Not all Muslims are Terrorists

But it sure does seem like a lot of terrorists are connected with extremist, Muslim fundamentalists who buy into the concept of Jihad. And that really sucks. I know that people say, “Well, look at Timothy McVeigh. He was about as white-bread American as they come. Or those pricks over in Ireland who were car bombing people every week”? Truth be told, McVeigh slipped through the cracks. I don’t subscribe to any form of organized religion, so please don’t think I’m being apologetic toward Christians out of personal bias. But one thing that the Western world does a lot better than most places is keep track of the crazy bastards.

Everyone saw what happened in Waco, TX in 1993. Most of the terrorist stories in the US have headlines that include words like, “planned”, “plotted”, “thwarted” and “suspected”. The main reason is that the US is hypervigilant about these SOBs. Personally I think this is a good approach. Knock on wood, nothing major has happened since 9/11. But you can be sure that plenty of people have been investigated or arrested.

As a quick tangent, I am not going to entertain the delusion that Bush/Cheney or the US in general, be considered a terrorist organization. If you really believe that than you have big issues. Freedom is certainly not free and many people have already sacrificed so you have the right to even consider such a thought.

Here is a list of groups recognized as terrorists by the US Dept of State:
1. Abu Nidal Organization (ANO)
2. Abu Sayyaf Group
3. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade
4. Ansar al-Islam
5. Armed Islamic Group (GIA)
6. Asbat al-Ansar
7. Aum Shinrikyo
8. Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA)
9. Communist Party of the Philippines/New People's Army (CPP/NPA)
10. Continuity Irish Republican Army
11. Gama’a al-Islamiyya (Islamic Group)
12. HAMAS (Islamic Resistance Movement)
13. Harakat ul-Mujahidin (HUM)
14. Hizballah (Party of God)
15. Islamic Jihad Group
16. Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)
17. Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM) (Army of Mohammed)
18. Jemaah Islamiya organization (JI)
19. al-Jihad (Egyptian Islamic Jihad)
20. Kahane Chai (Kach)
21. Kongra-Gel (KGK, formerly Kurdistan Workers' Party, PKK, KADEK)
22. Lashkar-e Tayyiba (LT) (Army of the Righteous)
23. Lashkar i Jhangvi
24. Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
25. Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG)
26. Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (GICM)
27. Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK)
28. National Liberation Army (ELN)
29. Palestine Liberation Front (PLF)
30. Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)
31. Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLF)
32. PFLP-General Command (PFLP-GC)
33. Tanzim Qa'idat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn (QJBR) (al-Qaida in Iraq) (formerly Jama'at al-Tawhid wa'al-Jihad, JTJ, al-Zarqawi Network)
34. al-Qa’ida
35. al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (formerly GSPC)
36. Real IRA
37. Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
38. Revolutionary Nuclei (formerly ELA)
39. Revolutionary Organization 17 November
40. Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C)
41. Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso, SL)
42. United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC)

Now if you discount the Islamic radicals, socialists and Marxists, all you’re really left with is a bunch of pissed off Irishmen who haven’t really been active in over 10 yrs. We’re all intelligent people (you found this blog, didn’t you?) and can imagine what this Venn diagram will look like. Sure there are over 1 billion Muslims in the world and most all of them will be as normal as it gets. But if you look at the circle that includes dangerous terrorists… Islam has won that Monopoly game and put hotels on every fricking property.

I don’t have a solution. But some of the responsibility has to be on the countries where these individuals are born and raised. Problem is that these countries in South America and the Middle East don’t place the same importance on counter-terrorism as the US. This will need to change. Because if the US ever retaliates, there won’t be any country for them to fix after the fact.

For all the bad things that the current administration has endured and partially caused for the past 8 yrs, your personal safety has really taken priority. People take that kind of thing for granted until it’s challenged. It’s only a matter of time before another one of these guys slips through the cracks. You can hope and pray to Jehovah, Jesus or Mohammed that it doesn’t happen, but reason dictates that it will. And remember that as much as you pray to your God that nothing terrible happens, they are praying to Allah (or their fucked up distortion of Allah) just as much that something does.