Gun shots outside Parliament: Police shoot assailant following car attack on Westminster Bridge

The clash we are witnessing around the world or a clash of civilisations...It is a clash between two opposites, between two eras...It is a clash between a mentality that belongs in the Middle Ages and another mentality that belongs to the 21st century.

It"s a clash between civilisation and backwardness, between the civilised and the primitive, between barbarity and rationality. It is a clash between freedom and oppression, between democracy and dictatorship. It is a clash between human rights, on the one hand and the violation of these rights on the other hand. It's a clash between those who treat women like beasts and those who treat them like human beings.

What we see today is not a clash of civilisations. Civilisations do not clash but compete.
That's the first part of what Wafa Sultan says in the video.

In other news the police now have 9 in custody and one on bail. Looking like it may not be a lone wolf after all.
 
OK you've gotten your cheap shot in, now expand how you intend to deal with this alleged problem? You like posting the same Pat Condell and Wafa Sultan videos in every terrorism thread but don't actually offer any solutions. I'm genuinely curious.

The fact the you call is an 'alleged problem' is the cheapest shot of all.

Alleged. Bloody hell.
 
The fact the you call is an 'alleged problem' is the cheapest shot of all.

Alleged. Bloody hell.
We're talking about one deranged individual with a history of violent offences and you're quick with your blanket statements, opting for divisive rhetoric instead.

I still haven't heard your solution to this problem, alleged or otherwise.
 
This happens every time there's an attack like this. I get the impression certain posters get giddy when these tragic events happen since it gives them an opportunity to air their cheap shots, irrespective of the context and circumstances surrounding the perpetrator(s).

Fearless' post above is a classic example. He's posted that video in pretty much every terrorist attack thread irrelevant of the context (except for the ones where Muslims were the victims incidentally).

Its pretty much what I was referring to. It happens on both sides for sure but I get the sense that some people are genuinely almost gleeful when this happens. Its more a case for them to shout about how right they are rather than any true concern for the victims.

Its pathetic.

If you haven't already, read the article Pogue posted. It is spot on.

"Jews are great, Muslims are scum" -

For anyone wanting the abbreviated version of that propaganda.



Associated with the likes of Gert Wilders and Pamela Geller. Makes sense.

Id say thats quite a comprehensive debunking of @Fearless VDO's contribution to this thread and thus blatant trolling and petty lazy racism.

Would appreciate if a Mod stepped in.
 
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She referenced Christians amongst other faiths. The only exceptionalism is yours it would appear.

Don't forget to leave the lights on for the Germans.
You still haven't answered my question about what the solution is. Until you offer a tangible solution, your ramblings are just blanket divisive sentiments akin to trolling.
 
She referenced Christians amongst other faiths. The only exceptionalism is yours it would appear.
The Jews have come from the tragedy of the Holocaust, and forced the world to respect them, with their knowledge, not with their terror, with their work, not their crying and yelling.Humanity owes most discoveries and science of 19th and 20th centuries to Jewish scientists...
And it continues.

But apparently it's not about Jewish exceptionalism.
 
She referenced Christians amongst other faiths. The only exceptionalism is yours it would appear.

Don't forget to leave the lights on for the Germans.

What do you mean by that?
 
Id say thats quite a comprehensive debunking of @Fearless VDO's contribution to this thread and thus blatant trolling and petty lazy racism.

Would appreciate if a Mod stepped in.
Don't know why you've quoted me, I've not debunked anything. I merely typed the first bit out because I found it quite difficult to follow so I just made it a bit easier for everyone else. Was too difficult to type the rest of it.
 
And it continues.

But apparently it's not about Jewish exceptionalism.
"In the midst of its campaign against Hizbollah and Hamas "terrorists", Israel has been accused by Britain of feting Jewish "terrorists" whose bomb attack killed 28 Britons 60 years ago today.

The accusation, which reopens the debate about the use of politically-inspired violence in the region, follows the unveiling of a plaque commemorating the attack on the King David hotel in Jerusalem on July 22, 1946, by the Irgun Jewish "resistance" to British mandate rule in Palestine. The 28 Britons were among 91 people killed."


