Paris Terror Attacks

[Ernest Jones]

[jbishop15]

12 minutes ago, Ernest Jones said:

    

[CoachB25]

First, we are all indoctrinated.  The "trick" then is to gain experiences to expand your knowledge.  I've coached baseball in the former Soviet Union.  I was once offered the head coaching position for baseball on the Island of Aruba.  I've been fortunate to be an "adviser" to other countries with regards to baseball.  I've traveled with my daughter as she played softball for Team USA (D-II Squad of All Americans) in Italy.  To be sure, it is good to see how people of other countries live.  Again, it gives perspective.

With regards to this horrible event and the image above, I just finished my Social Studies unit on Islam.  It is amazing the difference between those who believe in the "Sixth Pillar of Faith" or the Jihad and those that don't.  This goes as far back as the death of Muhammad when he did not name a successor.  Do not misunderstand the mindset of radicals.  They believe that anyone unlike them, and even Muslims, are the enemy and they will kill them.  The poor people of Paris happened to be the target this time.  One or two extremist can still kill hundreds. 

[Lihu]

It really feels like 9/11 again.

Just think how much worse this could have been if they somehow got access to nuclear or biological weapons?

It only takes a few well funded individuals to commit much worse acts of terror, and we need to be in a position to stop them.

[RandallT]

I like you guys, but I shake my head that you are brushing this off as a handful of assholes. I know you take it all seriously, and do feel similarly about the tragic loss of life. But that graphic comes across as a bit "head in the sand." I suppose you think people like me are overreacting, but I feel I must at least say this:

I see the ideology that is behind this attack and others similar as deadly serious. I view it as a totalitarian threat to our existence, and I believe that it is a CONSTANT fight in civilization for freedom. I think we are never too far from tyranny, and each generation must keep alive the noble struggle or freedom perishes. 

While I see your math, I also see a bigger picture that it is not a handful of people in one place and time that is doing this across the globe and over the years. This is a generations-long fight and it is seeming to escalate in my lifetime. And things are frighteningly real right now as the movement of people around the planet is unprecedented.  

I fear that when we say "Never forget", we really only mean that as a flippant hashtag, and then we mostly forget about it as we return to our lives. The oppressive ideology behind this attack will certainly not forget their struggle, as those that value freedom get distracted as we enjoy the fruits of those freedoms.

When I hear politicians say things that these attacks are against "universal" values, I always think: "freedom is NOT a universal value- many clearly speak out against those freedoms." If we enjoy our freedom, we are going to have to fight to keep it alive (not necessarily with guns, but with words/ideas primarily). Our leaders pay lip service to freedom, and they seem to promote diversity and tolerance to oppressive societies as a higher calling. I'm all for diversity and tolerance, but at the expense of freedom- NEVER.

Is this list below really the work of just a handful of assholes, or perhaps there is a global and growing totalitarian ideology, bent on world domination? I apologize for the long list, but this one goes back to 2001. It's important to see the length.

 

