OK...George Bush recently commuted the sentence of Scooter Libby for the "crime" of disclosing that Valerie Plame was a CIA officer.  But..Plame was NOT undercover, she made a donation to the Gore campaign and listed herself and her company, quite openly several months before all of this came up, http://www.blogsforbush.com/mt/archives/007956.html

According to an article in Newsweek http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14533384/site/newsweek/ it was Robert Novak who initially broke the news about Plame and Richard Armitage who apparently leaked it.  Funny how he let Libby twist in the wind for months without coming to his aid knowing it was himself not Libby who told Novak of the Plame identity.  Why?  According the article above, he is a moderate republican and had strong feelings against the war.  Apparently, they tried for the next best thing since they were unable to get Bush or Cheney...by indicting Cheney's chief of staff Scooter Libby.

Let's have a look at a few of the 38 sentences commuted and 146 pardons granted by Clinton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_pardoned_by_Bill_Clinton

Highlights
Commutations

Mel Reynolds - In August 1994, he was indicted for having sex with a 16-year-old campaign volunteer, in April 1997, he was convicted on 15 unrelated counts of bank fraud and lying to SEC investigators.

Dorothy Rivers - In 1997 Dorothy Rivers was charged and pled guilty to stealing 1.2 million tax dollars in federal grant money. She used it to buy, among other things, a $35,000 dollar fur coat and a Mercedes-Benz for her son.

Carlos Vignali -  he was serving the 6th of 15 years in prison for organized cocaine trafficking

Pardons
Roger Clinton - On February 17, 2001, he was arrested and charged with two counts of drunken driving and one for disturbing the peace. In a deal that spared him jail time, Roger Clinton pleaded guilty to a non-alcohol-related charge of reckless driving.

Susan McDougall - She was convicted on May 28, 1996, and spent time in prison for four counts of fraud and conspiracy relating to the Whitewater scandal. She was later charged with (and acquitted of) embezzlement against noted conductor Zubin Mehta.[1].  She also spent 18 months in prison including 7 weeks in solitary confinement for civil contempt of court. U.S. District Court Judge Susan Webber Wright sentenced her after McDougal refused to answer three questions from Whitewater prosecutors before the grand jury empaneled by Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr to investigate the Whitewater deals.

Marc Rich - In 1983, Rich and partner Pincus Green were indicted by U.S. Attorney and future mayor of New
York City Rudolph Giuliani, on charges of tax evasion and illegal trading with Iran.

Dan "Let me have one $.42 stamp and here's a $5000 check...change please" Rostenkowski - in 1994, when he was indicted on corruption charges for his key role in the House post office scandal.

Patty Hearst - The granddaughter of publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst, she gained notoriety in 1974 when, following her kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army, she ultimately joined her captors in furthering their cause. Apprehended after having taken part in a bank robbery with other SLA members, Hearst was imprisoned for almost two years before her sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter.

Honorable mention
FALN - To help Hillary get elected in New York...On August 11, 1999, Clinton commuted the sentences of 16 members of FALN, a violent Puerto Rican nationalist group that set off 120 bombs in the United States mostly in New York City and Chicago, convicted for conspiracies to commit robbery, bomb-making, and sedition, as well as for firearms and explosives violations.^[3] None of the 16 were convicted of bombings or any crime which injured another person, though they were sentenced with terms ranging from 35 to 105 years in prison for the conviction of conspiracy and sedition.

Sandy Berger - On July 19, 2004, it was revealed that the U.S. Justice Department was investigating Berger for unlawfully mishandling classified documents in October 2003, by removing them from a National Archives reading room prior to testifying before the 9/11 Commission.

On May 17, 2007, Berger relinquished his license to practice law as a result of the Justice Deptartment investigation. Saying, "I have decided to voluntarily relinquish my license." He added that, "While I derived great satisfaction from years of practicing law, I have not done so for 15 years and do not envision returning to the profession. I am very sorry for what I did, and I deeply apologize." By giving up his license, Berger avoided cross-examinination by the Bar Counsel regarding details of his thefts.^[31]

uh huhh...sure....for what!?  Must have been very important info to risk his career and lose his license for Bubba!  Where is the main stream media on this...why did I not hear WORD ONE about it?

Barak Obama recently made the charge that "...some right-wing evangelical leaders have exploited and politicized religious beliefs in an effort to sow division." 
http://townhall.com/News/NewsArticle.aspx?ContentGuid=d73099af-bd80-4905-a87d-a8db3a34572f

Let's examine two of what I would consider to be the most contentious issues both to people of faith and to those who are not believers; abortion and homosexuality.  Then we will look at Obama's public stance on these very issues.  It seems that Barak may be trying to woo people of faith to vote for him, hoping that they will not  educate themselves on these important issues and compare his public stance to scripture.

OK...Obama states "...the evangelical leaders have...exploited beliefs...to sow division."  I find this charge laughable!  It is Christians that hold to the tenants of their faith.  It is the left that is seeking to weaken or dismiss the distinction of morals in society.  THAT my friends is sowing division.

Taking drastic measures like demanding that the boy scouts have gay scout leaders, or that students be escorted to the planned parenthood clinics for a taxpayer funded abortion without their parents consent, or that homosexuality simply be taught as a values free sexual alternative, these are the divisive bombs being thrown by the left into the homes of the people of faith, many of whom think it is right to simply "turn the other cheek."

Abortion Barak Obama is clearly pro choice and supports partial birth abortion (infanticide)
http://quiz.ontheissues.org/2008/Barack_Obama_Abortion.htm
Some scriptures that are often cited to back up the claim that life is sacred follow:
Psalm 139:13
You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body
and knit me together in my mother’s womb.

Jer 1:4-5
4 The Lord gave me this message:
5  “I knew you before I formed you in your mother’s womb.
Before you were born I set you apart
and appointed you as my prophet to the nations.”

Luked 1:41
 41 At the sound of Mary’s greeting, Elizabeth’s child leaped within her, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.

This is just a quick sampling of a few scriprures that I am aware of dealing with the sanctity of human life and should present a reasonably solid case as to why many Christians oppose abortion.

Homosexuality Barak Obama opposes gay marriage, supports civil unions and gay equality
http://quiz.ontheissues.org/2008/Barack_Obama_Civil_Rights.htm
Another somewhat divisive issue facing our culture is that of homosexuality.

Lev 18:22
22 “Do not practice homosexuality, having sex with another man as with a woman. It is a detestable sin.

Lev 20:13
13 “If a man practices homosexuality, having sex with another man as with a woman, both men have committed a detestable act.

Rom 1:24-27
24 So God abandoned them to do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. As a result, they did vile and degrading things with each other’s bodies. 25 They traded the truth about God for a lie. So they worshiped and served the things God created instead of the Creator himself, who is worthy of eternal praise! Amen. 26 That is why God abandoned them to their shameful desires. Even the women turned against the natural way to have sex and instead indulged in sex with each other. 27 And the men, instead of having normal sexual relations with women, burned with lust for each other. Men did shameful things with other men, and as a result of this sin, they suffered within themselves the penalty they deserved.

Forgiveness is available.  The blood of Christ cleanses us from all sin.  Once forgiven, there is no record.

Rom 3:25
25 For God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin. People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed his life, shedding his blood. This sacrifice shows that God was being fair when he held back and did not punish those who sinned in times past,

Heb 8:12
12  And I will forgive their wickedness,
and I will never again remember their sins.”

As for Obama, he has made his positions known quite publicly.  As stated above, it is not the people of faith that are dividing, but the left that is trying to undermine the moral foundation of our society by trying to compromise a moral position.  Can you be partly pregnant?  Is abortion wrong some of the time?  Is murder OK "some of the time"? 

The tradition of marriage is centuries old and society has agreed that it has centered around the rearing of children.  Only a man and a woman are able to "produce" a child.  Two men and/or two women are incapable of producing children.  For this reason, there can be NO SUCH THING AS GAY MARRIAGE.  It simply cannot exist,  You may WANT it to exist.  Much like a square wheel...wanting it does not make it so.  It is the left that is divisively trying to divide this centuries old tradition...NOT people of faith.  It is the left that are bigots...hatefully calling people of faith...hatemongers.  HELLO!

Bless you,

Sherlock

It came to light recently that the Council of Islamic Relations has been pressuring our government to publicly fund Muslim footbaths to accommodate cabbies as they circle the airport awaiting passengers.  This is apparently needed in order to accommodate their need to cleanse themselves prior to praying multiple times a day.

I have no problem with the cleansing or the prayer tradition within their faith.  I have big beef with the utter hypocrisy on display here by the Republican ? oh... don't think so?  Democrat council members that allowed this public funding to take place...I just wonder WHAT would have been the reaction if a group of white Christian men in the upper income level (the ones who pay the tax bills for the congresspersons to make these ridiculous decisions) had petitioned city hall for a room where communion would be served within the airport?  Are the Buddhists next?  and then..Wiccans?

http://www.kansascity.com/116/story/90912.html

And while our colleges go out of their way to purge every vestige of Christianity OFF the campus including removing crosses that have been historical landmarks, they are apparently eager to accommodate and publicly fund anything for the Muslim counterparts.

http://www.startribune.com/191/story/1115081.html


Lastly, David Horowitz has done an outstanding job (once again) painting a work picture an helping explain WHY the ACLU is NOT on the case.  Two great articles follow:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17702
http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/readarticle.asp?ID=18323&p=1

This next link deserves its' own entry.  It is well worth the time and effort to read.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6706

Blessings.

Sherlock

OK...so...let me get this straight...there was to be a large global warming protest (in April...not exactly the middle of the winter) and as this protest was being organized...a massive snowstorm was set to dump snow on the festivities.  In fact, if you read the link below (about half way down), many activities had to be cancelled...but the "global warming devotees" were determined and apperantly held their meeting...rain or snow.
http://www.saljournal.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=11532&format=html

So the leader of this new global warming "crisis" has a $30000 utility bill.  http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/GlobalWarming/story?id=2906888&page=1
AND...his solution?  Sell indulgences in the form of carbon credits...oh...by the way, he is PART OWNER in the company Generation Investment Management http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/cover031307.htm

Recently  Al Gore received a strong rebuke from the New York Times (of all places).  Here is a link to an article from Media Matters that comments on this article and more.
http://mediamatters.org/columns/200703200006

My questions for you are as follows:

1. 1) Exactly how much has the earth warmed... point 06 of a degree...(not exactly heat stroke!), and...
2. 2) IF the earth HAS warmed .06 of a degree have the other planets warmed simultaneously?  Answer?  YES!  Could it be...THE SUN!?  http://www.livescience.com/environment/070312_solarsys_warming.html
3. 3) Does it make sense to surrender our collective freedom and productive ability to a system that will yield a worldwide system of taxation and income re-distribution?  Answer? NO! (less developed countries will be "allowed additional carbon offsets and have less restrictive guidelines so they can "catch up" with the developed countries, they will in turn sell their "extra" carbon offsets to the developed countries who desperately need them to continue their standard of living)...perhaps the United Nations has finally figured out how to develop a global tax?  All of this based on a VERY shaky set of "facts" and hype! 
5. Jonah Goldberg writes that Al Gore has turned global warming into a religion.  Indeed he has if you read the following.  Remember, cow flatulence is the #1 cause of methane gas (believed to be a leading cause of global warming).  http://www.opinioneditorials.com/guestcontributors/kroeten_20070405.html

May 8 update:  Al Gore's book Inconvenient Truth has replaced the Bible in nightstands in one hotel in California... http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=CM07E05

Bless you,

Sherlock

We celebrate Easter because three days after the crucifixion of Jesus Christ for the "crime" of having others say he was King of the Jews, Christ rose from the dead.  After he died, his limp body was wrapped in the traditional burial cloth, and he was laid in a tomb.  A large stone was then rolled to cover the opening and a guard was posted in front of the tomb to guard.

One ot THE MOST distinguishing characteristics of Christianity from any of the other major world religions is the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.  This supernatural event differs from Islam, Buddism, Hinduism and any other world religion.

Here is a great link describing some of the evidences for the resurrection: http://www.leaderu.com/everystudent/easter/articles/josh2.html which in summary are:
1. Broken Roman Seal
2. Empty Tomb
3. Large Stone Moved
4. Roman Guard goes AWOL
5. Graveclothes tell a tale (Shroud of Turin)
http://www.shroud.com/
6. Jesus' Appearances Confirmed
7. Over 500 Witnesses

The Bible describes the resurrection in the latter part of the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John found in Scripture which are all the account of the life of Jesus.  You can read one of these accounts in the gospel of John chapter 20 (this is my favorite gospel). 

Here is another good cut and paste from  http://www.y-zine.com/body_count.htm?gclid=CJ-lw_yXs4sCFSR8UAodAVnCzA

Body Count

EXPLAINING THE DISAPPEARANCE

AND REAPPEARANCE OF JESUS? Page 6

CYNICS AND SKEPTICS Page 6

SELF-PROPHECY Page 9

WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE END OF THE STORY Page 9

SOMETHING HAPPENED Page 10

WAS JESUS DEAD? Page 10

THE MATTER OF AN EMPTY TOMB Page 11

FRANK MORISON AND THE EXPOSE’ THAT NEVER WAS Page 11

GRAVE ROBBING? Page 12

CONSISTENT TO THE END Page 13

A BAD TRIP? Page 13

FROM LIE TO LEGEND? Page 14

WHY DID CHRISTIANITY WIN? Page 14

A SURPRISE CONCLUSION Page 14

ENDNOTES Page 15

A STUNNED PROFESSOR Page 15

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I am indebted to Dr. Bill Bright, who passed away before this project was finished. Dr. Bright enthusiastically endorsed and

contributed to the development of the material presented in this endeavor.

Special thanks are also due to Rick James and Eric Stanford, who have both spent countless hours clarifying some of the concepts

presented.

Several others have contributed greatly to the writing of these articles, including Dr. Henry Brandt, Dave Chapman, Dr. Bert Harned, and New Testament scholar, Dr. Ron Heine. The valuable input from Brian Ricci, ‘Jamin Latvala, and the Campus Crusade staff at the University of Washington were especially helpful and constructive. Special thanks also are due Helmut Teichert of Bright Media, who has been the overall director of the project. Finally I would like to thank my wife, Marianne, for inspiring me to undertake this effort.

Larry Chapman

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Atheist Bertrand Russell, who doubted Jesus’ very existence, assumed that the resurrection of the body was impossible. In 1926, Russell wrote, "I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my own ego will survive."1 Well, that’s cheerful. Russell clearly bordered on the morose, but we’ve all wondered, with perhaps more optimism, what will happen to us when we die.

Death has been called "the great equalizer." Thousands of stone markers surrounded by spacious green lawns tell the stories. Nobel Prize winners. Beauty queens. Billionaires. Presidents. All die. Someday it will be our turn. Are we to despair with Russell, or is there hope? According to the New Testament, Jesus’ resurrection has given us hope for eternal life beyond the grave. All of Christianity hinges on that one promise.

Theologian R. C. Sproul has stated, "The claim of resurrection is vital to Christianity. If Christ has been raised from the dead by God, then He has the credentials and certification that no other religious leader possesses. Buddha is dead. Mohammad is dead. Moses is dead. Confucius is dead. But, according to … Christianity, Christ is alive."2

So different and so abnormal is all this that a part of us would like to dismiss it as myth. But is the resurrection to be relegated to a Sunday school story—or is there evidence?

Researcher Josh McDowell said, "After more than seven hundred hours of studying this subject and thoroughly investigating its foundation, I have come to the conclusion that the resurrection of Jesus Christ is one of the most wicked, vicious, heartless hoaxes ever foisted upon the minds of men, OR it is the most fantastic fact of history."3 Right. So which is it?

Let’s look at the evidence.

CYNICS AND SKEPTICS

But not everyone is willing to fairly examine the evidence. Bertrand Russell admits his take on Jesus was "not concerned" with historical facts.4 Historian Joseph Campbell, without citing evidence, calmly told his PBS television audience that the resurrection of Jesus is not a factual event.5 Other scholars, such as John Dominic Crossan of the Jesus Seminar, agree with him.6 None of these skeptics present any evidence for their views.

To be honest, the thought that anyone could be dead for three days, and then come back to life is cause for a strong dose of skepticism. But whereas cynics are closed minded to the facts, according to Skeptic magazine, true skeptics always keep their minds open to the evidence. An editorial in the magazine states, "When we say we are ‘skeptical,’ we mean that we must see compelling evidence before we believe."7

"Buddha is dead.

Mohammad is dead.

Moses is dead.

Confucius is dead.

But according to Christianity...Christ is alive."

R. C. SprouL

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www.KnowGodPersonally.org

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As our cold case of Jesus’ resurrection gets underway, let’s put ourselves in the role of a skeptic who needs compelling evidence before we will believe such an incredible event really occurred.

SELF-PROPHECY

In advance of his death, Jesus told his disciples that he would be betrayed, arrested, and crucified and that he would come back to life three days later. That’s a strange plan! What was behind it? Jesus was no entertainer willing to perform for others on demand; instead, he promised that his death and resurrection would prove to people (if their minds and hearts were open) that he was indeed the Messiah.

Bible scholar Wilbur Smith remarked about Jesus,

When he said that He himself would rise again from the dead, the third day after He was crucified, He said something that only a fool would dare say, if He expected longer the devotion of any disciples—unless He was sure He was going to rise. No founder of any world religion known to men ever dared say a thing like that.8

In other words, since Jesus had clearly told his disciples that he would rise again after his death, failure to keep that promise would expose him as a fraud.

