The terrorist attacks we don't care about

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  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    Drowned Out said:

    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

    Drowned Out said:

    Timothy mcveigh bombed an abortion clinic?

    Timothy was not religiously motivated.

    This discussion originally began a while back with some defending Islam- claiming Christianity was (in not so many words) just as bad.

    McVeigh was an extremist right wing government conspiracy nut job and does qualify as a homegrown white terrorist.

    Point taken, however, I'd like to ask is that all you got and how long ago was that? When McVeigh did his deed... I'm pretty sure nobody was pointing fingers at brown people trying to minimize his atrocity.

    I'm not entirely sure what you're getting at in your last sentence, but there were a ton of people pointing fingers at brown people in the immediate aftermath of the OK bombing.
    http://fair.org/extra/the-oklahoma-city-bombing/

    Here's a hypothetical....
    Christianity vs Islam....which religion do you think would spawn more extremists/terrorists if the Islamic countries became democratic, first-world, sovereign states, while propping up brutal dictators in Europe and North America?



    I was simply pointing out that people can own their actions without some pointing to others in what's typically perceived as a deflection tactic.

    Hypotheticals might be perceived as a deflection tactic as well. Whether you care to agree or not, your hypothetical scenario seems to suggest that Islamic extremists are victims and somewhat justified (if you're getting at what I think you're getting at).

    If this thread has shown us anything, Islamic extremists haven't targeted Europe and North America as much as they have targeted other Muslims sharing the same or similar conditions as them. I could get behind your assertion if ISIS et al reserved their brand of cruelty for the west, but these folks appear to be motivated by more than western exploitation.
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  • Drowned Out
    Drowned Out Posts: 6,056
    edited December 2016
    Jason P said:

    Drowned Out said:

    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

    Drowned Out said:

    Timothy mcveigh bombed an abortion clinic?

    Timothy was not religiously motivated.

    This discussion originally began a while back with some defending Islam- claiming Christianity was (in not so many words) just as bad.

    McVeigh was an extremist right wing government conspiracy nut job and does qualify as a homegrown white terrorist.

    Point taken, however, I'd like to ask is that all you got and how long ago was that? When McVeigh did his deed... I'm pretty sure nobody was pointing fingers at brown people trying to minimize his atrocity.

    I'm not entirely sure what you're getting at in your last sentence, but there were a ton of people pointing fingers at brown people in the immediate aftermath of the OK bombing.
    http://fair.org/extra/the-oklahoma-city-bombing/

    Here's a hypothetical....
    Christianity vs Islam....which religion do you think would spawn more extremists/terrorists if the Islamic countries became democratic, first-world, sovereign states, while propping up brutal dictators in Europe and North America?



    Why bother with hypothetical questions when we are dealing with reality?

    This isn't a hypothetical question ... why aren't all the South American countries that the US has been propping up with brutal dictators attacking in the name of religion?
    To prove a point.

    Your second paragraph misses my point: that terrorism is only as religious as the politically aspiring leaders make it.

    As for South American terrorism....most SA nations have been under the thumb of the US for well over 100 years. The countries that fought against US domination, for the most part, stopped doing so 20-40 years ago. In the 80's, there were more terror attacks in SA than the rest of the world combined. The 90s were not much better. Think of US military interventions in SA and when they happened. And sure...think of when the Cold War ended and support for leftist groups dried up.
    In the end it's all politics, with people in power finding the soft underbelly of its most vulnerable people and using it against them to die for their political cause. Religion is used in the Middle East. In SA, it was mostly ideology. In the 'west', its mostly nationalism.

