Breitbart reports
The death toll in the first 14 days of holiest month for Muslims has reached a grim milestone: more than 70 attacks in 21 predominantly Muslim countries have yielded an estimated 1,003 fatalities and 1,036 injuries.
With more than half of the month leftover, this year’s Ramadan is already the bloodiest in recent memory, far surpassing the 421 deaths and 729 injuries that took place during the same period in 2016, considered the deadliest Ramadan in years.
On June 8, the United Nations reported that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) alone executed 231 civilians between May 26 and June 3 as they tried to escape Mosul, the jihadist group’s last major stronghold in Iraq currently under siege by U.S.-backed local forces.
Ramadan began in the evening of May 26. The first full day of the holy month fell on the following day.
Although Iraqi officials have repeatedly said they are close to fully recapturing Mosul, the U.S.-led coalition has refused to declare victory against ISIS in what would be the most significant win against the jihadist organization.
Most Muslims follow the tradition of abstaining from eating, drinking, smoking, having sex, and other physical needs each day, starting from before the break of dawn until sunset during the holy month.
However, other adherents of Islam perceive Ramadan as a time when martyrdom and jihad is especially rewarded in paradise, prompting a spike in terrorist attack during the holy month.
Islamic extremist groups encourage martyrdom among their sympathizers and followers, promoting the belief that they will be doubly rewarded if they fatally castigate infidels during Ramadan.
There were 1,150 casualties — both death and injuries — during Ramadan 2016.
Terrorists – namely the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), Taliban, and al-Qaeda– have already killed or wounded nearly 2,039 this year, with only 14 days into the holiest month for Muslims.
Among the 2016 fatalities are women, children, and members of the Christian minority. This year is no exception.
There are members of a wide variety of ethnic and religious groups among the victims: Westerners, Christians, Asians, Sunnis, Shias, and Arabs. Muslims of all sects made up the majority.
As recent attacks in England, Germany, and France show, the West is not immune to the Islamic extremists’ call to attack during Ramadan.
Breitbart News’ count, gleaned from the Religion of Peace website in coordination with news reports, excludes the number of casualties directly linked to battles between U.S.-led coalition troops and jihadists groups, as well as Iranian- and Russian-backed troops loyal to dictator Bashar al-Assad.
If all of the deaths from the ongoing conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Libya, and Afghanistan had been included, the total number would be much higher. The Religion of Peace website acknowledges their estimate is an undercount, so the number of Ramadan deaths and injuries could be higher.
Breitbart News latest tally was adjusted for the 231 civilian deaths at the hands of ISIS in Mosul reported by the UN.
All the terrorist attacks during Ramadan 2017, as documented by Breitbart News, include:
May 27 — Charchino, Afghanistan — Group fighting in favor of imposing Islamic law ambushes checkpoint, kills 11.
May 27 —
Qadis, Afghanistan — Taliban
kills 14, injures 17.
May 27 —
Khost, Afghanistan — Taliban suicide bomber targets U.S-backed National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF), which includes army and police units,
killing 18, wounding six others, including children.
May 27 —
Kacha Khuh, Pakistan — “Honor Killing” — Brother
hacks one person to death: his 18-year-old sister for denying to abide by pre-arrange marriage.
May 27 —
Marawi, Philippines — Jihadists
kill 19 including women and a child.
May 28 —
Marawi, Philippines — Jihadists murder eight for “having
betrayed their faith.”
May 28 —
Shirqat, Iraq — ISIS
rocket attack
kills three children and their parents.
May 28 —
Shakhil Abad, Afghanistan — Islamic extremists
kill district governor and his son inside their home.
May 28 —
Baqubah, Iraq — Suicide bomber
kills three, injures up to 1
6 others outside court.
May 29 —
Nguro, Nigeria — Boko Haram
beheads five people.
May 29 —
Ghat, Libya — Suspected Islamic terrorists
kill one, injure f0ur.
May 29 —
Shirqat, Iraq — Islamic shrapnel
dismembers a child, injures seven.
May 29 —
Baghdad, Iraq — 17 killed, 32 wounded — ISIS launches suicide attack against
ice cream parlor frequented by families who were breaking their Ramadan fast.
May 29 —
Baghdad, Iraq — 14
killed, 37 injured. ISIS attacked Shiites.
May 30 —
Mattani, Pakistan — Islamist
gun down four peace committee members.
May 30 —
Peshawar, Pakistan — Suspected jihadist
shoots one leader of Hezb-i-Islami terrorist group while he was leaving a mosque.
May 30 —
Shifa, Iraq — Mass grave found with
60 ISIS torture victims, including women, elderly.
May 30 —
al-Joura, Syria — ISIS mortar
kills 14, including children.
May 30 —
Bay Hassan, Iraq — ISIS
kills three Iraqi guards, wounds six others.
May 30 —
Baghdad, Iraq — Jihadists
kill seven, injure 19 in a blast.
May 30 —
Baqubah, Iraq — A bomb
explosion at mosque kills seven, wounds six.
May 30 —
Hit, Iraq — Fedayeen suicide bomber
kills eight, injures ten.
May 31 —
Kaya, Nigeria —Boko Haram
kills 14.
