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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Mar 22, 2016 - 10:00am PT
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BBC Journalist Simon Marks was near Maelbeek Station when the explosion occurred.
He told the BBC: "I was walking by the building when the bomb went off. I heard the noise and saw the smoke from the station. I headed for the entrance. The police hadn't cordoned it off at that point. Clearly, people were injured. There were no paramedics, just a few policemen.
"A local hotel brought out towels and sheets for rudimentary dressage. About 10 or 15 minutes later paramedics arrived, police cordoned the area and the press were pushed back. There were lots of shocked bystanders in tears.
10-15 minutes before paramedics arrive? Really? Glad I'm going to Switzerland.
Wish I wasn't going to Strasbourg.
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guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
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Mar 22, 2016 - 10:02am PT
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Clearly Islam Hates US ..... all of us.
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brotherbbock
climber
Alta Loma, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 22, 2016 - 10:18am PT
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F$%K Daesh is right.
These guys are starting s$%t with the whole damn world.
That is exactly what they want too, a global jihad so that all Muslims of the world will join together for the global holy war.
Daesh knows it will not last forever but they don't care. They are just a catalyst to get the war going that will hopefully install a global caliphate.
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couchmaster
climber
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Mar 22, 2016 - 10:25am PT
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But but but, don't we need more refugees? More Syrians? More Somalis? Isn't anyone who professes otherwise a RACIST !??
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brotherbbock
climber
Alta Loma, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 22, 2016 - 10:46am PT
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ISIS makes no secret of its ultimate ambition: A global caliphate secured through a global war. To that end it speaks of "remaining and expanding" its existing hold over much of Iraq and Syria. It aims to replace existing, man-made borders, to overcome what it sees as the Shiite "crescent" that has emerged across the Middle East, to take its war -- Islam's war -- to Europe and America, and ultimately to lead Muslims toward an apocalyptic battle against the "disbelievers."
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Spiny Norman
Social climber
Boring, Oregon
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Mar 22, 2016 - 10:53am PT
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Clearly Islam Hates US ..... all of us.
Da'esh (not *SIS) no more represents Islam-in-general than Timothy McVeigh or Torquemada or Hitler represented Christianity-in-general.
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Spiny Norman
Social climber
Boring, Oregon
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Mar 22, 2016 - 10:55am PT
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How to motivate as many Muslims as possible to join the aspirations of daesh? Start painting all Muslims with the broad brush of negativity, as we are seeing happen from loud voices in the US and elsewhere. When we separate the radical minority – daesh – from the 1.6 billion Muslims on earth, we have a good start on "winning" the "war."
Exactly. Which is why we don't call Da'esh "*SIS."
There's nothing Islamic about these monsters.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Mar 22, 2016 - 10:57am PT
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One takeaway from this horror is if you're ever in the same situation:
DO NOT RUN FROM THE FIRST EXPLOSION. HUNKER LOW AND PLAY DEAD.
Those camel humpers aren't the sharpest pencils but they have that routine down.
Many at the airport ran from the intitial bomb straight towards the second larger one.
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dirtbag
climber
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Mar 22, 2016 - 11:44am PT
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Clearly Islam Hates US ..... all of us.
If your claim that 1.6 billion Muslims clearly hated us was true then we'd all be dead by now.
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dirtbag
climber
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Mar 22, 2016 - 11:45am PT
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And yes, hit the panic button. Then vote for trump.
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Norton
Social climber
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Mar 22, 2016 - 11:46am PT
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1.6 billion Mulim followers of Islam do NOT committ acts of terror
It is seriously ignorant to generalize otherwise
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Mar 22, 2016 - 12:31pm PT
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In response to 2014 ICM poll indicating that as many as 16% of French citizens sympathize with ISIS, Newsweek's France correspondent Anne-Elizabeth Moutet said she was not surprised by the news. “This is the ideology of young French Muslims from immigrant backgrounds,” she said, “unemployed to the tune of 40%, who’ve been deluged by satellite TV and internet propaganda.” She pointed to a correlation between support for ISIS and rising anti-Semitism in France, adding that “these are the same people who torch synagogues”.
This poll, like most is probably not perfect, but these are the sort of numbers Europe needs to be concerned with. The huge number of more peaceful Muslims around the world is not so directly relevant to the future in Europe.
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blahblah
Gym climber
Boulder
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Mar 22, 2016 - 12:33pm PT
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Let's see:
I don't have any huge concern about the well being of people who actually are or may be killed (or abducted as a sex slave like the girls in Africa and Syria) by terrorists;
I have no interest in ever reevaluating my standard liberal attitudes about moral relativism, notwithstanding whatever happens in the world;
I think that pointing out that most muslims are not terrorists is a satisfactory rebuttal to the fact that muslims are a small percentage of the world's population but commit the vast majority of acts of terror;
when people point out facts like a poll showed that 36 per cent of British Muslims aged between 16 and 24 believe those who convert to another faith should be punished by death, I think a good response is to say something about Timothy McVeigh or Hitler (http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/sep/16/religion.anglicanism);;
I have essentially zero fear of being personally killed in a terror attack (which makes all of the above just peachy keen) . . .
Do I have the standard lib line down?
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John Duffield
Mountain climber
New York
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Mar 22, 2016 - 12:51pm PT
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Hard to believe, but the Left seems to be intent on riding the TITANIC of IslamoFascism all the way to the bottom. Bernie did #standing with Muslims in Michigan and lost all 5 states the following Tuesday.
This isn't over by a long shot. They estimate, there are 5,000 ISIS fighters in Europe. Tons of weapons and explosives. Fasten your seatbelts.
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dirtbag
climber
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Mar 22, 2016 - 01:24pm PT
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Do I have the standard lib line down?
Troll, troll, troll yer boat...
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brotherbbock
climber
Alta Loma, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 22, 2016 - 01:25pm PT
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This isn't over by a long shot. They estimate, there are 5,000 ISIS fighters in Europe. Tons of weapons and explosives. Fasten your seatbelts.
Out of curiosity...where do these statistics come from?
I'm wondering how they estimate such a thing?
What European countries are more likely to be hit?
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John Duffield
Mountain climber
New York
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Mar 22, 2016 - 01:33pm PT
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Out of curiosity...where do these statistics come from?
Google "5000 ISIS in Europe" and take your pick.
What European countries are more likely to be hit?
ISIS, has said the next attack, will be in Germany. But London is expecting a cluster of attacks as well.
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brotherbbock
climber
Alta Loma, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 22, 2016 - 01:51pm PT
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Thanks^^^^
Just read a couple articles.
Crazy how permeable Europe is to terrorists.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Mar 22, 2016 - 02:28pm PT
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Crazy how permeable Europe is to terrorists.
Yes, how's that Schengen Agreement workin' for y'all now? Interestingly,
the last I read Belgium wanted out of it along with Holland, Germany,
and Luxembourg, i.e., most of the original signatories. Khumbaya just
ain't cutting it any more.
BBC:
Belgium's interior minister said authorities knew that some kind of extremist act was being prepared in Europe but they were surprised by the scale of the attacks in Brussels.
Interior Minister Jan Jambon said: "It was always possible that more attacks could happen but we never could have imagined something of this scale".
I think he's been on vacation to Planet Khumbaya. And if 30 dead is his
idea of large scale then he's really in La-La Land. It was that few
because those camel rump humpers were incompetent.
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