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Solingen Arson Attack: Neo-Nazi attack immigrants in Germany (May 28, 1993)

On this day in 1993, far right ‘skinheads’ in the West German town of Solingen torched a house leading to the deaths of five Turkish women and girls.

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10 beheaded by ISIS in Mozambique attack (May 27, 2018)

On this day in 2018, the ISIS Central African Province claimed an attack in a Mozambican village in which 10 people were beheaded, including children.

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25 dead in Maoist ambush in India (May 26, 2013)

On this day in 2013, Maoist Naxalite terrorists in India killed 27 members of the Congress Party in an ambush in the eastern part of the country.

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The Unabomber carries out his first parcel bomb attack (May 25, 1979)

In May 1979, the ‘Unabomber’ sent his first parcel bomb to a university professor: a security guard was slightly injured when it exploded.

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Assassinations of Jeffrey Brent Ball and Todd Ray Wilson (May 24, 1989)

On this day in 1989, two Mormon missionaries were killed by the Bolivian Marxist group Zarate Willka Armed Forces to protest US influence in Bolivia.

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2 Killed in Church Blast in Kathmandu, Nepal (May 23, 2009)

A Hindu extremist organisation calling for a Hindu state in Nepal was probably behind a bombing at a Christian church in which 2 were killed and 15 injured.

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Manchester Arena Bombing (May 22, 2017)

An ISIS suicide bomber killed himself outside an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester in 2017, killing 22 people, many of them children.

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Who decides what is terrorism and what isn’t?

It is still a debatable issue whether ‘incels’ are terrorists or just occasionally violent people, as is what is the best way to detect and stop them.

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120 killed by suicide bomber at Unity Day parade in Yemen (May 21, 2012)

An AQAP suicide bomber dressed as a soldier killed more than 120, mostly soldiers, and wounded more than 350 at a Unity Day parade in Sana’a in 2012.

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The challenges of calling any act of violence ‘terrorism’

The debate over what to call terrorism is an eternal one. Where incels fit in, if they do, will also go on for a while.