World events

Exactly one year after a terrorist attack in Brussels, it has now happened in London.

Will it ever end?

And now someone apparently tried to do the same in Belgium -- AGAIN!

What's this new horrible trend of ramming vehicles into crowds?

It's not a trend so much as an IS-suggested and endorsed way in Dabiq (the glossy IS put our irregularly, which is downloaded tens of thousands of times in any given country) to disrupt western life and cause fatalities with the least amount of trouble.

So.
Expect some more instances.

You know what scares me the most?

It's impossible to stop the current trend. Terrorism has become a part of our everyday life. We can only sit by and await the next one. The only thing that will change is the number of victims in each attack.

Eradicating IS will only provide motivation for the next batch of monstrous fanatics to continue the killing of innocents in the name of God.

Man how I fucking hate religion and how it's abused in every possible way.

Yeah, that's what everyone keeps saying. We won't let ourselves be afraid to live our lives and be influenced by terrorist threats. But something has definitely changed. Our inability to stop these terrorists. There are already thousands more waiting, kids being brainwashed and trained as we speak.

The global connectivity (internet / cellphones / social media) has also made it much easier for these bastards to communicate and to plan.

All that didn't exist 20-25 years ago.

Fill the streets with armed police. Unfortunate but seems to be the only solution to limit these things down. And tighten controls everywhere which is already happening, and of course big brother nation real time video monitoring of everything. Kiss privacy (well at least the last few remaining bits of it) goodbye, but it's the only way we are ever going to feel secure again, with these nutjobs around. Although I have to agree that with the cars and all now, each time we cut them one way or means down, they still find new imaginative means to cause harm. Their imagination is wild and sick.

Criticizing the tenets of the religion is not Islamophobic; assuming that every single follower of the religion will adhere to those tenets in an ISIS-like manner is.

We waste time with #NotAllMuslims talk. Of course not all Muslims, for the same reason most Christians ignore Leviticus. But it needs to become acceptable in mainstream discourse to discuss where these ideas are coming from, why they're so attractive, and empower those very few progressive Muslims (and ex-muslims) who are honest and brave enough to admit the dangerous ideology waiting to be plucked from Islam.

The first step is to talk about the life of Muhammad, the 'ideal man'.

The thing is that enlightenment will have to take hold from within the Islamic community. As for now there is far too much false tolerance for radical views even by those who do not hold those views themselves.

Volker

And now Stockholm, Sweden.

It's one european country after another.

Well, that's alright then. Let the trucks plow away into bystanders!

(Sometimes putting things into perspective may seem...forced).

Yeah, but that's about as pointles as countering 'I'm hungry' with 'only in Sudan they know real hunger'. While not untrue it's pointless as there is is simply no impact on your personal frame of reference: knowing there is hunger in another part of tge world won't diminish your own.

Yeah, there's heavily armed conflict going on in Syria (and in Kurdistan, and Kashmir, and Congo, and Mexico) , but that does nothing to counter the very real fact that the equilibrium in Europe has been massively impacted by Islamic terrorism, and that countries that THOUGHT having left religious violence behind them for decades (or even centuries) are now pulled back into that darkest of quagmires.

I am fully aware of the war going on in Syria. It's horrible and the atrocities have been going on for too many years now.

And I was of course referring to these types of attacks of which there have been plenty in European countries.
And since most here are living in one or other european country, well that's why it's relevant I should say.

I had to look up the word disingenuous. Not agreeing that I was being dishonest. Merely stating an observation.

I don't know if it is common sense. When you see that the amount of people not voting or voting blanc/invalid is higher than ever before, and lots of votes are against Le Pen because there was nothing better. Macron has a really difficult job. I hope the party, probably the left, doesn't make it difficult for him, because in 5 years this could go badly again.

It at least sends a message that populism isn't as popular as populists want it to be. I admit I was a scared to look at the news this morning, but am relieved to hear the good news (for once). I certainly ain't sticking around in Britain for long; Brexit can go to hell.