Left wing terrorism has been part of Europe and the United States since before most people had ever heard of the word 'jihad'.
Long before most people in Europe or North America were familiar with the word 'jihad', left-wing terrorism ravaged much of Western Europe.
Groups like West Germany's Red Army Faction/Baader-Meinhof Gang, America's Symbionese Liberation Army, Italy's Red Brigades, Spain's First of October Anti-Fascist Resistance Groups, Portugal's FP-25, Action Directe in France and the IRA in Britain were left wing terrorist groups who committed numerous atrocities including targeted killings, bombings, kidnappings and torture on a wide scale.
At a time when most people correctly thought of Mosques as places of peace and holiness, these far-left groups put fear into the hearts of many in the west throughout the 1970s, 1980s and in some cases into the 1990s and beyond.
The violence of these groups should not be surprising. Violence is part and parcel of extreme left-wing militant politics.
The Bolsheviks were able to conquer the great Russian Tsardom not through the powers of persuasion as the left would like many to believe, but
through a campaign of total terrorism. Civilians were massacred, women were raped by the hundreds, the legitimate leader of Russia was executed next to his family including his young children, priests were slaughtered, places of worship destroyed.
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