Breaking News - Reports of an Ongoing Terrorist 'Incident' in Woolwich,London.

Started by mongers, May 22, 2013, 01:48:47 PM

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Admiral Yi

Quote from: Brazen on May 22, 2013, 02:03:47 PM
It was a murder. Being committed by people "of Muslim appearance does not make it a terrorist attack.

The statements made by the person of Muslim appearance make it almost certain it was a terrorist attack.

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Valmy

Quote from: Josephus on May 22, 2013, 02:09:05 PM
Quote from: Brazen on May 22, 2013, 02:03:47 PM
It was a murder. Being committed by people "of Muslim appearance does not make it a terrorist attack.

Yes it does. And Britain and the US of A should immediately declare war on any nation of "Muslim" appearance.

No it doesn't or everytime a Muslim committed a crime it would be considered a terrorist attack.  The simple fact Muslim-looking dudes did it does not make it a terrorist attack.  Why exactly it matters so much whether or not a brutal murder was done out of terrorism or something else is beyond me but it seems to.
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Valmy

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Admiral Yi

Quote from: Josephus on May 22, 2013, 02:09:05 PM
Quote from: Brazen on May 22, 2013, 02:03:47 PM
It was a murder. Being committed by people "of Muslim appearance does not make it a terrorist attack.

Yes it does.

Presumably this is meant to satirize someone, but for the life of me I can't figure out who.

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mongers

Seems fairly clear cut to me, a man, possibly a cadet, is attacked and murdered in broad daylight in front of many witness. One of the attackers then goes onto make a political statement to camera justifying their actions and appears to be in no hurry to flee the scene of the attack.

Not much of that has the hallmarks of a routine murder, domestic, drugs related or alcohol fuelled.  For want of a better term, an act of terror, seems to cover it better.
Or were none of the violence jaded population of SE10 terrorised by what happened ?
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Valmy

Quote from: mongers on May 22, 2013, 02:30:21 PM
Seems fairly clear cut to me, a man, possibly a cadet, is attacked and murdered in broad daylight in front of many witness. One of the attackers then goes onto make a political statement to camera justifying their actions and appears to be in no hurry to flee the screen of the attack.

Not much of that has the hallmarks of a routine murder, domestic, drugs related or alcohol related.  For want of a better term, an act of terror, seems to cover it better.
Or were none of the violence jaded population of SE10 terrorised by what happened ?

Yeah I am not sure Brazen is going on about here.  The entire intent of this murder is political terrorism and the perps worked hard to make sure we all knew it.
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11B4V

Quote from: mongers on May 22, 2013, 02:30:21 PM
Seems fairly clear cut to me, a man, possibly a cadet, is attacked and murdered in broad daylight in front of many witness. One of the attackers then goes onto make a political statement to camera justifying their actions and appears to be in no hurry to flee the scene of the attack.

Not much of that has the hallmarks of a routine murder, domestic, drugs related or alcohol fuelled.  For want of a better term, an act of terror, seems to cover it better.
Or were none of the violence jaded population of SE10 terrorised by what happened ?

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Martinus

Quote from: Legbiter on May 22, 2013, 02:36:10 PM
Yeah, cut down on the puns please.

Cut him some slack. People tend to lose their heads in situations like this - punning may be their coping mechanism.

Razgovory

I didn't know a knifing now counts as terrorism.  I guess Bush didn't keep us as safe from Terrorism as he claimed.
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11B4V

Quote from: Razgovory on May 22, 2013, 02:46:51 PM
I didn't know a knifing now counts as terrorism.  I guess Bush didn't keep us as safe from Terrorism as he claimed.

You're a retard.
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Martinus

Quote from: Razgovory on May 22, 2013, 02:46:51 PM
I didn't know a knifing now counts as terrorism.  I guess Bush didn't keep us as safe from Terrorism as he claimed.

Terrorism - like hate crimes - is determined by the intent, not the murder weapon.