That's in no way the question I'm posing here for one. If you stabbed a Christian because you thought their faith was wrong then a Christian might get it into his/her head that stabbing an atheist is just retribution. So I take it you're also against giving reparations to blacks for injury and insult suffered by their forefathers at the hands of whitey ancestors? Sometimes (opinion, for some reason this seems to need to be made clear) collectives do need to pay (money, not evil villain style pay) for wrongs that they personally didn't commit. I didn't personally make anyone homeless but I pay taxes which house them and give them food credits which I'm also (relatively) happy to do.
Also just as a general point that everyone seems to be ignoring: Nowhere here by the by have I said that I support any of the attacks. I'm giving a reason for people to think the way these people are. Stop with your demonising, actually read what I'm saying before casting your judgments.
Basically you hit the nail on the head Jub, Islamic terrorism here has increased (from 0) since Islamist terror began. It's an obvious point but one that I hope isn't lost, they've expanded their targets to us, which means that as long as there are members of these organisations still alive then we have someone who considers us enemy. It's off topic but there are tons of places where you can get info on Islamic terrorism globally, and it's huge, and growing. Here in the UK we're doing roughly the same the statistics are so small that they're nearly irrelevant. Yeah there have been more attacks 2005-2009 than 2010-2014 buuuuut the difference is tiny. Its pretty irrelevant. Taking the world as a whole is relevant, and perhaps a comparison of the UK with other countries but this is sort of a global issue, not just limited to what happens here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents#1970.E2.80.93present Here is a link to global terrorism. Boko Haram, Taliban, al-Quaeda, al-Nusra, ISIL come up time and again. In comparison there is very little non-Islamic terrorism. Granted this is at least partially because the west chooses who is the terrorist and who is the freedom fighter but I digress. I've not been through all of it by any means.
@Penty: I'm also not intolerant of other views, I fully accept that people can believe in a cause so thoroughly that they're prepared to die for it, I know that people seek vengeance on others for no reason than they read about something that happened. I do hate Muslims this is true, surely the cowardly thing would be to deny it? Say: Oh no I only hate the evil ones, it's not true for me. I'm not patronising you by pretending otherwise. I also try as best I can to look at it from multiple angles, each of which are obviously tainted by my biases but believe it or not, I do try. Yes you're wrong, I don't value 'innocent' Muslim lives as much as other peoples (Innocent is also a weird word to use. If you mean innocent of causing violence, well I'm innocent but then my views are far from it, see what I mean. Because one can't know the thoughts of another it's impossible to tell who is innocent and who is not) and in this thread I'm not advocating anything. Another thing is that we have very different values and I'd also hate to lose mine, I've done that once already but that's a completely separate thing which I don't want to get into particularly. You're mixing things I've said in different threads. Which is bad because I'm the devils advocate, if I wasn't here there would be no sides it'd be a circle jerk of self congratulation on how morally superior you all obviously are.