So let’s begin our skeptical inquiry of the resurrection with the events surrounding Jesus’ death and burial.

WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE END OF THE STORY

You know what Jesus’ last hours of earthly life were like if you watched the movie by road warrior/braveheart Mel Gibson. If you missed parts of The Passion of the Christ because you were shielding your eyes (it would have been easier to simply shoot the movie with a red filter on the camera), just flip to the back pages of any Gospel in your New Testament to find out what you missed.

As Jesus predicted, he was betrayed by one of his own disciples, Judas Iscariot, and was arrested. In a mock trial under the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, he was convicted of treason and condemned to die on a wooden cross. Prior to being nailed to the cross, Jesus was brutally beaten with a Roman cat-o’-nine-tails, a whip with bits of bone and metal that would rip flesh. He was punched repeatedly, kicked, and spit upon.

Then, using mallets, the Roman executioners pounded the heavy wrought-iron nails into Jesus’ wrists and feet. Finally they dropped the cross in a hole in the ground between two other crosses bearing convicted thieves.

Jesus hung there for approximately six hours. Then, at 3:00 in the afternoon—that is, at exactly the same time the Passover lamb was being sacrificed as a sin offering—Jesus cried out, "It is finished" (in Aramaic), and died. Suddenly the sky went dark and an earthquake shook the land.9

Pilate wanted verification that Jesus was dead before allowing his crucified body to be buried. So a Roman guard thrust a spear into Jesus’ side. The mixture of blood and water that flowed out was a clear indication that Jesus was dead. Jesus’ body was then taken down from the cross and buried in Joseph of Arimathea’s tomb. Roman

"The silence of history is deafening when it comes to the testimony against the resurrection."

Tom Anderson former president, California Trial Lawyers Association

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guards next sealed the tomb and secured it with a 24-hour watch.

Meanwhile, Jesus’ disciples were in shock. Dr. J. P. Moreland writes of their mental state. "They no longer had confidence that Jesus had been sent by God. They also had been taught that God would not let his Messiah suffer death. So they dispersed. The Jesus movement was all but stopped in its tracks."10

SOMETHING HAPPENED

But it wasn’t the end. The Jesus movement did not disappear (obviously), and in fact Christianity exists today as the world’s largest religion. Therefore, we’ve got to know what happened after Jesus’ body was taken down from the cross and laid in the tomb.

In a New York Times article, Peter Steinfels cites the startling events that occurred three days after Jesus’ death: "Shortly after Jesus was executed, his followers were suddenly galvanized from a baffled and cowering group into people whose message about a living Jesus and a coming kingdom, preached at the risk of their lives, eventually changed an empire. Something happened… But exactly what?"11 That’s the question we have to answer with an investigation into the facts.

There are only five plausible explanations for Jesus’ alleged resurrection, as portrayed in the New Testament:

1. Jesus didn’t really die on the cross.

2. The "resurrection" was a conspiracy.

3. The disciples were hallucinating.

4. The account is legendary.

5. It really happened.

Let’s work our way through these options and see which one best fits the facts.

WAS JESUS DEAD?

"Marley was deader than a doornail, of that there was no doubt." So begins Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, the author not wanting anyone to be mistaken as to the supernatural character of what is soon to take place. In the same way, before we take on the role of CSI and piece together evidence for a resurrection, we must first establish that there was, in fact, a corpse. After all, occasionally the newspapers will report on some "corpse" in a morgue who was found stirring and recovered. Could something like that have happened with Jesus?

Some have proposed that Jesus lived through the crucifixion and was revived by the cool, damp air in the tomb–"Whoa, how long was I out for?" But that theory doesn’t seem to square with the medical evidence. An article in the Journal of the American Medical Association explains why this so-called "swoon theory" is untenable: "Clearly, the weight of historical and medical evidence indicated that Jesus was dead. … The spear, thrust between His right ribs, probably perforated not only the right lung but also the pericardium and heart and thereby ensured His death."12

But skepticism of this verdict may be in order, as this case has been cold for 2,000 years. At the very least, we need a second opinion.

One place to find that is in the reports of non-Christian historians from around the time when Jesus lived. Three of these historians mentioned the death of Jesus.

• Lucian (c.120–after 180 A.D.) referred to Jesus as a crucified sophist (philosopher).13

• Josephus (c.37–c.100A.D.) wrote, "At this time there appeared Jesus, a wise man, for he was a doer of amazing deeds. When Pilate condemned him to the cross, the leading men among us, having accused him, those who loved him did not cease to do so."14

• Tacitus (c. 56–c.120 A.D.) wrote, "Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty … at the hands of our procurator Pontius Pilate."15

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This is a bit like going into the archives and finding that on one spring day in the first century The Jerusalem Post ran a front-page story saying that Jesus was crucified and dead. Not bad detective work, and fairly conclusive.

In fact, there is no historical account from Christians, Romans, or Jews that disputes either Jesus’ death or his burial. Even Crossan, a skeptic of the resurrection, agrees that Jesus really lived and died: "That he was crucified is as sure as anything historical can ever be."16 In light of such evidence, we seem to be on good grounds for dismissing the first of our five options. Jesus was clearly dead, "of that there was no doubt."

THE MATTER OF AN EMPTY TOMB

No serious historian really doubts Jesus was dead when he was taken down from the cross. However, many have questioned how Jesus’ body disappeared from the tomb. English journalist Dr. Frank Morison initially thought the resurrection was either

FRANK MORISON AND THE EXPOSÉ THAT NEVER WAS

In the early 1900s, German criticism of the Bible and the rationalist movement were sweeping over Western Europe and the United States, carrying with them the belief that nothing can happen apart from natural laws. With that naturalistic belief came a skepticism toward the foundation of Christianity—the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

One who was greatly influenced by such skepticism was English journalist Frank Morison, who came to believe that the story of Jesus rising from the dead was nothing more than a fairy tale for adults.

Morison decided to investigate the facts surrounding Jesus’ supposed resurrection, fully expecting to discover a story full of holes, missing evidence, and illogical conclusions. He then would write a book exposing the myth. This notable journalist wrote of his intent:

I wanted to take this last phase of the life of Jesus, with all its quick and pulsating drama, its sharp, clear-cut background of antiquity, and its tremendous psychological and human interest—to strip it of its overgrowth of primitive beliefs and dogmatic suppositions, and to see this supremely great Person as He really was.17

But Morison was stunned by what he discovered. He exclaimed, "The book as it was originally planned was left high and dry."18 Morison’s book—Who Moved the Stone?—did finally get written, but it had an entirely different ending than he had intended.

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a myth or a hoax, and he began research to write a book refuting it.19 The book became famous but for reasons other than its original intent, as we’ll see.

Morison began by attempting to solve the case of the empty tomb. The tomb belonged to a member of the Sanhedrin Council, Joseph of Arimathea. In Israel at that time, to be on the council was to be a rock star. Everyone knew who was on the council. Joseph must have been a real person. Otherwise, the Jewish leaders would have exposed the story as a fraud in their attempt to disprove the resurrection. Also, Joseph’s tomb would have been at a well-known location and easily identifiable, so any thoughts of Jesus being "lost in the graveyard" would need to be dismissed.

Morison wondered why Jesus’ enemies would have allowed the "empty tomb myth" to persist if it wasn’t true. The discovery of Jesus’ body would have instantly killed the entire plot.

And what is known historically of Jesus’ enemies is that they accused Jesus’ disciples of stealing the body, an accusation clearly predicated on a shared belief that the tomb was empty.

Dr. Paul L. Maier, professor of ancient history at Western Michigan University, similarly stated, "If all the evidence is weighed carefully and fairly, it is indeed justifiable … to conclude that the tomb in which Jesus was buried was actually empty on the morning of the first Easter. And no shred of evidence has yet been discovered … that would disprove this statement."20

The Jewish leaders were stunned and accused the disciples of stealing Jesus’ body. But the Romans had assigned a 24-hour watch at the tomb with a trained guard unit (from 4 to 12 soldiers). Morison asked, "How could these professionals have let Jesus’ body be vandalized?" It would have been impossible for anyone to have slipped by the Roman guards and to have moved a two-ton stone. Yet the stone was moved away and the body of Jesus was missing.

If Jesus’ body was anywhere to be found, his enemies would have quickly exposed the resurrection as a fraud. Tom Anderson, former president of the California Trial Lawyers Association, summarizes the strength of this argument:

With an event so well publicized, don’t you think that it’s reasonable that one historian, one eye witness, one antagonist would record for all time that he had seen Christ’s body? … The silence of history is deafening when it comes to the testimony against the resurrection.21

So, with no body of evidence, and with a known tomb clearly empty, Morison accepted the evidence as solid that Jesus’ body had somehow disappeared from the tomb.

GRAVE ROBBING?

As Morison continued his investigation, he began to examine the motives of Jesus’ followers. Maybe the supposed resurrection was actually a stolen body. But if so, how does one account for all the reported appearances of a resurrected Jesus? Historian Paul Johnson, in History of the Jews, wrote, "What mattered was not the circumstances of his death but the fact that he was widely and obstinately believed, by an expanding circle of people, to have risen again."22

The tomb was indeed empty. But it wasn’t the mere absence of a body that could have galvanized Jesus’ followers (especially if they had been the ones who had stolen it). Something extraordinary must have happened, for the followers of Jesus ceased mourning, ceased hiding, and began fearlessly proclaiming that they had seen Jesus alive.

Each eyewitness account reports that Jesus suddenly appeared bodily to his followers, the women first. Morison wondered why conspirators would make women central to its plot. In the first century, women had virtually no rights, personhood, or status. If the plot was to succeed, Morison reasoned, the conspirators would have portrayed men, not women, as the first to see Jesus alive. And yet we hear that women touched him, spoke with him, and were the first to find the empty tomb.

Later, according to the eyewitness accounts, all the disciples saw Jesus on more than ten separate occasions. They wrote that he showed them his hands and feet and told them to touch him. And he reportedly ate with them and later appeared alive to more than 500 followers on one occasion.

Legal scholar John Warwick Montgomery stated, "In 56 A.D. [the apostle] Paul wrote that over 500 people had seen the risen Jesus and that most of them were still alive (1 Corinthians 15:6ff.). It passes the bounds of credibility that the early Christians could have manufactured such a tale and then preached it among those who might easily have refuted it simply by producing the body of Jesus."23

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Bible scholars Geisler and Turek agree. "If the Resurrection had not occurred, why would the apostle Paul give such a list of supposed eyewitnesses? He would immediately lose all credibility with his Corinthian readers by lying so blatantly."24

British Bible scholar Michael Green remarked, "The appearances of Jesus are as well authenticated as anything in antiquity. … There can be no rational doubt that they occurred."25

CONSISTENT TO THE END

As if the eyewitness reports were not enough to challenge Morison’s skepticism, he was also baffled by the disciples’ behavior. A fact of history that has stumped historians, psychologists, and skeptics alike is that these 11 former cowards were suddenly willing to suffer humiliation, torture, and death. All but one of Jesus’ disciples were slain as martyrs. Would they have done so much for a lie, knowing they had taken the body?

The Islamic martyrs on September 11 proved that some will die for a false cause they believe in. Yet to be a willing martyr for a known lie is insanity. As Paul Little wrote, "Men will die for what they believe to be true, though it may actually be false. They do not, however, die for what they know is a lie."26 Jesus’ disciples behaved in a manner consistent with a genuine belief that their leader was alive.

No one has adequately explained why the disciples would have been willing to die for a known lie. But even if they all conspired to lie about Jesus’ resurrection, how could they have kept the conspiracy going for decades without at least one of them selling out for money or position? Moreland wrote, "Those who lie for personal gain do not stick together very long, especially when hardship decreases the benefits."27

Chuck Colson, implicated in the Watergate scandal, pointed out the difficulty of several people maintaining a lie for an extended period of time.

I know the resurrection is a fact, and Watergate proved it to me. How? Because 12 men testified they had seen Jesus raised from the dead, then they proclaimed that truth for 40 years, never once denying it. Every one was beaten, tortured, stoned and put in prison. They would not have endured that if it weren’t true. Watergate embroiled 12 of the most powerful men in the world—and they couldn’t keep a lie for three weeks. You’re telling me 12 apostles could keep a lie for 40 years? Absolutely impossible.28

Something happened that changed everything for these men and women. Morison acknowledged, "Whoever comes to this problem has sooner or later to confront a fact that cannot be explained away. … This fact is that … a profound conviction came to the little group of people—a change that attests to the fact that Jesus had risen from the grave."29

A BAD TRIP?

Sometimes certain people can "see" things they want to, things that aren’t really there. And that’s why some have claimed that the disciples were so distraught over the crucifixion that their desire to see Jesus alive caused mass hallucination. Plausible?

Psychologist Gary Collins, former president of the American Association of Christian Counselors, was asked about the possibility that hallucinations were behind the disciples’ radically changed behavior. Collins remarked, "Hallucinations are individual occurrences. By their very nature only one person can see a given hallucination at a time. They certainly aren’t something which can be seen by a group of people."30

Hallucination is not even a remote possibility, according to psychologist Thomas J. Thorburn. "It is absolutely inconceivable that … five hundred persons, of average soundness of mind … should experience all kinds of sensuous impressions—visual, auditory, tactual—and that all these … experiences should rest entirely upon … hallucination."31

"The appearances of Jesus are as well authenticated as anything in antiquity....There can be no rational doubt that they occurred."

Michael Green, British Bible scholar

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FROM LIE TO LEGEND?

Some unconvinced skeptics attribute the resurrection story to a legend on a par with King Arthur’s round table, or Robin Hood.

But there are three major problems with that theory.

1. Legends rarely develop while multiple eyewitnesses are alive to refute them. One historian of ancient Rome and Greece, A. N. Sherwin-White, argued that the resurrection news spread too soon and too quickly for it to have been a legend. 32

2. Legends develop by oral tradition and don’t come with contemporary historical documents that can be verified. Yet the Gospels were written within three decades of the resurrection. 33

3. The legend theory doesn’t adequately explain either the fact of the empty tomb or the historically verified conviction of the apostles that Jesus was alive. 34

WHY DID CHRISTIANITY WIN?

Morison was bewildered by the fact that "a tiny insignificant movement was able to prevail over the cunning grip of the Jewish establishment, as well as the might of Rome." Why did it win, in the face of all those odds against it?

He wrote, "Within twenty years the claim of these Galilean peasants had disrupted the Jewish church. … In less than fifty years it had begun to threaten the peace of the Roman Empire. When we have said everything that can be said … we stand confronted with the greatest mystery of all. Why did it win?"35

By all rights, Christianity should have died out at the cross when the disciples fled for their lives. But the apostles went on to establish a growing Christian movement.

J. N. D. Anderson wrote, "Think of the psychological absurdity of picturing a little band of defeated cowards cowering in an upper room one day and a few days later transformed into a company that no persecution could silence—and then attempting to attribute this dramatic change to nothing more convincing than a miserable fabrication. … That simply wouldn’t make sense."36

Many scholars believe (in the words of an ancient commentator) that "the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the church." Historian Will Durant observed, "Caesar and Christ had met in the arena and Christ had won."37

A SURPRISE CONCLUSION

Morison became convinced that his preconceived bias against Jesus Christ’s resurrection had been wrong. He began writing a different book—entitled Who Moved the Stone?—to detail his new conclusions. Morison simply followed the trail of evidence, clue by clue, until the truth of the case seemed clear to him. His surprise was that the evidence led to a belief in the resurrection. He writes, "It was as though a man set out to cross a forest by a familiar and well-beaten track and came out suddenly where he did not expect to come out." 38

Morison is not alone. Countless other skeptics have examined the evidence for Jesus’ resurrection, and accepted it as the most astounding fact in all of human history. But the resurrection of Jesus Christ brings us back to the question: What does the fact that Jesus defeated death have to do with my life? The answer to that question is what New Testament Christianity is all about. (See article 7)

"a tiny insignificant movement was able to prevail over the cunning grip of the Jewish establishment as well as the might of Rome....we stand confronted with the greatest mystery of all. Why did it win?"

Frank Morison, English journalist

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ENDNOTES

1 Paul Edwards, "Great Minds: Bertrand Russell," Free Inquiry, December 2004/January 2005, 46.

2 R. C. Sproul, Reason to Believe (Grand Rapids, MI: Lamplighter, 1982), 44.

3 Josh McDowell, The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict (San Bernardino, CA: Here’s Life, 1999), 203.

4 Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1957), 16.

5 Joseph Campbell, an interview with Bill Moyers, Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth, PBS TV special, 1988.

6 Michael J. Wilkins and J. P. Moreland, eds, Jesus Under Fire (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1995), 2.

7 "What Is a Skeptic?" editorial in Skeptic, vol 11, no. 2), 5.

8 McDowell, New Evidence, 209.

9 Historian Will Durant reported, "About the middle of this first century a pagan named Thallus … argued that the abnormal darkness alleged to have accompanied the death of Christ was a purely natural phenomenon and coincidence; the argument took the existence of Christ for granted. The denial of that existence never seems to have occurred even to the bitterest gentile or Jewish opponents of nascent Christianity." Will Durant, Caesar and Christ, vol. 3 of The Story of Civilization (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972), 555.

