"An(other) inconvenient truth”: Who does Terrorism the most

History News Network carries a story reporting on a recent "National Intelligence Strategy of the United States of America" which includes a breakdown of terrorist organisations worldwide.

The U.S. State Department has a list of 45 “Foreign Terrorist Organizations.” Of those, 25 are Islamic-based organizations; 11 are secular nationalist; 7 are Marxist or Maoist; and only two are religious-based but not Muslim: the Jewish extremist Kahane Chai, and the pseudo-Shinto Aum Shinrikyo of Japan.Now this is curious. 

 My own quick and dirty estimate of terrorist organisations comes up with 138 of which 112 are still active. Of these 79% are Islamic. Of those that are purely religiously-based only (ie not including Nationalist, Communist, Anarchist, Tamil or Other), Islamic terrorist organisations are 89 out of 90, or 99%. That is, of those terrorist organisations around the world which are religiously-based, all but one is Islamic. (if we add in the "extremist Kahane Chai" mentioned above that's 89/91 or 98%).

Sure, my estimates are just based on on-line sources, with none of the resources available to the Director of National Intelligence, but still... I get 67 more terrorist organisations than the US State Department. What's going on??

You can see my figures here . (I did this around August this year, on an arvo with nothing else to do...)

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ADDED (18/6//24): The links have rotted. Here is a list of terrorist organisations from 2017. The list is now 159 total, vs 138 that I had above. 

And a summary of the spreadsheet in a screenshot: 

The point being: of the terrorist organisations that are religious, 94% of them are Islamic. This remains the case do date (June 2024). It is therefore logical to say that one is concerned about Islamic terrorism. Not all religious terrorism. The “all religions have their violent aspects” is just a way to deflect. It is Tu Quoque.