May 31 —
Fafi, Kenya — Suspected al-Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab burns down school,
kills one teacher.
May 31 —
Bab el-Beid, Iraq — Suicide bombers
kill three civilians, including a child.
May 31 —
Hit, Iraq — Shahid suicide bomber
kills three, injures seven.
May 31 —
Mangai, Kenya — al-Qaeda-linked bombers
kill eight.
May 31 —
Kabul, Afghanistan — Suspected Haqqani Network
kills at least 150, Wounds more than 460, including 11 Americans.
May 31 —
Sinjar, Iraq — ISIS
kills two, injures two.
June 01 —
Abala, Niger — Jihadists
kill six guards.
June 01 —
Al-Hazm, Yemen — Terrorists
kill six, wound 15.
June 01 —
Behsud, Afghanistan — Suicide bomber
kills one, wounds four.
June 01 —
Oldenburg, Germany — Muslim
kills one for smoking during Ramadan and refusing to fast.
June 01 —
Zanjili, Iraq — ISIS
kills seven for trying to flee caliphate.
June 02 —
Kolofota, Cameroon — Islamist use two girls as suicide bombers: 11
killed and 30 wounded.
June 02 —
Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia — Jihadist
beheads one man.
June 03 —
Marawi, Philippines — Islamic sniper
kills 70-year-old man.
June 03 —
Halabsah, Iraq — Four suicide bombers
kill one, injure three.
June 03 —
London, England — Three Jihadists plow into pedestrians, then stab people,
killing seven, injuring 48.
June 03 —
Zanjili, Iraq — ISIS
kills 43 for trying to flee caliphate.
June 03 —
Lower Munda, India — Hizb-ul-Mujahideen
kill two security troops, injure four.
June 03 —
Nawabshah, Pakistan — Alleged victim’s brother-in-law
kills two people for alleged adultery.
June 03 —
Kabul, Afghanistan — Suicide bombers
kill 20, injure 87.
June 03 —
Ferkane, Algeria — Muslim extremists
kill two local soldiers, injure four.
June 03 —
Burkina Faso, Soum — Jihadists
kill five.
June 04 —
Bijapur, India — “Honor Killing” — pregnant Muslim woman
burnt alive by her family for marrying Hindu man.
June 04 —
Kandahar, Afghanistan — Afghan police
insider attack leaves six dead, one injured.
June 04 —
Spini, Pakistan —
Two Shiites from Hazara minority group killed.
June 04 —
Talibul, Moula, Pakistan — “Honor Killing” — Father
kills one 18-year-old daughter for allegedly “having an affair.”
June 04 —
Zanjili, Iraq — Wave of suicide bombers
kills 32, injures 24.
June 04 —
Quaidabad, Pakistan — Jihadis
kill one barber.
June 05 —
Melbourne, Australia — ISIS-linked migrant from Somalia
kills man, takes prostitute hostage, an injures four.
June 05 —
Baghdad, Iraq — Terrorist mortar fired into family home
dismembers 10-year-old boy, injures four.
June 05 — Kismayo, Somalia — al-Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab detonates bomb, killing three, injuring 20.
June 06 — Sinai, Egypt — Suspected Islamic extremists kill two police officers.
June 06 —
Paris, France —
Jihadist wounds one cop with a hammer outside Notre Dame cathedral.
June 06 — Herat, Afghanistan — Terrorist kill seven, injure another 16 near the northern gate of the Great Mosque of Herat.
June 06 —
Garissa, Kenya — Suspected al-Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab jihadists
kill four aid workers with land mine.
June 06 —
Mandera, Kenya — Unknown jihadist
kill one woman, injure one.
June 06 — Mosul, Iraq — ISIS kills 15 women as they tried to escape the section of city controlled by the jihadist group.
June 07 —
Kandahar, Afghanistan — Islamabad’s intelligence agency (ISI)
attacked refugee camp in Kandahar province, which borders Pakistan, killing three, including two children and wounding eight, including women.
June 07 —
Tehran, Iran — ISIS claims responsibility for attacking Shiite country’s parliament while wearing
women’s attire,
kills 12, injures up to 42, marking first time the Sunni extremist group carries out attack in Islamic Republic.
June 07 —
Tehran, Iran — Islamic State suicide bombers target Shiite
shrine of revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini located just outside the capital,
killing two and injuring
ten.
June 07 —
Maiduguri, Nigeria — Boko Haram
kills 14, wounds 24.
June 08 —
Puntland, Somalia — al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab
kills 70, including some women who were decapitated, and wounds 18.
June 08 —
Diyala, Iraq — Terrorists, including ISIS,
kills 9, wound 4.
June 08 —
Mosul, Iraq — United Nations reports ISIS killed
231 civilians as they tried to escape the city between May 26 and June 3.
June 08 —
Mosul, Iraq — ISIS
fires chlorine-filled bombs at civilians, killing 13, mostly women and children.
June 08 —
Baluchistan, Pakistan — ISIS claims to have
killed two Chinese nationals kidnapped on May 24.
June 09 —
Kerbala, Iraq — ISIS
kills at least 30, wounds 34 in Shiite holy city.
