abu_rashid wrote:In Iraq, there were zero suicide attacks in the country's history until 2003. Since then, there have been 1,892.
In Pakistan, there was one suicide attack in the 14 years before 2001. In the fourteen years since, there have been 486.
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U.S seems to have the midas touch.
Were I a bit cynical, I'd point out that "Iraq" has existed as a modern nation only since 1920, and during much of that time until now has been ruled by ruthless men with very active secret police. It's hard to gin up suicide bombings when your neighbors are eager to turn you in, and little point to it when the police might arrest and kill most of your family. The dearth of suicide bombings doesn't mean that Iraq was a peaceful place. Far from it. Kurds have been killed by the thousands, and the death toll from the Iraq-Iran war was likely in the hundreds of thousands. Internal sectarian violence between Shia and Sunni was kept low only by constant government oppression of the most brutal sort. Factions in Islam have gone to war many times over the centuries.
The data you cite is obviously meant to buttress a claim that the US is somehow responsible for Iraq's violence, but that doesn't hold water historically. Suicide bombing is but one method of revolt. Give the suicide bombers a bigger group and better weapons, and they stop killing themselves.
The argument that Islam is either violent or not is specious because the concepts are nebulous - there are pacific Muslims and warlike Muslims. But it's undisputed that the religion originally spread through the region at the point of a sword. Islam's formative stage was not pacifistic, but violent.