A grim milestone ignored
Some deaths count more than others, Patrick Poole notes:
The establishment media is seemingly obsessed with “grim milestones” in the War on Terror, as the Associated Press reminds us this past weekend. But in the next week those same establishment media outlets will probably stand mute when yet another “grim milestone” is reached – the10,000th attack by Islamic terrorists and militants since 9/11, which is responsible for approximately 60,000 dead and 90,000 injured.
The chronicler of this bloody tally is Glen Reinsford, editor of TheReligionofPeace.com, who began compiling and updating daily a detailed list of reported incidents of violence and terrorism around the world targeting non-Muslims and Muslims alike. Because of space limitations he only posts the past two months worth of attacks on his websites main page, though he has archived all of the incidents from past years (2001-2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007). He also maintains a banner graphic with the updated number of attacks, which people can post on their own websites.
When asked what prompted him to begin such a labor-intensive undertaking, Reinsford identifies the tepid response to Islamic terrorism by otherwise outspoken Muslim groups, with one organization particularly in mind:
The Council on American-Islamic Relations.
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Stretch the sides out on that tally and it would be bumper sticker size. Edwards not available for comment.
the religion of peace, riiight.
Islam does not divide between religion and polticial philosophy. It is one and the same, therefore, it is not really a religion; and is not compatible with our constitution. Islam should not be considered a religion and must be handled as a political philosophy. If our government would begin to realize that it is a political invasion devised to overthrow our government we would be better able to control the potential terror threat.
Clearly, there are two invasions occuring in the United States from Mexico and Islam. If you don’t think it is an invasion, just try and stop it!
Time for the MSM to hide another news-worthy story in favor of a story about melting glaciers and the evil American war-mogers behind it all.
#1 – Great idea for the bumper sticker… I like it.
Notice, too, how often al-Reuters will post the number of civilians (including terrorists) killed by Israel while neglecting to point out the rat poisoned, rusty-nail-laden suicide bombs at pizza joints, bus stops, and night clubs.
It’s an undocumented invasion!
I am curious if this number includes (and mostly) counts the attacks inside Iraq. While not discounting those attacks, the left response will always be, “if we weren’t there”.
Thats because it’s grim for the dhimicrats!
The count should be prefaced with the wrods At least, since who knows how many people are being attacked in areas where the police and news coverage are non-existant.
When will the Christian leadership start speaking out against radical Islam?I thank God for the pastors who put their “toe to the line” during the American Revolution-they were called the “Black Regiment”because their vestments were the color black. A hero of mine is John Peter Muhlenberg who was a pastor turned Colonel who led the 8th Virginia Regiment at the request of General Washington.
America Alone, Funding Evil, Alms for Jihad are books I highly recommend.
Like the death toll from abortion, the media collectively replies “never mind.”
Thanks for pointing the site out, MM; he’s on my fave list now.
We can only expect an increase in these attacks as we implement the democrats ‘cut and run’ strategy to pacify the beast.
One wonders if CAIR will have a countdown party with a cake and candles right before it hits 10k.
But the Liberals are fighting back…
Good job Glen!
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The Dems keep crying out for a “change of course.” How about they change their course and side with the rest of America for once regarding the war and enemy we are facing.
These statistics are grim indeed, but for those of us who haven’t had our heads stuck in the sand (and other places) these past 10 years have been saying this very thing. We’ve been trying to convince those on the other side of aisle about what we are up against. It’s been a daunting task. For some reason they think the jihadis would spare them.
9988, 9988, if that isn’t enough to convince them, well I am absolutely certain that I don’t know what will…
They won’t be happy until they’re all part of the caliphate, will they?
10,000 terror attacks in just over six years. If not for the measures of security put in place, many of them would have taken place here on American soil (MM documented some of the people with “fireworks” trying to get to military bases, nuclear plants, etc.).
But not one major terrorist attack has happened on American soil. Curious how liberals ignore that fact.
I’ve had that on my sidebar since not long after I started blogging in 2004, and it never fails to amaze me that there are so many attacks and the media could care less.
Heck, check out the global incident map: http://www.globalincidentmap.com/home.php
I am always amazed at how I have to rely on the internet to find out what is really going on in the world. I originally saw this on Free Republic this morning. Thanks Michelle for posting it here too. News like this must see the light of day so people understand what the stakes in this war really are.
Talk about having it both ways. Either we’re making progress on the “War on Terror” or we’re not. This implies we’re not. According to other posts on this site, we are.
I mean, which is it?
The amount of terrorist attacks has increased sharply since 9/11. That strikes me as a pretty sharp failure.
It strikes me as a perfect example that we’re in an actual WAR with Islamic facists and this is not just a bumper sticker slogan.
3 points, Rusty
First, the attacks have not occurred on US soil.
Second, this should clue all liberals in on Islam not being a religion of peace.
Third, no one really kept records like this prior to 9/11, so, how do we know that attacks increased sharply?
Fourth, why is it our failure? Are we allowed to operate militarily in places like Israel, Syria, Iran, Lebenon, the Philipines, India, etc, and so on?
