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Students Downloading Jihadist Material Acquitted
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Five UK students who were charged under the UK's 2000 Terrorism Act for possession of jihadist materials were acquitted after the jury found that, while they had downloaded the materials, there was no evidence that they were planning any sort of crime. The Lord Chief Justice was quoted as saying, 'Difficult questions of interpretation have been raised in this case by the attempt by the prosecution to use [this law] for a purpose for which it was not intended.'"
It's hard for older people to take them not seriously. They've seen too many real terrorists and serious threats to give some kids messing around any slack.
You seem rather naive about Jihad. It's not some silly ideological bandwagon for teenagers, it's holy war against infidels. Jihadists kill people, or at least try to. Many Muslim youths have left their homes in the West to join the global Jihad.
For the improvement of mankind, please sub the following in those instructions:
Bottle Bomb
Ingredients:
* 20 oz soda bottle (empty and dry on the inside)
* black powder (the more fine the better)
* steady burning short wick (no more than 2 seconds delay)
Thank yew.
"To be fair, I was left completely unsupervised." ~Anon
The village was destroyed by units created to defend to Jewish settlers from Arab terrorism... Before Israel was founded, the war between Arabs and Jews was ongoing for over a decade — and it was not started by the Jews. "Death to the Jewish dogs!" was already pronounced in 1929. More infamous is the 1947 (a year before Deir Yassin disaster) terrorist attack on the convoy carrying doctors, nurses, and lecturers on Mt. Scopus.
No, that bombing targeted British government. The hotel "was being used as the base for the Mandate Secretariat, the British military headquarters and a branch of the police Criminal Investigation Division." The explosive charges were planted only under the parts of the building, where British offices were located. The "terrorists" also tried to minimize the casualties: the explosion was scheduled for lunch-hour. Although civilians did perish, they were not the target — this was not a terrorist attack, no more so than Indian or Kenyan fight against the same Empire...
But yes, terrorism as a method was used widely in the past — aerial bombings of cities during WW2 were largely just that.
Which was my point — the enemy, the "new Communists", are the Islamofascists, regardless of the methods they use to fight us. That the most prominent Islamofascists organization today — the Al Qaeda — uses terrorism almost exclusively (blowing up a fellow Iraqi's funeral is both easier than killing American soldiers and causes much more mayhem) leads to a frequent confusion between the goals and methods. But it is still a just a confusion.
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