By Sulaiman Razvi

Hindus often say that Muslims are the root of terrorism and wherever there are Muslims there is terrorism. Millions of Hindus are living in Muslim countries but Hindus say that all Muslim countries are violent, they say there is no peace in Muslim countries and they even tell Muslims to go to Pakistan, Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan whenever Indian Muslim questions their ideology. But to add to the surprise, Right wing Hindus need not ask Muslims to go to Iraq, Syria to witness the violence as India is not less violent than those countries, and the terrorists in India are not Muslims.
Amnesty International India executive director Aakar Patel writes,
“In 2014, there were 976 deaths from terrorism (or extremism, whatever name one wants to use for it) in India. Of these, the most (465) came in the North East. The second most (314) came from Left-wing extremism, by a group of people called Maoists. Deaths in Jammu & Kashmir, assuming we want to attribute the whole lot to terrorism, stood at 193. Outside of these conflict theatres, Islamist extremism claimed four lives.
In 2013, the figure was most for Maoists (421), the second most for the North East (252), and the Kashmir plus Islamist violence outside the state again came third (206). In 2012, we had a similar situation: Maoists (367), followed by the North East (326), followed by Kashmir (117). The total number of victims of Islamist terrorism outside these three areas, across India, was 1.
In 2011, Maoist violence claimed 602 lives, the North East 246, and Kashmir plus Islamist violence outside the state toll stood at 225. This year, again the sequence is the same, though violence levels across India have dropped, as they have been doing for the past decade.
As is obvious, most terrorists in India are Hindus, the ones whom we have conveniently labelled “Maoist” instead of “Hindu”. The second largest group of terrorists are the tribals, Hindus, animists and perhaps some Christians of the North East. Muslims are third. If one looks outside the separatism of Kashmir, their violence and terrorism levels are among the lowest in the world and they appear to be less susceptible to terrorism not just by the standards of the world’s Muslims but also India’s Hindus.”
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http://scroll.in/article/718458/most-extremists-in-india-are-not-muslim-they-are-hindu

Believe it or not: India had the highest number of blasts in the world

Last year, there were 337 Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) blasts in India, according to the NBDC journal ‘Bombshell’. In 2015, there were 268 IED blasts, and 190 blasts in 2014, 283 blasts in 2013 and 365 in 2012.
Iraq witnessed 221 IED blast incidents, the second highest last year. Pakistan was at the third place with 161 IED blasts. About 132 IED blasts took place in Afghanistan, 92 in Turkey, 71 in Thailand, 63 in Somalia and 56 in Syria.
In 2015, Iraq witnessed 170 IED blasts, Pakistan 208, Afghanistan 121, Iraq 170 and Syria 41.
The states which suffered the highest number of IED blasts last year were Chhattisgarh-60, Jammu and Kashmir-31, Kerala-33, Manipur-40, Odisha-29, Tamil Nadu-32 and West Bengal-30.
SOURCE: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/india-witnessed-highest-number-of-bomb-blasts-in-world-in-past-two-years/articleshow/57082541.cms

Maoists fourth deadliest terror outfit after Taliban, IS, Boko Haram: 2016 Report

“The world witnessed 11,774 terror attacks in 2015, in which 28,328 people were killed and 35,320 injured. India was the fourth worst-affected country after Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, with 43% of 791 attacks in the country carried out by Naxalites. A total of 289 Indians died in terror strikes.
The CPI(Maoist) was responsible for 343 terror attacks in 2015, killing 176 people. Taliban were involved in 1,093 strikes in which 4,512 people lost their lives, IS launched 931 attacks which claimed the lives of 6,050 people and Boko Haram was involved in 491 attacks killing 5,450 people. Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which rounded off the top five in the list, was involved in 238 strikes, killing 287.
The report said there was great diversity in the perpetrators/terrorist groups involved in attacks in the country, with 45 outfits active across the country. The Naxals alone accounted for 43% of terrorist attacks in India last year. The report said the number of people kidnapped/taken hostage by terrorists and insurgent groups in India almost tripled in 2015, increasing to 862 from 305 in 2014. Of this, Naxals alone kidnapped/took hostage 707 persons last year compared with 163 in 2014. In 2014, there were no attacks in which 50 or more people were kidnapped or taken hostage while in 2015, there were seven such attacks, all of them attributed to Maoists.
Home ministry+ data also said that between 2010 and 2015, 2,162 civilians and 802 security personnel were killed by Naxals. Most of the dead were ‘tribals’, often branded as police informers.”
Source:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Maoists-fourth-deadliest-terror-outfit-after-Taliban-IS-Boko-Haram-Report/articleshow/54354196.cms
India 6th most affected by terrorism in 2014; ISIS, Boko Haram behind more than half attacks: Report

According to the third edition of the Global Terrorism Index 2015 (GTI), India ranked 6th out of 162 nations most affected by terrorism in 2014.
Source:
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/india-6th-most-affected-by-terrorism-in-2014-isis-boko-haram-behind-more-than-half-attacks-report/
PTI | Nov 16, 2016 India, Pakistan in list of top four countries that witnessed 50% terror attacks in 2015

“India was named among the four countries where nearly half of all terrorist attacks occurred in 2015, besides Pakistan, Iraq and Afghanistan.
“Improvements continued to be recorded in India, which historically has had high levels of terrorist activity. In 2015 India had the highest number of attacks since 2000, whilst paradoxically it had the second lowest number of deaths for a single year since 2000,” the report says.
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/India-Pakistan-in-list-of-top-four-countries-that-witnessed-50-terror-attacks-in-2015/articleshow/55458754.cms

India witnessed more terrorist attacks than Pakistan in 2016: US

ReportThe department said more than half of the terrorist attacks in India in 2016 took place in four states: Jammu and Kashmir at 19%, Chhattisgarh at 18%, Manipur at 12%, and Jharkhand at 10%.
This geographic pattern is relatively stable compared to 2015, with the exception of Jammu and Kashmir, which experienced an increase of 93% in attacks in 2016, it said.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/india-witnessed-more-terrorist-attacks-than-pakistan-in-2016-us-report/story-ryvGhU0ZoojQPfCGZIDuNM.html