Toronto Van Incident: 10 dead 16 injured
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And yet again you're citing someone's random Wordpress blog as a reliable source of information when it's nothing more than a thought-out opinion piece. For the sake of not looking a tit, I googled the author's name in case he's some professor with a masters in psychology at a famous university but as it turns out he's apparebtly a second hand car dealer at Evans Halshaw.
If you want people to take you seriously you're going to have to come up with better sources because right now you're barely treading water.
To be fair, it wouldn't be unreasonable to think that it's mostly political reasoning for someone to get so annoyed at the world that they run people over, any religious aspect is probably background noise (though it's a tad difficult when it comes to Islam (not that it's relevant here, seemingly) particularly, since it's got that unfortunate policy of being political as a function).
Here is the FBI report is you want the data, or is teh FBU fake news?
https://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/terrorism-2002-2005#terror_05sum
For Europe, if you trust Eurpol:
http://www.datagraver.com/case/europol-reports-terrorism-in-the-eu-2006-2015
And longer timelines show even broader picture. You are probably too young to remember all the IRA, Basque separatist bombing etc.
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Sunni shia inter sect violence must make up the vast majority.
Cause I'm not sure how many eco warrior attacks it would take to even come close to the iraq, Afghanistan weekly carbombings for the last decade.
Why are you limiting yourself to the usa?
It's kinda obvious in a majority Christian white country Islamic terrorism is going to the the minority.
Although that report does clearly state that Islamic terrorism is by order of magnitude the most dangerous. (Mostly because you screwed up your selective attempt to narrow it down to 02-05 and it shows the full 80-05 list).
But just look at the middle east religious terror attacks are a constant issue
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2002-2005, and look at the Killed and Injured numbers as you scroll down.
The long term downward trend in terrorism is well known. Luckily, despite some recent event terrorist attacks in the US and Europe are occurring less frequently that in previous decades.
This chart shows just how much safer most recent years have been in Europe:
https://www.statista.com/chart/4093/people-killed-by-terrorist-attacks-in-western-europe-since-1970/
For sure some very recent events are in stark contrast to the 15 years before, but there is no signs that is a new trend.
https://www.statista.com/chart/4093/people-killed-by-terrorist-attacks-in-western-europe-since-1970/
For sure some very recent events are in stark contrast to the 15 years before, but there is no signs that is a new trend.
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In fairness the quoting of so called expert sources that on inspection are revealed to be random ramblings by lightweight air heads is something even the revered by some Guardian newspaper is conspicuously guilty of. I made this post a while back, but i am not sure if it passed moderation.
Just as Jeremy Corbyn was on the ropes this week over his woefully inadequate response to the anti-Semitism row engulfing Labour, he received an unexpected message of support. It came in the form of a carefully co-ordinated intervention from an impressive sounding list of 42 academics.
In a letter published in the Guardian (where else), the academics leapt to his defence, claiming he was being subjected to an 'unfair trial by the media'. And these were not any old dons, according to the Guardian, they were 'senior academics'.
The 42 signatories, including 17 professors, wrote: '…the debate on anti-Semitism has been framed in such a way as to mystify the real sources of anti-Jewish bigotry and to weaponise it against a single political figure just ahead of important elections.'
Jeremy Corbyn has received support from a group of academics
Ignoring the fact that much of the criticism came from within the Labour Party as well as Corbyn's own deputy leader, Tom Watson, the letter continued: 'We condemn anti-Semitism wherever it exists. We also condemn journalism that so blatantly lacks context, perspective and a meaningful range of voices in its determination to condemn Jeremy Corbyn.'
So who are these intellectual heavyweights, and why did they merit such prominent coverage in the Guardian? The paper published the letter the day after Corbyn provocatively attended a supper in London with a Left-wing, anti-Zionist group where some of the central tenets of the Jewish faith were mocked and where a poem that abused the Queen and Prince Philip was circulated.
Among those who signed the letter is one Jane Dipple, a lecturer at Winchester University school of media and film, whose blog highlights her contribution to the world of learning. 'My PhD Thesis is entitled: Zombies in Britain from cinema to counter-culture.'
Warming to her theme, she boasts: 'I have devised a third-year undergraduate module entitled 'Zombie Apocalyse: the rise in zombie culture'. Now in its sixth year it is currently the only academic [zombie] course in the UK.' There's a surprise!
A paper on her website is entitled: 'Rocking with the undead: how zombies infected the psychobilly subculture.' Ms Dipple goes on to tell us: 'Zombie culture is ubiquitous: the undead can be found lurking in a number of unexpected areas of popular culture.' Some might joke that one or two zombies can be found in Corbyn's Labour Party.
Another signatory is William Proctor from Bournemouth University, where he is a 'senior lecturer in journalism, English and communication'.
His academic achievements are listed online. 'He has published on a variety of topics including Batman, James Bond, Spider-Man, The Walking Dead, One Direction fandom, and the reboot phenomenon [whatever that means] in popular culture.
'William is Director of The World Star Wars Project, a five-year study of the franchise from multiple perspectives which will culminate in 2020 with a multilingual, mixed methods global online questionnaire.
The article goes on to list a lot more risibly unqualified lightweights cited by The Guardian as senior academics, so fear not, their "senior academics" need not be Nobel Prize winning material by any stretch
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz5CRjDZyye
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Vonhelmet hasn't posted for a while. He always seemed angry and frustrated.
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Were his motives known?
Nope, he is mentally ill
. He doesn’t fit the current narrative of being brown and belonging to a faith that perpetuates violence.Nope, he is mentally ill
Bit of a straw man, belonging to a faith and being brown have nothing to do with it, motive is rather important though.
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That depends how you define terrorism. Its generally not "Things that cause terror" or an effective horror movie is an act of terrorism.
It's usually defined as the unlawful use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims. Whether this was the above I've no idea, but either way an egregious act that should be roundly condemned by everyone.
As far as I heard he was driven by a hatred of women, at lease that's the last update iv'e heard from the BBC radio this morning.
Of course it has everything to do with it, motive is secondary. Anytime an attack happens, the first thing people think is oh must be those peaceful Muslims up to their antics. The media perpetuates it with their biased reporting and people lap it up.
Already fake reports came out soon as it happened with people saying he shouted allah Akbar etc etc. It was only afterwards that it was claimed that the attack had nothing to do with Islam and Muslims.