Active/recent terrorist acts catch-all thread - Page 3 - Politics and Economics

Seriously, pretty humiliating. That must be what it feels like to work for Trump.

Unless some people get pleasure from being the laughing stock of the world.

06-19-2017 , 09:32 AM

#53

mucknuts

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Quote:

Originally Posted by campfirewest

They should send that guy to Syria and turn him over to ISIS to handle dishing out justice.

ISIS will be as pleased to see this as any neo-nazi would

06-19-2017 , 10:07 AM

#54

campfirewest

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Wut?

06-19-2017 , 11:11 AM

#55

Mr.mmmKay

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A car has crashed into a police van before bursting into flames around the Champs Elysees area of central Paris, police officials say.
The driver, who was armed, was knocked unconscious and is seriously injured, French media report.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40332532

06-19-2017 , 11:16 AM

#56

SuperSwag

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Is there a muslim figure head similar to the pope? who could call for peace? That is only way this stuff will end.

06-19-2017 , 11:17 AM

#57

Mr.mmmKay

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For some reason I don't think IS will listen even if someone like that existed.

06-19-2017 , 11:24 AM

#58

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Originally Posted by SuperSwag

Is there a muslim figure head similar to the pope? who could call for peace? That is only way this stuff will end.

Is there a Protestant Pope?

06-19-2017 , 12:43 PM

#59

BOIDS

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seems that this paris bloke loaded his car full of guns and gas bottles, drove into a police car, knocked himself out in the impact and then his car burst into flames which roasted him dead. no police or civilians hurt

the global caliphate movement takes another triumphant stride towards world domination

06-20-2017 , 03:33 PM

#60

didonk

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Two blasts/explosions at Brussels central station. Not clear yet what's going on..

06-20-2017 , 03:35 PM

#61

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Trump will be tweeting about it shortly as long as Muslims are the likely culprits

06-20-2017 , 04:47 PM

#62

SuperUberBob

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I only see one blast being reported.

06-20-2017 , 04:49 PM

#63

daca

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it sounds like an idiot ****ed up his suicide bomb

06-20-2017 , 04:51 PM

#64

BOIDS

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another triumphant stride

06-20-2017 , 04:52 PM

#65

jalfrezi

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More of a leap by the sounds of it.

06-20-2017 , 04:58 PM

#66

SuperUberBob

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Quote:

Originally Posted by daca

it sounds like an idiot ****ed up his suicide bomb

Apparently he was killed by the police/military. Would be one awful suicide vest if the bomb wasn't even capable of killing the wearer.

06-20-2017 , 05:09 PM

#67

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Nicolas Van Herrewegen, a railway sorting agent, told reporters he had gone down to the station's mezzanine level when he heard someone shouting.

"Then he cried 'Allahu Akbar' and he blew up a trolley,"

they are attacking our infrastructure!!

06-20-2017 , 05:10 PM

#68

daca

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engineering is hard

06-20-2017 , 05:32 PM

#69

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Quote:

Originally Posted by SuperUberBob

Apparently he was killed by the police/military. Would be one awful suicide vest if the bomb wasn't even capable of killing the wearer.

Oh man, I find this so funny

06-21-2017 , 01:27 PM

#70

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Attack at Flint Michigan airport. Policeman stabbed. Suspect Canadian. Yelled Alu Akbar

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/n...t-of-terrorism

06-21-2017 , 01:37 PM

#71

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Quote:

Originally Posted by SuperUberBob

Apparently he was killed by the police/military. Would be one awful suicide vest if the bomb wasn't even capable of killing the wearer.

06-21-2017 , 07:24 PM

#72

SuperUberBob

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Maybe it was an effigy of a terrorist.

I haven't seen anything about who he was.

06-22-2017 , 06:39 PM

#73

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Opinion piece in NYT about far-right terror, including how it's treated online and how we tend to not really react to it

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The frequency of far-right attacks is particularly significant in the United States, where white supremacist, anti-government and neo-Nazi extremists have been responsible for 73 percent of deadly terrorist attacks since Sept. 11, 2001, according to the Government Accountability Office. Also notable is that in many cases, Muslims have become the target of violence.

Quote:

Our research on far-right movements in Britain looked at people interacting with 162 British-based Facebook pages that show support for far-right ideologies. These included the Facebook pages of political parties, protest movements and news sources. Our analysis of about 7,000 users regularly engaging with these pages suggested that some 2,500 expressed support for extreme violence. (The suspect in the Finsbury Park attack did not show up in our study.) Violent sentiment was overwhelmingly aimed at Muslims, as well as immigrants and refugees.

...
A vanishingly small number of those we surveyed expressed explicit support for white supremacy or neo-Nazi ideology. Instead, these Facebook users appeared mainly motivated by patriotism, grievances over immigration and integration, and the perceived threat of Islam.

Because of a high level of public vigilance about jihadist groups, Islamist extremists are increasingly cautious in their behavior, particularly online. The intense focus on the propaganda they produce means that pages calling for violence against the West and expressing support for terrorism are swiftly taken down, and their users barred.

The increasing caution of jihadist activists is not matched by the far-right extremists we have studied.

Cliffs: people on the far right who advocate violence don't identify as white supremacists (though they basically are), they think that being "Britain first!" and wanting to kill Muslims just makes them sensible patriots, and because that kind of rhetoric is basically mainstream for the far right now, nobody's ever going to take down their Facebook pages