Islamic Terrorism in India is a complete myth

Everyone knows that India is a target of Islamic terrorism right? Listening to the news hype or the blog conversations on pro-hindu sites (that’s not an insult btw), you can’t help but feel that the Muslim extremists are taking over India and bombing innocent men, women and children all over the place every day. But there’s one teensy little problem with this scenario.

Islamic terrorism makes up less than 9% of all terror incidents in India! And almost all of it is in the Kashmir region.

Now that can’t possibly be true right? I mean what about all the terrorist blasts in 2009 in the rest of India? Except that there were none. Yup, that’s right. Not one damn terrorist attack in India in 2009 outside of Kashmir that we can attribute to Islamic fanatics.

How do I know this? While researching data for a reply to a blog comment – see, I do the research :) – I found that the US government has set up a worldwide terrorism tracking system which gives a wealth of information regarding terrorist attacks globally. It’s free, publicly accessible, and users can filter by country, date range, type of terror attacks, casualties, groups responsible, location within the country, generate heat maps, get victim data and many more options and you can mix n match to get the exact info you’re looking for.

It turns out, that the majority of terror attacks in India is carried out by the Naxals. Here is the complete map of terrorism in India in 2009. A total of 703 attacks.

Terror attacks in India - 2009
Terror attacks in India - 2009

When you filter by “Islamic Extremism”, the map changes to this with the number dropping to just 63. I got a bit of a shock on seeing this really.

Islamic Terrorism in India - Where is it?
Islamic Terrorism in India - Where is it?

Ouch..where are all the Islamic bombings? You know, the “terrorists” which our government is trying so hard to save us from. The terrorism which has every citizen in India in a funk afraid of their own shadow. It’s in the damn Naxal belt that’s where – go get em!

But please stop this crap about Islamic militants. Yeah, it happens now and then but hardly kills anyone. Not that we Indians particularly care about lives being lost. Otherwise we would have done something about train accidents in India which have already killed 285 people in this year alone.

Of course, this robs people of the satisfaction of blaming all violence in India on the Muslims. Hopefully at least some people will take note.

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  1. I too have asked you some question can you please reply to that..Why Canadain govt takes it for real and not myth though not a single attack has been successful , its not that Canada is not on the hit list of Islamic terrorism so far Canada has averted major attacks by arresting youth who were born brought up in Canada. Also tell me your view on today one more attack in HC delhi is myth?

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    • In reply to Reality

      Governments like terrorism since it gives them an excuse to take away people’s privacy and civil liberties. Every country will claim that terrorism is a serious threat no matter what the reality is.

      In fact if terrorism suddenly disappeared, governments would all over the world would be devastated. It’s so nice to have an excuse to easily scare people.

      Terrorism being a very poor source of deaths is borne out by statistics. What does today’s attack have to do with it?

      And finally, please answer my question about why you think naxalites are not terrorists.

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  2. Why it wasnot before sept 11? I travelled very comfortably before sep11, no fuss on security. Why today?Governments are not bundle of jokes, than you must also know scaring the people comes with cost of security. It is a burden not an easy fun on Nation. You mean it is conspiracy by all Nation, So London attck did not happen? Sep 11 did not happen? Taj hotel, and many blast did not happen in India? and also other major Islamic terror attack on other nation did not happen? And govt must not act, must not get alert, and people must not deserve security, is that you want to say? Let the attack keep happening and let people die? And you are declaring it as a excuse to take away privacy and civil liberty? Its your fancy thought.

    If Islamic terror and death are myth than eveything is myth na? I fear more terror from Islam than naxals. If I am walking on the road of US, India, UK, Norway, France I dont fear naxalite, But I fear Islamic terrorism everywhere I Go.

    when you say what todays attack has to do with it…shows how serious you are about threat and security of the Nation. Any amount of excuses, justifications are not going to take away real threat, It is there and will remain. Atleast I cannot afford to look other way and dont like to live in fools paradise either.

    The topic of your post is Islamic Terrorism in India is complete myth. But infact It is not!! It is very real all over the world. Cannot eqaute with naxals. sorry, Islamic terrorism demands more attention, security, money, intelligence than rail and naxal. As fear and threat is bigger than any of them.

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    • In reply to Reality

      Naxalism demands less attention? I guess it doesn’t matter how many people are actually killed right? This whole “security” business doesn’t have any connection to real deaths it seems!

