Rather a serious case of selective amnesia here.
Which is very tortured logic. You seem to be trying to say that because there are so many groups (note that Fatah and Hamas are political parties that are legally elected to run the country) that this is representative of a huge terrorist population. Usually this is actually representative of a fractured political powerbase. In Ireland we had: the Official IRA, the Provisional IRA, Sinn Fein, the Real IRA, (who still commit the odd terrorist act) the UVF, the UDA, and now the Continuity IRA (also listed as a current terrorist organisation). That is seven.
The last 20 years have seen 639 people die in the the Irish Troubles. We can only pray they are over.
You forget ETA. The Basque Seperatists. Since the start of their terrorist campain over 800 people have died in Spain. That one shows no sign of letting up.
Go to Peru and encounter the Shining Path.
Go to SriLanka and try the Tamil Tigers. Perhaps they might not count, and their confict was closer to all out war. Which underlies that in the modern world the difference between war and terror is rather blurred. Civil war especially.
Columbia - National Liberation Army.
Twenty years ago the Afghanistani Islamists were not terrorists. They were allies. So it is a convenient time to draw an artifical line in time and brand them all terrorists.
There is, and it is one of selective reporting to pursue a preconceived truth.
Now don’t get me wrong. There are a huge number of crazy Islamist terrorist organisations out there. (A quick look at the US State Department’s list suggests that about half of them are concerned with Palestine - which is perhaps a serious clue about the real nature of the problem. It isn’t that far off the Irish Troubles.) But this thread isn’t about that. It is about the slur on Islam implied by the original post, and the mooted plaque. With it seems to have come a very new, really post 9/11, view in the West that Islam is the enemy. It makes for easy prejudiced thinking. No different to when the Commies where the bad guys, and aren’t we lucky that the transition from one to the next was so easy? Had the Japanese before that, and so it goes.
The enemy is religious and political extremism. No religion is immune from that, and history shows that they are all pretty even in their propensity to show it. The second enemy is ill though out, prejudicial, bigoted thinking. It is only a small step from the latter to extremism of one kind or another, and then anyone can become a monster. This last century has seen organised genocide in which hundreds of thousands to millions die, on at least half a dozen occasions. That is the spectre that looms over us. Humans of any race, religion, and political colour are all capable of performing the most atrocious acts on one another. No one is immune, and anyone that claims that their side is somehow taint free is kidding themselves. Indeed claiming so is the first step on the road to performng just those atrocities.