    Or, I could say....There are no religiously motivated terror attacks coming from those nations because the CIA doesn't need them to happen ;)
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  • bootlegger10
    bootlegger10 Posts: 16,255
    Goodbye Europe. I enjoyed visiting you.
  • bootlegger10
    bootlegger10 Posts: 16,255
    PJ_Soul said:

    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

    PJ_Soul said:

    Allowing in immigrants and refugees (largely in response to a humanitarian crisis) and not trying assimilate people isn't being PC man.
    However, I do agree that many societies don't take the benefits of integration (not assimilation) seriously enough. Positive integration is absolutely necessary for immigration to be successful. Unfortunately, racists and and those who are simply close-minded (or look to assimilation rather than integration) make it extremely difficult for positive integration to happen.

    There is the other side to it too, Soul.

    Taking in large quantities of immigrants almost assures a country of accepting radicalized idiots he'll bent on seizing the entry to wreak havoc.
    No country is going out of its way to accept radicalized idiots, obviously. Countries actually tend to avoid them.
    But taking in large numbers too quickly certainly contributes to the failure of integration. That is part of what I said about societies not taking integration seriously enough. Immigration regulation needs to work towards that cause, positively, and taking in too many too quickly, outside of refugee crisis situations like the Syrian refugees Canada took in, which I think is great, is a factor. I also think that counties would benefit from focusing more on strategic locations for where immigrants settle. Immigrants flooding into just the major urban centers, and then building their own large segregated communities is very damaging to this idea of positive integration. All that said... NONE of it suggests that being PC is the problem, and none of it suggests that allowing immigration to happen is the problem. It just needs to be handled with more care and forethought than it generally is.

    BTW, let us not forget that the problems that stem from this lack of integration lead to radicalization of native born Muslim radicals too. It's not like all terrorists or those who aid them or support them are immigrants, obviously.
    It sounds dangerous to bring in large groups of people into your country that will blow you up if they don't get their way. PC or not who cares. This is what is happening. The problem is that Muslim immigration is completely different than all previous immigration to the US.
  • Go Beavers
    Go Beavers Posts: 9,546
    So Muslim immigrants in the US have been blowing us up?
  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    London just had one. Been in the news for a bit, but not a peep. So, I guess it qualifies as a terrorist act nobody cares about (unless I missed something around here)?

    This clip has the first released photo of the f**king idiot who perpetrated the violence. He's in a gurney and being rushed to the hospital after being shot by a cop. He killed 2 and injured 20. What's with the special care? After being shot by the officer... he should have been shot one more time from point blank and... see ya, shithead.

    https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/first-picture-of-london-attack-suspect/ar-BByBBcX?li=AAggNb9&ocid=edgsp
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  • Annafalk
    Annafalk Sweden Posts: 4,004
    I agree Thirty Bills Unpaid, feeling very sad today.
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Thirty, I have family there just a few miles away. It was neither unnoticed by me nor emotionally-distanced.

    Just haven't felt a connect to this place lately to propel commenting on what I normally would - for various reasons and some odd energies/words. Such divisiveness, it seems.

    I dunno. Most inclinations to post are dimmed more and more due to the us vs. them stance - that mentality, and sometimes, the accompanying ugliness.

    I thought we ARE us. Differences, scars, commonalities, culture, experience, all of it. That, to me, is what makes us US.

    I do think we're on similar planes (trains, and automobiles?) of thought on our views of who carried out this horror. And how someone can just mow down people - will never get it. May get the anger behind it, but the action? Nope and nope.
  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    hedonist said:

    Thirty, I have family there just a few miles away. It was neither unnoticed by me nor emotionally-distanced.

    Just haven't felt a connect to this place lately to propel commenting on what I normally would - for various reasons and some odd energies/words. Such divisiveness, it seems.

    I dunno. Most inclinations to post are dimmed more and more due to the us vs. them stance - that mentality, and sometimes, the accompanying ugliness.

    I thought we ARE us. Differences, scars, commonalities, culture, experience, all of it. That, to me, is what makes us US.

    I do think we're on similar planes (trains, and automobiles?) of thought on our views of who carried out this horror. And how someone can just mow down people - will never get it. May get the anger behind it, but the action? Nope and nope.

    It's different here these days for sure.

    You need to start participating in the Porch thread: 'Weakest Link'. It helps me respect others more (valuing them for their musical tastes versus their political views).

