THE RELIGION OF PEACE?
by Geoffrey Grider June 7, 2017
The
estimated 832 deaths and 912 injuries from the estimated 60 attacks
that have taken place across about 19 countries during the first 12 days
of this year’s holy Muslim month of Ramadan have already marked
the bloodiest Ramadan in recent years for adherents of Islam.
Some of the terrorist attacks during Ramadan 2017 include:
May 27 —
Charchino, Afghanistan — Group fighting in favor of imposing Islamic law ambushes checkpoint,
kills 11.
May 27 —
Qadis, Afghanistan — Taliban
kills 14, injures 17.
May 27 —
Khost, Afghanistan
— Taliban suicide bomber targets U.S-backed National Defense and
Security Forces (ANDSF), which includes army and police units,
killing 18, woundin six others, including children.
May 27 —
Kacha Khuh, Pakistan — “Honor Killing” — Brother
hacks 18-year-old sister with axe to death for denying to abide by pre-arrange marriage.
May 27 —
Marawi, Philippines — Jihadists
kill 19 including women and a child.
May 28 —
Marawi, Philippines — Jihadists murder 8 for “having
betrayed their faith.”
May 28 —
Ramo Adey, Somalia — Jihadists
bury man to his neck, stone to death for adultery
May 28 —
Mosul, Iraq — ISIS
sets hospital ablaze and kills a dozen young people inside.
May 28 —
Mosul, Iraq — ISIS
kills at least
40 women and children trying to flee besieged city.
May 28 —
Shirqat, Iraq — ISIS
rocket attack
kills three children and their parents.
May 28 —
Gumsri, Nigeria — Boko Haram
kills at least seven
villagers.
May 28 —
Shakhil Abad, Afghanistan — Islamic extremists
kill district governor and his son inside their home.
May 28 —
Baqubah, Iraq — Suicide bomber
kills 3, injures up to 1
6 others outside court.
May 29 —
Nguro, Nigeria — Boko Haram
beheads five people.
May 29 —
Ghat, Libya, — Suspected Islamic terrorists
kill 1, injure 4.
May 29 —
Shirqat, Iraq — Islamic shrapnel
dismembers a child, injures 7.
May 29 —
Baghdad, Iraq — 17 killed, 32 wounded — ISIS launches suicide attack against
ice cream parlor frequented by families who were breaking their Ramadan fast.
May 29 —
Baghdad, Iraq — 14
killed, 37 injured. ISIS attacked Shiites.
May 30 —
Mattani, Pakistan — Islamist
gun down four peace committee members.
May 30 —
Peshawar, Pakistan — Suspected jihadist
shoots leader of Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar’s Hezb-i-Islami group while he was leaving a mosque.
May 30 —
Shifa, Iraq — Mass grave found with
60 ISIS torture victims, including women, elderly.
May 30 —
al-Joura, Syria — ISIS mortar
kills 14, including children.
May 30 —
Bay Hassan, Iraq — ISIS
kills 3 Iraqi guards, wounds six others.
May 30 —
Baghdad, Iraq — Jihadists
kill 7, injure 19 in a blast.
May 30 —
Baqubah, Iraq — A bomb
explosion at mosque kills 7, wounds 6.
May 30 —
Hit, Iraq — Fedayeen suicide bomber
kills 8, injures 10.
May 31 —
Kaya, Nigeria —Boko Haram
kills 14.
May 31 —
Fafi, Kenya — Suspected al-Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab burns down school,
kills one teacher.
May 31 —
Bab el-Beid, Iraq — Suicide bombers
kill 3 civilians, including a child.
May 31 —
Hit, Iraq — Shahid suicide bomber
kills 3, injures 7.
May 31 —
Mosul, Iraq — ISIS
kills 34 for trying to leave the city.
May 31 —
Mangai, Kenya — al-Qaeda-linked bombers
kill 8.
May 31 —
Kabul, Afghanistan — Suspected Haqqani Network
kills at least 150, Wounds more than 460, including 11 Americans.
May 31 —
Sinjar, Iraq — ISIS
kills 2, injures 2.
June 01 —
Abala, Niger — Jihadists
kill 6 guards.
June 01 —
Al-Hazm, Yemen — Terrorists
kill 6, wound 15.
June 01 —
Behsud, Afghanistan — Suicide bomber
kills 1, wounds 4.
June 01 —
Oldenburg, Germany — Muslim
kills one for smoking during Ramadan and refusing to fast.
June 01 —
Zanjili, Iraq — ISIS
kills 7 for trying to flee caliphate.
June 02 —
Kolofota, Cameroon — Islamist use two girls as suicide bombers
killing 9 and wounding 30.
June 02 —
Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia — Jihadist
beheads one man.
June 03 —
Marawi, Philippines — Islamic sniper
kills 70-year-old man.
June 03 —
Halabsah, Iraq — Four suicide bombers
kill 1, injure 3
June 03 —
London, England — Three Jihadists plow into pedestrians, then stab people,
killing 7, injuring 48.
June 03 —
Zanjili, Iraq — ISIS
kills 43 for trying to flee caliphate.
June 03 —
Lower Munda, India — Hizb-ul-Mujahideen
kill 2 security troops, injure 4
June 03 —
Nawabshah, Pakistan — Alleged victim’s brother-in-law
kills two people for alleged adultery.
June 03 —
Kabul, Afghanistan — Suicide bombers
kill 20, injure 87
June 04 —
Kandahar, Afghanistan — Afghan police
insider attack leaves six dead, one injured
June 04 —
Spini, Pakistan —
Two Shiites from Hazara minority group killed.
June 04 —
Talibul, Moula, Pakistan — “Honor Killing” — Father
kills 18-year-old daughter for allegedly “having an affair.”
June 04 —
Zanjili, Iraq — Wave of suicide bombers
kills 32, injures 24.
June 04 —
Quaidabad, Pakistan — Jihadis
kill 1 barber.
June 05 —
Melbourne, Australia — ISIS-linked migrant from Somalia
kills man, takes prostitute hostage, an injures 4.
June 05 —
Baghdad, Iraq — Terrorist mortar fired into family home
dismembers 10-year-old boy, injures 4.
June 06 —
Lower Munda, India — Hizb-ul-Mujahideen
kill 2 security troops, injure 4
June 06 —
Paris, France —
Jihadist wounds cop with a hammer outside Notre Dame cathedral.
June 06 —
Herat, Afghanistan — Terrorist kill 7, injure another 16 near the northern gate of the Great Mosque of Herat.
June 06 —
Garissa, Kenya — Suspected al-Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab jihadists
kill 4 aid workers with land mine.
June 07 —
Mosul, Iraq — Islamic State
massacres 160 civilians trying to flee city, according to United Nations.
June 07 —
Tehran, Iran — Sunni ISIS gunmen, suicide bombers attack Shiite country’s parliament and shrine to its revolutionary leader,
kills 12, wounding up to 42.
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