Global Events & Politics Überthread

[Runnin]

I think the drastic shift in our society is the reason for it. Until that is addressed mass killings are going to happen.

What is the drastic shift in our society?

Are you saying that the guy in Las Vegas was driven to shoot a bunch of country music fans because of too many Muslims?

[thethe]

What is the drastic shift in our society?

Are you saying that the guy in Las Vegas was driven to shoot a bunch of country music fans because of too many Muslims?

The shift that I mentioned has little to do with demographics actually.

[thethe]

Think about how awful you have to be to get this level of violence out of monks. Its real and the people around the world are learning more and more everyday.

[cajunrevenge]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-1...ficers/9049860


Dubai police announce new stars wars like hoverbikes.

[thethe]

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/...ates-coalition

[cajunrevenge]

Must be nice having a parliamentary system so people am vote for who they want instead of holding their nose to vote for Kang or kudos.

[Jaw]

Over and over again.


https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...people-somalia

Mogadishu truck bomb: 500 casualties in Somalia’s worst terrorist attack

The death toll in the bombing that hit the centre of Mogadishu on Saturday continues to rise, with more than 300 people now believed to have been killed and hundreds more seriously injured.

The scale of the loss makes the attack, which involved a truck packed with several hundred kilograms of military-grade and homemade explosives, one of the most lethal terrorist acts anywhere in the world for many years.

On Monday morning, Somalia’s information minister announced that 276 people had died in the attack with at least 300 people injured. Within hours, however, Abdikadir Abdirahman, the director of Amin ambulances, said his service had confirmed that 300 people died in the blast.
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The devastating bombing, which provoked international condemnation, will focus attention on the decade-long battle against al-Shabaab, an Islamist group, in Somalia.
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Al-Shabab earlier this year vowed to increase its attacks after both the Trump administration and Somalia’s recently elected president announced new military efforts against the group.
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Al-Shabaab, which has been affiliated to al-Qaida since 2011, has not yet claimed responsibility for the attack.

However the organisation has a history of launching bomb attacks against civilian targets in Mogadishu, and is known to avoid claiming responsibility for operations which it believes may significantly damage its public image among ordinary Somalis.

The bombing was reported on media outlets linked to al-Shabaab.
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One western expert working with the Somali government said the bomb was aimed at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and it was likely al-Shabaab had not anticipated the destruction it would cause.
“That it exploded next to a fuel tanker was just very, very bad luck,” the expert said.
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Though largely confined to the countryside since withdrawing from Mogadishu six years ago, al-Shabaab has repeatedly taken over small towns, as well as inflicting significant losses on Amisom and Somali troops.

[thethe]

There is one common demoninator in all of these attacks. Choose to ignore it at your own peril.

[cajunrevenge]

Your pattern recognition skills are amazing when it fits the narrative you want. The #1 terrorist group is us.

[Julio3000]

There is one common demoninator in all of these attacks. Choose to ignore it at your own peril.

A white dude planted an AN/FO bomb at an airport in NC last week. You were all over that, right?

[thethe]

A white dude planted an AN/FO bomb at an airport in NC last week. You were all over that, right?

Yeah...same thing. You got me! Islam is not a big threat to the world. I'll change my whole outlook and ignore what's happening.

[cajunrevenge]

Canadia is turning into a silly place.

[thethe]

Canadia is turning into a silly place.

Absolute disgrace.

[Jaw]

Al-qaida, Al-shabab, ISIS, aren't just blowing things up. They take over towns and sometimes entire regions. I imagine everyone here is familiar with what happens to the local residents when they do. Random terror attacks are awful and yes there are sources of those that don't include Islamic terror groups. But I am unaware of any other groups that commit sustained reigns of terror equal to these.

[thethe]

Al-qaida, Al-shabab, ISIS, aren't just blowing things up. They take over towns and sometimes entire regions. I imagine everyone here is familiar with what happens to the local residents when they do. Random terror attacks are awful and yes there are sources of those that don't include Islamic terror groups. But I am unaware of any other groups that commit sustained reigns of terror equal to these.

The false equivalency is intellectually dishonest and made because of nithibg other than partisanship. That's about as pathetic as it gets.

[Jaw]

This is supposedly the first woman to enter the city of al-Mayadin without a hijab since 2012.

[Jaw]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...SIS-Raqqa.html

Free at last! Overjoyed woman tears off her black burqa after her home is liberated from ISIS in Raqqa

http://video.dailymail.co.uk/video/m...8767243051.mp4

Isis have held the city since 2014 during which time they imposed shariah law in the area.

The overjoyed woman can also be seen ripping off the black burqa imposed on all women by the extremists before jumping for joy.

Mustafa Bali of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said today that fierce street battles are ongoing near the main hospital in Raqqa, which was once the de facto capital of the extremists.

SDF fighters launched an operation to retake the last IS-held pocket of Raqqa after some 275 militants and their family members surrendered.

[Julio3000]

Yeah...same thing. You got me! Islam is not a big threat to the world. I'll change my whole outlook and ignore what's happening.

Just asking what the common denominator was in that attempted terrorist attack.

While you're at it, maybe you could clarify what you meant about Myanmar. Are you seriously blaming the Muslim minority for getting displaced or exterminated?

That's sick, man.

[Julio3000]

Meanwhile, the post-ISIS storm is brewing.

[thethe]

Just asking what the common denominator was in that attempted terrorist attack.

While you're at it, maybe you could clarify what you meant about Myanmar. Are you seriously blaming the Muslim minority for getting displaced or exterminated?

That's sick, man.

I'm blaming the Islamic faith for giving the 'green light' to rape and pillage while systematically destroying basic human rights along the way. You see them as an innocent displaced minority but I see it as a corrosive faith looking to destabilized any type of government other than one dominated by the Islamic fsith.