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Terrorist Attack In Brussels Airport and Metro Station: At Least 34 Dead (mirror.co.uk)
SomeoneFromBelgium writes: This morning there was a double bomb explosion in Brussels, Belgium. In the National Airport entrance hall an estimated 13 people were killed by a big explosion; around the same time another bomb exploded in Metro station 'Maalbeek,' close to the financial district, killing an estimated 10 persons.
Note: story updates bump this figure ot at least 34 deaths. Reader jones_supa adds Shots were fired and Arabic shouted before the blasts,
suggesting a terrorist attack. Video and images on social media showed smoke rising from an airport building and shattered windows. Confused and shocked passengers fled the terminal to safety as they were evacuated by armed police. Footage showed rubbish littered across the floor. All traffic from and to the airport has been suspended. The airport is monitoring the situation closely and will deliver further announcements in Twitter. Update: 03/22 13:06 GMT by T : According to the New York Times and other sources, at least one of the explosions was set off by a suicide bomber. Slate has an actively updating stream of updates about the attack, too.
Perhaps anti-terror agencies could take a page from the narcotics police, where they may routinely quietly arrest a suspect to gain intel on his suppliers and customers.
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Honestly? Islam needs to schism the way the Church did so that the crazies that are left are easily identified, and the moderates who don't think of violence in any practical way have their own IslamV2.0
I'm a minority race. Save your vitriol for white people.
I'll believe it when the Christians, Buddhists, and Jews start repeatedly shooting people and blowing themselves up because someone drew a fucking cartoon.
I agree that many of the problems are associated with Islam, but there is the counterfactual argument that holds that states like Indonesia and Malaysia while having large Muslim populations don't seem to have much of a terrorism base and contribute very little to the problem of Islamic terrorism.
It really seems to be a problem associated with the Islam spanning North Africa to the Middle East, so it would seem that there's an Arabic political and cultural element to it that combines with Islam and makes it hard to differentiate whether the problems of terrorism are outgrowths of that region's politics or if there's some theological basis to Islam that motivates the politics.
It does seem that there is kind of war between Islamic sects for "control" over Islam that contributes greatly to the problem, with state sponsorship of all manner of militias and religious movements contributing to the problem, whether materially or even theologically.
Consider this: the IRA used to ring ahead of time to warn people to get out because they had planted a bomb there.
They wanted to scare people and blow shit up, sure. But they wanted to AVOID killing people (including themselves).
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We never did — passenger airplanes have always been a very attractive target for terrorists, because even a small explosion inside one would kill everyone aboard. Horrible death too, I might add — for the majority aboard, who survive the initial explosion without any injuries...
I do not like TSA, their groping and their confiscations of pocket-knives, etc, and I think it was an utter folly for Congress and Bush to nationalize airport security in 2001, but the GP made it sound like security is useless and that was just wrong.
What are you talking about? The "insightful" Joce640k did say, there is no need for airport security, because these explosions happened outside of the "sterile area"...
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Most people in these discussions miss the most blatant whitewashing of calling mainstream islam "moderate". It is far from moderate. If it were a political party, or a "social club" (like the KKK), it would probably be outlawed in most European countries.
But religious christians fear that if they allow one religion to be scrutinized and held accountable, their religion will be next.
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If Christians or Atheists committed the same number of atrocities, we would all agree with your sarchasm 100%. However, that is not the case. We don't have sleeper cells of atheists and Christians plotting to kill as many innocents as possible.
Is that so? You may want to click here and filter to "Christian Identity" to check your facts, bud. You might want to consider reading up on folks like these guys to see just how incorrect you are.
I will never understand why people like you can't admit the obvious. Instead you want to play games and try to find equivalence between a couple of Colorado crazies and the hundreds (thousands?) of attacks done by Muslims. Good luck trying to win hearts and minds with that approach. People aren't as stupid as you think they are.
Apparently, you may just be as stupid as I think you are. So this is a numbers game for you then? So by your rationale, if the "couple of crazies" had been more successful in their campaigns of terror, then it'd be the same, but because they cocked it up and didn't score enough kills, it's not the same thing? Seriously?
You really believe that there is no significant violence done in the name of Christianity?
If you're still incensed at these facts because it was the actions of a few "crazies" who are not representative of the overall religion, then CONGRATULATIONS!! You just learned something! You just learned EXACTLY my point. If YOU believe that the actions of these ISIS idiots are representative of Islam, then you're clearly not understanding how things work.....or you're desperately trying to make yourself feel better about Christianity for some reason......which probably means you consider yourself a Christian and therefore better than others.
How about we start with Islam, and then see if we need to keep going?
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
I cannot decide which is more shameful: A) The act of terrorism and all of the death caused or B) The act of pretending radical islam is not at war with western culture (leftist hawkish western culture, that is) or C) Moderating or hiding this post because you disagree with B or C.
I mentioned this incident to my very liberal west coast girlfriend this morning and she immediately did not want to talk about it because 'I don't share your beliefs on the matter'. I inquired, "which beliefs? the one that radical Islam wants to kill Americans indiscriminately?".
So I am still standing by my position and that of Donald Trump and that of every president before when in a time of war suggested that we stifle the flow of immigrants from nations at war with us.
It is worth mentioning that ISIS/ISIL is NOT a nation. They have no borders and whether or not any world leaders recognize them they have no claim to any borders. In fact they aren't even so much a movement as they are a radical ideological group. This is a stateless entity waging a holy war against the entire non-hardline-stone-age-muslim world.
And the muslims that I do know here? Are they denouncing ISIL/ISIS? sparingly 'maybe'. They don't bring it up and they don't talk about it. If Racheal Maddow says that Donald Trump is a racist one of them is very quick to send me a link. If ISIL blows up an airport, I get links to how 9/11 was an inside job. Suggesting that it is immoral that the left and elite like to send what is largely increasingly impoverished middle and poor class white southern children into non-congressionally-declared-wars and then demonize them as racists and bigots when these same people suggest that they don't want to be at war or that the washington elite criminals are invoking, provoking, and continuing these wars with shoulder shrugs and 'what difference does it make', this individual says "you can't talk about not being at war now that big bad ISIS is at large."
Well I'm sorry to all of the non radical hardline muslims but I disagree with your .8% of the US population and the brainwashed leftists. It is time we do like we did the Japanese in WWII times. F the left.