[Adamdjeffe]

Bismillah
[Editor's note: The following quiz is intended to show that terrorism is not limited
to a single race, color, ethnicity or religion. We must speak out and shun terrorism,
regardless of who commits it. Stereotyping justifies no one but the wrong doers and
the oppressors.]

1. In 1881 the tsar of Russia was assassinated by:


a. a Russian terrorist
b. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

2. In 1886 a bomb exploded at a demonstration in Chicago killing seven police officers and demonstrators and injuring 67.Who was responsible?


a. labor extremists
b. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

3. Between 1889 and 1909 over 1700 African-Americans were lynched in the United States by:


a. white Southern extremists
b. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

4. In 1894 the president of France was assassinated by:


a. a French terrorist
b. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

5. In 1897 the premier of Spain was assassinated by:


a. a Spanish terrorist
b. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

6. In 1898 the empress of Austria was assassinated by:


a. a Austrian terrorist
b. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

7. In 1900 the king of Italy was assassinated by:


a. an Italian terrorist
b. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

8. In 1901 the president of the United States was assassinated by:


a. an American terrorist
b. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

9. In 1914 who assassinated Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Hungar, starting the First World War that resulted in at least 20 million deaths?


a. a Bosnian terrorist
b. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

10. Who launched suicide attacks in explosive laden aircraft on American warships in 1945, sinking 40 ships?


a. Japanese Kamikaze pilots
b. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

11. Who blew up the King David Hotel in Jerusalem in 1946 killing 91 British soldiers as well as British, Jewish, and Arab civilians (the most deadly terrorist act that has ever taken place in Palestine or Israel to this day)?


a. Jewish terrorists
b. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

12. Who massacred 247 men, women and children in a Palestinian village in 1948 in order to cause panic among Palestinians and convince them to flee their homes?


a. Jewish terrorists
b. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40


13. Who set off a bomb in a Birmingham church in 1963 killing four young girls at Sunday school


a. white Southern extremists
b. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

14. Between 1969 and 1994 who killed over 3000 soldiers, police and civiliansin bombings and assassinations in Northern Ireland with the support of groups in the United States and Great Britain?


a. Catholic and Protestant terrorists
b. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

15. Who waged a campaign of bombings and killings in northern Spain since the1970s?


a. Basque terrorists
b. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

16. In 1982 who massacred over 800 Palestinians in refugee camps, mostly women and children?


a. Lebanese Christian militias with the support of the Israeli army in Lebanon and its commander, Ariel Sharon (now prime minister of Israel)
b. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

17. Who set off a powerful car bomb at the American headquarters at Ramstein airbase, Germany in 1981, injuring 14?



a. German terrorists
b. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

18. Since 1970 who killed thousands of police, judges, lawyers, clergy, andother civilians in Colombia, Peru, Guatemala, and El Salvador?


a. drug cartels, leftist guerillas, right-wing paramilitary groups
b. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

19. Who set off bombs at abortion clinics killing 2 receptionists in 1994, murdered 2 abortion clinic workers in 1995, and assassinated 3 doctors in 1993, 1994, and 1998?


a. American anti-abortion extremists
b. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

20. In 1995 who released nerve gas in the Tokyo subway killing 12 and injuring more than 5000?


a. Japanese religious extremists
b. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

21. In 1995 who set off a bomb at the Federal building in Oklahoma City killing 168 people?


a. an American terrorist
b. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

22. In the 1990s who sent letter bombs through the mail in the United State skilling 3 people?


a. an American terrorist named Theodore Kacynski
b. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

23. Who massacred 29 Muslim worshipers at a mosque in Hebron in 1994


a. a Jewish extremist
b. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

24. Who assassinated the prime minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, in 1995?


a. a Jewish extremist
b. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

25. Who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi in 1948 and two prime ministers of India, Indira Gandhi in 1984 and Rajiv Gandhi in 1991?


a. Hindu, Sikh, and Tamil extremists
b. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

26. In the last 17 months who has "unintentionally" killed over 800 Palestinian policemen and innocent civilians in their efforts to combat terrorism. [over twice as many innocent victims as the "Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40" have been killed in Israel and the occupied territories]


a. Israeli Defense Forces
b. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

I'll give you a hint. The correct answer to all these questions IS NOT "B"

[RadcliffXX]

hehe. Nice post.

[Lypepuddyu]

You'll LOVE this article.


Terrorism is not a Muslim monopoly.

SWAMINATHAN S ANKLESARIA AIYAR.

‘‘All Muslims may not be terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims.’’ This comment , frequently heard after the Mumbai bomb blasts implies that terrorism is a Muslim specialty, if not a monopoly. The facts are very different.

