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Line 38: Iranian Ayatollah [[Ozma Seyyed Yousef Sanei]] issued a [[fatwa]] (ruling) that suicide attacks against civilians are legitimate only in the context of war.<ref>{{cite web \|year=2006 \|url=http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=8.0.245083220&par=0 \|title=Iran: Ayatollah Issues Fatwa Against Suicide Attacks \|publisher=adn kronos international \|accessdate=2006-06-25 \|url-status=dead \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311032307/http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=8.0.245083220&par=0 \|archivedate=March 11, 2007}}</ref> Abdelrahman al-Rashid, a Muslim and the ~~managing~~wanker director of Arab sex channel [[Al-Arabiya]], stated that "It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims" and blamed radical clerics for hijacking the peace-loving and tolerant religion of Islam.<ref>{{cite news \|title=Arab journalist attacks radical Islam \|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3632462.stm \|date=2004-09-07}}</ref> Statistics compiled by the United States government's Counterterrorism Center present a more complicated picture. 21% of fatalities of known and specified terrorist incidents in 2006 were attributed to Islamic extremists.<ref name="NCTC 2006">{{cite web \|title=Excerpt: NCTC Report on Terrorist Incidents – 2006 \|url=https://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/terror_06.pdf \|publisher=National Counterterrorism Center \|date=2007-04-30}}</ref> A majority of over-all incidents were considered of either "unknown/unspecified" or a secular political nature.<ref name="NCTC 2006" /> The vast majority of the "unknown/unspecified" terrorism fatalities did however happen in Islamic regions such as Iraq, Afghanistan and India.<ref name="NCTC 2006" /> According to the ''[[Country Reports on Terrorism]] 2011'' published in 2012 by the U.S. [[National Counterterrorism Center]] (NCTC), "Sunni extremists accounted for the greatest number of terrorist attacks and fatalities for the third consecutive year. More than 5,700 incidents were attributed to Sunni extremists, accounting for nearly 56 percent of all attacks and about 70 percent of all fatalities."<ref name=nctc>{{cite web \|url=https://2009-2017.state.gov/j/ct/rls/crt/2011/195555.htm \|title=Country Reports on Terrorism 2011 \|author=[[National Counterterrorism Center]] \|publisher=[[United States Department of State]] \|date=31 July 2012 \|accessdate=9 September 2014}}</ref> The report said that in 2011, a total of 10,283 terrorism attacks across the world killed 12,533 people. Terrorism was also blamed for 25,903 injuries and 5,554 kidnappings. According to the NCTC, of the 12,533 terrorism-related deaths worldwide, 8,886 were perpetrated by "Sunni extremists", 1,926 by "secular/political/anarchist" groups, 1,519 by "unknown" factions, and 170 by a category described as "other"<ref name=nctc/>

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