10 Quoted in Lee Strobel, The Case for Christ (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1998), 246.

11 Peter Steinfels, "Jesus Died—And Then What Happened?" New York Times, April 3, 1988, E9.

12 Quoted in McDowell, New Evidence, 224.

13 Quoted in McDowell, Evidence, 82.

14 McDowell, 82.

15 McDowell, 81, 82.

16 Gary R. Habermas and Michael R. Licona, The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel, 2004), 49.

17 Frank Morison, Who Moved the Stone? (Grand Rapids, MI: Lamplighter, 1958), back cover.

18 Morison, preface, 8.

19 Morison, 9.

20 Quoted in Josh McDowell, The Resurrection Factor (San Bernardino, CA: Here’s Life, 1981), 10.

21 Quoted in McDowell, The Resurrection Factor, 66.

22 Paul Johnson, A History of the Jews (New York: Harper & Row, 1988), 130.

23 Quoted in McDowell, New Evidence, 249.

24 Norman L. Geisler and Frank Turek, I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2004), 243.

25 Michael Green, The Empty Cross of Jesus (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1984), 97, quoted in John Ankerberg and John Weldon, Knowing the Truth about the Resurrection (Eugene, OR: Harvest House), 22.

26 Paul Little, Know Why You Believe (Wheaton, IL: Victor, 1967), 44.

27 J. P. Moreland, Scaling the Secular City, (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 2000), 172.

28 Charles Colson, "The Paradox of Power," Power to Change, www.powertochange.ie/changed/index_Leaders.

29 Morison, 104.

30 Quoted in Strobel, 238.

31 Quoted in McDowell, New Evidence, 274.

32 Quoted in Jesus Under Fire, 154.

33 Habermas, 85.

34 Habermas, 87.

35 Morison, 115.

36 Quoted in McDowell, 249.

37 Durant, 652.

38 McDowell, Resurrection Factor, 111.

39 Quoted in McDowell, 11.

40 Quoted in McDowell 9.

A STUNNED PROFESSOR

A skeptic of the resurrection, Simon Greenleaf (1783–1853) helped to put the Harvard Law School on the map. He wrote A Treatise on the Law of Evidence, which is still regarded as one of the outstanding works on establishing legal evidence. Professor Greenleaf had stated to his Harvard law class that the resurrection of Jesus Christ is a legend. In a rebuttal, three of his law students challenged him to apply his acclaimed rules of evidence to the resurrection account.

Greenleaf accepted the students’ challenge. Yet this expert in evaluating evidence was unable to explain the dramatic change in the behavior of the disciples without assuming the truth of the

resurrection. Greenleaf reasoned that no group of people could have maintained their story

through such persecution unless they knew it was true.39

After systematically evaluating the evidence, the Harvard law professor reversed his bias against the resurrection, concluding, "There is more evidence for the historical fact of the resurrection of Jesus Christ than for just about anyother event in history."40

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Recently, an artist rendered an anatomically correct  six foot chocolate statue of Jesus called "my Sweet Lord" that was shown in the Roger Smith Hotel in New York.  What if this were a statue of Muhammad or Martin Luther King?  Would this statue have been created of Muhammad...doubt it...

http://www.postchronicle.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=11&num=71642

Oh...it's different if it's a Christian thing...apparently it is OK to insult Christians...kind of like when you're a democrat...seems a different set of rules apply. 

Like William ($90000 in the freezer) Jefferson vs. Tom Delay or Bill Clinton (it's his private life silly) vs. Ted Haggard (we are all supposed to see beyond the homosexual/hetrosexual barrier thing...)  I do have a problem with Ted Haggard and he deserves our thoughts and prayers.   The left wants us to accept homosexuality as a way of life so badly and then they turn right around and out this guy when it will help their cause.  It smells like rotten fish to me.

Happy Easter & God Bless!

Sherlock

One of the distinguishing charactristics that sets Christianity apart from any of the major faiths is the crucifixion Jesus Christ.  Crucifixion is a particularly gruesome form of punishment , as one is pierced with nails in each hand.  The feet are joined and nailed to a single post.   The individual is then left hanging alive to bleed to death and die of thirst and starvation.

Muslims often make the claim that Jesus was not crucified since this is what is taught in the Quran and by Muhammad.   It may, therefore, be particularly important to examine the evidences for the crucifixion which are well laid out here http://answering-islam.org/Silas/crucified.htm 

• Bottom line is this: 

Jesus Christ was crucified.  All known evidence supports and corroborates the crucifixion.  There is no legitimate evidence doubting Christ's crucifixion.

I think if you are willing to honestly take a moment, pray (nothing fancy or too "religious", just have your still small voice ask God to help you understand it) and research this topic with an open heart, you will find there is a great amount of substantial research available.

http://www.allaboutjesuschrist.org/crucifixion-of-jesus.htm http://www.allaboutjesuschrist.org/historical-evidence-of-the-crucifixion-faq.htmhttp://www.allaboutarchaeology.org/evidence-for-jesus.htm

This should get you started.  I would also suggest reading the gospel of John.

God bless you.

Happy Easter

Sherlock

Recently it came to light that China shot one of it's aging satellites out of the sky, some 500 miles away!  Loral Space has a long history of ties to funny money with the DNC & China and also their able assistance made this spectacular achievement possible thus placing them smack in the middle of this apparent schism!
http://www.cashill.com/terrorism/bergers_china.htm (This is an excellent article!)
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/7/7/150106.shtml 

Stonebridge International (with a Stonebridge China division) Chairman Sandy Berger was instrumental in providing what (technology and development of equipment) was needed for China to be able to shoot the  satellite down.  The next obvious concern is for the safety of the citizens in Taiwan and Los Angeles.  Loral Space also has ties to Sandy Berger and Stonebridge as Berger was chairman of Loral prior to his current post as chairman at Stonebridge.

I have no axe to grind with Bill Clinton and his cronies.  For those who have taken a moment to read my bio, you will see this blog is a "filing cabinet" of sorts for what I consider to important issues and the actual truth about them versus what is being "reported". 

Sandy Berger stole original documents from the national archives, hid them in a trailer outside, lied to cover it up and basically got a slap on the wrist.  Why?  Anyone's guess at this point (we'll never know now that  the documents are gone will we?)   There is discussion of "important notes in the margins" from high level public officials and probably regarding the 9/11 tragedy (more on this below.)

Funny thing didn't happen on the way back from the White House one day back in January and March of 1994 when he was ordered to divest himself of some Amoco stock because it might create a conflict of interest,  Well...this Vietnam hating, Clinton loving patriot said "he planned to sell the stock, but failed to follow up quickly and then simply forgot.  He denied knowingly participating in any decisions in which he had a financial interest."  Funny how that happens...surely we can trust him, his word is his bond!  He was fined $23,000.
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/11/10/email/berger/

Back to the stolen classified original national archive documents.  Berger was one of the very few people who had access to these documents as former National Security Advisor under Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001.   Berger claims that as he went through a large number of documents last fall, (October, 2004) he inadvertently put a few in his briefcase and took them home. "In the course of reviewing over several days thousands of pages of documents on behalf of the Clinton administration in connection with requests by the September 11 commission, I inadvertently took a few documents from the Archives," Berger said in a written statement. "When I was informed by the Archives that there were documents missing, I immediately returned everything I had except for a few documents that I apparently had accidentally discarded."  (Oops! Funny how that happens!)
http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york200407210837.asp

Well...it turns out contrary to his original statement, "Berger took a break to go outside without an escort while it was dark. He had taken four documents in his pockets.  "He headed toward a construction area. ... Mr. Berger looked up and down the street, up into the windows of the Archives and the DOJ (Department of Justice), and did not see anyone," the interview notes said.

He then slid the documents under a construction trailer, according to the inspector general. Berger acknowledged that he later retrieved the documents from the construction area and returned with them to his office.  http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,237857,00.html  These are NOT the actions of a man that inadvertantly put a few (documents) in his briefcase.

So what was IN these all so important docs? 
"Berger, with the authorization of former President Clinton, was reviewing National Security Council documents on Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida, Sudan, and related presidential correspondence." 
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061220/D8M4R7DO0.html 

another perspective here...after-action memo on the millennium bombing
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62776-2004Jul19.html

But wait...there's more...

Curt Weldon of Able Danger notoriety (ID'd Atta as a terrorist in 2000) was defeated in his http://townhall.com/columnists/LindaChavez/2005/08/24/getting_to_the_bottom_of_able_danger re-election bid by Democrat Joe Sestak.  There are questions about the fundraising ties to none other than Stonebridge International itself (Sandy Berger is CEO remember?)  In addition to hiring as his spokesperson Allison Price, who is listed on the Stonebridge International website as the Director of Communications (she contributed $500 personally by the way).  Other contributors to the Sestak campaign included Sandy Berger himself at $1000 and Mary McCarthy (recently dismissed for releasing classified information about secret overseas CIA prisons to the Washington Post) $350. 

Soros funded CREW (Committee for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington) vice president and Philadelphia lawyer Daniel Berger maxed out.  John Kerry helped raise more than $128000 for Sestak.  John Deutch, who had signed a criminal plea agreement in connection with his mishandling of national secrets a day before being pardoned by the outgoing President Clinton contributed to the campaign as well. 
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52973 http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Campaign/042506_state.html

As stated eloquently in point #13 in the link below:
 
The vice president of CREW — Philadelphia trial lawyer Daniel Berger — has maxed out on his own contributions to Weldon opponent Joe Sestak. Remember this is supposed to be a "non-partisan" "objective" "simply good government" group. Its "non-partisan" fig leaf loses credibility given that Berger himself gave more that $150,000 to the Democrat Party and left-wing 527 groups. Berger, his law partners, and relatives have racked up thousands of dollars to Sestak's campaign. More — much more — money has gone to left and Democrat Party groups that likely funneled much of it to Sestak. 

So...Weldon lost his seat, looks like the lefties won this battle for now, unfortunately.  And they continue to harass Weldon and his daughter.  See the link below.

For more about the truth about Curt Weldon, see this link http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/vernon/061106

Oh...and wasn't there something funny about Ron Brown's death?  There were allegations that Brown traded seats on trade missions for DNC campaign donations, John Huang (Al Gore funbdraising pal) and Ira Sokowitz were at Ron Brown's Commerce Department at the times of leaking classified sattelite technology to the Chinese (Oops! Funny how that happens...again!)

It is worth noting that Brown was one of four Clinton campaign fundraisers to die under questionable circumstances.   The others were C. Victor Raiser, Hershel Friday, and Ed Wiley.  Barbara Wise also died under questionable circumstances as did Vince Foster, whose office, like Brown's was ransacked for files, immediartely following their respective deaths.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/CRASH/BROWN/brown.htmlhttp://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38329

I was surprised to hear Nancy Pelosi describe our efforts in Iraq, not as a war, but as "a situation, that needs to be managed."  hotair.com/.../11/08/pelosi-iraq-isnt-a-war-gannett-the-voice-of-the-military

To be clear...we do have a very difficult situation and it does indeed need to be managed.  It is called a war Nancy!    It is a situation against a tireless and very determined enemy.  In fact, if you take a moment to review this website http://thereligionofpeace.com/ and further print the contents of this link http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/index.html#Attacks, you will find some 50 pages of murderous atrocities that have been committed in the name of Allah and of peace.  Below is a sanapshot of the current list from the last 3 months and below that the current content of the front page of the website.

For my North Carolina friends, there is another bit of interesting news here
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/349 as a man with ties to Hezbollah and relatives in Venezuela seems to be finding was to generate funds in the states.   This is old news from August, 2000!  We have a situation that needs to be managed Nancy?!

