Who Is The Deadliest Terrorist of them all

These days there is heightened level of alram for terrorist bombs. People are alert towards suspicious objects, there is supposed to be a toll free number in case of terror attack, high pitch speeches are heard all around, there is very high security checks etc. Apparantly all these are focused on one type of terrorists, i.e. islamic terrorists. No doubt these people are a big threat to our peace, safety and security. But is it happening that focusing on this we are neglecting other terrorist? 

"Other Terrorists? Who are they?"

Yes. They are not only 'who', but also 'what'! Let me offer you some data (this is not an official data, is not varified and is indicative only):

• Between Jan, 04 to Mar, 07 there were 3675 deaths in attacks by islamic terrorists.
  
• Between Jan, 06 and Mar, 07 there were 1221 people killed in maoist attacks.
• A study indicates that smoking account for 90,000 deaths in india every year
• Government data indicate that end Aug, 06 there were 14325 reported cases of AIDS in Maharashtra and 124.995 in total India. Prevalence of AIDS in maharashtra in 50-06 was estimated to be 0.62% of population. This means that if Pune's population is taken as 40 lakh then there may be nearly 25,000 cases of AIDS.
• Only on Pune raods there were 324 accident fatalities in 2004 and 172 in 2005.
• There are number of deaths in North Eastern states by insurgents there.(I could not get figures)

If you take all these figures to a common denominator, you may notice that there are causes, other than islamic terrorism, that account cause high number of deaths. The number of deaths from terrorist attacks may have been low because of all the efforts being put by security agencies. This is like arranging all the fielders on off side because the batsman is strong on off side. 

This is not to downplay the threat posed by islamic terrorism but to make us aware and alert to the other dangers that are threatening us.