According to foreign ministers from some of the world’s major Islamic countries, its not Al Qaeda, Hamas, Iran or the Muslim Brotherhood that poses the greatest threat to the world, its…Islamophobia. After all fear of radical Islam is what kills, its no hijackers or suicide bombers or madmen in shoot school children in the back or armed militants who chop off the heads of nuns.

According to this conference of apologists for radical Islam, Islamophobia is a deliberate attempt to denigrate and defame Islam. Perhaps these foreign ministers should spend less time criticizing those who fear being murdered (or bombed or maimed) and start addressing the fundamental causes of Islamophobia (i.e., Radical Islam).

Since its inception a principle tenet of Islam has been the principle of conquest by the sword, this began almost as soon as Muhammad declared himself gods prophet.

In recent years we have heard two familiar reasons for the scourge of Islamic terror: the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the war in Iraq. Such arguments have no basis for those familiar with history. If the origins of radical Islam were the results of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict then how does one explain the host of Islamic terror attacks conducted in every corner of the globe. Islamists have been on the march. From the Sudan to Nigeria, to Thailand, to China, to Russia, to Spain, to France, to Argentina, to Canada, to the Philippines, to India and so forth, all in the name of Allah.

We also frequently hear that it is the policies of the Bush administration and our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan that is the cause of global terror. This argument is even more ludacris. Only a decade ago (long before the Iraq war), we were told that it was our military presence in Saudi Arabia that caused Islamic terrorism, before that we were told it was our involvement in the Somalia famine relief mission (no good deed goes unpunished in the Islamic world), before that we were told it was our support for Israel. At the same time the US has worked to free Muslims from oppression in the Balkans and donated billions for relief in Indonesia, while the Islamists can only claim death as the fruits of their labors. The reality is, these Islamists have been attacking us for decades and any action by the US is used as nothing more than a justification for more attacks.

The fact is radical Islamists have been active for centuries, today they have been busy attacking numerous targets, not only the US. These Islamists have murdered school children in Russia and Indonesia. Behheaded teachers and monks in Thailand. They have slaughtered innocents in the Philippines. They have stabbed film makers and authors in the Netherlands. They rioted attacked store owners in France. They killed tourists in Egypt. They have also been busy continuing the slaughter in Africa, attacking Christians and other non-Muslims in the Sudan, Kenya and Nigeria. Meanwhile, on the Indian sub-continent they have been ruthlessly murdered tourists and travelers.

The simple fact of the matter is Iraq cannot explain or justify the many murderous attacks committed by Islamists, not by Islamophobia, indeed if Iraq was the cause of just terror attacks on the US then how does one explain September 11th, the attack on the USS Cole in 2000, multiple attacks on Americans Saudi Arabia in 1995 and 1996, the slaughter in Somalia when we attempted to feed the starving in 1993, the first WTC attack in 1993, countless hijackings and bombings during the 1980s and numerous other terror attacks.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,273312,00.html

Islamic Terror attacks in the past 40 years:
http://www.thephalanx.com/2006/04/islamic-terrorisma-reality-check.html