When anybody tells you that ‘Islam is a religion of peace’ you need only point to the amount of violence that occurs during Ramadan to show that statement to be a complete lie. There is no other world faith that has such a death toll from violence associated with it when compared to the death toll that is achieved during Ramadan.

This year we are only three or four days into Ramadan and already the body count has risen to 31 people killed in ten attacks according to the website The Religion of Peace.

In the West there is no longer religious violence associated with various religious festivals. There are no acts of terrorism associated with Jewish Passover or Christian Easter and neither are the other faiths such as Hinduism or Sikhism prone to such behaviour. However that is not the case with Islam. Ramadan nearly always seems to shine a light on just how violent Islam is and how much violence Muslims engage in.

So far we have thirty one people across the world who have been killed in Islam related violence and there is nearly a month to go with what comedians are calling ‘the Islamic festival of skipping lunch and then killing a few people’. I doubt that this number will remain in double figures for long. Ramadan, as Islam itself so often is, will this year as in other years, give nothing to the world of any value but only mass and unnecessary bloodshed.