First, there is nothing new about terrorism. In 1881, anarchists killed the Russian Tsar Alexander II and 21 bystanders. In 1901, anarchists killed US President McKinley as well as King Humbert I of Italy. World War I started in 1914 when anarchists killed Archduke Ferdinand of Austria. These terrorist attacks were not Muslim.

Terrorism is generally defined as the killing of civilians for political reasons. Going by this definition, the British Raj referred to Bhagat Singh, Chandrashekhar Azad and many other Indian freedom fighters as terrorists. These were Hindu and Sikh rather than Muslim.

Guerrilla fighters from Mao Zedong to Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro killed civilians during their revolutionary campaigns. They too were called terrorists until they triumphed. Nothing Muslim about them.

In Palestine, after World War II, Jewish groups (the Haganah, Irgun and Stern Gang) fought for the creation of a Jewish state, bombing hotels and installations and killing civilians. The British, who then governed Palestine, rightly called these Jewish groups terrorists. Many of these terrorists later became leaders of independent Israel — Moshe Dayan, Yitzhak Rabin, Menachem Begin, Ariel Sharon. Ironically, these former terrorists then lambasted terrorism, applying this label only to Arabs fighting for the very same nationhood that the Jews had fought for earlier.

In Germany in 1968-92, the Baader-Meinhoff Gang killed dozens, including the head of Treuhand, the German privatisation agency. In Italy, the Red Brigades kidnapped and killed Aldo Moro, former prime minister.

The Japanese Red Army was an Asian version of this. Japan was also the home of Aum Shinrikyo, a Buddhist cult that tried to kill thousands in the Tokyo metro system using nerve gas in 1995.

In Europe, the Irish Republican Army has been a Catholic terrorist organisation for almost a century. Spain and France face a terrorist challenge from ETA, the Basque terrorist organisation.

Africa is ravaged by so much civil war and internal strife that few people even bother to check which groups can be labelled terrorist. They stretch across the continent. Possibly the most notorious is the

Lord’s Salvation Army in Uganda, a Christian outfit that uses children as warriors.

In Sri Lanka, the Tamil Tigers have long constituted one of the most vicious and formidable terrorist groups in the world. They were the first to train children as terrorists. They happen to be Hindus. Suicide bombing is widely associated with Muslim Palestinians and Iraqis, but the Tamil Tigers were the first to use this tactic on a large scale. One such suicide bomber assassinated Rajiv Gandhi in 1991.

In India, the militants in Kashmir are Muslim. But they are only one of several militant groups. The Punjab militants, led by Bhindranwale, were Sikhs. The United Liberation Front of Assam is a Hindu terrorist group that targets Muslims rather than the other way round. Tripura has witnessed the rise and fall of several terrorist groups, and so have Bodo strongholds in Assam. Christian Mizos mounted an insurrection for decades, and Christian Nagas are still heading militant groups.

But most important of all are the Maoist terrorist groups that now exist in no less than 150 out of India’s 600 districts. They have attacked police stations, and killed and razed entire villages that oppose them. These are secular terrorists (like the Baader Meinhof Gang or Red Brigades). In terms of membership and area controlled, secular terrorists are far ahead of Muslim terrorists.

In sum, terrorism is certainly not a Muslim monopoly. There are or have been terrorist groups among Christians, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs, and even Buddhists. Secular terrorists (anarchists, Maoists) have been the biggest killers.

Why then is there such a widespread impression that most or all terrorist groups are Muslim? I see two reasons. First, the Indian elite keenly follows the western media, and the West feels under attack from Islamic groups. Catholic Irish terrorists have killed far more people in Britain than Muslims, yet the subway bombings in London and Madrid are what Europeans remember today. The Baader Meinhof Gang, IRA and Red Brigades no longer pose much of a threat, but after 9/11 Americans and Europeans fear that they could be hit anywhere anytime. So they focus attention on Islamic militancy. They pay little notice to other forms of terrorism in Africa, Sri Lanka or India: these pose no threat to the West.

Within India, Maoists pose a far greater threat than Muslim militants in 150 districts, one-third of India’s area. But major cities feel threatened only by Muslim groups. So the national elite and media focus overwhelmingly on Muslim terrorism. The elite are hardly aware that this is an elite phenomenon.

[Quality4Qty]

You may want to add the Islamophobe terrorist author of the Oslo massacre, Anders Behring Breivik.

[Ornamiviant]

The PM of Israel is B. Netanyahu now.
Wassalam

[vigraxtru]

I'll give you a hint. The correct answer to all these questions IS NOT "B" Through deductive reasoning I conclude that if the answer to all of these questions is NOT "B" then the answer to all these questions is "A"


So... prize?