    Cheers, girl.
    "My brain's a good brain!"
  • unsung
    unsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    bootlegger10 said:

    Goodbye Europe. I enjoyed visiting you.

    It angers me about what is happening with Germany.
  • unsung
    unsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    "Asian"


  • Go Beavers
    Go Beavers Posts: 9,546
    unsung said:

    bootlegger10 said:

    Goodbye Europe. I enjoyed visiting you.

    It angers me about what is happening with Germany.
    What specifically?
  • Godfather.
    Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    open borders in the UK seem to be working well......
    I just talked to a gal from England who had just moved to Florida last year and she told me about the open borders
    and what a nightmare England has become since the borders opened up, I can't believe with all that has been happening
    in the areas with open borders that folks in the US still want open borders....it's really not a good idea.
  • Go Beavers
    Go Beavers Posts: 9,546
    Godfather. said:

    open borders in the UK seem to be working well......
    I just talked to a gal from England who had just moved to Florida last year and she told me about the open borders
    and what a nightmare England has become since the borders opened up, I can't believe with all that has been happening
    in the areas with open borders that folks in the US still want open borders....it's really not a good idea.

    No one I've heard from wants open borders in the US. Do you have a link to a politician promoting that?
  • Go Beavers
    Go Beavers Posts: 9,546
    unsung said:

    "Asian"

    I saw he was UK born, so "European".
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

    London just had one. Been in the news for a bit, but not a peep. So, I guess it qualifies as a terrorist act nobody cares about (unless I missed something around here)?

    This clip has the first released photo of the f**king idiot who perpetrated the violence. He's in a gurney and being rushed to the hospital after being shot by a cop. He killed 2 and injured 20. What's with the special care? After being shot by the officer... he should have been shot one more time from point blank and... see ya, shithead.

    https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/first-picture-of-london-attack-suspect/ar-BByBBcX?li=AAggNb9&ocid=edgsp

    Absolutely, execute him without trial and miss the chance to interrogate him and at least attempt to get some information, that sounds smart!
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  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    rgambs said:

    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

    London just had one. Been in the news for a bit, but not a peep. So, I guess it qualifies as a terrorist act nobody cares about (unless I missed something around here)?

    This clip has the first released photo of the f**king idiot who perpetrated the violence. He's in a gurney and being rushed to the hospital after being shot by a cop. He killed 2 and injured 20. What's with the special care? After being shot by the officer... he should have been shot one more time from point blank and... see ya, shithead.

    https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/first-picture-of-london-attack-suspect/ar-BByBBcX?li=AAggNb9&ocid=edgsp

    Absolutely, execute him without trial and miss the chance to interrogate him and at least attempt to get some information, that sounds smart!
    Yes, exactly. And since police have an excellent track record of identifying the correct perpetrator in the heat of the moment, there's no chance an error could ever be made with that process.
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  • Annafalk
    Annafalk Sweden Posts: 4,004
    rgambs said:

    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

    London just had one. Been in the news for a bit, but not a peep. So, I guess it qualifies as a terrorist act nobody cares about (unless I missed something around here)?

    This clip has the first released photo of the f**king idiot who perpetrated the violence. He's in a gurney and being rushed to the hospital after being shot by a cop. He killed 2 and injured 20. What's with the special care? After being shot by the officer... he should have been shot one more time from point blank and... see ya, shithead.

    https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/first-picture-of-london-attack-suspect/ar-BByBBcX?li=AAggNb9&ocid=edgsp

    Absolutely, execute him without trial and miss the chance to interrogate him and at least attempt to get some information, that sounds smart!
    But it feels better that he is dead, one terrorist less.
  • Go Beavers
    Go Beavers Posts: 9,546
    And people wonder how North Korea exists.
  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    It's disheartening that we are at the point when we're in favour of summary execution just because we "feel better" that someone is dead.
    my small self... like a book amongst the many on a shelf

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