“For well over a millennium, Islam’s message of peace has inspired people…” UN Secretary-General António Guterres
“The five most dangerous terror groups in 2022,” The National, March 14, 2023 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Four of the terrorist groups that killed the most people last year were ISIS affiliates, ending the lives of 1,833 people in 643 attacks worldwide, a new report has shown.
Those numbers are a drop from 2021, when 2,194 people were killed in 865 attacks.
The Global Terrorism Index (GTI) from the Institute of Economics and Peace released its annual report on Monday, detailing trends in terrorism around the world, including a list of the deadliest groups.
Here’s what you need to know:
1. ISIS
ISIS continues to be the world’s deadliest terrorist group with its main arm and affiliates responsible for 27 per cent of terrorism deaths last year.
Although the number of attacks fell compared to 2021, the group struck in five of the world’s nine regions: South Asia, Mena, sub-Saharan Africa, Russia and Eurasia, and Asia-Pacific.
Iraq and Syria recorded the most attacks by the group. In northern Syria, the Al Sina’a attack involved 100 members of the group storming a prison holding 3,500 inmates, many of whom were members of the group. A week-long battle to regain control of the area and capture the escaped members killed more than 370 ISIS fighters in the Ghwayran neighbourhood of Hasakah.
2. Al Shabaab
Al Qaeda-affiliate Al Shabaab killed 784 people and injured 1,016 in East Africa last year. Based mainly in Kenya and Somalia, the group predominantly uses bombing tactics, the GTI found.
In 2022, the group made efforts to gain a foothold in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, subject of a recently resolved civil war between the government and Tigray People’s Liberation Front. The only two attacks by the group in the area had no injuries or deaths.
3. ISIS — Khorasan Province (ISIS-K)
ISIS is expanding outside of Iraq and Syria. Its Afghan affiliate ISIS Khorasan Province killed 498 people and injured 832 — the most of any arm of the group — in 2022.
Recruiting from the eighth-deadliest group, Tahrik-e-Taliban Pakistan and a weakened Al Qaeda, the group has exchanged its main enemies of the Afghan military and US troops to the Taliban group, who took over in 2021.
ISIS-K has repeatedly attacked minorities in Afghanistan, including the Hazara people, at mosques, schools and public institutions.
4. Jamaat Nusrat Al Islam wal Muslimeen (JNIM)
JNIM, formed in 2017 in the Sahel, killed 279 people in 2022, and injured 215 — a 28 per cent drop compared to 2021.
The GTI says it is a coalition of Salafi extremist groups Ansar Dine, the Macina Liberation Front, Al-Mourabitoun and the Saharan branch of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. The group is rapidly expanding outside of the Sahel, taking advantage of grievances against various governments to recruit and attack in Benin and Togo last year.
The GTI report warned that the fastest growth in terrorist groups is taking place in the Sahel….
mgoldberg says
And number five might be the U.N. which has aided and abetted the fours work, by anointing the very foundation upon which they are based
somehistory says
The mozlum mindset….using terror to take over the world for islam. Rape, threats and murder all in the weapon’s box. Whatever the groups call themselves, they are all fighting for the same thing; world domination for islam and its evil source, satan the devil.
Peacelover says
well said somehistory and as for ‘weapon’s box’,don’t forget ‘civilization jihad’ which is being attempted in the U.S.
somehistory says
Thank you, Peacelover.
That is certainly true….c.a.i.r. and the msa are two of the groups in the U.S. using less war-like tactics, though it’s still war, to take over for islam. They have their moles placed in Congress, courtrooms, mayoral offices, etc. all over the country.
Jim says
I would like to know what message of peace he is talking about. That sounds like Hitler’s message of peace, or Castro’s message of peace or Iran’s message of peace. I suppose that he is so afraid of offending them that he praises them for something that does not exist. Are there verses in the scriptures that proclaim a message of peace? Perhaps a secret code hidden in the scriptures that proclaims the commandment to be peaceful. Or he means, if everyone does what they want, they will be peaceful. It is a bit hard to imagine a message of peace there. Perhaps in the early decade in Mecca when he preached like a missionary and failed to convert more than a hundred people. But these passages were cancelled by the successes of the Medina period, when he conquered all of Arabia.What is the PA and Hamas message of peace to Israel? What do the Israelis and Joe have to do to redeem their promise of peace?
davidafoot says
Message of peace? Laughable, the cult of evil and deceit as authored by the Best Deceiver (3:54) and inflicted on us by the deceiver’s messenger the warlord Mohamed. Al the evil is in the infernal quran a “How To” manual of terrorism (8:12 etc), its justification (8:17 etc), so who is going to follow the terrorist god if not terrorists? Not only terrorism all sorts of other evils like misogyny etc. Should not be anywhere near a school for a start!
Gary Wm Myers says
#5 is the Balochistan Liberation Army in Pakistan. Balochistan is nearly 100% Sunni Muslim.
I am not sure where they would fall on the list, but almost certainly in the top ten are Boko Haram and The Fulani Herdsmen of Nigeria and vicinity.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
There are others like Lashkar e Toiba in Pakistan, Tehreek i Taliban in the same country, Jemimah Islamiya, Hamas, Hizbullah, Islamic Jihad, Kataeb Hizbullah in Iraq, the Ansar Allah in Yemen (the Houthis) and so on
And then there are actual terrorist countries – like Turkey, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kuwait and Qatar, which are like these movements, except that they control governments