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Apparently the police say they know the id of the killer, so guess we will have this in the news soon.
Fuck, sorry. Just joined a black metal band as singer and started writing lyrics
The online world is so unpoliced compared to the physical world. I remember the days of CCTV fear, the world of Blair watching our every move, the Criminal Justice Act, and all that. Now there's this digital world that offers so much so easily. It's a world I'm still very wary of.
Central media and news reporting in many ways is always several steps behind self publishing mediums.
I think its worse than that. The media is so hysterical and hyperbolic about almost everything, its hard if not impossible to get facts.
I get very sick of it. The Telegraph, The Mail & The Guardian - if you sibscribe to their apps, the notifications are borderline hysterical. Sick of it all tbh. Media? Bunch of gits.
Taken from the BBC - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-40010124
"Police are encouraging anyone with footage from the scene to upload it at ukpoliceimageappeal.co.uk or ukpoliceimageappeal.com. Other information can be reported to the anti-terrorist hotline on 0800 789 321."
And it isn't their fault. Again, we shouldn't take it out on individual Muslims. But they come from and are brought up in a culture where the one true word *IS* the one true word and any deviation and heavily punished. From homosexuality to adultery to disobeying your husband to dating outside of the Muslim community, etc.
By and large they exist in a small self-policing sub-state and many of them don't speak English. They've got no-one to turn to, aren't well educated, and are trapped in a system that abuses their loyality and piety. It's like a mini-North Korea that exists in our country.
You guys talk about moderates but we already know a huge proportion of British Muslims have insanely conservative principles and want to see our British laws changed to reflect their life philosophy. A life philosophy that is taught to them from an early age in mosques and family units across the country - and the world.
I don't have any answers. But you should understand, I am not saying this is a 'Muslim' problem. I am saying it is an 'Islam' problem, and even then taking the argument to it's logical conclusion, I'm not saying it's an 'Islam' problem so much as a 'collectivist' problem. Look at all the things I criticise - they tend to be collectivist ideologies. I was reflecting on that on my way into the office this morning. All of these ideologies seek to cleanse the human spirit of it's individuality and seek to force people to bow down - whether it's a God, a state, a set of principles or overarching philosophy.
This is not about condemning any individual or group of people (aside from the cunt who did this!) - it's about exploring the state of affairs that led to it. I think UK foreign policy is a very infinitesimal part of the picture, and it's often over-egged by people who don't want to face the ideological differences between cultures.
1 is making awareness of a desperate situation to prompt international aid
2 is sensationalism of an international act of terror and distruction.
I am not saying they shouldn't report it. But there are limits about how far that ought to go. Videos of it actually happening on the national news agency and wall to wall coverage surely a step too far
MEN reporting it is unconnected, but I can see why everyone is very much on edge at the moment.
Fingers crossed it is nothing
Yes! That's where are going. Lovely place not far from Windermere.
This is awful, sickening news. My middle daughter is 16 and has just started going to gigs with friends and it makes me sick with fear to think that we even have to contemplate the risk of terrorist attacks in public gatherings.
- loss of access to explosive materials to cause harm (not going to happen, home chemistry is not complicated and kitchen knives or cars will always be available)
- loss of access to information encouraging and showing people how to cause harm (not going to happen, whatever controls people want to put on the net can be got around with a free VPN and 2 minutes of effort)
- no more people with desire to cause harm (there's every reason to expect the pool of willing volunteers will continue)
So no way out.
Continued action in Syria won't be helping, but it's too late that stopping would help, and neither would flattening the place and killing everyone, since all the recent terrorists appear to be home grown", at least from Europe, if not the precise countries they're blowing themselves up in.
On one hand I actually have sympathy for kids who are so pathetic that they find this brain-washing bullshit attractive enough to listen in the first place.
I didn't think the Westminster attack was sensationalised. There were aspects of it, most notably the bridge video featuring a lady falling and sustaining injuries that eventually ended her life, that were unnecessary. But on the whole the two main channels in my eye line, BBC and Sky News, got it right. From what I've seen this morning from my multi-screen bedroom bunker (give it a month and I'll have guns, beans, and spring water in here), the coverage has been quite restrained thus far. Admittedly my yard stick of over-sensationalized news is the 2003 invasion of Iraq as viewed from an American media perspective so I might have a slightly higher standard for what I consider gonzo to a lot of people.
I agree with your post wholeheartedly.
Islamic terrorism will not be dealt with until Muslim communities attempt to clear it out. You go to Bradford, Oldham, Blackburn, Rochdale or anywhere where there is a substantial segregated muslim community and they all have pockets (some very large) of extremism. This is in islamic schools, or mosques, or in prayer groups led by radical Imams. The communties know about this, but feel (for whatever reasons) unable or unwilling to deal with it. Until this inertia is dealt with, very little will change.
The threat to us living here is from British radicalised muslims. Until we address the roots and causes of this radicalisation, horrors like the MEN, Westminster, Bataclan will keep happening. The roots are in the communities, centred round a few sceptic clerics and radicals.
Yup been an evacuation of a building 2 minutes away from our shop this morning too.