      I only care about lives lost. And Islamic terrorism doesn’t take that many lives no matter how scared you are. Nothing else matters.

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  3. It matters even a single person dies. Security business is for peoples safety. Islamic terrorism has taken toll all over the world and taken many lives. Its not justifying your fancy thougts on govt business of taking away privacy and civil liberty. Single life matter…nothing else.

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    • In reply to Reality

      Sorry, but when you have limited resources you focus your attention on those threats which kill the most people. Statistically that is naxalism, train accidents etc. Islamic terrorism kills far fewer people and therefore is last on my list of priorities.

      But of course the government can’t scare you into giving up your liberties by using train accidents as a reason. But people are stupidly afraid of islamic terrorism and so it’s a convenient tool for control.

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      • In reply to bhagwad

        Bhagwad

        you can go on on how many more people die in incidents which are non islamic terror … i totally agree!! but you cant run from the fact today that Islam is not a friendly religion. what most news channels cover across the globe dont even reach india. i read a few of your post earlier on indonesia which you claim is a secular country?? indonesia has 90% muslim population … and they dont make life easy for any other religion …. just fyi what you dont know is very recent which indian channels will not cover

        ….http://global.christianpost.com/news/indonesia-mayor-tries-to-ban-churches-on-streets-with-islamic-names-54366/

        read the last line especially …. or let me highlight it for you …In 2010, there were 64 incidents of violence involving religious intolerance in Indonesia ranging in levels of violence,!!!

        wow islam dominated countries

        iv read your earlier statement, you would care less if INDIA is 80% muslim!! you think it will not affect you or your freedom?? you will think a million times before you even put up a blog post like this bcos of a fear of getting yourself stoned to death. as much as you care less about religion … you do care about your life. in ISLAM if your not a muslim you dont have the right to live.

        as per your most initial post you stated india is 80% hindu country… look around again, open your eyes and smell the attar my dear friend. every hindu or christian or other religion has 1 or 2 kids in a metro city. have a look at the muslim population… they have 5-6 kids. … as they say ALLAH gave it to them. check your facts again… muslims in INDIA today are nearly 32-35% ….. and wont be long when they are 50% of the population

        now if you wondering why am i giving you this crap of population when the initial discussion was on islamic terror is because indias worst nightmares are about to come true

        the more muslim population increase .. the more every non muslims life is endagered.

        how many terrorist incidents have taken place in 2011 alone? in india and around the globe?
        the more you have muslims … theres nothing but troubles … whats worse is this disgusting faith people chant their godly words after hideous acts of violence and crime!!!

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      • In reply to Vishal

        I get where you’re coming from. But history has shown that even Christianity was as violent as Islam is now. Has christianity itself changed in any way? No. What has changed then? Nothing but the people. The Bible is as violent as the Kuran – perhaps more so.

        So the problem isn’t just Islam. If it was, then there would be a problem with Christianity also. The problem is cultural, economic and political.

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  4. I think your blog is funded by such terrorist associations and your posts are very much anti-national.

    I suggest you discuss your opinion after you take a look outside your window

    you need to look into islamic culture first. I am sure you will find words written in the quran which primarily targets in killing hindus (idol worshippers). Hindus have been warned 3500 years back in the bhavisya puran about the birth of the devilish muhammad, the facilitator of pishacha dharma. http://bhavishyapuran.blogspot.com/

    You also need to go through this websites to understand what is islam all about.
    http://www.faithfreedom.org
    http://www.thereligionofpeace.com

    The growth of muslims in india is dramatic, a 900% growth rate compared to 300% growth rate of overall india. I think only hindus are the ones having 1 wive and 2 children now-a-days whereas muslims are having a poultry farm of humans.

    Secondly, your posts have no realistic data, the maps you put out are probably from westernised media who never share islamic terrorism information, could it be because jawaharlal nehru was the son of motilal nehru, who is the son of ganga dhar whose actual actual name was ghiyasuddin ghazi which was adopted because the british ordered the killing of mughal noblemen. nehrus daughter married firoz khan and then nehru and mahatma gandhi conspired together to change their family name to gandhi (for political benefit).

