Is TERRORISM a Muslim monopoly?

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_religion_in_Nepal

The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) is a designated terrorist organization on the U.S. Government's "Terrorist Exclusion List" of the Immigration and Nationality Act and under Executive Order 13224.
Maoist insurgents restricted religious freedom in parts of the country. There were reports of Maoists enforcing a "people's calendar" in schools that did not allow for religious holidays. Maoists sometimes demanded the use of religious organization facilities for their indoctrination programs, threatening to padlock the buildings if their demands were refused. There were also reports that they used Hindu temples as facilities for the Maoist-run "People's Courts."
There were scattered reports of Maoist insurgents attacking Hindu temples and harassing Hindu priests during the reporting period.
Christian organizations reported several cases where Maoists extorted cash from churches. The Maoists threatened retribution against church property and church members if the congregations did not meet their demands. Some churches complied with the demands, while others refused.
In October 2006 Maoists closed the Kashi Gaun Church in Kashi village, Gorkha.
In September 2004 Maoist threats prompted the temporary closing of 21 churches in Sankhuwasabha District.

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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa_Inquisition
The Goa Inquisition was established in 1560, briefly suppressed from 1774–1778, and finally abolished in 1812.[1]
The Inquisition was established to punish relapsed New Christians – Jews and Muslims who converted to Catholicism, as well as their descendants – who were now suspected of practicing their ancestral religion in secret. In Goa, the Inquisition also turned its attention to Indian converts from Hinduism or Islam who were thought to have returned to their original ways. In addition, the Inquisition prosecuted non-converts who broke prohibitions against the observance of Hindu or Muslim rites or interfered with Portuguese attempts to convert non-Christians to Catholicism.[2] While its ostensible aim was to preserve the Catholic faith, the Inquisition was used against Indian Catholics and Hindus as an instrument of social control, as well as a method of confiscating victims' property and enriching the Inquisitors.[3]
Most of the Goa Inquisition's records were destroyed after its abolition in 1812, and it is thus impossible to know the exact number of the Inquisition's victims. Based on the records that survive, H. P. Salomon and I. S. D. Sassoon state that between the Inquisition's beginning in 1561 and its temporary abolition in 1774, some 16,202 persons were brought to trial by the Inquisition. Of this number, it is known that 57 were sentenced to death and executed in person; another 64 were burned in effigy. Others were subjected to lesser punishments or penanced, but the fate of many of the Inquisition's victims is unknown.[2]

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Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bajrang_Dal The Bajrang Dal (Hindi: बजरंग दल), a militant Hindu organization [1][2] in India, is the youth wing of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and is based on the ideology of Hindutva.[3][4] Founded on 1 October 1984 in Uttar Pradesh, India, it has since spread throughout India.

Controversies

• According to the Human Rights Watch, Bajrang Dal had been involved in riots against Muslims in the 2002 Gujarat violence[14].
• In April 2006, two Bajrang Dal activists were killed in nearby Nanded in the process of bomb making. The same group of activists were also suspected for perpetrating the 2003 Parbhani mosque blasts.[15]. A report by the Secular Citizen's Forum & PUCL, Nagpur claimed to have found maps of mosques at the home of one of the deceased.[18]
• The Bajrang Dal has been accused of not allowing Muslims to own land in parts of Gujarat by attacking traders who sell to Muslims and by attacking Muslim homes and forcing the sale of the house or flat.

The United States Department of State's annual report on international religious freedom for 2000 and World Report (2000) by the Human Rights Watch labeled this organization as a Hindu extremist group.[29][30] Paul R. Brass, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and South Asian Studies at the University of Washington, described the Bajrang Dal as Indian equivalent of Nazi Germany's Sturmabteilung

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Assassination of government official outside Palestine: first used against the British in Cairo, 6 November, 1944 when Lord Moyne, Secretary of State, was assassinated by the Stern Gang. Yitzhak Shamir, a member of the Irgun and later leader of the Stern Gang was behind the plan.
Taking of hostages to put pressure on a government: first used against the British in Tel Aviv, 18 June, 1946.
Blowing up government offices with their civilian employees and visitors: first used against the British in Jerusalem, 22 July, 1946. The toll was 91 Britons, and 46 injured in King David Hotel. Begin, who masterminded and carried out the attack admitted that the massacre was coordinated with and carried out under the instruction of the Haganah.
And much more…See the source

