Religion of Peace?

Someone is counting and you won't believe the numbers. Islam extremists are killing people every day in many countries.

You can't blame George Bush for this. The bombings in Iraq count, because they are done by Islamists intending to disrupt the conversion of Iraq from a ditactatorship to a democracy. But even taking out Iraq there are killings every day. Some days multiple lethal attacks.

In the past 2 days there were attacks in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Phillipines. The list for the past year must have 1,000 attacks.

Many attacks are against Christians or secular people. But some are within factions of Islam. Algeria is 99 plus per cent Muslim. But look at this:

On May 15, 2005 in Khenchela, Algeria all eleven members of a water supply convoy are blown up or machine-gunned by the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat....

On May 9 in Chakka, India - The Mujahideen open fire on civilians exiting a mosque, killing three and injuring an unknown number.

These were Muslims killing Muslims.

Look at the list for the past 365 days. It is astonishing.

Update. 10/14/05 - Thailand

The BBC reports that Thailand has major problem. Their southern provinces that adjoin Malaysia are being attacked by Islamists and killed almost every day.

The continuing unrest in Thailand's Muslim-majority south has led to the deaths of about 950 people since the beginning of 2004, and shows no signs of abating.

950 deaths in less than 2 years; that's an average of about 2 people every day!

Some of the insurgents blamed for a spiral of violence in southern Thailand were trained in Libya, a senior Thai defence official has claimed.
General Pallop Pinmanee said the militants then used this training to teach many others in the south.

But Thailand's defence minister said there was still no concrete evidence any insurgents had been trained abroad.