Attacks on Brussels

[newfhouse]

Katie Hopkins hits the nail on the head when she says it's not the "far right" who are the threat, but the "far left" who are treated with kid gloves by the police'.

Meaningless terms of course. What do you think she means when she says the far left are treated with kid gloves?

Keep talking about disenfranchised Muslim youths as much as you like but these disenfranchised Muslims have had more financial resources thrown at them than most groups i can think of.

Do you have any figures or examples to back this up?

Well she gets a positive response from the green arrows in the comments section.

As do cyclist hating articles. What does it indicate other than the thoughts of Daily Mail commentards?

How will the flower layers actions stop the Islamists?

It's not a magic fix. It's a way of expressing a shared humanity that allows those affected to come together in solidarity and grief. It pushes back in some small way against those that seek to divide us.

Well they'd better get used to buying flowers because these attacks aren't going to stop.

I may be reading too much into this but I get a sense that you're excited by that thought. Unpleasant.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

However, we have managed the numbers coming into the UK far more effectively than the Continent - the huge inrush from war-torn countries has brought a lot of angry young men who have first hand experience of violence and killings. Corralling these people into ghettos and denying them opportunities will IMO lead to more violence and religious extremism.

You know that these people are not the ones carrying out the attacks, right?

 

[jhawk]

I would suggest that we also have a lot of experience of Terrorism in the UK and possibly have better than average intelligence and anti-terrorism response than many other countries in the EU, thus making us a riskier country to operate in.

I'll second this notion. We've got plenty of experience - had to deal with the IRA for decades. However, this sort of Islamist terrorism - essentially a jihadist insurgency - is uncharted waters for other EU States, and probably almost every intelligence Western intelligence agency.

 

[newfhouse]

You know that these people are not the ones carrying out the attacks, right?

In fact they are largely the people that are running away from places where similar attacks happen most weeks. If only they weren't the same hue, then we'd be able to sort the good from the bad with ease.

 

[Cuchilo]

Yes but the target was a Christian gathering. Christians are persecuted beyond belief in Pakistan.

The target was people playing in a park with their kids . Its as simple as that .

 

[ufkacbln]

The target was people playing in a park with their kids . Its as simple as that .

As with the Republicans and Loyalists in Ireland, the Taliban, IS, Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, Aryan Nation, Christian Identity Movement, Red Army Faction and any other you case to name, they are indiscriminate and whilst claiming to support a particular part of the Community have no problem killing their own people as part of their activities

It looks as if in this case the "target" was the Christian Community, but they actually killed more Muslims than Christians

 

[jhawk]

The target was people playing in a park with their kids . Its as simple as that .

Quite right. Explosive ordinance does not discriminate.

 

[growingvegetables]

Christians are persecuted beyond belief in Pakistan.

Are you being selective again? Given that Hindus, Sufis, Ahmadiyya, and Sikhs suffer the same violence and threat from radical Islamist groups, as do Christians; and similar levels of general discrimination from the government, intent on buying the support of the Islamists?

 

[slowmotion]

I would suggest that we also have a lot of experience of Terrorism in the UK and possibly have better than average intelligence and anti-terrorism response than many other countries in the EU, thus making us a riskier country to operate in.

There's also a strip of salt water between Britain and continental Europe which has proved quite useful over the last nine hundred years or so.

 

[slowmotion]

[QUOTE 4214229, member: 259"]It wasn't very good at stopping the 7/7 attacks, though. [/QUOTE]
True, but it does make access a whole lot more difficult than the rest of the EU.

 

[srw]

[QUOTE 4214229, member: 259"]It wasn't very good at stopping the 7/7 attacks, though. [/QUOTE]
There's not much salt water between Leeds, Luton and London.

 

[srw]

There's also a strip of salt water between Britain and continental Europe which has proved quite useful over the last nine hundred years or so.

....and there's also a strip of salt water between Great Britain and the island of Ireland - but that wasn't much help in preventing the IRA.

 

[slowmotion]

....and there's also a strip of salt water between Great Britain and the island of Ireland - but that wasn't much help in preventing the IRA.

There's the Solent between The Isle of Wight and Southampton too.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

You know that these people are not the ones carrying out the attacks, right?

What do you think will happen if European cities continue to shove these people into ghettos?

 

[ufkacbln]

There's the Solent between The Isle of Wight and Southampton too.

Technically there isn't

The Solent "ends" at the Calshot / Hill Head line and becomes Southampton Water which separates Southampton from the Solent!