•  September 11, 2001 – 4 planes hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda members: two planes crashed into the World Trade Center inNew York City, New York; one into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia; and one into a field near Shanksville,Pennsylvania. 2,977 victims killed.^[15]
•  October 1, 2001 – Attack on the Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly.
•  November 29, 2001 – The Pardes Hanna bus bombing was a suicide bombing on a bus from Nazareth to Tel Aviv. 3 dead 7 injured.
•  December 2, 2001 – Haifa bus 16 suicide bombing. 15 killed 40 injured.
•  December 13, 2001 – Suicide attack on Indian parliament in New Delhi by Pakistan-based Islamist terrorist organizations Jaish-E-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Toiba, aimed at eliminating the top leadership of India and causing anarchy in the country. 7 dead, 12 injured.^[16]
•  January 22, 2002 – Attack on an American cultural centre in Kolkata
•  January 23, 2002 – The kidnapping and murder of Daniel Pearl – Israeli-American journalist Daniel Pearl was kidnapped by Pakistani Islamic militants. He was later beheaded on February 1.
•  January 25, 2002 – The 2002 Tel Aviv outdoor mall bombing was a terrorist attack which occurred in which a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up in Tel-Aviv, Israel, injuring at least 24 civilians.
•  January 27, 2002 – 2002 Jaffa Street bombing. 1 dead.
•  March 2, 2002 – The Yeshivat Beit Yisrael massacre was a suicide bombing which occurred in the Beit Yisrael neighborhood in downtown Jerusalem. 11 killed 54 injured.
•  March 9, 2002 – The Café Moment bombing was a Palestinian terrorist attack in a coffee shop in downtown Jerusalem, Israel. 11dead 54 injured.
•  March 20, 2002 – The Umm al-Fahm bus bombing was a suicide bombing which occurred on a bus which was passing through Umm al-Fahm in northern Israel
•  March 21, 2002 – King George Street bombing. 3 dead 42 injured.
•  March 27, 2002 – The Passover massacre was a suicide bombing carried out by Hamas at the Park Hotel in Netanya. 30 dead 140 wounded.
•  March 29, 2002 – Kiryat HaYovel supermarket bombing. 2 dead 28 wounded.
•  March 30, 2002 – Attack on the Raghunath temple
•  March 31, 2002 – The Matza restaurant suicide bombing occurred, when a Palestinian Hamas suicide bomber detonated his bomb inside the Matza restaurant in Haifa, Israel, near the Grand Canyon shopping mall, killing 16 Israeli civilians and injuring over 40 people.
•  April 10, 2002 – Yagur Junction bombing. 8 killed 19 injured.
•  April 11, 2002 – Ghriba synagogue bombing A natural gas truck rigged with explosives detonated in front of the ancient El Ghriba synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba, killing 14 Germans, 3 Tunisians, and 2 French. More than 30 people were wounded.
•  April 12, 2002 – 2002 Mahane Yehuda Market bombing. 6 killed 104 wounded.
•  May 7, 2002 – The 2002 Rishon LeZion bombing was a suicide bombing which occurred at a crowded game club located in the new industrial area of Rishon Lezion. 16 killed 57 injured.
•  May 8, 2002 – 2002 Karachi bus bombing A man driving a car bomb detonated next to a bus carrying mostly French engineers. 11 Frenchmen and 2 Pakistanis were killed (not including the bomber).
•  May 14, 2002 – three terrorists attacked a tourist bus near the town of Kaluchak in the Indian state Jammu and Kashmir .
•  May 19, 2002 – Netanya Market bombing. 3 dead 56+ injured.
•  June 5, 2002 – Megiddo Junction bus bombing. 17 dead 43 injured.
•  June 11, 2002 – 2002 Herzliya shawarma restaurant bombing. 1 dead 15 injured.
•  June 14, 2002 – The first of several attacks targeting the U.S. consulate in Karachi. 12 killed, 51 injured.
•  June 18, 2002 – Patt Junction Bus Bombing. 19 dead 74 injured.
•  June 19, 2002 – 2002 French Hill suicide bombing. 7 dead ~50 injured.
•  June 20, 2002 – A British national was killed when a bomb placed under his car detonated in Al Nakheel.^[17]
•  July 13, 2002 – Militants kill 29 Hindu labourers in Qasim Nagar on the outskirts of Jammu in Jammu and Kashmir.
•  July 16, 2002 – 2002 Immanuel bus attack. 9 dead 20 injured.
•  July 17, 2002 – Neve Shaanan Street bombing. 5 dead 40 injured.
•  July 31, 2002 – Hebrew University bombing. 9 dead ~100 injured.
•  August 4, 2002 – Meron Junction Bus 361 attack. 9 dead 38 injured.
•  September 19, 2002 – Allenby Street bus bombing. 6 dead ~70 injured.
•  September 24, 2002 – Akshardham Temple attack
•  October 2, 2002 – The first of three bomb blasts in Zamboanga City kills 4 people, including one United States Green Beret and wounds 25 others, including another United States Green Beret.
  •  September 29, 2002 – A German national was killed by a car bomb in central Riyadh.^[18][19][20]
•  October 6, 2002 – An explosive-laden dinghy rammed the French-flagged tanker Limburg in the Gulf of Aden off of Yemen, killing one crewman and seriously damaging the ship.
•  October 8, 2002 – Faylaka Island attack Two Kuwaiti jihadists attacked a group of United States Marines, killing one and injuring another. Both attackers were killed.
•  October 12, 2002 – 2002 Bali bombings in the tourist district of Kuta on the Indonesian island of Bali, killing 202 people and injuring 240.^[21]
•  October 17, 2002 – The second of three bomb blasts targets a shopping centre in Zamboanga City, killing at least 7 and wounding about 150 people.
•  October 21, 2002 – The third of three bomb blasts targets Fort Pilar, a Catholic shrine in Zamboanga City, killing a Philippine Marine guarding the church and wounding 18 others.
•  October 21, 2002 – Karkur junction suicide bombing. 14 dead +40 injured
•  October 23, 2002 – The Moscow theater hostage crisis was the seizure of the crowded Dubrovka Theater by Islamists. 170+ dead (including 40 perpetrators) 700+ injured.
•  October 27, 2002 – Sonol gas station bombing. 3 dead 18 injured.
•  November 21, 2002 – Kiryat Menachem bus bombing. 11 dead 50 injured.
•  November 24, 2002 – Attack on the Raghunath temple
•  November 28, 2002 – 2002 Mombasa attacks Islamic terrorists launch simultaneous attacks against an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa and an Israeli charter plane. 13 people (10 Kenyans and 3 Israelis), not including 3 suicide bombers, were killed and 80 injured at the hotel, but the plane was missed by the two missiles fired at it.
•  January 5, 2003 – Tel Aviv central bus station massacre. 23 dead 100+ injured.
•  February 20, 2003 – An American employee of BAE Systems was shot to death in his car in Riyadh.^[22][23][24]
•  February 28, 2003 – A gunman opens fire on the U.S. consulate in Karachi. 2 police officers killed, 5 police officers and 1 civilian injured.
•  March 5, 2003 – Haifa bus 37 suicide bombing. 17 dead 53 wounded.
•  April 30, 2003 – Mike's Place suicide bombing. 3 dead 50+ injured.
•  May 1, 2003 – A man dressed in a Royal Saudi Navy uniform penetrated an American base, killing one American, before escaping unscathed.^[25]
•  May 12, 2003 – Several heavily-armed gunmen open fire and detonate vehicle bombs outside three housing compounds in Riyadh occupied by Westerners, killing 27 people (12 attackers also were killed). More than 160 people were wounded.
•  May 12, 2003 – The 2003 Znamenskoye suicide bombing. 59 killed 200 injured.
•  May 16, 2003 – A series of suicide bombings in Casablanca killed 45 people and injured over 100 others.
•  May 18, 2003 – 2003 French Hill suicide bombings. 7 dead 20 injured.
•  May 19, 2003 – Afula mall bombing. 3 dead 70 injured.
•  June 11, 2003 – Davidka Square bus bombing. 17 dead ~100 injured.
•  August 5, 2003 – 2003 Marriott Hotel bombing in Mega Kuningan, South Jakarta, Indonesia; suicide bomber detonated a car bomb outside the JW Marriott Jakarta lobby, killing 12 and injuring 150.
•  August 19, 2003 – Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing. 24 dead 130+ injured.
•  August 25, 2003 – Twin car bombings killed 54, and injured 244 people in Mumbai.
•  September 9, 2003 – Tzrifin bus stop attack. 9 dead 15 injured.
•  September 9, 2003 – Café Hillel bombing. 7 dead 50+ injured.
•  October 4, 2003 – The Maxim restaurant suicide bombing was a suicide bombing in the beachfront "Maxim" restaurant in Haifa, Israel. 21 people were killed in the attack and 51 were injured. Among the victims were two families and four children, including a two-month-old baby.
•  November 8, 2003 – A suicide truck bomb detonated outside a housing compound in Laban Valley, west of Riyadh, killing 17 and wounding 122.
•  November 15–20, 2003 – 2003 Istanbul bombings, killed 57 people and wounded 700.
•  January 10, 2004 – 2004 Palopo cafe bombing An IED underneath a table, killing 4 and wounding 3.
•  January 14, 2004 – 2004 Erez Crossing bombing. killed 4 injured 10.
•  January 29, 2004 – Gaza Street bus bombing. killed 11 injured 50+.
•  February 6, 2004 – The February 2004 Moscow Metro bombing. 41 killed up to 120 injured.
•  February 22, 2004 – Liberty Bell Park bus bombing. killed 8 injured 60.
•  February 27, 2004 – The sinking of SuperFerry 14 by Abu Sayyaf terrorists results in the deaths of 116 people.
•  March 9, 2004 – March 9, 2004 attack on Istanbul restaurant Two Islamic militants open fire and detonate pipe bombs, killing one and wounding 5 others. One attacker was killed and the other was seriously injured.
•  March 11, 2004 – Madrid train bombings, killed 191 people and wounded 1,800.^[26][27]
•  March 14, 2004 – 2004 Ashdod Port bombings. 10 dead 16 wounded.
•  April 21, 2004 – A car bomb explodes outside a building originally used by the Saudi police, killing 5 and wounding 148.

