Stephen Schwartz, a convert to Islam, makes a momentous announcement in TechCentralStation, via FrontPage:
On March 25, seven American Muslim activists joined me in founding a new, and much-needed platform for moderate Islam in America. Our organization is titled the Center for Islamic Pluralism. We have a website, www.islamicpluralism.org, at which our inaugural press release may be read, and have gained tax-exempt status as a public charity under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.Our founders represent the main Muslim communities in America: Sunnis and Shias, born Americans and immigrant Americans, of Arab, Turkish, and south Asian descent, as well as "new Muslims" -- Islam eschews the term "convert" -- originating in the U.S. and elsewhere in this hemisphere.
We define moderate Islam in the American context as an Islam that finds its proper and equal place as one among the many religions represented in America, with rights neither greater nor lesser than any other.
Moderate Islam recognizes its own history, the need to evolve, and the urgency for an intellectual revival, especially with regard to non-Muslims, women, and political governance. The CIP emphasizes pluralism to signal that it believes not in the tolerance of non-Muslims, but in their true acceptance as fellow believers in the one God, creator of the universe.
In addition, Islamic pluralism defines our approach to intra-Muslim relations. We seek mutual respect and dialogue between Sunnis and Shias, among Sufis, or spiritual Muslims, of both traditions, and full recognition within Islam of those who define themselves as cultural and secular Muslims.
Dialogue is the foundation of our activity. We come to this work with no preconceived program or demands, aside from our commitment to moderation, our loyalty to Western democratic principles, and our firm defense of American citizenship and obedience to American laws.
It's ironic that a man like Schwartz, who returns requests for dialogue with abuse and haughty refusals to answer, would now be heading up an organization with "dialogue" as its "foundation," but such are the vagaries of life.
And of course, despite Schwartz's unwarranted hostility to me, I will be the first to wish his new organization success. I'd rather see millions of Muslims belonging to the CIP than to Al-Qaeda. In fact, I'll even start the ball rolling on that dialogue with a few questions.
Schwartz says:
Islamic fundamentalists depend on the warped and distorted Wahhabi interpretation of Qur'an, but the stoning of adulterers appears nowhere in the Book itself. The situation of woman's rights is advancing in many Muslim countries, and may be improved without contradicting Islamic scripture.
It is true that the Qur'an prescribes lashes for adultery (24:2), but it also says that "if any of your women are guilty of lewdness, take the evidence of four (reliable) witnesses from amongst you against them; and if they testify, confine them to houses until death do claim them, or Allah ordain for them some (other) way" (4:15). The great Qur'anic commentator Ibn Kathir explains: "The early ruling was confinement, until Allah sent down Surat An-Nur (chapter 24) which abrogated that ruling with the ruling for flogging (for fornication) or stoning to death (for adultery)." He says that this is "a matter that is agreed upon." And indeed, it is the opinion of Ibn Abbas, 'Ikrimah, Sa'id ibn Jubayr, Al-Hasan, Ata Al-Khurasani, Abu Salih, Qatadah, Zayd bin Aslam and Ad-Dahhak.
None of these are "Wahhabis": all of them predate Wahhab. How does the CIP plan to respond to Muslims who invoke them to justify the traditional practice?
Schwartz also says:
Qur'an and the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) command us to moderation; we can do no less than to fulfill these high responsibilities in that spirit.
Schwartz in this seems to be calling Muslims back to adherence to the Qur'an and the example of Muhammad. Interestingly, just today, "a group calling itself al Qaeda in Iraq" said that "Terrorizing enemies of God is our faith and religion, which is taught to us by our Koran." Another Muslim group set about "justifying violent acts through ideological and doctrinal arguments." I could give hundreds of examples of jihad terrorists pointing to the Qur'an and the example of Muhammad to justify violence. And Schwartz's all-purpose bogeymen, the Wahhabis, are just today touting Muhammad, apparently just as would Schwartz himself, as "the perfect role model in all situations." So will the real Muhammad please stand up? How will the CIP respond to jihad terrorists when they invoke Muhammad and the Qur'an?
In another place, Schwartz has decried those who "demand a revision of the Muslim holy book, Qur'an," and asserted that "Islam needs no Reformation, merely to return to its long-established tradition: pluralistic, spiritual, and committed to the protection and refinement of its civilizational heritage."
What we got here is more than a failure to communicate: it is a case of dueling traditionalisms. If Schwartz is correct that all Islam needs to do is go back to the books and recover its traditions, what does he make of Muslims who invoke the same tradition to argue for violence? For example, take this article, "The True Meaning of Jihad." It argues for jihad violence from the Qur'an and Hadith, and then adds this from the Sira:
Moreover some will say that Jihad was only defensive; this is incorrect. A quick study of the Life of the Prophet (SalAllahu Alaihi Wasallam) shows us something different:• The Battle of Mut’ah was instigated by the Muslims against the Romans the Muslims were 3,000 faced against a Roman army of 200,000.
• The Battle of Hunayn was inevitable shortly of the Muslims had conquered Makkah.
• The Battle of Tabuk was also instigated to finally destroy the Romans.
Clearly this is not the Muhammad that the CIP is calling Muslims to follow. So where are we to find this Good-Joe, Rotarian Muhammad? Not in the earliest biography of him, Ibn Ishaq's Sira. Not in the Hadith of the Sahih Sittah, the six collections considered most reliable by Muslims. Not in At-Tabari's history. All these portray a man of violence. So where is CIP's Muhammad?
Questions like these have led one member of the CIP's board, Tashbih Sayyid, editor of Pakistan Today, to reconsider his role in the organization. Sayyid explained to me: "I don’t know much about the group as yet. Since I am not participating in the process of evolution or development, I have no idea what the group is actually doing. But my whole life is devoted to one end: to make the Muslims understand that their theology needs to be reformed and reinterpreted. Anybody who thinks that there’s nothing wrong with their theology is either a blind person or an apologist."
Sayyid continued: "I have to find out if they’re on the same page with me. There are many things in Muslim Scripture that need to be reshaped and reframed and reinterpreted, so that they cannot be used by terrorists to justify homicide bombings and honor killings. I need to talk with Schwartz. If Schwartz believes that there is nothing wrong with Muslim theology, I cannot be part of this group."
I myself will be very interested to learn the outcome of that conversation.
I think you mean "lashes for adultery," not "lashes for stoning."
Dear Adrienne Truett:
Fixed. Thanks.
Cordially
Robert Spencer
Robert:
While you aren't an Islamophobe, you hold Islam up to the light of day and for most non-apostate Muslims that's a problem.
The most intriguing part of the article at FrontPage announcing urbi et orbi that at long last "the Battle for Islam is joined" (stop laughing, please) was this:
"Our primary aims are to challenge control over the mosques and schools in America in which Wahhabi Islam holds a monopoly, and to introduce moderate Muslim voices into the Western media and academic discourse, and as expert advisors to governments."
"...and as expert advisors to governments."
Hmmm. And hmmm. What do you think that is all about? Do you think that Stephen Schwartz might just possibly have in mind getting contracts from the American government, and possibly from a few Arab governments, eager to show -- what's a few hundred thousand dollars to them -- that they have even retained "Schwartz and Co." to help "advise them" -- as self-desribed "expert advisors" -- on the who, and the what, and the why, of "reforming" Islam.
A perfect arrangement. Fat contracts for Schwartz & Co., and a reputation for "doing something" for -- oh, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, god knows who. And of course the American government.
It is not quite Jesse Jackson, having his group bought off by various corporations. But there is a certain similarity.
One would feel better if, somewhere in the Grand Plans about the Battle for the Soul of Islam, Schwartz announced that "We Will Not Take a Penny For Our Efforts, for the Cause Is Too Important To Profit From."
Yes, I like the sound of that. I await that announcement.
You are not the only one who has faced the hate of Mr. Schwartz. When I asked him to explain specific verses of the Quran and how they fit into his schema he replied...
"Who issued your credentials as an inquisitor? You don't even know what taqiyya is.
"Would you practice this form of ideological aggression against Jews and Christians that don't share your views?
"You do not practice dialogue. You practice a form of pseudointellectual quasiterrorism. You are the mirror image of the Islamist enemy.
"That will not win the battle to defend the world from extremism. You are part of the problem, not part of the solution.
"Stephen Schwartz"
The battle to defend the world from extremism will be waged with words as well as bullets, and words which speak the truth have the sharpest edges to cut deep and cut through all the BS. Who would debate those kinds of words when you are only armed with the language of dhimmitude?
I sent them this.
Well I for one appreciate
What your trying to do.
I started studying Islam shortly after the 911 attacks.
I felt it was my duty to find out if Islam was being twisted or
hijacked.
After a year of full time research i could hold my tongue no
longer hope I would have done the same during the rise of Hitler
if I had gotten my hands on Mien Kampf
If your goal is to get Islam to change laws so apostates can leave
Islam or not leave their homes fight without facing death .fine
that is needed .
But you are coming across as an apologist by calling good Muslims
extremist as it is fundamental Islam that is the problem .
Mohammed was not a prophet of god he was a flat out terrorist who
raped children tortured mutilated people ordered slaughter
starvations and sanctified Holy lying to allow Islam to succeed
.If you don’t know this you need to study Islam if you do know
this you are practicing holy lying/ taqiyya
It is my opinion what you are doing taqiyya and hoping the
violence stops and people for get about Islam’s threat to freedom
.You look forward to more immigration high birthrates and an
eventual Islamic take over or the USA just like the people at CAIR
want .
If I’m wrong your purpose would be much better served if you
announce you cannot make chicken salad out of chicken shit and
publicly leave Islam you may be killed but if you want to make an
omelet your going to have to break some eggs..
"The situation of woman's rights is advancing in many Muslim countries, and may be improved without contradicting Islamic scripture."
Give me a break! Schwartz insults my intelligence with this ridiculous statement. He is either an idealistic dreamer living in an islamic fantasy of his own making or he has now totally internalized the dual ethics of mohammed.
The genius of dual ethics is that in islam, one can pick and choose between good (from the meccan koran) and evil(from the medinan koran); it's all there. As a noted muslim scholar once told me, "There's somthing for everyone."
Unfortunately, the good and the evil are believed to be the words of allah, immutable, eternal and, under the shade of the sword, not to be tampered with by mere mortals.
Schwartz wants so desparately to have his religion respected, to be free and at the same time, to submit to the will of allah, that he will become known by the jihadis as an apostate. He plays with fire.
This is OT, so please bear with me. I also rarely post, so please bear with me doubly!
Interesting experience: I had to teach a class in Wash. DC this AM and the office was near George Washington University. I have a "Professional Firefighters for Bush" sticker--I just can't find it in my heart to remove it--as well as a "Proud to be an Infidel" sticker, more or less just to be provocative.
Well, when I came back outside after teaching, I saw what looked like a parking ticket (no big surprise to anyone with any DC experience; that's the one part of the govt. that works like a well-oiled machine) on my windshield. In fact, it was a three-page missive, obviously from a college idiotarian, explaing that I shouldn't be "proud to be an a$$hole" and "what about the Hispanic victims of the WTC whose families never received any money" and so forth and so on. It was a veritable cornucopia of anti-American, morally relativistic nostrums, cliches, and aphorisms.
I was quite amused that someone took that sort of time to stand there and waste time writing that letter. Upon further reflection though, it is a perfect example of the "Ward Churchillism" of the American college campus, and prima facie evidence of professorial indoctrination of students; unless, of course, it WAS a professor who left the note.
Anyway, that is what we're up against: an institutional synthesis of utopian socialism & pro-jihadi idealism. I'm sure this is no surprise to any of you regulars here, but that was my first "up close and personal" encounter with this particular form of deluded thinking.
Doug
Of course, Islam eschews the term "convert". It holds that anyone who "converts" is, in reality, someone who "reverts" to Islam, Islam being the first monotheistic faith, as most Muslims understand it. Hence, Islam's ability to disparage both Judaism and Christianity as late- comers and claim the premier place amongst the three montheistic faiths. It can then assert that both Judaism and Christianity have distorted the original message of Islam and are, thus, false doctrines and faiths. So much for the argument of Islam's much vaunted tolerance and its respect for both Judaism and Christianity. It has none. And will never any - at least, in our life times.
Hi Doug, glad to see you posting.
You might find these links to be provocative too:
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/index.htm
http://freedom.orlingrabbe.com/lfetimes/rlkocher_index.htm
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Stephen Schwartz is a Pragmatist too it appears. And we have to play along.
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/P/Pr/Pragmatic_theory_of_truth.htm
"The theory states that something is true only if it is useful to believe."
The question is, of course, "useful" to whom??????????????
The comment by "iconoclast" immediately above about the use, by Muslims, of the phrase "reverts to Islam" for converts, and what it reveals, is most apropos.
In Schwartz's original piece Announcing the Big News the World Has Been Waiting For, he lists a taxonomy of Muslims who have joined in his Grand Coalition of seven (or is it by now six) people. Aside from his wonted clumsiness with words (e.g., "born Americans and immigrant Americans" when he could have quick-fixed it with "American-born and immigrant Muslims"), he also mentions "'new Muslims' -- Islam eschews the term 'convert'" -- I like that pseudo-genteel "eschews" -- his failure to explain just why Islam "eschews" the term "convert" is telling.
For he could have done two other things. He could simply have decided to use, forthrightly, the word "converts" in the same manner as is used, without fear or favor, for "converts" to Christianity or to Judaism. He could, in other words, have signalled with his choice of words that he is not one of those Muslims who is going to insist that everyone in the world was born a Muslim, and somehow turned away from the True Path.
But he didn't do it. Instead, he "eschewed" the word "convert" and used the phrase "new Muslims," but did not explain -- as he should have -- why Muslims do not use the word "convert." The reason they do not is given in the posting immediately above, and it offers one more detail about the mental makeup of Muslims, who believe that being a Muslim is everyone's natural state, from which we fall away, and that to be a non-Muslim is, in fact, contra naturam.
Perhaps in another Message to the World, once he's gotten beyond the stuff About the Battlelines That Have Now Been Drawn, and I Can Do No Other, and Non Serviam, and Brave Statements To That Effect, Schwartz can clear this up.
For some reason that staircase-to-the-stars trompe-l'oeil trickster -- Escher -- suddenly comes to mind. I wonder why.
I have to wonder if they found their Schwartz in a Crackerjack box.
Stephen Schwartz is a Pragmatist too it appears. And we have to play along.
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/P/Pr/Pragmatic_theory_of_truth.htm
"The theory states that something is true only if it is useful to believe."
Posted by: kentim at March 31, 2005 04:38 PM
Yeah, he certainly plays into the hands of the Pragmatists, in addition to a lot of other intellectual jokes. This is one of the reasons we need to study philosophy, so we can file trash like Pragmatism and this definition of "truth" where it belongs.
As a slightly related aside, John Dewey, known to many as the "Father of Progressive Education," was also one of the developers of the American philosophy of Pragmatism. That's positively embarrassing! And just to add to my argument that philosophy isn't just some sort of trivial game, it is in no small way that John Dewey, Pragmatism and all, is largely responsible for the American school system's uncritically welcoming attitude towards Islam.
Mr. Schwartz could be invoking the Qur'an's deceit for the infidels clause all too easily.
To say the things Mr. Schwartz is saying is one matter. For this man to actually mean them and abide by them--and see to it that others do the same--is quite another matter. And even in the (unlikely) case he DOES mean what he says, there is no assurance to the American citizenry that his version of Islam will prevail over the other (more usual) versions of Islam in America.
Caution: Islam's history of unparalleled and unmitigated brutality, aggression, and totalitarianism definitely require extreme caution and skepticism when it is being dealt with--even if it is accompanied by speeches of reforms and good wishes for non-Muslim neighbors (as we are currently receiving from Mr. Schwartz).
Mr. Schwartz, intentionally or otherwise, could be giving the Muslim world's theocrats a trojan horse to attack the United States with. Beware!!
Ten-to-one Schwartz has to go into hiding after the Wahhabiists get a load of his new crock of sh*t.
Interesting. When I post links to these very articles, kj, giaour and company trash them out of hand.
The very same articles show up here by way of Mr. Spencer himself... and not a word is heard from either of those two.
Curious how the very articles I read and post to this site each morning, are precisely the kind of thing Mr. Spencer feels Everyone should be reading.
More or less. I don't wish to second-guess our host.
Now the question comes down to: why do giour, kj and company feel that these very articles / situations, are not worth informing the general public about?
Let's say, at the very least, President Bush is part of the problem by way of not knowing what he is talking about. (House of Saud, according to at least a few others posting here such as Waterdragon, has already been soundly discredited).
Fine. He may (but more like may not) be selling us out (according to kj)- but the Academia are Indoctrinating our students in the very thing we are fighting against!
I'd really like to know from either of you- giaour, kj- why these articles should NOT be seen by the general public? Why is it neccesary to keep them ignorant of what their own children are being brainwashed into believing? And is this Not the best place among several to be posting them to, especially seeing the Mr. Spencer himself is also posting / analyzing them here?
Mr. Schwartz's narcissistic "magical mystery tour" of self-deception appears to have reached a new level. I agree with Hugh Fitzgerald that Islam is likely totally incapable of any fundamental change that could approximate any of the western liberal enlightenment ideals encompassing basic human rights. Islam is not a "religion" and needs to be defined for what it truly is, a dogma of fear and submission which has declared war on mankind, especially those who resist it and have any knowledge of the actual tenets of the Qu'ran and hadith. This "religion" is not worthy of US First amendment protection, and should be categorized along with other false pseudo-religions such as Nazism. To Robert and Hugt, keep up the good work and fight the good fight with the best weapon available, the truth.
Stephen Schwartz is just another 1960's-70's-vintage Westerner who, being told his God is dead, went out to find a new one.
Somebody needs to tell him that the heart and soul of jihad in the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Loess Plateau, and Mindanao were Sufi brotherhoods. I think it's true of the slave-raiding tribes of Sahel Africa, too.
It's also fun to watch Hollywood-style "Buddhists" grow dismayed when they find out that the home-grown kinds says that a woman who gets an abortion gets paraded around Hell in a portable stock with the aborted child tugging at her skirts. The law of Karma, after all, doesn't provide for forgiveness or grace.
HAVE WE NOT LEARNED FROM OUR PAST???
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/T/Tr/Treaty_of_Versailles.htm
Treaty of Versailles
[Categories: World War I, Weimar Republic, Peace treaties, Germany]
The Treaty of Versailles of 1919 is the Quick Facts about: peace treaty
A treaty to cease hostilitiespeace treaty created as a result of the six-month-long Paris Peace Conference of 1919 which put an official end to Quick Facts about: World War I
A war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the central powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918World War I. The ceremonial signing of the treaty with Germany occurred June 28, 1919. The treaty was ratified on January 10, 1920
NOW A BIG Q?? DID THIS WORK OR NOT??
HELL NO IT DID NOT WORK THERE WAS ANOTHER WAR AND THE LON BECAME THE UN BUT NOW THE UN IS NOTHING MORE THAN THE ARAB LEAGE??
The Military conditions of the Treaty of Versailles were harsh and were put in action to prevent Germany from starting another World War. The German army was to be restricted to 100,000 men, there was to be no conscription,
BOY THAT WORKED WELL??
Article 231 of the Treaty (the 'war guilt' clause) held Germany solely responsible for all 'loss and damage' suffered by the Allies during the war and provided the basis for Quick Facts about: reparations
(usually plural) compensation exacted from a defeated nation by the victorsreparations. The total sum due was decided by an Inter-Allied Reparations Commission. In January 1921, this number was officially put at 269 billion gold marks, a sum that many economists deemed to be excessive. Later that year, the amount was reduced to 132 billion marks, which still seemed astronomical to most German observers. The economic problems that the payments brought, and German resentment at their imposition, are cited by some as one of the causes of the end of the Quick Facts about: Weimar Republic
The German republic founded at Weimar in 1919Weimar Republic and the dictatorship of Quick Facts about: Adolf Hitler
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A war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, NetherlWorld War II.
BOY THIS LOOKS LIKE A REPEAT TO ME??
AND ONCE AGAIN THEY SAY IT HAS TO DO WITH BEING POOR???
ARE WE REALLY SUCH SUCKERS??
Part of the American Tribe
Squirrel Hunter
Spider Killer
GOD BLESS THE USA AND HER FIGHTING FORCES AND ALL WHO FIGHT WITH HER GIVE THEM STRENGTH, WISDOM, SIGHT, AND COURAGE TO STAY THE COURSE TO VICTORY TO DESTROY ALL ISLAMIC TERRORIST AND ALL WHO SUPPORT THEM OPEN THE WORLDS EYES TO THEIR THREAT LET NOT THE WORLD BE DECEIVED BY THEM AMEN
Dear Kepha:
You say, "Somebody needs to tell him that the heart and soul of jihad in the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Loess Plateau, and Mindanao were Sufi brotherhoods."
Schwartz knows that, and applauds it. He says this in his conversion story:
"Then I met Shaykh Hisham of the Naqshbandi order, and, within weeks, had made shehadeh, hamdilullah. I was immensely inspired by the role of the Naqshbandi tariqat in the freedom struggles of the Chechens."
http://www.naqshbandi.org/events/articles/conversion_schwartz.htm
Cordially
Robert Spencer
Hi Guys,
I have read this article and I must say I am honoured. I am a Muslim and the fact that you think so much of my religion brings me much joy. You say you want to study more, well be my guest. I am a Muslim and I can tell you about some good books. Since you already are of the opinion that Islam is a threat I would suggest you avoid reading Wahabi/Salafi propaganda that will only reinforce this view.
If you want a balanced view read books that most Muslims read, The Quran has many verses that you attack. Well Wahabism is the sect in Islam that takes the verses of the Quran literally; they claim that a Muslims don’t need a Scholar in order to understand the Quran. Sunni Muslims however ensure that this doesn’t happen, a student needs the help of a Scholar when it comes to interpretation.
For you to win your battle you need to realise the difference here. Just as there are sects in Judaism and Christianity, there are also sects in Islam. These sects can be distinctly different, ensure you study the differences.
I am a Sunni Muslim in the Naqshbandi Tariqat that is a Sufi school of thought.
I recommend you read books by Shiekh Hisham and Sheikh Nazim Al-Haqqani.
Many people here seem arrogant towards Islam, you may have studied Islam, however I was born Muslim, I breath Islam.
Bye ^_^
Posted by: ia786 at March 31, 2005 07:22 PM
LAST TIME I LOOKED I AIN'T SEEN NO JEWS OR CHRISTIANS CUTTING OFF PEOPLES HEADS IN THE NAME OF GOD??
LAST TIME I LOOKED I AIN'T SEEN NO JEWS OR CHRISTIANS SHOOTING CHILDREN IN THE BACK AND RAPING CHILDREN OR STONEING PEOPLE TO DEATH IN THE NAME OF GOD??
BUT I DO SEE MULSUMS DOING THIS ALL OVER THE WORLD DON'T LOOK GOOD TO ME FOR MULSUMS??
Part of the American Tribe
Squirrel Hunter
Spider Killer
GOD BLESS THE USA AND HER FIGHTING FORCES AND ALL WHO FIGHT WITH HER GIVE THEM STRENGTH, WISDOM, SIGHT, AND COURAGE TO STAY THE COURSE TO DESTROY ALL ISLAMIC TERRORIST AND ALL WHO SUPPORT THEM OPEN THE WORRLDS EYES TO THEIR THREAT LET NOT THE WORLD BE DECEIVED BY THEM AMEN
Hi Robert Spencer,
'Schwartz knows that, and applauds it. He says this in his conversion story:
"Then I met Shaykh Hisham of the Naqshbandi order, and, within weeks, had made shehadeh, hamdilullah. I was immensely inspired by the role of the Naqshbandi tariqat in the freedom struggles of the Chechens."'
What is wrong with this. The Cold war was fought between the Americans and the Soviets. Who ever was fighting the Soviets was considered the ‘good guy‘, such as the Taliban during the War in Afghanistan. Why is it that you now attack them, Americans applauded the Taliban when they defeated the Soviets with American weapons. I'm sure during the Cold War Americans would have applauded the struggles by the people of the Caucasus.
With all due respect I want Robert Spencer to reply to my second post on this thread.
Thanks
Catherine,
You need to open your eyes. Americans forced Africans to convert to Christianity during the Slave trade, this is an established fact. As Crusaders entered Jerusalem they boasted about how they killed everything in their sight, Muslims and Jews.
I quote 'When the Crusaders took Jerusalem in 1099 they murdered virtually all of its inhabitants, boasting that parts of the city were knee-high in blood. When Salah-ad-Din re-took the city in 1187, he spared his victims, giving them time to leave and safe passage - it was, after all, a holy city, and this was fought as a 'just war' by the Muslims.'
These are facts. Also read this http://www.home.earthlink.net/~benven/annivers.html
It is about how Jews in Portugal were held captive and forced to become Christians. I will not use these instances to attack Christianity, I never have and never will. I will not go down to your level. You claim that the Quran has verse that are violent, okay then explain these verses below:
"This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down, and cut off your head ... that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel." 1 Samuel 17:46
will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. 1 Samuel 17:47
"He ordered the guards and officers to slaughter them all, and to let not a single one escape." (2 Kings Chapter 10 verse 25) "God said to Jehu, 'you have done well in carrying out what is right and have completed what I wanted done to the house of Ahab. Therefore your sons will be kings over Israel to the fourth generation." (2 Kings Chapter 10 verse 30)
"Joshua destroyed everyone. They did not leave anyone alive." (Joshua 11:14) "They were put to the sword, destroying them all." (Joshua 11:12)
They were "cut down until they had not a single survivor." (Joshua 11:8) "Their cities were destroyed," (Joshua 11:12) and the people living there were "put to the sword, destroying them all". The Israelites then "plundered the cities," (Joshua 11:14) and "every living soul they put to the sword until they had destroyed everyone. They did not leave anyone alive." (Joshua 11:14)
"Kill every woman." Numbers 31:7
"Kill every little boy." Numbers 31:7
"Kill all the infants and suckling babies." 1 Samuel 15:3
"Joshua killed everyone. He did not leave anyone alive." (Joshua 11:14)
"Devour the nations the lord your god delivers over to you. Show them no pity." Deut. 7:16
"You must completely destroy them; you shall make no peace treaties with them, and show no mercy to them." Deut 2:1
"Utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling baby." 1 Samuel 15:3
"Joshua and the men of Israel had finished slaying them with a very great slaughter, until they were wiped out." Joshua 10:20
"They pursued them and all of them to the very last had fallen by the edge of the sword" Joshua 8:24
"He struck them hip and thigh with great slaughter." Judges 15:8
"Joshua put them to the sword, destroying them all." (Joshua 11:12)
"Put the inhabitants to the slaughter without giving any quarter and burn their town down." Deut. 13:15
And David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armor in his tent. And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand." 1 Samuel 17:54
"Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, "Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over and take off his head."... And there is also with you Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse on the day when I went to Mahanaim; but when he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the LORD, saying, ‘I will not put you to death with the sword.' Now therefore hold him not guiltless, for you are a wise man; you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down with blood to Sheol." 2 Samuel 16:9, 1 Kings 2:8
"And a certain woman threw an upper millstone upon Abimelech's head, and crushed his skull." Judges 9:53
"She put her hand to the tent peg and her right hand to the workmen's mallet; she struck Sisera a blow, she crushed his head, she shattered and pierced his temple." Judges 5:26
Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri." 2 Samuel 20:21
King Jehu ordered the people to behead Ahab's sons and to bring him the heads of Ahab's sons "at Jezreel by this time tommorrow...And when the letter came to them, they took the king's sons, and slew them, seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him at Jezreel. When the messenger came and told him, "They have brought the heads of the king's sons," he said, "Lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning.". (2 Kings Chapter 10 verse 6) "God has now fulfilled the prophecy of the prophet Elijah. So Jehu put to death all who were left of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, as well as all of his close friends and priests, until he had left not one single survivor." (2 Kings Chapter 10 verse 10) "He put to death all of Ahab's house, who were left there and so blotted it out, in fulfillment of the word which YAHWEH had spoken to Elijah." (2 Kings Chapter 10 verse 7) "He ordered the guards and officers to slaughter them all, and to let not a single one escape." (2 Kings Chapter 10 verse 25) "God said to Jehu, 'you have done well in carrying out what is right and have completed what I wanted done to the house of Ahab. Therefore your sons will be kings over Israel to the fourth generation." (2 Kings Chapter 10 verse 30)
You are a wise man; you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his head down with blood to the grave." 1 Kings 2:
Thank you for reading
Hi,
Has any one here read the Jewish Talmud, it is very interesting. I have pasted an article below, the people on this site may find it interesting.
http://www.revisionisthistory.org/talmudtruth.html
The Talmud is a book that contains many verse regard Christains.
I have copied some below. (These are from the site)
Talmud Attacks Christians and Christian Books
Rosh Hashanah 17a. Christians (minnim) and others who reject the Talmud will go to hell and be punished there for all generations.
Sanhedrin 90a. Those who read the New Testament ("uncanonical books") will have no portion in the world to come.
Shabbath 116a. Jews must destroy the books of the Christians, i.e. the New Testament.
Dr. Israel Shahak of Hebrew University reports that the Israelis burned hundreds of New Testament Bibles in occupied Palestine on March 23, 1980 (cf. Jewish History, Jewish Religion, p. 21).
Teachings of the Talmud
Gittin 69a . To heal his flesh a Jew should take dust that lies within the shadow of an outdoor toilet, mix with honey and eat it.
Shabbath 41a. The law regulating the rule for how to urinate in a holy way is given.
Yebamoth 63a. States that Adam had sexual intercourse with all the animals in the Garden of Eden.
Yebamoth 63a. Declares that agriculture is the lowest of occupations.
Sanhedrin 55b. A Jew may marry a three year old girl (specifically, three years "and a day" old).
Sanhedrin 54b. A Jew may have sex with a child as long as the child is less than nine years old.
Kethuboth 11b. "When a grown-up man has intercourse with a little girl it is nothing."
These are not made up, read the Talmud on the web now if you want.
Talmud (tăl'məd) [Aramaic from Heb.,=learning], in Judaism, vast compilation of the Oral Law with rabbinical elucidations, elaborations, and commentaries, in contradistinction to the Scriptures or Written Laws
Posted by: ia786 at March 31, 2005 07:44 PM
WISH IN ONE HAND AND SH=T IN THE OTHER AND SEE WICTH ONE FILLS UP FIRST??
HERE IS YOUR BOOK EXPLAIN IT TO ME??
Ishaq:464 “The Jews were made to come down, and Allah’s Messenger imprisoned them. Then the Prophet went out into the marketplace of Medina, and he had trenches dug in it. He sent for the Jewish men and had them beheaded in those trenches. They were brought out to him in batches. They numbered 800 to 900 boys and men.” Tabari VIII:40 “The Messenger commanded that furrows should be dug in the ground for the Qurayza. Then he sat down. Ali and Zubayr began cutting off their heads in his presence.”
SO IS THIS WHY HE CONVERTED BECAUSE HE WANTED TO KEEP HIS HEAD??
TORTURE:
Qur’an 5:33 “The punishment for those who wage war against Allah and His Prophet and make mischief in the land, is to murder them, crucify them, or cut off a hand and foot on opposite sides...their doom is dreadful. They will not escape the fire, suffering constantly.”
WE SEE THIS STUFF HAPPENING IN IRAN AND OTHER MULSUM COUNTRIES TODAY??
Qur’an 9:5 “When the sacred forbidden months for fighting are past, fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive, torture them, and lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of war.”
AL JIZZI SHOWS TODAY SOME PEOPLE BEING HELD BY ISLAMIC TERRORIST?? WILL THEY LOSE THEIR HEADS IF THEY DON'T PAY??
WHERE IS YOUR CODEMING OF THE ISLAMIC TERRORIST KILLING THE IRAQI PEOPLE YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A LIER!!
Qur’an 8:1 “They ask you about the benefits of capturing the spoils of war. Tell them: ‘The benefits belong to Allah and to His Messenger.’”
SO IT IS ABOUT MONEY AGAIN YOU LIE!!
Ishaq:327 “Allah said, ‘A prophet must slaughter before collecting captives. A slaughtered enemy is driven from the land. Muhammad, you craved the desires of this world, its goods and the ransom captives would bring. But Allah desires killing them to manifest the religion.’”
WHAT IS THAT ABOUT BEING PEACIFUL??
AGAIN I AIN'T SEEING IT??
Ishaq:521 “Khaybar was apportioned among the men of Hudaybiyah without regard to whether they were present at Khaybar or not. The spoil was divided into 1,800 shares.”
WHAT WAS THAT ABOUT ALL THAT LOOTING NOT BEING THE MULSUM WAY??
Qur’an 48:19 “He rewarded them with abundant spoils that they will capture. Allah has promised you much booty that you shall take, and He has made this easy for you.”
NOT WORKING FOR IT BUT WARING AND KILLING AND TAKEING IT?? SAD SAD SAD??
Qur’an 8:40 “If people are obstinate, and refuse to surrender, know that Allah is your Supporter. And know that one fifth of all the booty you take belongs to Allah, and to the Messenger, and for the near relatives (of the Messenger).”
OH MY USA THESE COLORS DON'T RUN AWAY!!!
Qur’an 8:69 “So enjoy what you took as booty; the spoils are lawful and good.”
OH MY??
Bukhari:V9B84N59 “Allah’s Apostle said, ‘I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: “None has the right to be worshipped but Allah.” Whoever says this will save his property and his life from me.’”
MOST DAMMING OF ALL WE WILL NOT SUMMIT TO YOUR WAYS WE LOVE OUR BACON AND SHORT SKIRTS!!!
Part of the American Tribe
Squirrel Hunter
Spider Killer
GOD BLESS THE COUNTRIES WHO HAVE HEROS AMEN
PITY THE COUNTRIES WHO NEED THEM
Posted by: ia786 at March 31, 2005 07:51 PM
WA WA??
YOU BRING UP 1000 YEARS AGO I'M TALKING REAL TIME AND WHAT WE SEE TO TADAY!!!
ANOTHER MULSUM WHO WILL NOT FACE THE REAL TIME !!
Part of the American Tribe
Squirrel Hunter
Spider Killer
GOD BLESS THE USA AND HER FIGHTING FORCES AND ALL WHO FIGHT WITH HER GIVE THEM STRENGTH, WISDOM, SIGHT, AND COURAGE TO STAY THE COURSE TO DESTROY ALL ISLAMIC TERRORIST AND ALL WHO SUPPORT THEM OPEN THE WORLDS EYES TO THEIR THREAT LET NOT THE WORLD BE DECEIVED BY THEM AMEN
PS
Current events not 1000 years ago!!
Hi Catherine,
I condemn the terrorist action committed world wide by Wagabi/Salafi fanatics I don't consider them Muslim. I have not attacked you and I have never forced you to Islam, lets get this straight
'WE WILL NOT SUMMIT TO YOUR WAYS WE LOVE OUR BACON AND SHORT SKIRTS!!!'
If you wish to wear skirts so be it, what has it got to do with me, eat bacon if you wish I am not telling you what to do. Calm down, this is only healthy discussion.
I would like you to read my earlier posts and put together a proper counter argument, thank you
ia786:
Most of us have seen all of your arguments and your lame attempts at false moral equivalencies many, many times before. What exactly do you think you are bringing that's new?
Catherine:
Not to be rude, but you might want to consider checking your spelling before you post messages. It looks as if a child has written them.
And no, not all of us love bacon, or short skirts. Like everyone else who posts on this site, Muhammad deserves to be treated in a respectful manner.
Cheers
Thomas
To qualify my previous statement, Muhammad should be dealt with, albeit respectfully. Muhammad, you are misguided in so many ways, it is hard to know where to begin. Yes, you still can be Muslim, and critical of your faith. You have mentioned Salafists and Wahabiists, but fail to recognise that the problems facing Islam have always existed!
Wa salam
Thomas
Thomas,
Thanks for your response, it was very refreshing and respectful, if only everyone on here was like you. We all have our own opinions and this should be respected.
However there are a few people here who are just obsessed with attacking me and insulting me because I don't share the same views as them.
Thanks
Salamu aleykum Muhammad
I understand that you are of the Sufi persuasion. Sufi's do tend, in my view, to be more peaceful than standard Sunnis or Shiite Muslims, partially because they have a more spritual/humanist approach, so to speak.
Stephen Schwartz views that Sufism, is the "saviour" to Islam. But as this website has repeatedly highlighted over and over again, classical Sufi scholars have advocated violent jihad, dhimmitude, and the killing of apostates.
I have lived and worked in Sudan, and I have seen the unconventional marriage of Sufi/Sunni extremism. Bin Laden, who lived in Khartoum for several years himself was known to have practiced aspects of Sufism. I watched on 11 Spetember 2003, in Khartoum hundereds of Sufis praising the work of the 11 Sepetmber hijackers, incorporating their praise into their Sufi chants and dervish dancing. I hope this help illustrates the misguided notion that Wahabbism/Salafism is THE source of Islams travails.
I urge you to take a more critical look at the sources of Islam's problems. Personally, and many will disagree, I beleieve that a primary source is the Sunnah and the entire man made tradition taht brough us "naksh". (Problems still remain with Qur'anic exegesis, and the book itself).
Think critically. Look beyond the rhetoric. I implore you to explore some of the darker aspects of our faith.
salam
Salam Thomas
I have been a Muslim from day one. I have had many heated debates with Salafis/Wahabis, they consider us Sufi/Sunnis as out of Islam, as you may know in many Saudi funded Mosques many people hear the words 'Bidah' (innovation) 'Shirk' These are what these fanatics say to us. If you study Wahabism you will realise they are completely against Sufism.
Yes you have stated you saw people celebrating the 9/11 attacks. I condemn these actions, I cannot emphasis how much pain I felt for Americans on 9/11. Scholars have stated that Suicide is not allowed in Jihad, full stop. However these Wahabi/Salafi fanatics claim it is permissible. I have heard that many Mosques in the US are funded by Saudi Wahabis, I tell you now my friend, put a stop to this or you will have much larger problems in the near future. HAMAS, Islamic Jihad, Islamic Brotherhood these are all based on Wahabi teachings. In order to spread peaceful moderate Islam in the US instead of fanatical Islam you need to distinguish between Muslims, isolate the wahabis so they have no where to hide.
I have never celebrated what happened in the US on 9/11. I have been going to Mosque for many years I have never heard any Imam attack the 'West' these are Sunni Imams by the way. However I have heard of Wahabi Imams encouraging hate, however when we Sunnis try to do something to stop this we are told we cannot do anything. In England there have people handing out extremist leaflets, the organisation is Hizb Ut Tahrir, you must have heard about them. When we try to put a stop to this the police tell us they can't d anything about it.
Peace
I would like to ask our Muslim posters here...
IS THE TEXT OF THE QURAN PERFECT AND DIVINE?
Because if you do there is no escaping the fact that you condone slavery and polygamy as a divine right, albeit in "certain circumstances".
Quran 033.050
O Prophet! We have made lawful to thee thy wives to whom thou hast paid their dowers; and those whom thy right hand possesses out of the prisoners of war whom Allah has assigned to thee;
This is in direct conflict with the Universal Declaration of Human rights Article 4...
No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.
What is more, you must confess that Democracy is inferior to theocracy because the law of Man cannot be equal to the law of Allah.
So...is the Text of the Quran Perfect as well as Theocracy, Slavery, and Polygamy OR do you decide to join the rest of rational humanity?
--Trupolitik
Salam Thomas,
Just curious, what do you think about the state of Islam today. What is your opinion and what do you think about the future.
Greetings TruoPolitik:
Is the Qur'an problematic? Absolutely. There are numerous contradictions, within th Qur'an which are not fully explained. Most Muslims deny this. These contradictions are the reason for the creation of the man made doctrine of abrogation. The Qur'an, contrary to popular belief has been passed through the hands of men.
But yes and obviously, many ayah of the Qur'an present direct conflicts with international human rights, this is why we see gross subjugation of women and dhimma.
Fe Muslims are willing to face the question of literalism and the Qur'an.
Cheers
Thomas
wa leykum salam
Muhammad:
The state of Islam today, in my view is no different than it was at its inception. It is in a state of disarray as it always has been. To me, there has never been a "golden age" or age of enlightenment.
I believe that all man made traditions relating to Islam should be discarded, and that Muslims hsould follow a non-literal approach to the Qur'an.
But I firmly believe that Islam must be relegated to the personal. Can this be achieved? It's doubtful. As a secular Muslim, I have been able to achieve this.
Hi Trupolitik,
Just want to point out that the Quran came before the Universal Declaration of Human rights. During the time of Mohammad (peace be upon him) slavery was prevalent. They were often treated badly, however the Prophet took steps to abolish slavery. This is well before slavery was abolished in European countries. Globalisation today can be seen as a form of slavery and I don’t see any Western Governments complaining about this.
In the Quran, God tells us that we should obey Gods laws. Scholars state that in a non-Muslim country Muslims HAVE to abide by the rules of the land, we are told in the Quran to obey those in authority over you. This could be a Christian, Jew or Atheist. Now that Slavery has been abolished in the World the chapter is over.
'What is more, you must confess that Democracy is inferior to theocracy because the law of Man cannot be equal to the law of Allah'
I personally think democracy is inferior, this is my opinion however I am not forcing this opinion on anyone. Islam has told me to obey those in authority over me and I have and always will. In the UK now we are going to have elections soon, the labour party led by Tony Blair is very unpopular at the moment with the state of public services and with the War in Iraq. However the democracy in this country is slightly biased as Labour have such a large majority that it is almost impossible for them to lose. I think this system is unfair as smaller parties with good polices such as the Liberal Democrats have no chance. With this monopoly the labour party has passed a lot of controversial polices such as tuition fees for Universities but we have no say. I do criticise this system as I think it is unfair, however I do participate in it as a good citizen, There is no contradiction with this and my religion.
I have been following the advice of Sunni Scholars in the UK and have never faced any problems what so ever. I am a law abiding citizen.
Yes I do believe the Quran is perfect and divine. As I mentioned earlier the Quran came before the Universal Declaration of Human rights. Polygamy is allowed in Islam although it is rare now. Polygamy is not about lust, just as marriage is not just about sex.
Polygamy is not allowed in the UK, and we Muslims obey this law. We are peaceful law abiding people.
Want to see the true character of Mr Schwartz? Read the forum discussion over at Tech Central Station.
What a prick....
Hi Thomas,
When you say there are contradictions in the Quran, can you please state what they are.
'Muslims should follow a non-literal approach to the Qur'an'
It is the Wahabis/Salafis that follow a literal approach to the Quran, Sunnis follow the interpretation of Scholars.
When Church was separated from the State, don't you think this damaged society. I say it was a bad move as a Muslim. I would rather live in a Christian country than a secular one.
I was just reading about Terri Schiavo, it nearly made me cry. God bless her and grant her paradise, what happened to her is something called murder. The whole country wanted her to live even the President but a few people stopped this. This could only happen in a secular country, if it were a Christian country she would still be here and that is a good thing.
Salam
Wa leyk Mohammed
I want to list some of these inconsistencies chapter and verse for you, but do not have the time. But you of course, know that they exist, because the doctrine of abrogation exists. Some of these inconsistencies arise in the treatment of non-Muslims, treatement of women, the issue of compulsion and religion, and the issue of apostacy, among many others.
Sunni and Shia scholars often interpret the Qur'an and Hadith in a literal way. Relying on scholars to tell you what Islam says is backwards, and ndoes not foster independent thinking.
You are against secularism. However, you cannot seriously point to one legitinate and truly Islamic regime, in Muslim history that treated women, non-Muslims in a manner consistent with principles of human rights and guaranteed equality among all citizens. Secularism, and relegating Islam to the personal, allows for all religions and cultures to flourish, not just Islam.
I wonder how well Terri Sciavo would have fared in a society based on principles of Islamic governance. Her status as a Christian, would have undoubtedly placed her on the bottom rung of medical care priority. I fear her fate would have been worse.
Salam
Salam,
I am going to go to sleep now as it is 5.40 am here (Find it hard to sleep. I am not aware of any inconsistencies in the Quran, if the Quran states one thing it is stated throughout.
Yes I am against secularism, however I don't attack people for their beliefs, i personally think secularism is bad for any country. Again as I have stated the Quran came before the principles of human rights. A Muslim country has the right to establish shariah. However I am against implementing partial shariah. It is pointless adopting a few shariah rulings and ignoring the rest, to me its all or nothing, that is fair for the people of the country. If they don’t desire this system they can easily leave. Many Western countries breach the principles of human rights, such as the US when it comes to torturing, The US sends suspects to Corrupt Arab regimes that use torture. As I stated earlier is Globalisation not a form of slavery, it is to me. It is mainly Western countries that exploit poorer countries such as Muslim nations, China and India.
'Secularism, and relegating Islam to the personal, allows for all religions and cultures to flourish, not just Islam'
Look at France, religion has not flourished, look at the West in general. Secularism has not allowed religion to flourish, secularism has only brought about more confusion and ambiguity. This is where you and I differ.
Its been nice talking to you, I will be back later on it would be nice if we can carry on then.
Bye for now, take care my friend.
Regarding the sad case of Terri Schiavo, I am sure that if she weas in a Muslim country that followed Islam according to the Quran and Sunnah, she would have been well cared for. It was the Christian politicians in the US that ignored her and did nothing.
