About The Muslim Terroists...?

Question

Its hard not to notice all of the statements referring to Muslims as terrorists. Well, Muslims are not terrorists. SOME Muslims are terrorists just as there are SOME Christians, Jews, Hindus and pretty much any other kind of practitioner of faith who are terrorists. Religion does not drive people to carry out terrorism. Terrorism is usually rooted in cultural/political issues. This is especially true for Muslim terrorists. In fact Al-Qaeda has hijacked many cultural/political conflicts transforming them into their own Perverted Version of Jihad (despite what the clumsy media implies, Jihad is not holy war). Being that groups such as Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, PLO carry out terrorism as part of political agenda over a religious one, Why is Islamic Terrorism such a popular subject in the R/S section? Terrorist leaders will use Islam to justify their actions but they tell these lies because it promotes their cause.

Sorry about the typos

Answer 1

Here are some non-Muslim Terrorist for you to think about:

(1) The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA; more commonly referred to as the IRA, the Provos, or by some of its supporters as the army or the 'RA) is an Irish Republican paramilitary organization dedicated to the end of British rule in Northern Ireland and to a United Ireland. The organization has been outlawed and classified as a terrorist group in the Republic of Ireland , the United Kingdom , the United States and many other countries. Since its emergence in 1969, its stated aim has been the reunification of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland as a single sovereign state independent of the United Kingdom , which it believed could only be achieved by an armed campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland . On July 28, 2005, the Provisional IRA Army Council announced an end to its armed campaign, stating that it would work to achieve its aims using "purely political and democratic programs through exclusively peaceful means" and that "IRA Volunteers must not engage in any other activities whatsoever".
Like all other organizations calling themselves the IRA the Provisional’s refer to themselves in public announcements and internal discussions as Óglaigh na hÉireann (literally "Volunteers of Ireland"), the official Irish language title of the Irish Defence Forces (the Irish army).

The IRA was chiefly active in Northern Ireland , although it took its campaign to the Republic of Ireland and England , and also carried out several attacks in the Netherlands and West Germany . The IRA also targeted certain British government officials, politicians, judges, senior Military and police officers and civilians in Great Britain , and in other areas such as West Germany , Canada , the Netherlands and Australia . A considerable number of British civilians were killed by IRA bombs during the conflict.

(2) The Oklahoma City bombing was a terrorist attack on April 19, 1995, in which the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building , a U.S. government office complex in downtown Oklahoma City , Oklahoma , was destroyed, killing 168 people. It is the deadliest domestic terrorist attack in the history of the United States and was the deadliest act of terrorism within U.S. borders until September 11, 2001. Two men later convicted of the bombing, Timothy McVeigh and his friend Terry Nichols, had sympathies with the anti-government militia movement. McVeigh later claimed that his aim was to avenge the Waco Siege.

(3) ETA or Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (Basque for "Basque Homeland and Freedom"; IPA pronunciation: [ˈɛːta]) is an armed Basque nationalist organization that seeks to create an independent socialist state for the Basque people in the Basque Country, separate from Spain and France. On March 22, 2006, the organization declared a permanent ceasefire stating it will commit itself "to promote a democratic process in the Basque Country in order to build a new framework within which our rights as a people are recognized, and guarantee the opportunity to develop all political options in the future." ETA is considered by Spain , France , the European Union, and the United States to be a terrorist organization, with more than 800 killings attributed to it.

