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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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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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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.