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•  May 1, 2004 – 2004 Yanbu attack At least four militants stormed the offices of Texas-based ABB Lummus in Yanbu' al Bahr, Saudi Arabia, killing 7.
•  May 29–30, 2004 – 2004 Khobar massacre Four Al Qaeda-linked militants attacked two oil industry installations and a residential compound in Al-Khobar,Saudi Arabia, killing 22 and injuring 25.
•  June 6, 2004 – BBC journalist Simon Cumbers and correspondent Frank Gardner were attacked by Al Qaeda sympathizers while filming an Al Qaeda safehouse in Al-Suwaidi, Riyadh. Cumbers was killed, while Gardner was seriously injured.
•  June 8, 2004 – An American employee of Vinnell Corp. was killed in Riyadh.^{[29][30][31][32]}
•  June 13, 2004 – In Riyadh, American Paul Marshall Johnson was kidnapped at a fake police checkpoint. He was later beheaded on June 18.
•  July 28, 2004 – The 2004 Baqubah bombing on police volunteers killing 68 injuring dozens.
•  August 1, 2004 – The 2004 Iraq churches attacks killing at least 12 people and wounding 71+.
•  August 3, 2004 – An Irish national was shot and killed in Riyadh.^[33]
•  August 21, 2004 – The 2004 Dhaka grenade attack was carried out by members of Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami against an anti-terrorism rally, killing 24 and injuring over 300.
•  August 31, 2004 – The August 2004 Moscow Metro bombing. 10 killed 50 injured.
•  August 31, 2004 – Beersheba bus bombings. 16 killed 100+ injured.
•  September 1, 2004 – Beslan school hostage crisis, approximately 344 civilians including 186 children killed.^[34][35]
•   September 9, 2004 – 2004 Australian Embassy bombing in Jakarta, Indonesia; suicide bomber exploded a one-ton car bomb, which was packed into a small Daihatsu delivery van, outside the Australian embassy at Kuningan District, South Jakarta killing 9 and injuring over 150.
•  September 15, 2004 – A British national working for the Marconi Company was shot to death in his car in Riyadh.^[36]
•  October 7, 2004 – The 2004 Sinai bombings targeting tourist hotels in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula killed 34 and wounded 171.
•  November 2, 2004 – The murder of Theo van Gogh by Amsterdam-born jihadist Mohammed Bouyeri.^[37]
•  November 13, 2004 – 2004 Poso bus bombing An IED targeting a bus travelling to the majority Christian village of Silancak kills 6 and wounds 3.
•  December 6, 2004 – Five militants attacked the American consulate in Jeddah, killing 9 and wounding about 10. Three attackers were killed by Saudi security forces, who wounded and arrested the other two.^[38]
•  January 13, 2005 – Karni border crossing attack. 6 killed 4 injured.
•  February 14, 2005 – Assassination of Rafic Hariri The former Prime Minister of Lebanon, Rafic Hariri, was among 22 people killed when 1,000 kg of TNTexploded near his motorcade in Beirut.
•  February 25, 2005 – Stage Club bombing. 5 killed 50+ injured.
•  May 28, 2005 – The 2005 Tentena market bombings in Indonesia kill 22 and wound about 90.
•  July 5, 2005 – Attack on the Hindu Ram temple in Ayodhya, India. 6 dead.
•  July 7, 2005 – Multiple bombings in London Underground. 53 killed by four suicide bombers. Nearly 700 injured.
•  July 12, 2005 – 12 July 2005 HaSharon Mall suicide bombing. 5 killed 90+ injured.
•  July 23, 2005 – Bomb attacks at Sharm el-Sheikh, an Egyptian resort city, at least 64 people killed.
•  August 17, 2005 – The 2005 Bangladesh bombings, carried out by Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh, kill 2 civilians and wound 50 others.
•  October 1, 2005 – 2005 Bali bombings in Jimbaran & Kuta, Bali, Indonesia; a series of bombings kills at least 20 and injures over 100.
•  October 26, 2005 – Hadera Market bombing. 7 killed 55 injured.
•  October 29, 2005 – 2005 Delhi bombings, India. Over 60 killed and over 180 injured in a series of three attacks in crowded markets and a bus.^[39]
•  October 30, 2005 – Muslim militants on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi behead three Christian girls.
•  November 9, 2005 – 2005 Amman bombings. a series of coordinated suicide attacks on hotels in Amman, Jordan. Over 60 killed and 115 injured.^[40][41] Four attackers including a husband and wife team were involved.^[42]
•  December 5, 2005 – 5 December 2005 HaSharon Mall suicide bombing. 5 dead 40+ injured.
•  December 31, 2005 – A nail bomb explodes in a butcher's shop frequented by Christians in Palu, Indonesia, killing 8 and wounding 53.
•  March 2, 2006 – A suicide car bomb exploded outside the Marriott Hotel, about 20 yards away from the U.S. consulate in Karachi. 4 killed and 30 injured.
•  March 7, 2006 – A series of bombings occurred across the Hindu holy city of Varanasi killing at least 28 people and injuring 101 others.
•  May 30, 2006 – Kedumim bombing. 4 dead.
•  April 17, 2006 – 2006 Tel Aviv shawarma restaurant bombing. 11 killed 70 injured.
•  April 24, 2006 – 2006 Dahab bombings. 23 killed ~80 injured.
•  April 30, 2006 – 2006 Doda massacre: Thirty-five Hindus killed by terrorists in Doda district in Jammu and Kashmir.
•  July 11, 2006 – 2006 Mumbai train bombings: Seven bomb blasts over a period of 11 minutes on the Suburban Railway in Mumbai. 209 killed and over 700 injured.^[43]
•  September 15, 2006 – The September 15, 2006 Yemen attacks were two attempted bombings of oil facilities in Yemen. 5 dead (4 attackers).
•  January 29, 2007 – Eilat bakery bombing. 3 killed.
•  April 18, 2007 – The Zirve Publishing House massacre. Three employees of the Bible publishing house were attacked, tortured and murdered by five Muslimassailants.
•  May 13, 2007 – Jaipur bombings. 80 dead 216 injured.
•  June 30, 2007 – 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack, 5 injured.
•  July 10, 2007 — July 11, 2007 – 2007 Basilan beheading incident by Moro Islamic Liberation Front 14 dead 9 wounded.
•  August 14, 2007 – Qahtaniya bombings. Four suicide vehicle bombings in two predominantly Yazidi towns in northern Iraq. 796 killed, 1,562 wounded.^[44]
•  February 4, 2008 – 2008 Dimona suicide bombing. 1 killed 9 injured.
•  July 26, 2008 – 2008 Ahmedabad bombings. 56 dead, over 200 injured.^[45][46]
•  September 13, 2008 – Bombing series in Delhi, India. Pakistani extremist groups plant bombs at several places including India Gate, out of which the ones at Karol Bagh, Connaught Place and Greater Kailash explode leaving around 30 people dead and 130 injured, followed by another attack two weeks later at the congested Mehrauli area, leaving 3 people dead.
•  September 20, 2008 – Islamabad Marriott Hotel bombing: A dump truck filled with explosives detonated outside the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, killing at least 54, including 2 American servicemen.
•  September 27, 2008 – 27 September 2008 Delhi blast: An explosion in Mehrauli's Electronic market called Sarai, killed 3 and injured 23 others.
•  October 2008 – January 2009 – 2008 attacks on Christians in Mosul. 40+ dead.
•  November 26, 2008 – Muslim extremists kill at least 166 people and wound numerous others in a series of coordinated attacks on India's financial capital,Mumbai. The government of India blamed Pakistan based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba and stated that the terrorists killed/caught were citizens of Pakistan, a claim which the Pakistani government first refused but then accepted when given proof. Ajmal Kasab, one of the terrorists, was caught alive.^[47][48]
•  June 1, 2009 – 2009 Little Rock recruiting office shooting by Abdulhakim Muhajid Muhammad. 1 killed and 1 injured
•  June 18, 2009 – 2009 Beledweyne bombing by Al-Shabaab. 35 dead.
•  July 17, 2009 – 2009 Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Hotels bombing in Mega Kuningan, South Jakarta, Indonesia; suicide bombers hit the Marriott and 5 minutes later the Ritz-Carlton. 9 killed and 53 injured
•  November 5, 2009 – Fort Hood shooting, at Fort Hood near Killeen, Texas. 13 dead, 33 injured.
