Here is a list of places of worship around the world attacked by terrorists over the last decade
A decade of violent attacks in houses of worship have targeted all faiths
Only 4 out of 18 were not conducted by Islamic terrorists. That comes out to about 77% of the time it's Islamic terrorists.
• Oct. 31, 2010: Al-Qaida in Iraq militants attack Our Lady of Salvation Catholic Church in Baghdad during Sunday night mass, killing 58 people in the deadliest assault targeting Christians since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion there. Al-Qaida in Iraq later became the Islamic State group.
• Dec. 15, 2010: Two suicide bombers from the Sunni extremist group Jundallah blow themselves up near a mosque in southeastern Iran, including six Revolutionary Guard commanders.
• July 16, 2010: Jundallah group kills 27 and injures 270 after it carries out a double suicide bombing against another Shiite mosque in southeastern Iran.
• Aug. 5, 2012: Six members of the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, in Oak Creek, are fatally shot by a white supremacist, Wade Michael Page. Page was shot by a responding officer and later killed himself.
• Nov. 18, 2014: Two Palestinians using axes, knives and a gun kill four Jewish worshippers and an Israeli police officer in an attack on a Jerusalem synagogue.
• Jan. 30, 2015: Suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque in the Pakistani town of Shikarpur kills 71. Jundullah claims responsibility.
• March 20, 2015: Islamic State suicide bombers attack a pair of mosques in Yemen’s capital, unleashing monstrous blasts that ripped through worshippers and killed 137 people.
• June 17, 2015: Nine black worshippers including a pastor are killed by Dylann Roof, a 21-year-old white supremacist, after he prayed with them in Charleston, South Carolina. Roof was convicted of federal hate-crime and obstruction-of-religion charges and sentenced to death.
• Sept. 24, 2015: A suicide bomber strikes a mosque in Yemen’s rebel-held capital, killing 25 worshippers during prayers for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.
• Nov. 12, 2016: Suicide bomber from Islamic State group kills over 50 at the shrine of Shah Noorani, in Pakistan’s Baluchistan province.
• Dec. 11, 2016: Suicide bomber strikes inside a Cairo chapel adjacent to St. Mark’s Cathedral, seat of Egypt’s ancient Coptic Orthodox Church. The Islamic State group claimed the attack, which killed at least 25 people.
• Feb. 16, 2017: Suicide bomber detonates his explosives vest among the devotees at the shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in Pakistan’s Sindh province, killing 98.
• April 9, 2017: Twin suicide bombings rock churches in the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria and Tanta, killing at least 45 people. The attack was claimed by the Islamic State group.
• Nov. 5, 2017: Dressed in black tactical-style gear and armed with an assault weapon, 26-year-old Devin Kelley opened fire at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas, killing 26 people and wounding about 20 others.
• Nov. 24, 2017: Militants kill 311 worshippers in a mosque attack in north Sinai, the deadliest such terrorist attack in Egypt’s modern history.
Dec. 17, 2017: Islamic State attack on a church in Pakistani city of Quetta kills 16 people.
• Oct. 27, 2018: A gunman believed to have spewed anti-Semitic slurs and rhetoric on social media entered Tree of Life Congregation synagogue in Pittsburgh and opened fire, killing 11 and wounding six, including four police officers.
• Jan. 27, 2019: Two suicide attackers detonate two bombs during a Mass in a Roman Catholic cathedral on the largely Muslim island of Jolo in the southern Philippines, killing 23 and wounding about 100 others. Three days later, an attacker hurls a grenade in a mosque in nearby Zamboanga city, killing two religious teachers.
• March 15, 2019: At least 40 people are killed in an attack at mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/religious-terrorism-attacks-extremists-houses-of-worship-decade/
@whodey saidWhat is your ‘spiritual’ angle here?
Here is a list of places of worship around the world attacked by terrorists over the last decade
A decade of violent attacks in houses of worship have targeted all faiths
Only 4 out of 18 were not conducted by Islamic terrorists. That comes out to about 77% of the time it's Islamic terrorists.
• Oct. 31, 2010: Al-Qaida in Iraq militants attack Our Lady of Salvation C ...[text shortened]...
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/religious-terrorism-attacks-extremists-houses-of-worship-decade/
@whodey saidDo you realise that your Muslim equivalent posting
May they all rest in peace.
hate speech legitimises such attacks? And that you and
others helped legitimise the Christchurch massacre?
"Us & Them" is not non-Muslims and Muslims.
"Us" is the overwhelming majority of people from
all faiths (or lack of) who just want a peaceful existence.
"Them" ... the angry, misinformed and evil who want
to propogate hatred. You would do well to look at
yourself and ask what is your aim with your posts
and what are you achieving.
@wolfgang59 saidHow is what whodey posted the “equivalent of hate speech”?
Do you realise that your Muslim equivalent posting
hate speech legitimises such attacks? And that you and
others helped legitimise the Christchurch massacre?
@divegeester saidI don't know.
How is what whodey posted the “equivalent of hate speech”?
Who said it was?
@wolfgang59 said“Do you realise that your Muslim equivalent posting
No answer then?
LOL indeed.
hate speech legitimises such attacks? “
Yawn.
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@whodey saidI'm sure you are including "the enemy" too, right? Or am I misreading this?
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/04/sri-lanka-two-muslims-identified-as-attackers-in-easter-jihad-massacres-death-toll-now-165
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@whodey saidThis could also be seen as filtering the search to skew the results to support a certain POV. There are many ways to cause damage -- some subtle, some overt.
Here is a list of places of worship around the world attacked by terrorists over the last decade
A decade of violent attacks in houses of worship have targeted all faiths
Only 4 out of 18 were not conducted by Islamic terrorists. That comes out to about 77% of the time it's Islamic terrorists.
• Oct. 31, 2010: Al-Qaida in Iraq militants attack Our Lady of Salvation C ...[text shortened]...
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/religious-terrorism-attacks-extremists-houses-of-worship-decade/
We clever, dangerous beings are full of strategies to take advantage of and damage each other, and equally full of memes and justifications. It is our common lot. In many cases the cerebral cortex looks toward the brainstem or cultural psychoses rather than outward and above. One man's enemy is another man's reflection.
@divegeester saidSuggest you re-read that and then tell me how you
“Do you realise that your Muslim equivalent posting
hate speech legitimises such attacks? “
Yawn.
can interpret that as me saying the OP is hate speech.
And when you find the conversation too taxing just leave rather than yawning.
@wolfgang59 saidYour use of “equivalent posting hate speech” was a giveaway.
Suggest you re-read that and then tell me how you
can interpret that as me saying the OP is hate speech.
And when you find the conversation too taxing just leave rather than yawning.
Once I made my first reply you disappeared from the thread for a while. If you’ve finally managed to think of a way to explain how what you posted doesn’t mean what you posted then feel free to say so.