The recent attack on UK author Salman Rushdie is a potent reminder that calls for religious violence can last decades.
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Terrorism around the globe for the week of August 1-7, 2022: again dominated by Islamist terrorist groups and individuals.
On May 31, 1906 a Spanish anarchist threw a bomb hoping to hit King Alfonso XIII, killing 24 and wounding more than 100.
On May 22, 2018 an IED planted by a Mexican anarchist group exploded at an ATM in Oaxaca, causing little damage and no casualties.
On May 19, 2002 a suicide bomber disguised as a soldier killed himself and three others, and wounded another 59, in the Israeli coastal city of Netanya.
On May 14, 2016 ISIS terrorists hacked to death a 75-year old Buddhist monk in south-eastern Bangladesh.
On May 9, 2004 a bomb exploded in the Dynamo Stadium in the Chechen capital city, Grozny, killing 10 people including President Akhmad Kadyrov.
On May 7, 2018 the Ittehadul Mujahideen North Waziristan bombed two girls’ schools in Pakistan and left pamphlets urging families not to send their children.
On April 25, 2016 a top LGBTQ rights activist in Bangladesh was hacked to death by ISIS terrorists at his flat in Dhaka.
On April 21, 2015 40 Macedonian NLA terrorists took over a police station near the border with Kosovo, beat the officers and stole their weapons.