•  January 7, 2010 – The Nag Hammadi massacre was a massacre of Coptic Christians carried out in the Egyptian city of Nag Hammadi. 11 killed 11 injured.
•  February 3, 2010 – February 2010 Lower Dir bombing. 8 dead 70 injured.
•  March 3, 2010 – The 2010 Baqubah bombings were a series of three bombings that killed at least 33 people and injured 55 others.
•  March 29, 2010 – Moscow Metro bombings. 40 dead, 102 injured. Caucasus Emirate claimed responsibility^[49]
•  May 10, 2010 – The 10 May 2010 Iraq attacks were a series of bomb and shooting attacks that occurred in Iraq. 100+ dead 350+ injured.
•  May 28, 2010 – Attacks on Ahmadi Mosques Lahore, Pakistan. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed attacks on two mosques simultaneously belonging to theAhmadiyya Muslim Community, killing nearly 100 and injuring many others.^[50]
•  July 11, 2010 – The July 2010 Kampala attacks were suicide bombings carried out against crowds watching a screening of the 2010 FIFA World Cup Finalmatch. 74 dead 70 injured.
•  July 15, 2010 – The 2010 Zahedan bombings were two suicide bombings, that targeted Shia worshippers in Iran, including members of the Revolutionary Guards. 27+ dead 270+ injured.
•  August 17, 2010 – 17 August 2010 Baghdad bombings. 69+ dead 169 injured.
•  August 25, 2010 – 25 August 2010 Iraq bombings. 53+ dead 270+ injured.
•  October 31, 2010 – 2010 Baghdad church massacre. At least 51 dead 78 injured.
•  November 5, 2010 – 2010 Darra Adam Khel mosque bombing. At least 66 people, including children, were killed, 80 others were wounded.
•  December 7, 2010 – 2010 Varanasi bombing, India. 2 dead, 37 injured.
•  December 10, 2010 – 2010 Stockholm bombing, Sweden. killing the bomber and injuring two people.
•  January 1, 2011 – The 2011 Alexandria bombing. 23 dead 97 injured.
•  January 18–20, 2011 – The January 2011 Iraq suicide attacks. 137+ killed 230 injured.
•  January 21, 2011 – Domodedovo International Airport bombing. 37 killed, 173 wounded^[51]
•  January 27, 2011 – 27 January 2011 Baghdad bombing killing 48 wounding 78.
•  February 12, 2011 – 2011 Samarra bombing. 48 dead 80 injured.
•  March 2, 2011 – 2011 Frankfurt Airport shooting, Frankfurt, Germany. 2 dead, 2 injured.
•  March 8, 2011 – 2011 Faisalabad bombing. 25+ dead 127+ injured.
•  March 29, 2011 – The 2011 Tikrit assault was an attack by the Islamic State of Iraq that took place in the city of Tikrit, Iraq. 65 dead 100 injured.
•  May 5, 2011 – 2011 Al Hillah bombing. 24 dead 72 injured.
•  May 7, 2011 – The 2011 Imbaba church attacks were a series of attacks against Coptic Christian churches. 15 dead 232 injured.
•  July 18, 2011 – 2011 Hotan attack, Hotan, China. A group of 18 young Uyghur men who opposed the local government's campaign against the full-face Islamic veil perpetrated a series of coordinated bomb and knife attacks and occupied a police station on Nuerbage Street, killing two security guards and taking eight hostages. The attackers yelled religious slogans, including ones associated with Jihadism, 4 killed, 4 wounded.
•  July 30, 2011 – A series of knife and bomb attacks occurred in Kashgar, China. Uyghur men hijacked a truck, killed its driver and drove into a crowd of pedestrians. They then got out of the vehicle and attacked pedestrians with knives. On July 31, a chain of two explosions started a fire in a restaurant, 15 killed, 42 wounded.
•  September 7, 2011 – 2011 Delhi bombing took place in the Indian capital Delhi. 17 dead 76 injured.
•  September 4, 2011 – 2011 Mogadishu bombing. 100 dead 110+ injured.
•  October 7–13, 2011 – October 2011 Baghdad bombings. 64 dead 190 injured.
•  October 28, 2011 – A Wahhabi Islamist attacked the US embassy in Sarajevo with a firearm. He wounded a police officer before being shot and injured by police.^[52]
•  December 22, 2011 – The 22 December 2011 Baghdad bombings were a series of coordinated attacks. 60+ dead. 160+ injured.
•  December 25, 2011 – Christmas Day bombings were bomb blasts and shootings at churches in Madalla, Jos, Gadaka, and Damaturu. Over 41 people are reported dead.^[53]
•  December 28, 2011 - 15 Uyghur youths kidnap two goat shepherds en route to Pakistan for jihadist training. 8 dead 5 injured
•  January 5, 2012 – Iraqi bombings, Baghdad and Nasiriyah, Iraq by Islamic State of Iraq. 73 dead, 149 injured.
•  February 14, 2012 – A series of explosions occurred in Bangkok, Thailand, 5 wounded.
•  February 23, 2012 – Iraqi attacks, Baghdad, Iraq by Islamic State of Iraq. 83 dead, 250+ injured.
•  March 20, 2012 – Iraqi attacks, Baghdad and at least 9 other cities, Iraq. 52 dead, ~ 250 injured.
•  March 20, 2012 – Toulouse and Montauban shootings in France. 7 dead, 5 injured.
•  May 3, 2012 – Makhachkala attack. 14 dead, including 2 suicide bombers, 130 wounded^[54]
•  May 21, 2012 – 2012 Sana'a bombing against Yemeni Army soldiers practicing for the annual Unity Day military parade. 101+ dead 220+ injured.
•  June 13, 2012 – The 13 June 2012 Iraq attacks were a series of simultaneous bombings and shootings occurred in Iraq. At least 93 people were killed and over 300 wounded.
•  June 29, 2012 - Tianjin Airlines Flight 7554 is diverted after an attempted hijacking which led to a fight with the 6 Uyghur men subsequently being restrained. 2 dead 14 injured
•  July 18, 2012 – 2012 Burgas bus bombing. 7 dead, including the suicide bomber and 32 injured at Burgas Airport, Burgas, Bulgaria.
•  July 23, 2012 – 23 July 2012 Iraq attacks. 116 dead 229 injured.
•  August 16, 2012 – 16 August 2012 Iraq attacks. 128 dead 417 injured.
•  September 9, 2012 – 9 September 2012 Iraq attacks. 108+ dead 371+ injured.
•  September 11, 2012 – 2012 Benghazi attack on the U.S. Consulate. 4 dead, 11 injured.
•  January 10, 2013 – January 2013 Pakistan bombings. 130 dead 270 injured.
•  January 16, 2013 – In Amenas hostage crisis. 67+ dead.
•  February 16, 2013 – February 2013 Quetta bombing. At least 110 people were killed and 200 injured after a bomb hidden in a water tank exploded at a market in Hazara Town.
•  February 21, 2013 – 2013 Hyderabad blasts, two bomb blasts killed 16 people and injured 119.
•  March 19, 2013 – 19 March 2013 Iraq attacks 98+ dead 240+ injured.
•  April 15, 2013 – Boston Marathon bombings. Two brothers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnev, planted two bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The blast killed 3 and injured 183 others.^[55]
•  May 11, 2013 – Reyhanlı bombings, killed 52 people and wounded 140.
•  May 22, 2013 – Two men with cleavers kill British soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich.^[56][57]
•  May 23, 2013 – Battle of Agadez and Arlit. Two coordinated attacks perpetrated by Islamists affiliates targeted the two Niger towns of Agadez and Arlit. 26 dead, 30+ wounded.
•  May 23, 2013 – 2013 La Défense attack. An Islamic extremist wielding a knife attacked and wounded a French soldier in the Paris suburb of La Défense. 1 wounded.
•  May 27, 2013 – 27 May 2013 Baghdad bombings. 71 dead 224 injured.
•  June 15, 2013 – June 2013 Quetta attacks by Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. 26 dead 20+ injured.
•  June 22, 2013 – 2013 Nanga Parbat tourist shooting. 11 dead 2 injured.
•  July 7, 2013 – A series of ten bombs explode in and around the Mahabodhi Temple complex, in Bodh Gaya, India. 5 wounded.
•  September 13, 2013 – 2013 attack on U.S. consulate in Herat. 2 dead 20 injured.
•  September 21, 2013 – Westgate shopping mall attack, 67 killed, 175 wounded.^[58][59][60]
•  September 22, 2013 – Peshawar church attack, 80–83 killed, 250 wounded.
•  September 29, 2013 – Gujba college massacre. 44 students killed by Boko Haram
•  October 28, 2013 – A 4x4 vehicle crashed into a crowd and burst into flames in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, 5 killed, 38 wounded.
•  December 5, 2013 – At the 2013 Sana'a attack at least 56 people died and 162 were wounded.
