Terror attacks at high levels worldwide, but AFP won't say who is committing them

While pseudo-scholars spin tall tales about "anti-Muslim bias" in the media, the media actually actively covers up the Islamic character of jihad terror attacks. Note that in this story about the increase in terror attacks, the only terrorists who are actually identified are Maoists. All the other terror attacks are described in the passive voice, as if they were just acts of God. To their perpetrators, they were: they were acts of Allah. But the average American reading this, unless he is aware of the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat, will get the impression that the increase in terror attacks was all due to various kinds of disparate "non-state actors" and "militants," and have no idea that the overwhelming majority of the attacks were committed by people holding to the same ideology and belief-system, despite being scattered all over the world.

And that ignorance is just what AFP and other mainstream media outlets are trying to foster. "Terror attacks at high levels in Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan: study," from AFP, December 6 (thanks to AINA):

AFP_WASHINGTON: The number of terrorist attacks worldwide has sky-rocketed over the past decade, with a third of all incidents taking place in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a new study published Wednesday.

Violence carried out by a “non-state actor” rose from less than a thousand incidents in 2002 to 4,564 attacks in 2011, according to the Global Terrorism Index, produced by the Australia-based Institute for Economics and Peace.

The other countries most affected were Pakistan, India, Thailand, the Philippines and Russia, the study said.

Let's see. Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Thailand, the Philippines and Russia. What could they possibly have in common?

The number of victims claimed by the violence peaked in 2007 with 10,000 people killed, while 7,500 died in 2011.

"The violence" claimed victims. No one in particular actually committed "the violence." It just happened.

“The current global trend of terrorism can best be described as plateauing rather than decreasing” since 2002, the report said.

In 2011, Iraq remained the country with the highest number of deaths from terrorist attacks, with 1,798 killed in 1,228 incidents, half of which took place in Baghdad. US troops pulled out of Iraq at the end of 2011.

About 1,468 people were killed last year in attacks in Pakistan and 1,293 in Afghanistan, where the bulk of a Nato-led force is due to withdraw by the end of 2014.

1,468 people were killed by whom?

During the ten-year period assessed by the study, the most lethal assaults occurred in 2004.

In that year, a March 21 attack in Nepal by Maoist rebels left 518 dead and 216 wounded. In Madrid, 191 were killed and 1,800 injured in March 11 commuter train bombings. And in the Russian town of Beslan, more than 300 people were killed and 700 wounded, mostly children, after militants took hostages at a secondary school on September 1.

"Maoist rebels" killed 518 people in Nepal. But who killed 191 people in Madrid and over 300 in Beslan? AFP isn't telling.

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Well, I thought that 'Protect the image of Islam at all costs' was just an Obama thing...But it appears it's bigger than him...It's international...Dhimmi's are popping up all over the place...And, they seem to be interconnected, like Mahoundians are connected by ummah...
I'm not sure what they get out of it, dhimmitude won't save them from the wrath of Allah...

"The number of victims claimed by the violence"---

That sentence doesn't even make sense in english. Who is "the violence"?.

"In that year, a March 21 attack in Nepal by Maoist rebels"---

Will the maoistphobia ever end?.

Seriously Robert?

I get the distinct impression you didn’t take the time to look into what the Global Terrorism Index (GTI) represents, who produced the data, or their purpose for compiling it.

Rather than whining that the work of some other organization doesn’t trumpet your narrow focus, why don’t you loosen your own purse strings and use the data to create a study that isolates it into the narrow subset of Islamic terrorism. Publish that, and I might listen.

More and more I see Pamela Zeller’s tactics and influence rub off on you. It’s not attractive. When you hang around with people that dilute the truth they report with unsubstantiated speculation that assigns motives not in evidence, and who employ a constant stream of ad-hominem slurs, then you may find that intelligent people stop listening.

Tyrehl

Tyrehl must be your average American reading here.

Tyrehlbyk

Seriously Robert?

Seriously.

I get the distinct impression you didn’t take the time to look into what the Global Terrorism Index (GTI) represents, who produced the data, or their purpose for compiling it.