" The List " of Islamic Terror Attacks For the Past 3 Months Date Country City Killed Injured Description 2/8/07 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A 72-year-old Buddhist man is beheaded by Islamists. 2/8/07 Iraq Haditha 7 3 A suicide bomber attacks a police station, killing seven people inside. 2/8/07 Iraq Mosul 45 10 Forty-five people are killed in three locations in the country, as Islamists vow to keep killing. 2/8/07 Iraq Aziziya 17 27 Islamic terrorists bomb a vegetable market, netting seventeen dead Iraqis. 2/8/07 Iraq Iskandariya 7 10 Jihadis use mortars to kill seven residents. 2/8/07 Iraq Rafiyaat 14 1 Gunmen storm a house and shoot fourteen men from the same family to death. 2/8/07 India Aragam 4 1 A brutal ambush by Islamic militants leaves four people dead, including a civilian. 2/8/07 India Hajin 1 2 A pro-India political figure is gunned down in an attack that also injures his wife. 2/8/07 India Baharabad 1 2 A man is gunned down in a Muslim shooting attack that leaves his wife and one other injured. 2/7/07 Afghanistan Shindand 3 2 Three Afghan cops are killed by a remote-controlled device. 2/7/07 Pakistan Darra Adam Khel 1 1 al-Qaeda militants gun down a Pakistani ISI agent in an attack on his vehicle. 2/7/07 Somalia Mogadishu 2 7 Two children are reported killed in a mortar attack by Islamic militias. 2/7/07 Afghanistan Kandahar 2 6 Two Afghans are killed, and six wounded, by a Taliban bomb planted on a motorbike. 2/7/07 Iraq Baghdad 39 0 Thirty-nine people are killed in at least four separate Jihad attacks. 2/7/07 Chechnya Vedeno 1 0 A local official bleeds to death after Jihadis blow off his foot with a bomb. 2/7/07 Pakistan Sindh 1 0 The remains of a Hindu man, kidnapped and murdered by Islamists, are found six months later. 2/7/07 Iraq Suwayra 7 23 Three car bombs take the lives of seven innocent people. 2/7/07 Iraq Mosul 2 0 A man and his wife are killed in their home by Islamic militants. 2/6/07 Thailand Pattani 1 2 A man is shot to death while riding a motorbike with his wife and 3-year-old daughter. 2/6/07 Pakistan Miran Shah 2 0 Islamic terrorists bind two men and then shoot them to death. 2/6/07 Iraq Baghdad 27 19 Sectarian hatred within the Religion of Peace leaves over two dozen dead. 2/6/07 Iraq Mosul 1 0 A woman is shot to death by Islamic gunmen. 2/6/07 India Bandipora 1 0 A civilian is kidnapped and killed by the Mujahideen. 2/6/07 India Pukharni 1 0 Terrorists kill a boy with a landmine. 2/6/07 Pakistan Islamabad 0 10 A suicide bomber blows himself up in a botched attack on the city's main airport. 2/6/07 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 Muslims hack a 37-year-old laborer to death with machetes. 2/5/07 Iraq Baghdad 25 0 Twenty-five victims of sectarian hatred within the Religion of Peace are found tortured and executed. 2/5/07 Iraq Haditha 6 0 Six people are found murdered by Jihadis. 2/5/07 Pakistan Bajaur 2 1 Pro-government tribal leaders are killed by al-Qaeda supported militants. 2/5/07 Iraq Baghdad 24 108 Three car bombs, one at a children's hospital, rack up about twenty dead civilians for Sunni Jihadis. 2/4/07 Iraq Baghdad 33 0 Thirty-three bodies are found as sectarian violence within the Religion of Peace rages. 2/4/07 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A Buddhist school official is murdered by Muslim terrorists. 2/4/07 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 A 68-year-old Buddhist man is shot off his motorbike by Islamic radicals. 2/4/07 Pal. Auth. Gaza 2 0 Two more Palestinians die from a Hamas sniper attack. One is 17-years-old. 2/4/07 Iraq Baghdad 31 76 A series of bombings by Islamic terrorists leave thirty-one innocent people dead. 2/4/07 Iraq Baghdad 3 0 A woman and her two children are killed when Jihadis mortar a house. 2/4/07 India Srinagar 1 0 A man is shot dead by the Mujahideen. 2/3/07 Pakistan Tank 2 6 Two Pakistani soldiers are killed when a suicide bomber rams into their convoy. 2/3/07 Iraq Baghdad 25 12 Over two-dozen people are killed in sectarian violence within the Religion of Peace. 2/3/07 Dagestan Makhachkala 3 0 Militants kill three policemen in two coordinated attacks. 2/3/07 Iraq Mahmudiya 8 12 At least eight people are killed in a Jihad car bombing on a market. 2/3/07 Iraq Falluja 5 0 Five people are kidnapped, executed and dumped by sectarian rivals. 2/3/07 Iraq Baghdad 135 359 A single Fedayeen suicide bomber racks up over one-hundred and thirty civilians at a market. Nearly four-hundred others suffer injury. 2/3/07 India Pulwama 4 6 Mujahideen ambush a group of policemen, killing at least four. 2/2/07 Pal. Auth. Gaza 17 185 Seventeen people, including children, are killed in sectarian fighting between Muslim militias over a 24-hour period. 2/2/07 Iraq Yusufiyah 3 11 Two children are among three Iraqi civilians killed by Islamic terrorists. 2/2/07 Pal. Auth. Gaza 15 90 Hamas sniper set up around a Palestinian training camp and fire into it. Some fifteen people are killed and nearly a hundred others injured. 2/1/07 Iraq Baghdad 46 71 Sectarian violence leaves about four dozen Iraqis dead. 2/1/07 Pakistan Miran Shah 3 2 Three people, including an engineer and a road inspector are killed by al-Qaeda backed militants. 2/1/07 Pakistan North Waziristan 1 0 A man is beheaded by Islamic militants, who then pin a note to the body. 2/1/07 Thailand Yala 1 1 Islamists gun down a civilian and seriously injure his wife in the attack. 2/1/07 Yemen Saada 10 20 Shiite radicals kill ten Yemeni soldiers in an attack on a roadblock. 2/1/07 Iraq Hillah 73 150 Two Islamic suicide bombers take out dozens of innocent people in a coordinated attack on a packed market. 2/1/07 Iraq Mosul 4 0 A college dean and two students are among four people murdered by Jihadis. 2/1/07 Thailand Pattani 1 0 Another ice-cream vender is murdered by Islamists - this one while driving to work. 2/1/07 Pakistan Peshawar 2 4 A man and his wife are killed, and their four children injured in a bomb blast. 2/1/07 Thailand Pattani 1 0 Muslims shoot a Buddhist ice cream vendor to death, then chop off his head and leave the body sitting up in the vehicle. 2/1/07 Somalia Mogadishu 3 1 Two children are among three civilians killed in separate rocket attacks by the Islamic militia. 1/31/07 Bangladesh Dhaka 1 1 A policeman is killed in a bomb attack by suspected Islamic extremists. 1/31/07 Thailand Pattani 1 3 Islamists kill a villager with a bomb. 1/31/07 Pakistan Hangu 2 1 Two people inside a house are killed in a sectarian mortar attack. 1/31/07 Iraq Fallujah 7 0 Seven people, including a teenager, are gunned down by Jihadis. 1/31/07 Thailand Yala 1 6 A 59-year-old rubber tapper is murdered in drive-by shooting by Islamists. 1/31/07 Iraq Baghdad 4 0 Three university professors and a student, kidnapped by Islamic militants three days earlier, are found dead. 1/31/07 Iraq Baghdad 12 22 Sectarian violence around the city leaves at least a dozen dead, including a decapitation. 1/30/07 Afghanistan Herat 0 12 A Fedayeen suicide bomber rams his truck into an Afghan convoy, injuring a dozen innocents. 1/30/07 Iraq Baghdad 25 9 Sectarian violence within the Religion of Peace leaves over two dozen dead in various attacks. 1/30/07 Iraq Ramadi 16 0 A suicide truck bomber kills sixteen people. 1/30/07 Iraq Khanaqin 13 39 A Shiite religious ceremony is the targe of a deadly roadside bomb, as Sunnis rack up more dead Shia. 1/30/07 Iraq Balad Ruz 23 57 A suicideal Sunni blows two-dozen Shia worshippers to Allah at a mosque. 1/30/07 Iraq Adhamiya 17 72 Jihadis rain down mortars on a residential area, killing seventeen innocent Iraqis. 1/30/07 Pakistan Hangu 2 14 Two Afghan refugees are killed by Sunni extremists following a Shia religious festival. 1/29/07 Iraq Tuz Khurmato 5 0 Sunnis blast a Shiite mosque, killing five worshippers. 1/29/07 Chechnya Gudermes 4 0 Four Russians are killed in a shooting and suicide attack by Islamic militants. 1/29/07 India Kishtwar 2 2 The Mujahideen attack Indian troops, killing two. 1/29/07 Thailand Songkhla 3 1 Two Buddhist couples are brutally assaulted by Muslim radicals. Three people are killed. 1/29/07 Pakistan Dera Ismail Khan 2 7 A suicide bomber blows himself up at a park, killing two other people. 1/29/07 Thailand Yala 1 0 Islamists shoot a civilian off his motorcycle. 1/29/07 Israel Eilat 3 3 Three Israelis are murdered by an al-Aqsa suicide bomber at a bakery. 1/29/07 Algeria Batna 5 0 Islamic fundamentalists open up on a checkpoint with automatic weapons, killing five Algerian security staff at point-blank range. 1/29/07 Thailand Yala 1 0 A teenager dies after his throat is slashed and he is stabbed by radical Muslims. 1/29/07 Thailand Pattani 1 0 Muslim militants gun down a man driving his wife to work. 1/29/07 Iraq Zaafaraniya 16 28 Jihadis stage a mortar attack on a residential area, killing sixteen innocents. 1/29/07 Iraq Baghdad 4 5 Sunnis plant a bomb on a minibus, killing four passengers. 1/29/07 India Gorakhpur 1 0 A Hindu man is killed by a mob of angry Muslims. 1/28/07 Philippines Rangaban 1 1 Moro Islamic Front terrorists attack a village, killing one defender and injuring another. 1/28/07 Iraq Ramadi 5 10 Two children are among five killed by a Fedayeen suicide bomber. 1/28/07 Iraq Baghdad 5 20 Five school girls are killed when freedom fighters mortar a school. 1/28/07 Pakistan Punjab 2 0 A couple in their 40's are tied to a tree and stoned to death for adultery. 1/28/07 Iraq Baghad 14 64 Four Jihad bombings leave fourteen people dead and over sixty injured. 1/28/07 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A Buddhist man is killed in a Muslim drive-by attack. 1/28/07 Iraq Baghdad 29 0 Twenty-nine victims of sectarian hatred are found executed across the city. 1/28/07 Iraq Kirkuk 16 34 Two separate suicide bombings, one at a market, leave sixteen innocents dead. 1/28/07 Thailand Yala 1 0 A 33-year-old woman is shot to death by Islamic terrorists. 1/27/07 Afghanistan Kunar 1 3 Taliban terrorists kill an Afghan contractor during an ambush on a security base. 1/27/07 Pakistan Peshawar 14 60 A suicide bomber targets a crowd leaving a mosque, killing at least fourteen. 1/27/07 Iraq Baghdad 40 0 Two women are among forty bodies found around the city as Sunnis and Shias go at it. 1/27/07 Iraq Baghdad 13 43 Two suicidal Sunnis murdered at least thirteen Shias in an attack at a market. 1/27/07 Algeria Skikda 1 4 Islamic fundamentalists ambush a police station, killing one officer. 1/27/07 Yemen Saada 6 20 Radical Shiites ambush and kill six Yemeni soldiers. 1/27/07 Iraq Baghdad 5 3 Sunnis storm a Shia home, killing five members of the same family. 1/27/07 Pakistan Babar Kuch 2 3 A rocket attack by Taliban-backed militants on a civilian vehicle leaves two dead. 1/26/07 Thailand Pattani 1 4 Islamists gun down a cop and injure four civilians with a bomb blast. 1/26/07 Pakistan Islamabad 1 6 A suicide bomber blows himself up outside the Marriott hotel, killing a guard. 1/26/07 Pakistan Khan Yunis 1 1 al-Qaeda militants ambush a police patrol, killing an officer. 1/26/07 Pal. Auth. Gaza 2 0 A man and a 16-year-old are killed in separate Hamas attacks. 1/26/07 Iraq Baghdad 15 55 Sunnis target innocent Iraqis at a pet fair, killing over a dozen with a shrapnel bomb. 1/26/07 Pal. Auth. Khan Yunis 1 0 A 2-year-old girl is killed when Islamic factions clash in Gaza. 1/26/07 Sudan Magwe 1 2 An Indian peacekeeper is gunned down by suspected Jihadis. 1/26/07 Iraq Baghdad 29 14 Twenty-seven people are kidnapped and murdered by Jihadis. Two others are killed by a suicide bomber. 1/26/07 India Tanur 1 5 A Hindu activist is hacked to death by Muslim gangs. 1/25/07 Iraq Baghdad 26 64 Over two-dozen people are blown to bits by Sunni bombers in a shopping district. Dozens more suffer injury. 1/25/07 Somalia Kismayo 1 1 An Ethiopian solider is shot to death by Muslim militants. 1/25/07 Pakistan Hangu 2 4 Two passersby are killed in a car bombing. 1/25/07 Iraq Baghdad 42 17 Forty-two victims of sectarian hatred within the Religion of Peace are found over a 24-hour period. 1/25/07 Iraq Fallujah 2 0 A boy and an elderly woman are murdered by Muslim bombers. 1/25/07 Iraq Baghdad 7 30 Seven people are killed in separate marketplace bombings by Islamic terrorists. 1/25/07 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A 57-year-old Buddhist man is murdered by Islamic radicals on his way to work. 1/25/07 Thailand Narathiwat 1 1 A young man is gunned down by Islamic terrorists. 1/25/07 Philippines Midsayap 1 0 At least one person is killed when Moro terrorists attack a group of families. 1/24/07 Iraq Baghdad 4 3 A suicide bomber kills four Iraqis. 1/24/07 Iraq Baghdad 2 0 A female bank employee and a professor are murdered by Jihadis in separate attacks. 1/24/07 Iraq Baghdad 33 0 Thirty-three victims of sectarian hatred are found murdered. 1/24/07 Somalia Mogadishu 2 1 Two civilians are killed when Islamic militias fire mortars into an airport. 1/23/07 Thailand Yala 1 0 A Buddhist man is murdered by Islamists as he drove his 7-year-old son home from school. 1/23/07 Thailand Narathiwat 2 0 Two men are gunned down in a drive-by shooting by Islamists. 1/23/07 Iraq Fallujah 3 0 Three butchers are killed by Islamic fundamentalists. 1/23/07 Iraq Suwayra 6 9 Radical Sunnis wipe out five members of a Shia family and one other in a terror attack. 1/23/07 India Bandina 3 2 The Mujahideen blow up a passing security vehicle, killing three occupants. 1/23/07 Afghanistan Khost 10 14 A Taliban suicide bomber blows ten Afghan civilians to Allah. 1/23/07 Afghanistan Uruzgan 9 0 Nine Afghan policemen are murdered in a Taliban ambush in a remote area. 1/23/07 Iraq Baghdad 17 0 Seventeen victims of sectarian hatred within the Religion of Peace are found executed. 1/23/07 Jordan Amman 1 0 A 17-year-old girl is shot four times in the head by her father, who thought she had had sex. An autopsy showed she was a virgin. 1/23/07 Chechnya Kurchaloi 1 0 Jihadis shoot a police officer to death. 1/23/07 Iraq Tal Afar 2 0 Two teachers are shot to death by radicals. 1/22/07 Iraq Baghdad 30 0 Thirty victims of sectarian violence are found bound and executed. 1/22/07 Pakistan Miran Shah 5 20 Four Pakistani soldiers and a female passerby are killed in a Fedayeen suicide attack on a checkpoint. 1/22/07 Iraq Baghdad 88 190 Sunni extremists score big at a market, killing nearly ninety unsuspecting Shia shoppers with coordinated bombs. 1/22/07 Syria Damascus 1 0 A 16-year-old girl is stabbed five times in the back and neck by her brother, angry that she had been raped. 1/22/07 Iraq Baghdad 1 1 Fundamentalists murder a female teacher on her way to work at a girl's school. 1/22/07 Iraq Khalis 12 39 A dozen civilians are killed in an Islamic bombing attack. 1/22/07 Iraq Rutba 4 0 Four people are kidnapped, tortured and executed by sectarian rivals. 1/21/07 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 A middle-aged Buddhist man is gunned down by militants as he is standing in front of his home talking with friends. 1/21/07 Iraq Karrada 6 15 A half-dozen people are incinerated in a suspected suicide blast on a minibus. 1/21/07 India Baramulla 1 12 A grenade attack by the Mujahideen eventually kills one of thirteen people injured. 1/21/07 Iraq Mosul 9 4 A woman is among nine people killed by Jihadis in shooting and bombing attacks. 1/21/07 Algeria Jijel 1 8 The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, kills an Algerian soldier in a bomb attack. 1/20/07 Philippines Parang 1 7 Abu Sayyaf terrorists kill a Filipino soldier in an ambush. 1/20/07 Somalia Mogadishu 4 0 Four civilians are killed in an Islamic attack. 1/20/07 Iraq Mosul 7 2 Seven people are gunned down by sectarian rivals. 1/20/07 Iraq Iskandariya 4 4 Four people are murdered by Islamic terrorists. 1/20/07 Iraq Baghdad 40 10 Religious violence claims the lives of at least forty people in various attacks. 1/20/07 Thailand Narathiwat 1 2 A noodle vendor is shot to death in front of his 12-year-old daughter by Muslim militants. 1/19/07 Turkey Istanbul 1 0 An advocate for the victims of Armenian genocide is gunned down by a Muslim who says, 'I killed the infidel.' 1/19/07 Iraq Hilla 1 0 Fundamentalists murder a butcher. 1/19/07 Iraq Yusufiya 4 0 Two very young children, ages 1 and 5, are among four killed in a bombing by Sunni militants. 1/19/07 Iraq Karbala 4 0 Four American soldiers aer abducted and brutally killed in captivity by Islamic militants. 1/18/07 Afghanistan Paktika 1 5 A suicide bomber kills an Afghan soldier. 1/18/07 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 A Buddhist woman working as a health care volunteer is murdered by Islamic gunmen. 1/18/07 India Nayidgam 1 0 A mechanic is abducted and beheaded by the Mujahideen. 1/18/07 Iraq Baghdad 10 30 Sunnis bomb a vegetable market, killing ten patrons. 1/18/07 Iraq Mosul 13 21 Thirteen people are killed in shootings, including one on a wedding party, and a Fedayeen suicide blast. 1/18/07 Iraq Baghdad 12 34 A series of terrorist bombings leave at least eleven people dead. 1/18/07 Iraq Baghdad 26 0 Twenty-six people are found shot and tortured to death by sectarian rivals. 1/18/07 Thailand Narathiwat 1 1 Muslim gunmen kill a 68-year-old man and injure his son. 1/17/07 Iraq Kirkuk 10 42 A suicide truck bomber drives into an Iraqi police station, killing ten people. 1/17/07 India Wagoora 1 0 Local Mujahideen shoot an electrical employee to death. 1/17/07 Iraq Baghdad 4 10 An American woman working for an NGO is among three civilians murdered in a bomb attack. 1/17/07 Iraq Baghdad 15 33 Sunnis car bomb a Shia market, killing fifteen patrons. 