you'd be a shit statistician then, my friend.
muslim-inducted terrorist attacks (seeings as how that is what we are discussing) on the west;
1972 - Four
PLO terrorists hijacked a
Sabena airliner carrying 99 passengers and ten crew members on route from
Brussels to
Tel Aviv. In a mission titled "Operation Isotope", 16 members of
Sayeret Matkal posed as refueling and technical personnel and stormed the plane, killing the terrorists and releasing the passengers.
1972 -
September 5:
Black September kidnaps and kills eleven
Israeli Olympic athletes and one
German policeman in the
Munich Massacre.
1973 -
Chopin-Express: Two Arab terrorists hijack the Chopin-Express from Moscow to Vienna at the East-West border in Marchegg.
1974 -
September 8:
TWA Flight 841: Bomb kills 88 on jetliner. Attributed to
Abu Nidal and his Muslim terror organization
1975 - In the
Savoy Operation PLO gunmen from
Lebanon take dozens of hostages at the
Tel Aviv Savoy Hotel eventually killing eight hostages and three
IDF soldiers, and wounding eleven hostages
1977 - Three buildings in Washington, DC are seized by members of the militant African-American Muslim Hanafi sect and over 100 hostages taken. One bystander is shot and killed, and Washington city councilman
Marion Barry is shot in the chest. After a two-day standoff all hostages are released from the District Building (city hall),
B'nai B'rith headquarters, and the Islamic Center
1978 -
Fatah gunmen killed several tourists and hijack a bus near
Haifa; 37
Israelis on the bus are killed
1980 - A member of the
Abu Nidal Organization carried out a grenade attack on a group of
Jews waiting for a bus in
Antwerp,
Belgium, killing a child and wounding twenty others.
Said Al Nasr will be convicted for this act.
1981 - Machine gun and grenade attack on the
Stadttempel synagogue in
Vienna, killing two people and wounding 23. Marwan Hasan and Hesham Mohammed Rajeh were convicted
1982 - Four people are wounded when a
synagogue in
Brussels is attacked in a "shoot and run" incident. Guards were taken by surprise and the gunman, believed to be from the
Abu Nidal Organization, escaped.
1985 - Paris Marks & Spencer shop, one bomb, one dead, 18 wounded, attributed to pro-Iranian Lebanese
Hezbollah.
1985 -
TWA Flight 847 skyjacking,
Hezbollah, see
FBI Most Wanted Terrorists. Terrorists take passengers of an Athens-Rome flight hostage, murdering US Navy Seaman, Robert Stethem
1985 - Two near-simultaneous bombs in
Copenhagen, at the Jewish
synagogue and at the offices of
Northwest Orient, explode, killing one and injuring 32. The bombers are interrupted while placing a third, more powerful, bomb, which they later dispose of in the city's harbour. The bombs are later linked to
Islamic Jihad.
1985 - Paris, Galeries Lafayette and Printemps shops, two bombs, 51 injured, attributed to pro-Iranian Lebanese Hizbollah
1986 - Paris, Claridge passage (Champs Élysées) seven injured, another bomb failed to explode in the
Eiffel tower, pro-Iranian (
Fouad Ali Saleh group)
1988 -
Pan Am Flight 103 bombing over
Lockerbie, Scotland, UK. At the time, it was the worst act of terrorism perpetrated against the United States, and involved the greatest number of peacetime fatalities (270) in the United Kingdom. Just over 12 years after the event, at the conclusion of the
Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial, a Libyan agent,
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, was convicted on 270 counts of murder and was sentenced to
life imprisonment. Libya subsequently agreed to pay relatives of the Lockerbie bombing victims $2.7 billion ($10 million each) in compensation
1990
(PS this is a good one) - Assassination of
Meir Kahane head of Israel's
Koch party and founder of the American
vigilante group the
Jewish Defense League in a
Manhattan,
New York hotel lobby by early elements of
Al Queda.