Salam.
Thanks for the info, Robert. It's interesting, but the Naqshabandi are big not only in the Caucasus, but also in Chinese Islam (see Dru Gladeney's _Chinese Muslims_) and Eastern Turkistan.
As for religious figures involved in freedom struggles, I'm still a lot more moved by Phlippus Marnix van St. Aldegonde, John Knox, Philippe Sieur DuPlessis-Mornay, Samuel Rutherford, and John Witherspoon.
Most of all, by Jesus Christ, who paid the penalty due our sin and freed us from the fear of death in his resurrection.
Thomas...
First, you are right, it is a very rare Muslim that will publicly state that the Quran has "inconsistencies" due to the hands of man. Not to seem rude, but even you are reluctant to call them "mistakes", but that is in essence what you are saying. The fallibility of man and greed et al find their way in all texts and traditions.
It seems Mr. Schwartz could learn alot from you as he is unwilling to acknowledge these man-caused mistakes nor willing to engage in a civil discussion about them. I salute you in your strength to admit the mistakes of the text and not apologize for them.
If any of you would like to see the true character of Mr. Schwartz, you should see his name calling (of me) and hateful remarks at
http://www.frontpagemag.com/GoPostal/?ID=17546
Faith is such a fascinating phenomenon. It is at the heart of all successes, yet seems to be the cause of many collapses and horrors.
It is a delicate concept to grasp indeed, like the one of some perfect statue hidden in a stone bloc before some genius comes around and just reveal it, rather than sculpt it.
My faith is that each stone has its statue within; that each being has his genius within. So I think we should hit, hit, hit at one's faith, until the statue emerge.
It's not that difficult; just take off everything that is not perfectly fitting with the message of reality. Maybe it will be a very small statue, then, yes, but even if there's nothing left, you'll have gotten rid of much heavy and unserviceable stone. You'll feel free.
ia786 and Thomas,
I have respect for the 'messengers' military and political guile, but as a man of G-d, he is an abject failure, an embarrassment, unworthy.
To put this as strongly as i can, if the 'messenger' speaks G-d's word, i am against G-d.
I know that the 'messenger' is NOT G-d's prophet - i KNOW that to be true; that, together with death and taxes, may be the only three things i can be sure of.
As to slavery ia786, a large part of the quoran, but of course you know this because you know your quoran, is devoted to ensuring the continuation of slavery under islam, and it is continued, to this day, in a few moslem countries.
You should also know that women had property rights in Medina and Mekah before the 'messenger', which is how he was able to be married to an older woman with a substantial business who, by the way, did not wear a veil. There were also women who fought on the battlefield against the 'messenger'. It would appear as if women had far more rights before the 'messenger' came, than after, in Arabia.
Oh yes, Christians, Jews and Hindus all have histories much older than islam's, all have tried theocracies, and all have fought hard to replace theocracies with democracies. So, we have been there, done that, and moved on to better things. You, and islam, are very late to the party, and are just going through stages of understanding that the other theologies i mentioned went through many hundreds of years past.
You, and islam, need to learn from us, not the other way around.
Robert, time to kick the annoying troll.
If Muslims were running the world, Terry Schiavo would never have had any life support to begin with. With all the Jews and Europeans murdered, who else would have invented the necessary apparatus?
Even if Arabs had the brains to do it they would not have spared the effort, what with the requirement to interrupt their research 5 times a day and submit their life to studying the Koran.
Ia786,
I think you need to really open your eyes to history. Americans approved of fighting against the SOVIETS, not 'Russians' per se, during the Cold War, as they were the greater threat. Now, however, as islamofacism seems to be the greater threat (a greater one, perhaps, than Soviet ideologies) Americans wouldn't really be expected to support Chechen terrorism, nor perhaps the Russian efforts to resubjugate the region. So, I think you need a history refresher.
Your second post is no attempt at all to respond to Catherine, save by the old and deplorable 'tu tuoque' method of accusing people debating you through false assumption. I'd like very much for you to show me where modern Jews and/or Christians follow this OT text that you quote so lovingly, or explain why you think they should. Unfortunately, there are Muslims all over the world (even - gasp! - Sunnis) following Mohammed's dictates and example on the use of violence and force, not to mention intolerance of women and minorities. So, while you might (although you didn't) claim that the text Catherine quotes is 'taken out of context', you don't seem to be able to make the connection that it's very much used and applied in the modern context. The same applies to your smearing of the Judaic faith here - to what end do you post those quotes from the Talmud? Are modern Jews following them? Really? So, in essence, they don't really represent the same thing at all.
The prophet abolished slavery?? He most certainly did not. The Quran is rife with comments about the disposition of people 'taken with the right hand'; which is to say, slaves. Thus, it can hardly be said that the Quran is perfect; certainly not after one considers the abrogation rife within it. Does Q 2: 106 not ring a bell? This itself was early on in the order of 'revealed' hadiths, before the abrogation was scarce necessary.
So, again, we're waiting for a complete refutation of Sura 9 and other similar ayah.
Geoff
Hi all,
2468 you state it's time to 'kick the annoying troll' Are you referring to me! Are you obsessed with calling everyone here with a different opinion a troll. Lets not forget that in the real world people like you are in the minority. I have had great discussions on this thread and have met some very interesting people.
I again would like to reiterate that the Quran is divine and perfect, this is my belief and it is strong as a mountain. Regarding what you stated about the Quran, you are making your own conclusions. You are no Scholar and I think you should leave this for them. There will be no repression of the Quran, As God has promised the Quran will stay until the End of time, untouched. There have been conspiracies from day 1 to corrupt and change the Quran, all to no avail. Is that not a miracle? There have been many well documented conspiracies by many western counties however not one has come close. Wish the same could be said about other religious books, there are so many different Bibles. When we Muslims recite from the Quran, we get great pleasure as we know the Words we recite were recited by the companions of the Prophet, the Prophet himself, Gabriel the Archangel, generations before us and will still be read by our future generation.
Geoff I am not 'smearing' Judaism. I have taken quotes directly from the Talmud, now you say that the Quran is controversial at the least what about the verses from the Talmud. Give it the same treatment as you give the Quran.
"The body of a Jewish person is of a totally different quality from
the body of [members] of all nations of the world ... The difference
of the inner quality [of the body], ... is so great that the bodies would be considered as completely different species. This is the reason why the
Talmud states that there is an halachic difference [a distinction based on
Jewish religious law] in attitude about the bodies of non-Jews [as opposed
to the bodies of Jews] "their bodies are in vain." ... An even greater
difference exists in regard to the soul. Two contrary types of soul exist, a non-Jewish soul comes from three satanic spheres, while the Jewish soul
stems from Holiness."
-(Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, in Shahak & Mezvinsky.
Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel. London: Pluto Press.1999, 59f)
I am not smearing Judaism, I have taken a quote from a Rabbi, I think he knows more about Judaism than you and I.
Looking at the state of Israel I think this raises important issues such at the treatment of Ethiopian Jews, they are considered a lower race as they are black.
http://www.arc.org/C_Lines/CLArchive/story_web00_04.html
Israel is a military monster, it terrorises the Palestinian nation with no mercy. There was a recent case of a soldier shooting a young girl in the head more than 10 times!!! An investigation was carried out and it has been stated that the girl was no threat. With the Talmud laws I am not surprised that this incident occurred, this murder was committed with the full blessing of the Talmud. Please don't run away from this issue, I am not smearing Judaism, I am raising issues that need to be looked at. The Talmud contradicts with the principles of human rights.
muhammad deserves as much "respect" as Hitler - maybe less.
Why don't the muslims go find their own forum to discuss their differing perceptions of their cult?
They're boring us.
Susanp:
Pardon me for re-posting your response to the muslim from the other thread (which he has abandoned).
"Yusuf, can't you be specific in your challenges for debate? What do you wish to debate?
Also, please identify the putative "hate" you find on this site. Is Islam's inherent hate reserved for only muslims? Why is it so disturbing to muslims for infidels to acknowledge and discuss the same hate that you are inculcated with from birth until death? Are you ashamed of the hatred that literally oozes from the Qur'an, or are you afraid that too many infidels might find out about it? That would put muslims in a rather awkward and precarious position and would defintely inhibit the Islamic agenda. I'm afraid it's too late, your secrets are already exposed and guess what? Millions of informed infidels do not share your passion for Islam; we find it revolting, threatening, and blasphemous.
And by the way, Allah, the Arabic and Islamic word for God, is not the God of the Bible. Your Allah in no way, shape, or form resembles the Christian God. As any good muslim can attest, the Christian Trinity is thoroughly and irreverently disparaged in Muhammad's collection of delusions, the Qur'an, and Christians are designated as polytheists, the most despicable of all people. As you know, polytheism is the only unforgivable sin in Islam. You can kill, lie, steal, cheat, covet, etc. with no fear of damnation, but polytheism is the ultimate transgression. Islam is devoid of morality. Christians and muslims DO NOT WORSHIP the same God. Contrary to the lies you have been taught, which are easily dispelled by historical facts, Islam followed Judaism and Christianity and was the last Abrahamic religion. It would not exist had Judaism and Christianity not preceded it, and it is loosely based upon plagarized, albeit convoluted, material from its predecessors.
Until you have been to the U.S. and experienced it for yourself, you would be wise not to pay too much attention to the BBC. They are the most egregious anti-American propagandists on the planet next to the infamous media farce, al-Jazeera.
I suppose we all exist in some form of an insulated world where the "other" is ignorant, naive, or brainwashed. But my dear little British muslim, you are suffering from total media and religious indoctrination. I guess nobody ever told you that you can't believe everything you see on television, hear in the mosque, and read in the British tabloids but maybe after a few years of university education, you'll learn to think for yourself in spite of Islam and the BBC. In the meantime, we will remain ever vigilant just in case the one or two muslim fanatics out there attempt to massacre us on a massive scale again as demanded and sanctioned by your holy and peaceful Qur'an.
Posted by: Susanp at April 1, 2005 01:48 AM"
The Taliban did not "defeat the Soviets". They did not exist at the time of that war. The Taliban came into existence as a result of civil war and power struggles between various tribal/warlord/religious factions afterwards.
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The "koran is the perfect word of god". Don't be a sap, unless "god" actually showed itself to you and gave you "his" koran(and witnesses would be good, to confirm it was'nt an hallucination or overly vivid daydream), ANYBODY WHO THINKS THAT IS NOT PUTTING THEIR FAITH IN "GOD", THEY ARE PUTTING THEIR FAITH IN IMPERFECT HUMANS.
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Cubed you're very right about philosophy understanding, it is at the heart of all human motivations and actions, second only to instinct I think.
Unfortunately the average Joe Blow, like myself up until a few years ago, is woefully ignorant of the importance and consequences of philosophical thought. People have adopted various philosophical outlooks without even knowing the validity or source of the core principles, or actually looking into what influence/impact those world-views have had on history. Cause and effect has been seemingly purposely been blurred or projected elsewhere.
You mentioned John Dewey, I learned about him and some others a few years ago, it's more than embarrasing, it is infuriating, the influence and power of all these degenerates and con-artists and god wannabes.
I recently came across this free on-line book(that I have been plugging relentlessly) that documents the history of "mass forced government schooling", and the various actors and what they believed and envisioned. I have not finished it yet and I am not sure yet to what degree I will agree with the author's conclusions, but the historical facts presented in context and confirmed independently by myself previously,indicate that some very serious games have been and are being played on "we the people", as in psychological games that are very sophisticated.
Of course they have not been 100% effective, and there still remains a significant segment of society that has been able to defend against it, but I think they are the minority presently. I think apathy and ignorance rules the day-- as desired. Of course the 1st American revolutionists were the minority in their day as well.
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/index.htm
I am puzzled by ia786's qualification of the seizure of Byzantine Palestine as a "just war". I am also puzzled by Islam's assertion that wars may be fought in defence of Islam and muslims anywhere in the world. How does this square with the fact that there were no muslims settled in what is now known as the Maghreb -Arab North Africa? This area was largely Christian with many Jewish communities and pagans. Any excuse will do, I guess. If such an excuse could do then, presumably it will do now. No doubt we can look forward to many more "just wars", ia786? Fact is, Islam is far from the "religion of peace" it purports to be. Rather it is an endless source aggression.
Hi Susanp,
So you are saying that their is a hidden agenda in Islam, something that 1 billion people didn't pick up however you did, I believe you ^_^ (just kidding)
'Why is it so disturbing to Muslims for infidels to acknowledge and discuss the same hate that you are inculcated with from birth until death?'
What do you know about Muslims, are you a Muslim. I was born Muslim and for someone to say I was inoculated with hate from birth is very offensive. You obviously don't know much about Muslims.
I may have said this to you before. Do you speak Arabic or Hebrew, what do you know about the Arabic word for God. Have you ever been to the Mid-East, it is a lot different to how you see things. There is only one God for mankind, one God for this Universe, there is only one creator, the merciful and forgiver of Sins. God (Allah). God states in the Quran how the Gospel and Torah were corrupted by man, do you get the picture. There can only be one God. If I say God Bless America as a Muslim, does this mean I am calling on a different God to you when you say the same thing! I don't think so. We Muslims do not believe in the trinity, we believe that there is only One God, we believe that Jesus (peace be upon him) was a Prophet of God. We believe in his return to earth and we will follow him when he returns with you Christians. I can honestly say that I love Jesus (peace be upon him) as much as any one here does. I always mention his name in my Duas (prayers). Christians by the way are known as people of the book not polytheists, and killing, lying and stealing are forbidden in Islam as well as in other heavenly religions. Get your facts straight. In certain Gospels Jesus is never referred to as the Son of God, he is referred to a Messenger of God. If I say God Bless America as a Muslim, does this mean I am calling on a different God to you when you say the same thing! I don't think so.
You want me to pay less attention to the BBC!!
Come on, you seem to have dictatorial tendencies. You are calling everyone who disagrees with you anti-American. I may have said some bad things about the state of American society, I apologise if I offended anyone but I will never attack the American public. I wish to go to America one day so I can enjoy the country. I love American movies as well as music. I am not anti-American, you seem to think everyone with a different view to you wants to see America hurt, I shed tears for America on 9/11, I sent America my condolences and prayers.
Peace, Salam, Shalom
CGW
I am insulted by your comment. I am boring you? I fully and completely support Jihad Watch and its mission, so I do not think my opinions should be so casually dismised. I and and IA786, have just as much right to comment as you do. This is an open forum by the way.
Cheers
Thomas
muhammad will get as much "respect" here as we afford to other pedophiles, rapists, thieves, brigands, plunderers, and mass murderers - which is exactly NONE.
We've read your texts, his actions are not even in dispute.
Don't dare demand "respect" for them.
CGW, I am not asking you to respect Muhammad, I am asking you to respect the right of individuals, Muslim or non-Muslim to post responses on this site, without being the subject of vicious attack. If you read my previous posts, you will see that there is not much divergence between your view and my view...
Hi,
Well said Thomas. CGW you are entitled to your own views but don't attack others who have slightly different views.
Salam
Thomas:
I thought that you were asking for respect for your "prophet", not the poster. (On this thread he goes mostly by "ia786"; I did not recall his pseudonym from the first thread on which he posted.)(Add in a momentary reading comprehension misfire.)
I apologize for that error. Nor do I wish to insult you personally, but one tires of the constant stream of IDENTICAL rhetoric coming from the occasional muslim visitor to this site (especially the young ones) and their absolute inability or refusal to answer arguments substantively without resorting to tu quoque strategies or lame, absolutely LAME da'wa attempts. (I do not include you in this group; I am aware of your identity.) They are completely unaware of the level of on-topic scholarship of many, if not most of the regular posters here, and label us all as "ignorant" simply because we have STUDIED ISLAM IN DEPTH AND REJECT IT UTTERLY.
One simply tires.
CGW
I believe...
that pigs are secretly telepathic, and control the World through human cortex-controlling enzymes in their flatulence...
I believe...
Mars is not a planet but a mass-hallucination begun by wily Mesopotamian priests as a method of obtaining extra alms money on slow Thursdays, and that the habit become so ingrained in a docile species that, to this day, we all still mistake a blood-vessel-colored mote in our vision for an actual planet...
I believe...
cows wrote the first five book of the Old Testament in randomly arranged markings on their hide, and that ancient Hebrew herdsmen (and women!) merely copied this information down and went on to found the first globally-reaching monotheism (failing to give credit to Ikhnaton in Egypt, which was the cows' main intention, since they never liked the guy)...
I believe...
tin foil can be used as a cheese substitute...
I believe...
angels cannot pronounce the word "pickle"...
I believe...
Jivaro indians are actually expanding the heads of very tiny people, and not shrinking the heads of normal human beings...
Belief.... a joy to those who are unwilling to think. And too lazy to do a comparatiove religious inquiry, from Marduk to Moroni.
Belief... perfect panacea... a charming way to answer disturbed children and get them to go back to sleep, but of no particular value except as a rorschach test for exposing the mental state of the claimants.
Now, knowledge... that's a whole 'nother kettle of fish!
With knowledge you can actually determine and cure actual diseases (cowpox noticed in milkmaids leads to a vaccine for smallpox), can change the dray beast method of locomotion and transportation into the Machine Age, and begin the exploration of the infinite...
But, damnit, knowledge is a little harder to come by.
Belief, however, falls on the tongues of the supernaturally docile like snowflakes on an Eskimo's uvula.
It answers ALL, while demanding nothing. But obedience. To Thoth. Or Odin. Or Tezcatlipoca. Or Astarte. Or any number of dead or discredited gods.
Belief... the soup of planetary schism, since no two believers MAY ever agree. (" 'Mysticism' begins in 'mist' and ends in 'schism' ", as one angry church father mocked of those who eluded the dogma by a direct claim to divine experience.)
Belief is the mortar joining the rocky good intentions on the proverbial road to Hell.
And I don't 'believe' that, I have the red record of history as a sickening and sorry testament.
Knowledge makes your car engine start when youturn the key.
Belief makes you hate your neighbor when you disagree with their 'God'.
Can't all these 'Gods' all take care of themselves and let us muddle through down here with the imperfect organs of intelligence they supposedly bestowed upon us? And not order eternal war in order to prove their celestial manhood?
A believer would say: "Never!"
Is there no hope as long as "belief" reigns over knowledge in the human mind?
You know it.
ia786: You say there is a problem with the Talmud? Did you forget about all the terrible crimes that Muhammad commited and then sanctioned by claiming divine inspiration to do so? Because when A Muslim says that stealing and killing are rejected in Islam they really mean the types that Muhammad said were bad, not the ones that Muhammad partook in. I do wish that you would come to America, and I pray to Christ creator, sustainer, and redeemer of all the world that you meet a true beliver in Christ, not one of the many possers that are so common over here. And what do you know about Yeshua in the Gospels? Apparently not very much. I can't recall HIM ever being called the Messenger of God, that must be one of those things applied to Christian thinking by Muslims to convice stupid Christians that we have a lot in common. I don't know about the person you were adressing, but I speak Arabic, not fluently, but I continue to learn it, and I study Islamic teachings mostly from Muslims, so don't get on a tangen about how we in the west are ignorant and that is why we don't accept your beliefs, and please read a bible not tainted by a Muslim, read it for yourself, I learned arabic to read the Quran in the original language, the least you could do is oblige the gesture and actually read the word of YAHWEH for yourself and not what someone tells you.
"CGW you are entitled to your own views but don't attack others who have slightly different views. - ia786"
Good. All settled then. It seems your initial complaint has been addressed, and that you are, in fact, bereft of argument. For, as you can see, we merely have different opinions about islam that we are well entitled to, too. Thus I think I might dismiss out of hand the tired old "I'm muslim and you're not, so you can't talk about islam" argument - seen it too many times to care much.
Now, on to the 'perfection' of the Quran.
The salient fact of course, is that the Quran is hardly unchanged. There is little way of knowing exactly what form the Quran was in prior to the Collection in the Third Caliphate (Uthman ibn Affan). Ayah were written, literally by the tradition, on palm leaves, bark, and the like. Others were reconstructed from the memory alone of a mere two (two! for the word of Allah) witnesses. No one knows what they may or may not have remembered (let us pray, Yusuf, that it was not women who memorized it, for surely then at least four witnesses would have been required, or maybe two women and a man - see Quran 2: 228, 282; even 24:6). Indeed, no one really knows what form the Quran was in prior to its Collection. Gilchrist gives this a fairly complete if extremely favourable treatment; he has no reason whatsoever to make the assumptions of continuity he does, but he does anyway.
What proof is there that any of it is really the word of this 'Allah'? I might add that the Third Caliphate was one of the most bloody of them, conquering North Africa, Iran, some of Western Asia. So it seems more than a little likely that altering the Quran by him would have been a fairly useful tool. He was not exactly a fair ruler in the sense of his kinsmen, and there was suspicion that he had, indeed, tampered with the text.
Almost makes one wonder which culture is really being 'obstinate' about islam, eh? Heh.
The claims of Christians and Jews (although less so for the latter, of course, in the eyes of islam) as being 'People of the Book', I might add, are found - where? In the earliest 'revealed' ayah of the Quran, of course. Mohammed seems to have changed his mind partway through and come to the conclusion, by Sura 9, that non-muslims deserved three choices: death, conversion or punitive taxes. This is of course, well known and documented.
And lastly, you didn't answer the question about the violence of the Quran. Merely posting violent verses from the OT is simply not a response - no one today follows those verses. Simple fact. No one is killing apostates from Christianity or Judaism, nor has religious authority to do so. Islam does, and is. I recommend you read the site more thoroughly. So, I regret to tell you that you have effectively lost your argument there. By contrast, iconoclast raises a very appropriate point: what happened to the Christians of the Middle East? How could their fate be called "defensive" in any way?
Geoff
Maybe now ia786, you will tell me that in Arabic it adds up?
So either your book is corrupt or Allah lacks some basic math skills, which do you think it is?
ia786,
Your intentions are immaterial. Islam is bigger than you. You are a "denial-ridden believer". You are delusional, and your attempts to suck others into your fantasyland image of islam is an assualt on logic,reason and rational thought.
Most people don't give a flying f-ck what others believe, they are free to be stupid and ignorant to their hearts content-- as long as they do not try to impose their corrupt beliefs and the unpleasant consequences that follows irresponsibility and insanity,onto others.
What you and others are attempting,is to FORCE others to deny what their eyes,ears, and mind, through history to the present,has told them about islam. We are expected to play "lets pretend", in what amounts to a rape on our conscience,senses and intellect, just so the bizarre and incompetent can feel good about themselves, and concrete reality no longer exists,and the headshrinkers and globalizers can create their self-preserving utopia.
You think you're defending islam?? Hahaha! You're a pawn, a tool, of the elitist relavitists.
They did the same thing with homosexuality.
Homo-phobe/islamo-phobe???????
And they've done it in many other areas for many years. Drugs?? Alfred Kinsey?? Gangsta rap??? Satanism??? Consumerism?? Ritalin??? It is the normalizing and celebration of the bizarre and irrational and incompetent, cloaked in enlightenment and "humanism". The consequences of their actions have been disasterous, but the rest of society is expected to pay the bill-- subsidizing insanity and corruption and national suicide.
Oh, it's out of control now, there's no conspiracy, except a conspiracy of corrupt and subversive ideas, and corrupt and subversive elites who only want to fix their positions safely above it all.
BinLadin knows it, and he is following the example of the "prophet" according to the authorative texts. He is of the miss-guided opinion that he can create an islamic utopia. The islamic elites only have it half right, the part that says islam is the answer is dead-wrong, for the same reasons the relavitists are wrong-- totalitarianism is not the answer.
Quran (if you can figure out how to spell it)
Talmud
Bible
The Vedas
I Ching
Book of Urantia
or the Liber O vel Manus et Sagitae just to name a few.
Let's see, out of the millions of texts revered as "sacred" in the world I have to find the one book that is telling "The Truth." Then, I need to learn the native language and customs of the period and find a scholar, priest, or shaman to interpret it for me? Wow, that’s a tall order. I’d say it would be an impossible task to accomplish even in a hundred lifetimes. What reasonable person (or deity) would require that of someone? No one. It’s quite unreasonable. Also, it’s absolutely arrogant for a human being to proclaim that his “beliefs,” give him a special relationship with a supreme being let along that they give him authority over his fellow human beings! Get out! What a child’s game. The world is going to remain a cluster of festering hatred as long as the “ridiculous” is sacred and “life” is given second billing to “the here after.”
Good grief. If this yahoo Schwartz can throw some water on the fire more power to him. The scriptural back and forth in here is ludicrous and only illustrates the enormity of the problem that religious thought posses when applied to real world problems.
All the books, scriptures, texts, or whatever that exist in this world were conceived and written by human beings just like you and me. Recognizing that simple fact would make solving our social problems so much easier. No way that's going to happen though.
f.g.
I quoted a few verse from the Talmud, would you like to explain these verses to me. Right Wing Zionist are using these verses to justify there attacks on Palestinian Muslims. Please refer to the murder I gave details about.
Muhammad did not impose double standards in Islam. The Prophet said that if his beloved daughter were to steal anything, shariah would apply to her. It is simple, you approach issues regarding Islam with your opinion already cemented, you only look to reinforce this view.
Geoff, you know Islam is a spiritual religion. I have avoided mentioning this until now as I would be branded a mad man. It is almost like another dimension, its very hard to explain. The Quran that was recited by the Archangel Gabriel is the Quran that I read. You are right about how the Quran was recorded but many thousands of Companions had memorised it. Our religion is linked with the heavens, it is a heavenly religion we have many secrets that you would not be able to comprehend. My friend you should read what Scholars have said regarding Islam. Islam is a lot deeper than you think it is. You can make assumptions about the Quran, you can attack it all you like but the truth is crystal clear. The Quran that I have at home right now is what came from God, was recited from Archangel Gabriel’s blessed mouth, The Prophet Muhammad and his companions. My descendant’s recited the same thing and so do I. No one can challenge the Quran, no one can alter it. It has been the same for what 1400 years. End of story. It is perfect and divine, I say this with pure conviction.
It is from God. The stories in the Quran regarding earlier prophets e.g. Moses, Joseph, Jesus, Mary, Noah (God bless them all) are perfect, not one detail is wrong. No one can argue about the truth in the Quran. God has challenged anyone to make even one verse equal to a verse in the Quran. 1400 years later I hear nothing from the critics. I only hear people attack ‘violent’ verses that are in all holy books. Many people have tried this challenge all have failed, such is the glory of God. God has stated that the Quran will stay untouched until the End of Time, as we can see the Quran has been unchanged, unlike the Torah and Gospel.
There are some verse in the Quran that are 'violent' okay this is your opinion. I am a Sunni/Sufi Muslim. It is the Wahabis/Salafis that take these verse literally not Sunni Muslims, we are not allowed to. Get this straight. There are violent verses in the Talmud and Bibles but I will never attack these books because I am above that, I don't wish to offend people, just know they exist. Fanatics commit crimes against Islam, Yet you give us all the same label. Look at what is happening in Israel, ethnic cleaning, doesn’t the Talmud technically speaking justify this. People do follow these teachings today. Do you think that a Muslim can kill someone just because he/she is Christian, of course not. Now if some fanatic says yes, why do you take his word. You are only looking to justify your own aggression.
I have read many articles on this website, however they are all similar in a way. Mr Robert Spencer claims he is interested in Islam and blah blah but in every article he subtlety tries to give the impression that all Muslims are Wahabi fanatics. For example an article about Jihad in the Caucasus. He states that Aslan Maskhadov (Sunni/Sufi) was responsible for the Beslan atrocity. Aslan Maskhadov DID NOT orchestrate the Beslan atrocity, it was Shamil Basyev a wahabi fanatic. Many Europeans supported Aslan Maskhadov’s struggle against Russian aggression and against the Saudi funded wahabi fanatics. Aslan Maskhadov never once targeted civilians, not once. He condemned the Beslan Atrocity as did all good God fearing Muslims.
I have posted an authentic hadith below, please read.
Anas related that the Prophet said:
Go in the name of Allah and fight the enemy. But do not kill the elderly, children or women. Do not be transgressors, for Allah loves the muhsinin (Those who keep the highest standards of discipline and do not harm people)
This is Islamic etiquette when it comes to war, no civilians can be targeted. Terrorism is wrong in Islam. If only the wars led by western nations were undertaken with the same moral code. Lets not forget that the US is the only country to ever have dropped nuclear weapons, they still use depleted uranium shells as well. However I will not use this to attack Christianity . Two wrongs don’t make a right, just because eye use Islamic principles out of context doesn‘t mean I have to return the favour regarding Christianity,.
'I’d say it would be an impossible task to accomplish even in a hundred lifetimes'
Well, not really. But it is required in order to give a balanced understanding of the Quran and to stop ignorance.
troll ia786,
If you are sincere,then these are the five obligations imposed upon you,and other members of the cult of islam you say you belong
To keep obligations according to the Qur'an and Sunnah;
To always speak the truth;
To keep the heart free from hatred;
To avoid forbidden food (haram);
To shun innovation (bid`a).
Am I right?
Are you aware of the implications of these obligations?
Well if you are aware,you have been given more respect on this site than you deserve
ALLAH,is just one more man made god among many,created for the better or worse for mankind,and Allah seems to be the evilest of the whole pack
Shiva,
You are entitled to your own opinion. However you cannot prove that Mohammad was not a Prophet. You can't prove that God doesn’t exist. You can't give a reason why the Quran is not from God.
When you address me the least you could do is show me respect. I have been discussing issues with some very interesting people here, they have all managed to address me in a welcoming and kind manner.
I have never attacked anyone for his beliefs in my entire life and never will. You claim that if I am a Muslim so I deserve no respect, why?
This is not fair. What have I ever done to hurt you. I have committed no crime in my entire life. I am a good citizen in my country, I help my neighbours, I am like any one else. I have feelings, sometimes I am happy and yes Muslims do shed tears as well. I prayed for Americans on 9/11, I supported the struggle of the American people and always will.
Just because I follow a different religion to you, does this mean I am unworthy of any respect.
Please, I'm sure we can debate in a constructive manner Shiva,
Well if you are aware,you have been given more respect on this site than you deserve
troll ia786,
If you are sincere,then these are the five obligations imposed upon you,and other members of the cult of islam you say you belong
To keep obligations according to the Qur'an and Sunnah;
To always speak the truth;
To keep the heart free from hatred;
To avoid forbidden food (haram);
To shun innovation (bid`a).
Am I right?
Are you aware of the implications of these obligations?
Well if you are aware,you have been given more respect on this site than you deserve
ALLAH,is just one more man made god among many,created for the better or worse for mankind,and Allah seems to be the evilest of the whole pack
Shiva,
You are entitled to your own opinion. However you cannot prove that Mohammad was not a Prophet. You can't prove that God doesn’t exist. You can't give a reason why the Quran is not from God.
When you address me the least you could do is show me respect. I have been discussing issues with some very interesting people here, they have all managed to address me in a welcoming and kind manner.
I have never attacked anyone for his beliefs in my entire life and never will. You claim that if I am a Muslim so I deserve no respect, why?
This is not fair. What have I ever done to hurt you. I have committed no crime in my entire life. I am a good citizen in my country, I help my neighbours, I am like any one else. I have feelings, sometimes I am happy and yes Muslims do shed tears as well. I prayed for Americans on 9/11, I supported the struggle of the American people and always will.
Just because I follow a different religion to you, does this mean I am unworthy of any respect.
Please, I'm sure we can debate in a constructive manner Shiva
Sorry for posting the same message twice
'I’d say it would be an impossible task to accomplish even in a hundred lifetimes'
Well, not really. But it is required in order to give a balanced understanding of the Quran and to stop ignorance.
Well, not really what? You’ve culled through the world’s scriptures and found the Koran to be “The One?” No you didn’t, you said you were born into it. You, solely by accident of birth, are a Muslim. You can ‘t even claim to have arrived at Islam after a spiritual journey. The only thing that will stop your ignorance my friend is to extricate yourself from that superstitious nonsense and take some personal responsibility for your life and your surroundings.
f.g.
'you said you were born into it. You, solely by accident of birth, are a Muslim. You can ‘t even claim to have arrived at Islam after a spiritual journey'
My friend you underestimate God, God is the wise and the all seeing. It was Gods doing, God has made me Muslim. God makes night turn into day. God is the creator. My friend nothing happens by accident.
‘i can't claim that I reached Islam after a spiritual journey‘, well my descendents sure did and it is because of their enlightenment, I can say I was born a Muslim and am proud to be Muslim ^_^
I have studied other faiths Judaism, Hinduism, Sikhism, Christianity. Having studied these religions has only reinforced my Love for God and his Prophets. In the end are we not all brothers and sisters.
Was our father not Adam and our mother Eve.
ia786,
My friend you underestimate God ...It was Gods doing ...
How arrogant and blindly stupid of you. Of course you can rationalize away any rational argument presented to you that conflicts with your irrational belief system with "God can do anything." Your inability to see through that impotent argument speaks volumes. Make believe gods can do anything ia786.
You're just another religious zealot blindly following a religion that was handed down to you, puffing yourself up with your special status of "true believer."
Was our father not Adam and our mother Eve.
Most likely not Bucky. Most likely not.
f.g.
To keep obligations according to the Qur'an and Sunnah;
One of those obligations is to chop off the heads of the likes of me,and you whine about respect.
Please, I'm sure we can debate in a constructive manner Shiva
No I dont think so when another of your obligations is To shun innovation (bid`a)
I will not cry when PC turns to PoC
I am HAPPY I am not a muslim because I can get my 72 raisens before I die,Instead of wasting my time banging my head on the floor
Okay FG,
You think I’m blindly following Islam. I was raised in a secular society, I was not forced to go to Mosque, I don't have to read Quran or Salat, my parents never force me. I chose to follow Islam. I can start eating bacon if I wish to but I won't, I follow Islam because I want to.
Shiva I don't know what you have been studying but my Imam has never told me to chop of any ones head. Why are you attacking me when it is obvious you don't know a thing a bout Islam. So you think Muslims are guys with beards in the East who worship God through chopping off people's heads. Okay, I think you are living in a fantasy world.
'I will not cry when PC turns to PoC'
I honestly don't know what you are trying to tell me here. You say your happy not to be Muslim, am I forcing you to become Muslim. No. You have your own opinion I respect that.
I'm just debating with some guys on the net. That’s all.
'I can get my 72 raisens before I die,Instead of wasting my time banging my head on the floor'
Again I don't know what you are trying to tell me here. Please Shiva calm down.
Show me some respect I'm a human like you. I have feelings as well.
"Geoff, you know Islam is a spiritual religion."
IA, all religions are spiritual religions. But the muslims I argue with tell me that islam is unique in its (ahem) 'logic'. These include (in fact mostly consist) Sunnis. So how is the belief in this being logical? No one witnessed Mohammed get these visions - unless you count someone citing his near-epileptic attacks? So there is no collary evidence whatsoever, and thus no evidence for Allah.
I found particularly amusing how you felt I would "not be able to understand the deep secrets of islam". It is fortunate enough to have secrets so deep they can never be understood. And I conclude thus that you have no spiritual problem whatsoever with the Trinity - which is, after all, a mystery in itself, but an eminently simple one. =) Fortunate too to have convictions that can ignore all evidence to the contrary. Think of all the time you never need to spend asking yourself if you're doing the right thing, or following the right way! Lucky indeed.
Of course you're right ia786 - Muslims aren't guys with beards who live in the Middle East, and none of them ever chop off people's heads. What were we thinking?
BTW: that's an unusual straw man you've got there. Normally you'd find him on my side of the table, but it seems everyone gets a kick out of him some way or other in debate.
Of course, that heads and hands are chopped off, religious minorities and women oppressed in the MAJORITY muslim societies in the world matters not a whit to you - and, of course, poor Terry Schiavo, that would never, ever, ever have happened in a muslim society, gracious no, although she would have been killed for insulting the prophet of course, if she'd ever done that, I mean, let's be reasonable here, right? - for you've made up your mind already and nothing can convince you otherwise. You're deadly certain that islam is a gosh-gee-whiz great religion, and well, people who question or (the dreaded word here) INSULT it, well, they just aren't nice, are they? Of course, later 'not nice' can translate into 'criminal', as it does in numerous majority muslim countries - unless you'd settle for mere harassment and intimidation? Would that do? Of course it would - as it's done in the UK. Literally tens of thousands of reverts from Islam (to secularism, the true natal state =0 ) live in fear for their lives. But of course, islam is peace. Gotcha. Never mind how people in the 'beard-wielding', 'head-chopping' Middle East, as you put it - islam is peaceful here in the UK. Of course! Except for apostates.
You're just debating some people (not just guys, women also - hope that's ok?) on the net, which is fine, in that you're just debating some people on the net. But what you're debating - the substance - is that islam is peaceful and the West is not. Well, our opinion, based on a stack of evidence quite a bit larger than yours (don't rustle the sheets, now) is that at the core, it isn't. You might be a very peaceful fellow - but power corrupts, doesn't it? Yep. And the best case for why islam could be tolerable as a minority religion, but never as a majority anything, rests, I would say, in the Middle East - if, of course, there were such a case to be made. =) But surely not, no? If only those pesky non-believers would be silent. Darn.
For you see, we also have feelings, and we don't like how your religion treats people in the examples of where it's become (generally through force of arms) a majority. So, spare us your feelings, and try to see why people might from this gigantic tower of evidence, have severe reservations about your faith.
Geoff
PS: Regrets to say, lots of things happen by accident. Unless you can prove the existence of this Allah?
ia786,
I would like to ask a few personal questions, you are not obliged to answer.
1. How many children does your father have?
2. What country were you born in?
3. Why are you not living in an Islamic country?
4. Do you think Muslim imigration should be slowed down in order to let the current immigrants assimilate, integrate, adapt and embrace their host country's morays and culture.
5. Do you accept a Muslim woman dating or marrying a non Muslim (White) man?
BinLadin et al are some of the most "devout' and correct muslims in existence today, they are following the example of the "prophet" as it was written, the ONLY difference other "devout" and correct muslims can have with him is dictatated by strategic/tactical situational realities.
As we know, mohammed and Co. formululated islamic policies that could be implemented when both weak and strong, all to achieve the same objective.
The relavitists don't trust us lesser humans with the truth about islam. They think the peace-loving "muslims" would become blood-thirsty terrorists if they knew the truth. After all, the truth might hurt their feelings. Plus the relavitists simply cannot admit the game they've been playing for 100 years, because they'd be tarred and feathered and run out on a rail if the people actually comprehended what they have been doing behind their back.
So, we get to play their game and allow them to experiment with the islamic world and see if they can corrupt it and turn them into a bunch of hedonistic sissified pseudo-scientific-government worshippers.
Hehe, how long you think thats gonna take??
And how many people are they going to sacrifice to maintain their corruption?
ia786
I see, so you call Mohammad a prophet even though he really never prophesied, he just wrote in an eloquent manner. Mohammadanism really needs to set some higher standards.
Here is an example of your perfect Qur’an..
At length she brought (the babe) to her people, carrying him (in her arms), They said: "O Mary! Truly a strange thing has thou brought! "O sister of Aaron, thy father was not a man of evil, nor your mother a woman unchaste!" -- Sura 19:27-28
Sura 19:28, calls Mary the mother of Jesus the sister of Aaron, despite the fact that Mary lived about 1570years after Aaron. So much for being historically accurate.
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YUSUFALI: Verily your Lord is Allah, who created the heavens and the earth in six days, and is firmly established on the throne (of authority), regulating and governing all things. No intercessor (can plead with Him) except after His leave (hath been obtained). This is Allah your Lord; Him therefore serve ye: will ye not receive admonition?
So Allah created the earth is six days.
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YUSUFALI: Say: Is it that ye deny Him Who created the earth in two Days? And do ye join equals with Him? He is the Lord of (all) the Worlds
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YUSUFALI: He set on the (earth), mountains standing firm, high above it, and bestowed blessings on the earth, and measure therein all things to give them nourishment in due proportion, in four Days, in accordance with (the needs of) those who seek (Sustenance).
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YUSUFALI: So He completed them as seven firmaments in two Days, and He assigned to each heaven its duty and command. And We adorned the lower heaven with lights, and (provided it) with guard. Such is the Decree of (Him) the Exalted in Might, Full of Knowledge.
So 2+4+2 = 8days, but I though Allah created the earth in six days?
Now here we go with Allah not being capable of simple arithmetic. So which is, is the Qur’an inaccurate or is Allah incapable of arithmetic?
Geoff in all honesty Many people witnessed the miracles of the Prophet Muhammad. Many people. His companions as well as many Arab Bedouin that were not Muslim at the time. The splitting of the moon to name one. The link below has a list of his miracle witnessed by many.
http://www.yanabi.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=26&threadid=2248&highlight_key=y&keyword1=Muhammad%20AND%20miracles
There was a Jewish Prophecy (They were expecting a messenger as they did not accept Jesus). The Jews were told that when the last Prophet would be born all idols would fall flat on their face. This came to pass and is well documented. I have copied a list from a website and have posted it below.
The idols within the Ka'ba fell down, face first
The worshipped fire in the alter that had burned continuously for 1000 years in Persia extinguished.
The palace of the Persian King Naushirwan the Just, was shaken to its foundations.
An earth quake shook the earth, and
There was an extraordinary issue of shooting stars from heaven.
When I said you wouldn't be able to understand the deep secrets of Islam I was not trying to insult your intelligence, try: http://www.nurmuhammad.com/
I have no spiritual problem with the Trinity, I believe in God and Jesus as his Prophet (peace be upon him) but I don't believe in the concept of the trinity. I never worry about going in the wrong direction I have taken beyat with my Sheikh. My Sheikh has a spiritual connection with his Grand Sheikhs who in turn have a connection with the Prophet Muhammad, I do spiritual practices that help me get closer to God, and his blessed servants.
Islam is easy, I can honestly say that. What you guys and gals (sorry I never mentioned you earlier) have studied is the history and technical part. Islam is a lot deeper than that. I have got past that and now mainly read books regarding Sufi thought, books by Rumi as I want to be close to God. If I have technical issues I have so many people to go to.
I believe Islam is the religion for me. People who question my religion or want to raise some issues, fair enough they have every right. But insulting religion, that is something else. Many People live their lives according to religion, why would somebody want to insult their religion, to raise some issues? No, but to provoke a reaction. This is where the freedom of speech law gets hijacked. I will never insult Christianity or Judaism, I have had my way of life attacked on this forum but I am above that, words can not hurt me. In my entire life with God as my witness I can say I have never attacked any of the 124,000 Prophets sent to Mankind. Let me give you an example, if you had somebody you cared for, a friend. If someone had issues with the guy/girl they would have very right to raise issues and talk respectfully, however what if they just insulted him. Would you feel agitated, I think so.
Cross,
I will answer your questions. There are seven in my family, my mother and father, me and my 4 brothers. I was born in the UK as were all my brothers. My Dad moved here in the 70s.
I do not wish to live in an Islamic country, because to be frank there is no true Islamic country in the whole World. The UK is easier to live in then lets say Syria or Saudi Arabia. In Syria If I were to go to the Mosque 5 times a day I would be questioned by their security services. In Saudi Arabia since I am a Sunni/Sufi I am considered to be a deviant Muslim. There are no elections what so ever, in Egypt they’ve had this puppet (Mubarak) for what, more than 20 years!! Imagine that, and Saddam, don't get me started about that tyrant. During the caliphate of Abu-Bakr he told his people that they had to the right to disobey him if his didn’t follow Islam the way the Prophet did. Now these dictators in the Muslim World kill with no conscious, they torture innocent Muslims. Many leaders such as the Saudi family have been caught drinking alcohol, this is the state of the leadership in Muslim countries.
The Prophet Muhammad said travel to china if you have to acquire knowledge, this was a long distance back them. I am in the UK so that I can gain as much out of this life as possible. If I was in a Muslim country I wouldn't be as educated, the health service would be poor. I owe the UK so much, this country has fed me and looked after me from day one (I feel really emotional right now). God bless the UK. I always thank God for being in the UK.
I personally think that Immigration is a good thing, however I know of a few cases were Muslims as well as Hindus/Sikhs don't assimilate or integrate. I think that all immigrants should know how to speak English. I speak English to my friends and brothers. My father speaks fluent English and my mother does speak a bit of English, enough for everyday life. In short I think immigration is good as In my area, where I live there are many immigrants, mainly Polish workers. They all tend to be hard workers and they are all very well mannered. It is also very good for the local economy. I do not think that the UK should allow too many unskilled people in as it does put pressure on the infrastructure.
Before 9/11 none of these issues such as integration were brought out, now they are brought out I think it is important we discuss them. I do think it is necessary to integrate, I am educated in this country, I vote and do everything that anyone else does. My family friends are all like this, there are always going to be some Wahabi/Salafi fanatics, these are aggressive Muslims that attack democracy and the UK. These people need to be isolated. There was one guy Omar Bakri, something like that you must have heard about him. Well he had some organisation al-Muhajiroun (closed down now ^_^) he was a Syrian who was thrown out of every Muslim country but was given refuge in the UK. Well I think people with extreme views should be stopped from coming into this country.
The government now wants Muslim Imams moving to this country to speak some English, I think this is reasonable, I am surprised they never thought about this before. In the UK it is not about us and them. I have white, brown and black friends. We all have different religions but we are still good friends, I have learnt a lot from these people. In my University, you can find a guys/girls from so many different countries its mind boggling. I can live as a proper Muslim in a democratic secular country, there is no contradiction, the Quran tells me to obey those in authority above me, whether they are Christians or even Atheists.