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Amnesty International reported that, from 1983 to 1994, armed groups struggling to form an independent Sikh state were responsible for "widespread" human rights violations, killing "thousands" of civilians and taking hostages.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) reports that from the 1980s Sikh separatists were guilty of serious human rights violations through "...massacre of civilians, attacks upon Hindu minorities in the state, and indiscriminate bomb attacks in crowded places”.
In 1872, Kuka Sikhs were described as an "extremist Sikh sect"

1980s Immediately after Operation Blue Star, authorities were unprepared for how quickly extremism spread and gained support in Canada, with extremists "...threatening to kill thousand of Hindus by a number of means, including blowing up Air India flights."[51] [52]
The 1985 bombing of Air India Flight 182 off Ireland, the deadliest aircraft terror attack until the September 11, 2001 attacks, and the attempted bombing of Air India Flight 301, were alleged by the Canadian government to have been carried out by Sikh extremists. However, Inderjit Singh Reyat, of the ISYF, who was found guilty of manslaughter for making the bombs, is the only individual convicted in these attacks as of 2 May 2010.
1990s

In August 1991, Julio Ribeiro, then Indian Ambassador to Romania[57] was attacked and wounded in a Bucharest assassination attempt by gunmen[58] identified as Punjabi Sikhs

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Babbar Khalsa:
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhindranwale_Tigers_Force_of_Khalistan

Babbar Khalsa has been listed as a terrorist organization in the European Union,[103] Canada,[104] India,[68] UK,[105] and the United States.[68] A Canadian Sikh, Ajaib Singh Bagri, co-founder of Babbar Khalsa, said in a 1984 speech, after Hindu Mobs had murdered thousands of Sikhs in Delhi [106] that "Until we kill 50,000 Hindus, we will not rest.”
Bhindranwala Tigers Force of Khalistan

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More on Christian and Jewish Terrorists next time...InshAllah!

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glo said:

Perhaps at this moment in time people tend to associate the term 'terrorist' with Islam. If that's the case, then only because those are the kinds of terrorist attacks which either a) are most happening or b) are most reported.

But these things can change and will change, if the political climate changes and the tensions between Muslims and non-Muslims ease.

30 or 40 years ago people here in the UK would have associated 'terrorism' with the IRA; people in Germany with the Baader-Meinhof Group. Those were the terrorists in those days.

People who strive to change society by means of terror, fear and aggression will always exist. It is up to the rest of us to resist those people!

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glo said:

An33za, I certainly agree that terrorism is not a specifically Muslim issue. There are terrorists from all walks of life, races and religions.

But do you agree that there are some Muslim terrorist groups?

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glo said:

But I will search the web for references to non-Islamic terrorists. Surely if they are out there, somebody must be reporting about them?

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An33za said:

Sister, that is what I said. There are black sheep in every community!

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You know what we are trying here to prove? You must be aware of the statement, so much used by the media

"Not all Muslim are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims! "

And we are trying to prove this statement as false, wrong, biased and totally unjust!

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Did you read the verse of the Quran I mentioned? it I think clears up all the matter!

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Yes, dear sis, I'll be very grateful to you for this! thank you so0o0o0 much in advance!:statisfie

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An33za said:

@ Brother Woodrow:

Brother, do you have names of non-Muslim terrorist groups? If you have any, can you please post them here? In this way, we might be able to collect enough material about the topic.

This is how nowadays media is maligning the name of Islam, by calling us terrorists!

So if we Muslims get united, and collect enough material of non-Muslim terrorist groups, then inshAllah, it'll be far more easier for us to refute their claim!

