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@No-Quarter said in Manchester Arena Explosions:
the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.
That should answer your question.I'm aware of the definition, thanks. Beyond simply spreading panic, the question remains; what end state? What change do they seek and how can it be manifested through such action? All this is looking like is a gross criminal act. So far, unless it's been reported somewhere I haven't seen, no organisation has claimed responsibility, not even ISIS who lay claim to everything.
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@canefan We openly start calling out Islam for what it is. Treat it the same way we treat christianity. It's an idea that can and should be criticised and satirised. We need to place pressure on poltical representatives to do away with laws which give legal protections to a set of ideas rather than people and we need to make public the content of these holy scripts and the belief in the islamic community that the words of mohammed are literal and are not for interpretaion. We need to call out media outlets and personalities that deliberately obfuscate stories regarding islam in order to push their own liberal agenda and we need to pressurise schools and prison systems which are tolerating or even fostering islamic extremism, into addressing these problems. That's a start anyway.
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@antipodean said in Manchester Arena Explosions:
@No-Quarter said in Manchester Arena Explosions:
the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.
That should answer your question.I'm aware of the definition, thanks. Beyond simply spreading panic, the question remains; what end state? What change do they seek and how can it be manifested through such action? All this is looking like is a gross criminal act. So far, unless it's been reported somewhere I haven't seen, no organisation has claimed responsibility, not even ISIS who lay claim to everything.
The end state is clearly laid out in the Koran - to spread Islam to the ends of the earth by any means necessary. It looks senseless as fuck, and it is, but they do have an end state no matter how utterly deluded that is.
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Here is another potential place to start at least for those in Australia, no doubt I'm not going to agree with everything they stand for but the core tenant I definitely do:
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@canefan said in Manchester Arena Explosion:
@Rembrandt I'll agree with you that rooting out places that foster or tolerate extremism is a good start. If they trace these acts back to a mosque for example that place should be shut down
So thats twitter fucked then
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@mooshld said in Manchester Arena Explosion:
@canefan said in Manchester Arena Explosion:
@Rembrandt I'll agree with you that rooting out places that foster or tolerate extremism is a good start. If they trace these acts back to a mosque for example that place should be shut down
So thats twitter fucked then
I love the fact Trump is going to start calling them losers. A while some analyst was saying the best way to kill recruitment is to make ISIS appear sad and pathetic losers.
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Manchester Arena Explosion:
@mooshld said in Manchester Arena Explosion:
@canefan said in Manchester Arena Explosion:
@Rembrandt I'll agree with you that rooting out places that foster or tolerate extremism is a good start. If they trace these acts back to a mosque for example that place should be shut down
So thats twitter fucked then
I love the fact Trump is going to start calling them losers. A while some analyst was saying the best way to kill recruitment is to make ISIS appear sad and pathetic losers.
Linking these attacks to Islam, calling on Islamic leaders to do something, and mocking anyone that commits these acts. Not going to solve the problem but it's a bloody start, which is more then I can say for 8 years of Obama.
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback I don't think it's a calculated move from him, but agreed that it's probably the best way to refer to them - don't give them the ego boost of calling them great monsters.
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The police knew of the bomber, it is likely he and his brother had been travelling to and from Libya in recent times. An Imam friend of the father had warned the bomber about the evils of ISIS (apparently) and noticed a troubling response which he termed "a face of hate". The neighbours could hear the bomber chanting out passages from the Koran in the weeks leading up to the bombing. He had recently grown a beard (did I just make that up? I thought I read that too). At some point it will become acceptable for the police to search peoples' premises and property purely on suspicion. At some point it needs to become unacceptable for people close to these fuckwads not to alert authorities to suspicious behaviour, all the signs were there. Those on the periphery and those who might become upset about trampling of civil rights need to realise it's not a racial persecution thing, it's not a religious persecution thing, it's a preventative action thing. If you aren't doing anything wrong you will have little to worry about, but for those 'people of interest' to police a greater watch must be kept over them
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@No-Quarter said in Manchester Arena Explosion:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Manchester Arena Explosion:
@mooshld said in Manchester Arena Explosion:
@canefan said in Manchester Arena Explosion:
@Rembrandt I'll agree with you that rooting out places that foster or tolerate extremism is a good start. If they trace these acts back to a mosque for example that place should be shut down
So thats twitter fucked then
I love the fact Trump is going to start calling them losers. A while some analyst was saying the best way to kill recruitment is to make ISIS appear sad and pathetic losers.
Linking these attacks to Islam, calling on Islamic leaders to do something, and mocking anyone that commits these acts. Not going to solve the problem but it's a bloody start, which is more then I can say for 8 years of Obama.
Certainly more effective than stressing about the "inevitable backlash" that never seems to occur or trying to figure out what these children might have done to bring this upon themselves.
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@mooshld said in Manchester Arena Explosion:
@canefan said in Manchester Arena Explosion:
@Rembrandt I'll agree with you that rooting out places that foster or tolerate extremism is a good start. If they trace these acts back to a mosque for example that place should be shut down
So thats twitter fucked then
Even more when you hear reports of people making Twitter accounts with fake victim queries ("have you seen"), in order to generate retweets.
That's pretty fucking low.
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@NTA said in Manchester Arena Explosion:
@mooshld said in Manchester Arena Explosion:
@canefan said in Manchester Arena Explosion:
@Rembrandt I'll agree with you that rooting out places that foster or tolerate extremism is a good start. If they trace these acts back to a mosque for example that place should be shut down
So thats twitter fucked then
Even more when you hear reports of people making Twitter accounts with fake victim queries ("have you seen"), in order to generate retweets.
That's pretty fucking low.
Speaking of people using the attack to drive attention towards them:
How self absorbed do you need to be?
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@antipodean said in Manchester Arena Explosion:
@NTA said in Manchester Arena Explosion:
@mooshld said in Manchester Arena Explosion:
@canefan said in Manchester Arena Explosion:
@Rembrandt I'll agree with you that rooting out places that foster or tolerate extremism is a good start. If they trace these acts back to a mosque for example that place should be shut down
So thats twitter fucked then
Even more when you hear reports of people making Twitter accounts with fake victim queries ("have you seen"), in order to generate retweets.
That's pretty fucking low.
Speaking of people using the attack to drive attention towards them:
How self absorbed do you need to be?
I guess it gives her time out from farmville
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@antipodean who is that?
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@Frank said in Manchester Arena Explosion:
@Tim
Not sure about that. His branding is very calculated.
They are set up for visual impact and future confirmation bias. (Crooked Hillary, Lyin Ted, Low Energy Jeb)http://blog.dilbert.com/post/160986020961/goodbye-isis-hello-losers
That's drawing a very, very long bow.
It pays to recall that people didn't associate Hillary with being crooked as a result of Trump; that was a well held public perception. Trump just gave her a nickname. If anyone thinks giving ISIS a nickname defeats the spread of Wahhabism, they're not paying attention.
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Mark Steyn's editorial on the wider cultural/policy issues. I'm sure a few will dislike the source, but it is worth a read even if you disagree with his stance on islamic immigration. Most people with these views either don't share them or don't present them as eloquently
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