Soldato
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84 Confirmed dead after another apparent terrorism attack in Nice, France,
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Welcome to 2001, glad you caught up.
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More like hello 80s. Ahh, the good old days when our intelligence services sponsored tactical nutters. Now this mess. Who could've thought!
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Shh we don't talk about Afghanistan anymore.
Or the IRA...
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Stopped at a set of lights this evening in Warrington, a car pulled up along side me and the passenger asked if I'd any intentions on mowing down a large number of people!?!
She seemed to think it amusing!?! - I'll probably get reported for my retort back to the silly bint, but just WTF?!?
She seemed to think it amusing!?! - I'll probably get reported for my retort back to the silly bint, but just WTF?!?
WTH
."No but I'll make an exception for you"
Although I must ask what was your retort?
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"I'll be ok duck, I'm not playing Pokemon Go"
Soldato
How was this an islamic terror attack ?
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Follower of Islam + mass murder.
By accounts of those who knew him he wasn't a follower of Islam.
I'd say its more like an opportunist attack by ISIS. Does that make it an islamic terror attack? I don't know for sure, but it might just be a semantics argument.
I'd say its more like an opportunist attack by ISIS. Does that make it an islamic terror attack? I don't know for sure, but it might just be a semantics argument.
that is just the old... he wasn't pious enough therefore 'nothing to do with Islam' excuse...
I'm sure there might well be other factors involved here like depression, mental health issues but there is also seems to be a concerted effort to try and play down and Islamic links after these attacks, perhaps in some sort of misguided attempt to stop support for far right groups - some idea that if everyone is thinking 'you're not a real muslim bruv' then everything will be fine. But really I think it is just a form of denial and is counterproductive to reform if the prevailing attitude is simply to try and distance Islam from any of this instead of acknowledging the obvious issues.
I'm sure there might well be other factors involved here like depression, mental health issues but there is also seems to be a concerted effort to try and play down and Islamic links after these attacks, perhaps in some sort of misguided attempt to stop support for far right groups - some idea that if everyone is thinking 'you're not a real muslim bruv' then everything will be fine. But really I think it is just a form of denial and is counterproductive to reform if the prevailing attitude is simply to try and distance Islam from any of this instead of acknowledging the obvious issues.
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in which way was he a follower of islam?
even if he was, why would him killing someone make it a religious?
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Semantics for sure, and already on the list of excuses someone helpfully created under something akin to "Not a *PROPER* Muslim
He certainly wasn't a Methodist, Catholic or Presbyterian follower. He was corresponding with IS and acting upon their will.
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You honestly think Islam played no part in this?
that was his religion, that was what he identified as, that he wasn't as pious enough in the eyes of some or that he had an interest in what we say is an extreme interpretation of it doesn't stop him from being a muslim any more than claiming an IRA member who hasn't been to mass or confession for a few years and has just blown up a load of innocent women and children is supposedly not a catholic
he believed in Islam, he searched jihadi websites prior to the attack - it was an extremist Islamic ideology that motivated him
Soldato
you claimed he was a follower of islam, i want to know in which way ?
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Good ole GD.