1/17/07 Iraq Baghdad 30 0 Police find thirty victims of sectarian violence in and around the city. Most were tortured and shot. 1/17/07 Thailand Yala 1 0 A 42-year-old Buddhist scrap dealer is shot dead by Muslim terrorists in front of his home. 1/17/07 Thailand Songkhla 1 0 Muslim radicals murder a Buddhist rubber-tapper. 1/17/07 Iraq Mosul 10 0 Ten victims of sectarian violence are delivered to the morgue. 1/16/07 Iraq Mosul 12 0 Twelve people, including at least one woman, are murdered by Muslim gunmen. 1/16/07 Iraq Iskandariya 2 0 Freedom fighters kill an Iraqi woman and her son in a mortar attack. 1/16/07 Iraq Baghdad 70 180 Islamic terrorists manage to slaughter at least seventy students, mostly female, at a university using a car bomb and then a suicide bomber on foot to catch the survivors! 1/16/07 Iraq Baghdad 16 11 Jihadis kill ten civilians in a drive-by shooting and another six with a car bomb. 1/16/07 Iraq Baghdad 15 74 Sunnis target Shia civilians in a marketplace, killing at least fifteen with a suicide attack. 1/16/07 Israel Juarish 1 0 A 19-year-old woman is shot to death in her own bed by relatives for violating the family's honor. 1/16/07 Thailand Narathiwat 1 2 Islamic militants kill a village chief with a roadside bomb. 1/15/07 Iraq Mosul 5 28 A Fedayeen suicide bomber sends five Kurds to Allah. 1/15/07 Iraq Baghdad 7 5 Two separate bombings leave seven Iraqis dead. 1/15/07 Iraq Baqubah 11 0 Eleven people are kidnapped by sectarian rivals, bound, gagged and executed. 1/15/07 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A man is shot to death by radical Muslims. 1/15/07 Thailand Yala 1 1 A 58-year-old Buddhist man is murdered by Islamists in an attack that also leaves his wife injured. 1/15/07 India Hajan 1 0 Islamic terrorists shoot dead a man shopping at a market. 1/15/07 India Sumbar 1 0 A civilian is abducted by the Mujahideen and shot to death in captivity. 1/14/07 Thailand Yala 1 0 Muslims gun down another Buddhist civilian. 1/14/07 Iraq Baghdad 41 0 Forty-one victims of sectarian violence are found in various locations. 1/14/07 Thailand Pattani 1 5 Islamic militants bomb a Thai military vehicle, killing one soldier. 1/14/07 Thailand Pattani 2 0 A married couple is murdered by Islamic radicals at the entrance to their business. The man is decapitated. A note pinned to the body says, 'We kill all Buddhists.' 1/14/07 Iraq Mosul 14 8 Fourteen people are murdered in separate attacks by Muslim radicals. 1/14/07 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A 31-year-old man is shot off the back of a motorcycle by Islamic terrorists. 1/14/07 Pakistan Matta 3 0 Two girls and their mother are killed in a mine attack by local Taliban. 1/14/07 Pakistan Butkhela 1 1 Pro-Taliban militants shoot an Uzbeki man to death. 1/13/07 Dagestan Aimaumakhi 1 0 A policeman is gunned down by suspected Islamic rebels. 1/13/07 Iraq Iskandariya 3 1 Terrorists attack a private factory, killing three workers. 1/13/07 Iraq Kirkuk 2 3 Muslim terrorists shoot two engineers to death. 1/13/07 Thailand Yala 1 0 A Buddhist firefighter is shot to death by radical Muslims in front of his office. 1/13/07 Thailand Pattani 1 0 Islamists murder a Buddhist policeman on his way to work. 1/12/07 Thailand Pattani 2 0 Two Buddhist men are murdered by Religion of Peace gunmen in separate attacks. 1/12/07 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 Militant Muslims gun down a village guard outside his home. 1/12/07 Thailand Yala 1 0 A 62-year-old civilian is gunned down by Islamic terrorists as he is carrying his 2-year-old grandson on a motorbike. 1/12/07 Iraq Baghdad 11 0 Ten intact bodies and one severed head are discovered by police. 1/12/07 Iraq Ishaqi 3 0 Three civilians are shot to death by Islamic terrorists. 1/11/07 Iraq Khadra 5 0 Five off-duty policemen are gunned down in cold blood by Sunni terrorists. 1/11/07 Indonesia Poso 1 0 A police officer at a funeral for a terrorist is beaten to death by an angry Muslim mob. 1/10/07 Iraq Baghdad 68 0 Sixty-eight victims of Sunni-Shia sectarian violence are found murdered in three cities over a 24-hour period. 1/10/07 Thailand Pattani 1 1 A female teacher is shot to death by Islamic militants on her way to school. 1/10/07 Philippines General Santos 6 23 Six people, including two young children and two woman, are killed in a suspected Abu Sayyaf bomb attack on a lottery office and market. 1/10/07 Somalia Mogadishu 1 0 Islamists fire a rocket into a home, killing a family member. 1/10/07 Iraq Karbala 11 14 Sunni gunmen massacre Shia pilgrims returning home in a convoy of buses. 1/10/07 Iraq Mosul 8 0 Eight people are found dead from terror attacks. 1/10/07 Philippines Cotabato 1 0 Muslim militants kill a garbage collector with a bomb. 1/10/07 Iraq Tal Afar 5 16 A child is among five people killed in separate suicide bombings. 1/9/07 Iraq Baghdad 46 0 Forty-six victims of sectarian hatred between Sunnis and Shia are found around the country. 1/9/07 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A janitor is murdered by Islamists shortly after dropping his daughter off at school. 1/9/07 Pakistan Qamber 2 0 A man kills his sister and her lover in an 'honor' killing. 1/9/07 Pakistan Hangu 1 0 A newspaper journalist is beheaded by Islamic militants. 1/9/07 Pakistan Jacobabad 2 0 Two brothers are shot to death in a coordinated terror attack concerning an issue of sexual impropriety. 1/8/07 Iraq Baghdad 32 16 At least four separate Jihad attacks leave nearly three dozen civilians dead. 1/8/07 Iraq Baghdad 6 0 Sunnis gun down six members of a Shiite family as they are moving their furniture. 1/8/07 Iraq Mosul 5 0 Five people are gunned down by sectarian rivals. 1/8/07 India Indergam 1 0 A 9th grade student is shot to death by the Mujahideen. 1/8/07 Iraq Baghdad 15 15 Fifteen cleaning contractors are brutally murdered in a Sunni assault on their bus. 1/8/07 Thailand Songkhla 1 0 A Buddhist teacher, brutally beaten into a coma by a Muslim mob seven months earlier, finally expires. 1/7/07 Afghanistan Khost 4 2 Two women and two children are blown to bits by Islamic bombers. 1/7/07 Iraq Baghdad 23 7 Two dozen people lose their lives to sectarian violence in three attacks. 1/7/07 Iraq Suwayra 4 0 Four people are kidnapped and executed, one by decapitation. 1/7/07 Somalia Mogadishu 1 1 Islamic militants kill a young girl with automatic weapons fire. 1/7/07 India Andergam 1 0 A 16-year-old student is gunned down in his home by Islamic radicals. 1/7/07 Iraq Hilla 2 11 A Jihad car bombing kills two civilians. 1/7/07 India Baramulla 2 0 Two civilians are murdered by the Mujahideen. One has his throat slit. 1/7/07 Pakistan Mansehra 1 0 A young woman is murdered by her brother for pursuing an education. The brother claims she 'met Allah's destiny.' 1/6/07 India Shopian 3 23 Three people are killed in a Mujahideen grenade attack on a market. 1/6/07 Iraq Baghdad 27 0 Police find twenty-seven victims of sectarian violence killed in gruesom fashion by Religion of Peace rivals. 1/6/07 Iraq Mosul 6 0 Six people are gunned down by Muslim terrorists. 1/6/07 India Dangiwacha 1 0 A civilian is gunned down on the job by the Mujahideen. 1/6/07 Afghanistan Khost 1 0 A security official is shot to death by religious extremists. 1/6/07 Iraq Baghdad 44 0 Forty-four additional victims of sectarian violence within Islam are found executed. 1/5/07 Iraq Baghdad 4 11 Jihadis drop bombs on a market, killing four shoppers. 1/5/07 Iraq Baghdad 47 0 Another forty-seven victims of sectarian hatred within the Religion of Peace are found executed. 1/5/07 Iraq Iskandariya 3 0 Three people are kidnapped and tortured to death by Islamic militants. 1/5/07 Pakistan Tando Adam 1 0 A young man guns down his aunt on suspicion that she was engaged in adultery. 1/5/07 Ethiopia Kofele 1 0 A Christian is beaten to death by Muslims with a metal bar. 1/5/07 Pal. Auth. Mughazi 1 0 Hamas gunmen murder a critic at a refugee camp. 1/5/07 Somalia Mogadishu 1 0 An Islamic militant tosses a grenade into the street, killing a civilian. 1/4/07 Iraq Hilla 4 0 Four people are kidnapped and shot to death by Islamic terrorists. 1/4/07 Iraq Baghdad 13 22 Sunni terrorists detonate two car bombs, killing thirteen people in a residential district. 1/4/07 Iraq Baghdad 47 0 Islamic militants take care of forty-seven Iraqis in various attacks. Four are beheaded. 1/4/07 Pal. Auth. Jabalya 7 36 Hamas militants fire rockets into a Fatah leader's home, killing him and six others. 1/4/07 Pakistan Peshawar 1 0 Three Sunnis murder a Shia leader. 1/4/07 Thailand Narathiwat 1 1 Muslim gun down a Buddhist teenager. 1/3/07 India Kandi 1 2 Islamic rebels ambush a security patrol, killing one member. 1/3/07 Somalia Jilib 2 2 An Islamist stages a Fedayeen attack, killing two unsuspecting Ethiopians. 1/3/07 Iraq Baghdad 45 0 Forty-five victims of sectarian violence between Sunnis and Shia are found dead. 1/3/07 Pal. Auth. Beit Lahiya 2 17 A woman and Fatah official are shot dead by Hamas terrorists in separate incidents. Seventeen others are injured. 1/3/07 Pal. Auth. Beit Lahiya 3 0 Hamas ambush a car carrying Fatah members, killing three of them. 1/3/07 Thailand Yala 2 0 A 70-year-old man is gunned down, along with his son-in-law, by Islamic militants. 1/2/07 Pakistan Chak Saboo 2 0 A married couple is burnt alive in front of their children because the woman was kidnapped and raped. 1/2/07 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 An anti-terror Muslim leader is gunned down by Islamists while leaving a cemetery. 1/2/07 Iraq Nahrawan 5 0 Five civilians are kidnapped, tortured and executed by Jihadis. 1/2/07 Iraq Baghdad 49 4 Forty-nine victims of sectarian strife between Sunnis and Shia are found dead. A mortar attack kills four other civilians. 1/1/07 Iraq Baghdad 40 0 Forty victims of sectarian hatred within the Religion of Peace are found in several locations. 1/1/07 Iraq Baqubah 4 0 Radical Sunnis gun down a moderate and three aides. 1/1/07 Iraq Mosul 3 0 Three borthers are murdered by sectarian rivals. 1/1/07 Afghanistan Herat 2 1 Religious extremists murder two policemen with a bomb. 12/31/06 Iraq Baghdad 4 12 Two children are among four people murdered by Jihadis in three attacks. 12/31/06 Thailand Bangkok 3 40 Jemaah Islamiyah bomb New Years Eve celebrations in the capital, leaving three people dead and forty injured. 12/30/06 Thailand Yala 1 0 Islamists gun down a government official. 12/30/06 India Pampore 2 3 Lashkar-e-Taiba militants fire into a market, killing a civilian and a security guard. 12/30/06 Iraq Baghdad 36 77 Sunni bombers slaughter three dozen Shia civilians in a triple bombing of a residential neighborhood. 12/30/06 Iraq Tal Afar 5 8 A suicide bomber straps explosives to his body and murders five people. 12/30/06 Iraq Mahmudiya 4 0 Four people are tortured and shot to death by Islamic terrorists. 12/30/06 Iraq Baghdad 12 0 A dozen victims of sectarian hatred within the Religion of Peace are found dead across the capital. 12/30/06 Sudan Kutum 5 0 The Islamic Republic of Sudan stages an air force bombing run over a village, killing at least five civilians. 12/30/06 Iraq Najaf 36 58 Another three dozen Shiites are blown up at a market by determined Sunni bombers. 12/29/06 Dagestan Makhachkala 1 0 A religious leader is murdered by Islamists. 12/29/06 Pakistan Damadola 13 6 Thirteen people are killed when al-Qaeda backed militants stage a rocket attack on a village. 12/29/06 Thailand Pattani 1 0 Muslim radicals gun down a 50-year-old storeowner in his shop. 12/29/06 Yemen Saada 5 0 Shiite radicals open fire on a military checkpoint, killing five Yemeni soldiers. 12/29/06 Iraq Khalis 13 17 A suicide bomber attacks a Shia mosque, killing thirteen people. 12/29/06 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 A village defense volunteer is ambushed and murdered by Islamists. 12/29/06 India Srinagar 1 0 Islamic militants trigger an IED blast in the heart of the capital. 12/29/06 Thailand Yala 2 0 Two Buddhist teachers are shot, brutally dragged from their truck and set on fire by militant Muslims. 12/28/06 Iraq Baghdad 41 0 Forty-one victims of sectarian hatred within the Religion of Peace are found over a 24 hour period. 12/28/06 Iraq Baghdad 17 60 Separate bombings leave at least seventeen innocents dead at the hands of Islamic terrorists. 12/28/06 Iraq Mosul 5 19 Two people are killed by a suicide bomber in a minibus, and three others are kidnapped and beheaded. 12/28/06 India Nadihal 1 0 A civilian is shot to death by the Mujahideen. 12/27/06 Thailand Yala 1 0 A 52-year-old farmer is shot to death by Islamic terrorists. 12/27/06 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A man is brutally murdered by radical Muslims while havng tea in a shop. 12/27/06 Thailand Yala 1 0 A Buddhist civilian is gunned down by radical Muslims. 12/27/06 Afghanistan Takhtapul 1 3 A Pakistani truck driver is killed in a Taliban ambush. 12/27/06 Iraq Talbiya 8 10 Sunnis car bomb a Shia neighborhood, killing eight people. 12/27/06 Iraq Ramadi 2 3 Muslim terrorists enter a policeman's home, kill him and a woman, and shoot three others. 12/27/06 Iraq Baghdad 40 0 Forty victims of sectarian hatred within the Religion of Peace are found tortured and executed. 12/26/06 Thailand Narathiwat 3 0 Militant Muslims shoot three Buddhist civilians to death in separate attacks. 12/26/06 Iraq Baghdad 25 55 More than two-dozen innocents are blown to bits by a Jihad car bomb in a retail district. 12/26/06 Iraq Baghdad 54 50 Several terror attacks and victims of sectarian violence add up to over four dozen people killed by Islamic terrorists. 12/26/06 Iraq Kirkuk 2 3 A child and an elderly man are killed when Sunni terrorists detonate a bomb. 12/26/06 Pakistan Peshawar 1 3 Radicals bomb an airport, killing one other person. 12/26/06 Israel Ramle 1 0 A divorced mother is gunned down in front of her home in an 'honor killing'. 12/26/06 Iraq Baghdad 17 35 Shiites bomb a Sunni mosque, killing over a dozen innocent people. 12/26/06 India Pulwama 2 2 Two people, including a civilian, are killed in a Mujahideen ambush. 12/25/06 Pakistan Dera Murad Jamali 3 0 Three people, including a woman, are shot to death by a Muslim concerned about illicit sexual relations. 12/25/06 Iraq Baghdad 3 1 Jihadis kill three U.S. military police with a roadside bomb. 12/25/06 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A 36-year-old civilian is murdered by Muslim terrorists. 12/25/06 Iraq Baqubah 6 0 Six people are kidnapped, bound and executed by Islamic rivals. 12/25/06 Iraq Baghdad 3 20 A suicide bomber sends three others to Allah, and injures nearly two dozen people sitting on a crowded bus. 12/25/06 Iraq Baghdad 10 15 Sunnis detonate a car bomb in a commercial center, killing ten innocents. 12/25/06 India Chingam 1 0 A civilian is shot to death by the Mujahideen. 12/24/06 Pakistan Dera Ismail Khan 4 8 Shiites open fire on a Sunni funeral, killing four mourners. 12/24/06 Iraq Muqdadiya 7 30 A Fedayeen suicide bomber slaughters seven Iraqi policemen in their station and causes severe injury to thirty others. 12/24/06 Pakistan Bajur 1 0 An off-duty police officer is sprayed with automatic weapons fire by Muslim militants. 12/24/06 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A 34-year-old Buddhist villager is murdered by Islamic radicals after dropping his daughter off at school. 12/24/06 India Pattan 1 0 A civilian is gunned down by the Mujahideen. 12/24/06 Iraq Baghdad 36 0 Thirty-six victims of sectarian hatred within the Religion of Peace are found here and in Mosul 12/24/06 Thailand Pattani 1 0 An off-duty Thai soldier is shot to death by Jihadis while riding a motorcycle. 12/24/06 Iraq Hawija 2 0 Two Shiite brothers are ruthlessly gunned down by Sunni terrorists. 12/23/06 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 Muslim terrorists sneak into a home and kill a man as he is watching television. 12/23/06 Pakistan Dera Ismail Khan 1 0 A Shiite professor is gunned down near his home by Sunni radicals. 12/23/06 Iraq Baghdad 47 0 Police recover forty-seven victims of sectarian hatred within the Religion of Peace over a 24-hour period. 12/23/06 Iraq Hawija 2 0 Jihadis bomb a passenger car, killing two occupants. 12/23/06 Iraq Diwaniya 2 0 Two people are kidnapped by Islamic militants, blindfolded and executed. 12/23/06 Sudan Tim 18 8 Eighteen civilians are killed by military forces of the Islamic Republic of Sudan. 12/22/06 Pakistan North Waziristan 1 5 Pro-Taliban militants open fire on a van, killing one and injuring five. 12/22/06 India Sopore 2 5 Two civilians are killed when the Mujahideen attack a convoy. 12/22/06 Afghanistan Kabul 1 7 An attempted suicide attack on a lawmaker kills a bystander. 12/22/06 Iraq Samarrah 2 4 Freedom fighters detonate a car bomb in front of a family home, killing a man, his wife, and injuring their four young children. 12/22/06 Afghanistan Tirin Kot 5 0 Five policemen are murdered in an attack by Taliban extremists. 12/22/06 India Ajas 1 0 Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists gun down a civilian. 12/22/06 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A 54-year-old Buddhist man is shot to death by Muslim militants, who then set his body on fire. 12/22/06 Bangladesh Binnakuri 1 0 A man is murdered by the Jama'atul Mujahideen. 12/21/06 Afghanistan Khost 3 2 Religious extremists kill three Afghan police officers with a bomb. 12/21/06 Thailand Pattani 1 1 A female Buddhist teacher is gunned down by Muslim militants. 12/21/06 Iraq Baghdad 15 15 At least fifteen Iraqis are killed when a Fedayeen suicide bomber attack an academy. 