Full Story: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1524552/Israel-celebrates-Irgun-hotel-bombers.html
 
You still haven't answered my question about what the solution is. Until you offer a tangible solution, your ramblings are just blanket divisive sentiments akin to trolling.

Good question....hopefully the wise amongst you will not see this a racist, but off the top of my head (ignoring the huge complications, Shite/Sunni split etc)

All Muslims states agree to put together a serious International Muslim Council which takes full authority over it's adherents on a global basis.
Mosques to be licensed, worshippers to be vetted by said council.
Fatwah's issued to streamline all Quranic interpretations thus taking away all dangerous ambiguities.
Interfaith dialogue to be ramped up.

All non-Muslim countries agree to the above and help with funding etc.

Just some ideas.
 
I'm surprised a Muslim leader doesn't do what England did in the past - feck the Catholics and the Pope and now we have our religion which I'm the supreme leader, I always though Saddam and Qaddafi did a good job but I may be wrong and they played the part of been a good Muslim.
 
Don't know why you've quoted me, I've not debunked anything. I merely typed the first bit out because I found it quite difficult to follow so I just made it a bit easier for everyone else. Was too difficult to type the rest of it.
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What do you mean by that?

He, and many others, can't resist making some lefty moral equivalence by attacking Israel, the West, USA etc. when it comes to explaining any terror related incident, like it's all our fault.

I apologise to any German pilots who may have taken it the wrong way.
 
Here I was thinking this thread was about the Events that occurred on Wednesday. Silly me.
It's inevitable that the thread would go this way as soon as Islamist terror was linked and the shock of the initial event started to subside.

He, and many others, can't resist making some lefty moral equivalence by attacking Israel, the West, USA etc. when it comes to explaining any terror related incident, like it's all our fault.

I apologise to any German pilots who may have taken it the wrong way.
I never said any of that, I was just commenting on the dubious nature of that video. It's propaganda presented in the form of Damascene epiphany on behalf of a Muslim woman.
 
He, and many others, can't resist making some lefty moral equivalence by attacking Israel, the West, USA etc. when it comes to explaining any terror related incident, like it's all our fault.

I apologise to any German pilots who may have taken it the wrong way.

It's nice to see how you can take even a thread on a terrorist attack and turn it into a criticism of the left.
 
5 people that none of us know and none of us have any real connection to. I live in London, I walked through that area the day before, I have colleagues minutes away from it. I'm not as close to it all as you are, but then I'm closer to it than 90%+ of people here. I still don't have any personal connection to the victims or the incident though.

The flipside of Pogue's article is that a significant portion of people here wouldn't have been thinking about it, never mind talking about it, because they wouldn't have heard about it. The way mass media works now means it brings people "closer" to the event than ever before, despite having no authentic connection to the area it took place in never mind the victims.

For these people to offer their condolences to the family, make a point of having a moment of silence for the dead and offer whatever other gestures you can think of, it would be so inauthentic and so impersonal that it would be even more of an indictment on society than what's happened here, in my view.

It makes sense for people with no direct connection to the incident to talk about the macro elements of it. It's highly likely that it will lead nowhere constructive, but it's got more hope of doing so than a stranger writing a personal message about another stranger they've never met, simply because it's a nice thing to do.


UK Muslims have a connection and will be affected by this event, despite having nothing to do with it. Along with sadness and shock, there is always collective sigh when a terrorist attack happens, we all know whats coming.

Before, we kept quiet not knowing how to respond, but we've understood we have to state we have nothing to do with such events as some desire to ostracise all Muslims as somehow supporting it. Its pathetic that British muslim MPs like Tulip Siddique and Rushanara Ali still feel they need to state that terrorists do not speak for them or Islam.
 
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5 people that none of us know and none of us have any real connection to. I live in London, I walked through that area the day before, I have colleagues minutes away from it. I'm not as close to it all as you are, but then I'm closer to it than 90%+ of people here. I still don't have any personal connection to the victims or the incident though.

The flipside of Pogue's article is that a significant portion of people here wouldn't have been thinking about it, never mind talking about it, because they wouldn't have heard about it. The way mass media works now means it brings people "closer" to the event than ever before, despite having no authentic connection to the area it took place in never mind the victims.

