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17 dead, dozens wounded in 2 blasts at Brussels airport - reports 17 dead, dozens wounded in 2 blasts at Brussels airport - reports

04-08-2016 , 08:23 AM
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Originally Posted by smacc25
Sad day in my City yesterday as 2 Asian men(1 shopkeeper & a Friend) were caught up in a racially motivated attack in or near the newsagent, sadly the owner was killed & the friend was seriously hurt(stabbed).
Said on local news that it was a brutal incident with many men involved.

I will expect more random attacks will happen no-doubt.

Connected to Brussels? Who knows at this point but when the Paris attacks happened some young men tried to burn down a mosque & a few random incidents did occur.
Just read about this case.

As opposed to your fantastical and fictional telling of the event, the man was stabbed 30 times by a radical Muslim who felt the shopkeeper was a blasphemer.

Not sure why this isn't considered a terrorist attack; it is clearly designed to cause terror among his sect of Muslims, especially with the killer saying that if he didn't kill the shopkeeper somebody else would've done it instead.

Then I read about an imam praising the exact type of violence that was directed at the shopkeeper (albeit this murder happened in Pakistan, not Scotland): http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/1...mist_assassin/

And people in that same Mosque have been connected to a terrorist group in Pakistan: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-35928089

From Great Britain as a whole, the approval of religious killing is also ludicrously high:

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A 2007 poll found that 36 percent of young British Muslims thought that apostates should be killed. A 2008 YouGov poll found that a third of Muslim students claimed that killing for religion can be justified, while 33 percent expressed a desire to see the return of a worldwide theocratic Caliphate. A ComRes poll commissioned by the BBC in 2015 found that a quarter of British Muslims sympathized with the Charlie Hebdo “blasphemy” attacks.
Between this slaying, the Imam's statements, the terrorist group sympathizers, the various sex scandals that have plagued England (where authorities turned a blind eye), and widespread support for religious killing, it seems like your part of the world is coddling demented fanatics.
04-10-2016 , 04:19 PM
The courage of this woman is amazing:



Saudi Arabian reporter.

Islam needs much more of this introspection and truth-telling.
04-10-2016 , 05:12 PM
04-11-2016 , 08:33 AM
What exactly would you like to see instead, some spontaneous legislative and/or military over-reaction?

Terrorist attacks will always be possible in free societies. In the grand scheme of things, these attacks mean nothing in terms of life expectancy of an average European. I'd much rather deal with the occasional attack than have our societies transform into police states.
04-11-2016 , 10:18 AM
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Last edited by plexiq; 04-11-2016 at 10:35 AM. Reason: post i replied to got deleted, nvm
04-16-2016 , 05:20 PM
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What is to be done? A young woman, about 17-years-old, intervenes. She has been observing our conversation, and I have noticed in her demeanour and in her eyes a fighting determination. “My sister and brother were beheaded in my presence,” she says forcefully. “What is to be done? Daesh [Isis] has to be destroyed, that is what is to be is done.”

She shows no fear, this young woman. As we leave, Kizilhan’s words at the community meeting, when the horrors began, come to my mind. “It’s happened before, we will survive; the trauma and the genocide will make us stronger.”
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