I live by my religion, it is not allowed for a Muslim woman to date or marry a non-Muslim man. It is as simple as that, just as Jews don't wish for their females to be married to Muslim men (so I’m told)
Kentim you say
'BinLadin et al are some of the most "devout' and correct muslims in existence today, they are following the example of the "prophet" as it was written'
I have to admit this is getting rather tedious. Bin Laden is a Wahabi, Wahabis consider Sunnis as deviant and we Sunnis consider Wahabis as deviant. Sunnis are in the majority however Wahabism is more influential as there is a lot of money behind it and it is spread by force in war ravaged countries (Palestine-HAMAS) and Chechnya to name a few. Wahabis believe the Prophets of God are completely dead (no spirituality). They believe Mohammad is dead, they believe Moses is dead. Of course they are dead physically (If you have studied Islam you should be able to understand what I am trying to say) They don't believe in Saints, they don't believe in Mawlid or Sufism. You see it is very insulting for a Sunni Muslim. We believe that the Prophets are with God. Wahabis believe there is no difference between a Prophet and a normal man, to us Sunnis again this is very insulting. Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Mohammad (God bless them all) are known as the 5 more Powerful Prophets. Now you arrogantly claim Bin Laden is a ‘devout’ Muslim, but I think our elders know more about Islam than you and when they say he is a twisted fanatic I tend to believe them. No Muslim can just make a fatwa just like that, who is Osama to declare Jihad, he has no authority. I personally think he is insignificant I think Bush also said this, but the media seem to make him appear like he is ready to strike the ‘West’ at will.
Some here claim that Wahabis/Salafis have a stronger base in Islam according to the Quran and Sunnah. Well the Prophet did say that a new sect would arise that would spread confusion left right and centre. The Prophet would sometimes call Satan ‘Sheikh of Najd’. Nobody understood this, during the time of Abdul Wahhab (The founder of Wahabism) his followers addressed him as the ‘Sheikh of Najd’ Only now do people realise this.
The Prophet said :
There will appear a group of people at the end of time who are young and have foolish dreams. They speak from the words of the best of creation (I.e. the Quran and the Prophet Muhammad’s hadith) Their faith does not even reach their throats and they pass out of the religion like an arrow passes through its prey…
Hudhayfa related:
The Prophet replied (to a question posed by him), “ There will be some people who will lead others on a path different from mine. You will see good and bad in them”
I (Hudhayfa) asked, “Will some evil come after that good?”
The Prophet said “Some people will be standing and calling at the gates of Hell; whoever responds to their call, they will throw him into the hell fire”
I said, “ O Messenger of Allah, describe them for us”
He said “They will be of our complexion and speak our very language”
I asked “What do you advise me to do if I should live to see that?”
He said, “You must stick to the main body (jama’ah) of the Muslims and their leader.”
Hadith specialists state that these hadiths are about what we see today, the evil of Wahabism. We are living in the end times period as all Prophets have come, we are now waiting for Jesus, son of Mary to come back to earth and guide us all.
No don’t tell me you think the above hadiths are about something else.
So you think for the last 1400 years, not one Muslim apart from Mohammad has fully understood Islam, but you do. Oh come on, be realistic.
I have posted some links that you people may find interesting. These will help you understand Islam from a different perspective.
http://www.islam.co.za/abdalqadirjilani/default.htm
http://www.sunna.info/antiwahabies/wahhabies/
http://www.zakariya.net/resources/hilye.html
http://www.islamicacademy.org/html/Articles/English/Excellence_in_Durood_Sharif.htm
http://www.qalanderbaba.cjb.net/
http://www.islamdenouncesterrorism.com/
http://www.evidencesofcreation.com/
http://www.jesuswillreturn.com/
http://www.unionoffaiths.com/
http://www.naqshbandi.net/haqqani/sufi/angels/angels_contents.html
http://www.naqshbandi.org/chain/17.htm
http://www.naqshbandi.org/frmchain.htm - History and Guidebook of the Saints of the Golden Chain - Spirituality
http://www.yanabi.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=34&threadid=2723&enterthread=y
www.yanabi.com - This is a very good Sunni forum used by Muslim youth worldwide
Sorry about the length of this post.
P.S.-
In reference to the laughable old claim that Allah dared any one to try to write a verse equal to those in the 'perfect' Koran, but no one could come ever up to its brilliance...
I suppose the inability to read, among the average Muslims, until this past century has made this 'impossible challenge' actually sound believable to them. And names, post-Koran, like Milton, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Descartes, Bacon, Locke, Hume, Pascal, Marvell, Donne, Kydd, Marlowe, Rabelais, Jonson, Voltaire, Shelley, Baudelaire, Whitman, and even the little couplets of Dorothy Parker, ALL exceed in human warmth and intellectual depth and original literary skill the plagiarized mediocrity of the book of that "first successful Protestant", Mohammad.
I can't think of one memorable line from the Koran. Nothing close to the world-poetic gems from the King James Bible.
And the few lines that are close turn out to be sloppy rewrites of an earlier line from the Proverbs or Psalms of Pentatuch. Or, worse, a meaning-inverted excerpt from the Sermon on the Mount.
Where is Mohammad's "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the Earth?". Or: "He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword?"
The Koran is a mish-mash of tribal business wranglings, war strategies, calls to kill unbelievers, spoils dividings, with a few meaningless "compassionate God" 's sprinkled on top, like raisins on a poisonous porridge.
No surprising wisdom. Only mundane dealings.
In fact, almost everything written by any competent author- before and since the Koran- exceeds it for wit, poetry, humanity, philosophy and depth by dazzling light years.
A sonnet (#18) should suffice:
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
That are more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold compexion dimm'd,
And every fair from fair sometimes declines
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd.
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st.
No shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade
When in eternal line to time thou grow'st.
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee."
-William S. circa 1600 A.D.
Let some scribbling ayatollah try to top that.
Or even:
"No moonbean cuts the air;
A sapphire light
Rolls lazily, and slips again to rest.
There's no edged thing in all this night.
Save in my breast."
-Dorothy P. circa 1930.
Bigsleep,
So you like to read poetry, maybe you should tell God you would prefer all revelations to come down in a poetic form.
I'm not sure whether you are being serious or are just trying to pull my leg.
The challenge set by God is still open. Make one verse similar to that of the Quran, one ayah. Maybe if you understood what the Quran actually is. It is not a book sent just to read and to help time pass. It was sent as guidance for Mankind.
There are secrets in the Quran that you cannot even fathom.
The Qur'an consists of 114 (19 x 6) Suras.
The first Sura to be revealed (Sura 96) is the 19th from the end.
The sum of all the occurrences of the name "Allah" in all the verses whose numbers are multiples of 19 (i.e., verses 19, 38, 57, 76, etc.) is 133, or 19 x 7.
The word "Rahman" (All-Merciful) appears 57 (19 x 3) times in the Qur'an
Word------ Meaning------ Mentioned in the Quran
Al-Dunya This World 115(times)
Al-Akhira The Here After 115
Al-Mala'ikah Angles 88
Al-Shayateen Satan 88
Al-Hayat Life 145
Al-Maout Death 145
Al-Rajul Man 24
Al-Mar'ha Women 24
Al-Shahr Month 12
Al-Yahom Day 365
Al-bahar Sea 32
Al-bar Land 13
If we add up the total words of both "sea" and "land" we get 45. Now if we do a simple calculation:
32/45 X 100% = 71.11111111%
13/45 X 100% = 28.88888888%
Above is what we know today, the percentages of Water (Sea) and Land in the world. Yet another miracle in the Quran.
The Miracles of the Quran will never end. There will never be a time where mankind can fully take in the knowledge that is in this Holy book. It is a miracle to all mankind, the word of God. There is no value that one can set to the words of the Creator. It is a treasure of which guides those that want to succeed in this life and the hereafter.
See, if we see in detail, than we should have a large number of Miracle narrated in Quran. Quran is the only source whcih will Update peoples every time till Roz-e-Hashur.
Whereas the Bible talks of the sun and the moon as two lights differing only in size, the Holy Quraan distinguishes between them by the use of different terms: light (noor) for the moon, and lamp (siraaj) for the sun.
Surahe Al-Furqan(25) Ayat 61
Transliteration:
Tabaraka allathee jaAAala fee alssamai buroojan wajaAAala feeha sirajan waqamaran muneeran
Kanz-ul-Eeman
Most Blessed is He Who made constellations in the sky and placed therein a lamp and a shinning moon.
The moon is an inert body which reflects light, whereas the sun is a celestial body in a state of permanent combustion producing both light and heat.
There are many more secrets . There is one I am looking for in particular, may take some time to get though.
'I see, so you call Mohammad a prophet even though he really never prophesied, he just wrote in an eloquent manner'
You reminded me of another miracle. The last Prophet of Mankind was unlettered. We Muslims say that he was a Prophet and that the Quran came to him through God. Now according to YOU, he wrote ‘eloquently‘, would this for you not be classified as a miracle. An unlettered person writing an eloquent book that has survived intact and unchanged for many centuries.
The Prophet Mohammad was the last Prophet sent to mankind, and the Holy Quran is the word of God sent to us, the Children of Adam and Eve for guidance.
How Great is the Glory of God
And news came from the western world that the numerical miracle of the Holy Quran was placed under studying and examination also conferences began to be held in the Arabic and Islamic world looking for the scientific and numerical miracles in the Holy Quran, and here you are some of the discovered numerical miracles of some words that mentioned in the Holy Quran ( copied from the book of professor Abdul Rzak Nofl) :
- The word Life was repeated 145 times / Death repeated 145 times
- The word Righteousness 167 / Evil 167
- Life of this world 115 / Hereafter(life to come) 115
- Angles 88 / Devil 88
- Guidance 79 / Mercy 79
- Tribulation 102 / Patience 102
- Peace 50 / Good and pure 50
- Manifest (open in speech ) 16 / Publicness 16
- Iblis 11 / Refuge with God 11
- Merciful 114 twice the word Gracious 57
- Forgiveness 234 twice the word Reward 117
- Righteous 6 twice the word Wicked 3
- Relief 36 , 3 times Difficulty 12
- They said 332 / Say 332
- Man (singular) 24 / Woman (singular ) 24
- Misfortune 75 / Gratitude (grateful) 75
A site that describes a few miracles of the Holy Quran:
http://www.55a.net/en/miracles/a011.php
The website I put up will answer you doubts
Iron is one of the elements highlighted in the Qur’an. In Surat al-Hadid, meaning Iron, we are informed:
…And We sent down iron in which there lies great force and which has many uses for mankind.... (Surat al-Hadid: 25)
The word “sent down” particularly used for iron in the verse, could be thought of having a metaphorical meaning to explain that iron is given to the service of people. But when we take into consideration the literal meaning of the word, which is, “being physically sent down from the sky”, we realize that this verse implies a very significant scientific miracle.
How could this have been known 1400 years ago!!
Another astonishing piece of revelation that the Qur'an gives about the future is to be found in the first verses of Sura Rum, which refers to the Byzantine Empire, the eastern part of the later Roman Empire. In these verses, it is stated that the Byzantine Empire had met with a great defeat, but that it would soon gain victory.
(Elif, Lam, Mim. The Romans have been defeated in the lowest land, but after their defeat they will themselves be victorious in a few years' time. The affair is God's from beginning to end.) (The Qur'an, 30:1-4)
Now you must be starting to realise that no one can face the challenge that God has sent.
Praise and glory to Allah (he who said) in his exalted book : ( Say: If the whole of mankind and jinns were to gather together to produce the like of this Quran , they could not produce the like thereof , even if they backed up each other with help and support ) al-isra 88
Please also check out
http://www.miraclesofthequran.com/index2.html
ia786: Around 700 BC, the prophet Isaih accurately foretold the sufferings of the Messiah (Isaiah 53). Muhammad's "prophecy" re the Byzantines was just the astute political analysis of a guy who's business had to take into account the political buzz of the places where he did business (and Syria was the battleground between the Byzantines and Sassanids).
By the way, i'm also against changing any word in the Qur'an--even though I think it's a work of Muhammad's vivid imagination--if not the vivid imaginations of people who came after him. I don't like bowdlerizing Mark Twain or Shakespeare, either. Leave what's written written, and let it stand for future generations to read and understand the era that produced it.
Ia786
No writing in an eloquent manner is not a miracle, maybe for me it would be,
but a few posters here do this every day on this site, I find it hard to believe that is a miracle.
And please don’t think that, I, Bar, think Mohammad wrote in an eloquent manner, I know Mohammad was just a power hungry egocentric murdering pedophile, who took other Jewish, Christian and pagan religions mixed them together, we call it Mohammadanism and it fools millions to this very day.
I apologize if my post is offensive to you. We are technical, Mohammad makes claims that should require one to ask questions. If you do not, well then you are just the blind being lead by the blind. .
I do not understand why you would argue that my Bible is corrupt and then turn right around and make Mohammad fit my books definition of a prophet. If you believe my book is corrupt, then let Mohammad attempt to stand on his own merits.
Understand that your post about Islam correcting my corrupted collection of 66 books written by 40 different authors over a period of more than 2,000 years, by one book written by an unconfirmed prophet is an attack and an insult on my religion and my common sense.
You Moslems are so egocentric, you cant see any other point of view other than your own. I understand that if you didn’t, you would start to see how unpeaceful Mohammadanism really is. The Qur’an mentions that Allah loves the humble believer, if you understand the definition of the word humble, you would understand that you cannot be humble and murder those who you perceive as unbelievers or those who you perceive as an apostate. Mohammadanism calls these actions justice and a guarantee to enter paradise with 72 virgins, this is contrary to not only what the Torah and Gospels teach, but its contrary to most peoples common sense.
I notice how you don’t really care if Allah can do arithmetic, this alone makes the Qur’an a false book written by a false prophet, its that simple.
Hi Kepha,
Please read the posts I have posted, feel free to explore the links that I have provided. They should extinguish any doubt that you may have in your heart.
If you still believe the Quran was not sent by God, give me some legitimate and valid reasons. Please only do this after you have explored the websites that I have provided.
Very dangerous nonsense from our poor friend.
http://www.miraclesofthequran.com/predictions_04.html
I have seen these materials circulated at MSAs in the US. Extremely effective grandiose deceptions aiming at numbing uncritical, confused minds, to achieve total submission to the authority of the Qur'an and the embracing of the cult directives, the total explanation of everything that cannot be questioned.
Here is one example of how dangerous this stuff is:
First the text:
"THE TRIBE OF ISRAEL WILL BECOME VERY HAUGHTY
We decreed in the Book for the tribe of Israel: "You will twice cause corruption on Earth and you will reach [a degree of] great haughtiness. When the promised first time came, We sent against you servants of Ours possessing great force, and they ransacked your houses, rampaging right through them. It was a promise that was fulfilled. Then once again We gave you the upper hand over them, supplied you with more wealth and children, and made you the most numerous group." (Qur'an, 17:4-6)
Then the interpretation:
"As these verses reveal, the Children of Israel were to cause two corruptions over the world. After the first one, during which they adopted a very high level of haughtiness, Allah sent a powerful army against them. Indeed, when the Jews killed Prophet Yahya (as) and set a trap to kill Prophet 'Isa (as) ("reaching to a degree of great haughtiness"), they were exiled shortly afterwards from Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 and wandered all over the world.
When that verse was revealed to the Prophet (saas), the Jews were living under very difficult conditions in various countries and had no state of their own. Yet, Allah told the Children of Israel that one day they would recover their strength. At that time, however, there seemed to be almost no chance that this would really happen. Many centuries later, however, the Jews returned to Palestine and established the State of Israel in 1948. Today, Israel possesses military and political power and keeps the Middle East in great turmoil because of its Zionist ideology and harsh treatment of Palestinian Muslims and Christians.
This is a sign of the Children of Israel's second "corruption." However, this wicked behaviour clearly does not apply to the entire Jewish people, among whom there are many individuals of good conscience and common sense who do not agree with Israel's Zionist and anti-Arab policies.
In this and other verses, we notice that almost no one could believe that such things would ever come about. But Allah willed their fulfilment, and thereby provided believers with more proof that the Qur'an is a miraculous book revealed by Him for their benefit."
So, the Romans, perhaps the most brutal army in antiquity, that destroyed Jerusalem in 70 AD were 'servants of Allah' because of the 'haughtiness' of the Jews. The Jews just got what they derserved. This, of course, goes hand in hand with anti-Semitic interpretations of the passion story and 1st century history that justified murder and persecutions in the West, including the Inquisition and the Holocaust. And now, the 'Jews' are 'haughty' again. What do they deserve now? Very scary.
The Jews, who Allah says he will make the 'most numerous group', of course, have not faired that well. Instead anti-Semitic defamation like this is responsible for the kind of mass murder that kept those numbers way down. But, for the believer, the cult member, this is not only for the best but a sign that the Qur'an is from God:
"Allah willed their fulfilment, and thereby provided believers with more proof that the Qur'an is a miraculous book revealed by Him for their benefit"
So, Allah is in the business of genocide to prove his point, and true believers, like our misguided friend, do not care.
Such mercy, compassion and justice the world has never known...
I'm sorry if I caused you any offence, that is not my objective.
What I meant was that the books you read are not the books that Christians read 2000 years ago. As you stated you have a collection of 66 books written by 40 different authors after this it is extremely unlikely that the teachings of the heavenly Gospel are the same as they were 2000 years ago.
No one here can refute the miracles of the
Prophet Muhammad and the miracles of the Quran. Please tell me how you can refute the miracle regarding Iron,
Iron is one of the elements highlighted in the Qur’an. In Surat al-Hadid, meaning Iron, we are informed:
…And We sent down iron in which there lies great force and which has many uses for mankind.... (Surat al-Hadid: 25)
The word “sent down” particularly used for iron in the verse, could be thought of having a metaphorical meaning to explain that iron is given to the service of people. But when we take into consideration the literal meaning of the word, which is, “being physically sent down from the sky”, we realize that this verse implies a very significant scientific miracle.
It is impossible for even a single atom of iron to be created on earth or even with the extremes of energy inside the earth. To produce one atom of iron requires energy greater than that of the sun. According to the theory of nucleosynthesis, the only place in the universe that is sufficiently hot to produce iron is in a supermassive star which then explodes, spreading the iron throughout the universe. This confirms that iron was not created on earth.
This was revealed 1400 years ago. How could this have been known 1400 years ago!!
Is there any one here that can refute the Holy Quran, who can refute these miracles.
ia786 needs a long talk with Ali Sina @faithfreedom.org. Ali Sina has addressed all the issues in the postings above, including Allah the black stone/moon god, Muhammed the plagiarizer,etc., and would allow visitors to concentrate on the relevant postings on the site.
I have posted my email address in the other thread. If anyone wishes to send me a message feel free to do so, my address is: ia786@hotmail.co.uk
I can also use MSN messeneger, this allows for more direct debates.
I will hopefully have a long talk with Ali Sina.
ia007- The "Miracle" of IRON-
Meteoric iron was a fairly familiar item, known since antiquity. And it "came down" from the sky, naturally, in a "blaze of glory", to be prized by the amazed locals because of its "heavenly" origins. So much for the 'miracle of the Koran' concerning Iron.
Such meteorites were also one of the only handy sources of pre-smelted 'pure' iron known on Earth. It could literally be hammered from the celestial stones into swords, baubles, etc.
One real miracle is what Mohammad believed about the stars:
"The creation of the stars is for three purposes: as decoration for the sky; as missiles to hit devils; and as a sign to guide travellers."
-Buhkari Hadith vol 4. ch.3.
Nothing about them being other suns, distant from the Sol.
Or was Mohammad presciently predicting a "Star Wars" missile defense system, with a geo-stationary set-up of lasers capable of shooting down rogue rockets fired from a terrorist state?
Wow, what a prophetic genius!
But that would make the devils the Muslims?
Hmmmm.....
Me-thinks the chinese knew more about the secrects of iron 2000 yrs before the quoran[not written by mohamhead] was patched together
Pig iron is raw iron, the immediate product of smelting iron ore with coke and limestone in a blast furnace. Pig iron has a very high carbon content, typically 4-5%, which makes it very brittle and not very useful directly as a material.
Pig iron is typically poured directly out of the bottom of the blast furnace into pots to form ingots. The ingots are then used to produce wrought iron or steel, typically with a bessemer converter or basic oxygen furnace, by burning off the excess carbon in a controlled fashion.
Cast iron is made by remelting pig iron, often along with substantial quantities of scrap iron, and taking various steps to remove undesirable contaminants and adjust the carbon content.
The name is derived from the time when the iron ran into molds in sand beds fed from a common runner. The row of molds was said to resemble a litter of suckling pigs, hence the individual ingots were referred to as pigs and the runner was called the sow.
The Chinese were making pig iron by the later Zhou Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC). In Europe, the process did not become common until the 14th century
While on the subject of Iron,how is this for a little bit of fore sight and 'IRONY'
Pig iron" is used to describe any unguided, free fall bomb used in the American armed forces. These relatively inexpensive explosives are dropped and fall under the influence of gravity alone toward their target. Since this is the direct opposite of a smart bomb, these are often referred to as dumb bombs.
Most pig iron bombs have a fuse with a propeller on the front. The propeller is secured in place until released by the wizzo. As the bomb falls, the propeller turns as the wind drives it around. After a certain number of turns, the bomb arms itself and the fuse will detonate the bomb when it impacts another object: building, tank, ground, or any other object beneath the airplane.
Some common pig iron bombs include the Mk-84 (2000 lbs) and Mk-82 (500 lbs) Low Drag General Purpose (LDGP) bombs, the Mk-20 "Rockeye" anti-armor bomb and the BLU-82 "Daisy Cutter" which has gained notoriety due to its use in the United States military action against Afghanistan.
Cross,
I will answer your questions. There are seven in my family, my mother and father, me and my 4 brothers. I was born in the UK as were all my brothers. My Dad moved here in the 70s.
I do not wish to live in an Islamic country, because to be frank there is no true Islamic country in the whole World. The UK is easier to live in then lets say Syria or Saudi Arabia. In Syria If I were to go to the Mosque 5 times a day I would be questioned by their security services. In Saudi Arabia since I am a Sunni/Sufi I am considered to be a deviant Muslim.
WOW,Islam is such a great peaceful religion,yet for a muslim it is easier to live in a infidel land.They are so fooking stupid that they do not realise that it is islam that makes the islamic lands such a nightmare for any human-being to exist
ia786
Cross,
I will answer your questions. There are seven in my family, my mother and father, me and my 4 brothers. I was born in the UK as were all my brothers. My Dad moved here in the 70s.
I do not wish to live in an Islamic country, because to be frank there is no true Islamic country in the whole World. The UK is easier to live in then lets say Syria or Saudi Arabia. In Syria If I were to go to the Mosque 5 times a day I would be questioned by their security services. In Saudi Arabia since I am a Sunni/Sufi I am considered to be a deviant Muslim.
WOW,Islam is such a great peaceful religion,yet for a muslim it is easier to live in a infidel land.They are so fooking stupid that they do not realise that it is islam that makes the islamic lands such a nightmare for any human-being to exist
ia786
On this site there are many posters
We are a very motley crew Christians,hindus budhist,pagans,left/right wingers,ex-muslims also WOMEN,on a lot issues we have different views,we even dilike each other because of our views,but we hate filled brothers and sisters have one thing in common,our hate is not directed at each other,our hatred is directed at the murderous doctrines of your religion.The comments on this site come from a very wide spectrum,which makes this site very valid.Quits a few of us are not able to comment on ourtrue feelings about islams,not out of respect for muslims, but out respect for Mr Spencer.
You do not have a clue what I was referring to
about PC/PoC,well you little muzi,PoC is the Politics of Confrontation,which a lot of posters would like to see happen,but as this site is more devoted to expose Islam for what it really is,and that is what a lot of posters do,expose the lies,violence and abuses committed the follower of Islam
You admit that you can not practice your brand of Islam in so called Islamic lands,isnt that enough for you to realise that Islam is not so great as you claim,do not come here preaching
islam,shut your mouth and enjoy the liberties our fore-fathers died for,the same liberties your fore-fathers lost when they submitted[Islamized]Dont preach to us when it is our country-men being killed in Islamic lands so as pricks like you can have the freedom to practice
whatever faith you like.You have a problem practicing your faith in a Islumic land,and you preach to us,sorry,but I have more respect for the pig-shit that is used to fertillize the vegatables you eat.I have more respect for that
Dutch/Somali politians fingernail clippings than all you muzi cowards in Europe put together.
And as for the 72 raisin before I die/thats another long story,and one that would piss you and a lot of other muzis off
Shiva:
Your use of the word "muzi" is offensive and not necessary. Your use of profanity also diminishes the impact of your arguments. Why do people like you have such a difficult time keeping your discussions civilised?
I have not seen Mohammed (the above poster)use any profanity, and while he may be dead wrong and perhaps naive, he has been respectful for the most part.
Do you no realise that these sort of comments are seen by those who want to discredit JihadWatch and Robert Spencer?
Sharpen up mate...
It's hard for me to ever take Stephen Schwartz seriously. He was born Jewish, he looks Jewish his last name is very Jewish. Yet he proclaims he's Muslim. He's wasting his time and should go back to the religion of his father and his father's father.
Whenever I see him on TV I see a Jewish guy engaging in mental acrobatics and parlor games. Einstein proved relativity and Schwartz tries to prove Muhammad wasn't such a bad guy after all. That Wahabbis and other nasties have perverted his message.
I have an idea - why don't we give muslim posters on this site the same level of "respect" that Christian posters receive on muslim sites for their beliefs?
BTW Thomas, it's also rude (at least in Western Culture) not to acknowledge an apology, either by acceptance or rejection.
Thomas, I'm with you that the use of the term "Muzi" is uncalled for.
Ia786: Thank you for your friendly greeting. Can you answer my question why in Surah IX (Immunity in Rodwell's translation) 30, it says the Jews call Ozair (Ezra) "Son of God", apparently the same way the Christians say that of M'shiach. In America, I knew many Jews and have many Jewish relatives (although as a Christian I think it a pity they do not know M'Shiach); read a lot of their books, and never once heard of Ezra mentioned as "son of God". I read as well much of Jacob Neusner, who is perhaps one of the best scholars of any religion on Judaism in the period between the Old and New Testaments, too; and Solomon Schechter as well. Can you find a Jewish source that calls Ezra "son of God"--or, can anyone of the Ulema do so?
BTW, any Jewish participants--whether sceptical or frum-- out there, can you come up with a Jewish source that might suggest what the Qur'an says about how Ezra is seen. I'm aware of Ezra as interpreter of the Law of Moses and guide to the returned exiles--and extrabiblical tradition which sees him as preserver of the Law and Prophets--but, "son of God" (Bar El, Ben El)? I'm really curious where Muhammad got this one.
Further, what books from 2000 years ago are we Christians missing? I mean, even a radical sceptic like JAT Robinson once argued that all portions of of our New Testament had to be completed before 70 AD, since none see the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus as a fait accompli. So far, I have been told things like the "Gospel of Barnabas" (a clear medieval Italian forgery) and some (also much later than the first century) that seem as damning to Muslim belief as to Christian suggested as the "real" Gospel (Evangellion = Injil) by Muslims; but none of these works have anything in them to suggest an apostolic origin.
The Da'i tell us that the Jews and Christians corrupted and changed the Scriptures. Also, back in those early centuries A.D., the Christians and Jews did not get along well at all, and this is known on all sides. Muhammad in the Qur'an even notes the Jews and Christians squabbling. Yet the Jewish TNK--apart from putting the Pslams, Proverbs, Qoheleth, and the like towards the end rather than in the middle (although they're clearly the same books)--is pretty hard to tell apart from the Old Testament of my Christian Bible. For instance, if someone put two translations of Genesis (first book of the Old Testament) in similar typeface and no publication page before me, one being the older Jewish Publication Society Version and the other being the traditional Protestant Christian King James Version, I'd probably be uncertain which one was which (and I'm familiar with the Christian Bible, Old and New Testaments).
So, when we Jews and Christians didn't cooperate or even like each other in even a neighborly manner, how come we end up with our books of Moses, the Prophets, and Hagiographa (the divisions of the Old Testament) the same--if these books were corrupted in the days before Muhammad?
This sounds as if people were very careful with the text, and kept it from change.
Similarly, where the Roman Catholics, Protestants, Eastern Orthodox, etc. differ on the New Testament is on points of interpretation and translation of the Greek text--not on the Greek text itself. As a Protestant, I would accuse the Roman Catholic of misunderstanding what he reads (and he would do the same with me!), but I would not accuse him of falsifying the book itself.
You may wish to go to Jochen Katz's _Answering Islam_ and read their articles on the Bible and Qur'an. Their people read Arabic, which I do not (English, Chinese, and ancient Greek are my reading languages; I do French, German, and Hebrew very badly).
Getting back to Stephen Schwartz, I still think he's a guy who having been told by the syphillitic Nietzsche that his God was dead, went out to find a new one.
CGW:
Thank you very much for your apology! And I must apologise for not replying sooner, it was quite rude of me. Again, we are not too far off in views.
As a point of clarification, Stephen Schwartz is not Jewish, as he is the son of a Catholic mother, nor was he raised as a Jew.
Cheers
Thomas
Stephen “Sufi” Schwartz is a lose cannon on the Republican ship. I have seen him on a number of occasions absurdly shoot at those who won’t accept his redefinition of Islam. His propaganda will not help – it will only confuse Americans as they are trying to learn about Islam. If he can’t come to grips with the painful truth about Islam he can’t be a reformer in the Muslim world … which in my opinion means the repudiation of Islam. Even if you’re not convinced something so drastic needs to be done – if there is a core element of Islam that can be extracted and separated from the cancer – you have to be brutally honest facing what is wrong with Islam. Schwartz is part of the problem. He is worse than Grover Norquest.
By the way, I notice early in the post a discussion of Pragmatism. On my blog I remind people how Pragmatism helped to blind us to the nature of communism during the first few decades: http://libertyandculture.blogspot.com/2005/03/ideology-vs-pragmatism-again.html And I argue we are being blinded once again.
Nazi/Muzi/Nazi/Muzi
Neither deserve respect
I have no respect for reptiles so why should I be false so as to appease the likes of
ia786
Thomas:
May I recommend to you the writings of the mystic St. Catherine of Sienna? They can be found online.
No need to reply to this post.
CGW
Hi Shiva,
I don't know why you are acting so aggressively towards me. I have been debating constructively with some very interesting people on this forum.
I don't know what a 'Muzi' is and in all honesty I don't really want to know. Okay you may not respect my opinions as they are different to yours, that’s up to you. You don't have to agree with every thing I say. I have no evil intention against you or anyone else here
I think I deserve an apology from you.
Thomas:
Stephen Schwartz was the Washington bureau Chief for The Jewish Forward and a editorial writer for the voice of America.
If you still believe the Quran was not sent by God, give me some legitimate and valid reasons. ~ia786
Given the fact that 99% of all posters here have provided legitimate and valid reasons as to why the Qur’an could not possibly be from God.
It is clear that ia786 suffers from a severe case of aphasia, a very common occurrence in Islam.
Thank you ia786 for posting and thus proving your irrationalness, most people will read the above posts and conclude that you are completely unhinged.
offering an apology for expressing my true feeling
not my style
'Given the fact that 99% of all posters here have provided legitimate and valid reasons as to why the Qur’an could not possibly be from God'
Don't think so. Re-read this post.
I have posted why the Prophet Mohammad was the last Prophet for mankind, and that the Quran came from God. I have stated miracles that have been well documented. No one here can refute these miracles or my claims.
Ah! A response. People have been busy.
Besides not responding to my posting, ia (and are you ever going to respond?), frankly, none of the 'miracles' of Muhammad are reported in the Quran. That's an important point. What you're talking about is a small collection of traditions by Sayyiduna Rasulullah, which - it has to be admitted - don't strike one as being terribly plausible. Here are some of the other qualities supposedly possessed by Rasulullah HIMSELF on that same website:
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(5) While he was in his cradle, he used to speak to the moon and the moon used to move in the whichever direction Sayyiduna Rasulullah (Sal Allaho Alaiyhe Wa Sallam's) blessed fingers moved.
(6) He could see behind him while looking in front of him.
(7) He could see in the darkness as well as he could see in the daylight.
(8) His blessed saliva revived those who were sick.
(9) While his eyes were closed, his heart was awake.
(10) He never yawned during his entire lifetime.
(11) His perspiration had the scent of sweet roses.
(12) Although he was of medium height, he looked taller when he stood next to a tall person.
(13) He did not have a shadow, either in the sunlight or the moonlight.
(14) No flies, mosquitoes or any other kind of insects ever came onto his blessed body or clothes.
(15) His clothes never got dirty, no matter how long he wore them.
(16) The Angels followed him wherever he walked.
(17) When he stepped on a rock, his footprint would be left on it.
(18) He possessed the greatest wisdom of all creations.
(19) Almighty Allah put the name of the Holy Prophet (Sal Allaho Alaiyhe Wa Sallam) next to His Name in the Kalimah Shahaadah.
(20) Other Ambiya were Prophets for a certain country or special nation. He was the Prophet unto the entire creation.
(21) The Ummah of Sayyiduna Rasulullah (Sal Allaho Alaiyhe Wa Sallam) , are more than that of all the Ummahs of all the other Ambiya put together.
(22) To call to Sayyiduna Rasulullah (Sal Allaho Alaiyhe Wa Sallam) with his name or to speak loudly before him isprohibited since it is disrespectful to do so.
(23) He was visited approximately twenty four thousand times by Sayyiduna Jibra'el (alaihis salaam).
(24) Sayyiduna Rasulullah (Sal Allaho Alaiyhe Wa Sallam's) wives and daughters are the best in the world. There are no women more superior to them.
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Let's see: he was the wisest, cleanest, nicest-smelling, night-seeing, moon-controlling, non-shadow casting, eyes-in-the-back-of-his-head being ever. (More so than Muhammad? Oh my!) I think you'll permit me to i) can those, ah, 'miracles' told by Rasulullah (who certainly had a wonderful imagination, to say nothing of his followers) and ii) to ask you, given this extremely high regard for Rasulullah, whether he or Mohammed was the last Prophet.
It's important to consider too the timing of these 'revelations' - early islam had to argue against competing versions of theological reality from Christians and Jews. So, why not create a few miracles? And of course, since this individual was a companion (or nearly so) of Mohammad, he would also have been aware of taquiyya. So all in all, not terribly reliable. Moreover, the Christians can at least argue that several sources writing independently got the miraculous observations of Jesus quite close. For Mohammad, it seems we only have Rasulallah, and his reporting seems none too likely. Or then who is the real Prophet?
Let's see: cool. 'Scientific miracles'. Well, ia, I refute them all. You see, the onus is on you to prove them, not me to disprove them, really. BigSleep, for example, crushed the iron thing. Going through that list, it's clear that all the miracles within are very tenuous readings of the most hopeful near-correlations available. In other words, all constructed post-hoc on subjects totally unrelated to their scriptural interpretation. On other Sunni sites, I've seen people (Harun Yayha/Adnan Oktar) propose that some other 'miraculous scientific findings' include the facts (fairly undisputed for about, I don't know, 8000 years or so) that: breasts give milk and that wood burns, creating heat. And that people feel things through their skin.
Didn't the Church also delve into this kind of nonsense a couple hundred years ago?
But, by all means, when the structural support for your 'miracles' and 'scientific revelations' gets crushed, please do bleat on endlessly about how no one can refute them. I'd like you to lay out what exactly you mean by 'refute', because I have a feeling it would not be possible to change your mind no matter the evidence - as, in fact, you've already specified indirectly.
Moreover, the reported miracles wouldn't actually be 'scientific', either, since they don't follow the scientific process. For the latter, the investigator would require independence from bias, and more importantly, that the original hypothesis is falsifiable (refutable), giving acceptable to the alternative hypothesis. Since neither you, nor the creator of these sites, have in mind any real possibility of the acceptance of the alternative, the process could hardly be called scientific.
Now, my mind, unlike yours, is open to more evidence, if you have any.
Geoff
I liked particularly how while his eyes were closed, his heart kept moving. In other words, he was asleep. Perhaps this could also serve as a 'scientific proof' of his divinity? I assume his mothers' breasts gave milk, however, even though attributing human characteristics to God (that is, Jesus) is shirk in islam.
I also liked how he never yawned, not once. Ever. He walked around all that time and never ever yawned. His "yawn reporter" must have been a sleepless fellow himself.
Geoff
Actually, come to think of it, he sounds a bit like Shaitan, doesn't he? You know, he's got a few of the characteristics general mythlore in the West consider for 'Old Scratch', the Devil, Lucifer, Iblis:
No shadow. Sees out the back of his head. Controls the phases of the moon. Physically attractive. Maybe he glowed too? Good with words.
Interesting.
Geoff
ia786
-Isnt Quran fully detailed Book?
-Where Quran says that there is code 19 embeded in it?
-Where Quran says that 19 is a Sign?
-Where Quran says that Judgement day will happen in the year 2280.?
-Where, in Quran, God said that anything and everything in Quran should be counted and divided by 19?
-Where Quran says that Rashad Khalifa is(or will be) messenger of God?
-Where Quran says that, after revelation of Quran, God will send a Rashad Khalifa to make clear and explain some of His verses?
-Where Quran says that we will find some divinely inspired explanation`s of its verses in the book called appendicess of Rashad Khalifa`s (Authorised!?) translation of Quran?
-Can you answer to any of these questions above with a clear, straightforward and unambiguos verse of Quran?
-Isnt Quran fully detailed book?
-Why is it so hard to find a SINGLE clear verse in Quran to support theory of code 19?
-Did you forget that only those whose hearts tend to wawer follow and dwell on ambiguous verses?
-Have you check all the counts and calculations, that you consider miraculous and that you believe in, by yourself, or you relie upon hear-say?
-Did you count 40.000 letters("initials" in initialed chapters), and how many times?
-Did some goat eat 17/36 in your copy of Quran?
-Did you know that appendices of RK`s translation of Quran are full of errors and mathemathical properties,manipulations with counting criteria, arbitrary and selective inclusions of diferent forms of words and letters in order to fit 19-divisibility, that is, full of insignificant calculations and counts ?
-Did you ever read a serious critic and (re)evaluation of Rashad Khalifa`s work(calculations,counts etc.)?
-Did you know that there are several codes embeded in Bible?
-Do you know how many sunnies increased their faith witnessing a miracle of those scientifically confirmed hadiths?
Geoff:
Just ONE of many "scientific" examples of which you may be unaware: Did you know that the qur'an reveals that the sun sets in a muddy pond?
It has been PROVEN above that "allah" can't do simple arithmetic - so sad when a "god" has learning disabilities, don't you think?
shiva, come on, you're asking a muslim to employ critical thinking skills and construct a logical, reasoned argument.
You already know they're taught to do the exact opposite from birth.
FIRST PARAGRAPH OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
Some Islamic scholars, following the work of Rashid Khalifa, assert that numerous coincidences regarding the number "19" in the Quran are beyond chance, and prove that "a super intelligent source is responsible for this document [the Quran]; one who designed the work in this extraordinary manner, then managed to keep it a well guarded secret for 14 centuries, for a predetermined time. Just as the Bible Code is alleged to prove the divinity of the Judeo-Christian God, the "Code 19" phenomenon is purported to show that Allah himself is indeed real, and most definitely the author of the Quran.
What are some of the patterns involving "19" behind this startling hypothesis? Edip Yuksel cites several on the www.19.org web page, including:
The first verse, i.e., the opening statement "Bismillahirrahmanirrahim", shortly "Basmalah," consists of 19 Arabic letters.
The first word of Basmalah, Ism (name), withouth contraction, occurs in the Quran 19 times.
The second word of Basmalah, Allah (God) occurs 2698 times, or 19x142.
many, many more...
As with the Bible Code, the phemomenon is asserted to occur nowhere but in the Quran. As Yuksel writes, "The Quran is characterized by a unique phenomenon never found in any human authored book...."
But, just as the "amazing" Bible Code coincidences, which are alleged to be found ONLY in the Hebrew Torah, can be found in virtually ANY text (War and Peace, Moby Dick, and Drosnin's own Bible Code books are favorites), so too can "amazing" "19" coincidences be found in any text.
As an example, consider what I found after just a few minutes of study on just the first paragraph of the American Declaration of Independence:
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."
read more Dave Thomas
http://www.nmsr.org/code19.htm
shiva, next you'll be saying djinns aren't real!
Heh - great posts CGW and shiva. I still like the "wood burns" one better. =p
OK I have one:
"Ia! I have a great proof of the Christian God! It is this:
Take any number and multiply it by 9.
Then add together the digits and you will see that they all sum to 9 or a multiple of 9!
This is proof of the great Christian God! For there are three elements in the Trinity, and the square of the Trinity is 9! For there are two Testaments, the OT and NT! 3 to the power of 2 is 9! This is an amazing proof of the veracity of Christian scripture! How can you refute this proof? Can anyone here refute this mighty proof?"
And so forth, correlation begging causation, ad nauseam.
Geoff
'Actually, come to think of it, he sounds a bit like Shaitan, doesn't he? You know, he's got a few of the characteristics general mythlore in the West consider for 'Old Scratch', the Devil, Lucifer, Iblis'
Geoff your mind works in a very peculiar way. Thats was actually quite funny ^_^
We are offered above a "Proof of Nine" as comic rebuttal to the assorted numerological absurdities that are invoked to prove the truth of the proposition that "we hold these Qur'anic truths to be self-prooving."
For this reproof, much thanks.
Hello,
From another forum
'so far what you have said about the number 19 is fine, but you have to realise that the person who discovered this rule and the group who follows him (the international community of submitters) went to an extreme and eventually rejected 2 verses of surah taubah,
im not implying that you are doing the same but bcause this group is not well known and when the muslims found out about this rule it was accepted world-wide without any problems but later rashid khalifa admitted that for this rule to be complete he had to reject the 2 verses, due to the lack of info on this group their are people who still belive in this rule'
and something interesting for you guys/gals
Samuel Huntington's 1993 thesis about a "clash of civilizations" between the West and the Islamic world has never been accepted by the American administration. This is an important advance. The White House countered this claim at the outset and, in subsequent events that brought it head to head with some Muslims, made it clear that it had no negative feeling about the Muslim world or Islamic values.
America has never targeted Islam in reaction to the aggressive behavior of some circles that call themselves Muslims but have no connection with Islamic morality; on the contrary, it has stressed that there is no place for terror in Islam. This attitude was maintained in both the Clinton and Bush administrations. For example, during his 1994 tour of Indonesia, Clinton said:
We have had problems with terrorism coming out of the Middle East … this is not inherently related to Islam, not to the religion, not to the culture. 3
In a Department of State report prepared during the Clinton administration on the fight against terror, America said that there was a clear line separating Islam and terror:
Some Muslims, and others, believe that the U.S. has seemed, at times, to link terrorism with Islam. This is not U.S. Government policy… Islam and the West are not in confrontation. While we may have political differences with some countries whose populations are mostly Muslim, most Americans and most Muslims share fundamental values such as peace, justice, economic security, and good governance… Terrorism is not a principle of any major religion, including Islam. There are over one billion Muslims in the world. Among that number, one finds a few extremists who misuse Islam as a justification for their violent criminal acts. 4
The same view was stated several times by variously ranking members of the government. In a speech made in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, John Beryle, acting assistant secretary for the American State Department's Bureau of Newly Independent States, explained his government's attitude toward Islam:
The United States abhors terrorism and we reject extremism, but we have great respect for Islam… I draw this distinction forcefully, because so many people fail to draw it at all. Some believe that the United States opposes Islam, that the Cold War has been replaced by a clash of civilizations. Others, including some in my own country, believe that terrorism is somehow related to Islam. They are both wrong. The distinction I want you to understand is this: the United States opposes those who use terrorist methods. We do not oppose any religion. We distinguish our friends from our enemies on the basis of actions, not beliefs… Americans recognize Islam as one of the world's great faiths. It is practiced on every continent. As Westerners, we acknowledge Islam as a historic civilizing force among the many that have influenced and enriched our own culture. The legacy of Islam, which reached into our civilization via the conquest of Spain at just about the same time it arrived in Uzbekistan, brought us, as it brought you, a rich scientific, artistic, and cultural heritage, as well as a tradition of tolerance.
Beryle continued his speech by quoting Surat al-Baqara: 62 and Surat al-Ma'ida: 69, and concluded:
Those who have faith, and those of the Jews, the Christians, and the Sabaeans - whosoever has faith in God and the Last Day and works wholesome deeds - their wage awaits them with their Lord, and no fear shall be upon them, neither shall they sorrow (Surat al-Ma'ida: 69). These are the words of tolerance. They stand as a striking demonstration that tolerance is part of the foundation of Islam, that fundamental Islam should be a force for tolerance, that extremism is not truly Islamic… I wonder whether there is any other nation on earth in which so many people have been converted to Islam over the past several decades. Islam in the United States is becoming more widespread, better known, and more influential. For five years now the end of Ramadan has been celebrated with a feast in the White House. A similar tradition was established in the Pentagon and this year included the first-ever Muslim chaplains to serve in the U.S. military. The Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, held her second annual Iftaar Dinner at the State Department on December 21. Similar celebrations occur all across the U.S. Muslims are becoming an important and respected part of the American mosaic… And finally, from the Koran, Sura 2, ayat 256: "Let there be no compulsion in religion."
