I've been following TheReligionOfPeace.com for a number of years, but always concentrated on its list of Islamist terrorist attacks worldwide. Now someone has drawn my attention to the list they keep of Islamist terrorist attacks against the US:
Islamic Terror Attacks on American Soil We recently got taken to the mat by a polite, young Muslim living in the U.K. who took issue with our oft-repeated statement that no Muslim-American lost their life to vigilante violence following 9/11. She provided us a list of six or seven candidates and, after whittling out the ones where the killer was unknown or in cases with mitigating circumstances such as “victim was sleeping with killer’s ex-girlfriend” (and we’re not making that up), we reached a shocking conclusion: We were wrong. There is one seemingly unambiguous case that occurred in Dallas, Texas where Waqar Hasan, a Muslim convenience storeowner, was gunned down by Mark Anthony Stroman four days after the 9/11 attacks. Stroman claimed to have been motivated by anger from watching the towers fall. He is not exactly your average American, however, even apart from the shooting. For one thing, he is a white supremacist who carried a felony criminal record at the time of the attack. He also went on to shoot two more people in the weeks that followed. Thankfully, an American jury sentenced Mark Stroman to death. The same cannot be said of many Muslim terrorists such as Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset Al Megrahi, who not only have sanctuary in Muslim countries, but are often treated as heroes by devout followers of Muhammad. Nevertheless, we acknowledge that our friend is correct and that there was at least one Muslim killed in an anti-Arab hate crime in the U.S. following the anti-American hate crime on 9/11. For anyone keeping score: Of course, 9/11 was neither the first nor the last time that Muslims have killed Americans on U.S. soil in terror attacks. In fact, since that day, Muslims have killed at least 52 people in 31 separate acts of terrorism in the United States (by the standards that Muslim-American groups set for hate crimes). Perhaps more importantly, there have been quite a few planned mass murders of Americans by Islamic terrorists that were thwarted by the FBI, law enforcement and overseas intelligence operations both before and after 9/11. By contrast, Muslim-Americans do not appear to be in any special danger from murderous (non-Muslim) religious fanatics, even in a nation awash in firearms. Identity groups, such as CAIR, whine incessantly about relatively trivial incidents while turning a blind eye to the horrible violence that is meted out daily in the name of their religion. This distasteful petulance offers insight not only into the character of Islam, but also the impressive religious tolerance that Americans manage to maintain. For anyone wondering about the history of deadly Islamic terror on American soil in the last 35 years, here’s what we could find:People killed by radical Muslims on 9/11: 2,996 Muslim-Americans killed "in revenge": 1
Islamic Terror Attacks on American Soil in the Last 35 Years
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Date | Country | City/State | Killed | Injured | Description |
4/14/1972 | USA | New York, NY | 1 | 3 | Ten members of a local mosque phone in a false alarm and then ambush responding officers, killing one. |
1/19/1973 | USA | Brooklyn, NY | 1 | 1 | Muslim extremists rob a sporting goods store for weapons, gunning down a police officer who responds to the alarm. |
7/18/1973 | USA | Washington, DC | 8 | 2 | Nation of Islam members shoot seven members of a family to death in cold blood, including four children. A defendant in the case is later murdered in prison on orders from Elijah Muhammad. |
10/19/1973 | USA | Oakland, CA | 1 | 1 | Nation of Islam terrorists kidnap a couple and nearly decapitate the man, while raping and leaving the woman for dead. |
10/29/1973 | USA | Berkeley, CA | 1 | 0 | A woman is shot repeatedly in the face by Nation of Islam terrorists. |
11/25/1973 | USA | Oakland, CA | 1 | 0 | A grocer is killed in his store by Nation of Islam terrorists. |
12/11/1973 | USA | Oakland, CA | 1 | 0 | A man is killed by Nation of Islam terrorists while using a phone booth. |