1992 -
Israeli Embassy bombing by "
Islamic Jihad" in
Buenos Aires,
Argentina; 29 killed, 242 injured
1992 - he
Iranian embassy in
Ottawa is stormed by members of
MEK, an
Iraq-supported
religious right group
1993 -
Mir Aimal Kansi, a
Pakistani, fires an
AK-47 assault
rifle into cars waiting at a stoplight in front of the
Central Intelligence Agency headquarters, killing two and injuring three others
1993 -
World Trade Center bombing kills six and injures over 1000 people, by coalition of five groups: Jamaat
Al-Fuqra'/
Gamaat Islamiya/
Hamas/
Islamic Jihad/
National Islamic Front,
1994 -
Israeli Embassy Attack in London and a Jewish charity are car-bombed, wounding 20. Attributed by
Britain,
Argentina, and
Israel to
Hezbollah.
1994 -
Air France Flight 8969 is hijacked by
GIA members who planned to crash the plane on Paris but didn't succeed.
1995 -
Bombings in France by a
GIA unit led by
Khaled Kelkal kill eight and injure more than 100.
1997 - Ali Abu Kamal opens fire on tourists at an observation deck atop the
Empire State Building in
New York City,
United States, killing a
Danish national and wounding visitors from the
United States,
Argentina,
Switzerland and
France before turning the gun on himself. A handwritten note carried by the gunman claims this was a punishment attack against the "enemies of Palestine". His widow claimed he became suicidal after losing $300,000 in a business venture. In a 2007 interview with the
New York Daily News his daughter said her mothers story was a cover crafted by the
Palestinian Authority and that her father wanted to punish the
United States for its support of
Israel.
[91]
2000 -
USS Cole bombing kills 17 US sailors and wounds 40 off the port coast of
Aden, Yemen, by
al-Qaeda, see
FBI Most Wanted Terrorists, the
Buffalo Six Lackawanna Cell.
[104]
2001 -
Attacks kill 2,997 in a series of hijacked airliner crashes into two U.S. landmarks: the
World Trade Center in
New York City,
New York, and
The Pentagon in
Arlington,
Virginia. A fourth plane, originally intended to hit the United States Capital Building, crashes in
Somerset County,
Pennsylvania, after an apparent revolt against the hijackers by the plane's passengers; by
Al-Qaeda.
2004 - Coordinated
bombing of commuter trains in
Madrid,
Spain, kills 191 people and injures more than 1,500.
Al-Qaeda authorship.
2004 -
Jakarta embassy bombing, in which the
Australian embassy in
Jakarta,
Indonesia was bombed, killing 8 people
2005 -
London bombings – Bombs explode on one
double-decker bus and three
London Underground trains, killing 56 people and injuring over 700, occurring on the first day of the
31st G8 Conference
2006 - An
Afghani Muslim hit 19 pedestrians, killing one, with his SUV in the San Francisco Bay area
2006 -
Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, an Iranian-born graduate of the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, drives an
SUV onto a crowded part of campus, injuring nine.
2007 -
Glasgow International Airport attack,
2007 London car bombs,
2007 UK terrorist incidents.
Car bomb plot suspected
Al-Qaeda. At
Glasgow Airport car rams into main terminal causing minor injuries to five and setting off blaze. Explosive device caught fire instead of detonating. In
London's West End attempt to set off two car bombs by suspected cell phone triggers fail. One car is towed before device is discovered in underground car park. Police link two incidents. Police find suicide notes on two suspects in London incident.
[207] Eight men arrested. One Glasgow suspect critically burned. One of the five men could be an associate of
Dhiren Bharot a high level
Al-Qaeda operative. Authorities say London bombs could have caused "significant loss of life".
[208][209] The two incidents have been linked, by police, to the same two people
SOURCE:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents
keep in mind that they are just the ones i picked out that were aimed at western countries or commited in western countries by militants who are driven by extremist islam.
i'd stick to your day job, pal.
also interesting - failed attacks (thanks to..oh i dont know, increased security, maybe?);
2007 -
John F. Kennedy International Airport terror plot. Thwarted homegrown
Islamist terrorism plot to destroy the fuel supply system for the airport located in
New York City and cause a large amount of causalities by blowing up the connecting pipeline system that runs through densely populated neighborhoods.
2007 -
2007 Fort Dix attack plot Six men inspired by Jihadist videos arrested in the US, in a failed
homegrown terrorism plot to kill US soldiers.
2006 - A major anti-terrorist operation disrupts an alleged
bomb plot targeting multiple airplanes bound for the
United States flying through
Heathrow Airport, near
London, UK.
pretty much puts your little theory to bed.
BUSH 