This attitude of the American administration did not change after the events of 9/11. Some days after the attack, President Bush visited the Islamic Center in Washington and stressed in his speech that Islam and terror could not be mentioned together because Islam was a religion of peace:
The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That's not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace. These terrorists don't represent peace. They represent evil and war. When we think of Islam we think of a faith that brings comfort to a billion people around the world. Billions of people find comfort and solace and peace. And that's made brothers and sisters out of every race - out of every race. America counts millions of Muslims amongst our citizens, and Muslims make an incredibly valuable contribution to our country. Muslims are doctors, lawyers, law professors, members of the military, entrepreneurs, shopkeepers, moms and dads. And they need to be treated with respect. In our anger and emotion, our fellow Americans must treat each other with respect. 6
Words like these have been repeated time and again after 9/11 by high-level officials. For example, White House press spokesman Ari Fleischer, when asked whether this attack had been the result of a clash of civilizations between Islam and Christianity, said: "This attack had nothing to do with Islam. This attack was a perversion of Islam." 7
American State Officials Praise Islam
The fact that American state officials recognize that there is no connection between Islam and terrorism shows that they know what kind of religion Islam is. As they get to know Islam, they naturally come to admire it and often mention it in their speeches. This has been noticeable especially in the last three presidential administrations. So, the idea put forward by theorists after the Cold War that Islam would be America's next target has come to nothing.
But there is an important point here: Some of the American government's decisions with regard to the Muslim world must be examined in the light of the advantages that it hopes to gain as a nation from its international policy and strategies. These decisions must not be confused with the American administration's and people's interest in Islam. This book examines the following topics: the approach of American state officials and the general public toward Islam in the last few years, the fact that Islam is always a topic on the public agenda, and the resulting rapid rise of Islam. This is certainly a remarkable historical development that, when considered from these aspects, should make every Muslim happy, enthusiastic, and excited.
As we said earlier, the American government's approach toward Islam began in the 1990s and reached its high point during the Clinton administration. Clinton was the first to commend Islam and its moral teachings in his speeches, and the first to issue invitations to the White House on Islamic holidays. Under Clinton, for the first time invitations were arranged at the administration's top level for Muslims to attend an iftar meal. Subsequently, this became a tradition. When Clinton spoke about Islamic morality, one of the topics that he dwelt upon was the compatibility of Islamic moral values with those of the West. Clinton believed that "Devotion to family and to society, to faith and good works-are in harmony with the best of Western ideals."8 In another speech he said;
That is why we welcome Islam in America. It enriches our country with Islam's teachings of self-discipline, compassion, and commitment to family. 9
And on another occasion, he said that Islam was highly regarded by America:
America is made stronger by the core values of Islam-commitment to family, commitment to family, compassion for the disadvantaged, and respect for difference. 10
Hillary Clinton, who began the tradition of inviting Muslims to the White House, once stated during one of these gatherings that she admired the following things about Islam:
Universal values - love of family and community, mutual respect, education, and the deepest yearning of all - to live in peace - values that can strengthen us as a people and strengthen the United States as a nation. 11
The Secretary of State at the time, Madeline Albright, in an article that she wrote for State Magazine, "Learning More about Islam," drew attention to a very important point and said that the American people must learn about Islam.12 As a result of her comment, State Department officials prepared a report on how people could familiarize themselves with Islam:
Our society can solve it through education, people-to-people exchanges, and by encouraging responsible reporting in the mass media and accurate portrayal in the movie industry. 13
The decision of the Clinton administration that the people should be taught the truth about Islam is extremely important. As we shall see in the following pages, priority has been given to this, especially since 9/11, and newspapers, television, and other media outlets have presented news, programs, and inquiries.
President Bush's approach to Muslims began with his election campaign. Known to be a religious person, Bush received support from a significant section of American Muslims during his campaign. For this reason, he is constantly engaged in dialogue with Muslim communities. The 9/11 attack has become a vehicle by which he has been able to assert more often the closeness he feels toward Muslims, and frequently to remind his fellow citizens to understand Islam correctly and establish good relationships with Muslims. During one speech, he stated that:
The Islam that we know is a faith devoted to the worship of one God, as revealed through The Holy Qur'an. It teaches the value and importance of charity, mercy, and peace. And it is one of the fastest growing religions in America, with millions of American believers today… The Holy Qur'an says: "Piety does not lie in turning your face to the East or West. Piety lies in believing in God." (2: 177) 14
The American Government's Iftar Invitation
Another important development that shows the coming together of the American administration and American Muslims is the iftar invitation, which has become a tradition in the last few years. Each invitation provides the opportunity for dialogue between the two groups. The tradition of hosting of Muslims in the White House was started by Hillary Clinton, who received them to offer them Eid congratulations. For the first time in 2001, Muslims were invited to an iftar meal in the White House that the president had organized.
As stated earlier, these iftar invitations began in the State Department with the participation of the then-Secretary of State, Madeline Albright. It is often said that these invitations were very important for developing relations between Muslims and the American people, a project on which Albright laid great importance. In Ramadan 2000, at the second iftar meal, she described these efforts:
I am very, very pleased to welcome you all to the Department of State. And as many of you know, we had a similar Iftaar Dinner here last year for the first time, and tonight we continue what I hope will become a tradition that lives on for many years to come...
The month of Ramadan and the daily fast are powerful reminders for Muslims of the centrality of God and of the potency of the message conveyed through the Prophet Mohammed...
I am pleased that since last year the State Department has inaugurated a new website entitled "Islam in America." Its purpose is to help people everywhere learn more about the positive force that Islam has become in American life and about the growing role of Muslim Americans as they are there to play a role in ensuring the security, prosperity, and freedom of our land.
Equally vital are the international exchange and people-to-people programs we conduct with Muslim-majority nations. These efforts bring distinguished Muslim visitors to our shores to exchange views and promote understanding...
We are strongly encouraging young Muslim Americans to apply to the Foreign Service as part of our overall effort to attract talent and promote diversity, and we have had a lively discussion at my table on that subject.
Together, during the past few years, we have made an important beginning in providing that answer, not only through these dinners but also through our religious freedom roundtables, open forums, conferences, and seminars. We have established and expanded a dialogue, but obviously much more remains to be done. It is vital for Muslim Americans to know and have access to American policymakers. It is even more vital to become policymakers. 15
As we see, the State Department regarded it as its duty to build a bridge between the Muslim community and the American people and administration. This played an important role in the rising interest in Islam. This speech was very important, for it showed what an influential position Islam had gained in America. Ten years earlier, American Muslims had lived a cloistered social existence encountering many difficulties in their daily lives, but now they have been invited by the Secretary of State to be directors of American policy.
These iftar invitations have continued under her successor Colin Powell. During his short address on November 29, 2001, at a State Department iftar meal, he stressed the following basic points:
Ramadan is a time of prayer and fasting for followers of the Muslim religion. This year, it is also a time of reflection for all Americans. Less than three months after the tragedy of September 11th, we were all examining our lives and reaffirming the importance of family, faith, and country. In fact, this year marks the first Ramadan for many non-Muslim Americans who have been made aware of the great significance of this period for the first time in their lives.
But there remains much ignorance and confusion about Islam, and that presents an opportunity for those of us who are not Muslim to learn from those of you who are. I hope that all of you here will seek out opportunities to talk with non-Muslims throughout your communities about your faith; to help all of us learn from, understand, and appreciate one another; and that you will encourage others in turn to talk to you about their faith.
And I heard some wonderful stories at my table about how you are doing that, reaching out to Christians and Jews, and letting everybody know we are all -- we are all creatures and children of a benevolent God, and we must come to understand that to love one another is being faithful to our God.
I was very moved by some of the conversations that we had at our table, as we talked about discrimination, we talked about profiling, as we talked about how we have to be sensitive to each other and to be sensitive to the diversity that we all represent. This touched me deeply, because I am a minority. I have been profiled. I will never forget my background; I will never forget what those who came before me did so that I could be in this position today ... I will always be sensitive to the issues that have been raised this evening… 16
The Defense Department also has hosted iftar meals. This tradition, which goes back officially to 1998, consists of an iftar meal ordinarily arranged by the deputy secretary of defense and attended by Muslims working in the department and the army. At the 1999 iftar meal, the then-Deputy Secretary of Defense, John Hamre, said:
I am very honored to be invited to be here tonight. A little over a year ago I was invited to address the first Iftar celebrated here at the Department of Defense. The fact that you would ask me back for a second time is a tremendous honor. I am very grateful. As I said last year, I am a Lutheran in my own religious background and not a Muslim, so I cannot fully appreciate how important this Night of Power is for all of you. But I can understand why this Night of Power is deeply important to you, because I am a religious person myself. I can understand how moving it is, in this season of dedication, that all of you have spent the entire day focusing on your relationship with God.... I believe that vision in our Constitution springs directly from our shared religious values. There is not a word in the Constitution for which a good Muslim would not fight…. It is the same ideal expressed in the Holy Koran: "O mankind, I created you from a single pair and made you into nations and tribes that ye may know each other, not that ye may despise each other." 17
Hamre's address was notable for his declaration of personal religiosity, the closeness and love he showed toward Muslims, and for quoting the Qur'an. The Defense Department's third iftar meal was held on November 30, 2001, and attended by the Deputy Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz. He began his address with the words As-Sallamu alaykum, which he learned while serving as ambassador to Indonesia, and continued:
Each time faithful Muslims gather in prayer and in peace, you reclaim your faith and reaffirm the great gift that Islam has been to humanity through the centuries.
Mohammed said that those who provide a fasting person with something to eat will be blessed as though they themselves had fasted. As we gather tonight in this spirit of generosity, we are mindful of the great blessings that we enjoy. We are thankful to share them with others. 18
Hillary Clinton first invited Muslims to the White House for the Ramadan Eid in 1996, and on every subsequent occasion gave significant messages to those in attendance. Among those who attempted to explain what Ramadan means for Muslims was Huma Abedin. Mrs. Clinton said that she personally learned a lot from this woman, and frequently mentioned the special importance she placed in establishing dialogue with Muslims. At the 1999 reception, she even said she prayed for this:
I have been told that a common Muslim prayer tells us: "No struggle is easy unless you make it easy for us. And only you, my Lord, can make a hardship easy to overcome." With God's help, and with the kind of determination, courage, and hope that is lived out in the lives of all of you and millions of others around our country and throughout the world, I believe that we can do more together to help build a more peaceful, prosperous, and hopeful future in which all of God's children can live in peace and fulfill their God-given promise. 19
This tradition begun by Hillary Clinton was continued by Bill Clinton during his final year as president, when he personally received Muslim guests for the Ramadan holiday. The meal began with quotations from the Qur'an. Bill Clinton also quoted from the Qur'an in his address, and frequently expressed his interest in Islam:
And I thought it was particularly moving that the Imam read the passage from the Koran that said that Allah created nations and tribes that we might know one another, not that we might despise one another.
There's a wonderful passage in the Hebrew Torah, which warns people never to turn aside the stranger, for it is like turning aside the most high God. And the Christian Bible says that people should love their neighbor as themselves. But it's quite wonderful to say that Allah created the nations and tribes that they might know one another better, recognizing that people have to organize their thoughts and categorize their ideas, but that does not mean we should be divided one from another...
Let me say, also, that there is much that the world can learn from Islam. It is now practiced by one of every four people on Earth. Americans are learning more in our schools and universities. Indeed, I remember that our daughter took a course on Islamic history in high school and read large portions of the Koran, and came home at night and educated her parents about it, and later asked us questions about it…
I ask all of you to help with that, to share the wellsprings of your faith with those who are different, to help people understand the values and the humanity that we share in common, and the texture and fabric and fiber and core of the beliefs and practices of Islam...
The Koran also teaches, in addition, to the fact that we should do unto others as we wish to have done to us, and reject for others what we would reject for ourselves, but we should also make a commitment to live in peace… 20
Under the present Bush administration, for the first time in American history a president organized an iftar meal. This meal was attended by the ambassadors of Muslim countries and the heads of Muslim organizations. In his address, the president commended Islam and called for dialogue and understanding among different faiths:
Ramadan is a time of fasting and prayer for the Muslim faithful. So tonight we are reminded of God's greatness and His commandments to live in peace and to help neighbors in need… All the world continues to benefit from this faith and its achievements. Ramadan and the upcoming holiday season are a good time for people of different faiths to learn more about each other. And the more we learn, the more we find that many commitments are broadly shared. We share a commitment to family, to protect and love our children. We share a belief in God's justice and man's moral responsibility. And we share the same hope for a future of peace. We have much in common and much to learn from one another. 21
All of these iftar meals and the addresses given at them are very significant for the relationship between Muslims and the American administration, and indicate that Muslims have begun to influence American society and culture. The relations between Americans and Muslims are not limited to these invitations and various talks, for Muslims are now an inseparable part of America and active at every level of social life. A most significant example of this is their position within the American army.
1. Middle East Quarterly, Winter 2002.
2. Middle East Quarterly, Winter 2002.
3. The President’s News Conference, U.S. Government Printing Office, Jakarta, November 15, 1994; http://www.gpo.gov
4. “US Government Views on Terrorism,” Fact Sheet, December 7, 1999.
5. Department of State Beyrle’s Speech in Tashkent, February 8, 2000.
6. President’s Speech, Islamic Center of Washington, September 17, 1999.
7 . “Press Briefing by Ari Fleischer,” September 17, 2001; http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010917-8.html
8. News Conference with King Hassan II of Morocco, March 15, 1995; www.gpo.gov
9. “President Clinton’s Ramadan Message,” USIA, November 27, 2000.
10. “President Clinton’s Message Celebrating Eid Al-Fitr 2000”, US Department of State, December 22, 2000; 11. http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/islam/s122200.htm
11. Mofid Deak, “First Lady Hosts Third Annual Eid Celebration,” USIA, January 22, 1999.
12. Madeleine Albright, “Learning More about Islam,” State Magazine, September 2000.
13. “US Government’s Views on Terrorism,” Fact Sheet, December 7, 1999.
14. “President’s Message for Ramadan,” November 15, 2001.
15. Remarks by Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright at Iftaar Dinner, December 19, 2000.
16. Secretary Powell Hosts Iftaar at the State Department, December 29, 2001.
17. John. J. Hamre, “2nd Annual Pentagon Iftar Celebration,” The Pentagon Friday, January 1, 1999; http://www.defenselink.mil/speeches/1999/c19990115-depsecdef.html
18. Remarks as delivered by Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, The Pentagon, Washington DC, December 30, 2001.
19. “Eid Al-Fitr Celebration Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton,” The White House, January 21, 1999; http://www.amaana.org/ISWEB/ramadan.htm
20. “Eid Al-Fitr Celebration Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton,” The White House, January 21, 1999; http://www.amaana.org/ISWEB/ramadan.htm
21. “President Hosts Iftaar Dinner,” November 19, 2001; http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/11/20011119-14.html
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Thanks for the comment Hugh. The nonsensical associations that get presented in this magical numerology have to be the most uninspiring thing yet about islam - clearly one of the most convincing arguments for its fallibility beyond a guy that claims as many miracles for himself as for his prophet (more, in actual fact). It sort of levels the intellectual field regarding the religion being argued; things seem much more common when the basis gets its legs cut out from under it, as per Shiva's link.
Thanks also for your links, ia. But were you going to respond to my argumentive points or carry on with the cut-and-paste style of non-argument? Are you stipulating to my points? Probably best.
I certainly wouldn't bother with the following sites:
www.darwinismrefuted.com
www.darwinism-watch.com
www.evidencesofcreation.com
www.evolutiondeceit.com
www.harunyahya.com
As I've comprehensively rebutted anti-evolutionary arguments in those on another website. Harun Yahya's (aka Adnan Oktar) grasp of evolution and scientific process is pretty tenuous, bordering on ridiculous.
Now, while I assume you don't have the capacity for pursuing a career in the biological sciences at this university, ia (and so I don't expect you to completely understand the concepts), would you be brave enough to select a couple of anti-evolutionary arguments from them, phrase them in your own words and offer them up for sacrifice to me - err, I mean, argument? I'll even let you pick which ones you get to present. What could be fairer?
Geoff
If you visit the website www.islamicpluralism.org, you will have a vision of Stephen Schwartz, hands aloft in attitude of reverence, before the grave of Aliza Izetbegovic, the former ruler of Bosnia. Izetbegovic, whose published plan for working toward the imposition of the shari'a so scared Serbians, and who during World War II had worked as a recruiter for the Waffen SS Hanjar Division (consisting of Bosnian Muslims who fought for the Nazis, an idea inspired by the Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini, Hitler's friend who spent the war years in Berlin). There is a good deal to say about Izetbegovic, and that Schwartz chooses to display himself in such unseemly fashion is itself telling -- not to mention the heavy emphasis, in this website, on one -- Stephen Schwartz.
For a historical parallel, one might google the name "Leopold Weiss" who also became a Muslim, took the name "Muhammad Asad" and was made so much of by Muslims so desperately eager for converts slightly beyond the usual Richard Reid-Jose Padilla level of comprehension. That Asad is now a figure of fun (do check out his description of his "blonde, Nordic wife" etc., his friendship with assorted Saudis, his stint in New York as a diplomat, and all the rest of his life.
Still, being Muhammad Asad brought him more psychic satisfaction than being plain old Leopold Weiss.
One may guess that a deep-seated desire to stand out, to be someone special, to be an "interesting" human being, to be made more of than one would otherwise have any right to expect, to lay claim to just a bit more of the world's attention -- are what prompted a Weiss many decades ago, or a Schwartz more recently.
Look high or look low or look Trendelenburg in the Merck Manual, and still you will not find a remedy for this white-black mental oscillation, this pathological condition which is famously named here, for the first time, as the "Weiss-Schwartz Syndrome."
70-80% of the world's Muslims cannot read Arabic,my guess is
70-80% of the world's Muslims cannot read
They are taught to recite the koran,not to understand it.
There is an old joke,A CLASSIC!!!!!!
There is an old joke: a wife returns home suddenly to find her husband in bed with another woman. Unfazed, the husband looks up from the sheets at her and, with great indignation, demands: Who are you going to believe? Me, or your lying eyes? It seems to me that right now almost the entire world is like that wife, looking down at that husband, who represents Islam.
Hugh!
That was one of yuor better posting and I am tempted to repost,but i shall respond to ia786
last posting
In most democracies the goverment reflects the views of those who voted that goverment into power.Up until recently most people have been unaware of the violent nature of Islam,and this is why we have Islamic friendly goverments.Most of us do not want war.we have anti-war demostrations,we are always the first to help out when disaster stikes,we even welcome you to our lands so you can have a better life plus every muzi/nazilim nation is getting aid from us.
Above you have sent 21 links,each one comfirming our desire to live peacefully,now below are messages sent back by muslims Since September 11th, 2001:
ISLAM THE RELIGION OF PEACE
{The first number after the place is how many killed,the second number,injured.
4/1/05 Pakistan Lahore 1 3 Sunni gunmen kill a Shiite cleric in his car in an attack that also his young daughter and two of her friends.
3/31/05 India Sonabrari 3 0 The bodies of three shepherds abducted and executed by the Mujahideen two days earlier are found.
3/31/05 Iraq Tuz Khormato 5 14 Fedayeen suicide bomber murders five others, including a child, outside a shrine.
3/31/05 India Thannamandi 5 5 The Mujahideen kidnaps and kills two more villagers from their home. Elsewhere in Kashmir three other civilians are killed in separate attacks.
3/30/05 Iraq Mahaweel 1 2 Sunni extremists open fire on a Shiite pilgrims making their way to a religious festival, killing at least one person.
3/30/05 Iraq Mosul 6 8 Four Jihadi gunmen open fire on a street, killing six people and injuring another eight in what appeared to be a suicide attack.
3/29/05 Algeria Thenia 1 0 The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat kidnaps a 32-year-old man then slits his throat.
3/29/05 Afghanistan Anar Darah 4 0 The Taliban ambush and kill four policemen in a remote area.
3/29/05 India Biwilian 1 0 Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists kill a boy who refuses to courier money for them.
3/29/05 Iraq Mussayib 5 5 Suicide bicycle bomber pedels his way to Paradise, taking five other souls with him including three civilians.
3/28/05 Yemen Saada 4 0 Islamic extremists ambush and kill four Yemeni policemen.
3/28/05 Iraq Karbala 7 9 Sunni extremist kills seven Shia pilgrims at a religious event with a suicide car bombing. At least nine others are injured.
3/28/05 India Machan 2 8 Muslim terrorists ambush a local security patrol, killing two and injuring eight.
3/27/05 Iraq Baghdad 2 2 Religious fanatic blows himself up, also killing two U.S. soldiers.
3/27/05 Thailand Narathiwat 0 15 Bombing and shooting attack on a train by Muslim separatists results in more than a dozen casualties.
3/27/05 India Udhampur 4 0 Mujahideen militants set fire to a civilian's house after killing his mother, wife and infant daughter. They also murder a neighbor.
3/27/05 Iraq Abu Tamir 6 3 Six Iraqis are killed by Jihadists in and around Baqubah in several shooting attacks.
3/27/05 Pakistan Khambay 1 6 Four Islamic militants open fire on an church Easter service, killing at least one Christian and injuring six other worshippers.
3/26/05 India Srinagar 1 16 Sixteen people are injured and one killed when the Mujahideen lob a grenade near a crowded bus stop.
3/26/05 Iraq Tal Afar 4 6 Four policemen are killed, and six wounded, in an attack on their station by radical Sunni.
3/26/05 Lebanon Beirut 0 5 Bomb in a predominately Christian suburb injures five.
3/25/05 Iraq Ramadi 11 14 Fedayeen suicide bomber kills eleven police officers at a checkpoint and injures another fourteen.
3/25/05 Iraq Karbala 2 19 Two Shia pilgrims are killed, and nineteen others injured by a Sunni suicide bomber as they are marching to the shrine city.
3/25/05 India Manwa-Dangal 1 0 Muslim terrorists abduct a civilian then slit his throat a day later.
3/24/05 India Bakhipora 2 0 Hizb-ul-Mujahideen invade a civilian's home, kidnap his son and nephew then execute them in captivity.
3/24/05 Thailand Yala 0 4 Four people, including an elderly Buddhist monk are injured by a bomb that Islamic militants trigger with a cell phone.
3/24/05 Iraq Baghdad 5 0 Jihad gunmen open up on a van carrying cleaning women from their job at an American base. Five women are shot to death.
3/23/05 India Srinigar 1 5 The Mujahideen kill a civilian and injure several other people with a car bomb in a shopping district.
3/23/05 Lebanon Jounieh 3 3 Three people are killed when Muslim terrorists detonate an 80kg bomb in a shopping center in a Christian area north of Beirut.
3/22/05 Iraq Mosul 10 0 Roadside blast kills four civilians. Elsewhere (in Kut), the bodies of six captured soldiers are found bound and executed.
3/21/05 Iraq Sammarah 3 6 Three people, including two women, are murdered in a Jihad car bombing.
3/21/05 Thailand Songkhla 1 3 Islamic separatists open fire on a restaurant, killing one customer and injuring three others.
3/21/05 Iraq Aziziyah 7 0 A roadside bombing rips through the bodies of four women and three children riding in a vehicle.
3/20/05 Thailand Yala 1 13 One civilian is killed, and thirteen other people injured by two bombs placed by Islamic separatists, one near a river pavilion.
3/20/05 Iraq Mosul 5 14 A suicide bomber walks into a government building and kills three others. Jihadists then open fire on the subsequent funeral, killing two others.
3/20/05 Pakistan Fatehpur 39 55 Radical Sunni suicide bomber blows up a Shia religious festival near a Pakistani shrine, killing about three dozen and injuring many more.
3/19/05 Qatar Doha 1 16 Egyptian suicide bomber slams his car into a theatre, killing a British national and injuring sixteen others in the Qatari capital.
3/19/05 Iraq Kirkuk 4 5 Jihad insurgents gun down a police officer, then kill three others at his funeral procession.
3/19/05 Thailand Narathiwat 2 2 Three separate shooting attacks by Islamic militants leave at least two villagers dead, including a Buddhist man shot in the back of the head while sitting in his tea shop.
3/19/05 Lebanon Beirut 0 9 Syrian-backed terrorists set off a car bomb in a Christian neighborhood, injuring at least nine.
3/18/05 India Bandipore 1 6 The Mujahideen kill an 8-year-old boy by tossing a grenade into a school. Six of his classmates sustain critical injuries.
3/17/05 Afghanistan Kandahar 5 32 The Taliban detonate a roadside bomb targeting a humanistarian convoy that kills two women, two men and one Afghan child. Thirty-two others are injured.
3/17/05 India Rajouri 3 24 Three people are killed when the Mujahideen hurl a grenade at a restaurant.
3/16/05 Iraq Baqubah 3 8 al-Qaeda suicide bomber kills three soldiers and injures eight other people, including civilians.
3/15/05 India Tangmarg 2 0 A leader of the terrorist group, Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, kills two people in making an escape from jail.
3/15/05 India Poonch 0 7 Seven people standing outside a bank are injured when the Mujahideen hurl a grenade at them.
3/15/05 Thailand Yala 1 3 A policeman is killed and three other people injured when Muslim separatists set off a bomb at a railway station.
3/15/05 Iraq Baghdad 4 7 Jihad car bombing kills four civilians and injures seven.
3/15/05 Iraq Baghdad 1 4 Suicide bomber successfully kills a young child and injures four others.
3/14/05 Philippines Manila 3 3 Abu Sayyaf militant grabs a gun and shoots three prison guards to death.
3/14/05 Iraq Baghdad 6 10 Three car bombings kill a total of four civilians, including two farmers.
3/14/05 India Baramulla 2 0 The Mujahideen ambush a search party, killing at least one person. They also kill a civilian at his home (Gagrot Piri).
3/13/05 Iraq Hillah 2 1 Muslims kill two American security contractors with a roadside bomb.
3/13/05 Iraq Mosul 6 1 Sunni Jihadists kill a police officer's wife and two young children then shoot three other policemen attending the funeral a day later.
3/12/05 Algeria Bouira 2 2 Islamic extremists set up a fake roadblock, then machine-gun two policemen to death in their vehicle.
3/11/05 Philippines Sulu 5 4 Moro Islamic Front attack a military patrol, killing five and injuring four.
3/10/05 Iraq Mosul 50 86 Devout Sunni blows himself up inside a Shiite mosque, taking fifty lives and leaving about a hundred other people badly injured.
3/9/05 Iraq Al-Rumana 41 0 The bodies of forty-one people, massacred by Jihadists, are found. All had been executed, many were beheaded, including several women and young children.
3/9/05 Iraq Baghdad 2 40 Two suicide bombers drive a garbage truck packed with explosives into a hotel, killing two others and injuring several dozen.
3/8/05 Pakistan Danyore 1 0 Sunni government official shot to death by Shia militants while waiting for a bus.
3/7/05 Iraq Balad 12 21 Jihadists murder a dozen people, mostly civilians with a car bombing in a residential neighborhood.
3/7/05 Iraq Baqoubah 15 17 al-Qaeda suicide bomber accounts for most of the fifteen people dead in four attacks. At least twenty-six others are injured.
3/7/05 Afghanistan Kabul 1 0 British national gunned down by a Taliban terrorist while waiting at a traffic light.
3/7/05 Israel Hebron 0 2 Two Israelis are wounded by a Palestinian sniper.
3/7/05 Thailand Pattani 3 0 Three people, including two Bhuddists and a businesswoman are murdered in three separate attacks by Muslim terrorists.
3/6/05 Thailand Narathiwat's 2 0 Two young civilians are gunned down by Islamic militants in a motorcycle attack.
3/6/05 Thailand Narathiwat 2 0 Gema’ah Islamiyah terrorists, disguised as fully-veiled Muslim women open fire on a police checkpoint, killing two Thai officers.
3/4/05 Iraq Ramadi 4 0 Jihadists kill four American soldiers with a terrorist bombing.
3/3/05 Iraq Baghdad 5 7 Five people are killed by two Fedayeen suicide bombers outside a government building.
3/3/05 Iraq Baqoubah 1 3 Jihad car bombing kills one civilian and injures three.
3/2/05 Bangladesh Narsingdi 0 10 Militant Muslims injure ten people with a bomb outside a shrine.
3/2/05 Iraq Baghdad 13 30 Two suicide car bombings kills thirteen Iraqis and wound thirty. In a separate attack a judge and his son are gunned down.
3/2/05 Thailand Pattani 3 1 Muslim terrorists murder three civilians in separate random shooting attacks.
3/1/05 Chechnya Grozny 1 16 One policeman is killed, and sixteen others injured when the Mujahideen attack their station.
2/28/05 India Surankote 1 0 The Mujahideen kidnap a 17-year-old boy from his home and then kill him.
2/28/05 Iraq Hilla 135 141 Fedayeen suicide car bomber blows his way to paradise by driving into a crowd of unemployed Iraqi Guard volunteers and taking the lives of more than one-hundred souls. Well over a hundred more are injured in the barbaric attack. Many were Christian.
2/28/05 Sudan Toray 17 14 Arab militias with the support of the Islamic government attack a village and kille seventeen civilians and injure a dozen others including several women who were raped.
2/28/05 India Matribugh 2 0 Hizb-ul-Mujahideen terrorists capture, disarm and then execute two Indian soldiers.
2/27/05 Algeria Souk El-Khemis 2 0 Two people in a small Algerian town are killed when religious fundamentalists set off a bomb.
2/27/05 Iraq Mosul 12 2 Car bomber kills eight people and Jihad gunmen kill another four in a separate incident, also in Mosul.
2/25/05 Israel Tel Aviv 5 49 Three weeks after a truce-signing, a Palestinian suicide bomber kills five Israelis outside a nightclub. Forty-nine others in line are injured.
2/24/05 India Srinigar 5 2 The Mujahideen kill five people and injure at least two others in a suicide assault on a government building in the region's capital.
2/24/05 Iraq Iskandariyah 3 8 A young girl is among the three people killed by a Sunni car bombing. Eight others are injured, two critically.
2/24/05 Thailand Yala 7 0 Muslim terrorists kill seven people over a two day stretch that includes a Buddhist grocery store owner and a village chief.
2/24/05 India Sopore 0 12 Militant Islamist hurls a grenade into a crowd of people, injuring at least ten civilians.
2/24/05 Afghanistan Chakul 9 0 The Taliban ambush and murder nine Afghan police officers.
2/24/05 Iraq Tikrit 15 22 Islamic suicide bomber drives an explosive-packed vehicle into a police compound, killing fifteen and leaving another two dozen in various stages of agony.
2/23/05 Iraq Mosul 2 14 Jihad car bombing kills two Iraqis and leaves fourteen others injured.
2/22/05 Afghanistan Sangin 2 0 The Taliban stop a vehicle carrying two humanitarian aid workers then execute each with a shot to the back of the head.
2/22/05 Iraq Baghdad 4 30 Suicide bomber rams his car into a police convoy, killing four and injuring about thirty.
2/21/05 Chechnya Grozny 9 2 Nine Russian servicemen are killed in an attack by the Mujahideen in the capital's suburbs.
2/19/05 Algeria Batna 4 0 The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat ambush and kill four soldiers in remote Algeria.
2/19/05 Iraq Baqubah 42 91 Eight suicide attacks by Fedayeen 'Holy Warriors' (including one on a bicycle), along with a bus explosion kill at least forty innocent people and injure over one-hundred.
2/18/05 Thailand Sungai Kolok 6 44 Muslim separatists kill six people near a hotel hosting a wedding reception with a powerful car bomb.
2/18/05 Iraq Bahgdad 15 23 Suicide bomber kills fifteen Shia worshippers inside a mosque just as Friday prayers are beginning. Another two dozen are injured.
2/18/05 Iraq Baghdad 10 20 Another suicide bomber blows himself to Allah outside a Shia mosque, taking at least ten others with him.
2/18/05 Iraq Baghdad 2 8 Two people in a religious procession are killed by a Fedayeen suicide bomber on a city street.
2/18/05 Lebanon al-Shuwayfat 2 0 Islamists bomb a Christian-owned gas station, killing two people.
2/17/05 Iraq Zakho 1 0 Christian taxi driver gunned down after refusing to convert back to Islam.
2/17/05 Somalia Mogadishu 2 5 Bombing kills two and injures five near a hotel.
2/16/05 India Kishtwar 2 7 Mujahideen toss a grenade into a bus stop, killing one and injuring seven. Elsewhere (Rajouri) they kidnap and kill a 60-year-old man.
2/15/05 Pakistan Noorpur Shahan 3 14 Sectarian shooting attack leaves three dead Sunnis and fourteen others injured.
2/15/05 Indonesia Ambon 2 2 Muslims shoot two people, including a teenage girl, to death in an attack on a karaoke club.
2/14/05 Philippines Davao 1 8 A 12-year-old boy is killed in an Abu Sayyaf bombing at a bus stop. Eight others are injured.
2/14/05 Philippines Manila 3 79 The Abu Sayyaf terrorist group detonates a bomb in the Philippine capital outside a crowded bus terminal, setting three buses on fire and killing at least three.
2/14/05 Philippines General Santos 5 36 An bomb outside a shopping mall kills five shoppers and injures at least three dozen others. Abu Sayyaf claims responsibility.
2/14/05 India Shopian 0 25 Twenty-five people are injured when the Mujahideen toss a grenande into a crowded street.
2/14/05 Thailand Narathiwat 1 1 Muslim separatists shoot a 48-year-old man off of a motorcycle, injuring his wife as well.
2/14/05 Iraq Baghdad 3 0 Sunni extremists spray the inside of a passenger car with automatic weapons, killing an Iraqi officer and two companions.
2/14/05 Lebanon Beirut 15 120 Powerful suicide bomb blast kills the former Lebanese Prime Minister and fourteen others. One-hundred and twenty are injured in the blast.
2/13/05 Iraq Nasiriyah 2 0 An Iraqi translator and his son are gunned down by Islamists near their home.
2/11/05 Iraq Balad Ruz 13 40 Suicidal fanatic detonates a massive bomb using a vegetable truck outside a Shia mosque, killing over a dozen and injuring more than forty.
2/11/05 Iraq Baghdad 11 0 Sunni gunmen block off a street with their cars and then mow down Shia patrons at a bakery, killing eleven and injuring a unknown number of others.
2/11/05 Thailand Yala 2 24 Thai Muslims shoot a buddhist shopkeeper to death, then trigger a bomb that kills another person and injures two dozen.
2/10/05 Iraq Suwairah 21 0 The decomposing bodies of twenty-one Iraqi truck drivers hauling food are found two days after their convoy was ambushed by Islamic radicals. They had all been burned inside their vehicles.
2/10/05 Thailand Narathiwat 1 1 Thai Islamists set off a bomb in a market stall, killing one villager and injuring another.
2/9/05 Iraq Basra 2 0 Shiite radicals gun down an Iraqi journalist and his 3-year-old son in front of their home.
2/8/05 Iraq Baghdad 21 27 Shaheed suicide bomber blows himself to paradise, along with nearly two dozen others. About thirty are seriously wounded in the street attack.
2/7/05 Pakistan Wana 2 2 al-Qaeda militants ambush four journalists riding in a car. Two are murdred.
2/7/05 Iraq Mosul 12 4 Suicidal extremist kills a dozen police who were guarding a teaching hospital, by pretending to need assistance from the officers.
2/7/05 Philippines Panamao 12 15 Muslim separatists attack Philippino troops, killing a dozen.
2/7/05 Iraq Baqubah 15 17 Fedayeen suicide bomber kills himself and at least fifteen others who were seeking jobs outside a police station.
2/4/05 Nigeria Demsa 36 0 Militant Muslims attack a Christian village in Nigeria, killing at least three dozen and displacing some three thousand others.
2/4/05 India Taryath 1 2 Two people escape after being kidnapped from their village by the Mujahideen, but another is executed.
2/3/05 Iraq Balad 2 0 Two people are shot to death by Sunni radicals for voting in the election.
2/2/05 Dagestan Makhachkala 4 0 Dagestani Islamists kill a high-ranking government official and three others in a shooting ambush on their vehicle.
2/2/05 Iraq Kirkuk 12 2 Takfir wa Hijra (Islamist) terrorists stop a bus full of unarmed Iraqi recruits. Twelve are dragged off and shot execution-style.
2/1/05 Pakistan Quetta 1 7 Two bombs, one placed on a railroad track and the other near a hotel, kill one and injure seven.
1/31/05 Bangladesh Chittagong 1 0 Jamaat-e-Islami terrorists kill a business man with a bomb in a shopping center.
1/31/05 India Anantnag 2 1 The Mujahideen break into a house and kill a woman, then kidnap and hang her student son.
1/31/05 India Nathali-Bagwa 4 3 Four members of a family, including three children and their mother, are killed when the Mujahideen hurl a grenade into a house after knocking down the door.
1/30/05 Iraq Baghdad 44 67 A string of suicide attacks by theocratic fanatics kill over forty Iraqis in an effort to prevent the citizenry from exercising their right to vote in elections.
1/30/05 Kuwait Kuwait City 2 4 Islamic militants kill two people in a shootout.
1/29/05 Afghanistan Spinboldak 9 1 Nine Afghan soldiers are blown to bits by the Taliban while riding in a pickup truck near the Pakistani border.
1/29/05 Iraq Baghdad 2 4 Islamic militants hit the U.S. embassy with a rocket, killing two Americans.
1/28/05 Iraq Baghdad 4 4 Four Iraqis are killed by a Fedayeen suicide car bomber.
1/28/05 Chechnya Alkhan-Yurt 9 0 Jihad suicide bomber kills nine Chechan policemen after crashing his car into theirs at full speed.
1/27/05 Nigeria Numan 1 0 A Christian woman is shot to death by Muslim troops in the troubled African province.
1/27/05 Bangladesh Habiganj 5 100 Islamic fundamentalists lob a grenade into an opposition political rally, killing a former finance minister and at least four others. About one hundred people are injured, some badly.
1/27/05 Iraq Mahmoudiya 3 7 Three civilians are killed, and seven injured by a Sunni bomber.
1/27/05 India Kremshora 2 0 The Mujahideen abduct and kill an Indian government employee and his son.
1/27/05 India Pampore 0 26 Two grenades tossed by the Mujahideen at an election office injure twenty-six people, almost all civilians.
1/27/05 Iraq Samarrah 3 0 Three civilians, including two women, are killed in a Jihad bombing attack.
1/27/05 Bangladesh Habiganj 4 0 Four people, including a 73-year-old man are assassinated by Muslim radicals in a grenade attack as they leave a public meeting.
1/26/05 Iraq Sinjar 15 31 Sunni radicals pack a tractor with explosives and detonate it outside a Kurdish political office, killing at least a dozen.
1/26/05 Iraq Kirkuk 7 3 Seven Iraqis are killed by two Jihad car bombings.
1/25/05 Iraq Baghdad 16 12 Islamic insurgents kill sixteen people in various shooting attacks, including the 5-year-old daughter of a policeman.
1/24/05 India Kulgam 2 6 The Mujahideen gun down an orchard worker (Shopian) and toss a grenade into a bus stop.
1/23/05 Algeria Tizi Ghenif 2 1 Islamic fundamentalists attack a security patrol killing two police and injuring one civilian.
1/22/05 Iraq Baghdad 2 0 Two truck drivers are kidnapped and beheaded on a public street as executioners chant 'Allah Akbar.'
1/22/05 Afghanistan Uruzgan 4 0 Four people, including a police chief and two relatives, are killed by a Taliban roadside bomb.
1/21/05 India Anantnag 1 3 The Mujahideen kidnap three civilians and torture two of them, eventually killing one.
1/21/05 Iraq Yusufiyah 12 38 Suicide bomber drives an ambulance full of explosives into a Shia wedding party, slaughtering a dozen, including women and children and injuring dozens more including the bride and groom.
1/21/05 Iraq Baghdad 14 42 Radical Sunnis car bomb a Shia mosque as the victims celebrate a religious holiday. Fourteen are killed, and about forty injured.
1/20/05 Afghanistan Spinboldak 3 0 Pakistani fuel truck driver and two assistants are murdered by the Taliban in a senseless attack.
1/20/05 Iraq Baghdad 26 25 Three al-Qaeda suicide bombings leave more than two dozen dead and scores of civilians badly injured. One of the targets was the Australian embassy.
1/19/05 Sudan Hamada 105 0 The Islamic government bombs a village in Darfur, killing more than a hundred people, mostly women and children. An unknown number are wounded.
1/18/05 Iraq Baghdad 2 9 Sunni takes two members of a Shia political party with him to 'paradise.' Car bombing injures nine others as well.
1/18/05 Israel Sderot 1 1 17-year-old Israeli girl dies trying to protect her 10-year-old brother from a Hamas rocket attack (on 1-15).
1/18/05 Thailand Narathiwat 3 0 At least three killed as militant Muslims go on a wild shooting and arson spree.
1/18/05 Israel Gush Katif 1 7 Palestinian suicide bomber murders a father of three and injures seven others.
1/17/05 Iraq Ramadi 3 9 Three civilians are killed as a dedicated Muslim blows himself to Allah. Nine others injured.
1/17/05 Iraq Ramadi 4 0 The bodies of three civilians and one soldier are found in a field, brutally slain, with handwriting declaring them to be traitors to the cause of Allah.
1/17/05 Iraq Buhriz 8 4 Jihadists attack a police checkpoint with machine-guns, killing eight.
1/17/05 Iraq Beiji 8 25 Eight people are killed by a suicide bomber, with another 25 injured, some critically.
1/16/05 Thailand Yala 1 30 Muslims plant a bomb in a Thai restaurant, killing the owner and injuring thirty others.
1/15/05 Dagestan Kaspiisk 4 1 Islamic terrorists kill four policemen in two separate shootouts in Dagestan (Kaspiisk & Makhachkala).
1/15/05 India Srinigar 2 17 Grenade thrown into an election rally by the Mujahideen kills two people and injures seventeen.
1/15/05 Bangladesh Natore 3 89 Islamic militants set off bombs at two different carnivals killing three and injuring about ninety others, including stage performers.
1/15/05 India Srinigar 2 0 Al-Mansoorian terrorists storm a passport office and kill two government employees.
1/14/05 India Yarbug Panzla 1 0 The Mujahideen enter a civilian's house and kill his 20-year-old daughter.
1/13/05 Iraq Baghdad 5 1 Islamic gunmen riddle a civilian minivan with machine-gun fire as it is picking up a Turkish businessman.
1/13/05 Iraq Khan Bani Saad 7 30 A car bomb outside a Shia mosque kills seven people and injures another thirty, some critically.
1/13/05 Israel Karni Crossing 6 4 Three Palestinian suicide bombers infiltrate the security wall, via an explosion, and murder six Israelis. Four others are wounded.
1/12/05 Afghanistan Helmand 6 0 Six Afghan soldiers are kidnapped and executed by the Taliban.
1/12/05 Israel Morag 1 3 Palestinians use explosives and arms fire to murder an Israeli officer in the process of constructing a security fence.
1/12/05 Iraq Salman 6 0 Radical Sunnis shoot a Shia cleric and his son to death on the street, along with four of their bodyguards.
1/12/05 Chechnya Vedeno 4 0 Mujahideen attack on a government car leaves four civilians dead.
1/11/05 Iraq Yussifiyah 7 0 Seven Iraqi civilians are killed when militants destroy their minibus with a roadside bomb.
1/10/05 Iraq Suwayrah 9 10 Eight Ukrainian bomb sappers, and one Kazakh are killed by the 'Islamic Army' in a terrorist bombing attack.
1/10/05 Philippines Mamasapano 8 5 Moro Islamic Front stages a surprise attack on government post, killing eight Philippine soldiers.
1/10/05 Kuwait Kuwait City 2 2 Islamic gunmen kill two security guards outside a government building.
1/10/05 Iraq Tikrit 8 12 Fedayeen suicide bombing leave six police dead and a dozen injured. Police chief also assassinated in Baghdad, along with his son.
1/9/05 Pakistan Gilgit 6 0 Shia burn six Sunnis alive after herding them into a house in a revenge for an earlier attack on a Shiite leader.
1/9/05 Israel Shebaa Farms 1 3 An Israeli officer is killed, and three others injured, in a Hezbollah rocket attack along the Lebanese border.
1/8/05 Pakistan Gilgit 2 2 Sunni attack on the vehicle of a Shia cleric leaves two of his guards dead.
1/7/05 Iraq Baghdad 7 0 A heinous roadside bombing attack on a U.S. Marine vehicle leaves all seven occupants dead.
1/7/05 Israel Nablus 1 3 An Israeli motorist is killed by a Palestinian sniper. Three others are injured, two critically.
1/7/05 Iraq Mosul 18 0 The bodies of eighteen Shia laborers abducted and shot execution style by Sunni radicals are unearthed in a field.
1/7/05 India Srinigar 3 2 Fedayeen militants from the al-Mansoorian outfit storm a government building with grenades, leaving at least four dead.
1/6/05 Iraq Baqubah 6 13 al-Qaeda group sends a suicide bomber into a security point. Six dead and thirteen injured.
1/5/05 India Srinigar 0 6 Four civilians and two Indian police suffer injuries when the Mujahideen hurl a grenade into a city street.