12/21/06 Iraq Kirkuk 2 0 A man and his wife are brutally gunned down by Muslim militants. 12/21/06 Iraq Baghdad 2 2 A suicide bomber murders two civilians. 12/21/06 Afghanistan Herat 4 6 Four civilians are killed when the Taliban bomb a bridge. 12/20/06 Iraq Mosul 11 0 Eleven people are murdered by Islamic terrorists. 12/20/06 Iraq Baghdad 11 31 A Fedayeen suicide bomber punches his ticket to paradise on the souls of eleven innocents. 12/20/06 Iraq Baghdad 73 0 Seventy-three victims of sectarian hatred within the Religion of Peace are found over 24 hours. 12/20/06 Thailand Yala 1 0 Islamists brutally murder a 69-year-old Buddhist man in his home. 12/20/06 Thailand Yala 1 0 A 55-year-old Buddhist rubber-tapper is senselessly gunned down by Islamic gunmen. 12/20/06 Pakistan Quetta 0 11 Eleven people are injured by a bicycle bomb. 12/20/06 Iraq Baghdad 7 8 A university professor and his family are among seven people senselessly murdered by Muslim terrorists. 12/19/06 Iraq Baghdad 53 0 Fifty-three victims of sectarian hatred within the Religion of Peace are found murdered over a 24 hour period. 12/19/06 Iraq Baqubah 12 0 Two women are among a dozen people murdered by Islamic terrorists. 12/19/06 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 Islamists murder a 27-year-old civilian. 12/19/06 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A 33-year-old Buddhist man is shot and set on fire by Muslim radicals in front of his home. 12/18/06 Iraq Baghdad 1 2 Islamic militants murder a woman at an education ministry building. 12/18/06 Iraq Saidiya 5 19 Jihadis bomb a vegetable market, killing five civilians. 12/18/06 Iraq Diyala 4 0 Four tribal leaders are abducted and executed. 12/18/06 Iraq Baghdad 44 0 Forty-four victims of sectarian violence within the Religion of Peace are found over 24 hours. 12/18/06 Afghanistan Bazar Talukan 26 0 The Taliban murder twenty-six young men and hang their headless bodies from trees. 12/17/06 Chad Aradib 15 0 Fifteen civilians are killed by Arab militias, including a man who was disemboweled and a woman set on fire. 12/17/06 India Tenkasi 1 0 A Hindu leader is hacked to death by a Muslim gang. 12/17/06 Iraq Rutba 5 0 Islamic militants torture and shoot five people to death. 12/16/06 India Pateli Daraj 2 0 A young girl is among two people killed their home by the Mujahideen. 12/16/06 Iraq Iskandiriyah 2 1 A 4-year-old girl is among two people killed by Religion of Peace terrorists. 12/16/06 Iraq Baghdad 53 0 Muslim terrorists dump 53 bodies in at least two locations, victims of sectarian violence. 12/15/06 Afghanistan Paktia 1 5 An Afghan soldier is killed when a suicide bomber rams his car into a convoy. 12/15/06 India Chandiyal 1 0 Two al-Badr militants kidnap a young girl from her house and then execute her as a rescue attempt is made. 12/15/06 Iraq Mosul 18 0 Eighteen people are killed over a 24 hour period by Muslim gunmen. 12/14/06 India Mamoosa 1 0 A convert to Christianity, and father of four, is gunned down in broad daylight by Islamic radicals. 12/14/06 Afghanistan Qalat 4 25 A suicide bomber kills four civilians on a crowded street and injures two dozen more. 12/14/06 Iraq Mahaweel 2 6 Two people are killed by a Jihad car bombing. 12/14/06 Iraq Baghdad 47 7 Forty-five victims of sectarian hatred within the Religion of Peace are found dead, in addition to a car bombing. Some were decapitated. 12/14/06 Iraq al-Lij 2 0 Two people are tortured and shot to death by religious rivals. 12/13/06 Thailand Yala 1 0 A 69-year-old Buddhist man is killed in his home by Muslim radicals. 12/13/06 Pal. Auth. Gaza 1 0 Palestinian gunmen force a judge to his knees on the sidewalk and shoot him in the head. 12/13/06 Iraq Baghdad 11 27 Jihad bombers attack a crowded bus stop, packed with Shia laborers, women and childre, killing at least eleven. 12/13/06 Thailand Yala 1 0 A 55-year-old Buddhist man is gunned down by Muslim radicals. 12/13/06 Iraq Baghdad 5 10 Five people are killed in a residential district by Jihad car bombs. 12/13/06 Iraq al-Hesna 9 0 Sunnis enter a family home and slaughter four men, two women and three children. 12/13/06 Iraq Riyadh 17 15 A Jihad attack on a checkpoint leaves seven Iraqi soldiers dead. Ten other bodies are found elsewhere. 12/13/06 Thailand Yala 2 1 Radical Muslims storm an office and shoot two Buddhist engineers to death. 12/12/06 Afghanistan Khost 1 1 A 13-year-old girl is killed after Muslim militants open fire on security forces. 12/12/06 Iraq Mosul 4 0 An elderly woman is among four people murdered by Islamic gunmen. 12/12/06 Iraq Riyadh 3 2 Jihadis murder a mother and her two children in an attack on their house. 12/12/06 Iraq Kirkuk 5 15 A Fedayeen suicide bomber ends the lives of five other people. 12/12/06 Iraq Baghdad 47 0 Forty-seven victims of sectarian violence within the Religion of Peace are found bound and executed. 12/12/06 Afghanistan Lashkar Gah 8 8 A suicide bomber on foot sends eight innocents to Allah. 12/12/06 Thailand Pattani 1 1 Islamists open fire on a teacher and a medical doctor. 12/12/06 Iraq Baghdad 71 236 Freedom fighters slaughter dozens of day laborers looking for work by first luring them with promises of jobs, then setting off coordinated suicide car bombs. 12/11/06 Pal. Auth. Gaza 3 1 Three young children are killed by Hamas gunmen. (Hamas means 'Islamic Resistance'). 12/11/06 Iraq Baghdad 46 0 Forty-six victims of sectarian violence within the Religion of Peace are found blindfolded and executed. 12/11/06 Iraq Tuz Khurmato 6 1 Sectarian extremists storm a house, killing six members of the same family. 12/11/06 Iraq Baghdad 10 18 Four Jihad bombings leave at least ten people dead. 12/11/06 Iraq Mosul 4 0 Terrorists massacre four brothers sitting in their car. 12/11/06 Sudan Hashaaba 8 0 Eight civilians, including a mother and her five young children, are killed in a government airstrike on their village. 12/11/06 Turkey Bursa 1 0 A 23-year-old woman is stabbed 27 times by her father in an 'honor killing.' 12/10/06 Iraq Baghdad 4 0 A man and his three sons are brutally murdered in their home by the Religion of Peace. 12/10/06 Iraq Baghdad 2 6 Two children are killed in an attack on a family vehicle by Islamic terrorists. 12/10/06 Iraq Kirkuk 1 0 Fundamentalists murder a 15-year-old worker at a bakery. 12/10/06 Iraq Baghdad 5 0 Five Shiite brothers are murdered in their home by Sunni gunmen. 12/10/06 Somalia Baidoa 20 0 About twenty people are killed when Islamists attack a government-held town. 12/10/06 Thailand Pattani 2 0 A 28-year-old rubber-tapper and his father are murdered by Islamists. 12/10/06 Algeria Algiers 1 8 Islamic fundamentalists stage an ambush on a convoy of foreign civilians, killing the driver. 12/10/06 Iraq Baghdad 17 0 Seventeen victims of sectarian hatred within the Religion of Peace are found executed. 12/10/06 Pakistan Tirah 4 0 Four people are killed in sectarian violence with the Religion of Peace. 12/10/06 Pakistan Punjabi Dob 1 1 Taliban-backed separatists kill a man and injure his mother in a mine attack. 12/10/06 Thailand Pattani 1 1 A woman is gunned down by the Religion of Peace in a shooting attack that leaves her husband injured. 12/10/06 Thailand Yala 2 0 Two rubber workers are murdered on the job by Islamic gunmen. 12/9/06 Iraq Baghdad 43 0 Forty-three bodies, at least three of which were missing heads, are found in Baghdad, victims of sectarian hatred. 12/9/06 Iraq Karbala 8 36 A suicidal Sunni murders eight Shia civilians with a bomb near a mosque. 12/9/06 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 A 37-year-old civilian is gunned down by Muslim radicals. 12/9/06 Sudan al-Fashir 2 8 Militant Muslims shoot a shopowner and one other civilian to death. 12/9/06 Iraq Kirkuk 1 0 A hairdresser is gunned down by religious fundamentalists. 12/9/06 Sudan Sirba 22 10 Arab militias attack a bus, killing twenty-two African civilians. 12/9/06 Afghanistan Muradabad 2 0 The Taliban kill two translators in a mine attack. 12/9/06 Afghanistan Paktia 6 0 Six Afghans are killed by a Taliban bomb. 12/8/06 Iraq Baghdad 23 11 Scattered shootings and a bombing leave about two dozen Iraqis dead at the hands of Islamic terrorists. 12/8/06 India Zachaldara 1 0 Muslim terrorists murder a dentist. 12/8/06 Afghanistan Kunar 5 0 Religious extremists murder a grandmother, mother and two daughters, along with a grandson, in an invasion on their home. 12/7/06 Afghanistan Kandahar 2 7 Two civilians are killed by a Fedayeen suicide bomber. 12/7/06 Saudi Arabia Jeddah 2 0 Two prison guards are killed in a shooting attack by Islamic extremists. 12/7/06 Thailand Yala 3 0 A family of three is murdered in cold blood by Islamists. The victims include a 1-year-old child. 12/7/06 India Brinti Batpora 1 0 The Mujahideen murder a civilian in his home. 12/7/06 Jordan Amman 2 0 A young couple in their early 20's is shot to death by the girl's father, who suspected them of having sex. 12/6/06 Iraq Iskandariya 4 12 A Fedayeen suicide bomber blows himself up in a shop, killing the owner and three other innocents. 12/6/06 Afghanistan Kandahar 7 3 Another suicide bombing takes the lives of seven people. 12/6/06 India Srinagar 0 15 Islamic militants injure fifteen people with a grenade attack on a city street. 12/6/06 Thailand Yala 2 1 Islamists open fire on a group of Buddhist civilians in front of a school, killing two. 12/6/06 Thailand Pattani 2 0 Two cops are gunned down by Muslim radicals. 12/6/06 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 A shopkeeper is murdered by Islamic terrorists posing as customers. 12/6/06 Afghanistan Herat 1 1 Taliban extremists open fire on a car, killing one occupant. 12/6/06 Iraq Baghdad 10 54 Jihadis mortar a market, killing at least ten shoppers. 12/6/06 Thailand Yala 1 2 A Thai soldier is killed by a remote control device. 12/6/06 Thailand Yala 1 0 A Buddhist man is gunned down by Muslim radicals. 12/6/06 Iraq Khalis 1 8 Islamic gunmen attack a bus carrying farm workers, killing one. 12/6/06 Iraq Mahmudiya 3 0 Three people are kidnapped, blindfolded and executed by Muslim rivals. 12/6/06 Iraq Baghdad 13 70 A suicide bombing on a minibus and a separate rocket attack leave thirteen civilians dead. 12/5/06 Thailand Narathiwat 2 0 A 13-year-old boy is among two people brutally shot to death by Muslim militants. 12/5/06 Thailand Yala 2 18 Muslims kill two Buddhist men with a bomb at a vegetable market. 12/5/06 Iraq Baghdad 8 23 Three separate Jihad bombings leave eight dead. One was at a hospital. 12/5/06 Iraq Baghdad 14 4 Sunnis stop a bus carrying Shias and gun down fourteen in cold blood. 12/5/06 Iraq Baghdad 16 25 Sixteen people are killed and dozens of others horribly burned when Sunni terrorists bomb a petrol station. 12/5/06 India Varmul 1 15 A boy is killed when Muslim militants toss a grenade into the street. 12/4/06 Thailand Pattani 2 0 Two men, including a 51-year-old rubber tapper are shot to death in separate attacks. 12/4/06 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 Muslim radicals murder a woman as she is leaving a market. 12/4/06 Iraq Baqubah 4 0 Four engineers are brutally gunned down by Islamic terrorists. 12/4/06 Thailand Yala 2 0 A father is killed in his vehicle in an Islamist attack. His 3-year-old daughter clings to life for a few hours before dying as well. 12/4/06 Iraq Mosul 11 5 Seven civilians are among eleven killed in two separate Jihad attacks. 12/4/06 Iraq Baghdad 52 0 Fifty-two victims of sectarian hatred within the Religion of Peace are found executed over 24 hours. 12/4/06 Israel Kafr Qassem 1 0 A Muslim woman is shot by a 70-year-old relative in an 'honor killing.' 12/4/06 India Sopore 1 0 A 20-year-old man is gunned down by the Mujahideen. 12/3/06 Pakistan Bannu 1 1 An Uzbeki suicide bomber takes out a policeman (and himself). 12/3/06 Afghanistan Kandahar 8 19 Three civilians are killed in a suicide attack, and several more in other shootings across the city. 12/3/06 Thailand Yala 2 0 Two men are casually murdered by Muslim gunmen while drinking tea in a shop. 12/3/06 Iraq Baghdad 3 15 Jihadis kill three civilians with a car-bomb near a bakery. 12/3/06 Iraq Mosul 8 4 Two people are killed in a suicide bombing, and six others from gunshot wounds by Islamic terrorists. 12/3/06 Iraq Kirkuk 3 2 A Fedayeen suicide car bomber kills two and injures three. 12/3/06 Iraq Latifiya 3 2 Sunni gunmen open up on a family car, killing three people. 12/3/06 Iraq Baghdad 50 0 Fifty victims of sectarian hatred within the Religion of Peace are found bound and executed in various locations. 12/3/06 India Baramulla 1 0 A civilian is gunned down by the Mujahideen. 12/3/06 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 A 35-year-old rubber-tapper is murdered by radical Islamic gunmen while working at his plantation. 12/3/06 Iraq Mosul 1 0 A 69-year-old Christian church leader is kidnapped and murdered by Islamic extremists. 12/2/06 Iraq Baghdad 44 0 Forty-four bullet-riddled victims of sectarian hatred within the Religion of Peace are found. 12/2/06 Iraq Baghdad 51 90 Sunnis blow over fifty fellow Muslims to Allah in a triple marketplace bombing that leaves blood and body parts scattered. 12/2/06 Pakistan Naushki 1 1 Taliban-backed militants thought responsible for a bombing in a remote area. 12/2/06 Thailand Yala 1 1 A 34-year-old truck driver is murdered by Islamic gunmen as he is traveling with his wife. 12/2/06 Pakistan Peshawar 1 0 A bicycle bomb kills a passerby outside the U.S. consulate. 12/2/06 Thailand Narathiwat 2 0 Muslim terrorists fire into a grocery store, killing the owner and an elderly female customer. 12/2/06 Iraq Khalis 2 3 Sunni radicals attack a funeral procession, killing two Shias. 12/2/06 Iraq Baghdad 2 6 Two family members are killed when Jihadis fire a rocket at their home. 12/2/06 Pakistan Bara Qadim 4 2 Four tribal leaders are killed when their car is attacked over a religious dispute. 12/2/06 Pakistan Nushki 1 0 A young boy is killed in a bomb blast, believed set by Taliban-backed militants. 12/2/06 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A 60-year-old food vendor is murdered by a Muslim posing as a customer. 12/1/06 Iraq Mosul 14 0 Fourteen laborers are kidnapped by Islamic terrorists and executed in captivity. 12/1/06 Iraq Baghdad 25 35 Two car bombs, one at a market, leave five civilians dead and dozens more in agony. Twenty bodies are also found. 12/1/06 Iraq Kirkuk 2 4 Two civilians are killed by a Fedayeen suicide bomber. 12/1/06 Iraq Baquba 3 2 Islamic gunmen open fire on a family vehicle, killing three members. 12/1/06 Iraq Rashidiya 4 3 Jihadis mortar a residential neighborhood, killing four innocents. 12/1/06 Iraq Mosul 4 29 Two children are among four horribly killed by a Fedayeen suicide bomber. 12/1/06 India Mangalore 1 0 A Hindu leader is brutally assaulted by twelve Muslims with a sword as he is working in his office. 11/30/06 Somalia Baidoa 4 5 A botched suicide bombing attempt leaves at least four people dead, not including the bombers. 11/30/06 Iraq Samarra 6 4 A car bomb near a police station kills a half-dozen innocents. 11/30/06 Iraq Baghdad 4 22 Three Jihad bombings kill at least four people. Elsewhere, a teacher is shot to death. 11/30/06 Thailand Pattani 0 1 A 75-year-old man is beaten in his home and set on fire by Muslim radicals. 11/30/06 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 A 44-year-old man is murdered by Islamic gunmen. 11/30/06 Thailand Narathiwat 1 1 Thai Islamists gun down a woman in a tea house, severely injuring her daughter as well. 11/29/06 Iraq Samarra 6 4 Six Iraqi police are killed when Sunni extremists set off a car bomb. 11/29/06 Iraq Baghdad 52 0 Fifty-two victims of sectarian hatred within the Religion of Peace are found in various locations. 11/29/06 Afghanistan Kandahar 2 0 Two civilians are murdered by a Fedayeen suicide bomber. 11/29/06 Pakistan Sukkur 4 0 A man kills his three daughters and a daughter in law on suspicion of adultery. 11/29/06 Iraq Baqubah 29 0 A mass grave containing the bodies of twenty-nine recent victims of Sunni-Shia violence unearthed. 11/29/06 Iraq Mosul 2 23 A suicide bomber kills a civilian. Elsewhere a teacher is kidnapped and murdered. 11/28/06 Dagestan Khasavyurt 1 0 An apostate is killed with a bomb. 11/28/06 Thailand Yala 2 0 A Buddhist husband and wife are murdered by Islamic gunmen as they return home. 11/28/06 Iraq Kirkuk 1 12 A religious fanatic straps explosives to his body and kills at least one civilian. 11/28/06 Iraq Baghdad 4 40 Islamic terrorists bomb a hospital, killing four Iraqis. 11/28/06 Iraq Baghdad 36 23 Thirty-six victims of sectarian violence are found as a Jihad mortar attack injures twenty-three others. 11/28/06 Afghanistan Herat 1 1 A suicide bomber kills a policeman who is trying to stop him from hurting others. 11/27/06 Pakistan Makeen 1 0 A moderate cleric is assassinated by Taliban supporters, who pin a note to the body. 11/27/06 Iraq Muqdidiya 5 25 Muslim terrorists shoot a mobile telephone shop owner dead, then plant bombs to kill on-lookers. 11/27/06 Iraq Baghdad 44 0 Forty-four victims of sectarian hatred within the Religion of Peace are found in an around the city. 11/27/06 Iraq Mosul 2 0 Sunnis shoot an off-duty policeman and his mother to death as they are heading to the man's wedding. 11/27/06 Chechnya Gudermes 1 2 A Russian is killed by Jihad gunmen while traveling in a car. 11/27/06 Pakistan Kahero Golo 1 0 A young woman is shot to death by her brother in an 'honor killing.' 11/27/06 Afghanistan Kandahar 2 0 Two Canadian soldiers are killed on the road by a Fedayeen suicide bomber. 11/26/06 Iraq Haswa 5 23 Jihadis car-bomb a crowded market, killing at least five innocents. 