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Westminster Terror Attack (London, UK)
Several people have died in an apparent terror attack involving a car and a knife against pedestrians and the Houses of Parliament in London.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-39359158 http://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-39355505 We have at least a few members who live in the London metropolitan area and I hope they're all safe. There will obviously be more information released as time passes, but for now what do you all think of this attack and how it might affect the future? |
I'm glad that it's not easy to get a gun in the UK or this could have been so much worse. That being said, it's still terrible that people were hurt and killed.
As for what this means for the future, I'll wait until I know about who conducted the attack and why before I comment on that. I doubt the response to it from the government will be anything good for anyone though. |
This is a real tragedy. I just hope it wasn't Isis this time, as they've given Muslims a bad name already. Just as horrible if it were political activist.
I just hope those wounded will recover nicely. All we Americans can extend for the deceased are thoughts and prayers, sadly. |
We had terrorist attacks in the heart of big cities like Paris and Brussels... and now London. These types of terrorism acts have caused "Islamophobia" for a long time now and this latest incident is heightening the fear even more.
Condolences to those who were murdered, though. |
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In any case though, I'm not gonna be that guy who starts crying about knock-on impacts to certain groups of people when the real issue here is that innocent people just got murdered. Thank goodness these incidents are few and far between in the UK. I like to think I've lived here long enough to know that, although we'll be shocked for a few days, we won't let this impact our lives or the lives of anyone else. The UK has a very strong "just get on with it" attitude which i think helps reduce our vulnerability as a population to terrorism. Quote:
Eh. This government does very little that it's not forced into doing. May is an extraordinarily weak and indecisive PM. There'll be some speech about condolences and solidarity and all that stuff everyone else is saying and then probably nothing else. I'm not really inclined to think this attack will have any impact on the future - and that's exactly how it should be. If this sort of thing changes anything, we lose. That's the whole point of terrorism. Certainly, I don't think the British will be calling for much to change. |
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It's pretty awful, I think the worst thing is he mounted the pavement to deliberately run people over. Had he just crashed through the gates and attacked the cop it'd be different. It'd still be bad but there's a vast difference between trying to get into Parliament to attack the MPs/PM and the act of indiscriminately running people over in the street. Quote:
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Apart from the fact every other country hit by attacks in the last few years has had the same attitude. Gotta show those fake Muslims that it's futile.
I'm really not sure those that survived the war would be so happy to see something akin to an invading force murdering British citizens. |
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Every country hit by attacks in the last few years has killed hundreds - tens of thousands (In America and Britain's case) of non combatants in Muslim territories via airstrikes and drone strikes. Of course, why bother with context when you're pushing right wing nonsense? Why do you reactionary snowflakes always say "Invading force"? I'd hate to see how badly you'd handle it if we ever did get even remotely invaded by anyone. |
I just seem to be so scared of hearing terrorist attacks on the news. Thankfully the police and security in Australia always seems to step up when such news breaks.
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I'm just not particularly keen on senseless murders, child rape or British pensioners dying of cold in their homes whilst billions of pounds are spend on people that have been here for two minutes. I'm not against helping people in war torn countries (especially when our government are playing a part), but lots of the incoming migrants are just opportunistic parasites.
To be fair though, high horse Hands is correct. I'm just a nasty alt-right shitter. |
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Because literally inviting them in and then accepting each and every terrorist act act as our fault (or the work of a deranged individual) is clearly helping.
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Also we don't "invite them all in". So far we've officially taken in 1.300 whilst a further few thousand are awaiting Asylum hearings. Again, classic baseless bullcrap from the right who once again have no interest in fact or context because their false narratives, as always, are exactly that. False. Stop using a heinous terrorist attack to further your own agenda of racism. |
Where have we accepted anything as being our fault? You've stated that these attacks are retaliation for the the actions of the west. I'd partially agree there but in reality, Islam just doesn't want play nicely with the other kids.
1300? lol. Lets try these statistics from the Red Cross in 2015. |
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Let's keep this civil and on topic please.
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How about we light up some buildings and get a Muslim politician to say how the attacker wasn't actually a real Muslim?
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How about we stop giving Muslims a reason to hate us? I in no way condone terrorism of any sort but the way some of you spread hate you're making it so damn easy for extremist cells like ISIS to recruit.
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