EPTHostage Situation in Sydney, AUS - Page 9
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GreenHorizons
United States23580 Posts
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
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Plexa
Aotearoa39261 Posts
On December 15 2014 19:48 Pandemona wrote: Oh i see, so it is just out of the major cities there might be a racial problem. Probably like most countries. I think in general the more homogeneous the community the greater the problem of racism  | ||
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ControlMonkey
Australia3109 Posts
But rural areas are more racially homogeneous, so there's a bit more prejudice. | ||
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sths
Australia192 Posts
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
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zeo
Serbia6334 Posts
On December 15 2014 19:54 Pandemona wrote: Yeah ok thats good, it is not as bad as i thought i read/heard. You've got to stop reading English tabloids pande  | ||
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
Beginning to think England is the new Russia/North Korea in terms of what is portrayed by our press! | ||
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SoSexy
Italy3725 Posts
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GreenHorizons
United States23580 Posts
On December 15 2014 20:04 SoSexy wrote: Italian news report that 4 armed men are holding a hostage in Belgium :O The only similarity is that they both have at least 1 hostage and a weapon, otherwise I don't see any sort of connection. Local prosecutors said there was no indication of any link to terrorism or jihadist group Islamic State. "This isn't the same sort of incident as the events in Sydney," spokeswoman Annemie Serlippens said. Ghent resident Ruben Denys, who was within the police cordon, told the BBC: "There are police officers around the building, at the back and on people's terraces. A truck has arrived with ladders. They have guns." Belgian TV said that another siege had taken place in Ghent in October, involving a man implicated in an earlier hostage-taking. That incident involved an unpaid debt, it reported. Source | ||
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LilClinkin
Australia667 Posts
Racist attitudes are seen in virtually every society though, to varying degrees. I wouldn't say Australia is particularly racist. Certainly, acts of violence and overt discrimination aren't common. | ||
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ahswtini
Northern Ireland22211 Posts
On December 15 2014 20:04 SoSexy wrote: Italian news report that 4 armed men are holding a hostage in Belgium :O Doesn't sound like it's related to islamists tho http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30478231 | ||
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SixStrings
Germany2046 Posts
You can't act like a liberal, tolerant person and then condemn the action of someone who just adheres to the religion you defend. It's literally in the job description to use subversion and violence against infidels, women and gays, so you're being really unfair here. User was temp banned for this post. | ||
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boxerfred
Germany8360 Posts
On December 15 2014 20:12 SixStrings wrote: Stop implying that he is a nut job, he's just being a good Muslim. You can't act like a liberal, tolerant person and then condemn the action of someone who just adheres to the religion you defend. It's literally in the job description to use subversion and violence against infidels, women and gays, so you're being really unfair here. Wait, are you saying that being a muslim implies hating infidels, women and gays? I try to not read your post in that context and I think I might've missed something. Would you elaborate? | ||
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Doublemint
Austria8688 Posts
also a great gesture with the #Illridewithyou, not letting society be torn apart by a few loons should help stifle the recruitment efforts by ISIS significantly. | ||
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GreenHorizons
United States23580 Posts
On December 15 2014 20:12 SixStrings wrote: Stop implying that he is a nut job, he's just being a good Muslim. You can't act like a liberal, tolerant person and then condemn the action of someone who just adheres to the religion you defend. It's literally in the job description to use subversion and violence against infidels, women and gays, so you're being really unfair here. User was temp banned for this post. I can't help but feel every time someone smears all of Islam because of attacks like these they are helping the terrorists get what they want. Think about it... Which would upset/help a terrorist more... 1) Denying at every opportunity and from every related authority figure that their goals have any real justification from the religion of hundreds of millions of relatively peaceful people who practice it, and constantly undermining the underpinnings from which they draw their justifications...? Or.... 2) Willingly entering the narrative they have created to describe the minds of their enemies, claiming that the problem isn't (just) their tactics but more importantly their religion, recognizing and giving credibility to their notion that their holy book tells them to do what they are doing, and using language they want you to like "Jihad" or accepting their corruption of the phrase "Allahu Akbar"? They randomly reported people wondering if they should take their children out of daycare... Where's that coming from? | ||
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maartendq
Belgium3115 Posts
On December 15 2014 20:12 SixStrings wrote: Stop implying that he is a nut job, he's just being a good Muslim. You can't act like a liberal, tolerant person and then condemn the action of someone who just adheres to the religion you defend. It's literally in the job description to use subversion and violence against infidels, women and gays, so you're being really unfair here. Just like Christianity and Judaism, there are many different kinds of Islam. A majority of all religious people are people like you and me, people who wake up in the morning, drive to work and want to get home in time to spend some time with their kids. Also: https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/jaafar-alloul/belgian-jihadists-in-syria-alienation-consumption-power | ||
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SoSexy
Italy3725 Posts
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Shiragaku
Hong Kong4308 Posts
![[image loading]](http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/how_it_works.png) We have to remember that radical political Islam does not represent all of Islam because not all Muslims do not use Islam as a means of identifying themselves politically and the ones that do are the typical parliamentary conservatives that can be found in many other nations. The overwhelming majority of people leading the fight against Islamism in the Middle East are secular nationalists which should speak for itself about the idea of a universal Islam. | ||
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GreenHorizons
United States23580 Posts
They also reported that "the gunman was agitated" afterwords. | ||
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