•  January 19, 2014 – 2014 Bannu bombing by Taliban. 26 dead 38 injured.
•  February 14, 2014 – Borno Massacre at least 200 killed by Boko Haram^[61]
•  March 1, 2014 – A group of 8 individuals attacked civilians at Kunming Railway Station, 28 dead, 143 wounded.
•  April 14, 2014 – The April 2014 Abuja bombing by Boko Haram. 88+ dead 200+ injured.
•  April 30, 2014 – Two assailants attacked passengers and detonated explosives at the Ürümqi railway station, 3 dead, 79 wounded.
•  May 20, 2014 – Jos bombings at least 118 killed and over 56 injured^[62]
•  May 22, 2014 – Two SUVs which carried 5 assailants were driven into a street market in Ürümqi and up to a dozen explosives were thrown at shoppersthrough the windows of the SUVs. The cars then crashed into shoppers and collided into each other and exploded, 39 dead, 90+ wounded.
•  May 24, 2014 – Jewish Museum of Belgium shooting. Gunman opened fire at the Jewish Museum in Brussels killing 4 people.
•  August 2014 – ISIL fighters massacred some 700 people, mostly men, of the Shu'aytat tribe in Deir ez-Zor Governorate.^[63]
•  August 15, - 2014 Quetta Airbase attack, twelve militants dead.
•  September 23, 2014 – 2014 Endeavour Hills stabbings. Numan Haider, an Afghan Australian stabbed two counter terrorism officers in Melbourne, Australia. He was then shot dead.^[64]
•  October 5, 2014 – 2014 Grozny bombing. 5 officers and the suicide bomber, were killed, while 12 others were wounded.^[65]
•  October 20, 2014 – 2014 Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu ramming attack. Lone attacker used his car to run over two Canadian soldiers. 1 killed, 1 injured
•  October 22, 2014 – 2014 shootings at Parliament Hill, Ottawa. Lone attacker shot a soldier at a war memorial and attacked Parliament. 1 killed, 3 injured.^[66]
•  October 22, 2014 – A Hamas terrorist rammed his vehicle into a group of people waiting at a light rail station in Jerusalem. 2 killed 8 wounded.^[67]
•  October 23, 2014 – Zale H. Thomson, also known as Zaim Farouq Abdul-Malik, attacked four New York policemen in the subway with a hatchet, severely injuring one in the back of the head and injuring another policeman in the arm before being shot to death by the remaining officers, who also shot a civilian.^[68]
•  November 5, 2014 – In the November 2014 Jerusalem vehicular attack a Hamas operative deliberately drove a van at high speed into a crowd of people. 4 killed 13 wounded.
•  November 10, 2014 – An Israeli IDF soldier was stabbed to death by a Lone wolf jihadist.^[69]
•  November 14, 2014 – 2014 Jerusalem synagogue attack 5 dead. 7 injured.
•  November 28, 2014 – Kano bombing. Around 120 people were killed and another 260 injured.^{[70][71][72][73]}
•  December 1, 2014 – A burqa-clad woman stabs a 47-year-old American teacher to death in a mall restroom in Abu Dhabi. She later plants a bomb outside the home of an Egyptian-American doctor, which was safely dismantled.^[74]
•  December 4, 2014 – 2014 Grozny clashes. 26 total dead, including 14 policemen, 11 Jihadist from Caucasus Emirate, 1 civilian^[75]
•  December 9, 2014 – In the 2014 Bukidnon bus bombing 11 people died and 43 were injured.
•  December 15–16, 2014 – 2014 Sydney hostage crisis. A lone gunman, Man Haron Monis, held hostage ten customers and eight employees of a Lindt chocolate café at Martin Place in Sydney. Police treated the event as a terrorist attack at the time. It was however designated as a terrorist attack by the state government but Monis' motives have subsequently been debated. 3 dead 4 injured.
•  December 16, 2014 – 2014 Peshawar school attack. Over 140 people dead, including at least 132 children.^[76]
•  December 16, 2014 – 2014 Rada' bombings. Two suicide car bombers rammed their vehicles into a Shiite rebels' checkpoint killing 26, including 16 students.^[77]
•  December 18, 2014 – 2014 Gumsuri kidnappings. Boko Haram insurgents killed 32 men and kidnapped at least 185 women and children.^[78]
•  December 18, 2014 – Mass grave of 230 Tribesmen killed by ISIL found in Eastern Syria.^[79]
•  December 20, 2014 – 2014 Joué-lès-Tours stabbings. A man yelling Allahu Akbar attacked a police office with a knife. He was killed, 3 police officers were injured^[80]
•  December 21, 2014 – 2014 Dijon attack. A man yelling Allahu Akbar ran over 11 pedestrians with his vehicle. 11 injured
•  December 22, 2014 – Boko Haram insurgents bombed a bus station in the city of Gombe, killing at least twenty people.^[81]
•  December 2014 – ISIL militants execute 150 women Iraqi province of Al-Anbar, some of whom were pregnant at the time, who refuse to marry their fighters.^[82]
•  December 24, 2014 – A suicide bomber killed 33 people and wounded 55 others in Madaen, about 25 km (15 miles) south of Baghdad.^[83]
•  December 25, 2014 – Al-Shabaab attack in Mogadishu leaves 9 dead.^[84]
•  December 28, 2014 – Boko Haram attacks village in Cameroon leaving 30 dead.^[85]
•  January 5, 2015 – A car packed with explosives drove up to the headquarters of EUPOL Afghanistan, a European police-training organization, in Kabul and detonated. Taliban claimed responsibility. 1 killed 16 wounded.^[86]
•  January 6, 2015 – Two suicide bombers attacked a mosque in the town of Al-Jubba while Iraqi soldiers were resting, killing 10 soldiers plus the two attackers. Clashes following the bombings left 13 security personnel dead and 21 wounded.^[87]
•  January 7–9, 2015 – A series of five attacks in and around Paris kill 17 people, plus three attackers, and leave 22 other people injured.
•  January 8, 2015 – 2015 Baga massacre. Boko Haram attacks town of Baga in northern Nigeria killing at least 200 people. Another 2000 are unaccounted for.^[88]
•  January 10, 2015 – In the 2015 Jabal Mohsen suicide attacks 9 people died and 30+ were wounded.
•  January 29, 2015 – January 2015 Sinai attacks. 44 killed, several wounded.
•  January 30, 2015 – Suicide bomber killed at least 55, injuring at least 59 in a Shiite mosque in southern Pakistan.^[89]
•  February 13, 2015 – Heavily armed militants killed at least 19 people and wounded more than 40 after they stormed into a Shiite mosque during Friday Prayer in a suburb of Peshawar.^[90]
•  February 14–15, 2015 – 2015 Copenhagen attacks. A gunman opened fire at the Krudttoenden café and later at the Great Synagogue in Copenhagen, killing two civilians and injuring five others.^[91]
•  March 7, 2015 – Five suicide bomb blasts leave 58 dead and 143 wounded in the 2015 Maiduguri suicide bombing.
•  March 15, 2015 – Suicide bombers kill at least 15 people in attacks on two churches in Lahore.^[92]
•  March 18, 2015 – Bardo National Museum attack. Militants linked to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) attack the Bardo National Museum with guns, killing 21 people and injuring around 50.^[93]
•  March 20, 2015 – 2015 Sana'a mosque bombings. 135 killed in bombings on several mosques by ISIL.^[94]
•  March 25, 2015 – ISIL affiliates, The Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries in Libya carried out suicide bombings in the city of Benghazi. Twelve were killed and 25 wounded. Five additional dead during attacks with a local militia.^[95]
•  March 27, 2015 – Makka al-Mukarama hotel attack. 20+ dead 28 wounded.
•  April 2, 2015 – 148 killed in Al-Shabaab's Garissa University College attack.^[96]
•  April 8, 2015 – In the city of Riyadh two policemen are shot dead. ISIL is blamed to be behind the attack.^[97][98]
•  April 14, 2015 – Militants of Al-Shabaab attack a government building in Mogadishu in the 2015 Ministry of Higher Education attack. 17 dead 15 wounded.
•  April 17, 2015 – A series of bombings by the ISIL occurred through Baghdad. 40+ killed 59+ injured.^[99]
•  April 17, 2015 – A car bomb exploded at the entrance of the US consulate in Erbil, Iraq. ISIL took credit for the attack. 3 killed 5 wounded.^[100]
