Running list of non-state acts of terror`

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I came across this, it’s a lot to go through but I’ve done a bit with it, found out some things, tried to get a feel for some trends.

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It’s a list of non-state terrorist incidents, there are separate lists for other acts of terror that don’t quite belong in this specific category. This series of lists excludes state-sponsored acts of terror and it will generally exclude state-backed or state-inspired acts of terror even if they were carried out by a terror group, and inclusion is specific to political, religious, or ideological motivations with clear objectives related to that.

These are the specific lists for this year.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents,_January%E2%80%93June_2015
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents,_July%E2%80%93December_2015

One of the trends I noticed is that ISIL and Boko Haram come up pretty frequently. Boko Haram is operating in four different countries, and some of the attacks outside Nigeria have very high death tolls attached to them. I noticed that one of the attacks targeted a safe space where people flee to when escaping Boko Haram, I guess they caught up to them. I also noticed that ISIL attacks are not strictly confined to Syria and Iraq anymore, there are some companion conflicts in Yemen and Libya.

I also noticed that a lot of the incidents in Israel and the surrounding settlement areas are kept pretty well under control. Many of those incidents were stabbing attempts that injured a police officer or military personnel, then the perp or perps was/were shot and killed. These whispers of an intifada include a few shooting incidents and improvised explosives but for the most part these young angry Palestinians are not very successful in killing people and they typically go down without doing much damage. There sure is a lot of that, though.

I’ve also noticed that there are some new strategies coming into play as you read through the details- female terrorists or men dressed in a hijab as a disguise, also especially in Israel there were a couple of examples of Palestinians disguising themselves as Jews in order to get better access to a soft target, often specifically religious like at a seminary.

These things happen a lot more regularity than what we see on the news. On the 11th, there were bombings in Afghanistan (Taliban), Cameroon (Boko Haram), and Syria (ISIL). 60 dead in the Syrian bombing, and between the three of them over 100 injured. Yesterday, the 12th, there was another bombing in Syria, 16+ dead in a different Syrian city. And today, 23 dead in Pakistan, not clear yet if it was a suicide bombing or a remote detonation.

Lastly, I noticed that a whole lot of things on these lists is Islamic terrorism. If you look carefully though you’ll see a few things that are not, the most recent one I can remember was an Israeli citizen stabbing someone in a gay pride parade. I can’t remember if it was a Jew or a Palestinian citizen of Israel. Anything to do with white supremacy also qualifies for this list every time it happens, so long as it’s not state sponsored.

Anyway, I’ve spent a few hours looking through this but it’s several mountains’ worth of material. I thought I’d make everyone here aware that a running list of these things does exist, if it’s something you want to look in on from time to time, and maybe you want to look back at certain lists at certain times and see what kinds of trends you notice that are of interest to you. I’m at the point where I don’t want to slog through all of it searching for trends myself, but I’d like to see what other people notice and take a look where I know something of particular interest is going to be.
 
It’s a disturbing and gruesome list,
thanx for taking the time to post.
 
I previously pasted the wrong link by accident in the OP, unfortunately. This is the link I meant to put up.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_(non-state)_terrorist_incidents

And thank you, GLam. This link will take you to a host of other links so you can more easily look at lists for any given year.

It’s a huge amount of information that isn’t always properly sourced, but from what I can tell the list from this year has people working on it and there seems to be ongoing updates at this time. So that at least should be pretty reliable and verifiable.

And referencing the first post- now that I look back at July of last year, that was an untra-Orthodox Jew who stabbed six people, one of whom died. He had recently been released from prison, where he had served time for doing the same exact thing.

Other than that though, most of these are not lone wolf incidents. The vast majority, especially the ones that do a lot of damage, are associated with well-financed terror networks that can start and sustain wars despite not being actual states or having any state backing.
 
Apart from the ultra-Orthodox Jewish gay-person-stabbing in July, there was also the abortion clinic shooting last month in Colorado Springs. Aside from those two lone-wolf incidents, everything else was acts of terror carried out by Muslims (or unknown and unclaimed by any group, but even those come out of jihadist war zones), and most of it was done within the context of a larger terror network specifically dedicated to doing something that’s supposed to benefit Islam in some way. That’s how it looks for this year, at least.

So unless this list is woefully incomplete, as far as the specified parameters are concerned…that’s basically what we’re looking at.

By the way, is there any chance that the OP could be edited so that the accidental link is replaced by the one I meant to put there? This is the link again, in case that’s likely to happen.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_(non-state)_terrorist_incidents
 
Eric_Hyom said:
Since 9/11 there have been 89 killed by Muslims in America in 47 attacks. Now compare that to the murder rate in America since 9 /11

thereligionofpeace.com/pages/americanattacks.htm.

San Bernardino was the second mass shooting on the day and the 355th of the year.

Why single out Muslims?
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I’m not singling out Muslims. I’m looking at a list of global acts of (non-state) terror, and noticing that in the past year, something has been happening almost every day, sometimes multiple things each day, and in the past year exactly two of those incidents were definitely not carried out by Muslims. I’m also noticing that most of those attacks were carried out within the context of a large, well-funded terror network capable of waging a war almost as if it were a state, and although I can look right there on the list at a half dozen different Islamic terror networks, I’m not seeing any other terror networks representing any other ideology that is remotely capable of doing these things over and over again, year after year.

Why do you want to take the focus off the global list and put it on the American list? And why remove the distinction between acts of terror and mass killings in general?
 
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