2016 The most fatal year in suicide terrorism

A re-cap on 2016, and the increase level of suicide bombings has resulted in five and a half thousand casualties in 2016 from suicide bombing. Most killings are overwhelmingly in Iraq, and over 70% are attributed to the Islamic State.

The global Jihad violence has become the harbinger for the rise of the reactionary right throughout the globe and now, at the lead of this nascent 'direct' and 'aggressive' approach is the, hitherto, one month tenure of the Trump administration.

The subliminal global Jihadist terrorism has replaced the traditional twentieth century terrorist narratives, and, in particular, since the post-World War Two era, the terrorist violence narrative that was often ideologically associated with a global Communist and Capitalist schism, which was geo-spatial in its scope, as noted by Central American Communist insurgencies; Indo-China and South East Asian post colonial ructions; and the continuous revolutions and anarchy in within the African continent. Meanwhile, as a direct consequence of the de-colonisation period, the Middle Eastern conflicts focused, primarily on the newly created Jewish State of Israel which, still continues its struggle to reconcile their existence and forcing out the Palestinians who have lived in Palestine for over two thousand years since the Jewish Diaspora, which was in itself a consequence of an imperial Roman invasion which had raised Jerusalem to the ground two thousand years hence.

Meanwhile, since September 11, 2001, the world has accepted the most ominous threat to the Occidental way of life is the spread of the Islamic faith and most ominously along with it is the associated violence in which we are all too familiar with today.

In a world which see's a clear conflict of culture, traditions and ideology, it seems overwhelming, that the present clash of cultures and religion has ushered in a world of paranoia, mistrust and the desire for xenophobic segregationalism.

With the conflicts of religion and cultures has borne from it the bigotry of cultural and racial intolerance. Anti-multiculturalism with the tower of Babel narrative from the architects from the Ultra Right, has severed the global heterogeneity of internationalism and a global Utopia ideal. The harbinger of the ultra right xenophobia may be credited directly, in the twentieth century, to the Islamic Jihadist terrorists, particularly since 911.

The Donald Trump's, the Le Pen's, the Pauline Hanson's, and the achitects of Brexit and other Autarky regimes in the making of this world, may thank the Islamic Jihadists for elevating them into power, directly.

Tim Tufuga
20th February, 2017.