12/13/1973 | USA | Oakland, CA | 1 | 0 | A woman is shot to deah on the sidewalk by Nation of Islam terrorists. |
12/20/1973 | USA | Oakland, CA | 1 | 0 | Nation of Islam terrorists gun down an 81-year-old janitor. |
12/22/1973 | USA | Oakland, CA | 2 | 0 | Nation of Islam terrorist kills two people in separate attacks on the same day. |
12/24/1973 | USA | Oakland, CA | 1 | 0 | A man is kidnapped, tortured and decapitated by Nation of Islam terrorists. |
1/24/1974 | USA | Oakland, CA | 4 | 1 | Five vicious shooting attacks by Nation of Islam terrorists leave three people dead and one paralyzed for life. Three of the victims were women. |
4/1/1974 | USA | Oakland, CA | 1 | 1 | A Nation of Islam terrorist shoots at two Salvation Army members, killing a man and injuring a woman. |
4/16/1974 | USA | Ingleside, CA | 1 | 0 | A man is killed while helping a friend move by Nation of Islam terrorists. |
3/9/1977 | USA | Washington, DC | 1 | 1 | Hanifi Muslims storm three buildings including a B'nai B'rith to hold 134 people hostage. At least two innocents were shot and one died. |
7/22/1980 | USA | Bethesda, MD | 1 | 0 | A political dissident is shot and killed in front of his home by an Iranian agent who was an American convert to Islam. |
8/31/1980 | USA | Savou, IL | 2 | 0 | An Iranian student guns down his next-door neighbors, a husband and wife. |
1/31/1990 | USA | Tuscon, AZ | 1 | 0 | A Sunni cleric is assassinated in front of a Tuscon mosque after declaring that two verses of the Qur'an were invalid. |
11/5/1990 | USA | New York City, NY | 1 | 0 | An Israeli rabbi is shot to death by a Muslim attacker at a hotel. |
1/25/1993 | USA | Langley, VA | 2 | 3 | A Pakistani with Mujahideen ties guns down two CIA agents outside of the headquarters. |
2/26/1993 | USA | New York, NY | 6 | 1040 | Islamic terrorists detonate a massive truck bomb under the World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring over 1,000 in an effort to collapse the towers. |
3/1/1994 | USA | Brooklyn, NY | 1 | 0 | A Muslim fires on a vanload of Jewish boys, killing one. |
3/23/1997 | USA | New York, NY | 1 | 6 | A Palestinian leaves an anti-Jewish suicide note behind and travels to the top of the Empire State building where he shoot seven people in a Fedayeen attack. |
4/3/1997 | USA | Lompoc, CA | 1 | 0 | A prison guard is stabbed to death by a radical Muslim. |
10/31/1999 | USA | Near Nantucket | 217 | 0 | An Egyptian airline pilot runs a planeload of 217 passengers into the water after uttering a Qur'anic prayer. |
3/17/2000 | USA | Atlanta, GA | 1 | 1 | A local imam and Muslim spiritual leader guns down a deputy sheriff and injures his partner. |
9/11/2001 | USA | Washington, DC | 184 | 53 | Nearly 200 people are killed when Islamic hijackers steer a plane full of people into the Pentagon. |
9/11/2001 | USA | Shanksville, PA | 40 | 0 | Forty passengers are killed after Islamic radicals hijack the plane in an attempt to steer it into the U.S. Capitol building. |
9/11/2001 | USA | New York, NY | 2772 | 251 | Islamic hijackers steer two planes packed with fuel and passengers into the World Trade Center, killing hundreds on impact and eventually killing thousands when the towers collapsed. At least 200 are seriously injured. |
3/19/2002 | USA | Tuscon, AZ | 1 | 0 | A 60-year-old man is gunned down by Muslim snipers on a golf course. |
5/27/2002 | USA | Denton, TX | 1 | 0 | Muslim snipers kill a man as he works in his yard. |
7/4/2002 | USA | Los Angeles, CA | 2 | 0 | Muslim man pulls out a gun at the counter of an Israeli airline and kills two people. |
9/5/2002 | USA | Clinton, MD | 1 | 0 | A 55-year-old pizzaria owner is shot six times in the back by Muslims at close range. |
9/21/2002 | USA | Montgomery, AL | 1 | 1 | Muslim snipers shoot two women, killing one. |
9/23/2002 | USA | Baton Rouge, LA | 1 | 0 | A Korean mother is shot in the back by Muslim snipers. |
10/2/2002 | USA | Wheaton, MD | 1 | 0 | Muslim snipers gun down a program analyst in a store parking lot. |
10/3/2002 | USA | Montgomery County, MD | 5 | 0 | Muslim snipers kill three men and two women in separate attacks over a 15-hour period. |
