Saturday, March 18, 2006

Islam's Bloody Borders

Baron Bodissy of the sterling blog `Gates of Vienna' has put together some fascinating data relating the percentage of Muslims in the population of given areas with the incidence Islamic terrorism , as well as the terrorist incidents.Gates of Vienna: The Umma’s Involuted Border

He analyzes the data with his usual clarity, needless to say!

..."The nature of the “bloody border” is extremely clear in the maps. With the exceptions of Iraq and Afghanistan, the highest concentrations of terrorist
attacks occur along the edges of the Umma, where it meets the areas of lower Muslim population."

For a larger, interactive copy of the map, click here:The Bloody Borders Project

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