saltmummy wrote:Aum Shinrikyo. A religious "doomsday" sect in japan. Released saren gas into subways. Considering the death count of other saren gas related attacks, the Tokyo subway attack and matsumoto incident were relatively minor. My chemistry teacher told us that the amounts of saren used were small, and while subway tunnels are really rather tight and enclosed environments, the volume of gas was easily dispersed and somewhat neutralized, generally just making people who were at the locations sick instead of killing them. Aum Shinrikyo is split up into two groups now, but all this to say no, not all terrorists are muslim.
Like I said, I fully acknowledged that I jumped the shark by saying that all terrorists are muslim. But still, a very large majority are islamic extremeists and in comparison the frequency of islamic terrorism is astronomically high in comparison to other groups, some of whom don't even achieve their goals and even if they do, the damage they do is comparitively tiny.