1/5/05 Iraq Hillah 20 44 Fedayeen suicide car bomber kills at least twenty outside a police graduation ceremony. About four dozen others are badly hurt.
1/5/05 Chechnya Grozny 17 25 A series of Mujahideen attacks across the country leaves seventeen dead, nineteen wounded and six others, including two college students kidnapped.
1/4/05 Pakistan Vinnoi 5 0 A husband and wife, their son and two other relatives are murdered in their home in an 'honor killing' by a group of armed men.
1/4/05 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 Muslims murder a Thai village official from the back of a motorcycle as he is driving to work.
1/4/05 Iraq Baghdad 10 60 Fedayeen 'Holy Warrior' rams a checkpoint with a truck full of explosives, killing ten and injuring at least sixty, including women and children.
1/4/05 Iraq Baghdad 7 0 Iraqi governor, an advocate for democracy, is gunned down along with six of his guards by Islamic theocrats.
1/3/05 Algeria Biskra 18 0 Algeria's Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat bombs a convoy then rakes it with machine-gun fire, killing eighteen people and injuring an unknown number.
1/3/05 Iraq Mosul 2 2 Ansar al-Sunna Islamists kidnap and decapitate an Iraqi, then booby-trap the headless body with a bomb that kills a police officer.
1/3/05 Iraq Tikrit 16 43 Three suicide bombers blow themselves to Allah in separate attacks, taking sixteen other souls with them. Over forty others sustain burns, open wounds and lost limbs.
1/2/05 Iraq Balad 23 6 Fedayeen suicide bomber kills twenty-three people, mostly Iraqi National Guardsmen in a terrorist attack.
1/2/05 Iraq Samarrah 4 1 Radical Sunnis machine-gun four cops to death as they sit in their car.
Date Country City Killed Injured Description
12/31/04 Iraq Baiji 7 0 Suicide bomber kills seven and injures an unknown number of people.
12/30/04 India Waspora 2 1 Two citizens are shot dead in their home after the Mujahideen barge in. Another relative is injured.
12/30/04 Philippines Malisbong 1 0 Abu Sayyaf terrorists kill a 68-year-old man execution style.
12/29/04 Iraq Baghdad 29 58 At least twenty-nine, including two dozen civilians are killed when Islamic radicals blow up several houses near one being searched by police with a massive bomb.
12/29/04 Algeria Algiers 3 0 A man and his two teenage daughters bleed to death after their throats are cut by Islamic fundamentalists in their home.
12/29/04 India Kashmir 9 0 The Mujahideen shoot nine people to death in separate attacks. One is the leader of the youth wing of a political party.
12/29/04 Pakistan Wana 1 0 al-Qaeda members assassinate a local political figure in a drive-by with ties to the Afghan President.
12/29/04 Saudi Arabia Riyadh 1 2 Saudi militants kill one person in two car bomb blasts.
12/28/04 Iraq Tikrit 17 26 In two attacks (Tikrit and Baqubah), Jihadists slaughter twelve Iraqi police officers by slitting their throats and murder five National Guardsmen a bomb.
12/28/04 Iraq Muradiya 5 31 Five civilians are killed by a Sunni car bomb. About thirty more are injured.
12/28/04 Algeria Algiers 7 0 Seven Algerian civilians are gunned down by al-Salafeyah extremists.
12/27/04 Iraq Baghdad 15 48 'Holy Warrior' detonates explosives in front of a Shia party headquarters, killing himself and at least fifteen other. Several dozen are injured, many suffering burns and missing limbs.
12/26/04 Thailand Chana 3 1 Three Thai policemen are killed by Muslims in a motorcycle terror attack as they are passing by.
12/25/04 India Pakherpora 2 28 Islamic separatists kill two and injure twenty-eight in a grenade attack on a busy street.
12/25/04 Pakistan Chitral 2 0 Armed fundamentalists kill two employees of an international aid foundation and set fire to vehicles.
12/24/04 Bangladesh Dhaka 1 0 Religious fundamentalists finally murder an economics professor on campus after several unsuccessful attempts
12/24/04 Iraq Baghdad 9 19 An explosives-rigged fuel truck detonates in a residential neighborhood, killing nine, including seven members of the same family. "Shahid" suicide bombing.
12/24/04 Thailand Narathiwat 2 7 Islamic separatists plant a bomb on a motorcycle, outside a bank, and kill two people, injuring at least seven.
12/22/04 Israel Hebron 1 0 Palestinians snatch rifle from Israeli guard and shoot him to death with it.
12/22/04 India Sangam 1 14 One person is killed and fourteen others, mostly civilians are injured when Mujahideen militant hurls a grenade into the road.
12/21/04 Iraq Mosul 22 69 Twenty-two people, including several civilians are killed and about seventy injured when an Ansar al-Sunnah terrorist blows himself up in the middle of the lunch hour at a mess hall.
12/21/04 Israel Moshov 1 0 A 39-year-old Israeli woman is stabbed to death by Palestinian terrorists.
12/20/04 Afghanistan Maywand 4 4 Taliban insurgents ambush a security checkpoint, killing four policemen.
12/19/04 Iraq Karbala 16 37 Sixteen people are killed by Fedayeen suicide car bomber and about forty injured in the attack on a Shia holy site.
12/19/04 Iraq Najaf 52 142 An Islamic extremists plows his car into a Shia funeral procession and detonates it near a mosque. Over fifty people are killed and about one hundred and fifty injured in the suicide attack.
12/19/04 Iraq Baghdad 2 0 Two Christians are kidnapped and then murdered by Jihadists.
12/18/04 India Shingru 2 0 Muslim terrorists shoot and kill a 70-year-old political activists and abduct and kill a youth (Kanir).
12/18/04 Iraq Baghdad 5 1 Three people are dragged from a car, forced to kneel, and then shot by "holy warriors." Elsewhere, a husband and wife are shot to death in their homes for supporting "infidels." (Son is kidnapped as well).
12/17/04 Iraq Mosul 4 0 Grisly murder of four men traveling in a car through Mosul (three are foreigners). Bodies are mutilated and set aflame.
12/15/04 Iraq Karbala 10 40 Sunni extremists bomb a Shia mosque, eventually killing ten and injuring forty people in the mosque and on the street.
12/15/04 Thailand Narathiwat 2 0 Two more Buddhist civilians, both in their 50's, are shot to death by Muslim extremists. One was selling ice-cream from his vending bike at the time.
12/15/04 Iraq Baghdad 17 20 Sunni insurgents ambush a police convoy, killing four people on the spot. Thirteen officers are taken prisoner and subsequently executed.
12/15/04 Israel Khan Yunis 1 2 Hamas militants kill a foreign agriculture worker at an Israeli settlement and injure two more with mortars.
12/14/04 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 Buddhist teacher is gunned down by two Muslims in a motorcycle attack.
12/14/04 Kabardino-Balk. Nalchik 4 0 Wahhabi terrorists attack a government building and kill the four security staff members on duty.
12/14/04 Iraq Baghdad 7 13 Another Muslim takes his life in a suicide car blast that also kills seven civilians and injures at least thirteen.
12/13/04 Iraq Baghdad 13 15 Fedayeen suicide car bomber murders more than a dozen civilians and seriously injures another fifteen in a blast designed to maximize human casualty.
12/12/04 Indonesia Sulawesi 0 3 Muslims open fire on churches in Indonesia, injuring three Christians.
12/12/04 Philippines General Santos 15 59 Abu Sayyaf suspected of a mall bombing that kills fifteen Christmas shoppers. Nearly sixty others are injured.
12/12/04 Israel Rafah 5 6 Five Israeli soldiers are killed when Hamas terrorists set off a bomb under a checkpoint. Six others hospitalized.
12/11/04 Israel Neveh Dekalim 0 4 Hamas (Islamic Resistance) lobs several rockets into an Israeli neighborhood. Four, including three children, are seriously injured.
12/10/04 India Magani 4 0 Heavily-armed Mujahideen ambush on a police patrol and slaughter all four Indian cops.
12/10/04 Pakistan Quetta 11 27 Bomb attached to a bicycle rips through a marketplace, killing more than ten people and injuring about two dozen.
12/9/04 Iraq Baghdad 3 5 Three civilians are killed and five injured when Jihadists lob mortar bombs into a residential neighborhood.
12/9/04 India Shopian 2 5 Mujahideen murder two cops in an ambush. Five others are injured.
12/8/04 Nigeria Bauchi 1 0 Muslim students at an African university abduct and kill a Christian student.
12/8/04 Iraq Ramadi 1 0 Islamic terrorists kill a Christian doctor as he is attending to (Muslim) patients in a hospital.
12/8/04 Iraq Baghdad 3 0 Three Shia election workers are gunned down by Sunni activists.
12/8/04 Iraq Samarrah 4 5 Sunni insurgents kill four civilians and injure several more with a terrorist bombing in the city centre.
12/8/04 India Anantnag 0 36 Thirty-six people are injured by a grenade thrown by the Mujahideen on a busy street.
12/8/04 Iraq Taji Camp Road 2 0 Two American civilians are gunned down by a group calling itself the "Jihad Brigade."
12/7/04 Israel Karni 1 4 One Israeli soldier is killed by a bomb at a border crossing. Four are others injured.
12/7/04 Chechnya Grozny 6 9 Muslim separatists murder four civilians, including a teenager in separate attacks that also claim the lives of two Russian soldiers. Seven others are injured and two taken hostage.
12/6/04 Saudi Arabia Jedda 5 2 al-Qaeda members attack the U.S. consulate in Saudi Arabia with grenades, killing at least five international contractors and injuring several Americans.
12/5/04 India Pulwama 11 0 Eleven people are blown to bits by the Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist group on a road, while traveling to a security camp.
12/5/04 Iraq Tikrit 17 13 Islamic insurgents pull aside two buses carrying civilians and open fire at point-blank range, machine-gunning seventeen to death and injuring at least thirteen others.
12/4/04 Iraq Baghdad 16 38 Sunni extremists murder sixteen people and injure thirty-eight with two suicide car bomb blasts on a commercial street in the heart of the city.
12/3/04 Jordan-Iraq Border 2 0 A suicide bomber kills two Americans near the Jordanian-Iraqi border.
12/3/04 Iraq Baghdad 16 5 al-Qaeda militants attack a police station with RPGs and small arms, killing sixteen officers and injuring five.
12/3/04 Iraq Baghdad 14 19 Four suicide bombers drive a minibus loaded with explosives into a Shiite mosque. Fourteen civilians are killed and at least nineteen others critically injured.
12/3/04 India Sopore 5 5 al-Mansoorain terrorists stage a suicide attack on a police camp. At least five officers are killed.
12/2/04 Iraq Mosul 1 0 Islamic terrorists kidnap and decapitate a 29-year-old Christian man.
12/2/04 Iraq Baqoubah 3 5 Extremists lob an explosive into a house, killing three children and injuring another five. All of the kids were from the same family.
12/1/04 Iraq Iskandariyah 1 7 Another suicidal extremist kills one civilian and injures seven others with a car bombing.
11/30/04 Pakistan Quetta 0 10 Chechen Mujahideen hurls two grenades at Pakistani police attempting an arrest. Ten are injured.
11/30/04 Iraq Baghdad 4 19 Fedayeen suicide bomber takes four civilians on to Allah with him. Nineteen others are injured in the attack.
11/30/04 Sudan Itou 65 0 Sixty-five civilians are reported dead after an air force bombing of their village by the Islamic government. An unknown number are injured.
11/30/04 Thailand Yala 1 2 Two separate shooting attacks by Muslim missionaries from the back of a motorcycle leave a teacher dead and two other civilians injured.
11/29/04 India Srinagar 0 12 Mujahideen hurl a grenade into the center of a commercial district, injuring a dozen civilians.
11/29/04 Iraq Baghdadi 7 9 Seven policemen, lining up for pay, are killed in a suicide bombing by Sunni extremists.
11/28/04 Afghanistan Delaram 3 3 The Taliban attack an NGO office and machine-gun three aid workers to death. Three others are injured.
11/28/04 Iraq Samarrah 5 4 Five civilians are killed in a roadside bomb attack by Jihadists.
11/27/04 Iraq Mosul 15 0 Fifteen more bodies, of executed hostages are found in Mosul.
11/27/04 Iraq Baghdad 7 30 Sunni extremists kill three Iraqi and four British civilians with three bombings over a 24-hour period.
11/27/04 Sudan Kossa 15 6 Attack by Arab militias leaves fifteen African villagers dead and six injured.
11/26/04 India Doda 3 0 Hizb-ul-Mujhadeen kill two Hindu travelers on a road, along with a college student dragged of his house.
11/24/04 Iraq Baghdad 2 3 Suicide car bomber kills at least two civilians, including one woman.
11/24/04 Pakistan Islamabad 2 2 Pakistani Islamists attack a police vehicle, killing two occupants.
11/23/04 India Kashmir 3 3 Muslim militants stage two attacks against border guards, killing three and injuring three.
11/23/04 Sudan Adwa 30 100 More than thirty civilians, including women and children are killed by the government in a ground attack on their village. More than a hundred others are raped or injured.
11/23/04 Nigeria Jigawa 2 10 Muslim extremists attack a group of Christian evangelists. Two people are beaten to death and at least ten others injured.
11/21/04 Iraq Ramadi 8 15 Sunni terrorists kill eight policemen and injure fifteen in a shooting ambush.
11/20/04 Iraq Baghdad 4 0 Jihadists chase down a car carrying public works employees on their way to work and machine-gun all four to death.
11/20/04 Iraq Mosul 9 0 Nine policemen are captured by Islamists, then murdered with bullets to the back of the head.
11/20/04 Iraq Mosul 2 0 Two Iraqi Kurds are captured by Ansar Al-Sunna, tortured for seven days and then executed.
11/19/04 India Surankote 3 1 Three people are killed when the Mujahideen bomb their vehicle.
11/18/04 Iraq Baghdad 4 4 Jihadists kill three Iraqis, including a woman, with a suicide car bombing. In Balad they kidnap and behead a native contractor.
11/18/04 Iraq Baiji 4 0 The Fedayeen kill two women, a man and a child in a bombing attack on their car.
11/18/04 Belgium Antwerp 1 0 Synagogue worker gunned down on the streets of Antwerp.
11/17/04 Philippines Zamboanga City 0 1 24-year-old Christian man is attacked by Muslim activists, badly beaten and left for dead.
11/17/04 Iraq Baiji 15 22 Suicide car bomber kills fifteen, including six women and six children. The attack took place in the middle of a crowded street.
11/17/04 Pakistan Mingora 2 29 Bomb explodes in the back of a cinema, killing two people and injuring about thirty.
11/16/04 India Budgam 6 0 Militant Muslims invade a residence and kill six members of a family, including two women.
11/16/04 Afghanistan Deh Rawood 4 6 The Taliban kill four policemen in a landmine attack. Six others are injured.
11/16/04 Bangladesh Chittagong 1 0 Hindu minority leader gunned down in his home.
11/16/04 Iraq Baghdad 1 0 A 59-year-old humanitarian aid worker, kidnapped by Islamists last month, is executed on video with a bullet to the back of her head.
11/15/04 India Patnazi 2 1 Two civilians are gunned down by the Mujahideen while collecting wood in a forest.
11/15/04 Iraq Fallujah 1 0 Body of a Polish female kidnapped by Islamists is found. Her throat had been slit and she had been disemboweled with a knife. She was identified by her long blond hair.
11/14/04 Pal. Auth. Gaza 2 6 Palestinian extremists kill two people guarding the new PA leader. Six bystanders are wounded.
11/14/04 India Nadimarg 3 0 Jaish-e-Mohammed militants kill three policemen assigned to protect a minority Indian ethnic group after a horrific massacre last year.
11/14/04 India Chakarbathi Bala 3 0 Three people, including a husband and wife, are burned to death when the Mujahideen set fire to their home.
11/13/04 Thailand Tharnto 1 6 Militant Muslims explode a bomb in the middle of a marketplace, killing one person instantly and leaving at least six others critically injured.
11/13/04 Indonesia Sulawesi 5 4 Muslim terrorists kill five and injure four with a bomb hidden on a public bus. Two of the dead are women.
11/13/04 Algeria Algiers 2 3 Armed fundamentalists kill two Algerian soldiers in separate terror attacks.
11/13/04 India Malikpora Bandipora 2 2 The Mujahideen invade two houses, killing the wife of one occupant. The owner of the other house is kidnapped and then has his throat slit.
11/13/04 Thailand Yala 2 0 Muslims gun down two civilians - one in his home and another who happened on the attack.
11/12/04 Iraq Baghdad 2 0 Sunni gunmen kill two American civilians in an ambush.
11/12/04 Israel Beit Zeit 0 0 Two bungling al-Aqsa terrorists are killed, and a third injured, when their car bomb explodes prematurely shortly after Arafat's funeral.
11/12/04 Thailand Narathiwat 1 14 A Buddhist teacher is gunned down by Islamic militants. They also plant a bomb in a restaurant, which injures fourteen.
11/11/04 Iraq Baghdad 19 24 A Fedayeen blows himself to Allah, taking at least nineteen people with him that happened to be passing by on a packed city street. Women and children are among the victims.
11/10/04 Iraq Fallujah 5 0 Group calling itself the "Islamic Secret Army" takes five civilians hostage to use as human shields, then summarily executes them when no longer needed.
11/9/04 India Wagora 2 1 The Mujahideen stage an attack on the home of a politician. A neighbor and a security guard are killed.
11/9/04 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 Thai Muslims cut the head off of a 60-year-old Buddhist plantation worker.
11/8/04 Afghanistan Arghandab 3 2 Taliban extremists machine-gun Afghan soldiers at a checkpoint, killing three and injuring two.
11/8/04 Iraq Baghdad 3 45 Muslim extremists bomb two Christian churches, killing three and injuring over forty, including women and children.
11/8/04 Iraq Samarra 6 0 Ansar al-Islam terrorists set two tanker trucks on fire, burning the Turkish drivers alive. Elsewhere, four Iraqi civilians are killed when gunmen ambush their car and set it on fire.
11/8/04 Iraq Zubayr 2 0 Car bombing kills two British and South African civilians.
11/8/04 Iraq Baghdad 13 60 Jihadists car bomb the emergency unit of a hospital, killing thirteen civilians and injuring at least sixty.
11/8/04 Indonesia Sulawesi 1 0 Laskar Jihad terrorists kill the driver of a public minibus.
11/7/04 Iraq Basra 2 0 Two Scottish civilians are killed by Shia militants. One of them is a father of two.
11/6/04 Iraq Samarra 34 66 Thirty-four people, mostly civilians, are blown up by Fedayeen suicide bombers [looking to curry favor with Allah] in several coordinated attacks.
11/6/04 Thailand Narathiwat 2 0 Two Buddhists, one a grocery store owner, are gunned down by militant Muslims.
11/6/04 India Srinagar 2 2 Mujahideen terrorists throw a grenade at two off-duty soldiers shopping in a retail district, killing them and injuring two civilians.
11/5/04 Algeria Relizane 2 0 Algerian Islamists ambush and kill two policemen. The fundamentalists have killed about thirty civilians thus far during Ramadan.
11/5/04 Iraq al-Muqdadiya 2 4 Jihadists kill a 3-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl with a rocket.
11/4/04 Indonesia Poso 1 0 The Mujahideen kidnap and decapitate the Christian leader of an Indonesian village.
11/4/04 Thailand Pattani 9 2 Muslim terrorists kill nine Buddhists over a 24-hour period in separate attacks. At least one monk survived with injuries, as well as a young boy.
11/4/04 Afghanistan Orgun 4 1 Four civilians are killed by a homemade Taliban bomb as they were passing by in their vehicle.
11/4/04 Iraq Bahgdad 4 8 'Holy Warrior' suicide bomber kills three British soldiers manning a checkpoint, along with their translator.
11/4/04 Iraq Dujail 3 7 Car bombing kills three Iraqis and injures seven.
11/3/04 Pakistan Karachi 1 2 Shia gunmen open fire on a Sunni mosque, killing one and injuring two.
11/3/04 Iraq Baghdad 4 0 Four more Iraqis kidnapped and beheaded.
11/2/04 Iraq Baghdad 6 29 Terrorists kill six people outside a Ministry of Education building with a car bombing.
11/2/04 Thailand Mamong 1 0 Muslim agitators murder a 58-year-old Buddhist village chief.
11/2/04 Netherlands Amsterdam 1 1 Dutch filmmaker (Grandnephew of painter Van Gogh) shot to death by a 26-year-old Moroccan after making a film critical of Islam.
11/2/04 Iraq Baghdad 2 2 A Christian family is ambushed in their car by Muslim gunmen, who manage to kill the father and his 10-year-old son.
11/1/04 Israel Tel Aviv 3 38 Two Jewish women and a man are murdered at a cheese deli in an open market by a 16-year-old who let the Abu Ali Mustafa terrorist network strap explosives to his chest.
11/1/04 Iraq Baqubah 2 1 Two high-ranking government officials are assassinated in separate ambushes.
11/1/04 India Shopian 0 21 Harkat-ul-Ansar terrorist hurls a grenade into a busy market, injuring over twenty people.
10/31/04 Iraq Tikrit 15 8 Jihadists fire a rocket at a hotel, killing fifteen civilians and injuring eight others.
10/31/04 Thailand Narathiwat 5 0 Muslim separatists kill a Buddhist construction worker, a police officer, two agricultural workers, and one other civilian.
10/31/04 Iraq Baghdad 1 0 Qur'anic quoting militants bound a Japanese hostages arms then cut off his head.
10/31/04 Sudan Mallaga 18 6 The Janaweed attack an African village earlier in the month, killing eighteen civilians and injuring another six.
10/30/04 Iraq Anbar 8 10 'Holy Warrior' suicide car bomber kills eight U.S. Marines and injures ten others on routine patrol.
10/30/04 Iraq Baghdad 8 19 Fedayeen car bombing on an Arabic TV station leaves seven dead and nineteen badly injured.
10/30/04 India Mahore 2 1 Mujahideen assassinate a politician and his 12-year-old son after invading their home. The dead boy's mother is severely injured in the attack.
10/29/04 India Kukurgaon 2 3 Two Muslim clerics are killed by the other's followers in a religious dispute. Woman and two young girls injured.
10/28/04 Iraq Hillah 11 0 Eleven Iraqi Guardsmen are taken hostage by Ansar al-Sunnah. All eleven are bound and then executed, some with a shot to the head others with a slow beheading. The killers admonish the video audience to "Repent to Allah."
10/28/04 Thailand Sungai Kolok 2 15 Local Muslims gun down a Buddhist orchard owner and bomb a bar. The bomb kills one person and injures fifteen.
10/27/04 Pakistan Karachi 6 2 Vicious killing by Islamists who barge into a Christian charity office, tie up six men, then execute six by shooting them in the back of the head.
10/26/04 Pakistan Spinkai Raghazai 9 5 al-Qaeda kill nine tribesmen with rockets in western Pakistan. At least five others are critically injured.
10/26/04 Algeria Tizi Ghenif 5 2 Algerian Islamists kill five more people at fake roadblocks in two remote areas. Three are beheaded.
10/26/04 India Senabathi 1 1 The Mujahideen invade another house and kill two teenagers, including an 18-year-old girl.
10/25/04 Iraq Mosul 1 0 An Assyrian Christian woman, mother of three children, is murdered in her home by Jihad warriors.
10/25/04 Iraq Mosul 6 12 A series of Fedayeen suicide bombings in Mosul and Baghdad kill six Iraqi civilians and leave at least a dozen injured.
10/24/04 India Anantnag 1 1 Mujahideen attempt another political assassination at a funeral. A passerby is killed in the mine attack.
10/24/04 India Salbala 3 2 Mujahideen terrorists invade a home. They shoot two members of a family to death and kidnap another member, whom they later behead.
10/24/04 Iraq Basra 48 0 A very heinous attack by "Unification and Jihad" leaves forty-eight unarmed police recruits dead. Their three minibuses were stooped by the Jihadists, who forced the men out by the side of the road and executed each with a shot to the head.
10/24/04 Algeria Boumerdass 1 1 Armed Islamists kill a security guard and injure a civilian in eastern Algeria.
10/23/04 Iraq Baghdadi 10 48 Muslim zealot kills ten policemen and injures forty-eight people in a powerful suicide bombing.
10/23/04 Afghanistan Kabul 2 6 A Taliban extremist straps six grenades to his body then detonates them on a city street, killing a 12-year-old Afghan girl and an American woman.
10/22/04 India Anantnag 1 1 The Mujahideen assassinate a prominent moderate politician and critically injure his bodyguard.
10/22/04 Algeria Medea 16 13 Armed Islamic extremists stop cars carrying young people to a soccer game at a phony roadblock. They then use knives and small-arms to kill sixteen. Thirteen others are missing.
10/21/04 Iraq Baghdad 2 1 Two women and their driver are shot to death by Muslim insurgents as they are driving to work.
10/21/04 Indonesia Poso 1 0 Muslim gunmen kill the security guard at a Catholic church.
10/21/04 Iraq Baghdad 4 11 Islamists stage a shooting ambush a bus carrying airline workers, killing four women, and injuring at least eleven others.
10/20/04 Iraq Samarra 4 20 Islamic insurgents kill four children with a car bomb. Twenty others are injured.
10/19/04 Iraq Baghdad 6 80 Jihadists behead two Macedonian hostages on video. They also kill four Iraqi Guardsmen standing in formation and injure more than eighty with a mortar attack.
10/19/04 Pakistan Spin Kairakzai 3 9 Three security officials are killed in an attack by the same religious fundamentalists that recently massacred eleven Chinese workers.
10/18/04 Afghanistan Paktika 5 0 Religious fundamentalists kill five, including an election worker, in a landmine attack.
10/17/04 India Mandli 1 14 An Islamic terrorist lobs a grenade at a village defense committee trying to guard a bus station.
10/17/04 India Mohammadpora 1 5 The Mujahideen kill a 22-year-old man and badly injure five members of his family who were trying to prevent his murder.
10/17/04 Iraq Baghdad 6 26 Car bombing near a café kills six and injures twenty-six. Police and civilians among the casualties.
10/16/04 Iraq Qaim 4 0 Suicide car bomber kills one civilian and three U.S. troops.
10/16/04 Iraq Latifiyah 9 0 Jihadists ambush a minivan carrying nine police recruits traveling from Jordan. All are shot to death.
10/15/04 Afghanistan Kunar 4 0 The Taliban sets a truck on fire, then detonates a remote-controlled bomb after a crowd gathers. Three children are among the dead.
10/15/04 Iraq Baghdad 10 4 Jihad car bombing kills four palm grove laborers and a family of four that was passing by in a car. Two other bystanders were killed as well.
10/14/04 Iraq Baghdad 1 0 Small Christian girl kidnapped and killed by Muslims who had demanded ransom from her family.
10/14/04 Iraq Baghdad 5 0 A female reporter, Iraqi judge and two South African civilian contractors are murdered in three separate shooting attacks. A Chinese hostage is also shot to death by al-Qaeda terrorists..
10/14/04 Iraq Baghdad 5 18 A suicide bomber kicks off the Muslim holy month of Ramadan by killing five civilians at a café. Eighteen others are injured.
10/13/04 India Poonch 1 2 A 23-year-old is killed by the Mujahideen. Elsewhere in the district a mother and her son are abducted. Their fate is unknown.
10/13/04 Pakistan Jalala 4 35 Islamist throws a grenade at a wedding party in an Afghan refugee camp, because they were listening to music, which was forbidden under the Taliban.
10/13/04 Indonesia Jono Oge 2 0 Sword-wielding Muslim mob kills two Christians on a busy street in an Indonesian province. One dies at the scene, another at the hospital.
10/13/04 Iraq Mosul 2 5 Suicide car bombing leave two U.S. soldiers dead and five injured.
10/13/04 Bangladesh Bagerhat 2 0 Muslim invaders kill a Hindu husband and wife in their home.
10/13/04 Indonesia Sulawesi 1 2 Laskar Jihad gunmen kill a Hindu woman and injure two Christian men by opening fire on their houses.
10/12/04 Iraq Baghdad 1 0 Ansar al-Sunnah takes a Shiite hostage then cuts off his head on video.
10/12/04 Thailand Pattani 2 9 Muslim gunmen storm a police station with firearms and grenades. An officer and a civilian are killed.
10/11/04 Iraq Mosul 3 24 Two civilians and one American soldier are killed in a Fedayeen suicide car bombing.
10/10/04 Iraq Baghdad 11 16 Two suicide bombers kill at least eleven (mostly Iraqi women) and injure sixteen.
10/10/04 Pakistan Lahore 3 6 A suicide bomber walks up to a Shiite mosque and kills a young boy and two guards who intercepted him before he could kill other worshippers.
10/9/04 India Pattan 5 45 Jaish-e-Mohammad militants use a suicide car bombing against a mini-bus, killing five and injuring some forty-five civilians and soldiers.
10/9/04 Thailand Pattani 1 0 In another motorcycle attack, Muslims shoot a 23-year old Buddhist student to death.
10/9/04 Pakistan Karachi 2 0 Two Sunni clerics are gunned down by Shia terrorists in the street.
10/8/04 Thailand Pattani 1 0 Muslims kill a 38-year old Buddhist soldier with an assault rifle as he is walking home.
10/8/04 France Paris 0 10 An Islamic extremist group plants a bomb outside the Indonesian embassy in Paris, injuring ten.
10/7/04 Egypt Ras a-Satan 4 40 Two explosions kills three Israelis and one Egyptian. "Brotherhood of International Islamists" takes responsibility.
10/7/04 Iraq Baghdad 1 0 In front of a banner proclaiming "One God and Jihad" kidnappers slice the head off of a 62-year-old British engineer.
10/7/04 Pakistan Multan 41 100 Forty-one Sunnis are targeted by rival Shiites in two car bomb blasts as the victims are holding a rally.
10/7/04 Egypt Taba 33 149 At least thirty-three people, most of them Jewish tourists, are killed by a massive suicide car bombing at an Egyptian resort hotel. About one-hundred and fifty others are among the injured. Several Muslim groups scramble to claim responsibility.
10/6/04 Iraq Anah 12 25 Suicide bomber blows himself to Allah, taking twelve Iraqi Guardsmen at a checkpoint with him. Twenty-five others are injured.
10/6/04 Pakistan Karachi 2 1 Two constables are killed outside a mosque in a shooting attack by Islamists.
10/6/04 Afghanistan Khandahar 7 0 Taliban militants kill seven Afghan policemen with a landmine.
10/6/04 Afghanistan Faizabad 2 5 The Taliban kills two people with a bomb at an election rally. Five others sustain injuries.
10/5/04 Iraq Mosul 3 0 Jihadists kill three more hostages by means of decapitation. Bodies found with hands bound.
10/5/04 Iraq Mosul 1 0 Jihadists kidnap and then behead a 15-year-old Christian boy. They then burn his body.
10/5/04 Iraq Baqubah 4 5 Ansar al-Sunna radicals kill four Kurds in a shooting attack on their minivan.
10/5/04 Iraq al-Mahmodeyah 10 1 Ten policemen are killed by Jihad fighters in three separate attacks. One is bound and beheaded.
10/5/04 Iraq Ramadi 4 2 Sunni car bombing kills four and injures at least two.
10/4/04 Iraq Baghdad 24 96 Three suicide car bombings, two in Baghdad and one in Mosul, kill at least twenty-four and injure nearly one-hundred. The casualties are mostly civilians as the attacks occurred on city streets.
10/3/04 Iraq Youssifiyah 2 0 Islamists tie a man up and cut off his head. Another hostage, female, is shot through the head. Both bodies dumped in the same area.
10/3/04 India Baramulla 1 3 Grenade attack injures three civilians and one policeman. A civilian later dies of injuries (10/6/04)
10/1/04 Pakistan Sialkot 31 50 Sunni suicide bomber kills at least thirty-one worshippers at a Shia mosque. More than fifty others injured in the blast.
10/1/04 Pakistan Bangashwala 4 1 A homemade al-Qaeda bomb kills four teenagers between the ages of 15 and 18.
10/1/04 Lebanon Beirut 1 5 Pro-Syrian terrorists use a car bomb in an attempted political assassination.
9/30/04 Israel Sderot 2 15 Two small children (ages 2 and 4) are killed by a Palestinian rocket while playing in the front yard of their home. Hamas (Islamic Resistance) claims responsibility.
9/30/04 Israel Eley Sinai 2 0 Palestinian gunmen kill a female jogger - and the medic trying to save her life.
9/30/04 Iraq Baghdad 51 230 At least fifty people, including thirty-five children are killed by a series of car bombings. More than two-hundred others are injured. The main target was a ceremony marking the opening of a new sewage system.
9/29/04 Pakistan Quetta 1 9 A teenager is killed, and nine other civilians injured by a bicycle bomb.
9/29/04 Iraq Tal Afar 4 16 An Islamic insurgent car bombing kills four civilians and injures at least sixteen others.
9/29/04 Afghanistan Zabul 12 0 Taliban terrorists attack a government post, killing twelve Afghan soldiers.
9/29/04 India Anantnag 2 0 Muslim militants shoot a government official and bodyguard to death as they are waiting at a traffic light.
9/28/04 Iraq Basra 2 0 Shia gunmen prevent the rescue of two injured British soldiers, who later die from wounds suffered in a terrorist ambush.
9/28/04 Philippines Lamitan 2 0 Abu Sayyaf terrorists shoot two policemen to death as they ride by on a motorcycle.
9/27/04 Pakistan Sarokai 3 6 al-Qaeda militants use an IED to kill three Pakistani soldiers riding in a convoy.
9/27/04 Iraq Falluja 7 7 Two explosions, at least one a Fedayeen suicide bombing, is responsible for the deaths of seven Iraqi Guardsmen in Fallujah and Mosul.
9/27/04 Thailand Pattani 2 0 Muslims use motorbikes to stage two shooting attacks that leave a government official and one police officer dead.
9/26/04 Thailand Yala 1 9 Islamic separatists kill the owner of a fruit orchard. Elsewhere, a grenade attack leaves nine injured.
9/26/04 Afghanistan Charchino 1 3 A local official is killed and three other people injured when the Taliban attacks their vehicle in a remote area.
9/25/04 India Anantnag 1 5 Victim of the 9/22 grenade attack - a man waiting for a bus - succumbs to his injuries.
9/25/04 Saudi Arabia Jeddah 1 0 Islamists shoot a French resident to death as he is walking to his car in a supermarket parking lot.
9/25/04 Afghanistan Helmand 9 0 Nine Afghan soldiers are killed by Taliban militants who ambush their SUV convoy.
9/25/04 Chechnya Grozny 4 0 Four Russian police are killed at a traffic stop by Jihad terrorists.
9/25/04 Iraq Baghdad 6 0 In a tragic and senseless attack, Islamic insurgents kill murder six young men in a minivan who had just signed up as police recruits.
9/25/04 Chechnya Alleroi 0 2 Heavily-armed Mujahideen attack a village, burning residences and badly injuring an 8-year-old girl and at least one other.
9/25/04 Pakistan Quetta 3 3 Lashkar-e-Jhangvi radicals ambush a policeman near his home, killing him and two others.
9/24/04 Iraq Baghdad 3 20 Jihad militants mortar bomb a city street, killing three civilians and injuring fourteen. Elsewhere, six Egyptian mobile-phone company workers are kidnapped.
9/24/04 Israel Neve Dekalim 1 0 Palestinians fire a mortar into a Jewish residential neighborhood, killing a 22-year-old woman.
9/23/04 Israel Morog 3 1 Palestinian gunmen attempt to infiltrate a Jewish settlement. They are stopped by Israeli troops, but manage to kill three.
9/23/04 Cechnya Mairtup 2 0 Two people are killed in a Mujahideen automatic-weapons attack on their vehicle.
9/22/04 Iraq Baghdad 6 54 Six people are murdered by an Islamic suicide bomber outside a photocopy shop. Nearly sixty others are admitted to the hospital.
9/21/04 Pakistan Ratta Kalachi 3 1 Three members of a Shia family are slaughtered in a sectarian attack. One young girl survived with injuries.
9/21/04 Iraq Baghdad 2 0 Two American civilians are beheaded on videotape by an al-Qaeda group called 'Jihad and Unification.'
9/20/04 Nigeria Bama 10 0 Armed Nigerian militants, shouting 'Allahu Akbar' invade two towns and kill ten people, including seven civilians.
9/20/04 Afghanistan Zabul 3 0 Taliban militants stop a taxi carrying three unarmed Afghan soldiers (out of uniform). They pull them out of the car and behead all three on the side of the road.
9/19/04 Iraq Samarra 6 7 Three young Kurdish party members are captured by 'Ansar al-Sunna' terrorists and beheaded. Elsewhere, a suicide car bombing kills three.
9/18/04 Algeria Kalous 4 1 Armed Islamic extremists set up a fake road block on a remote road. They shoot to death four people that stop there and also abduct a woman.
9/18/04 Bangladesh Jamalpur 1 0 A Christian convert from Islam has his throat slashed by Muslim fundamentalists.
9/18/04 Iraq Kirkuk 19 39 Nineteen people waiting in line for jobs are blown to bits by a Fedayeen suicide car bomber.
9/18/04 Iraq Mosul 5 4 Gunmen pull beside two cars carrying oil executives. Five are shot to death, four wounded.
9/17/04 Iraq Baghdad 8 41 Fedayeen suicide bomber murders eight people in a shopping district. Forty-one others survive with injuries.
9/17/04 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A Buddhist judge is shot to death by Muslim gunmen after dropping his children off at school.
9/16/04 Algeria Tebsa 4 0 Islamic fundamentalist plant a bomb that kills four village guards.
9/15/04 Saudi Arabia Riyadh 1 0 British man gunned down by terrorists in the parking lot of a shopping center.
9/15/04 Iraq Kirkuk 4 13 Two Iraqi workers are ambushed and shot to death in Kirkuk. A car bombing in Baghdad kills two and injures ten. Three Western civilians there are also kidnapped.
9/15/04 Iraq Al Dijail 3 0 The headless bodies of three people, two of who were Assyrian Christians, are found in a field with with Qur'anic inscriptions carved into them.
9/14/04 Iraq Baghdad 47 114 Fedayeen suicide bomber fervently practices his religion by killing himself and forty-seven others in a car bombing on a busy street next to a line of police recruiting hopefuls. Over one-hundred others are injured in the attack.
9/14/04 Iraq Baqubah 12 3 Sunni insurgents spray a police van, carrying officers and civilians, with automatic weapons, killing twelve and injuring three.
9/14/04 Iraq Baghdad 2 0 Two Canadian (Arab) Christians are chased by a mob of Muslims and beaten to death.
9/13/04 India Kalmund-Bachana 3 0 Lashker-e-Toiba members, invade a house, torture three family members with sharp instruments, then shoot them to death.
9/13/04 Iraq Baghdad 1 2 Group "Unification and Jihad" beheads a Turkish truck driver in front of a video camera. Elsewhere, two Italian women are taken hostage.
9/12/04 Iraq Hilla 3 3 In a senseless attack, terrorists kill three Polish sappers who were
9/12/04 Iraq Hilla 3 3 In a senseless attack, terrorists kill three Polish sappers who were working to clear the country of landmines.
9/11/04 India Kupwara 1 20 Mujahideen militants toss a grenade into a crowded marketplace, killing one civilian and injuring twenty others.
9/11/04 India Srinigar 3 7 Suicide attack on a heavily-guarded tourist hotel leaves three security personnel dead and seven others injured.
9/10/04 Pakistan Quetta 1 0 Two Sunni gunmen on a motorcycle kill a prominent Shiite academic as he is driving home.
9/9/04 Indonesia Jakarta 9 173 At least nine are killed when the Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist group detonates a suicide car bomb outside the Australian embassy in a business district. More than one-hundred and seventy others are treated for injuries.
9/9/04 India Futlipora 1 0 Suspected Harkat-ul-Jehadi-e-Islami members abduct a 52-year-old man from his orchard, then march him to the top of a nearby hill where he is executed.
9/9/04 Pakistan Somyani 2 1 Two are killed, and one injured when militants bomb a State-run space research center.
9/8/04 Iraq Baghdad 3 2 Three Iraqis are killed by a roadside bomb.
9/6/04 Iraq Fallujah 10 6 Seven U.S. Marines and three Iraqis are killed by a Fedayeen ('Holy Warrior') suicide car bomber who plowed right into their convoy.
9/4/04 Iraq Kirkuk 15 41 Fedayeen suicide bomber kills at least fifteen people and injures another forty with a car bomb.
9/3/04 Russia Beslan 344 600 Islamic militants shoot fleeing children in the back, then blow them up, along with their mothers and teachers with nail-packed bombs. Others are crushed or burned to death from the effects of the bombs. More than three-hundred innocents slaughtered.
9/3/04 Afghanistan Kandahar 2 4 Two people, including a teenager are killed by a bomb, placed by the Taliban under a truck.
9/2/04 Iraq al-Mayasa 2 0 Islamic terrorists gun down two Christian brothers, known for advocating the rights of minorities.
9/2/04 India Barhi Draman 1 3 Mujahideen kill a young boy and injure three members of his family for their refusal to send the boy to a terrorist training camp.
9/2/04 Iraq Baghdad 3 0 The Tawhid wal Jihad (Unity and Holy War ) Islamic group forces three Turkish hostages to kneel before a video camera, then shoots each in the chest.
9/1/04 Russia Beslan 16 14 At least sixteen people are killed as Mujahideen terrorists invade a school, taking more than a hundred children hostage. Children are made to stand in windows with suicide bombers behind them.
9/1/04 Iraq Baghdad 1 0 A 43-year-old Christian man is killed by Jihadists just after leaving a hospital where he was treated for injuries following an earlier attack.
8/31/04 Iraq Baghdad 12 0 An Islamist group called Jaish Ansar al-Sunna slowly beheads a Nepali hostage while eleven other hostages are shot through the back of the head in front of a Qur'anic banner.
8/31/04 India Pulwama 1 26 Muslim militant hurls a grenade into a road, killing a school teacher and injuring twenty-six other people.
8/31/04 Russia Moscow 11 51 A female suicide bomber kills eleven rush-hour commuters at a subway station in Moscow. Fifty-one others are injured.
8/31/04 Israel Be'er Sheva 16 98 Hamas (Islamic Resistance) suicide bombers murder sixteen people, including a 3-year-old child riding two passenger buses. About one-hundred others are injured in the explosions.
8/31/04 Iraq Bartella 3 0 Three young Christian women are slaughtered by Islamic extremists in a small Iraqi village.
8/30/04 Pakistan Qalat 3 10 Three are killed and ten injured by a bomb planted near a food stand.
8/29/04 Iraq Baqubah 6 11 Six police officers manning a checkpoint are gunned down by Islamic terrorists in two minibuses.
8/29/04 Afghanistan Kabul 9 24 The Taliban kill at least nine people, including one child with a remote-controlled truck bomb on a busy street in the capitol city.
8/28/04 Afghanistan Zormat 10 15 A bomb planted by the Taliban at a school kills nine children and one adult. Fifteen other youngsters were injured in the attack.
8/27/04 Iraq Najaf 1 0 In a crime so barbaric that even al-Jazeera declined to air the video, an Italian journalist, pacifist, and father of two is taken hostage and murdered by an Islamic group.
8/26/04 Sudan Yassin 64 156 Arab militia, supported by the Islamic government, burns down an African village and kills sixty-four civilians. Some one-hundred and fifty-six others survive with injuries.
8/26/04 Algeria Zemmouri 1 2 Two members of the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat sneak up to two guards at a beach. Then shoot one to death and severely injure another, along with a female bather.
8/26/04 Iraq Kufa 75 376 Clashes between supporters of rival Shiite clerics results in at least seventy-five deaths and more than three-hundred injuries.
8/25/04 Thailand Narathiwat 1 30 Muslim separatists bomb a food market, killing one and injuring at least thirty others.
8/24/04 India Kara 2 0 In a heinous attack, a Muslim "freedom fighter" hurls a grenade at two children in a remote village, killing the 3-year-old girl and her 5-year-old brother.
8/24/04 Russia Moscow 89 0 Militant Muslims hijack two Russian passenger airliners, then murder all eighty-nine people, including women and children on board the two planes. The terrorist group Islambouli Brigade claims responsibility.
8/24/04 Iraq Baghdad 5 15 'Holy Warrior' suicide bombers kill themselves and five others in twin blasts. More than a dozen Iraqi civilians are injured.
8/24/04 India Safarwaw Gund 4 0 Four civilians are gunned down by the Mujahideen, two at a picnic spot and two others in Pulwama, after abducting them from their homes.
8/23/04 Algeria Boumerdes 7 13 Seven security force members are killed in an ambush by Islamic fundamentalists, who lured them by setting fire to a children's center. Several children were injured.
8/23/04 Yemen Saada 11 0 Eleven Yemeni soldiers are killed in an ambush by followers of a radical Shiite cleric in that country.
8/22/04 Iraq Baqubah 2 4 Fedayeen suicide bomber attempts a political assassination. Two guards are killed.
8/21/04 Chechnya Grozny 22 10 Twenty-two people, including policemen and other civilians are killed in several terrorist attacks by Muslim separatists in the capital city and across the country.