•October 8, 1999: ETA is designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTA) by the U.S. government for the first time.
•25 May 2001: Thousands of Spaniards participate in a silent march through San Sebastian , a northern city, to protest the killing of journalist Santiago Oleaga Elejabarrieta. Banners are held that read "No to ETA – Peace and Freedom." Spanish reporters give a statement saying, "However much they kill and try to impose their cause through terror we, as media professionals, will defend the expression which took so long to achieve in this country."
•11 July 2001 Hundreds of people gather in Madrid to commemorate the life of slain policeman Luis Ortiz de la Rosa, who was killed the preceding day. The rally protests ETA's actions.
•15 July 2001: CNN reports that hundreds of Spaniards have gathered in city and town halls around Spain to silently protest two killings blamed on the "Basque terrorist group ETA". The cities include Pamplona , Vitoria , and Zaragoza .
•24 August 2001: The Spanish police arrest six suspected ETA members in the Barcelona suburb of Terrasa, seizing over 550 pounds of what CNN reports as "explosives, firearms, forged license plates and electronic detonator components."
•26 February 2002: U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill announces that the U.S. has frozen assets of twenty one people associated with ETA.
•22 December 2002: Ibon Fernandez Iradi, who is suspected of teaching ETA members how to make bombs, escapes from custody in a police station in Bayonne , France .
•8 October 2003: thirty four suspected ETA members are arrested in the early morning. Twenty-nine are apprehended in northern Spain and five in France .
•9 December 2003: Police in southwestern France arrest Gorka Palacios, twenty nine, the alleged military commander of ETA. Three people who the police said were collaborators were also arrested in the 6:00 AM raid on a house in the village of Lons , near the town of Pau . At a news conference in Marrakesh , Morocco , Spanish interior minister Ángel Acebes characterized the arrests as of "great significance" and of "first magnitude."
•February 18, 2004: ETA publicly stated that a ceasefire only in Catalonia had been in effect since January 1, based on "a desire to unite the ties between the Basque and Catalan peoples." Some claimed that this ceasefire was based on a secret pact with Josep-Lluís Carod-Rovira, leader of Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC, "Republican Left of Catalonia"). Carod-Rovira, despite admitting to having met with ETA in France in December denied having reached any accord, saying that the meeting was an attempt to drive ETA away from violence, and ended with no results. This, during an electoral campaign, became a scandal, and endangered the recent tripartite Catalan government, formed by ERC (ERC), Iniciativa per Catalunya Verds-Esquerra Unida i Alternativa (ICV-EUiA) and the Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya (PSC). The opposition then accused Aznar of being behind the leak to the media of the intelligence report detailing the meeting and Aznar refused to clarify whether he knew about this meeting before the leaking. Aznar was also questioned as to why the ETA members who attended that meeting were not detained.
•Also in 2004, ETA was initially suspected of being the authors of a series of ten bombings only a few days before the national elections, which targeted three locations along Madrid's suburban train lines on the morning of March 11, 2004, killing 192 civilians (see 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks). This theory was officially endorsed by José María Aznar's government, despite the police quickly gathering evidence pointing towards Islamic terrorism. Many Spanish citizens took this rush to judgment as an offence towards the victims of the attacks and towards the Spanish people; this was generally seen as a decisive factor in the electoral result which overturned Aznar's government (see Spanish legislative election, 2004). The authorship of this attack, the largest European terrorist incident in terms of lives lost since the 1988 Pan Am flight 103 flight bombing, has been finally ascribed to Islamist militants by the Spanish police.
•20 February 2004: Nine men and a woman are arrested, making the number of ETA suspects detained this week thirty three. They worked on a Basque-language newspaper, Euskaldunon Egunkaria, published statements from ETA. They've been released and their torture claims dismissed without being investigated or even calling them to testify [10].
•21 March 2004: A spokesman for the newly elected PSOE government of Spain rejects a proposal from ETA for negotiations because ETA was not prepared to surrender its weapons.
•September 27, 2004: ETA militants sent a videotape to Gara, a Basque newspaper based in Gipuzkoa, in which the militants stated that ETA would continue to fight for Basque self-determination and that ETA would "respond with arms at the ready to those who deny us through the force of arms." This videotape represented ETA's first major public statement since the 11 March attacks. During the weekend preceding the videotape release, the group claimed responsibility for a series of bombings that hampered electricity transmission between France and Spain .
•October 3, 2004: French police launched an operation against ETA's logistical apparatus, making 21 arrests, among them the couple who functioned as top ETA leaders, Mikel Albizu Iriarte ("Mikel Antza") and Soledad Iparragirre ("Anboto"). They found four zulos (caches) with a vast quantity of armaments, much greater than had been estimated to be at ETA's disposal; they also managed to turn up information about ETA's printing an internal newsletter, but nothing leading to any major bank account or other hoards of money. The operation was considered one of the most successful since Bidart in 1992. As of October 2004, it appears that these measures will result in ETA leadership moving into different hands; it is too soon to evaluate the consequences. Spain has solicited the extradition of Mikel Antza y Amboto via a European.
•December 12, 2004: The Real Madrid Santiago Bernabéu stadium football Stadium was evacuated due to a phoned-in bomb threat in name of ETA. The bomb—expected to blow up at 9:00 p.m.—didn't explode, and the 69,000 spectators of the match under way at the time of the call were safely evacuated by the Spanish Police at 8:45 p.m.
•May 17, 2005: The Spanish Government offered to hold talks with ETA if it renounced violence. The Opposition Popular Party condemned the overture as premature.
•March 5, 2006: Following the February 2006 deaths of ETA members Igor Miguel Angulo Iturrate, 32, (due to an apparent suicide by hanging) and Ricardo Sainz Olmos, 41, (by a heart attack), Batasuna together with the union Langile Abertzaleen Batzordeak convoked a day of protest and general strike on March 9. [11] On the morning of the strike, ETA detonated several bombs near highways, with no injuries.
•March 22, 2006: ETA has declared a ceasefire after nearly 40 years fighting for independence from Spanish and French authorities. Euskadi Ta Askatasuna has decided to declare a permanent ceasefire as from 0000 (2300GMT) on 24 March 2006.
•December 30th 2006, at 9:00 in the morning, after three warning calls, ETA detonated a van bomb in a parking building at the Madrid Barajas international airport. The explosion caused the collapse of the building.
June 5. 2007 ended cease fire with Spain