For these people to offer their condolences to the family, make a point of having a moment of silence for the dead and offer whatever other gestures you can think of, it would be so inauthentic and so impersonal that it would be even more of an indictment on society than what's happened here, in my view.

It makes sense for people with no direct connection to the incident to talk about the macro elements of it. It's highly likely that it will lead nowhere constructive, but it's got more hope of doing so than a stranger writing a personal message about another stranger they've never met, simply because it's a nice thing to do.

I think whether we knew them or not is, to be frank, irrelevent. I don't need to know someone personally to feel a tragedy, nor do I feel the need to use a tragedy to immediately advance my wider views on the matter.

Pogue's articles was focused just as much on the reactions of individuals rather than just the media frenzy that's whipped up.

Again, I think you're rather misrepresenting the article and its message (and indeed what I'm trying to say). I don't think we're saying that there needs to be a national outpouring of grief. But that running around or spamming a thread on the day of, or in the few days after the attack is done to try to 'get one over others', to prove a point, to use a tragedy to advance your own agenda and shows absolutely scant regard whatsoever for the victims.

I don't think what Fearless is doing currently for example is an attempt to seriously discuss the macro elements of the attack.
 
How come?

Eh? The last thing his family need to worry about after this is money.

Supporting a family that has just lost their father/husband so they don't have to worry about paying the bills. I'm not sure how anybody could have any objections to that.

Nothing ridiculous about it at all. This is a heart warming gesture from the public who Keith Palmer was protecting. R.I.P. to all of the victims and condolences to all their families.

At the risk of being a dick, it's mainly the "whataboutery".

What about the other victims? What about other service personnel that have died in the line of duty? Why financially help the relatives of the one victim who will definitely have life insurance?

If we as a society feel that our police are not adequately compensated in the event of death or injury maybe this is the time to raise that structural question rather than pan-handling for one individual. But that is difficult, whereas chucking £30 at a crowdfunding site is easy. And I'm not saying the donations are not well intentioned or warm-hearted, just that the singling out of the one individual is, and I will stand by my original wording, ridiculous. It is taking good motivations and poorly applying them.

Leaving aside the fact that a financial windfall should do essentially nothing to ease the grief of his family. I know it removes imminent financial pressures, but this is heading towards lottery winner territory.
 
UK Muslims have a connection and will be affected by this event, despite having nothing to do with it. Along with sadness and shock, there is always collective sigh when a terrorist attack happens, we all know whats coming.

Before, we kept quiet not knowing how to respond, but we've understood we have to state we have nothing to do with such events as some desire to ostracise all Muslims as somehow supporting it. Its pathetic that British muslim MPs like Tulip Siddique and Rushanara Ali still feel they need to state that terrorists do not speak for them or Islam.
A few years ago a friend of mine in Greater Manchester was flooded out of his house by that really bad weather we had. I asked him who was offering help and he said the neighbours, the local council, GM council and a Muslim group from Coventry. :)
 
At the risk of being a dick, it's mainly the "whataboutery".

What about the other victims? What about other service personnel that have died in the line of duty? Why financially help the relatives of the one victim who will definitely have life insurance?

If we as a society feel that our police are not adequately compensated in the event of death or injury maybe this is the time to raise that structural question rather than pan-handling for one individual. But that is difficult, whereas chucking £30 at a crowdfunding site is easy. And I'm not saying the donations are not well intentioned or warm-hearted, just that the singling out of the one individual is, and I will stand by my original wording, ridiculous. It is taking good motivations and poorly applying them.

Leaving aside the fact that a financial windfall should do essentially nothing to ease the grief of his family. I know it removes imminent financial pressures, but this is heading towards lottery winner territory.

Who created the crowd funding for this individual? I have seen it done many times, usually by a friend, family member, people in the same profession. So depending on who set it up, you can understand why there is one going for one individual and not others. Though are we sure there are not other crowd funding events for the other victims?


edit: I see that it is related to a Metro Police Force effort to help the family of one of their own. Not that difficult to understand why the MPF would try to help one of their own.
 
At the risk of being a dick, it's mainly the "whataboutery".

What about the other victims? What about other service personnel that have died in the line of duty? Why financially help the relatives of the one victim who will definitely have life insurance?