8/21/04 Bangladesh Dhaka 19 300 Nineteen people are killed and over 300 injured when Islamists throw more than a dozen grenades into an opposition political rally.
8/19/04 Afghanistan Farah 0 7 Seven people are hurt when the Taliban detonate several bombs inside an electoral commission building.
8/19/04 Pakistan Lahore 1 0 Muslim mob takes 26-year-old Christian from his home then tortures him to death.
8/19/04 Iraq Najaf 8 30 Radical Shiites kill eight and injure thirty in the Holy City of Najaf in a mortar attack on a police station.
8/18/04 India Rajouri 2 0 Mujahideen militants - led by a Pakistani national - abduct and then cut off the heads of a man and his son.
8/18/04 India Udhampur 4 0 Islamic separatists invade a family's home and then massacre the father, his daughter and two sons.
8/17/04 Iraq Baghdad 6 32 Islamic insurgents fire a mortar round into a crowded street outside a barbershop, killing six, including two children, and injuring at least thirty others.
8/17/04 Dagestan Makhachkala 3 2 Two separate terrorist attacks staged by Muslim rebels leave a civilian and two anti-terrorist agents dead.
8/17/04 Algeria Bouira 2 0 Two Algerian village guards are killed by Islamic fundamentalists in separate bombings.
8/16/04 Iraq Baqouba 5 4 Mortar attack kills two civilians and injures four. In the same city, a roadside bomb kills three Iraqi Guardsmen.
8/15/04 Iraq Baghdad 1 5 Bus station bombed with mortars - at least one killed and five injured.
8/15/04 Iran Neka 1 0 Iranian Mullah publicly hangs a 16-year-old girl for having a 'sharp tongue.'
8/15/04 Afghanistan Maiwand 6 0 Taliban extremists attack an Afghan army post and kill six soldiers.
8/14/04 India Galothi 2 0 Mujahideen terrorists shoot a young couple to death as they beg for their lives.
8/13/04 Israel Itamar 1 1 Palestinian gunman murders an Israeli driver outside a settlement.
8/12/04 India Watapora Beerwah 2 0 Mujahideen abduct and later shoot dead two civilians from a remote village.
8/11/04 Israel Jerusalem 2 16 Unsuccessful suicide car bombing at an Israeli checkpoint kills two Palestinians and injures sixteen.
8/11/04 Iraq Khan Ban Sad 6 10 Muslim terrorists bomb a busy marketplace in a small town, killing six people and injuring at least 10 others.
8/11/04 Iraq Mosul 4 0 Islamic insurgents spray a car with machine-gun fire, killing four occupants, including a woman and child.
8/9/04 Iraq Balad Ruz 7 14 In another case of "killing for Allah," a Fedayeen suicide bomber destroys seven Iraqi policemen and injures another fourteen people.
8/9/04 Iraq Khalidiya 4 4 Civilian minibus is the target of another Fedayeen bombing. Four are killed and four injured.
8/8/04 Algeria Boukaid 2 0 Two local security guards are shot to death by Islamic fundamentalists.
8/8/04 Iraq Baghdad 1 16 A 10-year-old boy is killed, and sixteen others, including a 13-year-old girl, badly injured when Sunnis mortar-bomb a pickup truck in a residential neighborhood.
8/8/04 Pakistan Karachi 8 42 Two bombs, staggered to cause maximum casualties, rip through a Pakistani restaurant near a Sunni school leaving at least eight dead and dozens injured.
8/8/04 Iraq Kirkuk 1 3 Roadside bomb kills a 7-year-old child and injures three others.
8/7/04 Afghanistan Gilan 3 1 Taliban kill two U.S. soldiers and their Afghan interpreter with a roadside bombing on their vehicle.
8/6/04 Afghanistan Uruzgan 2 1 The Taliban kill two humanitarian election workers and take another hostage in an attack on their convoy.
8/6/04 India Gundana 1 0 Suspected Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists invade a woman's home and kill her in cold blood.
8/5/04 Bangladesh Sylhet 1 15 Fundamentalists bomb two cinemas, killing a 13-year-old boy.
8/5/04 England West Bromwich 1 0 Shopkeeper is brutally beaten to death by members of a Muslim family upset over the presumed "taboo" relationship between his son and their Pakistani daughter.
8/5/04 Iraq Mahawil 5 18 Islamic extremists kill five policemen in a shooting attack followed minutes later by a suicide minibus bombing.
8/5/04 India Srinigar 9 8 Muslim terrorists attack a police building in the heart of Srinigar, killing eight officers.
8/5/04 Iraq Filfil 1 0 Gunmen stop a truck convoy and kill a Turkish father of three who is unable to recite prayers on command.
8/4/04 Afghanistan Gardez 2 0 Taliban radicals ambush and murder two charity workers.
8/3/04 Israel Rafah 3 10 Attempted bombing of an Israeli bulldozer backfires. Three Palestinian bystanders are killed and ten others, including journalists, are injured.
8/3/04 Saudi Arabia Riyadh 1 0 Two al-Qaeda gunmen shoot an Irish engineer four times in the chest at his office.
8/3/04 Iraq Baqubah 4 6 Suicide bomber kills four Iraqi National Guardsmen at a roadside checkpoint. Six others are injured.
8/2/04 Iraq Baghdad 1 0 al-Qaeda members place a hood over the head of a cleaner taken hostage, then shoot him three times while praising Allah.
8/2/04 Pal. Auth. Gaza 3 0 Palestinian terrorists shoot three suspected informants to death in their hospital beds.
8/1/04 Iraq Baghdad 11 61 Islamic radicals bomb five Catholic churches, murdering nearly a dozen Christians and injuring close to one-hundred people.
8/1/04 Iraq Mosul 4 32 A suicide bomber kills at least four people and injures between thirty and fifty in a residential neighborhood.
8/1/04 Iraq Baghdad 2 2 Terrorist bombing near a hotel kills two civilians and badly injures two others.
8/1/04 Pakistan Khuzdar 6 2 Islamists use automatic weapons at point-blank range to ambush a car carrying soldiers and civilians, killing six.
8/1/04 Algeria Ziama Mansouria 3 1 Bombing by the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat leaves three security company employees dead and one critically injured.
7/31/04 Afghanistan Helmand 2 0 A local Afghan official and his bodyguard are shot to death by the Taliban.
7/31/04 Pakistan Karachi 2 0 Hard-line fundamentalists bomb car dealership, killing two people.
7/31/04 Thailand Narathiwat 1 5 Muslim gunmen on motorcycles shoot a 39-year-old woman four times in the chest. In a separate attack, a bomb hidden under a street bench, injures five.
7/30/04 Uzbekistan Tashkent 3 5 Three suicide bombers kill three others and injure five in synchronized attacks on the U.S and Israeli embassies.
7/30/04 Pakistan Fateh Jang 6 25 Fedayeen suicide bomber kills six and injures at least twenty-five others. Pakistani finance minister was the target.
7/29/04 India Bafliaz 2 1 Mujahideen invade a home, kill a mother and father and injure their young child in the process.
7/28/04 Iraq Baqubah 68 56 An Islamist kills himself and sixty-eight others, including twenty-one passengers on a passing bus, and injures dozens more in a suicide bombing at a marketplace.
7/28/04 Iraq Fallujah 4 1 Four policemen are killed by a homemade bomb while on routine patrol.
7/27/04 Afghanistan Ghazni 6 2 The Taliban bombs an election station at a mosque, killing six workers and injuring two.
7/27/04 India Satoora 2 0 Police recover the body of a woman abducted by Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists. Her husband had also been killed by the same group.
7/27/04 Iraq Baghdad 2 0 Group calling itself the 'Islamic Army' brutally executes two Pakistani civilians taken hostage.
7/27/04 India Dal Lake 5 2 Fedayeen militants kill five Indian security force personnel and injure two in an attack on a resort.
7/26/04 Iraq Mosul 3 5 Fedayeen suicide bomber kills three, including two civilians and causes another five to suffer critical burns.
7/26/04 Iraq Basra 2 3 Muslim extremists open fire on a private vehicle carrying workers. Two women are killed and another three injured.
7/26/04 India Baramullah 1 29 One citizen is killed, and nearly thirty others injured when militant Muslim throws grenade into the street outside a hospital.
7/25/04 India Daraj 3 1 Militant Muslims invade a home and cut off the heads of a 65-year-old man and his two children, one a teenage girl. They attempt to cut the head off his wife, but she survives the attack.
7/25/04 Chechnya Samashki 3 1 Three cannery workers are killed, and another wounded in a terrorist bombing on their vehicle.
7/25/04 Pakistan Ghuzdarra 2 0 al-Qaeda attack on a remote border post leaves two dead.
7/24/04 Iraq Latifiya 2 1 Group calling itself 'Lion of God' takes an Egyptian hostage. Elsewhere gunmen stage an assassination attempt that kills two bodyguards.
7/24/04 Pakistan Karachi 1 7 Bus bombing kills at least one and injures seven. Bus was carrying teachers and an electrician.
7/23/04 Iraq Beiji 1 0 al-Qaeda members kill a Bulgarian truck driver, taken hostage several weeks earlier, by cutting off his head.
7/23/04 Israel Beit Hanun 1 3 al-Aqsa militants shoot a 16-year old boy to death and injure other three members of his family who object to the terrorists using their backyard for launching missiles into Israel.
7/22/04 Iraq Baghdad 3 2 Muslim insurgents car bomb a residential neighborhood, killing at least three and hurting at least two others.
7/22/04 Iraq Baghdad 2 4 Sunni extremists fire a missile into a hospital, killing two.
7/21/04 Iraq Ramadi 4 14 At least four people, including three brothers are killed by a car bombing. Fourteen others are injured.
7/21/04 Afghanistan Helmand 11 0 Taliban ambush a convoy of cars with rockets. Eleven are killed.
7/21/04 Sudan Kalma 11 0 Eleven more villagers killed by an Arab militia supported by the Islamic government.
7/20/04 India Rajauri 5 0 Islamists wipe out five members of a family, after invading their home in the middle of the night. Two women and a 3-year-old boy were among those murdered.
7/20/04 India Koti 4 0 Lashkar-e-Taiba militants kill four policemen as they are investigating a previous crime in a remote village.
7/20/04 Iraq Basra 3 1 Sunni extremists assassinate a council member, along with two others.
7/20/04 Israel Syrian Border 2 0 Hezbollah snipers kill two IDF members as they are repairing an antennae.
7/19/04 Israel Tel Aviv 1 0 Arafat's al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade takes credit for killing an Israeli judge at close range as he was driving home.
7/19/04 India Kapran 6 50 Six people, including two women were killed, and more than fifty others sustained injuries when Muslim terrorists attacked a political rally with grenades.
7/19/04 Iraq Baghdad 9 62 Religious fanatic kills himself and nine others by blowing up a truck filled with fuel on a busy street. Sixty-two others are injured, including many who are badly burned.
7/19/04 Indonesia Palu 2 3 Islamic gunmen enter a church and kill the female pastor and a 17-year-old girl. Three other teenage worshipers were also shot.
7/19/04 Iraq Mosul 1 1 Islamists kill the Christian owner of a restaurant selling food to Americans. They also blind and cut off both hands of his Muslim business partner.
7/18/04 Afghanistan Kabul 1 1 Taliban terrorists fire a rocket into the city
7/18/04 Afghanistan Kabul 1 1 The Taliban fire a rocket into the city centre, killing a woman and injuring a man.
7/18/04 Iraq Mosul 1 2 A political figure is assassinated in a drive-by shooting. His 7-year-old son was shot as well, but survived.
7/17/04 Iraq Baghdad 4 7 'Jihad and Unification' terrorist group uses a car bomb to kill four and injure seven in an attempted assassination of an Iraqi minister.
7/17/04 Iraq Mahmudiyah 2 22 Fedayeen bomber blows himself to Allah, taking the lives of two people and injuring another twenty-two who were waiting in line for jobs.
7/16/04 Pakistan South Waziristan 3 4 Three civilians are killed, and four others suffer injury after an al-Qaeda attack on a fortified structure.
7/15/04 Iraq Hadithah 10 27 Ten Iraqis, including seven civilians are killed in a Fedayeen car bombing. Another twenty-seven innocents are injured.
7/15/04 India Mendhar 2 1 Islamic militant kills two policeman with a grenade and injures a third.
7/14/04 Iraq Mosul 3 0 Militants ambush a car carrying a government official, killing three.
7/14/04 Iraq Baghdad 10 41 Ten people, mostly civilians, are killed and more than forty injured when a Fedayeen suicide car bomber detonates his explosives along a busy road.
7/14/04 Thailand Narathiwat 1 1 Muslim motorcycle attack kills a police officer as he is driving to work. Another is injured.
7/13/04 India Srinagar 2 12 Militant Muslims kill two persons and injure twelve in a street bombing.
7/13/04 Iraq Mosul 1 0 al-Qaeda militants execute a Bulgarian truck driver that they had taken hostage.
7/13/04 Chechnya Grozny 1 3 Jihad terrorists attempt to assassinate the acting President in a motorcade bombing, killing a guard and injuring three others.
7/13/04 Sudan Tabaldiat 80 39 Another raid by armed Arab militias leave eighty villagers dead - including children - and their homes burned to the ground.
7/13/04 India Bhaderwah 3 1 Islamic terrorists kill three construction workers and injure another in a senseless terrorist attack on a road-building project.
7/12/04 Iraq Musayyib 1 0 Regional Shiite political leader is assassinated by extremists.
7/12/04 Pakistan Shakai 2 0 Two children die of injuries suffered from an al-Qaeda attack in the west Pakistani mountains.
7/12/04 Chechnya Avtury 8 12 Jihad fighters kill eight Chechan security personnel and take another dozen hostage. Hostages are typically executed after a reading from the Qur'an.
7/12/04 Afghanistan Kandahar 4 5 Taliban members attack and burn a district police headquarters, killing four and injuring five.
7/12/04 Philippines Buldon 2 0 Moro Islamic Front members kill two farmers on their land with automatic weapons.
7/12/04 Sudan Donki Dereisa 150 90 Arab militia, supported by the Islamic government's fixed-wing aircraft raid a village and kill one-hundred and fifty civilians, including six children. The children were captured during the assault and burned alive the next day.
7/11/04 Israel Tel Aviv 1 34 A woman waiting for a bus is murdered in an al-Fatah bombing. Thirty-four others are injured. The bomb was packed with metal bolts.
7/11/04 Afghanistan Heart 5 33 Five people, including a 12-year-old boy are killed in a packed marketplace by a Taliban terrorist bombing. More than thirty others are injured.
7/11/04 Thailand Bangkok 2 1 Islamic separatists kill two more civilians in southern Thailand.
7/11/04 Iraq Baghdad 2 0 In a particularly senseless attack, Islamic fundamentalists enter the home of a Christian family and stab two girls (ages 16 and 6) to death.
7/10/04 Israel Gaza 1 0 Three members of a Palestinian "resistance" group (billing itself as non-violent) are killed when the bomb they are transporting goes off earlier than expected. A passerby is also killed.
7/10/04 Iraq Baqubah 1 0 Islamists bomb five shops selling alcohol. A passing taxi driver is killed in one of the explosions.
7/10/04 India Mattan Adda 0 34 Thirty-four people are injured when a militant Muslim tosses a grenade onto a crowded road.
7/9/04 Afghanistan Nangarhar 1 2 The Taliban continues to target women who work to register voters for the election. One is killed in the blast, and two others badly injured.
7/9/04 Chechnya Znamenskoye 11 10 A village elder, who opposed Jihadist attempts to recruit young men, was executed by them. Jihad terrorist attacks also killed ten others (mostly Russian servicemen).
7/9/04 Iraq Baghdad 1 3 Sunni militants kill a child and injure three others in a mortar attack on a hotel.
7/8/04 Afghanistan Chakaw 6 4 Taliban ambush kills six Afghani soldiers and injures another four.
7/8/04 Iraq Samarra 7 30 al-Qaeda use a residential neighborhood as a staging area for firing mortars, killing five U.S. soldiers and two Iraqis.
7/8/04 Iraq Ramadi 3 0 An Iraqi civilian and two policemen are shot at point-blank range after their car is stopped by extremists.
7/8/04 Bangladesh Harinakundu Bazaar 1 1 Bangladeshi terrorists kill a policeman (father of two) returning to the station after patrol.
7/7/04 Iraq Bagdhdad 0 6 Extremists fire mortars at the residence of the new Iraqi Prime Minister, injuring six.
7/6/04 Iraq Baqubah 14 25 Fourteen mourners at a funeral for a man killed by terrorists are themselves victims of a Fedayeen suicide car bombing. Dozens of others are injured.
7/4/04 Israel Yabad 1 1 Palestinian gunmen stop a car, confirm that the occupants are Jewish civilians, then open up with automatic weapons, killing a man and injuring his wife.
7/4/04 Iraq Baqubah 3 1 Fedayeen "holy warrior" suicide car bombing leaves three dead.
7/4/04 Pakistan Mata Banda 3 7 Three people, including a woman are killed, and seven injured when armed militants fire on a passenger bus.
7/3/04 Afghanistan Jalalabad 1 0 Third woman dies from injuries sustained in the Taliban grenade attack against election workers.
7/3/04 Iraq Mahmudiyah 7 5 Seven Iraqi National Guardsmen are gunned down at a checkpoint by Sunni extremists.
7/3/04 India Srinigar 2 66 Two citizens are killed, and more than sixty injured by two Islamist planted bombs, hidden handcarts, near a tourist center.
7/2/04 India Mughal Maidan 5 15 Pakistani-backed Islamic militants bomb a string of police cars, killing at least five and injuring over fifteen.
7/1/04 Thailand Pattani 1 1 Muslim separatists kill a police informer and, in a separate attack, shoot a food vendor several times in the back.
7/1/04 Iraq al-Khadra'a 3 2 Three civilians are killed as they pass over a bomb in their vehicle.
7/1/04 Iraq Baghdad 2 3 Two civilians are killed, and three badly injured, as Sunni extremists detonate a bomb near a hospital.
7/1/04 Ingushetia Malgobek 2 1 Two policemen are killed, and one injured, as the were attempting to arrest the terrorists behind the 6/23 attacks that left over ninety people dead.
6/30/04 India Pulwama 1 0 Islamists kill a schoolteacher with a grenade.
6/30/04 Afghanistan Jalalabad 1 26 One man was killed and twenty-six others, including five children, were injured by two Taliban bombs hidden in fruit carts.
6/29/04 Iraq Baghdad 4 4 In a tragic attack, Islamic militants use a roadside bomb to kill three U.S. Marines after the handover of power. A British soldier was killed in Basra the day before in similar fashion.
6/29/04 Iraq Baghdad 1 0 al-Jazeera airs a videotape of a U.S. hostage being executed by al-Qaeda.
6/29/04 Thailand Pattani 1 0 Muslim terrorists on motorcycles shoot a Buddhist policeman to death as he is driving to work.
6/29/04 Iraq Mahmudiyah 2 0 Extremists cite Qur'anic verses then attack a police station with assault rifles, killing an officer and a civilian.
6/29/04 Israel Beit Rima 1 0 Palestinian sniper guns down a 63-year-old Israel truck driver. Arafat's al-Aqsa takes credit.
6/28/04 Israel Sderot 2 12 Palestinian militants fire a rocket into a residential area, killing two, including a 3-year-old boy. The murdered child's mother was among a dozen injured.
6/27/04 Iraq Baqubah 6 4 Sunni extremists attack a checkpoint with automatic weapons and rockets, killing six Iraqi guardsmen.
6/27/04 Iraq Baghdad 2 8 Insurgents drop a mortar on a soccer field, killing two children and injuring another eight.
6/27/04 Thailand Narathiwat 1 6 Muslim group plants a bomb under a soccer field to kill off-duty policemen, who were inaugurating a youth league.
6/27/04 Israel Gaza 1 5 al-Aqsa terrorist group digs a 350-meter tunnel under an Israeli guard post, detonates explosives, then uses assault rifles to prevent ambulance crews from rescuing the victims.
6/27/04 Algeria Blida 3 0 Islamic fundamentalists kidnap two civilians, then kill them by cutting their throats. They place a bomb under one of the bodies that kills an investigating medical worker.
6/26/04 India Zainapora 2 0 Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists kidnap two Hindus (a railway engineer and his brother) on Wednesday, then slit their throats.
6/26/04 Afghanistan Jalalabad 3 11 Two female election workers and one child are killed, and nine other women and two children are badly injured when a Taliban-planted bomb explodes on a bus.
6/26/04 Iraq Hilla 23 58 Twenty-three civilians are killed by two car bombings near a Shiite mosque in Hilla. About sixty others are injured in the blasts.
6/26/04 Iraq Baqubah 3 20 Car bombing kills one, injures twenty. In Erbil, a shooting and grenade attack on a Shiite political office leaves two guards dead.
6/25/04 Chechnya Grozny 1 1 Government official shot to death as he left a restaurant with his wife, who was badly injured in the assassination.
6/25/04 Afghanistan Zabul 16 0 The Taliban stops a bus in a remote area, kidnaps sixteen people carrying voter registration cards, then kills them in brutal fashion.
6/25/04 India Tiali Kathamara 12 12 Twelve people, including a woman and five children are killed by militant Muslim gunmen who enter a remote village and force the people out of their homes. Ethnic cleansing appears to be the motive.
6/24/04 Thailand Cho Airong 1 2 Muslim separatists attack an army base, killing one Thai soldier and injuring two others.
6/24/04 Iraq Mosul 112 320 Series of coordinated terrorist attacks, including suicide bombings and other Fedayeen tactics kill over one-hundred Iraqis and injure hundreds more across the country. Recorded message says 'killings will continue until Islamic rule back on earth.'
6/24/04 Algeria Medea 5 0 Islamic fundamentalists stop a car on a remote road carrying members of a family and slit the throats of all five - ages 8 to 50.
6/23/04 Ingushetia Nazran 35 58 Thirty-five more bodies are found from the attack on a town by Jihad terrorists. The number injured doubles to one-hundred nineteen.
6/23/04 Iraq Basra 2 0 As their father waited at home for their return, two Christian sisters are gunned down by Muslim extremists in a particularly heinous and senseless murder.
6/23/04 Iraq Baghdad 3 2 A mother and her child are among three killed by a roadside bomb. Two other civilians are wounded in the blast.
6/23/04 Afghanistan Spin Boldak 5 2 Taliban extremists shoot a rocket at an Afghan military vehicle on security patrol. Five killed, two injured.
6/22/04 Iraq Mosul 2 0 Islamists stab a female law professor to death on her doorstep. Her husband is killed in the same manner.
6/22/04 Iraq Baghdad 1 0 al-Qaeda group "Monotheism and Jihad" beheads a Korean hostage in front of a banner praising Allah.
6/22/04 Iraq Baghdad 3 6 Car bomb explodes in a residential neighborhood, killing three, including a 3-year-old girl and injuring another six civilians.
6/21/04 Algeria Algiers 0 11 Eleven are injured in a fundamentalist car bombing of a power plant.
6/21/04 Ingushetia Nazran 57 60 Jihad fighters rampage through a town, shooting in cold blood or burning to death at least fifty-seven people and injuring another sixty.
6/21/04 Iraq Baghdad 10 0 Sunni extremists kill ten civilians and police in a mortar attack.
6/21/04 Sudan Golo 6 0 Government-backed militia burns several villages and kill six civilians. More than a thousand are displaced.
6/21/04 Afghanistan Kandahar 1 3 A policeman is killed and an election worker, along with four others are injured in a Taliban motorcycle attack.
6/21/04 Israel Kfar Darom 1 0 Palestinian terrorists attack a Jewish settlement, killing a greenhouse worker from Thailand.
6/20/04 Iraq Diyala 2 0 Husband and wife are killed when "holy" warriors fire rocket into their home.
6/19/04 Thailand Pattani 1 4 Militant Muslims spray a police car with an AK-47, killing the driver. The same group injures four others with a bomb.
6/19/04 Iraq Basra 3 0 Remote-controlled bomb kills two oil workers and one Iraqi security personnel.
6/18/04 Sudan Babanousa 3 12 The Islamic government kills two student demonstrators, along with a 50-year-old shop owner.
6/18/04 Saudi Arabia Riyadh 1 0 Family members of captured hostage appeal to kidnappers humanity with children and grandchildren. Islamists quote from the Qur'an, praise Allah and then cut the victim's head off.
6/17/04 Iraq Balad 6 4 Car bombing by Sunni insurgents kills six member of the Iraqi Defense Forces and injures four.
6/17/04 Iraq Baghdad 35 145 'Holy Warrior' suicide bomber kills at least thirty-five Iraqi civilians and injures nearly one-hundred and fifty other innocents who happened to be on a busy street near a recruiting center. The vehicle used was apparently packed with artillery rounds.
6/16/04 Thailand Narathiwat 3 7 Muslim separatists kill an 18-year-old college student, a school janitor and a police officer in a drive-by shooting attacks. They also bomb a police check-point, injuring five.
6/16/04 Afghanistan Kanduz 4 1 Four citizens, including two children and an elderly man are killed by a Taliban remote-control bomb.
6/15/04 Iraq Kirkuk 4 1 Four people assassinated in as many days by Fedayeen. The civilian victims are an oil company executive, a cleric, district mayor and the father of a policeman.
6/14/04 Iraq Baghdad 13 61 A suicide bomber targets foreign civilian contractors working to restore the country's power plants. Thirteen people, other than this religious man, were killed immediately and more than sixty injured.
6/14/04 India Rajouri 2 0 A father and son are shot to death in their home by Muslim terrorists.
6/13/04 Iraq Baghdad 2 0 Extremists assassinate two government officials in separate shooting attacks.
6/13/04 India Baramulla 2 1 Islamic militant hurls a grenade at the house of a retired government official, killing the man, his sister and seriously injuring his son.
6/13/04 Iraq Baghdad 13 12 A Fedayeen suicide bomber kills thirteen Iraqis and injures at least a dozen with a car bomb.
6/13/04 India Handwara 1 22 Twenty-two civilians are injured, four critically by an Islamist who threw a grenade into a busy street. One victim later dies in the hospital (6/14/04).
6/12/04 Saudi Arabia Riyadh 1 1 al-Qaeda kills an American civilian as he is parking his car outside his home and kidnaps another American.
6/12/04 India Pahalgam 5 28 Islamist kills five tourists, including two children with a grenade lobbed inside a crowded hotel. Twenty-eight others are injured.
6/11/04 Iraq Fallujah 3 0 al-Qaeda members kill three hostages kidnapped the day before by cutting their throats. The three were employees of a telecommunications company.
6/10/04 India Udhampur 4 0 Militant Muslims shoot four members of a family to death, including two women and a 6-year-old child.
6/10/04 Pakistan Karachi 11 10 Islamic militants ambush a convoy in a busy residential neighborhood. The intended target escapes the shooting attack, but eleven others are killed.
6/10/04 Afghanistan Kunduz 11 4 Taliban attack a construction site and shoot to death eleven Chinese nationals working there. Four others are injured.
6/10/04 Iraq Baghdad 1 0 A Christian man is attack and murdered by Islamists in his home.
6/10/04 USA Atlanta, GA 0 4 A man riding on an Atlanta commuter train mutters Qur'anic verses then attacks an army officer for no other apparent reason. An elderly woman and two arresting officers are hurt as well.
6/9/04 Chechnya Grozny 10 5 Jihad attacks leave nine Russian soldiers and one policeman dead over a 24-hour period.
6/8/04 Iraq Suwayrah 6 0 Six European coalition troops are killed by a mortar fired at their base.
6/8/04 Iraq Baqouba 6 24 A Fedayeen suicide bomber kills six, including five civilians, and injures over two dozen with his attack, which took place on a busy road at rush hour.
6/8/04 Iraq Mosul 10 58 Ten Iraqis are killed by a car bombing. Dozens of others are injured in the terrorist attack.
6/8/04 Saudi Arabia Riyadh 1 0 American civilian gunned down by Islamists at his home in Saudi Arabia.
6/7/04 Afghanistan Logar 2 0 Two policemen are killed in a Taliban attack on their station.
6/7/04 Thailand Pattani 1 0 Muslim gunmen shoot a Buddhist teacher to death on the street.
6/7/04 Iraq Baghdad 4 3 Islamic terrorists target Christian workers in a morning shooting attack that leaves four dead and several wounded.
6/7/04 Iraq Baghdad 4 0 In the same Christian neighborhood as the morning drive-by, Islamic extremists murder four, including three women returning from work.
6/6/04 Iraq Baghdad 9 48 Two suicide bombers, belonging to a group calling itself the 'Unification and Jihad Group' kill nine Iraqis and injure forty-eight others.
6/6/04 Saudi Arabia Riyadh 1 1 Islamist shoots a Briton to death on the sidewalk. One other is injured in the attack.
6/6/04 Pakistan Dera Ghazi Khan 1 1 Female Shia doctor is gunned down by Sunni radicals outside a hospital. Her driver is seriously wounded in the attack.
6/6/04 Kosovo Gracanica 1 0 17-year-old Christian teenager is shot to death in a restaurant by Muslim terrorists.
6/5/04 Bangladesh Dhaka 9 25 At least nine people, including an infant and two women are killed when a state bus is set on fire by organized Islamic terrorists. About thirty others are hospitalized for serious burns.
6/5/04 India Mawar 2 0 Hezb-ul-Mujahedeen gunmen invade a home and kill a 55-year-old woman and her daughter.
6/5/04 Iraq Baghdad 4 1 Mujahideen gunmen kill four civilian contractors in an ambush - two Americans and two Poles.
6/5/04 Iraq Musayyib 7 0 Jihadists disguise themselves as police officers to gain entrance to a police station, then proceed to kill seven officers in cold blood.
6/5/04 Iraq Mosul 0 17 Militants fire RPGs at jobseekers lining up outside a recruitment office. Seventeen are injured.
6/5/04 Algeria Jijel 3 0 Islamic extremists ambush and kill a policeman and two village guards.
6/4/04 Russia Samara 10 39 Ten people are killed in a bomb explosion in an outdoor market. Another forty are injured by the blast, which is attributed to militant Muslims.
6/4/04 Iraq Baghdad 5 5 Terrorists bomb a Humvee on routine security patrol. Five U.S. soldiers are killed and five more injured.
6/4/04 Chechnya Itum-Kalinskiy 4 5 Jihadists attack a Russian convoy, killing four and injuring five with grenades and automatic weapons.
6/3/04 India Kellar Pahalgam 2 0 A political activist is assassinated by militant Muslims. Another civilian his killed in his home in a separate attack (Kishtwar).
6/3/04 Pakistan North Waziristan 1 2 al-Qaeda suicide bomber kills a border guard and injures two others.
6/2/04 Afghanistan Khair Khana 5 0 Five members of Doctors Without Borders, the international aid group that provides medical assistance to the impoverished are killed by the Taliban in an ambush on their vehicle.
6/2/04 Syria Damascus 2 0 Attack by gunmen on the former UN headquarters leaves a policeman and a civilian dead.
6/2/04 Algeria Bejaia 11 44 The Islamic Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat attack an Algerian security convoy, killing at least eleven.
6/2/04 Iraq Baghdad 5 37 Five people rushing to help an injured woman are killed by a car bomb. Thirty-seven others are injured in the terrorist blast.
6/1/04 Iraq Baghdad 3 20 Three are killed, and more than twenty injured by a car bombing targeting the minority Kurds, who are seen as infidels by the other Muslim sects.
6/1/04 Iraq Beiji 11 26 Car bombing by Sunni terrorists kills eleven Iraqis and injures twenty-six.
6/1/04 Algeria Theniet El-Abed 3 11 Islamic fundamentalists ambush a security patrol, killing three Algerians and wounding eleven.
5/31/04 Iraq Baghdad 4 25 Four Iraqis are killed in a car bombing. Another twenty-five are injured.
5/31/04 Pakistan Karachi 19 35 Sunni suicide bomber targets a Shia mosque. Nineteen worshippers are killed and at least thirty-five others injured.
5/31/04 Pakistan Turbat 1 12 Fundamentalists target a Minster of Education who proposed reduced Islamist influence in a new curriculum. She survives the rocket attack, but a 14-year-old boy is killed and a dozen others injured.
5/30/04 Afghanistan Musa Qala 4 8 Taliban assassins riding motorbikes swoop into a town and shoot up a government building, killing four and injuring eight.
5/30/04 Pakistan Karachi 1 4 Senior Sunni cleric, age 72, assassinated in an ambush by Shia radicals.
5/29/04 Indonesia Palu 1 0 Christian prosecutor, working to keep three Bali bombers in jail is assassinated by Jemaah Islamiah extremists in his car.
5/29/04 Thailand Pattani 1 0 Muslim radicals kidnap a Buddhist civilian and decapitate him. They leave the body with a note attached, warning other Buddhists of the same fate.
5/29/04 Saudi Arabia Khobar 22 45 "Are you Christian or Muslim," ask al-Qaeda militants as they shoot twenty-two infidels to death, including a 10-year-old boy and take over forty-five hostage in an attack on an office complex.
5/28/04 Pakistan Lahore 1 0 Pakistani Christian who was attacked with a hammer by a policeman for violating the State's blasphemy laws dies of his injuries. The killer claimed he wanted to "earn a spot in Paradise."
5/28/04 India Beerwah 3 0 Five Islamic terrorists invade a home and kill an elderly man, a 2-year-old boy, and the boys mother. All are shot to death.
5/28/04 Iraq Mahmudiya 2 0 Two Japanese journalists on their way to pick up a 10-year-old blinded child for treatment in Japan are attacked by a Muslim mob, dragged out of their car and beaten to death.
5/28/04 Sudan Tabit 20 17 Sudanese warplanes bomb a Christian village, killing at least twenty.
5/28/04 Eritrea Barentu 7 88 At least seven people are killed, and more than eighty injured in a bomb blast. The government in neighboring Sudan is suspected of funding the Islamic groups responsible for these attacks.
5/28/04 Nigeria Langtang 3 0 Assault by armed Muslims leaves three Christians dead and several hundred homeless after their village is burned.
5/27/04 Iraq Najaf 2 0 Fedayeen insurgents attack a vehicle carrying a member of the Iraqi governing council. Her son and bodyguard are killed.
5/27/04 India Jammu 5 2 In five separate attacks in the J&K, militant Muslims assassinate four civilians and one former SP officer. Two others are abducted and missing.
5/27/04 Uzbekistan Isfara 1 0 Baptist pastor gunned down by members of the Islamist group, Bayrat.
5/26/04 Iraq Bagdad 5 6 Two Russian civilian contractors and two Iraqi civilians are killed in a shooting attack on their bus as it is pulling out from a power plant. This follow the 5/10 beating death of another Russian civilian.
5/26/04 Nigeria Wase 3 6 Fulani militia attacks a government building, killing three workers and injuring at least six. They also burned houses.
5/26/04 Chechnya Vedeno 4 4 Four policemen are killed, and four others injured in an attack by Muslim rebels.
5/26/04 Pakistan Karachi 1 22 Twin Jihadist car bombings outside the Pakistan-American cultural center kill one and injure at least twenty-two others.
5/25/04 Iraq Baghdad 1 4 An Iraqi boy is killed, and four other civilians injured when a car bomb explodes outside a hotel, near the Australian consul's office.
5/25/04 Indonesia Ambon 1 13 Bomb blast in the Christian sector of the city kills one and injures thirteen. A second bomb is found near a church and defused.
5/24/04 Iraq Baghdad 2 1 Islamic terrorists kill two British civilians in a rocket attack on their vehicle.
5/23/04 India Srinigar 33 4 Hizb-ul-Mujahideen militants trigger a bomb under a bus carrying security personnel and their families. Thirty-three people, including six women and three children are killed.
5/23/04 Iraq Basra 5 0 Five members of a family, including two children (ages 4 and 7), are killed in an insurgent mortar attack.
5/23/04 Iraq Baqubah 2 1 Terrorists fire on a vehicle, killing a university student and a police official.
5/23/04 Chechnya Grozny 5 6 Five Russians are killed when Jihadists blow up their vehicle and then open fire with assault rifles.
5/23/04 Afghanistan Waza Khwa 3 1 Three Afghan security personnel are killed in a Taliban ambush while they are escorting a food and medical supply shipment to an impoverished area.
5/22/04 Iraq Baghdad 6 10 Fedayeen suicide bomber kills six other Iraqis and injures at least ten. In addition to improving the bomber's afterlife, the blast was intended to kill a ministry official and his wife.
5/22/04 Saudi Arabia Riyadh 1 0 A German caterer is shot in the head and body, execution-style, on the sidewalk outside a shopping mall.
5/22/04 Israel Nablus 0 4 A 19-year-old suicide bomber kills himself and injures four others at a checkpoint.
5/22/04 Sudan Abga Rajil 56 24 Arab militia kill fifty-six African villagers in a raid. The government-supported terrorists targeted black civilians in their attack.
5/21/04 Nigeria Saminaka 7 0 In the latest of a series of attacks on Christian villagers, seven more are killed by Nigerian Jihadists as they sought refuge in their homes.
5/21/04 Nigeria Jiram 15 0 Fifteen Christian villagers are massacred by Jihadists.
5/21/04 Bangladesh Sylhet 2 50 At least two people are killed by a bomb blast at a shrine. Some fifty others, including a British diplomat are injured.
5/21/04 Iraq Baqubah 4 1 Jihadists kill four Iraq security personnel manning a road block by driving up and then unloading with RPGs and weapons fire.
5/20/04 Iraq Mosul 1 4 Bomb blast kills one Iraqi civilian and injures four others.
5/20/04 India Chadoura 3 22 Hizb-ul-Mujahideen terrorists kill three, including two children, and injure about two dozen with a bomb planted on a bicycle.
5/19/04 Nigeria Sabo Gida 10 0 Ten Christian villagers are killed by armed Muslims. An unknown number are injured by the attackers, who also burned churches and houses.
5/19/04 Nigeria Bakin Ciyawa 24 0 Jihadists kill twenty-four Christian villagers.
5/18/04 Pakistan Karachi 4 0 Four members of Pakistan's Christian minority are targeted and killed by Islamists. One was a kidnapped youth and two others were on their way to a picnic.
5/18/04 Israel Rafah 2 0 Palestinian bombs take the lives of two Arab teenagers - a sixteen-year-old girl and her 13-year-old brother - who were washing clothes on the roof of their house when hit by the shrapnel.
5/18/04 Nigeria Gidan Sabo 18 0 Muslim Nigerians kill eighteen Christian villagers - mostly farmers, women and children.
5/18/04 Algeria Setif 2 13 Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, an Islamic extremist group kills two Algerian soldiers and injures thirteen others in two bombing ambushes.
5/17/04 Chechnya Grozny 12 3 Three separate Jihad attacks leave twelve Russian servicemen dead and at least three injured or kidnapped.
5/17/04 Iraq Baghdad 7 8 Fedayeen suicide bomber kills the Iraqi governing council president and at least six others. Eight were reported to be injured in the blast.
5/17/04 Thailand Narathiwat 1 3 Muslims bomb three Buddhist temples on Sunday, injuring two. The next day they shoot a police officer in the head, as he is riding to work.
5/16/04 Iraq Mahmoudiya 1 1 Iraqi woman working as a translator for the coalition is killed in her home.
5/16/04 Iraq Baghdad 3 1 Muslim radical opens fire on a minibus carrying Christian women, forcing them to the side of the road. He then tosses an explosive in the vehicle, killing three, including the driver.
5/15/04 Iraq Mosul 4 17 Four civilians were killed, and seventeen others injured by a mortar attack on a recruitment office.
5/14/04 Israel Rafah 2 2 Hamas snipers kill an Israeli soldier as he was in the process of bringing food to an elderly Palestinian woman's house. A soldier attempting to help the first was killed as well.
5/14/04 Pakistan Lahore 7 0 Seven members of a Shia' family, including two women and two children (one a 7-year-old girl) are bound and executed in their home with a bullet to each head. 'Shiites are Infidels' is found written on the wall.
5/12/04 Israel Rafah 5 0 Another remote-controlled landmine attack by Islamic Jihad on an APC kills five additional Israeli soldiers attempting to block off tunnel used by Palestinian terrorists.
5/12/04 Philippines Jolo 1 14 Abu Sayyaf terrorists kill a fifteen-year-old Catholic girl with a grenade - fourteen others are also injured in the attack.
5/12/04 Nigeria Kano 30 44 Muslim rampage against Christians continues in Kano with at least another thirty people losing their lives.
5/12/04 Iraq Balad 1 4 Philippine warehouse worker is killed, and four other civilian employees injured in a mortar attack on a U.S. base from a residential neighborhood.
5/11/04 Israel Gaza 6 0 Hamas terrorists trigger a land mine blast under an APC, killing six young Israeli soldiers. Hamas also take the body parts to prevent their recovery.
5/11/04 Iraq Baghdad 2 3 "Allahu Akbar" shout jubilant al-Qaeda members as they cut off the head of an American (civilian) prisoner on video. Elsewhere in the city, a Russian contractor is killed and two others abducted.
5/11/04 Nigeria Kano 11 0 At least eleven Christians are burned to death by a Muslim mob that also sets two churches on fire.
5/10/04 Iraq Mosul 1 4 Insurgents kill a four-year-old girl in a rocket strike.
5/10/04 Iraq Kirkuk 3 0 Radicals shoot two foreign civilians and one Iraqi to death in front of their house.
5/9/04 Chechnya Grozny 24 60 Jihadists assassinate the Chechan President and at least twenty-three others in a stadium blast that leaves more than fifty, including elderly and children severely injured.
5/9/04 Iraq Baghdad 7 13 Terrorists kill a child and six others by exploding a bomb in a crowded market. Thirteen others are injured.
5/9/04 India Doda 1 15 Militant Muslim lobs a grenade at a hospital, killing one and injuring fifteen others.
5/9/04 Afghanistan Kabul 2 0 Two foreigners, one a Swiss citizen, are stoned to death in a public park.
5/7/04 Iraq Latifiya 2 1 An award-winning Polish journalist is shot to death, along with an Algerian colleague by Sunni insurgents in a drive-by attack.
5/7/04 Iraq Mosul 4 1 Roadside terrorist bombing kills four Iraqi policeman.
5/7/04 Pakistan Karachi 13 80 Thirteen worshippers are killed, and more than eighty others injured when a suicide bomber detonates his explosives inside a Shiite mosque.
5/7/04 Pakistan Toba Tek Singh 1 0 Catholic student abducted by Muslim school refuses to convert to Islam and is tortured to death.
5/6/04 Iraq Baghdad 6 25 Suicide car bomber kills five civilians and one soldier at a checkpoint. Twenty-three other civilians and two U.S. soldiers are injured in the blast.
5/6/04 Iraq Kirkuk 2 1 Car carrying a government official is attacked by Sunni extremists, killing him and the driver, and wounding his wife.
5/5/04 India Anantnag Lok Sabha 1 2 Militant Muslim lobs a grenade at a polling booth, killing one and injuring two.
5/5/04 Indonesia Maluku 2 3 Muslim gunmen in a speedboat kill a Christian man and an 11-month-old baby. Three others are also shot, but manage to survive.
5/5/04 Egypt Taha al-Aamida 3 0 Muslim police take three Christians, including a priest, into custody as they are repairing a church wall. All three are then murdered.
5/4/04 Afghanistan Nuristan 3 0 Two British civilians, working to register Afghans for upcoming elections, are killed along with their translator in a suspected Taliban ambush.
5/3/04 Pakistan Gawadar 3 11 Pakistani radicals bomb a bus carrying Chinese engineers to a port project. Three are killed and eleven injured.
5/3/04 Afghanistan Zabul 10 0 Separate Taliban attacks in southern Afghanistan leave ten security officers dead.
5/2/04 Algeria Algiers 2 0 Two police officers are gunned down by Islamists while on-duty.
5/2/04 Algeria Chrea Forest 2 4 Two soldiers are killed when a bomb planted by Islamic extremists explodes under their car. Four others are injured.
5/2/04 Algeria Medea 3 1 Three community guards are killed by Islamists. A fourth is kidnapped.
5/2/04 Iraq Ramadi 6 0 Sunni mortar attack on a U.S. base kills five sailors and one soldier.
5/2/04 Israel Gush Katif 5 3 Palestinian gunmen ambush a vehicle and kill four Jewish children and their pregnant mother who were in the process of entering their community. Islamic Jihad takes credit for the brutal attack.
5/1/04 Saudi Arabia Yanbu 7 25 Three Saudi employees of an oil company use their access to the building to systematically shoot as many Westerners as possible in a room-by-room attack. At six are killed on the spot and a seventh man dies two weeks later in a Houston hospital.
5/1/04 Algeria Sabounet 3 1 A mother and her two children are slaughtered by Islamic extremists in an attack on their village in the Algerian desert.
5/1/04 Sudan Akobo 204 70 Khartoum-backed militia kills over two-hundred people, many women and children in a raid on their camp. Sudan recently criticized the U.S. for abusing prisoner rights.
4/30/04 Algeria Relizane 2 0 Two hunters fall victim to Islamic extremists in western Algeria.
4/30/04 Iraq Mosul 2 5 Two foreign security guards are killed in a bomb attack. Five others are injured.
4/30/04 Iraq Fallujah 2 6 Suicide car bomber kills two U.S. soldiers and injures six.
4/29/04 Afghanistan Thaloqan 6 0 Six Afghan soldiers traveling on motorcycles are attacked by Taliban terrorists and killed.
