If terrorism is alien to Islam, explain this:
February 22: Al Askari Mosque bombing ignites sectarian strife in Iraq.
March 2: Bombing in Karachi, Pakistan kills four, including a U.S. diplomat.
March 3: Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, an Iranian-born graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, drives an SUV onto a crowded part of campus, injuring nine.
March 7: Bombings in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi, India kill 28 and injure more than 100.
March 30: Palestinian suicide bomber kills himself and four others at Kedumim Junction in the West Bank
April 11: A suicide bomber explodes himself in Karachi, Pakistan kills 57 Sunni worshippers.
April 17: Sami Hammad, a Palestinian suicide bomber, detonates an explosive device in Tel Aviv, Israel, killing eleven people and injuring 70.
April 24: Bombings at three locations in Dahab, Egypt kill 20 Egyptians, 3 foreigners, and injure 62 others.
May 11: Six policemen die and 12 are injured when five bombs go off in a police academy in Quetta, Pakistan
June 15 : The LTTE detonate a claymore mine by a bus carrying 140 civilians in Sri Lanka. 68 civilians, including 10 children and 3 pregnant women, are killed. Approximately 60 civilians are injured.
The 11 July 2006 Mumbai train bombings June 25: Eliyahu Asheri, an Israeli citizen, was kidnapped and murdered by the Palestinian terrorist group, the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC).
July 9: 40 Sunni civilians are massacred by Shia militants in Baghdad, Iraq.
July 11: A series of explosions rock commuter trains in Mumbai, India, killing at least 200. Approximately 700 civilians are injured.
July 14: Suicide bomber in Karachi, Pakistan kills a Shiite Islamic cleric Allama Hasan Turabi and his nephew.
July 16: Hezbollah rains rockets down on Northern Israel, reaching Haifa and killing eight Israelis at a train depot there.
July 17: Explosions and gunmen kill 48 people in a market in Mahmoudiya, Iraq
July 18: Car bombing near a Shiite shrine in Kufa, Iraq kills 53 and injures 103.
July 31: Crudely made suitcase bombs that did not explode due a technical fault were planted in two regional trains to Hamm and Koblenz in Germany. Two suspects, both young Lebanese men, have been arrested.
August 4: A suicide car bomber struck a market in Kandahar, Afghanistan killing 21 people
August 10: A major anti-terrorist operation disrupts an alleged bomb plot targeting multiple airplanes bound for the United States flying through Heathrow Airport, near London, UK.
August 13: Two grenades explode on a trolleybus in Tiraspol, Moldova, killing two people and injuring ten. ]
August 16: A bomb exploded in a Hindu temple near Imphal, India, killing three and injuring more than 30.
August 20: Gunmen spray bullets on Shiites in Baghdad, killing 20 people and wounding more than 300.
August 21: Russian racists place a bomb in a market in eastern Moscow, killing 10 people and injuring at least 16.
September 8: At least 2 bomb blasts target a Muslim cemetery in the western town of Malegaon. The blasts kill 37 people and leave 125 others wounded.
September 12: Four attackers armed with grenades and machine guns attempt to storm the U.S. embassy in Damascus, Syria. Three of the gunmen and one Syrian guard are killed during a battle between the attackers and Syrian security forces. One Syrian employee of the embassy and at least 10 bystanders are wounded, among them, 7 Syrian telephone company workers and a senior Chinese diplomat. Police recover a car laden with explosives and other IEDs. Syrian Ambassador to the United States Imad Moustapha announces that his government suspects a group called Jund al-Sham is responsible.
September 15: Four suicide bombers and a security guard are killed in early-morning attacks on the Safer refinery in Marib and the al-Dhabba terminal in Hadramout, Yemen. Although no group has claimed responsibility Islamic extremists are suspected.
September 16: 2006 Hat Yai bombings: 4 people killed, 82 injured, by six bombs along the main commercial street of Hat Yai. The devices were placed approximately 500 meters apart, and were remotely set off every five minutes.
From this it would seem that terrorism is very much a part of Islam.