•  April 18, 2015 – A suicide bomb detonated in front of a bank in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. ISIL claims responsibility. 33 killed 100+ injured.^[101]
•  April 19, 2015 – A 32-year Frenchwoman is murdered by a gunman whose plot to attack a church is foiled shortly after.^[102]
•  April 20, 2015 – A minivan of UN workers was bombed by Al-Shabaab in the Puntland region of Somalia. 9 dead 4 injured.^[103]
•  April 27, 2015 – At the Zvornik police station terrorist attack in the city of Zvornik, Republika Srpska, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, an armed member of awahhabist movement opened fire on the police. In the shooting, a police officer was killed, two others were injured, and the attacker was killed by police.^[104]
•  May 3, 2015 – Two car bombs were detonated ten minutes apart in Baghdad, Iraq. Nineteen were killed and an unknown number wounded. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attacks.^[105]
•  May 3, 2015 – Two gunmen attacked the Curtis Culwell Center during a 'Draw Muhammad' cartoon art exhibit in Garland, Texas . 2 dead (perpetrators) 1 injured.^{[106][107][108][109][110]}
•  May 3, 2015 – Taliban militants overran checkpoints in Warduj, killing 17 policemen.^[111]
•  May 4, 2015 – A government bus was attacked by a suicide bomber in Kabul, killing one person and injuring 15 others.^[112]
•  May 10, 2015 – Two car bombs were detonated ten minutes apart in Baghdad, Iraq and surrounding towns of Taji and Tarmiyah. ISIS claims responsibility. 14 were killed and wounding 30.^[113]
•  May 10, 2015 – A bus carrying Afghan government employees was attacked in Kabul by a suicide bomber, killing 3 people and injuring 10. Taliban claimed responsibility.^[114]
•  May 13, 2015 – A bus carrying Shia Muslims was attacked by six armed gunman who rode up in motorcycles. Several Islamist groups claim responsibility. 45 dead 13 injured.^[115]
•  May 14, 2015 – A hotel that was hosting a cultural event was attacked by Taliban fighters in Kabul leaving 14 dead including an American, an Italian, and 4 Indians.^[116]
•  May 17, 2015 – A Taliban suicide attack near the entrance of Hamid Karzai International Airport targeting a European police training vehicle. 3 dead 18 injured.^[117]
•  May 19, 2015 – A suicide car bombing detonated in the parking lot of a Justice Ministry building in the diplomatic section of Kabul, killing 4 people wounding 42.^[118]
•  May 21, 2015 – A suicide bomber detonated his explosives at a military checkpoint outside of Misrata killing himself and two guards.^[119]
•  May 22, 2015 – A suicide bomber attacked a Shia mosque during prayer in the al-Qadeeh village. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack. 21 dead +90 injured.^[120]
•  May 25, 2015 – Taliban militants killed 19 policemen and six soldiers during a siege at a police compound in Nawzad District of Afghanistan.^[121]
•  May 26, 2015 – Al-Shabaab militants attacked two police patrols which turned into a gun battle north of Garissa, 5 police officers were injured but they were able to kill both of the attackers.^[122]
•  May 28, 2015 – Two car bombs were set off minutes apart targeting the Cristal Grand Ishtar Hotel and the Babylon. 10 killed and 30 wounded.^[123]
•  May 29, 2015 – A suicide bomber attacked a Shia mosque in Dammam detonating the bomb in the parking lot. 4killed, unknown injured.^[124]
•  June 1, 2015 – Three suicide bombers in humvees attacked an Iraqi police station in the Tharthar region in Northern Anbar Province. 41 dead, 63 wounded.^[125]
•  June 5, 2015 – 2015 Diyarbakır rally bombings – Twin suicide bombing of a Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) rally. 4 dead, over 100 injured.^[126][127]
•  June 13, 2015 – Four suicide SUV car bombs went off in an Iraqi police station in the Hajjaj near Tikrit and Baiji. 11 dead, 27 injured.^[128]
•  June 26, 2015 – Saint-Quentin-Fallavier attack – Beheading in a factory near Lyon, head marked with Arabic writing and Islamist flags. Gas canisters planted provoked a fire. 1 dead, 11 injured.^[129]
•  June 26, 2015 – 2015 Kuwait mosque bombing – 27 people killed in explosion at Shia Imam Sadiq mosque in Kuwait City, medical sources tell Al Jazeera. Claimed by ISIS
•  June 26, 2015 – 2015 Sousse attack – Attack in Tunisia against two tourist hotels, over 28 people died.
•  June 26, 2015 – Battle of Leego (2015) Attack on AMISOM base in Somalia with a car bomb, assault rifles and RPGs, causing over 30 military deaths.
•  June 29, 2015 – 2015 Shuvat Rachel shooting shooting attack on civilian car, 1 death.
•  July 20, 2015 – 2015 Suruç bombing Suicide bombing killed 33 people and injured 104 in Kurdish majority city of Suruç. ISIL claims responsibility.^[130]
•  August 13, 2015 – 2015 Baghdad market truck bombing A truck bomb in a Baghdad market killed more than 70 and injures 200.^[131]
•  August 21, 2015 – 2015 Thalys train attack Shooting and stabbing in train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris injures 5. The incident is believed by French police to be an Islamist terrorist attack.^[132]
•  September 17, 2015 – Two suicide bombings in Baghdad killed 10 and injured 55. ISIL claims responsibility.^[133]
•  September 17, 2015 – An Islamist of Iraqi descent attacked and injured a police officer with a knife in Berlin. 1 injured, 1 dead (perpetrator).^[134]
•  September 24, 2015 – A bomb attack on a Shia mosque in Sana'a killed 25 and injured dozens more during prayers for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. Claimed by ISIL.^[135]
•  September 29, 2015 – Three men on a motorbike shot and killed an Italian aid worker. The attack has been claimed by ISIL.^[136]
•  October 1, 2015 – Multiple suicide bombings by Boko Haram in North-East Nigeria killed 14 people (including the bombers) and injured 39.^[137]
•  October 1, 2015 – Gunmen opened fire on a car near Nablus on the northern West Bank, killing a man and woman. 4 of their 6 children were also in the car and witnessed the attack, but were uninjured. The attackers have been praised by Hamas.^[138][139]
•  October 2, 2015 – 2015 Parramatta shooting. A NSW Police Force civilian employee was shot dead outside NSW Police Force headquarters on Charles Street, Parramatta, Sydney by a 15-year old lone gunman. The gunman then engaged with NSW Police Special Constables in a shootout before being killed, 2 dead.^[140]
•  October 3, 2015 – A Japanese man was shot and killed in a similar fashion to an Italian aid worker killed 4 days earlier. The attack has been claimed by ISIL.^[141]
•  October 3, 2015 – In Baghdad, two suicide bombings in Shiite majority neighbourhoods kill at least 18 people and injure 61. Attack claimed by ISIL.^[142]
•  October 5, 2015 – Two suicide bombings in Kabul targeted an Afghan intelligence centre. 3 people were injured in the attack, claimed by the Taliban.^[143][144]
•  October 7, 2015 – Militants of Al-Shabaab ambushed and killed the nephew of Somalia's president, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud. 2 dead.^[145]
•  October 10, 2015 - In the 2015 Ankara bombings at least 95 people were killed and 245 injured. According to two high ranked sources in the Turkish security forces ISIL is most likely responsible.^[146][147]
•  October 10, 2015 – Multiple suicide bombings in Chad killed 33 people and injured 51. The attack is believed to be the work of Boko Haram.^[148]
•  October 11, 2015 – A bomb attack in Kabul, targeting a British military convoy injured 7 Afghan civilians. The attack has been claimed by the Taliban.^[149]
•  October 22, 2015 – 20 people were killed in the northeast state of Borno, Nigeria in a Boko Haram attack.^[150]
•  October 31, 2015 – Bomb on board a Russian jet brings it down in Sinai, bound for St Petersburg, killing 224 people.^[151]
•  November 12, 2015 – Twin suicide bombings kill 42 people in the capital city of Beirut.^[152]
•  November 13, 2015 – A series of seven attacks kill 129 people in the capital city of Paris.