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Animal Liberation Front
Main article: Animal Liberation Front

Animal Liberation Front (ALF) is a name used internationally by activists who engage in direct action tactics on behalf of animals. This includes removing animals from laboratories and fur farms, and sabotaging facilities involved in animal testing and other animal-based industries. According to ALF statements, any act that furthers the cause of animal liberation, where all reasonable precautions are taken not to endanger life, may be claimed as an ALF action. The group is listed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as a domestic terrorist organization.
[edit] Army of God
Main article: Army of God (USA)

The Army of God (AOG)[4] is a loose network of individuals and groups connected by ideological affinity and the determination to use force to end abortion in the United States. Acts of anti-abortion violence increased in the mid-1990s culminating in a series of bombings by Eric Robert Rudolph, whose targets included two abortion clinics, a gay and lesbian night club, and the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. Letters sent to newspapers claim responsibility for the bombing of the abortion clinics in the name of the Army of God.
[edit] Black Liberation Army
Main article: Black Liberation Army

A splinter group made up of the more radical members of the Black Panther Party, the Black Liberation Army (BLA) sought to overthrow the US government in the name of racial separatism and Marxist ideals. The Fraternal Order of Police blames the BLA for the murders of 13 police officers. According to a Justice Department report on BLA activity, the group was suspected of involvement in over 60 incidents of violence between 1970 and 1980.
[edit] Earth Liberation Front
Main article: Earth Liberation Front

The Earth Liberation Front has been classified as the top "domestic terror" threat in the United States by the Federal Bureau of Investigation since March 2001,[5][6] and are categorized as "eco-terrorists".
[edit] Jewish Defense League
Main article: Jewish Defense League

The Jewish Defense League (JDL) was founded in 1969 by Rabbi Meir Kahane in New York City, with its declared purpose the protection of Jews from harassment and antisemitism.[7] FBI statistics show that, from 1980 to 1985, 15 terrorist attacks were attempted in the U.S. by JDL members.[8] The FBI’s Mary Doran described the JDL in 2004 Congressional testimony as "a proscribed terrorist group".[9] The National Consortium for the Study of Terror and Responses to Terrorism states that, during the JDL's first two decades of activity, it was an "active terrorist organization."[10][7] Kahane later founded the far right Israeli political party Kach. The JDL's website currently condemns all forms of terrorism.[11]
[edit] Ku Klux Klan
Main article: Ku Klux Klan

From Reconstruction at the end of the civil war to the end of the civil rights movement, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) used threats, violence, arson, and murder to further its white-supremacist, anti-Communist, anti-semitic and anti-Catholic agenda. Domestic terrorists with agendas similar to the KKK include neo-Nazis and white power skinheads.
[edit] Symbionese Liberation Army
Main article: Symbionese Liberation Army

The Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) was an American self-styled, far left "urban guerrilla warfare group" that considered itself a revolutionary vanguard army. The group committed bank robberies, two murders, and other acts of violence between 1973 and 1975. Among their most notorious acts was the kidnapping and the brainwashing of the newspaper heiress Patty Hearst.
[edit] Weathermen
Main article: Weather Underground Organization

The Weather Underground Organization was a far left organization active from 1969 to 1975. It originated in 1969 as a faction of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)[12] composed for the most part of the national office leadership of SDS and their supporters. The group collapsed shortly after the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam in 1975.

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The Department of Homeland Security is warning law enforcement officials about a rise in "rightwing extremist activity," saying the economic recession, the election of America's first black president and the return of a few disgruntled war veterans could swell the ranks of white-power militias.

A footnote attached to the report by the Homeland Security Office of Intelligence and Analysis defines "rightwing extremism in the United States" as including not just racist or hate groups, but also groups that reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority.

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glo said:

Are these groups which are active in their terrorist activities now, Woodrow?
Would there be articles on their terrorist attacks?

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Can the US afford to ignore the JDL?
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Kahane

On February 14 2010, Israel Hayom published an article by Efrat Porsher suggesting that the Jewish Defense League (JDL) is reorganizing to defend Israeli speakers on campuses in the US and UK and to “prevent diplomats from enemy countries or from countries that are hostile toward Israel from speaking at university venues.” Due to the violent history of this organization — such an endeavor should worry the US as it attempts to prevent domestic terrorist attacks.

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мυѕℓιмαн 4 ℓιfє;1339330 said:

Brother and Sister in Humanity if not in Islaam!

And Allaah knows best!

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