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I'm wondering if someone can point to the first act of – whatever you want to call it – “Islamic” terrorism in the modern age. I'm wondering if it would have been something prior to the 1972 Munich Olympics, or if Munich would be considered the beginning.
The FLN used terrorist tactics against the French in Algeria, although I think they would be classified more as an insurgent group than terrorists.
According to the Global Terrorism Database, the first recorded Islamic attack that I could find was an attack by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) on an El Al airline bus in Munich on February 10th, 1970. I would guess that attacks go back farther than that though. Jews and Arabs have been fightin each other in the Holy Land since at least the 20's and the first major wave of Zionist settlement after the Balfour declaration and the granting of the Palestinian Mandate to Britain.As I understand it, the modern growth of Islamic terrorism is a direct result of the founding of Israel and the Arab states demonstrated inability to eliminate said state. It is more or less an expression of rage at the impotence of the Arab armies and Arab frustration with their inability to destroy Israel. If you cant beat 'em in a stand up fight, why not kill women and children right?