10/9/2002 | USA | Manassas, VA | 1 | 1 | A man is killed by Muslim snipers while pumping gas two days after a 13-year-old is wounded by the same team. |
10/11/2002 | USA | Fredericksburg, VA | 1 | 0 | Another man is killed by Muslim snipers while pumping gas. |
10/14/2002 | USA | Arlington, VA | 1 | 0 | A woman is killed by Muslim snipers in a Home Depot parking lot. |
10/22/2002 | USA | Aspen Hill, MD | 1 | 0 | A bus driver is killed by Muslim snipers. |
8/6/2003 | USA | Houston, TX | 1 | 0 | After undergoing a religious revival, a Saudi college student slashes the throat of a Jewish student with a 4" butterfly knife, nearly decapitating the young man. |
12/2/2003 | USA | Chicago, IL | 1 | 0 | A Muslim doctor deliberately allows a Jewish patient to die from an easily treatable condition. |
4/13/2004 | USA | Raleigh, NC | 1 | 4 | A Muslim man runs down five strangers with a car. |
4/15/2004 | USA | Scottsville, NY | 1 | 2 | In an honor killing, a Muslim father kills his wife and attacks his two daughters with a knife and hammer because he feared that they had been sexually molested. |
6/16/2006 | USA | Baltimore, MD | 1 | 0 | A 62-year-old Jewish moviegoer is shot to death by a Muslim gunman in an unprovoked terror attack. |
6/25/2006 | USA | Denver, CO | 1 | 5 | Saying that it was 'Allah's choice', a Muslim shoots four of his co-workers and a police officer. |
7/28/2006 | USA | Seattle, WA | 1 | 5 | An 'angry' Muslim-American uses a young girl as hostage to enter a local Jewish center, where he shoots six women, one of whom dies. |
10/6/2006 | USA | Louisville, KY | 4 | 1 | In an 'honor' attack, a Muslim man rapes and beats his estranged wife, leaving her for dead, then savagely murders their four children. |
2/13/2007 | USA | Salt Lake City, UT | 5 | 4 | A Muslim immigrant goes on a shooting rampage at a mall, targeting people buying Valentine's Day cards at a gift shop and killing five. |
1/1/2008 | USA | Irving, TX | 2 | 0 | A Muslim immigrant shoots his two daughters to death on concerns about their 'Western' lifestyle. |
7/6/2008 | USA | Jonesboro, GA | 1 | 0 | A devout Muslim strangles his 25-year-old daughter in an honor killing. |
2/12/2009 | USA | Buffalo, NY | 1 | 0 | The founder of a Muslim TV station beheads his wife in the hallway for seeking a divorce. |
6/1/2009 | USA | Little Rock, AR | 1 | 1 | A Muslim with 'religious motives' shoots a local soldier to death inside a recruiting center. |
11/2/2009 | USA | Glendale, AZ | 1 | 1 | A woman dies from injuries suffered when her father runs her down with a car for being too 'Westernized.' (10-20-09) |
11/5/2009 | USA | Ft. Hood, TX | 13 | 31 | A Muslim psychiatrist guns down thirteen unarmed soldiers while yelling praises to Allah. |
(3,308 killed by Muslims in America in 65 terror attacks)
5 comments:
You did not mention Sirhan Sirhan, and his ties to Yasser Arafat, who murdered Americans in a bid to free the assassin of Robert Kennedy.
You also did not mention the assassination of Mayer Kahan by the same Al Qaeda cell that set off the first attack on the Word Trade Center.
Finally, there was an attempt to bomb the busy Atlantic Avenue subway/LIRR terminal in Brooklyn (below the tallest building in Brooklyn at the time) by Ghazi Ibrahim Abu Maizar, who was hours away from setting off the bomb when somebody tipped off the police.
We have been at war with Islamists since just after the American Revolution. We need another James Madison to have the balls to put an end to it once and for all.
I assume that Sirhan Sirhan is not on the list because he was not a Muslim--he is a Christian Arab.
But offhand, I don't know why the murderer of Kahane is not listed.
There is also the Nation of Islam arson and murder in the house owned by LA Lakers star Kareem Abdul Jabbar.
Mid 70s era.
According to Mihael Oren in "Power, Faith and Fantasy," the first attack against the sovereign United States of America was by Muslim (Barbary) Pirates who attacked the ship returning from England with the delegates who had just signed the Peace accords with the British granting independence to the united Colonies.
I suppose those who made the list were more interested in stressing the current enemy than stressing the history of Muslim attacks.
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