[CoachB25]

One of the most touching scenes was when French citizens, crowed in some small area began singing the La Marseillaise. 

[jbishop15]

14 minutes ago, RandallT said:

I like you guys, but I shake my head that you are brushing this off as a handful of assholes. I know you take it all seriously, and do feel similarly about the tragic loss of life. But that graphic comes across as a bit "head in the sand." I suppose you think people like me are overreacting, but I feel I must at least say this:

I see the ideology that is behind this attack and others similar as deadly serious. I view it as a totalitarian threat to our existence, and I believe that it is a CONSTANT fight in civilization for freedom. I think we are never too far from tyranny, and each generation must keep alive the noble struggle or freedom perishes. 

While I see your math, I also see a bigger picture that it is not a handful of people in one place and time that is doing this across the globe and over the years. This is a generations-long fight and it is seeming to escalate in my lifetime. And things are frighteningly real right now as the movement of people around the planet is unprecedented.  

I fear that when we say "Never forget", we really only mean that as a flippant hashtag, and then we mostly forget about it as we return to our lives. The oppressive ideology behind this attack will certainly not forget their struggle, as those that value freedom get distracted as we enjoy the fruits of those freedoms.

When I hear politicians say things that these attacks are against "universal" values, I always think: "freedom is NOT a universal value- many clearly speak out against those freedoms." If we enjoy our freedom, we are going to have to fight to keep it alive (not necessarily with guns, but with words/ideas primarily). Our leaders pay lip service to freedom, and they seem to promote diversity and tolerance to oppressive societies as a higher calling. I'm all for diversity and tolerance, but at the expense of freedom- NEVER.

Is this list below really the work of just a handful of assholes, or perhaps there is a global and growing totalitarian ideology, bent on world domination? I apologize for the long list, but this one goes back to 2001. It's important to see the length.

Does David Koresh represent all Christians? Does Joseph Stalin represent all atheists? 

[Lihu]

I hope we support France through this terrible time with whatever actions she sees fit.

[gregsandiego]

35 minutes ago, jbishop15 said:

Does David Koresh represent all Christians? Does Joseph Stalin represent all atheists? 

ISIS doesn't represent all Muslims. But it is a lot bigger than one person. 

[CR McDivot]

Islam, notice I did not say "radical Islam", is the greatest threat to liberty and individual rights as it has always been.

By it's very nature, as has been proven in history and it's fundamental tenets, Islam is a religious, political and sociological system that is in direct opposition to the concept of the free will of man, the innate liberty of the individual, and the concept that all men/women are created in the image of GOD and equal under the law.

On the other hand, Christianity, when practiced in the true spirit of Christ, is the perfect example of the recognition of the rights of man/woman and their responsibility to both God and their fellow man.

One may argue that one is not beholden to either. But consider, Islam demands subjection and emphatically desires to enforce such to the point of execution of those who refuse to be subject.

Christianity offers liberty by free choice and her founder has paid the cost of admission by His own suffering.

Choose NOW whom you will serve... for you will surely serve!

[jbishop15]

47 minutes ago, CR McDivot said:

Islam, notice I did not say "radical Islam", is the greatest threat to liberty and individual rights as it has always been.

By it's very nature, as has been proven in history and it's fundamental tenets, Islam is a religious, political and sociological system that is in direct opposition to the concept of the free will of man, the innate liberty of the individual, and the concept that all men/women are created in the image of GOD and equal under the law.

On the other hand, Christianity, when practiced in the true spirit of Christ, is the perfect example of the recognition of the rights of man/woman and their responsibility to both God and their fellow man.

One may argue that one is not beholden to either. But consider, Islam demands subjection and emphatically desires to enforce such to the point of execution of those who refuse to be subject.

Christianity offers liberty by free choice and her founder has paid the cost of admission by His own suffering.

Choose NOW whom you will serve... for you will surely serve!

Christianity has a blood-soaked history, CR. Millions and millions and millions of lives have been lost fighting in it's name.

[iacas]

54 minutes ago, CR McDivot said:

Choose NOW whom you will serve... for you will surely serve!

How about myself and my fellow man?

And I second what @jbishop15 said.

[rkim291968]

5 hours ago, Gunther said:

You've been indoctrinated through your education, probably most through college but it's happened since 1st grade.  If your dad is a republican, you probably didn't speak with him much about politics through school.

My son graduated college in '14.  He had a solid conservative foundation but required my guidance to filter out the liberal bullshit he had to endure through his education and most particularly through those 4 years of college.  He's not fully clean yet but now fancies himself a Libertarian, which I can accept, somewhat reluctantly.  Smart kid, Cum Laude, but a frat boy too.  I'm proud of him as I'm sure your folks are of you.

Global warming is a ruse, the facts don't support anything more than that.  The "majority" of scientists you cite involves 75 of 77 scientists among the 18,000 originally surveyed.  It was a bogus study, well documented as such, yet somehow the media still quotes it:  97%, blah, blah.  It's bogus and completely untrue.

There is no institutional racism in this country anymore, especially not on college campuses. Again, a ruse perpetrated by George Soros who is funding it, along with Occupy (fake), Ferguson (fake), minimum wage (ridiculous), and many other false narratives that permeate our media.

