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...)