(4) The Centennial Olympic Park bombing was a terrorist bombing on July 27, 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia during the 1996 Summer Olympics, the first of four committed by right-wing extremist Eric Robert Rudolph. Two persons were killed, and 111 injured.

(5) Political terrorism also may be part of a government campaign to eliminate the opposition, as under Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, and others, or may be part of a revolutionary effort to overthrow a regime. Terrorist attacks also are now a common tactic in guerrilla warfare. Governments find attacks by terrorist groups difficult to prevent; international agreements to tighten borders or return terrorists for trial may offer some deterrence.

(6) Terrorism in India can be attributed to India 's many low intensity conflicts within its borders. If terrorism can be defined as "peacetime equivalent of war crime", then these sites of low intensity conflicts are prime spots for terrorism in India . The regions with long term terrorist activities today are Jammu and Kashmir (movement for autonomy), Central India (Naxalism) and Seven Sister States (independence and autonomy movements). In the past, the Punjab insurgency led to terrorist activities in the Indian state of Punjab as well as the national capital Delhi ( Delhi serial blasts, Anti-Sikh riots). The rise of right-wing politics have also increased terrorist activities, leading to pogroms (Godhra Riots) and the Bombay bomb blasts. In recent times, the Delhi and the Varanasi bomb blasts were aimed not against the Indian state but were aimed to trigger a Hindu-Muslim schism. The perpetrators of terrorism have been members of armed opposition groups. Allegations of the involvement of state agencies of foreign nations have been made, but very little concrete evidence exists to support such allegations.


(7) Japan ’s Aum Shinrikyo, who released nerve gas in Tokyo ’s subway system

(8) Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso in Spanish) is a Maoist guerrilla organization in Peru ; followers are generally called Senderistas. The group never refers to itself as "Shining Path", preferring to be called the Communist Party of Peru (see Communism in Peru); the more familiar name comes from the maxim of José Carlos Mariátegui, founder of Peru's first communist party: "El Marxismo-Leninismo abrirá el sendero luminoso hacia la revolución" (“Marxism-Leninism will open the shining path to revolution”).[1] The phrase was used on the masthead of the group's newspaper. The name "Shining Path" is used by outsiders to distinguish the organization from other Peruvian groups that claim to be "the communist party of Peru ." These other groups are generally identified by the name of their newspapers.
Shining Path's stated goal is to replace Peruvian bourgeois institutions with a communist peasant revolutionary regime, presumably passing first through the Maoist developmental stage of New Democracy. Since the capture of its leader Abimael Guzmán in 1992, it has only been sporadically active. Shining Path's ideology and tactics have been influential on other Maoist insurgent groups, notably the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and other Revolutionary Internationalist Movement-affiliated armed organizations.
Widely condemned for its brutality, including violence deployed against peasants, trade union organizers, popularly elected officials and the general civilian population, Sendero is on the U.S. Department of State's "Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations" list.[2] Peru, the United Kingdom and the European Union likewise regard Shining Path as a terrorist group and prohibit providing funding or other financial support.

(9) The Red Brigades (Brigate Rosse in Italian, often abbreviated as BR) are a militant leftist group located in Italy . Formed in 1970, the Marxist Red Brigades sought to create a revolutionary state through armed struggle and to separate Italy from the Western Alliance . In 1978, they kidnapped and killed Prime Minister Aldo Moro under obscure circumstances. After 1984's scission, Red Brigades managed with difficulty to survive the official end of the Cold War in 1989, even though it is now a fragile group with no original members. Throughout the 1970’s the Red Brigades were credited with 14,000 acts of violence.

(10) The Ku Klux Klan, from Reconstruction at the end of the civil war to the end of the civil rights movement, the Ku Klux Klan used threats, violence, arson, and murder to further its white-supremacist, anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic agenda.

