Some 30,000 Germans protest against anti-Islam rallies

[RiverNoord]

22. Although I do occasionally visit this forum

I am far from a biased ideologue. I like facts. Facts are useful. Opinions based on facts can be examined with reference to the facts.

Are all acts of terrorism committed with a claim of a religion motivations actually solely motivated by a commitment to some aspect of the religion? Are Burma's Buddhist-monk-instigated terrorist attacks against Muslims based on a Buddhist principle or socioeconomic problems resulting from a rapid transition away from a strictly repressive military government? I expect that an expert on terrorism such as yourself should have a researched, fact-supported answer to such a question.

I also wonder what the level of terrorism in the world involving self-identified Muslims was prior to the 2003 American invasion of Iraq? Local religions often figure quite prominently in resistance efforts against invaders. Do you have before and after statistics (e.g., facts) concerning this question? Terrorism throughout the world tends to occur in contexts of recent or active warfare, as well as environments of severe repression of ethnic groups. Militarily weak combatants tend to resort to asymmetrical warfare, such as terrorism. The most intense world warfare during the past 10 years has taken place in the country formerly known as Iraq and its surrounding area. A lot of ethnic-based asymmetrical warfare was unleashed by the full-scale invasion and occupation of Iraq by the United States of America and a few allies. Of course, if virtually the entire population of a region adheres to a particular religious belief, then most terrorist acts committed by people in the region will, simply on the basis of demographics, be committed by adherents to that religion.

Do you have long-term statistics which include, for example, Catholic and Protestant sectarian terrorism in Ireland and the UK? The Aum Shinrikyo 1995 ricin terrorist attack in Japan? State-sponsored terrorism such as killings of Palestinians by Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Gaza and the West Bank? How much terrorism in, say, 1970-1980 was by Muslims? 1980-1990? 1990-2000?

What about relatively atheistic terrorists? Timothy McVeigh, for example, claimed no religious affiliation when he blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. What are the statistics on apparently non-religiously motivated terrorism? You apparently must be privy to such statistics, with your claims. Semi-religious motivations, such as those espoused by many so-called 'Sovereign Citizens' groups, which happen to be the greatest organized threat to United States law enforcement today? Drug-related terrorism in Mexico and Central and South America? Basque separatism in Spain by ETA? The Black Liberation Army in the US in the early 1970s? The Japanese Red Army? FARC in Columbia and the (now ruling) ANC in South Africa?

If you don't have statistics on all of the above, then shut up and learn something before you accuse people of being 'biased ideologues' and claim to know something about a topic you are clueless on.