AdamW said:
Malaysia as well... an islamic country that was part of The Empire and uses proper plugs and sockets!
You will always get nutters. That fool holding up the "Islam will dominate the world" sign is obviously an idiot. His gesticulating reminds me of another breed of moron: the football hooligan.
Replace the word "Islam" with the name of a football team, and you would get a similar reaction from people who dislike that team. This guy obviously thinks that HIS team (islam) is the best, and thinks that everyone else must be wrong. But to the impartial observer, or simply one who does not let such matters bother him, it is simply a form of stupidity. If you saw 100 people walking down your street chanting "Milwall!", you would probably tut and think "w*nkers".
All you need is for these guys to be chanting "Islam! ISLAAAAM! ISLAM! ISLAAAAM!" to the tune of "Amazing Grace" in the way that many football fans do.
Christian fundamentalists go on about the evils of premarital sex. They wander about with signs, shouting stuff, usually outside clinics (Julie, has this ever happened outside yours?) My view on sex before marriage is that it is great. And I am insulted that people lump "Christians" together on such issues: I regard myself as one but I'm well into it and there is no WAY I would agree with their views, and they don't speak for me.
Detailed below is a list of the terrorist attacks carried out in 2003, 2004
and to date in 2005 :
2003
May 12: Bombings of United States expat housing compounds in Saudi Arabia kill 26 and injure 160 in the Riyadh Compound Bombings. Al-Qaeda blamed.
May 12: A truck bomb attack on a government building in the Chechen town of Znamenskoye kills 59.
May 14: As many as 16 die in a suicide bombing at a religious festival in southeastern Chechnya.
May 16: Casablanca Attacks by 12 bombers on five "Western and Jewish" targets in Casablanca, Morocco leaves 41 dead and over 100 injured. Attack attributed to a Moroccan al-Qaeda-linked group.
July 5: 15 people die and 40 are injured in bomb attacks at a rock festival in Moscow.
August 1: An explosion at the Russian hospital in Mozdok in North Ossetia kills at least 50 people and injures 76.
August 19: Canal Hotel Bombing in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 22 people (including the top UN representative Sergio Vieira de Mello) and wounds over 100.
August 25: At least 48 people were killed and 150 injured in two blasts in south Mumbai - one near the Gateway of India at the other at the Zaveri Bazaar. Muslim fundalmenetalists to blame.
August 29: Car bomb outside Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf, Iraq, kills more than 80 people, including SCIRI leader Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim.
September 3: A bomb blast on a passenger train near Kislovodsk in southern Russia kills seven people and injures 90. .
November 15 and November 20: Truck bombs go off at two synagogues, the British Consulate, and the HSBC Bank in Istanbul, Turkey, killing 57 and wounding 700 in the 2003 Istanbul Bombings.
December 5: Suicide bombers kill at least 46 people in an attack on a train in southern Russia
December 9: A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds at least 11.
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2004
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February 1: 109 Kurds are killed in 2 suicide bombings in Arbil, Iraq.
February 6: Bomb on Moscow Metro kills 41.
February 27: Superferry 14 is bombed in the Philippines by Abu Sayyaf, killing 116.
March 2: Ashoura Massacre: Suicide bombings at Shia holy sites in Iraq kill 181 and wound more than 500 during the Ashura.
March 2: Attack on procession of Shia Muslims in Pakistan kills 43 and wounds 160.
March 9: Attack of Istanbul restaurant in Turkey.
March 11: Coordinated bombing of commuter trains in Madrid, Spain, kills 191 people and injures more than 1,500.
April 21: Basra bombs in Iraq kill 74 and injure hundreds.
April 21: Bombing of a security building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia kills 5.
May 29: Al-Khobar massacres, in which Islamic militants kill 22 people at an oil compound in Saudi Arabia.
August 24: Russian airplane bombings kill 90.
August 31: A blast near a subway station entrance in northern Moscow, caused by a suicide bomber, kills 10 people and injures 33.
September 1 – 3: Beslan school hostage crisis in North Ossetia, Russia, results in 344 dead.
September 9: Jakarta embassy bombing, in which the Australian embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia was bombed, killing eight people.
October 7: Sinai bombings: Three car bombs explode in the Sinai Peninsula, killing at least 34 and wounding 171, many of them Israeli and other foreign tourists.
December 6: Suspected al Qaeda-linked group attacks U.S. consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing 5 local employees.
December 12: A bombing at the Christmas market in General Santos, Philippines, kills 15.
2005
February 14: A car bomb kills former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and 20 others in Beirut.
February 28: About 125 Iraqis killed by a suicide car bomb outside a medical centre in Hilla, south of Baghdad.
March 19: Car bomb attack on theatre in Doha, Qatar, kills one Briton and wounds 12 others.
April: April 2005 terrorist attacks in Cairo – On April 7 a suicide bomber blows himself up in Cairo's Khan al Khalili market, killing three foreign tourists and wounding 17 others. In two further attacks on 30 April, suspected accomplices detonate a bomb and spray a tourist coach with gunfire.
June 1: A suicide bomber blows up in a mosque in Kandahar, Afghanistan, killing 20 people.
June 12: Bombs explode in the Iranian cities of Ahvaz and Tehran, leaving 10 dead and 80 wounded days before the Iranian presidential election.
Coordinated terrorist attack in LondonJuly 7: 7 July 2005 London bombings - Attacks on one double-decker bus and three London Underground trains, killing 55+ people and injuring over 700, occur on the first day of the 31st G8 Conference. The attacks are believed by many to be the first suicide bombings in Western Europe.
July 16: A suicide bomber blows up an oil tanker in the predominantly Shiite town of Musayyib in Iraq, killing 98 people.
July 21: 21 July 2005 London bombings - Small explosions in 3 London Underground stations and 1 double-decker bus. This was pronounced as a "major incident" rather than an attack, and only minor injuries were reported. These 4 bombs were designed to cause as much damage at the 7 July 2005 London bombings but the explosive had deteriorated and failed to detonate.
July 23:Sharm el-Sheikh bombings: Car bombs explode at tourist sites in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing at least 88 and wounding more than 100.
I have only mentioned a few of the NOTABLE attacks in the Iraq situation as the terrorist attacks and casualties are numerous.
I note that there is not one 'Football Hooligan' or ' Christian fundamentalist' as the perpetrators of these attacks .
What is the famous saying, ' All Muslims are NOT terrorists but ALL
terrorists are Muslim.'
These are the issues that effect us today and in our daily life.
