EDUCATION SERIES FOR ALBANESE DUMMIES on SUNNI and SHIA ISLAM (Educate yourself into reality) from ISLAM-A-PHOBIC to ISLAM-A-REALISM

EDUCATION SERIES FOR ALBANESE DUMMIES on SUNNI and SHIA ISLAM (Educate yourself into reality) from ISLAM-A-PHOBIC to ISLAM-A-REALISM the facts speak for themselves , Albanese and his government are clearly appeasing terrorist elements of ISLAM , all the public can clearly see that now. Albanese must be removed from government before he and his lunatic government cause any more damage . The word ISLAM-A-PHOBIA has been created by terrorists to dumb you down the Word ISLAM-A-REALISM has been created to TELL YOU THE TRUTH BY FACTS NOT FANTACY . Graham Healy

Mon 27 /7/26 Below are the difference between Sunni and Shia ISLAM and the uncomfortable truth about both ideologies .

https://www.fondapol.org/en/study/islamist-terrorist-attacks-in-the-world-1979-2024/ **Yes, that is the correct and primary source.**

**Full citation:**

Dominique Reynié (dir.), *Islamist terrorist attacks in the world 1979–2024*, Fondation pour l’innovation politique (Fondapol), October 2024.

Data collected through 12 April 2024.

**Official page:**

https://www.fondapol.org/en/study/islamist-terrorist-attacks-in-the-world-1979-2024/

### Confirmed headline figures from the report

- **66,872** Islamist attacks worldwide

- **At least 249,941** deaths

**Period breakdown:**

| Period | Attacks | Deaths |

|----------------------|---------|----------|

| 1979–2000 | 2,194 | 6,817 |

| 2001–2012 | 8,265 | 38,187 |

| 2013–April 2024 | 56,413 | 204,937 |

| **Total** | **66,872** | **249,941** |

The report explicitly describes these as **minimum estimates**, based primarily on the Global Terrorism Database (up to mid-2020) and ACLED (thereafter), supplemented by additional cross-checking. It notes under-reporting is likely, especially in conflict zones.

**Sunni groups (specifically Salafi-jihadist ones) account for the large majority of Islamist terrorist attacks and deaths in recent decades.** Shia radical groups exist and have carried out significant violence, but the scale is much smaller.

Key data points from systematic tallies of Islamist attacks:

- A long-running French foundation study (Fondapol) covering 1979–April 2024 recorded ~66,900 Islamist attacks causing at least ~250,000 deaths. Sunni organizations were responsible for roughly 89% of the attacks and 93% of the deaths in the earlier detailed breakdown (1979–2019); the pattern has continued. The deadliest groups by far have been the Taliban, Islamic State (ISIS/IS and affiliates), Boko Haram, Al-Shabaab, and al-Qaeda—all Sunni/Salafi-jihadist.

- Fundamentalist Sunni Muslims have carried out more than 85% of recorded suicide attacks over multi-decade periods.

- In non-combat-zone terrorism tracked over earlier decades, Sunni-linked attacks outnumbered Shia-linked ones by roughly 4-to-1, with higher overall lethality.

- Recent Global Terrorism Index data continues to show the deadliest active organizations as Islamic State and its provinces, JNIM (al-Qaeda-linked), Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, and al-Shabaab—again all Sunni.

**Shia radicalism** is real and state-linked in important cases (Hezbollah, Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps proxies/militias, Houthis). It has involved bombings, assassinations, rocket attacks, and regional warfare, often framed around anti-Israel or Iranian geopolitical goals. It tends to be more hierarchical, campaign-based, and tied to state or quasi-state objectives rather than the decentralized, global-caliphate model common among Salafi-jihadist networks. It accounts for a small single-digit share of the total Islamist terrorism tallies above.

### Important context

- Sunnis are ~85–90% of the world’s Muslims; Shias are the minority (~10–15%). Absolute numbers of radicals are therefore higher on the Sunni side even before ideology is considered.

- The dominant radical Sunni current is **Salafi-jihadism** (influenced by Wahhabi/Salafi ideas), which treats many other Muslims—including Shias—as apostates and has conducted large-scale sectarian killings (e.g., ISIS massacres of Shias). Most victims of these groups are other Muslims.

- The overwhelming majority of both Sunni and Shia Muslims are not radical, do not support terrorism, and are not involved in violence. Radicalism is a fringe phenomenon driven by specific ideologies, political conditions, state sponsorship (or its absence), and local grievances—not an inherent property of an entire sect.

- Attitudes surveys (Pew and others) show variation by country and context; concern about extremism and sectarian tension exists on both sides, but operational violence metrics are heavily skewed toward Sunni jihadist groups.

In short, measured by attacks, deaths, global reach, and suicide operations over the past several decades, Sunni radical/jihadist networks have been substantially more active and lethal.