    I challenge you to prove to me that motilal nehru’s father was ganga dhar “nehru”. its an assumed name.

    so it was muslim rule after british, till rajiv gandhi, and now when rajiv converted to roberto vinci to marry antonia, their family became christian. Its a mockery in front of people that rajiv gandhi’s body was burnt for he was not a hindu at least.

    now hindus are again under christian rule. I dont understand why everything is revolving around india all the time, be it mughals, be it british, be it the pseudosecular govt that provided Rs. 7.7 billion in 2008 as Haj subsidy but no such subsidy for amarnath yatra holds the naked truth of indian politics being based upon vote bank because muslims have 900% growth.

    You cannot be a gandhian among murderers and killers, by that you become an easy prey.

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  5. Dear Gaurav,
    Very interesting theories.

    “so it was muslim rule after british, till rajiv gandhi, and now when rajiv converted to roberto vinci to marry antonia, their family became christian. ………now hindus are again under christian rule.”

    India is not onder anyone’s ‘rule’. It is a democratic republic with an elected parliament and the cabinet. It is so by the will of the majority.
    1. Do you have a problem with that?
    2. Secondly I couldn’t care less about Nehru but but care about my republic.
    Even if everyting you say is true (Ghazi\Nehru nonsense), India has had people converting from one faith to another for millenia. (Hindu to Bhuddhist\Hindu to Muslim\Hindu to Sikh etc. Why is it relevant what faith the Nehru’s had a hundred years ago (or will follow tomorrow)?
    3. Do you have a problem if I change my faith from that of my forefathers?

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    • In reply to Gorki

      I think those are valid points Gorki. People seem to mix politics and religion too much. It should be irrelevant what a person’s religion in politics is.

      I may be wrong, but the same individuals seem to have a problem with India’s democracy implying that the people don’t know what’s good for them and need guidance. At the same time they claim India is “ruled!”

      I must admit I’m confused…

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  6. Thanks for another stimulating discussion.

    I am very much impressed with Sasank!
    I don’t know if he is right or wrong, but I am convinced he is brillant.

    Regards
    GV

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  7. Since this is a year old post, not sure if my comment merits a response.. yet let me try…

    You have commented thus:

    Jesus himself tells people to follow the barbaric old testament in clear terms. Over there, all these lovely things happen – rape, murder, sex with children, incest, torture, loot.

    Being a Christian myself, can I know how? nd just because the Bible contains all that you mentioned, can you please be more clear as to how you conclude that Jesus himself advocated them. Or.. can you be more specific by quoting the exact Bible verse.

    Thank you!

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    • In reply to Happy Kitten

      Well, there are pretty specific quotes such as:

      “Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest part or the smallest part of a letter will pass from the law, until all things have taken place.” (Matthew 5:17)

      There are others too, but this is the first one which popped up. Suffice to say that the New Testament doesn’t wipe out the excesses of the old.

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  8. The quoted Bible verse does not prove that Jesus ever asked his disciples to do the following: rape, murder, sex with children, incest, torture, loot…. and it shall never prove the same even if you quote any number of Bible verse.

    You may have wrote this post to state that religious extremism exits or existed in every religion and today after having gone through all the comments, I understand that my question has already been addressed by another commentator. Think the one difference between Islam and the present (I stress the present) form of Christianity is that you are free to call Jesus a murderer, a rapist etc. etc. in broad daylight without any threat to your life.. whereas you would have to live in fear of your live if you utter the same about Islam. Have you tried it yet?

    While it is true that there is a growing fear of Islamic terrorism, partly fuelled by media / govt. or whatever, the fact is that one cannot or should not ignore it by wishing it away. This would be a slow giving up of scores of Indian Muslims to the same. Moderate Muslims in India ( still in majority I blv ) may not be speaking out enough and they may have their reasons but I think one is letting them down by ignoring the growing threat. The Christian crusades and it’s likes took away a lot of life and it had nothing to do with the teaching of Jesus. It was just a way of gaining power by using religion.

    and as they say, if you forget History; it will repeat.

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    • In reply to Happy Kitten

      If the Old Testament has murder, rape and Jesus asks people to follow the Old Testament, it’s the same thing.

      As for insulting Mohammed openly, perhaps you haven’t heard of “Everybody Draw Mohammed” day? To my knowledge no one has even been touched because of it!

      And as I said in my post, no matter what threat you think Islam is, I’m more concerned about Naxalism.

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