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CSIS and accusations of Islamophobia

Accusations that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service is Islamophobic do not take into account facts that Canadians have become jihadis.

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When everything is seen as terrorism, nothing is terrorism

Terrorism means many things to many people and we may be heading down an unhelpful pathway.

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Weather Underground bomb plot (June 17, 1974)

On this day in 1974, the leftist Weather Underground bombed the HQ of the Gulf Oil Company in Pittsburgh to protest the firm’s actions in Angola.

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Manchester PIRA Bombing (June 15, 1996)

On this day in 1996, the PIRA set off a three-tonne truck bomb in downtown Manchester UK, injuring more than 200 but killing no one.

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SEVEN separate ISIS attacks in Iraq and Syria (June 13, 2016)

We talk about Islamic State (ISIS) for a simple reason: it is a lethal terrorist group. IRAQ/SYRIA – If you have been following this series for a while you will have seen that I am trying to accomplish a few things. I want to highlight a particularly large or significant act of terrorism on a […]

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Orlando Pulse Nightclub Massacre (June 12, 2016)

On this day in 2016, an ISIS-inspired terrorist opened fire in an Orlando, Florida, gay bar in June 2016 killing 49 and wounding 53.

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Hamas terrorist detonates a suicide belt on a bus in Jerusalem, killing 17 (June 11, 2003)

On this day in 2003, a Hamas suicide bomber dressed as an Orthodox Jew detonated a metal fragment-laced bomb on a Jerusalem bus killing 16.

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ISIS jihadis stone woman to death on charges of adultery (June 9, 2016)

Sexual mores were once the purview of the state and thankfully that has changed. Tell that to ISIS. MOSUL, IRAQ — Stop me if you have heard this before but I am a HUGE Monty Python fan and have been for decades. I used to watch the original series on PBS growing up in southwestern […]

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12 White Teachers and Children Killed by Guerrillas in Rhodesia (June 7, 1978)

Wherever you fall on the terrorist/freedom fighter scale you have to admit that the brutal 1978 killing of UK missionaries in Rhodesia is terrorism.

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Two Tunisian soldiers killed in AQIM attack (June 6, 2013)

On this day in 2013, two Tunisian soldiers were killed and two wounded in a terrorist attack carried out by Al Qaeda affiliate AQIM near Tunisia’s border with Algeria.