"The Chronological List of Islamic Terrorists Attacks"-1968

I visited a blog the other day and the topic of discussion was Islamophobia. One of the commentors copied and pasted a list titled, "The Chronological List of Islamic Terrorists Attacks".

The list accompanied this statement:

"In the past 35 years are so there have been enough terrorist attacks to warrant concern and as a matter of fact, ACTION! What would you like us to do? Ignore the problem and just have peace marches? Interesting, but not all that effective. You don't want to hear that we are fighting terrorist over there so that we don't have to fight them here, but we have not been attacked since 9/11 on our soil. We are not in Iraq just to fight terrorists, but if we had just left Iraq a conquered nation, it would have been the terrorists favorite place. Here are just a few Islamic Terrorist Attacks that should raise some eyebrows. Quite honestly, I see reason for concern and drastic measures. I am not fond of being a target".

And just for fun, I picked another comment from a different blog:

"It comes down to this basic simple fact: People hate a winner. They hate the United States because we are great. Events and National Inquirer Facts are created in an attempt to harm the United States and its interests while others forget that we are the most free nation in the world. Some people equate leftism with freedom but that is false and I'm not going to walk down that road in order to stay in line with this blog.
I have not read or seen anything positive about Islam - unless the truth was distorted. It is the most dangerous religion in the world. It is a nihilistic religion which seems to be placing many of our liberal politicians in their back pocket. Why? I don't know, Islam kills everyone, even the people who support it.
Now I keep hearing about the radical Christian groups and such but I fail to see them on my television. I never even see them acting out on some of the more liberal news programs. Whoever says Fascist Islam is not more violent than the Christian groups has obviously disassociated themselves from reality.
Its hard to take a lot of people seriously. I've never seen so many people choose to be so blind".

Back to that chronological list of "leftist" enlightenment ;)..I'd seen that list before, it's posted on a government website (if I remember correctly). I was skeptical of it because the Torrejon, Spain bombing is listed but with inaccurate information. This fella is trying to use the list to prove that we belong in Iraq and the "War On Terror" is real. The list contains ~157 "ISLAMIC Terrorists Attacks", starting in 1968 ending in 2004. This list is nothing more than a list of attacks and bombings (inaccurate at best), without any history behind it to back it up. As a simple list of attacks, of course it looks terrifying! I personally see this list as a list of consequences...which led to crimes.

I've decided to give a little history behind these crimes. I'll start with the first one on the list:

"June 5, 1968 - U.S. presidential candidate Robert Kennedy murdered by Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan, in Los Angeles, which causes further terrorist attacks, as Arab terrorist groups demanded his release."

THE EVENT:

On June 4, 1968, Robert Kennedy won the California primary. He addressed his supporters on June 5, 1968 at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Sirhan Sirhan, a 24 yr.old Palestinian, fired with a .22 caliber revolver and shot Kennedy in the head.

THE BACKGROUND:

In 1948, Zionists attacked a village called Deir Yassin and massacred 250 people, including women, children, and the elderly. With the official declaration of Israeli independence, it led the Sirhans, along with many other terrified Arabs to flee their homes.

James W. Clarke, author of "American Assassins"stated, "A young Sirhan found the shot body of an Arab neighbor drenched in fresh blood. The entire Sirhan family saw a British soldier's body freshly mangled by a bomb and discovered his finger in their yard....he recounted seeing an explosion resulting in "a little girls's leg blown off, and the blood spurting from below the knee as though from a faucet."

Clarke noted that Sirhan was only 4 years old when he witnessed a bomb explode and saw "the street strewn with bloody, mutilated bodies of Arab victims." A worse trauma soon followed, "Sirhan and an older brother were playing in the street. Gunfire broke out and a Zionist truck swerved straight into one of Sirhan's brothers crushing the child."

The Sirhans hoped an Arab military victory would restore their lives to normalcy, When that hope faded, the Surhans, a CHRISTIAN Arab family, immigrated to the United States in 1956 when Surhan was 12 yrs old.

Sirhan had always been angry over Israeli's creation in 1948, during which Palestinians fled or were driven out. Sirhan supposedly believed he was deliberately betrayed by Kennedy's support for Israel in June 1967 Six-Day War.

Grant Cooper, Sirhan's defense attorney, asked during testimony, how he felt toward his victims older brother, President John Kennedy. The witness replied, "I loved him, sir, more than any American would have." Cooper asked him to explain.."Because just a few weeks before his assassination he was working, sir, with the leaders of the Arab government, the Arab countries, to bring a solution, sir, to the Palestinian refugees problem, and he promised these Arab leaders that he would do his utmost and his best to force or to put some pressure on Israel, sir, to comply with the 1948 United Nations Resolution, sir, to either repatriate those Arab refugees or give them back, give them the right to return to their homes. And when he was killed, sir, that never happenend."

John Weidner, employer, "...he hated the Jews because of their power and their material wealth, they had taken his country who were now refugees. Because of Israel, he said, his family had become refugees, and he described to my wife how he himself had seen a Jewish soldier cutting the breast off an Arab woman in Jerusalem. "He told Weidner, "There is no God. Look at what God has done for the Arabs! And for the Palestinians. How can we believe in God?"

Sirhan's father, Bishara, said, "I can say that I do not regret his death as Kennedy the American politician who attempted to gain the presidential election by his aggressive propaganda against the Arab people of Palestine...Kennedy was promising the Zionists to supply them with arms and aircraft...and thus provoke the sensitive feelings of Sirhan who had suffered so much from the Jews...It is not fair to accuse my son without examination of Zionists atrocities against the Arabs-those atrocities which received the support and blessings of Robert Kennedy."

Al Anwar, an Arab newspaper commented on June 10, 1968, "...regardless of everything, Sirhan's blood-stained bullets have carried Palestine into every American home. The act may be illegal, the price high, and the assassination unethical...But American deafness to the cause of the Palestinian people is also illegal, unethical and carries a high price."

Sirhan is confined at the California State Prison.

He is no longer a threat.