The Truth About The Brussels Terrorist Attacks

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The Truth About The Brussels Terrorist Attacks

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Reports show at least 34 people are dead and 170 injured after two separate Terrorist bombings rocked Brussels, Belgium on the morning of March 22nd, 2016. Two nail bomb explosions occurred at the Brussels Airport near the American Airlines and Brussels airlines check-in desks and authorities later discovered a unexploded suicide vest on the scene. Shouts in Arabic were reportedly heard prior to the explosions.

Only seventy-nine minutes after the airport terrorist attack, another bombing decimated a Metro station near the EU headquarters in the Maelbeek area of Brussels. Two suspects related to the attacks were arrested only a mile from the Maelbeek area Metro station.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWjN48_Zx3E
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Man, this one seems to be not as much as a big deal relative to the Paris attacks. I guess people don't feel like changing their profile pictures this time. Or maybe since I'm just staying away from all the social areas of the internet.
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RedAppleGP wrote:Man, this one seems to be not as much as a big deal relative to the Paris attacks. I guess people don't feel like changing their profile pictures this time. Or maybe since I'm just staying away from all the social areas of the internet.
Everyone is just getting bored by the whole thing. It's the same pattern repeating itself again and again. Things are gonna get a lot worse before they get better.
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knot wrote:Everyone is just getting bored by the whole thing. It's the same pattern repeating itself again and again. Things are gonna get a lot worse before they get better.
There was a good article about this in a Dutch journal. I'll translate some of it:
Rob Wijnberg wrote:Everything has been said. Every statement has been posited. Every conclusion has been drawn.

What remains after Brussels, is Groundhog Day: a forever reoccurring day in which only show debates are held. Show debates, because the contradictions whereupon they are based do not in fact exist. Show debates, because the disagreement they suggest is not representative of the overwhelming majority of people.

But as it happens with reoccurring days: at a certain point the exhaustion strikes. The despondency takes over. The first to be stricken are then the sober, nuanced and normal - a group known as pretty much everybody.

Those are the people that damn well understand that attacks that are introduced with "Allahu Akbar" and claimed by groups with names such as Islamic State unmistakably are not unrelated to Islam. Those who have never denied that either. And those who very tired of getting accused of doing so.

Those are the people that simultaneously know that a religion that is adhered to by 1.5 billion people and consists of a million billion denominations can not be the only or even an important cause of terrorism. Those who therefore refuse to see a potential terrorist in every Muslim. And those who get very tired of constantly having to say that.

Those are the people that believe it to be nothing but logical that we are slightly more concerned with violence that is close to home and affects people that are very much like us. Those who understand that that is a bit awkward and even hypocritical. And whom get very tired of the who-is-the-saddest contest hat often follows.
Of course, I don't completely agree, but it does summarize how I feel about the situation. I'm getting very tired of the whole terrorism discussion, the back and forth between the slightly-too-passive left and far right. I'm also getting very tired of having to hear this discussion while climate change and factory farming are happening. This article by Nicholas Kristoff explains that sentiment:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/24/opini ... nakes.html

The article used to be called "Terrorists, Bathtubs, and Snakes" but is now apparently renamed to "Is Terrorism Overrated"? I do not like that change, but it's a good article nonetheless.

I shared the article on Reddit. The discussion, in which I occasionally participate, is here in case anybody is curious how people respond to it: https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit/com ... d_to_fear/
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miniboes wrote:There was a good article about this in a Dutch journal. I'll translate some of it:


Yaa, I mostly agree. I still view mass immigration of Muslims as a complete disaster on a national level, but at least I can still just move to another country. It's harder to outrun global warming. Due to the constraints of our primitive tribal brain, we tend to spend too much time worrying about the problem that's much less consequential
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knot wrote:
miniboes wrote:There was a good article about this in a Dutch journal. I'll translate some of it:
I still view mass immigration of Muslims as a complete disaster on a national level
Where do you live, and why do you think so?
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miniboes wrote:
knot wrote:
miniboes wrote:There was a good article about this in a Dutch journal. I'll translate some of it:
I still view mass immigration of Muslims as a complete disaster on a national level
Where do you live, and why do you think so?
Scandinavia, undisclosed, safe location :P

In terms of economics, the welfare states will slowly start to be dismantled as they're completely unsustainble with high immigration. I've looked at the numbers, and they're horrifying. Even the 2nd and 3rd generation of immigrants still take much more money out of the system than they put back in it.

On the social scale I think it's clear to see that Islam is already forcing our societies to be less open and free in many ways, and I only see that problem getting worse as the percentage of Muslim citizens increases
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