So Rusty – what do you propose we do?
I did take notice of the fact that one night when
I was watching the news, I heard about how many were killed in Iraq that day. I had read earlier that the
day before, no American military had been killed in
either Iraq or Afghanistan and I realized as I listened to the newsreader that she had not even mentioned, as an aside, the night before that no one had been
killed. Abolutely one sided and this was our local Fox
station!
Really read your world history Rusty. The Islamists have been enslving and killing nonMuslims since the religion began. We are just now starting to keep
statistics on the killings because of wide spread
communications, etc.
Here’s what I propose.
O General Pershing, Where Art Thou?
Thank goodness George Bush prevented all those 9995 terrorist attacks. Oh wait, the number of attacks increased! Heckuvajob yet again.
Thanks for noticing this, Michelle. I was wondering if anyone else was watching.
Rusty, Rusty, Rusty.
The statistics show that we are not dealing with a religion of peace, and I didn’t see that the statistics went month by month. They were not meant to show progress, but what we are dealing with.
Now go and shake that sand out of your hair.
wow — it is just me or am I hearing ‘trollish’ in stereo today??
Way to go with BDS, lgm!
lgm
I hate repeating myself
#29 — isn’t BDS amazing? I mean, when bad things were done by bad people in the rest of the world it wasn’t his fault (especially if those bad things were done by the little missus…), but now that a Republican President shows up who’s not afraid to fight a war that needs fighting, all of a sudden all of the evil in the world is his fault.
You can read the editorial notes at:
The List
I have been checking that site pretty much every week. These numbers do not count the deaths in Iraq or Afghanistan. Many more attacks occur than are counted here because the press does not always pick up on the connection to Islam.
Wake up left wing loonies. It’s only a matter of time until we become the victims.
In fact, police in Atlanta recently discovered the body of a former islamic woman who is now a critic of the “Religion of Peace. She was shot dead in her bed but at first, they classified it as a suiced even though the gun was not found in the room.
Rusty:
Talk about a straw man argument. We are very successful in Iraq since the surge, and I call the absence of terrorist attacks on US soil a success, too.
Or are you suggesting we expand the war on terror to where these 10,000 attacks occurred? What is your solution?
And what will your reaction be when a terrorist attack takes place on American soil again? Whose fault will it be?
In a related vein, news from Saudi Arabia:
But liberals will practically turn themselves inside out claiming that it’s wrong to claim our culture is superior, and that there is something inherently evil in Islam. They refuse to see that Islam not only abuses and terrorizes non-Muslims and other “infidels”, but Muslims as well. Especially women and girls who – by their very gender – are considered evil and sub-human.
Where’s CAIR? Where’s NOW? Where are all the feminists who freak out about abortion restrictions, but disappear into deep holes whenever issues like this are reported?
I’m sick and tired of the politically correct hyperventilating about certain things, claiming to be champions of tolerance and diversity, while stuff like this happens the world over and they say nothing.
lgm – to show what kinda of guy I am – I’ll be equal opportunity for you. What do you propose we do?
tim,
not to make lite of the shot women but, no gun in room, shot, suicide? those guys arent exactly phi beta kappa are they.
The mostly liberal leaning Wikipedia has a page called “list of terrorist attacks” in which they purport to track such things. As I pointed out to them a long time ago (and was ignored), it is ridiculously incomplete. The list for 2006 has about 50 entries, for example.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_attacks#2006
Obviously, trying to list them all on one page would overwhelm people’s browsers, so I can perhaps understand them not wanting to enter them all. But they won’t even provide a link to the Religion of Peace website.
Let me answer for lgm with the standard liberal TP: “we need to get rid of Bush.”
Then we can figure out why they hate us and what we have done to make the Muslims so angry and violent. Then we can implement measures to combat global warming, poverty, and racism, stop all war, talk to the radical Muslims, and institute nationalized health care. We’ll do away with Big Oil, and suddenly invent a new power source. We will do away with the flush toilet, all ride our bikes to work, do away with any reference to God, and sing Kumbaya.
What was the question again?
If the Council on American-Islamic Relations bank accounts were assulted by these same terrorists – they would be screaming!
Note to you libtards:
10,000 attacks and lets go conservative and say 60,000 dead with 4,000(rounding up) US dead in that count. Who is being targeted? I suppose we are doing this for oil – right?
For goodness sake. I take a break and come back and find you people feeding trolls like ducks in a pond.
1. Feed ducks. They are cute and serve a purpose
2. Feed a troll and it will come back to its food source.
GRRRRRRRR
#38 William – you forgot the reason: It’s for the children.
Soap – I’m not sure about the feeding schedule at the moment. I’ve noticed that the trolls eat about anything – but it seems that something is rather “untasty” to them. Haven’t heard a peep from rusty or lgm since they were asked what they would propose.
its their turn up in the tree…
C-Rus
They come in and snipe and laugh at us for feeding them. It is a game to them. Rarely do they have a point that is not a talking point.
