Global Terrorism Index

I wonder where the USA would land if that list got expanded to a 15 year span because of one incident.

Ah yes Utøya. I was wondering what Norway was doing on the list. I wonder if that really was terrorism? Thought terrorism was more organised and not just one man going crazy? I am sure though that it made no difference to the victims.

Not per capita.

Libya, Niger, and Egypt are now on here.

That's all pure speculation but assuming you're right and Europe cuts off immigration from Muslim countries, how much of that decision do you think will have been based on Anders going to a camping site and shooting a bunch of kids?

Yes, Guessed it with a bit of luck. Lots of central African countries on there.

But unfortunately ...... true.

why? Because this quiz hurt your fragile little heart?

It's a shame that people don't care about word creep. If terrorism was expanded to mean everything that people try to make it mean then in the future the word is going to not have any meaning at all.

But apparently the stats do include mass shootings.

I'm an American. This is actually bullshit. Saudi Arabia (and by Saudi Arabia I mean the government a.k.a. the AlSaud family) is steadfastly opposed to terrorism, jihadism, and Islamism. It is by far the single greatest threat to their own prosperity and grip on power. It also is bad for business and the AlSauds are happy to be open for business with the West. They only draw the line at dealing with Israel and even then, not as firmly as many other Muslim countries. Those who believe they sponsor terrorists are naive or confused. What *does* happen is that a lot of Saudi money gets funneled into mosques, and Saudi-style Salafist mosques are often very conservative and fundamentalist and there is a very short line you can draw from fundamentalist Islam and Islamic terrorism. The KSA funds mosques all over the world and these mosques often end up radicalizing Muslims all over the place, even though they are instructed by the government not to. It's a side effect, not the intention.

Usama bin Laden was Saudi, but he had his citizenship revoked after he turned to a life of terrorism. He had to live in exile. Many of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudis, both because bin Laden had many contacts in Saudi Arabia and could recruit there, and also because it was part of the plan: UBL was intentionally trying to sour the positive relationship between the AlSaud family and the United States, and get Americans to start thinking of Saudi Arabia as an enemy. That's the main reason he chose Saudi hijackers. He could have gotten Palestinians or Syrians to do it just as easily. But so much of the US response to 9/11 has been exactly what bin Laden anticipated and we've done much to play into his hands.

He probably didn't plan on getting capped in Abbottabad but, there are always bumps in the road.

This measures countries affected by terrorism, not countries from which it is perpetrated. Even if what you say is true, the countries affected by those terrorists are Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and so on, not Saudi Arabia itself.

also not true. :-/ come on guys... can we make even one factual but politically incorrect statement without immediately speeding toward overreaching generalization?

The list is a mix of all kind of countries. But yeah, Muslim countries make up the majority here, but that doesn't mean the religion is bad. Corrupted government, bad infrastructure, poverty, etc all have a say in it. Muslim majority countries like Albania, Kazakhstan, Malaysia and Senegal are very safe to visit.

Muslim: Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Turkey, Somalia, Sudan.

Muslim/Christian: Nigeria.

Christian: United States, South Sudan, Congo-Kinshasa, Kenya, Philippines, Central African Republic, Cameroon.

Hindu: India.

Buddhist: Thailand.

During the Intifada they did. Since they built the separation wall this is no longer true. The number of casualties from terrorism in Israel since 2010 has been tiny. I'm not sure what the date range is for the quiz as the link to the source appears to have expired.

It's the flag of the country that is #1 on the list.

Appears so, I looked and couldn’t find it.

Maybe too controversial

Yes. It happened a while ago now. A few months at least.

Mindanao has been full of Muslim separatists since before the country's inception- this goes back all the way to the Spanish colonization.

Two factors. 1) Israel has had very low rates of terrorism fatalities since 2003, before that it was a major problem, but not recently. and 2) the index uses a very poor definition for terrorism which includes any mass-shootings whether they were perpetrated by terrorists or not, and the USA has lots of those.

That makes you glad?

uhhh assl25 explain yourself

I would occasionally see stories in the local papers about incidents in the southern provinces, too, but nobody in Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Phuket, Chon Buri or other places seemed to be worried much about this. Sometimes they had guards posted outside of public transportation doing a really half-assed job of searching people's bags and belongings but that's the only thing I noticed.