4/29/04 Iraq Basra 1 0 South African civilian is killed by Muslim extremists in a drive-by shooting.
4/29/04 Iraq Mahmoudiya 8 4 Car bombing kills eight U.S. soldiers and injures four others.
4/28/04 Thailand Yala 5 0 Thai Muslims storm 15 government buildings in a coordinated attack and kill at least five. An unknown number are injured.
4/28/04 Iraq Mosul 9 0 Series of Sunni attacks in Mosul kills eight Iraqi policemen and one civilian.
4/28/04 India Srinigar 2 55 Two people are killed, and fifty-five others injured in a terrorist explosion at an election rally.
4/28/04 Iraq Kut 2 1 Two Ukrainian soldiers are killed an RPG attack on their convoy while on security patrol.
4/27/04 Syria Damascus 2 0 A female civilian and a policeman are killed in a shooting and bombing attack on the British embassy in Damascus by four Islamic radicals.
4/26/04 Afghanistan Panjwayi 3 2 Taliban members walk into a humanitarian office and shoot several employees to death. The office was established to help Afghanis with their basic needs.
4/25/04 Iraq Mosul 2 10 Jihad rocket attack on a hospital kills two medics and injures ten other civilian workers.
4/25/04 Israel Migdal Oz 1 2 Palestinian gunmen kill a border policeman and wound two others in a sniper attack from a residential section.
4/25/04 Indonesia Ambon 38 24 Islamic radicals go on a rampage against Christians, killing more than thirty (some in sniper attacks) and then setting a UN building on fire.
4/25/04 India Kulgam 3 46 Militant Muslims attempt to assassinate a female political figure in a grenade attack. Three are killed and forty-six injured.
4/24/04 India Bazipora 2 0 Militant Muslims enter the home of a police officer while he is on duty and behead his wife and 8-year-old daughter.
4/24/04 Iraq Basra 2 4 Two U.S. sailors were killed after a boat they boarded exploded. Two other boats with suicide bombers were intercepted before they could do harm.
4/24/04 Iraq Iskandariyah 14 11 Fourteen passengers are killed when a bus hits a roadside bomb. Another eleven are injured in the explosion.
4/24/04 Iraq Baghdad 12 25 Twelve people in a market were killed when Jihadists launched mortar rounds into the crowded area.
4/24/04 Iraq Baghdad 5 6 Five U.S. soldiers are killed in a rocket attack launched from a residential neighborhood. Six are wounded.
4/24/04 Iraq Tikrit 4 16 Roadside bomb kills four - two police and two civilians. Sixteen others were injured.
4/23/04 India Srinigar 0 23 Two separate grenade attacks on political offices leave at least twenty-three people injured, mostly civilians.
4/23/04 India Surankote 1 2 Militants open fire on a police station, killing one officer and injuring two others.
4/22/04 Iraq Baghdad 1 0 South African civilian is shot twice in the head and back while on his way to buy meat for a barbecue.
4/22/04 Afghanistan Sperah 2 0 Taliban ambush kills two soldiers, one U.S. (Pat Tillman), the other Afghan.
4/22/04 India Srinigar 2 6 Two people are killed and six injured in grenade attacks by Islamists attempting to disrupt the elections.
4/22/04 Thailand Rayang 3 0 Muslim separatists set fire to fifty government buildings, then kill two firefighters trying to put out the blazes. The next day they shoot an army officer dead in his driveway while he was washing his car.
4/21/04 India Udhampur 2 2 One civilian is killed in his home (Doda), another abducted and later shot dead. Muslim militants also cut off the ears of two other people for participating in the elections.
4/21/04 Iraq Basra 68 100 Five suicide bombings kill sixty-eight people, including eighteen children who burned to death in their school bus. More than one-hundred other civilians were injured in the "Holy Warrior" blasts.
4/21/04 Saudi Arabia Riyadh 6 148 al-Qaeda suicide bomber blasts his way to Allah, taking six others, including an 11-year-old girl, with him in the car bomb explosion. One-hundred and forty-eight innocents are injured.
4/20/04 Iraq Baghdad 22 90 U.S. controlled prison is shelled in a mortar attack. Twenty-two prisoners are killed and over ninety injured.
4/20/04 India Srinigar 16 24 Militant Muslims kill at least sixteen, including a female journalist and a taxi driver, in an attempt to disrupt elections. At least two dozen others are injured.
4/19/04 Algeria Tipaza 3 0 Three people killed by Islamic fundamentalists who set up a fake road block to snag the victims.
4/19/04 Afghanistan Spin Boldak 1 1 Afghan driver is killed in a Taliban ambush on his oil truck.
4/18/04 Thailand Sungai Padi 1 0 Railway worker shot and killed by Muslim separatists while he was on his way to work.
4/17/04 Israel Eraz 1 3 Hamas takes credit for a suicide bombing that kills a 20-year-old border guard then complains loudly when it's own leader is taken out with a missile a few hours later.
4/17/04 Kosovo Mitrovica 2 10 Jordanian shoots two American women to death who were working as prison guards. He also injures ten others in the attack.
4/17/04 Algeria Baghlia 2 7 Bomb planted by Islamic fundamentalists explodes on a road, killing two Algerian security personnel and injuring seven.
4/16/04 Afghanistan Del Aram Road 8 0 Eight Afghan soldiers at a checkpoint are killed in a nighttime rocket attack by Taliban miscreants.
4/16/04 Iraq Baghdad 3 3 Terrorists attack a U.S. security patrol with rocket-propelled grenades. Three soldiers are killed and three injured.
4/16/04 Iraq Mosul 8 17 Fedayeen mortar attack leaves eight Iraqi civilians dead and seventeen injured.
4/15/04 USA Scottsville, NY 1 2 Muslim kills his wife and attacks his two daughters with a knife and hammer because he feared that they had been sexually molested and wanted to restore their "honor."
4/15/04 Iraq Baghdad 2 0 An Italian hostage is executed on videotape after being interviewed by an Arabic news crew. Elsewhere, an Iranian diplomat is shot to death by Sunni extremists.
4/15/04 Afghanistan Chinarto 10 0 A local police chief and nine bodyguards are killed in a Taliban ambush on their vehicles.
4/15/04 Sudan Darfur 32 0 Thirty-two villagers are massacred by government-backed militias violating a cease-fire. There were also several homes torched and people injured.
4/14/04 Iraq Mosul 4 6 Four civilians, including two women are killed and six others injured by a Fedayeen mortar attack on a crowded market.
4/14/04 Afghanistan Khost 2 2 Taliban elements ambush an Afghan military patrol, leaving two dead and two injured.
4/14/04 India Banihal 2 22 Terrorist hurls grenade at a political rally, killing one and injuring twenty-two. Another soul dies of injuries four days later.
4/13/04 Saudi Arabia Um Sedrah 4 2 Militants gun down four Saudi police officers at a checkpoint.
4/13/04 USA Raleigh 1 4 Mental health problems behind member of tight-knit Muslim community deliberately running down five strangers with a vehicle? One died.
4/12/04 Chechnya Ishkhoi-Yurt 7 0 At least seven policemen were killed in a terrorist attack by Jihad fighters on their vehicles.
4/12/04 Israel Netzarim 0 0 Two Palestinians are killed by the IDF as the attempt to infiltrate a settlement for the purpose of killing Israeli citizens.
4/11/04 Pakistan Karachi 1 9 Car bomb set by Islamists at a music concert kills a 23-year-old man and injures nine others.
4/11/04 Iraq Baghdad 2 0 Helicopter shot down by Jihad militants. Both crew members are killed.
4/11/04 Indonesia Sulawesi 0 7 Islamic gunmen open fire on an Easter church service, wounding seven worshippers.
4/11/04 Philippines Sabah 0 3 Abu Sayyaf terrorists attack a tugboat and take three crew members hostage.
4/11/04 Nigeria Rwang Doka and Jenkur 3 0 Muslim militia attacks two Christian villages and kills three people, in addition to burning homes.
4/10/04 Iraq Hit 4 12 British security guard protecting electrical contractors is shot dead. Elsewhere, an attack on a fuel convoy leaves three dead and twelve injured.
4/10/04 Thailand Had Yai 1 35 Bomb planted by Muslim separatists at a railway station kills a 7-year-old boy and injures thirty-five others.
4/9/04 Iraq Baghdad 3 0 Three U.S. civilian truck drivers are killed in an attack on their convoy by Fedayeen gunmen. Their bodies are subsequently mutilated.
4/8/04 Iraq Fallujah 1 5 RPG fired from a mosque injures five Marines. Another is killed in the ensuing gun battle.
4/8/04 India Uri 11 68 Four people are killed immediately (seven others die in hospitals), and sixty-eight injured at a political rally by a Fedayeen suicide bomber.
4/7/04 India Choornar Forest 4 16 Four security force personnel are killed, and sixteen injured when Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists detonate an IED under their vehicles.
4/7/04 India Parigam 1 0 Muslim terrorists enter a civilian's home and shoot his young daughter to death.
4/6/04 Iraq Kut 1 0 Radical Shiites enter a house and shoot a South African contractor to death.
4/6/04 Pakistan Karachi 3 0 At least three people are shot to death by gunmen riding motorcycles.
4/5/04 India Srinigar 0 60 About sixty people, including women and children are injured when a militant Muslim hurls a grenade into a busy intersection.
4/5/04 Somalia Berbera 1 1 Somaliland government admits that the killers of a Kenyan aid worker were from an al-Qaeda faction. A German aid worker was seriously injured by the same terrorists.
4/4/04 Iraq Mahmoudiya 2 0 Shooting ambush kills Iraqi police chief and his driver.
4/4/04 Pakistan Karachi 5 1 Terrorists attack a Pakistani police station, force five captured officers to chant from the Qur'an, then execute them.
4/4/04 Iraq Baghdad 9 24 A mob of Shiite radicals storm through a neighborhood, killing nine coalition soldiers sent to protect citizens from violent attack. Twenty-four others are injured.
4/3/04 Israel Avnei Hefetz 1 0 Father of six shot dead by a Hamas terrorist outside his home after spending the evening with his children.
4/3/04 Spain Madrid 1 11 Seven terrorists responsible for the deaths of more than two-hundred train commuters, recite the Qur'an and then blow themselves up. One policeman is killed.
4/3/04 India Kashmir 8 7 Mujahideen militants kill two Indian soldiers and six civilians in separate attacks. Some of the bodies are mutilated.
4/2/04 Iraq Baquba 3 3 Attackers yell "Allah Akbar," then kill three policemen riding in a vehicle with a hand grenade. Three others are injured.
4/2/04 Uzbekistan Bukhara 1 0 Female suicide bomber kills a policeman and critically injures herself.
4/2/04 Pakistan Lahore 1 0 Christian pastor is gunned down by Muslim extremists in front of his wife and four children.
3/31/04 Iraq Fallujah 4 0 In a very brutal attack, a mob of Muslims stop two cars carrying American civilians providing security for a food-providing convoy, kill occupants, set their vehicles on fire, disfigure the bodies and then drag them through the streets.
3/31/04 Sudan Deleig 120 0 Troops from the Muslim Republic descend on a village earlier in the month and haul away about one-hundred and twenty men selected for execution. (2004)
3/31/04 Iraq Ramadi 6 5 Six civilians killed by a car bomb. Five injured.
3/31/04 Iraq Baquba 0 10 Six civilians and four police are injured by a car bomb in the Sunni Triangle.
3/31/04 Iraq Fallujah 5 0 Five U.S. soldiers are killed as terrorists detonate a roadside bomb under their vehicle.
3/30/04 Indonesia Tomura 1 1 A Christian pastor is fatally wounded by Muslim gunmen in front of his wife at his church. One other person is also injured in the attack.
3/30/04 Uzbekistan Tashkent 4 0 Civilian and three police officers killed in a series of self-induced explosions and gun battles with terrorists.
3/29/04 Uzbekistan Tashkent 19 26 Nineteen people, including children, police officers and civilians are killed in a series of suicide bombings by Muslim extremists in central Uzbekistan. Twenty-six people are killed.
3/28/04 Afghanistan Deh Rawud 2 13 Taliban attack on a military post leaves two people dead, three wounded and ten missing.
3/27/04 Indonesia Poso City 1 0 A 27-year-old Christian is gunned down by Muslim terrorists. (2004)
3/27/04 Iraq Mosul 2 19 Rocket attack on a city hall kills two civilians and injures nearly twenty, including a child.
3/27/04 Afghanistan Khost 0 6 Six civilians, including a young child are injured by a Taliban rocket attack on a restaurant.
3/27/04 Iraq Mosul 2 0 Mujahideen gunmen shoot two British security guards at an oil well then set their vehicle on fire.
3/27/04 Thailand Sunghai Kolok 0 28 Twenty-eight people are injured when a bomb hidden on a motorcycle explodes outside a karaoke bar.
3/26/04 Iraq Fallujah 8 25 Eight civilians, including three children are killed by Sunni extremists in gun battles and mortar attacks with U.S. troops.
3/26/04 Pakistan South Waziristan 8 0 Eight injured soldiers, captured by al-Qaeda, are executed in cold blood. Bodies are recovered by local tribesmen.
3/26/04 Pakistan Zam Cham 2 12 Two civilians are killed, and more than a dozen injured when al-Qaeda remnants fire a rocket into their village.
3/25/04 Iraq Mosul 1 0 Sunni gunmen kill a Christian Assyrian police officer.
3/24/04 Iraq Baghdad 3 6 Terrorists kill a 3-year-old boy, his grandmother, and another relative with a roadside bomb targeting infidels.
3/24/04 India Rajouri 1 1 Militant Muslims kill a 15-year-old girl in an IED attack that also injures her mother.
3/23/04 Iraq Kirkuk 2 2 Drive-by shooting kills two police officers and injures two others.
3/23/04 Iraq Mosul 2 6 Fedayeen rocket attack kills two civilians and injures six others.
3/23/04 Kosovo Kuzmin 2 1 Albanian terrorists kill two police officers and injure and English translator in Kosovo.
3/23/04 Pakistan Bannu 4 4 Package bomb and Russian-made rocket attack kill at least four.
3/23/04 Iraq Hilla 9 2
3/23/04 Iraq Hilla 9 2 Sunni gunmen open up on a minibus carrying police and recruits with automatic weapons fire, killing nine and injuring at least two.
3/23/04 Chechnya Grozny 10 13 Ten servicemen and police officers are killed in several different terrorist attacks by Jihadists over a 24-hour period.
3/22/04 Iraq Baghdad 2 0 Islamists bind and cut the throats of an Assyrian (Christian) couple in their home. (2004)
3/22/04 Iraq Balad 2 25 Car bomb inside a tunnel kills two Iraqi civilians and injures twenty-five others.
3/22/04 Iraq Baghdad 2 0 Two Finnish businessmen are shot and killed by Fedayeen terrorists.
3/22/04 Pakistan Islamabad 11 12 Two al-Qaeda ambushes claim the lives of eleven Pakistani soldiers.
3/21/04 Iraq Baghdad 4 12 A rocket attack on a U.S. compound kills two Iraqi civilians. Elsewhere a roadside bombing kills one civilian and one U.S. soldier.
3/21/04 Thailand Pattani 3 0 A Buddhist policeman is hacked to death by militant Muslims. One other policeman and a village chief are shot to death in separate attacks within a 24-hour span.
3/21/04 India Tanka 3 4 Hizb-ul-Mujahideen terrorists kill two children (ages 4 and 5) in their residence with an IED. Four other family members are injured in the attack. The same group also killed an off-duty policeman elsewhere in the Doda district.
3/20/04 India Manasbal 2 40 Two soldiers were killed by a remote-controlled bomb. Thirty-eight others, along with two civilians were injured in the terrorist attack.
3/19/04 Israel Jerusalem 1 0 al-Aqsa Brigade apologizes after the jogger that it gunned down in cold blood turns out to be Arab.
3/19/04 Pakistan Karachi 1 6 Islamic radicals spray a police car with automatic weapons fire, killing one and injuring six others, including four passersby.
3/19/04 Somalia Hergeysa 2 0 Two aid workers shot to death in Somalia by anti-Western extremists.
3/18/04 Iraq Baghdad 4 1 Muslims barge into a Christian home and kill the two children they find there. There mother is also killed, as well as their grandfather.
3/18/04 Iraq Basra 3 1 Fedayeen suicide bomber kills three other Iraqis and injures at least one outside a hotel.
3/18/04 Iraq Baquba 3 10 Sunni gunmen open fire on a bus carrying Iraqi journalists and crew of a local TV station funded by Americans. Three are killed and ten injured.
3/17/04 Algeria Berrouaghia 8 2 Armed Islamic Group (GIA) attack two ambulances in the desert with machine-gunfire, killing eight people and injuring two.
3/17/04 Iraq Baghdad 3 9 Two separate mortar attacks on U.S. bases leave three soldiers dead and nine wounded.
3/17/04 Iraq Baghdad 7 51 al-Qaeda car bomb rips through a hotel, killing seven and injuring over fifty.
3/16/04 Iraq Mussayab 2 0 Two more humanitarian aid workers (German) on a clean water project are gunned down by Fedayeen (Holy Warriors).
3/16/04 Iraq Baghdad 2 11 Two separate rocket attacks in Baghdad, leave two children dead and about eleven wounded.
3/16/04 Iraq Mosul 1 2 An Iraqi translator is killed in a shooting ambush in the Sunni Triangle. Two of his family members are injured.
3/15/04 Kosovo Pristina 1 0 Serbian youth is killed in a drive-by shooting by Muslim terrorists.
3/15/04 Iraq Mosul 4 1 Four Christian missionaries working on a humanitarian clean water project for Iraqis are gunned down by Fedayeen terrorists while riding in their vehicle.
3/15/04 Chechnya Grozny 9 22 Nine Russian soldiers and police are killed in eighteen separate Jihad attacks over a two-day period.
3/14/04 Israel Ashdod 10 19 Two 18-year old suicide bombers kill ten port workers, and injure about twenty more. Al-Aqsa takes credit and says its intended target, chemical tanks, would have caused far greater civilian casualties.
3/13/04 Iraq Tikrit 4 5 Four U.S. soldiers are killed while on security duty by two roadside bomb attacks in Tikrit and Habbiniyah.
3/12/04 India Pulwama 13 12 Muslim militants hole up inside a girl's school after a gun battle with police. Thirteen people are killed, and at least a dozen wounded in this and incidents in a 24-hour period.
3/12/04 Algeria Tebessa 4 0 Four Algerian soldiers are killed in an attack by Islamic fundamentalists (Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat).
3/11/04 Afghanistan Khost 2 3 Taliban bomb kills two Afghan soldiers and injures another three.
3/11/04 Spain Madrid 201 1500 Ten coordinated al-Qaeda bomb blasts on commuter trains during the rush hour leave over two-hundred people dead and some fifteen hundred injured.
3/11/04 Iraq Baghdad 2 1 Shia cleric survives assassination attempt, but his son and son-in-law are killed in the shooting ambush
3/11/04 Indonesia Maranatha 1 5 Brutal machete attack on a Christian village leaves a mother of two dead and five others injured.
3/10/04 Iraq Basra 2 0 Two Iraqi women, on their way home from working laundry at a coalition base, are shot to death.
3/9/04 India Budgam 3 35 Attempted abduction goes awry with a terrorist killing himself and three others with a grenade. Thirty-five are injured.
3/9/04 Iraq Hillah 3 0 Two American civilians, including a female human rights worker, along with an Iraqi translator are executed after being stopped at a phony checkpoint.
3/9/04 Turkey Istanbul 2 7 Suspected al-Qaeda terrorists use an explosive device and weapons fire against the restaurant of a Masonic lodge.
3/8/04 Chechnya Grozny 9 5 Nine Russian soldiers are killed in separate Jihad attacks over a 24-hour period.
3/8/04 Sudan Aish Barra 12 0 Twelve civilians, including three children are killed by a militia group supported by the Muslim government.
3/7/04 Algeria Kabylie 2 4 Bombing attack by Islamic extremists leaves two Algerian soldiers dead and four injured.
3/7/04 Iraq Mosul 2 2 Terrorist RPG attack on a police station kills two civilians and injures two more.
3/6/04 Sudan Tawila 75 350 Arabs kill seventy-five Africans, rape 100 women and then abduct about two-hundred children and a further one-hundred and fifty women.
3/6/04 Israel Eraz 3 9 Three Palestinian policemen were killed, and nine injured in a botched attack by three terrorists against an Israeli border checkpoint.
3/6/04 Yemen Zammar 5 30 Gunman tosses grenades and opens fire outside a mosque, killing five and injuring thirty.
3/6/04 Afghanistan Nokhaiz 1 0 Taliban gunmen kill an aid worker driving home.
3/6/04 Sudan al-Kureinik 15 0 Government-supported militia group raids a refugee camp and kills fifteen Christian civilians, including a child.
3/5/04 Afghanistan Shay Joy 2 2 Taliban gunmen kill and Afghan guard and a Turkish engineer. They abduct two others.
3/4/04 Iraq Baghdad 3 5 Three members of a family are killed, and five others injured, by a rocket attack on their car.
3/4/04 Afghanistan Pakistani Border 7 0 Seven Afghan troops are killed by a Taliban rocket and machine-gun attack on their post.
3/3/04 India Jammu 7 12 Lashker-e-Toiba ultras storm high-security central jail in an effort to free other terrorists. The dead include policemen and civilians.
3/2/04 Iraq Baghdad 58 200 Three Sunni Fedayeen suicide bombers kill themselves and about fifty-eight worshippers at a Shia shrine and injure more than two-hundred.
3/2/04 Pakistan Quetta 42 160 Sunni terrorists invade a Shia religious procession. They throw grenades, then fire weapons into the crowd, and finish it off by blowing themselves up. At least forty-two are killed and more than one-hundred and sixty injured.
3/2/04 Iraq Karbala 123 300 al-Qaeda bombers, including one Fedayeen, kill at least one-hundred and twenty Shias gathered for a religious festival. About three-hundred others are injured.
3/1/04 India Pulwama 3 0 Militant Muslims kill a civilian and his son in their home. They also return to the scene of an earlier murder and kill the victim's wife.
3/1/04 Thailand Mayoh 1 0 Muslim separatists shoot a policeman to death as he is driving to work.
2/29/04 India Srinigar 0 8 Eight civilians are injured when militant Muslims stage grenade attack on a security camp.
2/28/04 India Bijbehara 0 13 Five security personnel and eight civilians are injured in a grenade attack.
2/28/04 Pakistan Islamabad 0 4 Suicide bomber attacks a Shia mosque. His is the only fatality, although he did manage to cause serious injury to two children.
2/27/04 India Beerwah 1 3 Militant Muslims fire on a political rally with RPGs. One woman is killed and two other women hurt.
2/27/04 Philippines Mariveles 186 12 Abu Sayyaf, the Muslim extremist group, claims responsibility for an explosion on a ferry that kills nearly two-hundred people.
2/27/04 Algeria Boukerdane 2 0 Two off-duty soldiers are executed by Islamic extremists after being stopped at a fake checkpoint.
2/27/04 Israel Lahav 2 0 Palestinian gunmen open fire on a civilian vehicle, killing two young Jewish parents of a two-year old daughter.
2/26/04 Afghanistan Sarobi 5 3 Five aid workers, involved in a project to build roads and provide clean water, are ambushed and killed by the Taliban. Three are injured.
2/25/04 Nigeria Yelwa 49 0 Forty-nine members of a farming community are slaughtered by Muslim Fulanis after taking refuge in a local church. Most of the Christians were brutally hacked to death. The number of injured is unknown.
2/24/04 Iraq Mosul 3 0 Two Iraqi translators and a technician are shot to death by Sunni terrorists as they drove to work at a coalition military base.
2/23/04 India Gagarsula 2 3 One security force personnel is killed, and three injured by an remote-controlled bomb. Elsewhere (Kremshore) a civilian is shot dead outside his shop.
2/23/04 India Dadsara 1 4 A 10-year old child is killed, and four others critically wounded when an Islamic militant throws a grenade onto a playground.
2/23/04 Iraq Kirkuk 8 35 Eight Iraqi policemen are killed in a Fedayeen suicide car bombing. Thirty-five others, including two children were hurt.
2/22/04 Afghanistan Thalogan 1 1 A Muslim gunman attacks a helicopter on a humanitarian mission, killing the Australian pilot and injuring an American woman helping to set up health clinics in the area.
2/22/04 Israel Jerusalem 8 61 An al-Aksa suicide terrorist blows up another civilian bus during rush hour, killing eight passengers and injuring over sixty.
2/20/04 Iraq Baghdad 2 1 In two separate attacks, a Muslim cleric and an Iraqi translator are gunned down by assassins.
2/19/04 Iraq Khaldiya 2 1 Roadside bombing in the Sunni Triangle leaves two U.S. soldiers dead.
2/19/04 Nigeria Jos 4 0 Muslim gunmen ambush a police vehicle and kill the four passengers.
2/19/04 Philippines Jolo 1 1 Abu Sayaaf gunmen abduct a 7-year old girl at a Roman Catholic school after killing her driver.
2/18/04 Iraq Hilla 8 106 Eight Iraqis, including five children are killed and more than one-hundred others injured by twin Fedayeen suicide car bombers who were stopped by coalition forces.
2/18/04 Kosovo Staro 2 0 Muslim terrorists shoot two civilians, a man and a woman, to death as they were sitting in their car.
2/17/04 Sudan Anka 15 8 Government troops and the Janaweed attack and destroy a village, killing fifteen civilians. (2004)
2/17/04 India Dada 2 0 Muslim terrorists invade a house and shoot a civilian and his son to death.
2/16/04 India Budgam 2 0 Muslim rebels kill two villagers.
2/16/04 India Hyderpora Chowk 3 0 A political activist and two policemen are gunned down by Islamists.
2/16/04 Iraq Baghdad 2 5 Two terrorist bombings in the Sunni Triangle leave two U.S. soldiers dead and five wounded.
2/15/04 Iraq Baghdad 1 4 A Christian pastor is killed, and four others are injured when vehicle pulls alongside their car and fires into the cabin.
2/14/04 Iraq Fallujah 21 33 'There is no god but Allah!' shout gunmen who storm a police prison, killing more than twenty and injuring at least thirty-three others.
2/14/04 Thailand Narathiwat 2 0 Muslim gunmen on a motorcycle kill two workers as they are on their way to a job site.
2/13/04 Dagestan Bamnatbekyurt 3 4 Three police officers were killed, and four wounded by Muslim rebels in a village ambush.
2/13/04 Afghanistan Bala Buluk 4 0 Four Afghan aid employees, working to rid the country-side of landmines are shot to death by Taliban extremists.
2/13/04 Afghanistan All Shaire 2 6 A shopkeeper and Afghan soldier were killed by a Taliban terrorist bomb that also injured six others.
2/12/04 Algeria Toudja 7 3 Armed Islamic extremists ambush and kill seven policemen. Three others are injured in the attack.
2/11/04 Iraq Baghdad 2 1 Two U.S. soldiers are killed in roadside bombing.
2/11/04 Afghanistan Khost 1 0 Suicide Taliban attacker kills senior Afghan intelligence official.
2/11/04 Iraq Baghdad 47 75 Fedayeen suicide bomber kills forty-seven people waiting in line for jobs and injures nearly one-hundred.
2/10/04 Chechnya Grozny 6 0 Six security forces are killed by Jihadist remote-controlled IED.
2/10/04 Algeria Jijel 4 0 Islamic extremists kill four patron of a roadside café. Three are shot and one has his throat slit.
2/10/04 Chechnya Oktyabrsky 3 0 Jihad fighters strip three Russian soldiers of their weapons then shoot them to death.
2/10/04 Iraq Baghdad 4 0 Four police officers (two cousins and two brothers) are killed in drive-by shootings as they travel to work.
2/10/04 Iraq Iskandariyah 53 150 At least fifty-three people are killed by a massive truck bomb outside a police station. Some one-hundred and fifty others are injured.
2/10/04 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 Buddhist official killed by Muslim gunmen.
2/9/04 Iraq Mosul 2 0 Two Christian family members killed by radical Jihadists.
2/8/04 Iraq Sawaryah 3 11 Bombing attack on the offices of a deputy police chief leaves three dead and eleven wounded.
2/8/04 Algeria Miliana 2 0 Two policemen are murdered at point blank range by two fundamentalist youth who stopped their car on the pretext of seeking information.
2/8/04 Philippines Mangosatubig 2 1 Moro Islamic Front terrorists attack a fishing village, killing two and injuring one.
2/7/04 Egypt Cairo 0 3 An Australian and two Norwegian tourists are injured in a knife attack by a man "angered" at Israel.
2/6/04 Russia Moscow 40 134 Forty people are murdered by a female Fedayeen suicide bomber as they were commuting to work on a Moscow subway. About one-hundred and thirty-four are injured.
2/5/04 India Salar 4 7 Four Indian security forces are killed by a landmine planted by Muslim rebels in Kashmir. Seven others are injured.
2/5/04 Chechnya Grozny 7 11 Seven servicemen and police officers are killed in three separate incidents by Mujahideen rebels over a 24-hour period.
2/5/04 Algeria Tizi Ouzou 5 0 Five police are murdered by armed Islamic extremists in the regional capital.
2/4/04 Thailand Yarang 1 0 Government employee is slashed to death in a machete attack similar to the manner in which three Buddhist monks were killed last month.
2/3/04 Russia Vladikavkaz 2 10 Two people, including a woman are killed, and at least ten others injured by a car bomb near the Chechnyan border.
2/3/04 India Chewdara 3 0 Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists invade a home and kill the couple inside, along with another family member.
2/2/04 India Srinigar 1 1 A police officer is gunned down outside a mosque.
2/1/04 Chechnya Alleroi 5 0 Five security guards are killed when grenade-wielding gunmen burst into a government building intent on a political assassination.
2/1/04 Afghanistan Deh Rawood 8 5 An Afghan mayor and seven of his family members, including three children are killed by a Taliban roadside bomb attack. Five others are injured.
2/1/04 Iraq Arbil 117 133 Two Ansar al-Islam suicide bombers dresses as Muslim clerics kill more than one-hundred people and injure about one-hundred and thirty in attacks on two buildings housing Kurdish political officials.
1/31/04 Sudan Surra 250 30 Final tally from the genocidal attack on an African village earlier in the month is about two-hundred and fifty people slaughtered, mostly women and children. An unknown number were injured and thirty are still missing. (2004)
1/31/04 Iraq Kirkuk 3 0 Three U.S. soldiers are killed by a roadside bomb while riding in their convoy.
1/31/04 Iraq Mosul 9 45 Nine people are killed and about forty-five injured by a Fedayeen suicide car bombing outside a police station.
1/30/04 Saudi Arabia Riyadh 7 1 Six security guards and a civilian are killed by radical Islamists operatives while attempting to break up a terrorist cell.
1/29/04 India Handwara 4 0 Muslim gunmen invade a home and shoot to death a resident and a guest. Two women are killed in a similar manner in Pulwama Rajouri.
1/29/04 Israel Jerusalem 11 50 Eleven people are murdered, and at least fifty others injured by a Palestinian suicide bombing inside a passenger bus. Al-Aksa martyrs brigade claims responsibility.
1/28/04 Afghanistan Kabul 1 4 One British Peacekeeper is killed by a Fedayeen suicide bomber in a taxi. Four others are injured in the blast.
1/28/04 Iraq Baghdad 4 17 At least four people, including a South African national are killed by a Fedayeen car bombing outside a hotel. Some seventeen others are killed.
1/27/04 Iraq Iskandariyah 3 3 Another roadside bombing in the Sunni Triangle kills three U.S. soldiers traveling in a convoy and injures three more.
1/27/04 Iraq Baghdad 2 1 Two CNN employees are killed in a shooting attack as terrorists open up on the car in which they are riding.
1/27/04 Algeria Tizi Ouzou 3 0 Islamic fundamentalists (Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat) kill two soldiers and one security guard in an ambush.
1/27/04 Iraq Baghdad 5 4 Two Iraqi civilians and three U.S. soldiers are killed by two roadside bombs set to go off in succession in the Sunni Triangle.
1/27/04 Iraq Samarra 3 4 Three Iraqis killed, and four injured when truck bomb explodes outside a courthouse.
1/27/04 Afghanistan Kabul 2 11 Taliban suicide bomber throws himself on a patrol vehicle in downtown Kabul and kills one Canadian peacekeeper and a civilian. Eleven others were injured.
1/26/04 Iraq Al-Amiriyah 2 3 Two policemen are killed in a drive-by Fedayeen shooting attack on a checkpoint. Two civilians and a third policeman were injured.
1/26/04 Iraq Baghdad 2 2 IED device set on a busy highway explodes, killing two civilians and injuring two others.
1/26/04 Chechnya Sharoi 4 4 Jihad attack on a convoy leaves four Russians dead and four injured.
1/25/04 Iraq Ramadi 4 0 Three policemen and a civilian are killed in a terrorist attack on a highway checkpoint.
1/24/04 Iraq Khaldiyah 5 9 Car bombing kills three U.S. soldiers and injures six others. Two other soldiers were killed in a separate bombing west of Fallujah.
1/24/04 Iraq Samarra 4 36 Roadside bombing in the Sunni Triangle kills four Iraqi civilians and injures another thirty-six people..
1/23/04 India Kashmir 4 0 Militant Muslims kill four people in Baramulla and Bandipora, all suspected of being politically active.
1/22/04 Iraq Baghdad 2 1 Two members of the Communist party are killed by a bomb in their office.
1/22/04 Thailand Narathiwat 2 1 Two Buddhist monks are hacked to death while begging for food in a Muslim neighborhood. Another is seriously injured in the machete attack.
1/21/04 Iraq Fallujah 4 5 Sunni terrorists attack a police checkpoint with grenades and automatic weapons. Three Iraqi policemen and a civilian are killed, with another five injured.
1/21/04 Indonesia Maranatha 1 0 The 56-year-old head of a local Christian community is killed by Muslim villagers. (2004)
1/21/04 Iraq Fallujah 4 1 Four Christian Iraqi women, who were laundry workers for the coalition, are attacked and killed while riding in a minivan. The male driver was injured.
1/21/04 Iraq Baqouba 2 4 Two U.S. soldiers are killed by a hit and run mortar attack in the Sunni Triangle.
1/19/04 Israel Lebanese Border 1 2 Israeli bulldozer hit with a Hezbollah rocket attack. One soldier was killed and two injured.
1/18/04 Iraq Baghdad 23 61 At least twenty-three Iraqis are killed, and more than sixty others injured by a Fedayeen suicide bomber who used day laborers as a cover for gaining entrance to a secured zone. All eight were among the dead.
1/18/04 Algeria Leghdira 1 2 Islamic fundamentalists kills a "repentant" with a bomb that also injures two police officers.
1/17/04 Iraq Tikrit 5 2 Two Iraqis and three U.S. soldiers were killed by a remote-controlled bomb planted in a culvert. Two others were injured.
1/16/04 India Srinigar 0 7 Hezb-ul-Mujahedeen car bombing injures seven members of a security detail.
1/15/04 Pakistan Karachi 0 12 At least a dozen people are injured when a car bomb explodes outside the local headquarters of the Christian Bible Society.
1/14/04 Iraq Ba'qubah 2 12 At least two civilians are killed, and a dozen other people, including children injured by a Fedayeen suicide car bombing attack.
1/14/04 Israel Gaza 4 10 Female suicide bomber kills herself and four others at a checkpoint for Palestinians entering Israel to work. Ten others are injured in the blast. The mother-of-two pretended to fall over, then detonated her bomb against those rushing to help her.
1/14/04 Algeria Zaouia 1 1 A mother and daughter heading out to harvest olives are hit by a bomb blast. The mother is killed and the daughter seriously wounded.
1/12/04 India Anantnag 1 14 Grenade attack on a demonstration kills a police officer and injures fourteen other people.
1/12/04 Bangladesh Mazar 3 36 Jamaat-e-Islami fundamentalists place bomb at a shrine that kills three and injures thirty-six. Ten-year old boy among the dead.
1/12/04 Iraq Baghdad 1 2 A U.S. soldier is killed, and two others wounded by a roadside bombing attack in the heart of Baghdad.
1/12/04 Afghanistan Kashrud 4 0 Four government soldiers are killed when Taliban extremists attack their post with knives and assault rifles.
1/11/04 Chechnya Dyshne-Vedeno 1 1 Jihad attack on a security patrol leaves one Russian serviceman dead and another injured.
1/10/04 India Lurgam 2 0 Man and his wife killed by Mujahideen terrorists outside their home.
1/10/04 Indonesia Palopo 4 2 Four people are killed, and at least two injured by a bomb blast at a karaoke café. Islamist terrorist attacks killed nearly a dozen Christians there in November.
1/9/04 Iraq Ba'qubah 4 36 Four Shiite worshippers are killed, and thirty-six others injured by a car bombing at a mosque in a predominately Sunni town.
1/9/04 Afghanistan Helmand 0 0 Four Taliban terrorists are killed when the bomb they are planting goes off prematurely.
1/9/04 India Jammu 0 20 At least twenty people are injured when a militant hurls a grenade at two police officers. The blast carries into a local shop.
1/8/04 Pakistan Adam 4 0 Rocket attack on a military base near the Afghan border kills four Pakistani soldiers.
1/8/04 Iraq Fallujah 9 0 A medivac helicopter, clearly marked with a red cross, is downed by a missile in the Sunni Triangle, killing all nine U.S. soldiers aboard.
1/7/04 Iraq Baghdad 1 30 Rocket attack by Sunni terrorists on a U.S. logistical base leaves one soldier dead and about thirty wounded.
1/6/04 Iraq Fallujah 2 1 Two French civilians are gunned down by Sunni insurgents.
1/6/04 Afghanistan Kandahar 15 15 Bicycle bombing by the Taliban (former religious leaders) along a crowded street kills fifteen people and injures more than fifteen. Eight children were among the dead.
1/5/04 Pakistan Khanewal 1 0 Christian priest shot dead by Islamic terrorists as he was boarding a train.
1/5/04 Thailand Pattani 2 0 Two policemen are killed while trying to defuse a bomb on a parked motorcycle.
1/5/04 Egypt Patmos Center 1 2 One Christian is killed, and two others injured when elements of the Egyptian army burn down a church.
1/4/04 Thailand Narathiwat 4 0 Muslim extremists raid a government armory and then set fire to 18 secular schools in a rampage that leaves at least four soldiers dead and an unknown number injured.
1/4/04 Philippines Parang 22 81 Twenty-two people at a political rally for a Christian mayor in a predominately Muslim region are killed by a bomb blast. More than eighty are injured. Two Muslims later identified and charged..
1/3/04 India Jammu 4 15 Four people are killed, and more than fifteen injured when militant Muslims attack a railway station with grenades and small-arms fire.
1/2/04 Iraq Baghdad 4 6 Three separate attacks by radicals leave four U.S. soldiers dead and six injured.
1/1/04 India Srinigar 1 6 Islamic rebels detonate a bomb near a site hosting a peace rally. One civilian is killed and six others injured.
1/1/04 India Rainawari 0 7 A terrorist is killed, and seven civilians sustain injuries when a bomb being carried on a bicycle detonates prematurely.
Date Country City Killed Injured Description
12/31/03 Iraq Baghdad 8 35 A car bomb rips through a restaurant, killing eight people and injuring at least thirty-five.
12/30/03 India Lawapora 0 34 Thirty-four personnel are injured when Hizbul Mujahideen militants bomb a military patrol.
12/30/03 Iraq Baghdad 1 3 One Iraqi is killed, and three others injured in a roadside bomb attack.
12/29/03 Afghanistan Spin Boldak 5 3 Five Afghan soldiers are killed when their post is attacked by Taliban terrorists. Three are injured.
12/29/03 India Jammu 0 10 Muslim terrorists injure ten people waiting for a bus with a grenade.
12/28/03 Iraq Baghdad 3 5 Two Iraqi children and one U.S. soldier are killed by a roadside bomb on a crowded street. Five others are injured.
12/28/03 Afghanistan Kabul 6 0 Six Afghan policemen are killed by two suicide bombers being transported for investigation.
12/27/03 Iraq Karbala 12 37 Islamic Fedayeen terrorists kill twelve, including four Bulgarians, two Thai engineers and six civilians in three separate suicide attacks. At least thirty-seven others are injured.
12/26/03 India Singhpora 1 11 One woman is killed, and eleven other people are injured when Muslim terrorists trigger a roadside bomb against a transport vehicle.
12/26/03 Iraq Baghdad 5 7 Five U.S. soldiers are killed, and seven others injured in various terrorist attacks in the Sunni Triangle over a 24-hour period.
12/25/03 Pakistan Rawalpindi 7 16 Assassination attempt on Pakistani President by Muslim extremists, involving several car bombs, leaves seven dead and at least sixteen injured.
12/25/03 Israel Tel Aviv 4 18 Suicide bomber kills four Israeli civilians, including a teenage girl and injures at least eighteen more at a bus stop.
12/24/03 Sudan Darfur 24 25 Government-sponsored militias in this Islamic Republic, kill another two dozen villagers - adding to a toll of more than two million over 20 years.
12/24/03 Iraq Irbil 3 12 A suicide car bomber kills three other people and injures at least a dozen innocents.
12/24/03 Iraq Samarra 3 0 Three U.S. soldiers are killed by a roadside bomb in the Sunni triangle.
12/24/03 Iraq Baghdad 1 2 Civilian bus is bombed by Sunni terrorists. The driver is killed and two passengers are injured.
12/23/03 India Bandipora 0 10 Ten people are injured when Muslim militants lob a grenade at a security patrol near a hospital.
12/22/03 Iraq Baghdad 3 2 Roadside bomb in the Sunni Triangle kills two U.S. troops and an Iraqi translator. Two others are wounded.
12/22/03 Iraq Mosul 1 0 Top level judge shot six times in the back by Fedayeen loyalists.
12/22/03 Israel Kfar Darom 2 2 Two Israelis are killed when members of the al-Aksa Martyrs Brigade open up on a security patrol with grenades and automatic weapons.
12/21/03 India Kulgam 0 14 Fourteen people are injured in a grenade attack against a police station by militant Muslims.
12/20/03 Afghanistan Khaima 5 2 Taliban terrorists attack a remote security post with machine guns and kill five Afghan soldiers as they are eating their evening meal.
12/19/03 Iraq Baghdad 1 5 Terrorist blast kills one woman working for the main Shiite party in their office building. At least five others are injured.
12/18/03 India Rajouri 2 3 Fedayeen attack on a police station kills two officers and leaves three more injured.
12/17/03 India Gagarsulla 1 4 Terrorists shoot dead one civilian and abduct four others from a remote village.
12/17/03 Iraq Baghdad 2 1 In two separate attacks, a Shiite leader is gunned down near his home by Sunni loyalists and a U.S. soldier is killed in an ambush.
12/16/03 Philippines Datu Piang 4 12 Government troops seeking refuge in a mosque are attacked by Moro Islamic Front terrorists. Four are killed and twelve are missing.
12/16/03 Algeria Medea 2 0 Islamic extremists shoot and kill two policemen.
12/15/03 Iraq Ameriyah 0 7 Another Fedayeen suicide bomber kills himself and injures seven Iraqi policemen.
12/15/03 Iraq Baghdad 8 10 Fedayeen suicide bomber drives car bomb to gates of a police station. Eight Iraqis are killed in the explosion and at least ten injured.
12/15/03 Dagestan Shauri & Mokok 9 0 At least nine border guards are murdered by Muslim rebels who crossed over from Chechnya to attack a hospital.
12/14/03 Philippines North Cotabato 4 3 Ambushes by the Moro Islamic Front leave four villagers dead and two wounded.
12/14/03 Iraq Khaldiyah 17 33 Seventeen city workers, policemen, and civilian bystanders are killed, and another thirty-three injured by Fedayeen suicide blast.
12/12/03 Israel Nablus 0 7 Palestinian gunmen ambush a van carrying Israeli worshippers on their way home from a prayer service. Seven are injured.
12/12/03 Pakistan Quetta 1 0 Young boy is killed by a bomb while sifting through garbage outside a house owned by President Karzai of Afghanistan.
12/11/03 Iraq Ramadi 1 14 Three Fedayeen suicide bombers in a furniture truck blow themselves up at the gates of a U.S. military base. One soldier is killed and fourteen others wounded.
12/10/03 India Poonch 3 15 Muslim terrorists lob a grenade into a bus station and then fire indiscriminately into the crowd, killing three and injuring at least fifteen.
12/10/03 Iraq Mosul 2 4 Militant Sunnis kill two U.S. soldiers on guard duty at two gas stations in drive-by shootings. Four others are injured.
12/9/03 Iraq Baghdad 3 2 Bombers target a mosque, killing two and injuring three.
12/9/03 Iraq Mosul 1 2 Drive-by shooting attack leaves one U.S. soldier dead and two others injured.
12/9/03 Iraq Mosul 0 62 Fifty-nine U.S. soldiers and at least three Iraqis sustain mostly light injuries when an Islamic suicide car bomber attempts an attack.
12/9/03 Russia Moscow 6 14 Female Fedayeen suicide bomber kills six people near the Kremlin and injures at least fourteen, including several college students.
12/8/03 India Anantnag 0 10 Ten people, including civilians and policemen are injured in Mujahideen grenade and shooting attacks in Kashmir.