(11) The Weathermen were a U.S. radical left organization active from 1969 to 1975. Its members referred to themselves as a "revolutionary organization of communist women and men." Their goal was the revolutionary overthrow of the U.S. government. Toward this end, and to change U.S. policy in Vietnam , they bombed a number of police and military targets. The group collapsed shortly after the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam in 1975.

(12) From 1978 to 1995, anti-technology radical and former mathematics professor Theodore Kaczynski--known by the codename "UNABOMBER" until his identification and arrest by the FBI--carried out a campaign of sending letter bombs to academics and various individuals associated with computer technology. The attacks ceased with his capture.

(13) Beginning on September 18, 2001, a number of media organizations and American politicians received, through the United States Postal Service, envelopes which contained weaponized anthrax. Although as of late 2005, no charges have been filed with regards to these attacks, the matter is widely believed to be an act of domestic terrorism.

(14) In the United States , acts of domestic terrorism are generally considered to be uncommon. According to the FBI, however, between the years of 1980 and 2000, 250 of the 335 incidents confirmed as or suspected to be terrorist acts in the United States were carried out by American citizens.

Answer 2

Exactly...and Scott B, what do you want us to do?we speak out against it, try to reveal the real islam through our own actions, and offer our help to try to clear various misconceptions and are all for living in peace and harmony..how is it that just because the terrorists use islam as a weapon, suddenly muslims are pushed into the battlefield to fight them while the rest of you stand and watch?
A large no. of people over here(mostly clones), aren't even ready to listen to what we've got to say, nor will they shut up about what they very well know are lies, which keep spreading like an epidemic, and we aren't even given a chance to "explain" ourselves..that's why "islamic" extremism is such a popular part of this forum..

Answer 3

Do you know who is teaching this radical version of Islam?

It is being taught openly in many Mosques, this fact is well documented.

While I agree that Al-Queda and others are using Islam wrongly, we have to also admit that there are many other radical Muslim Imams also teaching hate. There is no central leadership within Islam to get rid of these radicals. So until the moderate Muslims take their faith back, Muslims will continue to be stereo-typed as either Terrorists or sympathetic to the Terrorists.

I am hoping the moderates prevail, and we can all accept each other and live in peace. We owe that to all of the children of the world.

Peace!

P.S. what do we want you to do about it? Stop the killings in Iraq, Sunni killing Shina, kick our Imams that openly preach hate and intolerance, there are many right here in the US, many more in Great Brittan. If a Catholic Priest preached that we should kill others, they would be kicked out immediately. Clean your own house!

Sure there will always be radicals, I know that there have been radical Christians as well, but when we see Imam's openly preaching hate and intolerance, and nothing is done about it, we start to believe that it is truly a part of the faith and not just a few nut cases.

Peace!

Answer 4

When all the "good" Muslims start taking out the "bad" Muslims and start apologizing for their errant brothers bad behavior, start pointing out the hypocrisy of phony good Muslims, and really take a stand against intolerance, we might start listening to you.

But when you say that you are not terrorist and look the other way when a young Muslim girl in England is murdered by her family because she didn't want to marry an old man...........

You are a terrorist.

Answer 5

Sorry, I've never met a Hindu terrorist, nor a Buddhist terrorist, nor a pagan terrorist. As for "Christian" terrorists, there may be one rogue "terrorist" out of the bunch, but Muslim terrorists are a dime a dozen. Just a reminder of who we're at war with- Muslims.

Answer 6

everyone in the world is doing terrorism... also muslims and that is deffinately against the will of god that is why TERRORISM HAS NO RELIGION!!!!!!!!!!!! THE PEOPLE WHICH DO IT ARE F*CKED IN THE *** THEY HAVE NO RELIGION IF THEY COMMIT SUCH THING :-O

Answer 7

People like to abuse others to make themselves feel better. Being a believer is enough, in this forum, to be slammed. Try not to take it too seriously.

Answer 8

The Prophet said: Acquire knowledge, because he who acquires it, in the way of the Lord, performs an act of piety; who speaks of it praises the Lord; who seeks it, adores God, who dispenses instruction in it, bestows alms; and who imparts it to its fitting objects, performs an act of devotion to God. Knowledge enables its possessor to distinguish what is forbidden from what is not; lights the way to Heaven; it is our friend in the desert, our companion in solitude, our companion, when bereft of riends; it guides us to happiness; it sustains us in misery; it is our ornament in the company of friends; it serves as an armor against our enemies. With knowledge the creatures of Allah rises to the heights of goodness and to noble position, associates with the sovereigns in this world and attains the perfection of happiness in the next.

Answer 9

I guess because I see no one else in the muslim faith doing anything about it except to claim they are not one of those "extremists".