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.
Category: Perspectives
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.
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.
In May 1979, the ‘Unabomber’ sent his first parcel bomb to a university professor: a security guard was slightly injured when it exploded.
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.
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.
An ISIS suicide bomber killed himself outside an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester in 2017, killing 22 people, many of them children.
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.
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.
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.