11/26/06 Iraq Haqlaniya 11 0 In a vicious attack, radical Muslims pull ten men and one boy out of a van and shoot them to death. 11/26/06 Thailand Yala 2 0 Islamic militants approach two police officers at a food market and shoot them at point-blank range. 11/26/06 Thailand Narathiwat 1 1 A 46-year-old Buddhist man is shot off the back of a motorcycle while riding with his wife. 11/26/06 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 A 24-year-old villager is shot to death by Islamic terrorists. 11/26/06 Thailand Pattani 1 1 A Buddhist rubber-tapper is murdered by radical Muslims. 11/26/06 Afghanistan Paktika 15 25 A Fedayeen suicide bomber walks into a restaurant and slaughters fifteen innocents. 11/26/06 Iraq Baqubah 25 0 Terrorists kidnap and execute twenty-five people, including seven teenagers. 11/26/06 Iraq Iskandiriya 8 28 Eight patrons at a market are blown apart by a Jihad car-bombing. 11/26/06 Iraq Basra 4 0 Four people, including a woman, are dragged from their car and brutally shot to death by Muslim gunmen. 11/25/06 Iraq Diyala 21 0 Sunni extremists invade two homes and murder twenty-one men in front of their families. 11/25/06 Iraq Khaldiya 4 9 Four people, including two Iraqi children, are killed by a suicide bomber. 11/25/06 Iraq Baghdad 25 0 Twenty-five victims of sectarian hatred within the Religion of Peace are found executed around the city. 11/25/06 Thailand Yala 1 2 Muslims fire into a Buddhist-owned store, killing the owner and injuring two others. 11/25/06 Thailand Yala 3 0 Three Buddhist pig hunters are shot and hacked to death by Muslim radicals. 11/24/06 Iraq Tal Afar 23 43 A double suicide attack near a car dealership leaves nearly two dozen people dead and many more in agony. 11/24/06 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A school administrator is shot and then burned to death by Muslim terrorists. 11/24/06 Iraq Baghdad 25 14 Shia militia are responsible for twenty-five Sunni deaths. 11/24/06 Iraq Baghdad 30 0 Thirty bodies are found dumped over a 24-hour period, victims of sectarian hatred. 11/24/06 Pakistan Sharif Chachar 1 0 A 15-year-old girl is hacked to death with an axe in an honor killing by her father, who suspected her of illicit relations. 11/24/06 Algeria Biskra 5 0 Two civilians are among three people killed in an ambush by the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat. 11/24/06 Thailand Narithiwat 1 0 Islamists break into a man's home and kill him. 11/24/06 India Rampur 8 2 Terrorists kill eight people in a shootout with security forces. 11/24/06 Afghanistan Khost 2 1 Taliban extremists attack a convoy of trucks, killing two Pakistani drivers. 11/23/06 Iraq Baghdad 9 3 Nine people are killed in a retaliatory Shia mortar attack for a massive bombing. 11/23/06 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 Islamists gun down a rubber-tapper on his way to work. 11/23/06 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A man is murdered near his home by Islamic gunmen. 11/23/06 Iraq Baghdad 202 217 Sunni terrorists murder over two-hundred innocents in five massive bombings spaced minutes apart. 11/23/06 Thailand Yala 1 0 Islamists murder a young man as he is sitting in his car. 11/23/06 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A 40-year-old Buddhist teacher is shot to death by Muslim militants. 11/22/06 Israel Sderot 1 0 An Israeli man is killed by Palestinians firing Qassam rockets into his town. 11/22/06 Pakistan Tando Masti 2 0 An imam shoots his daughter to death, and a second family member murders another girl on suspicion of sexual activity with two males. 11/22/06 Thailand Narathiwat 2 0 A husband and wife are pulled from their pickup truck and brutally killed by radical Muslims. The woman's body is burned. 11/22/06 Iraq Baghdad 52 0 Police report finding fifty-two victims of sectarian hatred with the Religion of Peace around the capital. 11/22/06 Iraq Mosul 14 0 Fourteen people, including three women, are murdered by Islamic terrorists. 11/22/06 Iraq Iskandariya 7 1 Jihadis kill seven people with a bomb. 11/21/06 India Awantipora 1 0 The Mujahideen abduct and hang a post-graduate student. 11/21/06 Afghanistan Helmand 2 0 Religious extremists attack a police station, kidnap two officers, then kill them in captivity. 11/21/06 Afghanistan Kandahar 1 0 A female legislator's husband is mowed down by the Taliban at a bakery. 11/21/06 Iraq Baqubah 19 5 Five separate Jihad attacks against civilians leaves about twenty dead. 11/21/06 Iraq Latifiyah 6 0 Sunnis kidnap, torture and kill six Shiites. 11/21/06 Iraq Suwayrah 7 0 Muslim terrorists kill six people and dump their bodies in a river. 11/21/06 Iraq Baghdad 35 19 Islamic terrorists kill thirty-five people in a series of attacks on civilians. 11/21/06 India Mamoosa 1 0 A Christian convert is gunned down by members of his former religion. 11/21/06 Lebanon Beirut 1 0 A Christian leader is gunned down by Muslim terrorists supported by Syria. 11/21/06 Iraq Baghdad 7 0 Seven students riding home in a minibus are slaughtered by Sunni extremists. 11/20/06 Thailand Sungai Kolok 2 16 Muslim terrorists detonate a bomb at a market, killing two people. 11/20/06 Iraq Baghdad 3 5 Jihadis kill three people with a bomb at a market. 11/20/06 Iraq Tal Afar 3 0 A Fedayeen suicide bomber kills three other people. 11/20/06 Iraq Ramadi 2 6 Two people are killed by a suicide bomber. 11/20/06 Iraq Baghdad 14 0 Fourteen victims of sectarian hatred within the Religion of Peace are found bound and executed. 11/20/06 Iraq Mosul 3 4 Three people are killed by a suicide bomber. 11/20/06 Iraq Baghdad 2 0 A doctor and an actor are murdered by Islamic gunmen in separate attacks. 11/20/06 Iraq Dujayl 7 0 Seven men are kidnapped and brutally killed by Muslim terrorists. 11/20/06 Iraq Taji 5 0 Extremists kidnap five men from a restaurant, torture and murder them. 11/19/06 Iraq Baghdad 13 48 Thirteen people are killed in two coordinated bombings, one at a bus stop. 11/19/06 Chechnya Kurchaloi 3 0 Three occupants of a car are slaughtered by Jihad fighters. 11/19/06 Thailand Yala 1 0 A 68-year-old Buddhist man is nearly decapitated by Muslim attackers. 11/19/06 Thailand Pattani 1 0 Muslims gun down a middle-aged Buddhist taxi driver standing in line for food. 11/19/06 Somalia Bardaleh 6 20 Six Ethiopian soldiers are ambushed and killed by Islamists. 11/19/06 Iraq Sadiya al-Jabal 8 2 Eight laborers are machine-gunned to death at point blank range by Sunni "freedom fighters." 11/19/06 Iraq Hilla 22 44 In a senseless attack on laborers looking for work, Sunni extremists massacre nearly two dozen in a suicide bombing. 11/19/06 India Cheke Natnussa 2 0 A forest employee and a civilian are murdered in their home by the Mujahideen. 11/19/06 Thailand Narathiwat 3 0 Islamists drive up to three men having tea and pound them with automatic weapons for 30 seconds. 11/19/06 Pakistan Razmak 1 0 Islamists murder a cleric and pin a note to his body. 11/19/06 Iraq Baghdad 45 0 Forty-five victims of sectarian hatred within the Religion of Peace are found bound and executed around the city. 11/19/06 Thailand Hat Yai 1 0 Islamists murder a civilian and dump his body in a ditch. 11/19/06 Iraq Hawi Jah 3 0 Jihadis kill three children with explosives. 11/18/06 Iraq Ishaqi 7 0 Seven Shia are murdered by Sunni extremists. 11/18/06 Iraq Baghdad 36 3 Thirty-six people are killed in at least three attacks by Muslim terrorists, including a man and his wife brutally gunned down. 11/17/06 Iraq Baghdad 20 0 Twenty people are killed in sectarian violence in at least three separate attacks. 11/17/06 Thailand Yala 1 0 An elderly Buddhist cattle-raiser is shot to death by Muslims, who then burn his body. 11/17/06 Pakistan Lahore 1 7 A bomb on a passenger van kills one and injures seven. 11/17/06 Thailand Narathiwat 1 27 Twenty-seven people are injured when Islamists set off three bombs. A flower seller is killed. 11/17/06 Iraq Kirkuk 3 1 A man and his baby daughter are among four people shot at by Islamic terrorists. 11/17/06 Somalia Mogadishu 1 3 Islamists fire into a crowd of people protesting their ban on khat, killing a teenage boy. 11/17/06 Thailand Yala 1 0 A Buddhist ice-cream seller is gunned down by Islamic terrorists. 11/17/06 Thailand Yala 1 0 Islamists shoot a man off of his motorcycle. 11/17/06 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A Buddhist villager is murdered by Muslim terrorists while shopping at a market. 11/17/06 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A Buddhist security guard is murdered by Islamic extremists. 11/16/06 Pakistan Bara 22 5 Twenty-two people are killed in sectarian violence between rival factions of the Religion of Peace. 11/16/06 Iraq Baghdad 43 18 Thirty-five victims of sectarian hatred within the Religion of Peace are found. Six separate bombings leave another eight dead. 11/16/06 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 A Buddhist woman who worked as a schoolteacher is brutally shot to death by Muslim militants. 11/16/06 Chad Koloy 1 3 Arab militias kill a "Doctors without Borders" volunteer. 11/16/06 Iraq Baghdad 9 2 Sunni fundamentalists murder nine workers at a bakery. 11/15/06 Thailand Yala 1 0 Islamists shoot a man to death as he is taking his children to school. 11/15/06 Iraq Latifiya 10 0 Ten bodies found are thought to be those of Shiites abducted by Sunnis a few days earlier. 11/15/06 Iraq Baghdad 12 33 Muslim bombers blow apart a dozen people waiting in line at a fuel station. 11/15/06 Iraq Baghdad 3 15 At least three people are killed when Islamic terrorists bomb a funeral. 11/15/06 Israel Sderot 1 2 A 57-year-old woman is killed in a Palestinian rocket attack on her neighborhood. A survivor loses both legs. 11/15/06 Iraq Mosul 6 0 Gunmen murder six people, including a woman, in separate Jihad attacks. 11/15/06 Sudan Deir Mazza 52 12 Dozens of civilians, including women and children, are killed in an attack by Arab militias backed by the Islamic Republic of Sudan. 11/15/06 Iraq Baghdad 55 0 Fifty-five victims, mostly of a sectarian kidnapping, are found bound, tortured and murdered. 11/14/06 Iraq Mosul 11 0 Eleven people are murdered by sectarian rivals. 11/14/06 India Kashmir 0 40 Forty people are injured in two Hizb-ul Mujahideen car bombings. 11/14/06 Iraq Baghdad 10 25 Sunnis car-bomb a market, killing at least ten innocents. 11/14/06 Iraq Basra 4 1 Four British soldiers patrolling a waterway in a boat are blown apart in a terror attack. 11/14/06 Pakistan Thari Mirwah 2 0 A man uses an axe to murder his daughter and their boyfriend after learning of 'un-Islamic' behavior between them. 11/14/06 Iraq Baghdad 7 27 A woman and child are among the Shias killed in a car bombing near a mosque. 11/14/06 Iraq Baqubah 10 0 Ten kidnap victims are found executed. 11/13/06 Pakistan Quetta 2 15 A 10-year-old girl is one of two people killed when a bicycle bomb goes off in a market. 11/13/06 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 A rubber tapper is murdered by Islamic extremists. 11/13/06 Iraq Baghdad 46 0 Forty-six victims of sectarian hatred within the Religion of Peace are found bound, tortured and executed. 11/13/06 Iraq Kirkuk 4 0 Four elementary school teachers are murdered in their vehicle by Islamic terrorists. 11/13/06 Iraq Baghdad 5 0 Five oil company employees are shot to death. One was a woman. 11/13/06 Thailand Yala 1 0 Muslim militants machine-gun a 53-year-old man to death as he is sitting in his pickup truck. 11/13/06 Iraq Baghdad 20 18 A suicidal Sunni murders twenty passengers in a minibus with an incendiary device strapped to his body. 11/13/06 Iraq Yusufiya 5 0 Five people are brutally killed by Muslim terrorists, including at least one that was beheaded. 11/13/06 India Mehar 1 0 A civilian is abducted from his home and then beheaded by Muslim militants. 11/13/06 India Sofshali 1 0 The Mujahideen murder a man in his home. 11/12/06 Thailand Narathiwat 1 1 A man is gunned down in a tea shop by Islamic terrorists. 11/12/06 Iraq Baghdad 35 58 Two suicide bombers massacre thirty-five innocent people waiting in front a police recruiting station. 11/12/06 Iraq Baqubah 50 0 Fifty bodies are found dumped behind a power company building, victims of sectarian hatred within the Religion of Peace. 11/12/06 Iraq Baghdad 25 0 Twenty-five victims of Islamic sectarian violence are found bound and executed. 11/12/06 Sudan Madu 6 0 Six people are killed by Islamic militias, including four children thought to have been burned alive. 11/12/06 Iraq Baghdad 3 15 Three children are killed when Sunni terrorists car-bomb a school. 11/12/06 Thailand Narathiwat 1 1 A man is murdered, and his wife critically injured, in an ambush by Muslim terrorists while shopping. 11/12/06 Iraq Baghdad 4 0 Sunni gunmen storm a gas station and kill four employees. 11/11/06 Thailand Yala 2 0 Islamists gun down two police officers and take their guns. 11/11/06 Iraq Baghdad 10 38 Eight people are killed when Sunnis car-bomb a shopping district. Two foreign journalists are killed in a separate attack. 11/11/06 Iraq Zaghinya 2 0 A Fedayeen suicide bomber blows two innocent people to bits, including a woman. 11/11/06 Iraq Baghdad 10 0 Terrorists kill ten people on a bus and kidnap fifty more. 11/11/06 Sudan Sirba 31 40 Arab militia fighters on horseback attack a refugee camp, killing over thirty displaced persons. 11/11/06 Iraq Tal Afar 6 10 A suicide bomber drives a car into an Iraqi police checkpoint, killing six officers. 11/11/06 Sudan Western Darfur 11 8 Sudanese government troops raid a village, killing eleven civilians, including a woman burned to death in her house. 11/11/06 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A 48-year-old farmer is murdered by Islamists as he is walking home. 11/11/06 Iraq Baghdad 5 0 A woman is among five people kidnapped, tortured and murdered by Islamic terrorists. 11/10/06 Iraq Mosul 1 0 A woman is kidnapped, tortured and executed by Islamic militants. 11/10/06 India Rawuchh 1 0 Two days after a Mujahideen ambush, a civilian is succumbs to injuries. 11/10/06 Algeria T'Kout 1 0 Islamic fundamentalists behead a shepherd and place his head on a pole. 11/10/06 Pakistan Shakai 4 2 al-Qaeda backed militants four people, including a pro-government tribal leader, in a bombing attack on their vehicle. 11/10/06 India Pulwama 6 50 Six people, including four girls, are killed by the shrapnel of a grenade thrown by Muslim militants. 11/10/06 Iraq Tal Afar 5 17 Five people are killed by a Fedayeen suicide car-bomber. 11/10/06 Iraq Yusufiya 14 0 Fourteen people sleeping in their home are kidnapped by Muslim terrorists and murdered.   Still think it has nothing to do with Islam? Previous Years: Islamic Terror Attacks for First Part of 2006 Islamic Terror Attacks for 2005 Islamic Terror Attacks for 2004 Islamic Attacks from September 11th, 2001 through 2003 Behold the Peace of Islam: Picture of the Week CAIR is seeking photographs that document "American Muslim history," along with "Muslim contributions to society."  We came up with a few quick submissions.   Holocaust Denier Attacks Holocaust Survivor in San Fran... Australia's Muslims Decide to Keep 'Rape Sheikh' in Charge... Hezbollah Terrorist 'Most Admired' Figure Among Arabs... Tantrum Thrown by Muslims on Temple Mount... MPAC-UK Falls for 'DeadBrain' Parody... Remains of Hindu Man Found 6 Months after Kidnapping... Italy: Muslim Officials Charged with Promoting 'Racial' Hatred... Descendent of Muhammad Converts to Christianity... Rubber-Duck Hostage Video Outrages Muslims... (News Archive on Right Sidebar)...  Saudi al-Qaeda Promises New Attacks will 'Shake Crusader's Pillars'... Pro-India Politician Gunned Down by Islamic Militants... India: Mujahideen Attack Leaves 4 Dead... Syria Blunt in Support for Hezbollah and Hamas... Jung Compared Hitler to Muhammad... India: Militants Gun Down Counter-Insurgent... Full List of Islamic Terror Attacks...    (Video) Teach Hate, Wahabbi Style  (BBC) A compelling BBC segment on the use of textbooks at a Saudi-funded school in Britain that refer to Jews and Christians as monkeys and pigs. Imagine what else is being taught to children in Muslim countries… Our Mosques are Importing Jihad  (Times Online) A young Muslim woman speaks with more truth and courage than many of Britain's leaders about what is really happening. Muhammad's Sex Life  (TROP - TheReligionofPeace.com) It turns out that Allah took a very curious interest in Muhammad's sexual needs, particularly in making sure they were aligned with his desires... at least according to Muhammad. Political Islam is Intellectual Tyranny  (Brown Daily Herald) An excellent interview with Nonie Darwish, who grew up in the Middle East and speaks candidly about the real problems for Muslims there. Australia's "Racism Problem"  (Indy Media) It turns out there is another side to the "race" rioting in Australia - one that seems highly relevant, but that the media is curiously reluctant to report. Islam: Hazardous to Your Health  (Family Security Matters) If you are laid up in a hospital and want nurses who wash their hands of bacteria and virus between duties, then you may have to enage in religious profiling. A Strange Invocation  (NY Post) The Democrats may have looked for a Muslim cleric to give their invocation who wasn't an anti-American, anti-Semitic, pro-terror crackpot, but they apparently didn't have much luck. England's Slippery Sharia Slope  (The American Daily) The rights of religious minorities are very important to Muslims - so long as they are the minority in question. Behold the Peace of Islam: Picture of the Week

