killing five innocents. |
| 2010.04.12 | Iraq | Mosul | 3 | 15 | Three Iraqis are taken out by a Shahid suicide car bomber. |
| 2010.04.12 | Somalia | Mogadishu | 1 | 0 | A university student is killed when Islamic militia mortar an airport. |
| 2010.04.12 | Afghanistan | Kabul | 3 | 4 | Three women die from trauma suffered during a Sunni mortar attack. |
Oh, and before you try to excuse the attacks in Iraq saying that it's all because we invaded the country, please be advised that if I listed Muslim atrocities in Iraq before the US invaded there would have been even more listings. The US presence has saved hundreds of thousands of lives in Iraq. Be grateful.
But be straight with me here, Nadeem, even without personally visiting every single one of the cities above, shouldn't this tiny glimpse of things Islamic give me some reason to make certain assumptions about Islam? Eh? Shouldn't I be able to know that there is a lot of sand in Saudi Arabia without getting on a camel and trekking across the desert?
ENDNOTES
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I have traveled to Germany (East & West) 7 times, France 8 times, UK 3 times, Denmark once, Luxembourg 3 times, Iceland 4 times, Spain once, Greece 10 times, Yugoslavia 4 times, Poland 3 times, Hungary 6 times, Romania once, Israel 3 times, India twice, Italy 11 times, Monaco 4 times, Ireland once, Belgium 6 times, the Netherlands 8 times, Switzerland 4 times, Czechoslovakia 6 times, Austria 6 times, Bulgaria once, Turkey twice, Russia twice, Belarus once, a few Caribbean countries a number of times, and visited more than a few hundred foreign cities.