12/8/03 Afghanistan Muqur 2 0 Taliban ambush kills two Pakistani engineers working to restore country's infrastructure.
12/8/03 Chechnya Itum Kale 4 1 Four Russian soldiers are killed while investigating an explosion at a school. Another is taken hostage.
12/6/03 Afghanistan Kandahar 0 18 Eighteen Afghan civilians, including three children are injured by a bomb detonated from a parked bicycle. The Taliban takes credit for the attack.
12/6/03 Algeria Bouira 1 0 24-year old police officer is gunned down in a store by Islamic extremists.
12/5/03 Iraq Baghdad 4 13 At least three Iraqis and one U.S. soldier are killed by a roadside bomb on a crowded street. Thirteen others, including eleven Iraqis are injured.
12/5/03 Russia Yessentuki 44 150 Mujahideen suicide bomber detonates explosive on a Russian commuter train carrying civilians to work. At forty-four people, including children eventually die and about one-hundred and fifty others are injured.
12/4/03 Afghanistan Bukwakay 1 11 A UN worker was killed by a Taliban attack while conducting a census. Eleven others were injured.
12/4/03 Yemen al-Baidah 1 1 Regional governor survives assassination attempt by Islamic extremists, with injuries. His brother is murdered.
12/3/03 Philippines Muti 4 0 Abu Sayyaf terrorists round up four villagers, line them up on a road and shoot them.
12/2/03 India Srinigar 0 21 Nineteen policeman and two civilians are injured when militant Muslims attack their station with grenades.
11/30/03 Iraq Tikrit 2 2 Two South Korean engineers are killed, and two others seriously wounded by Fedayeen terrorists while traveling in their vehicle.
11/30/03 Indonesia Poso 2 0 Two Hindu migrants are gunned down as they sat outside their house.
11/30/03 India Jammu 4 8 At least four people are killed, and eight injured when Muslim militants defy a brokered cease-fire and hijack two civilian vehicles.
11/29/03 India Wadna 1 4 Militant Muslims fire at a passenger vehicle, killing one and injuring four.
11/29/03 Iraq Suwayrah 7 1 Fedayeen ambush kills seven Spanish intelligence agents, riding in two cars, with grenades and automatic weapons.
11/29/03 Iraq Tikrit 3 0 Two Japanese diplomats, and their Iraqi driver are shot and killed by Fedayeen terrorists.
11/28/03 Algeria Djelfa 9 3 Nine people, including a Saudi prince, are ambushed and killed by Islamic extremists while on a hunting trip in the desert.
11/27/03 Philippines Barira 5 4 Five people in the middle of planning a wedding were killed, and four others injured when Moro Islamic Front terrorists strafe their house with gunfire.
11/27/03 India Srinigar 1 12 One person was killed, and twelve others injured when militants hurl a grenade into a busy intersection.
11/25/03 Israel Nablus 1 0 Assassination attempt by Palestinian gunmen on Nablus mayor, said to be working with Jews, leaves his brother dead.
11/25/03 India Anantnag 2 4 An assassination attempt on a Hindu politician by Muslim radicals leaves two people dead and four injured.
11/23/03 Iraq Mosul 2 0 A Muslim mob throws a concrete block in the way of a military vehicle, causing it two crash. The mob then drags the two soldiers out, beats them and then slits their throats.
11/22/03 Iraq Ba'quba 9 15 Six Iraqi policeman and three civilians are killed in a Fedayeen car bombing. More than fifteen others were injured.
11/22/03 Iraq Khan Bani Sa'ad 9 10 Fedayeen suicide bomber kills nine Iraqis and injures ten at a police station. A subsequent explosion in the same area injures at least two children.
11/22/03 Israel Jerusalem 2 0 Two Israelis are shot dead while guarding a construction site.
11/22/03 Iraq Baghdad 4 20 Four people were killed when Islamists hurled a grenade into a market stall that was selling alcohol. One of the dead was an 11-year old boy. Some twenty others were injured.
11/21/03 India Budgam 2 0 Two citizens are shot dead by Muslim militants. One in his house and the other as he was returning home from worship.
11/20/03 Turkey Istanbul 31 400 Coordinated Fedayeen suicide truck bombings, one near a British bank and the other outside the British consulate, kill more than thirty and injure over four-hundred people. Al-Qaeda and another Islamic group claim responsibility for the killing.
11/20/03 Iraq Kirkuk 4 6 At least four civilians are killed, and at least a half dozen injured, by bomb blast in Kurdish political headquarters.
11/19/03 Jordan Israeli Border 1 5 Jordanian truck driver fires rifle across the border into Israel, killing an Ecuadorian women and injuring four of her tourist companions.
11/19/03 Iraq Ramadi 2 1 Saddam calls again for Holy War. A child and one other person are then killed by a car bomb aimed at a pro-American Sunni leader.
11/19/03 Afghanistan Khost 14 23 Sustained Taliban rocket attack on an airport kills fourteen Afghans and injures at least twenty-three.
11/19/03 France Paris 2 0 Two Jews are brutally murdered by Muslims in separate attacks in Paris. One has his throat slit and eyes gouged while a 53-year old mother is stabbed 27 times in the neck and chest.
11/19/03 Algeria Henchir Toumeghni 2 3 Armed Islamists open fire in a café, killing a policeman and injuring several patrons. Elsewhere (El Aouana) a rural watchman dies in an ambush.
11/19/03 Bangladesh Chittagong 11 0 Eleven members of a Hindu family, including seven women and a newborn baby are burned alive by a Muslim mob that surrounded their home in the early morning hours.
11/18/03 Israel Gush Etzion Tunnel 2 0 Palestinian (al-Aqsa) gunman approaches checkpoint with an AK-47 concealed in a prayer mat, which he then uses to shoot two Israeli soldiers to death at point-blank range. He then flees.
11/18/03 India Srinigar 1 5 At least one person is killed, and more than five others injured when Islamic terrorists attack a hotel with bombs and automatic weapons.
11/17/03 India Tatagaon 3 0 Three civilians are killed in separate incidents (Anantnag & Tatagaon) by militant Muslims, including a young girl who was tortured and then killed.
11/16/03 Afghanistan Ghazni 1 0 Taliban terrorists shoot a female French aid worker to death in a motorbike attack.
11/16/03 India Gole Chakri 3 4 Terrorists lob a grenade into a military jeep on a crowded street. One SF personnel is killed and four other people, including two civilians, sustain injuries. Another ambush in Briyali leaves two SF dead.
11/15/03 Turkey Istanbul 23 257 Islamics attack two synagogues with car bombs, killing at least twenty-three and injuring over two-hundred and fifty. The victims included children and at least one pregnant woman.
11/15/03 Iraq Mosul 12 9 An RPG attack by militant Muslims results in two U.S. helicopters crashing, killing seventeen and injuring five.
11/15/03 India Hazratbal 2 6 Six worshippers are injured by bomb blast at one of India's holiest shrines. Elsewhere, in northern Kashmir, a man and his teen-age daughter are killed by militant Muslims.
11/14/03 India Kashmir 3 0 Three civilians, including a woman, are killed by Muslim terrorists in separate incidents (Gotapora, Srinigar, Pattan).
11/14/03 Ingushetia Troitskaya 5 10 Terrorists detonate bomb as Russian soldiers are conducting a house search. Five are killed and ten injured, three critically.
11/13/03 Iraq Balad 1 1 Sunni terrorists shoot a civilian contractor to death, and injure another in an attack on their vehicle.
11/12/03 Afghanistan Kunar 4 3 Taliban car bombing kills four and injures at least three Afghans.
11/12/03 Iraq Nasiriya 31 80 Over thirty people are killed, and about eighty injured when Fedayeen suicide bombers crash their cars through the gates of an Italian compound and detonate the explosives.
11/11/03 India Quil Muqam 2 0 Two civilians, including a woman, were killed by Islamic terrorists, who used them as human shields in a gun battle.
11/11/03 Iraq Basra 6 9 Six Iraqi civilians are killed, and nine injured in a car bomb blast in the Shiite city of Basra. School children were among the injured.
11/11/03 Iraq Baghdad 1 2 One U.S. soldier is killed, and two others injured by a roadside terrorist bomb.
11/10/03 Philippines Basilan 1 3 Abu Sayyaf rebels ambush a routine patrol, killing one and injuring three.
11/10/03 India Badgam 2 0 Militant Muslims kill two civilians in their homes. One was a photographer, the other a farmer.
11/9/03 India Awantipora Chowk 5 0 Political activist gunned down by Islamic rebels - is the fifth political activist assassinated within the past week.
11/8/03 Iraq Fallujah 2 1 Remote controlled bomb against a vehicle kills two U.S. soldiers and injures one.
11/8/03 Saudi Arabia Riyadh 17 122 Seventeen people, including five children are killed and one-hundred and twenty-two injured by al-Qaeda suicide bombing in a residential neighborhood.
11/8/03 Algeria Bouira 0 4 Four people are injured by Islamic extremists in two separate attacks using small-arms fire and a landmine.
11/8/03 Sudan Darfur 42 0 At least forty-two people are killed, and an unknown number wounded when Jihad militias attack 32 villages, burning houses and setting fire to crops.
11/7/03 Iraq Baghdad 6 0 Six U.S. soldiers and judicial workers are killed when their helicopter is shot down during transport.
11/5/03 Iraq Mosul 3 9 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.
11/5/03 India Tangmarg 3 0 Militant Muslims invade three homes and kill three civilians, including a mother.
11/5/03 Iraq Mahmudiya 1 2 Fedayeen grenade and small-arms attack kills one U.S. soldier and leaves two others injured.
11/4/03 Iraq Tikrit & Baghdad 2 2 Two U.S. soldiers killed and two wounded in separate terrorist bombing attacks.
11/4/03 India Hari Budda 3 2 Militant Muslims bomb a security patrol, then use small arms fire to kill at three and injure two others.
11/4/03 Iraq Mosul 2 0 Christian judge is assassinated in shooting attack. This occurs a day after another judge is kidnapped and murdered in Najaf
11/3/03 Saudi Arabia Mecca 2 1 At least two killed and one wounded in militant Islamic shooting attack in Mecca.
11/3/03 Iraq Karbala 2 4 Car bomb kills two Iraqis and injures four near a Shiite shrine.
11/2/03 Iraq Fallujah 16 20 Sixteen U.S. soldiers are killed and twenty injured when shoulder-launched missile downs their helicopter in the Sunni triangle.
11/2/03 Israel Nablus 1 5 Islamic Jihad bombing of a jeep, kills 1 Israeli soldier and leaves five others injured.
11/2/03 Iraq Falujah 2 0 Two civilian contractors are killed by bomb in their vehicle. Muslim mob celebrates.
11/1/03 Iraq Mosul 2 2 Roadside attack leaves two U.S. soldiers dead and two injured.
11/1/03 Bangladesh Jessore 1 3 The leader of a Ahmadiyya religious group is killed by radical Muslims in an attack that also injures several others.
10/29/03 Algeria Tipaza 3 0 Islamic extremists kill three civilians after stopping them on a road during Ramadan.
10/29/03 Iraq Balad 2 1 Two U.S. soldiers are killed, and one injured, by roadside bombing attack on their tank in the Sunni triangle.
10/29/03 Iraq Mosul 3 0 Three Iraqi civilians killed, and at least two others injured in RPG terrorist attack on police station.
10/28/03 Algeria Adekar 2 0 Two Algerian soldiers are killed by a landmine planted by the country's Islamic fundamentalists during Ramadan.
10/28/03 India Khilani 3 7 Three members of a security patrol are killed, and seven others injured in bombing and small arms ambush by militant Muslims.
10/28/03 India Srinigar 3 32 Islamic rebels lob a grenade into a telegraph office, killing at least three civilians and injuring more than thirty.
10/28/03 Iraq Fallujah 3 6 Three people, including school children, are killed and an six injured by a Fedayeen car bombing.
10/28/03 India Akhnoor 2 8 Last surviving Muslim terrorist involved in the bridge bombing at Akhnoor opens indiscriminate fire on a family, killing two children and injuring eight.
10/28/03 Philippines Cotabato City 0 5 Five people are injured when suspected Jemaah Islamiah members bomb a Catholic church.
10/28/03 Iraq Mosul 1 0 Editor of a pro-democracy newspaper gunned down by Islamists.
10/27/03 Iraq Baghdad 16 94 Fedayeen bombing attacks on the first day of Ramadan on three Iraqi police stations kills at least sixteen and leaves nearly one hundred injured.
10/27/03 Iraq Baghdad 11 20 At least eleven people are killed, and more that twenty injured, when a Fedayeen bomber targets the International Red Cross, a humanitarian organization helping Iraqis meet basic needs.
10/27/03 Indonesia Sulawesi 1 0 Christian farmer killed by Jemmah Islamiah terrorists while working his field.
10/27/03 Philippines Tawi Tawi 5 0 Abu Sayyaf rebels abduct six foreign tourists from a Malaysian resort then use them as human shields in a gun battle. Five are killed.
10/27/03 India Gaghwal 4 1 First day of Ramadan in Kashmir sees Islamic terrorists blow up a railroad bridge, narrowly missing a civilian passenger train. Subsequent small arms leaves two civilians and two soldiers dead.
10/26/03 Thailand Narathiwat 3 0 Muslim separatists kill a policeman and two defense volunteers, two days before a larger attack was planned.
10/26/03 Iraq Baghdad 1 0 Baghdad's deputy mayor assassinated in a drive-by shooting.
10/26/03 Iraq Baghdad 1 15 Jihad rocket attack on a hotel injures 15 people and leaves a U.S. soldier on guard duty dead.
10/26/03 India Bijbehara 0 14 At least fourteen people are injured when Islamic militants hurl a grenade at a security patrol along a busy road.
10/26/03 India Kishtwar 1 9 Muslim militant hurls grenade into a bus stop, killing one civilian and injuring nine others.
10/25/03 Afghanistan Shkin 2 0 Two American contractors are killed in a Taliban ambush.
10/25/03 Iraq Habbaniya 3 2 Three civilians are killed and two others injured by Sunni bombing and small arms attack on their vehicle in the Sunni triangle..
10/24/03 Iraq Samarra 3 2 Two U.S. soldiers are killed, and two others wounded by terrorist mortar attack in the Sunni triangle. In Mosul a soldier is killed while trying to protect food aid from being looted.
10/24/03 Israel Netzarim 3 2 Two Hamas (Islamic Resistance) terrorists infiltrate a Jewish settlement and then enter a barracks to go room from room shooting female soldiers as they slept.
10/24/03 Iraq Mosul 2 4 Sunni grenade attack kills two children and injures four others.
10/24/03 Iraq Amarah 1 0 Police chief is gunned down by Muslim terrorists as he leaves a mosque.
10/22/03 Israel Hebron 0 2 Two settlers are injured in a gun battle with Palestinian infiltrators.
10/21/03 Somalia Sheikh 2 0 A British couple who dedicated their lives to teaching in Africa are murdered by Islamic terrorists while sitting in their home.
10/20/03 India Srinigar 1 50 One person is killed and more than fifty injured when a Muslim throws a grenade into a crowded bus terminal.
10/20/03 Iraq Fallujah 3 5 Terrorist attack on a U.S. patrol leaves one soldier dead and five injured. Two Iraqi civilians are also killed.
10/19/03 Israel Ein Yabrud 3 1 Fatah gunmen ambush an Israeli unit guarding a settlement. Three are killed and one is injured.
10/19/03 Afghanistan Asadabad 4 5 A civilian pick-up truck is bombed by Taliban insurgents, killing the driver, his brother, and two children.
10/18/03 Iraq Kirkuk 2 1 Sunni RPG attack on a patrol leaves two U.S. soldiers dead and one injured.
10/18/03 Afghanistan Helmand 2 2 Two government troops are killed, and two wounded by a Taliban roadside bombing attack.
10/17/03 India Srinigar 3 11 Islamic militants attack the residence of a district prime minister, killing a civilian and two security personnel and injuring two civilians. Nine policemen are injured in the ensuing gun battle.
10/17/03 Iraq Baghdad 1 2 One American soldier is killed, and two others injured by IED attack in the Sunni triangle.
10/17/03 Chechnya Grozny 1 1 A government official is killed after Muslim rebels place a bomb in his car.
10/16/03 Chechnya Achkoy-Martan 0 4 Four people are injured, one seriously, by terrorist bombing of a café.
10/16/03 Iraq Karbala 5 7 Five policemen (including three Americans) were killed and seven wounded by terrorists in an RPG attack and gun battle.
10/15/03 Israel Gaza 3 1 Three American security guards are killed by a terrorist bombing on their car in Gaza.
10/15/03 Algeria Barber 1 2 One municipal guard is killed, and two others injured by terrorist bomb set by fundamentalists.
10/14/03 Iraq Baghdad 1 3 Fedayeen car bomber kills a bystander and injures at least three others outside the Turkish embassy.
10/13/03 India Chalas 2 2 Muslim separatists fire a rocket into a family home, killing a Hindu woman and her 4-year old child. Two other family members were injured.
10/13/03 Iraq Beiji 1 1 One American is killed, and another injured, by landmine while on patrol at oil refinery.
10/13/03 Chechnya Shatoi 9 0 Militant Muslim attacks on outposts and a convoy leave nine Russians dead and an unknown number injured.
10/13/03 Iraq Tikrit 1 2 RPG attack on a patrol kills one U.S. soldier and injures two others.
10/12/03 Afghanistan Zabul 8 2 80 Taliban fighters on motorbikes attack two government buildings, killing eight people and injuring at least two.
10/12/03 Iraq Fallujah 2 0 Two Iraqi Christians killed by Jihadists (2003).
10/12/03 Iraq Baghdad 6 32 Six people are killed by Fedayeen car-bombing of a hotel. At least thirty-two others are injured.
10/11/03 Indonesia Sulawesi 8 24 Muslim gunmen attack Christian villagers, killing eight, injuring dozens more and burning at least one church.
10/10/03 Iraq Baiji 2 4 Roadside bombing against a bus kills two oil company employees and seriously injures four more.
10/9/03 Indonesia Poso 2 0 Armed Muslims kill at least two Christian villagers and burn homes.
10/9/03 Iraq Baghdad 2 4 Two U.S. soldiers are killed, and four more injured, by a terrorist ambush on their vehicle.
10/9/03 Israel Tulkarm 1 2 One dead, two injured, by a 17-year old suicide bomber sent from the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade.
10/9/03 Iraq Baghdad 1 0 Spanish diplomat assassinated by Muslim terrorists.
10/9/03 Algeria Batna 1 0 Algerian policeman has his throat slit by Islamic extremists at a roadblock.
10/9/03 Iraq Baghdad 8 32 Eight Iraqis are killed when a two Fedayeen drive their car, packed with explosives, into a police station. More than thirty are injured.
10/8/03 Iraq Kirkuk 1 1 One Iraqi policeman is killed, and another badly wounded, by a terrorist RPG attack on their checkpoint.
10/7/03 Iraq Kirkuk 1 1 One Iraqi employee is killed, and another injured, by al-Qaeda mortar attack on a government building.
10/7/03 Iraq Baghdad 4 3 In separate roadside bombing attacks, three U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter are killed while riding in convoys and another three injured.
10/7/03 Philippines Manila 3 3 Jailed Abu Sayyaf terrorist kills three policemen who were attempting to negotiate the release of hostages.
10/7/03 Lebanon Israeli Border 1 0 A Lebanese boy is killed when Hezbollah missiles, intended for Israel, fall short.
10/7/03 India Ganeshphora 3 2 Explosive device planted by militant Muslims detonates on a bridge, killing two BSF and injuring three.
10/6/03 Israel Metullah 1 1 Hezbollah snipers fire from southern Lebanon and kill an Israeli soldier.
10/5/03 Afghanistan Lashgargah 2 3 Taliban attack on an Afghan military post kills two and injures three.
10/5/03 Somalia Boorama 1 0 60-year old Italian medical missionary, a woman honored by the U.N. for her work with refugees, is shot twice in the head while leaving a hospital.
10/5/03 Algeria Beni Bouateb 1 0 Armed Islamic extremists kill a communal guard for a small village.
10/5/03 Pakistan Islamabad 5 0 Five people riding in a government vehicle, including a Sunni leader, are assassinated by gunmen.
10/4/03 India Rowshera 0 6 Six Hindus are injured when Muslim terrorists open fire on them as they were returning from temple.
10/4/03 Iraq Baghdad 1 1 One U.S. soldier killed and another injured by RPG terrorist attack in the Sunni triangle.
10/4/03 Israel Haifa 19 55 Nineteen people are killed and more than fifty wounded by a Islamic Jihad bomber in a restaurant. Three children were among the dead.
10/4/03 India Suidhar 2 1 Militant Muslims open fire on a group of civilians, killing two and injuring one.
10/3/03 Pakistan Quetta 1 2 Rocket attack by fundamentalists on a train kills the engine driver and injures two other employees.
10/3/03 Philippines Midsayap 4 20 At least four people are killed and over twenty injured when a Muslim separatist hurls a grenade into a Mosque hosting government officials.
10/3/03 Pakistan Karachi 6 8 Motorcycle shooting attack by Sunnis on a bus carrying Shiites on their way to worship leaves at least six dead and eight injured.
10/3/03 India Pulwama 3 0 Militant Muslims kill three civilians in separate incidents (Budhan, Kreeri Bazaar, Wudar Bala)
10/3/03 Afghanistan Kabul 2 3 Two Canadian peacekeepers are killed, and three injured, by Taliban landmines targeting the patrol.
10/3/03 Iraq Baghdad 0 5 Five Iraqis, including four teenagers, are injured by Sunni grenade attack.
10/3/03 Iraq Tikrit 2 0 Two Iraqis are killed by a bomb placed in a traffic circle.
10/2/03 Chechnya Shali 2 0 Muslim extremists open fire on a vehicle carrying a local mayor and his son. Both are killed in the attack.
10/1/03 Iraq Tikrit 1 2 A female driver is killed and two other U.S. soldiers are injured by a roadside bomb in the Sunni triangle.
10/1/03 India Thuru 1 1 Hizb-ul-Mujahideen terrorists shoot and kill an unarmed youth, whose brother was also injured in the attack.
10/1/03 Iraq Baghdad 1 1 Sunni terrorist kills a U.S. soldier on patrol in a Baghdad neighborhood. One other injured.
9/30/03 Dagestan Unknown 5 0 Jihad attack on police vehicle leaves five dead.
9/30/03 India Surankote 1 4 Lashker-e-Toiba Fedayeen attack on a police station kills one and injures four.
9/30/03 India Srinigar 0 19 Nineteen people are injured when militant Muslims throw a grenade into a bus stop.
9/30/03 Algeria Montgorno 8 3 Islamic fundamentalists ambush Algerian military convoy. Eight soldiers are killed and three injured.
9/29/03 Iraq Habbaniya 1 1 Terrorist bombing and small arms attack leaves one U.S. soldier dead and another injured.
9/28/03 Kosovo Bresje 2 39 Albanian Muslims shoot grenades into a Serbian marketplace, killing two and injuring thirty-nine.
9/27/03 Afghanistan Sangin 7 0 Taliban attack kills seven Afghan bodyguards of local governor.
9/27/03 Pakistan Karachi 0 10 Ten people are injured when a bomb goes off on a bus.
9/26/03 Iraq Baqouba 9 15 Mortar attack on a crowded marketplace kills nine and injures at least fifteen.
9/26/03 Israel Negahot 2 2 Palestinian gunman infiltrates a settlement, randomly picks a house, and then proceeds to shoot the residents, including an infant girl.
9/26/03 Bangladesh Fatullah 1 10 One businessman is killed and ten others people are injured in an attack by militant fundamentalists (Hizbut Touheed).
9/25/03 Iraq Kirkuk 1 2 RPG attack on a military vehicle in the Sunni triangle kills one U.S. soldier and leaves two other injured.
9/25/03 Iraq Baghdad 1 2 Female member of the Iraqi governing council dies five days after terrorists ambush her vehicle. Her two bodyguards were severely injured.
9/25/03 Iraq Baghdad 1 2 One Somali is killed, and two other civilians injured, by a bomb placed at a hotel housing Western journalists.
9/24/03 Iraq Baghdad 1 18 Bus bombing kills one civilian and injures eighteen.
9/24/03 Afghanistan Helmand 2 1 Taliban attack and kill two local humanitarian aid workers.
9/24/03 Iraq Mosul 2 8 Grenade attack on a cinema kills two patrons and injures eight.
9/23/03 India Chak Banola 2 0 Militant Muslims kill a man and his son in their home.
9/22/03 Iraq Baghdad 1 16 Suicide bomber kills one other person and injures sixteen in an explosion outside UN headquarters.
9/22/03 Israel Jerusalem 2 16 A female suicide bomber motions over two Israeli policemen and then kills them. Sixteen passersby are also injured.
9/21/03 Iraq Baghdad 2 13 Terrorist mortar bombing of a prison kills two U.S. military policemen and injured thirteen others.
9/21/03 India Thannamandi 2 0 Muslim terrorists invade a home, dragging out the husband and wife inside, then hanging them.
9/21/03 India Rajouri 4 27 Bomb planted by Muslim terrorists in a video camera explodes in a marketplace, killing four and injuring twenty-seven.
9/19/03 Algeria Boumerdes 1 0 Man who repented his Islamic beliefs killed by armed Islamists.
9/18/03 Afghanistan Ghazni 4 0 Taliban car bomb kills four in front of the home of a local police commander.
9/18/03 Iraq Tikrit 3 2 Three U.S. soldiers are killed in a Sunni terrorist ambush and two others are injured.
9/17/03 Algeria Oued Djemaa 9 0 Nine Algerian soldiers are killed in an ambush by Islamic fundamentalists.
9/17/03 India Chak Nutnusa 2 1 Terrorists invade a home and open fire on a family. A man and his son are killed, his daughter is injured.
9/17/03 India Laam 2 1 Hizb-ul-Mujahideen terrorists attack a security patrol with an IED. The device kills two and injures one other.
9/16/03 India Khanyar 1 7 One civilian is killed in a blast engineered by a Muslim terrorist group. Seven other people are injured.
9/15/03 Campo Uno Philippines 2 0 Muslim rebels ambush a group of civilians, killing a teacher and his student.
9/15/03 Iraq Mosul 1 13 Militants hurl grenade at Albanian soldiers, one is killed and thirteen Iraqi bystanders are injured.
9/15/03 Russia Magas 3 25 Fidayeen truck bombing kills at least three people and injures more than twenty-five others.
9/15/03 Iraq Khaldiyah 1 2 Iraqi police chief killed in a Sunni ambush. Two others badly injured.
9/14/03 Iraq Fallujah 1 3 Sunni roadside bomb attack kills one U.S. soldier and injures three others.
9/14/03 India Sam Samad 2 0 Two government teachers are killed by militant Muslims, one of whom was abducted and beheaded.
9/13/03 India Bijbehara 2 14 Two civilians are killed, and another fourteen injured, by a IED explosion set by militant Muslims.
9/13/03 India Neelidori 4 6 Four security force personnel are killed, and five more wounded, in a Fidayeen attack.
9/13/03 India Hajan 3 8 Three people, including a former member of parliament, are killed and eight wounded in a terrorist attack.
9/11/03 India Srinagar 2 14 al-Umar Mujahideen hurl a grenade into a busy market, killing a woman and injuring at least fourteen other people. One of the injured later dies in hospital.
9/9/03 India Doda 1 7 One young girl is killed and seven other people injured in a grenade attack by militant Muslims on a market.
9/9/03 Israel Tel Aviv 8 15 Eight people are killed and fifteen injured when a Hamas (Islamic Resistance) bomber dressed as an Israeli soldier detonates a suicide bomb at a bus stop.
9/9/03 Iraq Baghdad 1 1 Roadside bomb kills one U.S. soldier and injures one other.
9/9/03 Israel Jerusalem 7 50 Hamas (Islamic Resistance) bomber detonates explosives outside a café. Seven patron are killed and at least fifty injured.
9/9/03 Iraq Arbil 3 41 Three Iraqis, including a 12-year old boy, are killed and more than forty others injured by a suicide bomber targeting an American intelligence office.
9/9/03 India Sopat 1 1 Muslim terrorists attempt to assassinate a political figure. One bodyguard is killed and another injured.
9/8/03 Afghanistan Shah Wali Kot 5 5 Taliban attack on a pick-up truck kills five Afghan soldiers and leaves another five injured.
9/8/03 Afghanistan Ghazni 4 1 Taliban insurgents stop a Danish relief vehicle carrying aid workers for a refugee project. They tie up five of them and then execute four with AK-47s.
9/6/03 India Srinigar 7 37 Muslim car-bombing in a fruit market kills at least seven and injures over thirty-seven.
9/5/03 Iraq al-Shab City 0 3 Three Sunnis are injured by Shia shooting attack on a mosque.
9/5/03 Afghanistan Nangrahar 2 19 Two people are killed and another nineteen injured when terrorists throw grenades at a wedding party.
9/5/03 Iraq Mosul 1 1 A dedicated humanitarian and father of three is killed in a Sunni terrorist ambush while working for a charity organization that was working to clear mines in civilian areas.
9/5/03 Algeria Mizrana Forest 2 3 Islamic fundamentalists kill two Algerian soldiers and injure three others in a bombing.
9/4/03 Pakistan Karachi 5 0 Five people attending a funeral for two slain political activists are shot to death in a terrorist attack.
9/4/03 India Poonch 1 2 An Indian woman is killed, and her two children injured, in a failed Fedayeen suicide attack on a military building.
9/4/03 Israel Jenin 1 4 Palestinian gunmen kill an Israeli soldier and injure four more.
9/3/03 India Chamalwas 5 0 Militant Muslims break up a wedding party and kill five members of the same family including a child.
9/3/03 Iraq Ramadi 1 2 Fedayeen suicide bombing kills an Iraqi interpreter and injures two U.S. soldiers.
9/3/03 Russia Kislovodsk 5 29 Mujahideen terrorist bombing of a commuter train leaves five civilians dead and about thirty injured.
9/2/03 India Awantipura 1 20 Terrorist bombing of a bus kills the driver and injures twenty passengers, including three women.
9/2/03 Iraq Baghdad 1 10 One Iraqi policeman was killed, and at least ten bystanders were injured when a car bomb exploded outside a police station.
9/2/03 India Alla Kala 3 0 Hizb-ul-Mujahideen terrorists kill five members of the same family in a home invasion, including a mother and her 14-year old son.
9/2/03 India Udhampur 4 0 Four civilians, including a father and his two sons, are shot to death by militant Muslim terrorists.
9/2/03 Pakistan Karachi 2 0 Two political activists murdered in a shooting attack by Islamic radicals.
9/1/03 Iraq Baghdad 2 1 Sunni roadside bomb kills two U.S. military policemen and injures one other.
9/1/03 India Jawahar Tunnel 1 3 Bomb disposal specialist is killed, and three other people wounded, while attempting to defuse terrorist bomb.
8/31/03 Kosovo Gnjilane 1 5 Terrorist grenade attack kills one Serbian, leaves five others injured.
8/31/03 Sudan Habila 30 0 The Muslim Republic drops bombs on an African village earlier in the month, killing at least thirty civilians. (2003)
8/29/03 Iraq Najaf 85 142 At least eighty-five people are killed in a car bombing by radical Islamists for the purpose of assassinating a moderate Shi'ite cleric. At least one-hundred forty others are injured.
8/29/03 Israel Ramallah 1 1 Israeli couple is attacked by Palestinian gunmen while driving. The husband is killed and his 24-year old pregnant wife badly injured.
8/29/03 Iraq Baqouba 1 4 One U.S. soldier is killed, and four others wounded, by Sunni terrorists in grenade attack.
8/28/03 India Bijbehara 1 2 Militant Muslim lobs a grenade at a police vehicle, it misses, killing a bystander instead and injuring two others.
8/28/03 India Srinigar 4 0 Three civilians were killed, along with a security officer, and an unknown number injured when Islamic terrorists attack a Hotel with grenades and firearms.
8/28/03 Afghanistan Spin Boldak 3 0 Three Afghan soldiers killed by a Taliban attack on a remote checkpoint.
8/27/03 Iraq Baghdad 1 2 Roadside terrorist bomb kills one U.S. soldier. Two others are injured.
8/27/03 Iraq Fallujah 1 3 Sunni attack on convoy leaves one U.S. soldier dead and three others injured.
8/27/03 Dagestan Makhachkala 1 1 Islamic extremists place bomb on the roof of a car carrying a Russian minister. The minister is killed and his driver badly injured.
8/26/03 Iraq Hamariyah 1 2 Sunni IED explodes, killing one U.S. soldier and injuring two more.
8/26/03 Chechnya Grozny 3 0 Three policemen were killed in a terrorist RPG attack.
8/25/03 India Mumbai 51 156 Two terrorist bombs in civilian areas kill at least fifty-one people and injure more than one-hundred and fifty. Muslim student group behind the attack.
8/25/03 Russia Krasnodar 3 17 Three people were killed in a series of bombings at a café and bus stop by Muslim terrorists.
8/24/03 Iraq Najaf 3 10 Terrorists bomb the house of a Shi'ite leader, targeted for his moderate views. The cleric survived, but three others are killed and ten injured.
8/23/03 Iraq Basra 3 1 Fedayeen gunmen ambush a British vehicle with a flatbed truck, kill three and wound one.
8/23/03 Afghanistan Dai Chupan 5 0 Taliban attack on a truck carrying government soldiers leaves at least five dead.
8/22/03 Pakistan Hyderabad 0 5 Five people injured by a bomb placed under a restaurant.
8/22/03 Philippines Barangay Matarling 1 4 Abu Sayyaf gunmen attack the house of a 37-year old Christian woman. They kill her and injure four members of her family.
8/21/03 Chechnya Grozny 9 2 Muslim car bomb kills nine Russian soldiers and injures two more.
8/21/03 Afghanistan Shkin 1 1 A U.S. soldier is killed, and one other wounded, by a Taliban terrorist bomb.
8/20/03 Iraq Tikrit 1 2 An American interpreter is killed by a Sunni sniper and RPG attack, two others are injured.
8/20/03 Iraq Diwaniya 1 1 One U.S. soldier is killed, and another wounded, by terrorist ambush.
8/19/03 Israel Jerusalem 20 100 Hamas (Islamic Resistance) take credit for blowing up a civilian bus killing at least twenty, including five children and a mother of thirteen (along with her five-month old baby), and injuring more than one hundred, including about forty children.
8/19/03 Iraq Baghdad 23 100 At least twenty-three people are killed, and more than one-hundred injured, by Fedayeen suicide bombing attack on a hotel.
8/18/03 Afghanistan Kharwar 10 0 Ten Afghan policeman, returning from a funeral, were ambushed and killed by Taliban fundamentalists.
8/18/03 India Kashmir 3 0 In separate incidents, Muslim terrorists kill three civilians, including the elderly father of a police constable. (Damhal Khushipora, Morha Handa, Bumlakhi).
8/17/03 Afghanistan Barmal (Patika) 7 0 A large-scale attack on a police station in southeastern Afghanistan by Taliban insurgents leaves seven Afghans dead.
8/16/03 Pakistan Karachi 2 0 Two Shia, both career professionals, are gunned down b
There are another 5 posting before this is finished,I will post them if anbody request me to
Robert,Hugh,and every-body at JW,I hope you all understand why I cannot have any respect for muslim,and why I believe that the POLITICS of CONFRONTATION seems to be the only answer
Actually, Shiva, I would be interested to have that list - btw, does it come from another source, or do you work on updating it? great work anyway!
if it's more convenient to you, you can just send it at thestal@hotmail.com (address created just for the occasion, don't worry about it!)
Regards,
Pistache
Shiva: let me tell you something, mate. That list took 11 seconds of holding down the "PageDown" button.
I think that does suggest something about the response of islamism to the modern world.
Geoff
shiva:
Could you please post the link to that list?
My pleasure
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Default.htm
thanks for not asking me to copy/paste the rest
Hugh mentions Hitler's friend, Haj Amin El Husseini, widely known as an active collaborator, raising a whole SS division of Bosnian Muslim troops. What is less widely known is that General De Gaulle had said collaborator in his custody at the end of the war and refused to send him to Nuremberg for trial. Instead, he was sentenced to death in absentia.
ia786 chose not to take up my question about the total absence of muslims in Christian North Africa prior to the muslim invasions and their justification of a "just war" in defence of Islam and muslims. Evading the issue, I would guess, constitutes an agreement with me. Accepted.
In other words, the muslim invasions were not in pursuit of faith or the spreading of faith but a straight, vulgar endorsement of aggression for territory, booty and slaves. Imperialism writ large. We should note this when muslims try to fob us off with weak exuses for their inexcusable behaviour over the past 1400 years.
'I cannot have any respect for muslim'
Shiva that is up to you, what do you want from me. You have posted a list of attacks by Muslims, what do you want me to do about it. Do you want me to renounce and leave my religion?
At the end of the day, you have got to realise we Muslims are humans just like you. I am astonished by your intolerance and I have to say I am glad that I have not met anyone like you in real life. Your prejudice is truly shocking.
You have never met me, you don't know me and because of my religion I and a billion other people worldwide are un-worthy of respect.
I am just a normal guy, I have been attacked for things some Muslims have been doing for the last 1400 years.
This is not fair on me.
Ia,
Why do you keep refusing to discuss the issues? You seem to harp on people's personal opinions without ever wanting to mention what these people's opinions are derived from. It seems exceedingly unliked to me that shiva's anger emerged in isolation. Can you not address the evils done in the name of islam worldwide? - just admit to some of the horrors perpetrated in the name of a deity for whom utterly no evidence exists and let it be. That's all that's necessary. I regret to tell you that the Quran is filled with all sorts of antisemitism, violence, disrespect towards women and calls for war. This is the distinguishing factor. How could one respect such writings?
'Normal' is always 'normal' until someone feels islam is 'under attack' (a very vague state, apparently).
Geoff
I don’t know Shiva, I’m sure if we were to meet and religion was not to be discussed there would no reason why we wouldn’t be able to get on. I only asked for an apology after I she called me a Nazi. I think this remark was quite pathetic.
You say it will be hard for you to respect our Holy book, okay. Now because I believe in a different religion to you, does this make me sub-human. Some fanatics use my holy book, take verses out of context to fulfil their own needs (Both Muslim and Non-Muslim) I label people who do that as wrong and ones that need guidance from God. That is my opinion, you need to respect that just as I respect your opinion.
Some claim that they can have no respect for Islam or the Quran. So be it. It is your life you live it as you wish.
Now I don’t believe in the Jewish faith or their Talmud, I will not say I have no respect for it as I respect all religions in the World. Now there are verses in the Talmud that are controversial to say the least. I could assume the Jews in Israel are using them to justify their violence against the Palestinians. Would this be fair, No. This is exactly what you are doing with the Muslims.
‘a deity for whom utterly no evidence exists’
The Jews have a God, now Christians believe in a Trinity. Jews didn’t accept Jesus as a Prophet and tried to have him killed. So they reject the Trinity which technically speaking would mean they reject the Christian God. However people here state that Jews and Christians believe in the same God, according to what I have just said this is practically impossible. On top of this you claim Muslims worship a completely different God. So according to the process of your argument we are left with the theory that there are 3 different Gods! One for the Jews, one for the Christians and one for the Muslims!
There is no way that there can be 3 different Gods. Agreed?
Now from your position you would have to say that only one can be right. Correct? Now from the other perspective, it could be said that we all worship the same God, The Merciful, The forgiver of Sins.
If I stand up now and say God bless America, in English as Christians do.
As I am Muslim which God will I be calling on if I say God Bless America in English?, the Jewish one, The Christian one or the Muslim one.
Do you see what I am trying to explain. If a Christian Arab stood up and said God bless America in Arabic, God would be translated as Allah. Which God would this Christian be calling upon. The Christian God as he is Christian or the Muslim one as he said God in Arabic??
Do you see the absurdity in declaring that Muslims worship a different God. If you still don’t believe in Muslims worshipping the same God then that must mean in order for your belief in this to be legitimate you would have to also claim that Jews worship a different God.
You see there can only be one God, although you believe in the trinity, I believe that everyone on earth that believes in one creator calls on the same God. The creator of Mankind.
I will admit as I have admitted before that a lot of crimes are committed by people in the name of Islam, however why does it come to this. Have you ever met a Muslim from Chechnya, Kashmir or Palestine. Do you know the things that these people go through. In each of these cases Muslims are the weaker side and are being attacked yet we are called the aggressors, I will admit as I admitted before some Muslims within these regions do participate in activates (suicide bombings, criminal activity) prohibited by the Quran and the teachings of Islam. Now these are not allowed in Islam however extremists from both sides (Muslim and Anti-Muslim) use verses from the Quran out of context to justify what happens. Who pays the price, we do, the moderate Muslims. How many Wahabis are there in the World, not much compared to the Sunnis/Sufis however Anti-Muslim extremists wish for all Muslims to be labelled as Wahabis in order to further their own cause.
In Kashmir, the majority of the people there are Muslim, the majority want independence, they want to be separated from India. There have been many UN resolutions passed asking for a referendum in the region, but not one permanent member of the security council could give a damn.
In Chechnya, The Russians have absolutely slaughtered that country, have you seen the state of it, those people there have no voice what so ever, where is the justice in the World. Aslan Maskadov, a Moderate Sunni/Sufi Muslim who tried to keep Wahabis/Salafis in check within the region while seeking independence for his people, well he was abandoned.
In India recently, in Gujarat, 2000 people mainly Muslims were slaughtered, women were raped and burnt alive. Why, because a train carrying Hindu pilgrims was burnt, however it was later established that the fire started from within the train. However the Hindu fanatics needed no excuse, with the full help of the state. (They were given addresses of where Muslims lived)
Muslims were burnt alive, young girls were raped in front of their families and had their breasts cut off. Hearing things like this might make some here smile with happiness, but let me tell you this God will never forget these crimes against Muslims and those who support them.
If the victims were anything other than Muslims would you then feel a small bit of sympathy.
Let me tell you something, you can never understand what it is like to be a Muslim.
Everything is fine before 9/11 the next day I am still the same person, I haven‘t changed. However now people I know look at me differently and are suspicious.
You will never know how this feels. You will never know how painful it is. This was mainly to do with Islamaphobic reports in the media, however now Praise be to God there is more understanding of Islam in the World .
When in Bosnia, the Serbs made plans for genocide against the Muslims. Paddy Ashdown former leader of the Liberal Democrats stood in Parliament and told everyone there that a genocide was waiting to happen and that something must be done. What did the powers that be do, nothing.
Thousands of Muslims were butchered. Rape camps were set up for the Muslim women.
We belong to God and to God is our return.
Look back at the last 50 years. You claim that Islam is such a threat. Just try to think about how many Muslims were killed by the Russians, Chinese, Indian, Israel and Serbs. The number is sadly very high. (You may be pleased with this)
The enemies of Muslims can plan, but God is the best of planners, God is our defender.
"Now because I believe in a different religion to you, does this make me sub-human."
Of course not! Who was debating your humanity? I think you're taking this argument too much to heart. You have to accept that some people are not going to like some tenets of your religion and that they probably have very good reasons for doing so. If you feel people are taking your religion in wrong ways to justify wrong acts, then wouldn't your time would be better spent dealing with those people? Yet, there never seems to be the reporting of these 'fanatics' by other muslims. It all seems to get a moral pass in the eyes of their peers.
I gladly respect other religions, so long as they at least teach peace. Christianity is notable in this regard, as is Bhuddism. But I could have no respect for, in extreme example, the Thugees, since they teach violence. My position on islam is still open, but my reservations slip away with every argument I have with practitioners who don't want the other side of the story told.
"I could assume the Jews in Israel are using them to justify their violence against the Palestinians."
Are the Israelis preaching this? Do they claim this right by religious means? No. You've already indicated that Jewish Rabbis feel there is at best a spiritual right for Jewish association with Israel, but which does not translate into a physical right for return. There is a break there, which I hope you recognize. By contrast, all evidence points to the sentiment among Muslims that anywhere islam has been can never be anything else. For example, do you reject the notion that Spain has the right not to be muslim, and that the Reconquista was a legitimate and fair response to muslim aggression from the 7th-14th century?
My comment: ‘a deity for whom utterly no evidence exists’
Your response: There is no way that there can be 3 different Gods. Agreed?
Nope. Not at all. The Jews are entitled to their version of God, as the Christians are entitled to theirs. I'm afraid that whatever islam feels about the nature of the Abrahamic deity, there is no reason to conclude that any of the three religions has the correct 'God'. For example, the islamic vision of Allah might be spiritually inspired, or might be the result of an epileptic seizure - Mohammed's symptoms seem highly reminiscent of the latter. Or might be false altogether. There's no way to know. Similarly, the old Jewish prophets might have been BS-ing, or Jesus might have. Thus, it's not so much that three separate gods are possible, but that one or more of the groups has the completely wrong idea, or is following something derived from their own imagination. I'm sure you can see what I mean.
"I will admit as I have admitted before that a lot of crimes are committed by people in the name of Islam, however why does it come to this."
Well, you cite Chechnya, Kashmir or Palestine. I cite Turkey, Anatolia, North Africa, and India. Or Pakistan, or the rest of the modern Middle East. Surely majority Muslim populations are not suffering from the attacks of the religious minorities there, or from