More on Bloody Borders

The Bloody Borders Project has been expanded to include a map indicating the percentage of national population that is Muslim. When this map is overlaid with the Bloody Borders map, interesting information about the distribution of terrorist attacks is revealed: for more, see The Umma's Involuted Border.



Terrorist attacks are most severe in Kashmir. As "Baron Bodissey" notes:

The nature of the “bloody border” is astonishingly clear in this map. With the exceptions of Iraq and Afghanistan, the highest concentrations of terrorist attacks occur along the edges of the Umma [the worldwide Muslim community], where it meets the areas of lower (but significant) Muslim population.

Kashmir certainly qualifies as the "edge of the Umma." I am not totally convinced by the Baron's efforts to explain how the borders of the Umma have been involuting (that is, turning in on themselves) since 2002, when foreign troops intervened in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Categories: Terrorism, India, Kashmir