This post was not about the Global Terrorism Index. It was about AFP's bias in reporting about it.

Rather than whining that the work of some other organization doesn’t trumpet your narrow focus, why don’t you loosen your own purse strings and use the data to create a study that isolates it into the narrow subset of Islamic terrorism. Publish that, and I might listen.

"Terrorism" is a subjective thing. Jihadis say Israel is guilty of terrorism and that what they do is not terrorism. I disagree, but am ultimately not interested in arguing about what is terrorism and what isn't. This site is "Jihad Watch" and not "Terrorism Watch" for a reason. Jihad attacks are abundantly catalogued in the archives here, and an extensive list can be found at thereligionofpeace.com.

More and more I see Pamela Zeller’s tactics and influence rub off on you. It’s not attractive. When you hang around with people that dilute the truth they report with unsubstantiated speculation that assigns motives not in evidence, and who employ a constant stream of ad-hominem slurs, then you may find that intelligent people stop listening.

Do you know what an ad hominem attack is? There is not one in this post, even in the labeling of Bail a "pseudo-scholar." If I had said "Bail is a pseudo-scholar, therefore do not pay attention to his report," that would have been an ad hominem attack. That is the kind of thing Islamic supremacists write about me. But to say that Bail believes that the media has an anti-Muslim bias, in the teeth of mountains of evidence that it has a pro-Muslim bias, and that therefore Bail is a pseudo-scholar, is not an ad hominem attack, but a judgment based on the evidence.

Likewise the statement in this post that AFP wants to keep people ignorant about the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat is a judgment based on their ridiculous report above, along with twenty years of reading thousands of the same kind of report from all of them -- AP, Reuters, UPI, etc.

You may not like my conclusions, but you can't honestly say they're not reasonable conclusions based on evidence. Emphasis there is on "honestly."

Who is this "Pamela Zeller"? She sounds interesting!

Cordially
Robert Spencer

@RS,

i thought of asking why single out AFP
alone, stopped, when i saw your reply above.

'AP, Reuters, UPI, etc'
that 'etc'should mean all MSM organisations in all the 'demacracies'.

All MSM have taken the drug 'muslim appeasement'
to avoid being infected with 'islamophobia'.
God save them[to hell]

' Who is this "Pamela Zeller"? She sounds interesting!'

HA HA HA! LOL!


In that year, a March 21 attack in Nepal by Maoist rebels left 518 dead and 216 wounded. In Madrid, 191 were killed and 1,800 injured in March 11 commuter train bombings. And in the Russian town of Beslan, more than 300 people were killed and 700 wounded, mostly children, after militants took hostages at a secondary school on September 1.

Seriously Robert, you blame AFP for being biased? They're the only unbiased media I've seen in forever!

It's obvious that the Madrid bombings and Russian hostage takings were done by them Maoist rebels.... There's no way the followers of the religion of peace could have done such a thing!

It is just those darned Zionists who controls 99% of the world media who are corrupting the truth and blaming it on the Muslims again for all the terror attacks! Just like how they blamed the 9/11 attacks!

We all know that the Jews are evil people who hate all that is good including the Quran and those who love Muhammad. It says so in the Quran don't cha know?

And never will the Jews or the Christians approve of you until you follow their religion. Say, "Indeed, the guidance of Allah is the [only] guidance." If you were to follow their desires after what has come to you of knowledge, you would have against Al

And never will the Jews or the Christians approve of you until you follow their religion. Say, "Indeed, the guidance of Allah is the [only] guidance." If you were to follow their desires after what has come to you of knowledge, you would have against Allah no protector or helper.- The Cow 2:210

The evidence for all these terrorist attacks clearly and unmistakeably points the the internationl alliance of the Elders of Zion, the Walmart Checkout Girls and the dreaded Marxist Tomato Crowers Cooperative of Tristan de Cuna.

IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ISLAM AND THE MIGHTY MYTHICAL ALLAH. REMEMBER ISLAM IS A RELIGION OF PEACE. THE WORD ISLAM OF COURSE MEANS PEACE, SO THERE NOW YOU KNOW.

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