Fox news does not slant heavily right.  The are right of center but firmly entrenched with Republican establishment which is far left of where we need to be in America to continue the success we've have these 240 years or so.  Liberalism does not work, which is why Obama has been such an abject failuree.

Anyway, I ventured far off topic but the fact is, I believe this event should strengthen our resolve to shed this false racism narrative and begin the hard work of eliminating those terrorists among us and abroad to secure our future.

Completely OT (and completely off in just about everything). 

1 hour ago, CR McDivot said:

Islam, notice I did not say "radical Islam", is the greatest threat to liberty and individual rights as it has always been.

By it's very nature, as has been proven in history and it's fundamental tenets, Islam is a religious, political and sociological system that is in direct opposition to the concept of the free will of man, the innate liberty of the individual, and the concept that all men/women are created in the image of GOD and equal under the law.

On the other hand, Christianity, when practiced in the true spirit of Christ, is the perfect example of the recognition of the rights of man/woman and their responsibility to both God and their fellow man.

One may argue that one is not beholden to either. But consider, Islam demands subjection and emphatically desires to enforce such to the point of execution of those who refuse to be subject.

Christianity offers liberty by free choice and her founder has paid the cost of admission by His own suffering.

Choose NOW whom you will serve... for you will surely serve!

Completely OT and incomprehensible.  

[dkolo]

1 hour ago, CR McDivot said:

Islam, notice I did not say "radical Islam", is the greatest threat to liberty and individual rights as it has always been.

By it's very nature, as has been proven in history and it's fundamental tenets, Islam is a religious, political and sociological system that is in direct opposition to the concept of the free will of man, the innate liberty of the individual, and the concept that all men/women are created in the image of GOD and equal under the law.

On the other hand, Christianity, when practiced in the true spirit of Christ, is the perfect example of the recognition of the rights of man/woman and their responsibility to both God and their fellow man.

One may argue that one is not beholden to either. But consider, Islam demands subjection and emphatically desires to enforce such to the point of execution of those who refuse to be subject.

Christianity offers liberty by free choice and her founder has paid the cost of admission by His own suffering.

Choose NOW whom you will serve... for you will surely serve!

Have you ever cared to learn history? After the collapse of Rome, the Arab world was the center of learning and thought. It was a culture of openness to visitors from afar and embraced science and technology. It's why most of the stars in the sky have Arabic names. It's why algebra is an Arabic word. Why'd it stop? Because a cleric perverted the writings of the religion to essentially ban such progressive thought. The religion is fine. When bad people choose to pervert it to their purposes, you get bad activities. But it's not anything inherent to the religion. Just as extremism and regressive thought by any subset of any religion isn't reflective of those other religions. 

Fun exercise: switch the references to Christianity and Islam in your diatribe and notice it's exactly as true as what you wrote now. 

[newtogolf]

1 hour ago, jbishop15 said:

Christianity has a blood-soaked history, CR. Millions and millions and millions of lives have been lost fighting in it's name.

You should really review Sharia Law as I believe you will find it even more oppressive and oppositional to your views than you find Christianity.

[rkim291968]

Every time there is a tragic event like this, people rally and resolve to do something about it.  But over time, once emotions die out, people and governments are back to where they were before the event.   I sure hope this event and Russian airline crash serves as a turning point for the fight against ISIS and the like.   If not, we will have to wait for another event like 911 before taking a decisive action against ISIS.

[nevets88]

Please stay on topic, if you want to discuss politics, start your own thread - the topic of this thread is Paris Terror Attacks.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/world/europe/paris-terrorist-attacks.html?_r=0

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PARIS — Three teams of Islamic State attackers acting in unison carried out the terrorist assault in Paris on Friday night, officials said Saturday, including one assailant who may have traveled to Europe on a Syrian passport along with the flow of migrants.

“It is an act of war that was committed by a terrorist army, a jihadist army, Daesh, against France,” President François Hollande told the nation from the Élysée Palace, using an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State. “It is an act of war that was prepared, organized and planned from abroad, with complicity from the inside, which the investigation will help establish.”

As the death toll rose to 129 — with 352 others wounded, 99 of them critically — a basic timeline of the attacks came into view.

The Paris prosecutor, François Molins, said the attackers were all armed with assault rifles and suicide vests. Their assault began at 9:20 p.m. Friday, when one terrorist detonated a suicide bomb outside the gates of the soccer stadium on the northern outskirts of Paris. It ended at 12:20 a.m. Saturday when the authorities stormed a concert hall, the Bataclan. One attacker there was killed; two others detonated suicide vests. Inside the hall, 89 people, who had been listening to a rock band, had been shot to death.

http://www.lemonde.fr/attaques-a-paris/article/2015/11/15/ismael-omar-mostefai-l-un-des-kamikazes-francais-du-bataclan_4810208_4809495.html

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L’identité du kamikaze du Bataclan identifié par les enquêteurs grâce à son doigt coupé est désormais connue : il s’agit d’Ismaël Omar Mostefaï, un homme de 29 ans natif de Courcouronnes, dans l’Essonne, qui vivait ces dernières années dans le quartier de La Madeleine, à Chartres (Eure-et-Loir). L’information a été dévoilée par le député et maire (LR) de Chartres, Jean-Pierre Gorges, et confirmée au Monde par une autre source. Selon nos informations, Ismaël Omar Mostefaï a très probablement séjourné en Syrie durant quelques mois, à l’hiver 2013-2014. Les enquêteurs ont retrouvé la trace de son passage en Turquie, voie d’entrée privilégiée pour rejoindre le théâtre syrien.

GT:

The identity of the suicide bomber Bataclan identified by investigators through his severed finger is now known: it is Mostefai Ismaël Omar, a 29-year-old native of Courcouronnes, in Essonne, who lived in recent years in the La Madeleine, in Chartres (Eure-et-Loir). The information was disclosed by the deputy and mayor (LR) from Chartres, Jean-Pierre Gorges, and confirmed to the world from another source. Reportedly, Ismael Omar Mostefai most likely stayed in Syria for several months in the winter of 2013-2014. Investigators traced his visit to Turkey privileged entryway to join the Syrian theater.

 

1 American dead. Cal State Long Beach student was having dinner. 1 American wounded. Woman from New Orleans (here's her catering website) at concert shot in thighs, her friend next to her was shot and killed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/among-the-victims-in-paris-a-american-exchange-student/2015/11/14/6dc2d9fa-8afc-11e5-be39-0034bb576eee_story.html

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http://www.wsj.com/articles/attacker-tried-to-enter-paris-stadium-but-was-turned-away-1447520571

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PARIS—At least one of the attackers outside France’s national soccer stadium had a ticket to the game and attempted to enter the 80,000-person venue, according to a Stade de France security guard who was on duty and French police.

The guard—who asked to be identified only by his first name, Zouheir—said the attacker was discovered wearing an explosives vest when he was frisked at the entrance to the stadium about 15 minutes into the game. France was playing an exhibition against Germany inside.

While attempting to back away from security, Zouheir said, the attacker detonated the vest, which was loaded with explosives and bolts, according to Paris prosecutor François Molins. Zouheir, who was stationed by the players’ tunnel, said he was briefed on the sequence by the security frisking team at the gate.

A police officer confirmed the sequence, adding that police suspect the attacker aimed to detonate his vest inside the stadium in order to provoke a deadly stampede.

 

Bataclan video showing beginning of attack. It's just the band playing, you hear shots and the band is confused.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/paris-attacks-the-moment-gunfire-broke-out-at-the-eagles-concert-at-the-bataclan-a6735031.html