CAIR is seeking photographs that document "American Muslim history," along with "Muslim contributions to society."  We came up with a few quick submissions.

Holocaust Denier Attacks Holocaust Survivor in San Fran...

Australia's Muslims Decide to Keep 'Rape Sheikh' in Charge...

Hezbollah Terrorist 'Most Admired' Figure Among Arabs...

Tantrum Thrown by Muslims on Temple Mount...

MPAC-UK Falls for 'DeadBrain' Parody...

Remains of Hindu Man Found 6 Months after Kidnapping...

Italy: Muslim Officials Charged with Promoting 'Racial' Hatred...

Descendent of Muhammad Converts to Christianity...

Rubber-Duck Hostage Video Outrages Muslims...

(News Archive on Right Sidebar)...

Saudi al-Qaeda Promises New Attacks will 'Shake Crusader's Pillars'...

Pro-India Politician Gunned Down by Islamic Militants...

India: Mujahideen Attack Leaves 4 Dead...

Syria Blunt in Support for Hezbollah and Hamas...

Jung Compared Hitler to Muhammad...

India: Militants Gun Down Counter-Insurgent...

Full List of Islamic Terror Attacks...

(Video) Teach Hate, Wahabbi Style  (BBC) A compelling BBC segment on the use of textbooks at a Saudi-funded school in Britain that refer to Jews and Christians as monkeys and pigs. Imagine what else is being taught to children in Muslim countries… Our Mosques are Importing Jihad  (Times Online) A young Muslim woman speaks with more truth and courage than many of Britain's leaders about what is really happening. Muhammad's Sex Life  (TROP - TheReligionofPeace.com) It turns out that Allah took a very curious interest in Muhammad's sexual needs, particularly in making sure they were aligned with his desires... at least according to Muhammad. Political Islam is Intellectual Tyranny  (Brown Daily Herald) An excellent interview with Nonie Darwish, who grew up in the Middle East and speaks candidly about the real problems for Muslims there. Australia's "Racism Problem"  (Indy Media) It turns out there is another side to the "race" rioting in Australia - one that seems highly relevant, but that the media is curiously reluctant to report. Islam: Hazardous to Your Health  (Family Security Matters) If you are laid up in a hospital and want nurses who wash their hands of bacteria and virus between duties, then you may have to enage in religious profiling. A Strange Invocation  (NY Post) The Democrats may have looked for a Muslim cleric to give their invocation who wasn't an anti-American, anti-Semitic, pro-terror crackpot, but they apparently didn't have much luck. England's Slippery Sharia Slope  (The American Daily) The rights of religious minorities are very important to Muslims - so long as they are the minority in question.

We have heard so much from the left as they make every effort to ensure that Johnny cannot even consider uttering the word (gulp)  "God" without fear of the ACLU lawyers coming down on the school and probably on him personally.  The following link details multiple  examples of abrogations of our free speech rights being restricted or taken away by a hypersensitive and overbearing government based on the (mis)interpretation of Jefferson's so called wall of separation concept in his letter to the Danbury Baptists.

THIS RELATIVELY NEW PHENOMMENON STARTED IN 1947 IN THE EVERSON VS. BOARD OF EDUCATION CASE (a great deal of American Christian History existed before this time)

The first two examples from the link below are:

Remove student prayer: "Prayer in its public school system breaches the constitutional wall of separation between Church and State." [Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421, 425 (1962).]

It is unconstitutional for students to hear prayers of the Chaplain of the U.S. House or Senate. [State Board of Ed. vs. Board of Ed. of Netcong, 1970] http://www.jeremiahproject.com/trashingamerica/freespeech2.html

As for the wall of separation, this has been a convenient way to exclude every vestige of Christian thought, principle, tradition and even history from our schools.  The result has been that we have replaced our Judeo Christian culture with another; cultural Marxism or perhaps even atheism. 

David Barton does an excellent job laying out the case that while the phrase "separation of church" is often used, what is so often left out is the second half of this phrase, or prohibit the free exercise thereof.  Apparently, as detailed on page 3 of the attached link, "Jefferson had no intention of allowing the government to limit, restrict, regulate, or interfere with public religious practices."  There are several quotes from his own pen to that effect in this article. 
http://www.wallbuilders.com/resources/search/detail.php?ResourceID=9
http://www.jeremiahproject.com/culture/ch_state.html

Finally, I am persuaded that the "religion" of secular humanism has been allowed to slowly creep into our society and replace that of Christianity.  Much like Europe, we are becoming a godless nation without any moorings or purpose.  http://www.christiananswers.net/q-sum/sum-g002.html

Where is the hope?  I have pointed out the doom & gloom.  Well, it seems that if we define a roadmap, then we can know where we are going and when we arrive.  My hope is that you will find joy in the beauty of creation, help make this world a better place in which to live through showing kindness and compassion to others.

Recently, I was rather startled to learn from a friend how much the misguided faiths of Mormonism and Islam share in common.  So I started doing a little digging and was amazed to see the similarities!  What was quite "odd" was that while I was digging further one of the podcasts to which I subscribe, John Ankerberg  http://www.johnankerberg.org/  had the very topic of the similarities of Mormonism and Islam on the January 18 & 19 featuring two converted Muslims who are now here in the States.  How often do you hear this discussed...really!

From the aforementioned John Ankerberg radio program featuring the two former Muslims who have converted to Christianity highlighting the similarities between Mormonism and Islam, I have summarized some of what was said about what these two faiths have in common below:

• both see all the world as corrupt
• both received a revalation from an angel (I believe both were deceived by a fallen angel)
• both received their revelations from tablets
• both believe Judaism & Christianity were true at one point but became corrupted and that their respective prophets returned to rescue the faiths and as the final word and authority
• both believe Jesus was a prophet but in no way God
• both believe Jesus would send the final prophet (themselves, of course)
• both see women as sexual objects for all eternity (70 virgins Islam/celestial brides Mormons)
• both accept polygamy, Muhammad had a child bride at age 6 and consummated the "marriage" at age 9

The Bible is clear:  God loves us unconditionally.  Christ has died for our sins.  There is nothing we can do to add or take away from God's perfect gift of forgiveness by offering the blood Christ to redeem us from the wrath of God. 

There are additional writings on this topic here:
http://www.bible.ca/islam/islamic-mormonism-similarities.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygamy

Is it possible that the founder of Mormonism and it's so-called prophet Joseph Snith studied Islam ?  Perhaps.  For a detailed discussion of the impact of freemasonry on mormonism see this link http://www.sunstoneonline.com/magazine/issues/141/141-32-41.pdf

All Scripture is inspired by God and is not corrupt
II Tim 3:16 - all Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right.

Adam brought sin into the world, Christ took the punishment of our sin away
Romans 5:15 But there is a great difference between Adam’s sin and God’s gracious gift. For the sin of this one man, Adam, brought death to many. But even greater is God’s wonderful grace and his gift of forgiveness to many through this other man, Jesus Christ.

It is by God's grace, not by our works that we are saved
Ephesians 2:4 But God is so rich in mercy, and he loved us so much, 5 that even though we were dead because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead. (It is only by God’s grace that you have been saved!)

 

There a couple of things that separate Christianity from other faiths such as Buddhism, Islam or even genuine Christianity from counterfeit forms of Christianity such as Mormonism. 

• The belief in the inerrancy of scripture (all Scripture is God breathed, inspired by the Holy Spirit)
•  The prophetic fulfillment of Christ's birth, mission & death
• The belief that Jesus Christ is the one and only Son of God and the sole means to salvation
• The resurrection of Jesus' body from his tomb where the was buried

This particular topic will focus specifically on the second item; the prophecies of Jesus.  Two of the more common scriptures used Messanic prophecy are:

Isaiah 53 (The Suffering Servant)

Isaiah 53 is probably the most famous example of a messianic prophecy claimed by Christians. It speaks of a sinless man known as the "suffering servant" who will "atone" for his people's sins. By his voluntary suffering, he will save sinners from Yahweh's punishment. Jesus is said to fulfill this prophecy,^[1] although Jewish scholars argue that the suffering servant is actually Israel.^[2] The following verse from Isaiah 53:5 is understood by Christians to speak of Jesus:

Islam is one of the largest religions in the world today. It might be helpful to have a look at some of the basic tenants of the faith in an effort to understand it better. The religion is based on the inspiration of the revelations that given to Muhammad claims to have received them from the angel Gabriel.  Muhammad recorded these revalations in the Qur'an between the years 610-632.

There are five pillars of Islam:

• Shahadah - there is none worthy of worship but Allah and Muhammad is His last messenger
• Salat - establishing of the five daily prayers
• Zakat - obigatory giving (generaly 2.5% of total savings working man, 10% or 20% annual produce for agricultriculturists. This money and produce is distributed to the poor.)
• Sawm - fasting on Ramadan
• Hajj - pilgrimage to Mecca

Two major sects of the Muslim culture we hear about today are the Sunni and Shiite. Al Qaeda is made up of Sunni Muslims and Hezbullah (which fought Israel in Lebanon this past summer) is Shiite.

• The Sunni branch believes that the first four caliphs--Mohammed's successors--rightfully took his place as the leaders of Muslims. They recognize the heirs of the four caliphs as legitimate religious leaders. These heirs ruled continuously in the Arab world until the break-up of the Ottoman Empire following the end of the First World War.
• Shiites, in contrast, believe that only the heirs of the fourth caliph, Ali, are the legitimate successors of Mohammed.
• In 931 the Twelfth Imam disappeared. This was a seminal event in the history of Shiite Muslims.
• His return will be preceded by three years of horrendous world choas, tyranny and oppression
• The 12th Imam is believed to return just before the end of the world
• His return is believed to eradicate all tyranny and oppression bringing harmony and total peace

http://www.allaboutpopularissues.org/12th-imam.htm

Perhaps this is why we are seeing an increase in violence and chaos?

• Another difference between Sunnis and Shiites has to do with the Mahdi, "the rightly-guided one" whose role is to bring a just global caliphate into being.
• A caliphate is a single global state ruled by Sharia law http://.danielpipes.org/blog/548

http://hnn.us/articles/934.html

For a definition of the term jihad, see the left hand side of the website http://jihadwatch.org/ which reads in part:

• Because the West is facing a concerted effort by Islamic jihadists, the motives and goals of whom are largely ignored by the Western media, to destroy the West and bring it forcibly into the Islamic world -- and to commit violence to that end even while their overall goal remains out of reach. That effort goes under the general rubric of jihad.
• Jihad (in Arabic, "struggle") is a central duty of every Muslim. Modern Muslim theologians have spoken of many things as jihads: the struggle within the soul, defending the faith from critics, supporting its growth and defense financially, even migrating to non-Muslim lands for the purpose of spreading Islam. But violent jihad is a constant of Islamic history. Many passages of the Qur'an and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad are used by jihad warriors today to justify their actions and gain new recruits. No major Muslim group has ever repudiated the doctrines of armed jihad. The theology of jihad, which denies unbelievers equality of human rights and dignity, is available today for anyone with the will and means to bring it to life.

While Muhammed claims to have received inspiration from the angel Gabriel, another angel spoke to a so-called prophet named Joseph Smith who founded Mormonism.  What do these two faiths have in common?  Plenty!  In both cases these men were deceived by fallen angels, their founders both had multiple wives (in the case of Muhammed, he "married" a child bride at age 6 and consummated the marriage at her age 9!   http://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/sina/ayesha.htm ).

That is a very quick overview. Hopefully it provides some clarity. More to come later!

Unfortunately, Jimmy Carter recently penned a book called Palestine: Peace not Apartheid. I say unfortunately because it is quite clear that this book takes the side of the Arabs in a long-standing Arab/Israeli conflict. I was as shocked as anyone to see Mr. Carter disrespect the Jewish people as I had always thought our former president was somewhat objective.

Two articles from Front Page Magazine detail the millions of dollars given to the Jimmy Carter Center by Arab financiers and why this might have persuaded his "opinion".
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=25994
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=26045

From CNN Friday, January 12, 2007, we learn another 14 Carter Center advisors are resigning due to the joint statement that "we can no longer endorse your strident and uncompromising position. This is not the Carter Center or the Jimmy Carter we came to respect and support." http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/12/us/12carter.html?_r=1&8br=&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin

One of Mr. Carter's "greatest accomplishments" during his presidency was bringing the Arabs and Israelis together for "peace talks." The legacy of the failed Carter presidency is well documented here http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2006/12/13/cstillwell.DTL. What is even more amazing is the very moment Mr. Carter was receiving the Nobel Peace prize our friends (just kidding) the North Koreans were developing their first nuclear weapon. http://www.davidstuff.com/incorrect/goldberg3.htm

Way to go Jimmy!

We seem to be facing an increasingly hostile presence of radical Islam in this country as witnessed by the recent gathering of over 1500 supporters of Sharia law in Minneapolis demonstrating against the US policies in far away places like Somolia. Do you really think a few neighborhood folks got up in arms about this!? http://www.startribune.com/462/story/907052.html

I am becoming increasingly concerned about radical Islam. You may be a bit like me and not be too sure what Al Qaeda is all about. Well, I started doing a little digging and thought I might break it down into some bite size pieces. Basically, Al Qaeda is "a multi national network of terrorist organizations and radical Islamic groups that seek to create other radical Islamic groups where none currently exist." (see fas.org link below for source)

PBS put together an excellent timeline on the life of Osama Bin Laden here http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/knew/etc/cron.html

The group was established by Osama Bin Ladin in the late 1980s and he is working under the banner of "the World Islamic Front for Jihad Against the Jews and Crusaders" and has clearly encouraged his followers to kill US citizens - civilian or military - and their allies everywhere. The actual statement by Bin Laden can be found here http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/docs/980223-fatwa.htm

The list of criminal activities that can be credited to Al Qaeda activity includes:

· 2003 carried out assault and bombing on 5/12 of 3 expatriate housing complexes in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

· Assisted in carrying out bombings on 5/26 in Casablanca, Morocco of Jewish Center, restaurant, nightclub & hotel that killed 41 & injured 101.

· Responsible for the assault and bombing on 11/9 of a housing complex in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, that killed 17 and injured 100.

· Conducted the bombings of two synagogues in Istanbul, Turkey, on 11/15 that killed 23 and injured 200 and the bombings in Istanbul of the British Consulate and HSBC Bank on 20 November that resulted in 27 dead and 455 injured.

· In 2002, carried out bombing on 11/28 of hotel in Mombassa, Kenya, killing 15 and injuring 40.

· Probably supported a nightclub bombing in Bali, Indonesia, on 10/12 that killed about 180.

· Responsible for an attack on US military personnel in Kuwait, on 10/8, that killed one US soldier and injured another.

· Directed a suicide attack on the MV Limburg off the coast of Yemen, on 10/6 that killed one and injured four.

· Carried out a firebombing of a synagogue in Tunisia on 4/11 that killed 19 and injured 22.

· On 11 September 2001, 19 al-Qaida suicide attackers hijacked and crashed four US commercial jets, two into the World Trade Center in New York City, one into the Pentagon near Washington, DC, and a fourth into a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, leaving about 3,000 individuals dead or missing.

· Directed the 12 October 2000 attack on the USS Cole in the port of Aden, Yemen, killing 17 US Navy members, and injuring another 39.

· Conducted the bombings in August 1998 of the US Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dares Salaam, Tanzania that killed at least 301 individuals and injured more than 5,000 others.

· Claims to have shot down US helicopters and killed US servicemen in Somalia in 1993 and to have conducted three bombings that targeted US troops in Aden, Yemen, in December 1992.

· Al-Qaida is linked to the following plans that were disrupted or not carried out: to assassinate Pope John Paul II during his visit to Manila in late 1994, to kill President Clinton during a visit to the Philippines in early 1995, to bomb in midair a dozen US trans-Pacific flights in 1995, and to set off a bomb at Los Angeles International Airport in 1999.

· Also plotted to carry out terrorist operations against US and Israeli tourists visiting Jordan for millennial celebrations in late 1999. (Jordanian authorities thwarted the planned attacks and put 28 suspects on trial.)

· In December 2001, suspected al-Qaida associate Richard Colvin Reid attempted to ignite a shoe bomb on a transatlantic flight from Paris to Miami.

· Attempted to shoot down an Israeli chartered plane with a surface-to-air missile as it departed the Mombasa airport in November 2002. http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/ladin.htm

Any questions?   

When a religion such as Islam is intertwined with various governments such as Iraq and Iran who have sworn their allegiance to destroying this nation, it begins to concern me.  And when the rumblings of nationalist individuals begin to make their presence known here, it concerns me further.

Do we as a nation have the backbone to define evil for what it is or do we simply sit back in our comfy armchairs and hide because it is too politically incorrect to discuss this with anyone?   I am all for anyone worshipping whatever god they choose.  

I also wish to stand for what made this nation great...freedom and liberty.  Freedom to worship, freedom to express our thoughts in a civil manner.  This does NOT mean our major media should be intimidated and cower at the sight of a riot over a few cartoons.  We are a great nation whose forefathers fought for our right to be able to worship whatever gods we chose and to speak and write freely without the fear of Shria law clamping down upon us.