Try as we may to educate or enlighten them (and I have tried to as well), we might as well try to glue mud together. We all make good points to counter their stupid rants of how bad Bush is while kissing Clinton or Carter’s hind ends. I mean, come on. When our biggest troll wants to blame Bush for 10,000 terrorists attacks; do we really need to address that?
End result, we vent to the wind and they live another day to snipe and feed.
It will not be a tree in the South
P.I.M.P.S.
Flapdoodles, each and every one.
AJ… Haven’t met a cop yet who claims to be a rocket scientist. Me included. But you would think no gun and a bullet hole would not equal suicide.
Oh for the good ole days when common sense reigned and people knew when to come in out of the rain. But alas, I digress again.
.. ask US PResident / commander-in-chief and he will deny any terror attacks in US after 9/11. Then again, he takes his orders from Riyadh. So, no surprises there……
#46
Flapdoodling P I M P
Oops, Can’t count.
That should read $47
.. and here is the proof: http://www.danielpipes.org/article/5124
Are ya’ll just tryin’ to pick a fight? I thought you
knew that when the missus gets sworn in as pres and
Bubba is back in action chasin’ interns and the Nobel
Peace Prize that all of this unseemly ugliness with the
middle East will simply go away. Then, she can bask in
the glory of peace brought about by her reign..oops…
presidency and Bubba can finally realize his life long
dream of winning the Nobel Peace Prize! See, it is all
Pres Bush’s fault after all. Moonbat philosophy.
TXRose, please lose the bold and italics and use regular font like the rest of us.
Could you break down those figures into the rate of attacks before and after Bush attacked Iraq in preference to going after bin Laden and al-Queda?
Alphonse: Since you seem to be making a point about how we “should be out going after OBL” – please prove to me a) that we aren’t doing so and b) that it’d be easy to catch him.
Just so you know where I’m coming from – remember Eric Rudolph. We “knew” where he was within an area 10 miles by 10 miles…and it took us several years to get him.
And since there is a huge bounty on OBL’s head, you could be a rich person if you are really smart and know just how to go get him. Dare you to do it.
Another GLORIOUS milestone for the soldiers of satan….I mean Allah.
Sorry.
#33, This reminds me of an incident in the 1940s when one of LBJ’s opponents was found dead in a South Texas cotton field holding a single shot 22 rifle with which he had been shot multiple times. The coroner decalred it the most tragic suicide he have ever examined.
# 34: An even worse example of the idiocy of the Islamic attitude toward rape is a recent incident in Iran where a teen age girl gang-raped by five men managed to fatally stab one of her attackers in the neck with a ball point pen. She was sentenced to death by hanging. Sharia law requires four male witnesses to prove rape but, not surprisingly, the other four rapist were not inclined or forced to testify. Her execution has been deferred but not cancelled, thanks to the efforts of anti-regime expatriates in getting international publicity.
Another example of Islamic jurisprudence: The brother of an anti-mullah expatriate Iranian woman, whose books I publish, while attending the Iran Naval Academy, was caught with two buddies giving a car ride to three young women, not prostitutes, they met on the street. They were expelled from the academy and given a choice of 1.) 100 lashes or 2.) marry one of the girls. All chose marriage. No report on how they chose which girl to marry or whether they subsequently regretted their election.
This number does not factor in all the deaths written off as common murder, (under-reported) nor does it factor in all the attempted attacks that were, thank God, foiled. (unknown)… & many of those are domestic.
I truly believe that we have been spared massive carnage only because the enemy does not whis to wake a sleeping giant before an election.
We all know who they want to win.
I heard an security analyst giving a briefing to about 600 of us at the State Dept yesterday regarding terrorism in Europe. The person said that among all those carrying out terrorism in Europe there is no one common factor among them. They come from various age groups, rich, poor, professional, common labor, unemployed, etc. I wanted to jump up and shout, yes there is…they are all muslims! But I paid too much to attend and didn’t have the b..ls to do it. But I did see a lot of heads shaking.
Oh, crap. I posted the last before reading #53. My Bad.
Alphose: would any of Bush’s actions changed the bombings in London or Madrid? Bali maybe? Australia, the Philippines, Thailand perhaps? Be-headings of school girls in Indonesia?
Yo, I smell a plant…
I just noticed the counter at my blog just turned over to 10001. It is a shame that it does not surprise me at all that this will go unreported.
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Thank You Michelle for bringing recognition to the killings as well as Glens constant hard work.
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Thank you Glen Reinsford for doing the work you do. I don’t make it to your blog as often as I should but your ticker is always displayed where I see it everyday.
It is now at 10,001.
All you apologist deniers and associated Liberal idiots only need visit the site to have your questions answered. I know that truth hurts and the information there completely proves you wrong on all accounts, but you can’t be that opposed to having your idiocy and stupidity shoved back down your throats, are you?
Ive asked this over and over to liberals and democrats what their alternatives would be and I always get nothing for an answer. I never remember what candidate John Kerry would do about the Islamofascists and he only said go to his web page. The party of LBJ, Truman, FDR, JFK has changed alot since they were in power. Those demos had ideas and surrendering was not one of them. Still waiting for your plan Rusty.