Acts of Terrorism megathread

[CountDeMoney]

I've been to Coeur d'Alene, and I've seen the park where the Pride event was held; the downtown shopping district feeds right into it on one side, with the lake on the other.

Rolling up in a U-Heil, bailing out and rioting in the middle of it all, it would've been a hell of a mess.

[Sheilbh]

Slightly surprised how little coverage it's received in the UK but a violent Islamist attacked a gay bar in Oslo on Friday night, killing 2 and injuring twenty. The authorities then cancelled pride for security reasons - which seems an overreaction and very regrettable but obviously there may have been more threats they were aware of.

However, in the very truest spirit of "pride should be a protest" there was a spontaneous march to the bar yesterday, when the official parade should have happened:

[Josquius]

Good news I guess. Media attention and increasing islamophoba is why they do it
There seems to be a trend of the media learning.

[garbon]

It was top news on BBC yesterday(?)

[Sheilbh]

It was top news on BBC yesterday(?)

Oh that's good to hear - I was judging, apparently unfairly, from the Guardian, where I don't think it was the top story (though on the front page).

Good news I guess. Media attention and increasing islamophoba is why they do it

I'm not sure increasing Islamophhobia is necessarily why violent Islamists attack (though it's a factor in how people get radicalised for sure).

It's like with a non-political mass shooting, there is a balance in reporting what is very clearly important news and in effect doing it in a way that might inspire copycats - especially because with mass shootings I believer there's really clear evidence that copycat attacks happen. But I feel like a terrorist attack on a gay venue in pride month that leads to pride being cancelled in a European capital city is quite a big story.

[Josquius]

It was top news on BBC yesterday(?)

Oh that's good to hear - I was judging, apparently unfairly, from the Guardian, where I don't think it was the top story (though on the front page).

Good news I guess. Media attention and increasing islamophoba is why they do it

I'm not sure increasing Islamophhobia is necessarily why violent Islamists attack (though it's a factor in how people get radicalised for sure).

It's like with a non-political mass shooting, there is a balance in reporting what is very clearly important news and in effect doing it in a way that might inspire copycats - especially because with mass shootings I believer there's really clear evidence that copycat attacks happen. But I feel like a terrorist attack on a gay venue in pride month that leads to pride being cancelled in a European capital city is quite a big story.

Why individual nutters do it is broader.
But its published record by the groups themselves that the reason for terrorism is to try and whip up anti Muslims views in the west and in turn push moderate Muslims to their side and get the glorious apocalyptic clash of civilizations they want.

True, have to balance something actually being newsworthy too. Its a conundrum.

[Admiral Yi]

However, in the very truest spirit of "pride should be a protest"

[Sheilbh]

Trite and sentimental - but if you can't have those feelings after a bit of defiance in the face of attack, when can you?

[Admiral Yi]

If it only works after an attack, what good is the slogan?

[Jacob]

Several people shot and killed and more wounded in a shopping centre in Copenhagen. The killer is a 22 year old ethnic Dane according to the police.

[Syt]

[Liep]

[Oexmelin]

Six dead (for now), more injured, in Highland Park shooting in Chicago. Shooter sniped at the 4th of July parade.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/7/4/23194354/highland-park-fourth-july-parade-gunfire

[Razgovory]

Highland Park has a big Jewish population.

[Sheilbh]

Again - just horrible.