If we as a society feel that our police are not adequately compensated in the event of death or injury maybe this is the time to raise that structural question rather than pan-handling for one individual. But that is difficult, whereas chucking £30 at a crowdfunding site is easy. And I'm not saying the donations are not well intentioned or warm-hearted, just that the singling out of the one individual is, and I will stand by my original wording, ridiculous. It is taking good motivations and poorly applying them.

Leaving aside the fact that a financial windfall should do essentially nothing to ease the grief of his family. I know it removes imminent financial pressures, but this is heading towards lottery winner territory.

This has always happened, I believe, just that crowd funding makes it an easier proposition. No need to visit your bank to donate, just going online with your credit card or PayPal account and you're done.
 
At the risk of being a dick, it's mainly the "whataboutery".

What about the other victims? What about other service personnel that have died in the line of duty? Why financially help the relatives of the one victim who will definitely have life insurance?

If we as a society feel that our police are not adequately compensated in the event of death or injury maybe this is the time to raise that structural question rather than pan-handling for one individual. But that is difficult, whereas chucking £30 at a crowdfunding site is easy. And I'm not saying the donations are not well intentioned or warm-hearted, just that the singling out of the one individual is, and I will stand by my original wording, ridiculous. It is taking good motivations and poorly applying them.

Leaving aside the fact that a financial windfall should do essentially nothing to ease the grief of his family. I know it removes imminent financial pressures, but this is heading towards lottery winner territory.

I donated to this: https://www.launchgood.com/project/muslims_united_for_london#/
 
UK Muslims have a connection and will be affected by this event, despite having nothing to do with it. Along with sadness and shock, there is always collective sigh when a terrorist attack happens, we all know whats coming.

Before, we kept quiet not knowing how to respond, but we've understood we have to state we have nothing to do with such events as some desire to ostracise all Muslims as somehow supporting it. Its pathetic that British muslim MPs like Tulip Siddique and Rushanara Ali still feel they need to state that terrorists do not speak for them or Islam.
I have just wrote about this in the Can We Stop Terrorism thread. I think that Muslim terrorism adversely effects Muslims more than any other part of the community. It isn't prolific enough to cause a lifestyle change for the average Brit but it does impact how Muslims are viewed by others.
 
At the risk of being a dick, it's mainly the "whataboutery".

What about the other victims? What about other service personnel that have died in the line of duty? Why financially help the relatives of the one victim who will definitely have life insurance?

If we as a society feel that our police are not adequately compensated in the event of death or injury maybe this is the time to raise that structural question rather than pan-handling for one individual. But that is difficult, whereas chucking £30 at a crowdfunding site is easy. And I'm not saying the donations are not well intentioned or warm-hearted, just that the singling out of the one individual is, and I will stand by my original wording, ridiculous. It is taking good motivations and poorly applying them.

Leaving aside the fact that a financial windfall should do essentially nothing to ease the grief of his family. I know it removes imminent financial pressures, but this is heading towards lottery winner territory.
I think that's all perfectly fair and well put. Tragic that he died doing his job, but equally horrendous that the other victims, including the seriously injured, were just on holiday or going about their daily business.
 
At the risk of being a dick, it's mainly the "whataboutery".

What about the other victims? What about other service personnel that have died in the line of duty? Why financially help the relatives of the one victim who will definitely have life insurance?

If we as a society feel that our police are not adequately compensated in the event of death or injury maybe this is the time to raise that structural question rather than pan-handling for one individual. But that is difficult, whereas chucking £30 at a crowdfunding site is easy. And I'm not saying the donations are not well intentioned or warm-hearted, just that the singling out of the one individual is, and I will stand by my original wording, ridiculous. It is taking good motivations and poorly applying them.

Leaving aside the fact that a financial windfall should do essentially nothing to ease the grief of his family. I know it removes imminent financial pressures, but this is heading towards lottery winner territory.

You're entitled to your opinion but that's all it is.

The Police Federation set up the fund I believe for officers to contribute. Obviously the public have wanted to do the same and it's hit a massive high.

No one was really interested about police pay and conditions when the government decided to tear into them a few years ago so hardly worth raising the issue again.

I'm glad the family won't have to worry for money. They have to live without the main breadwinner now. It doesn't go far.