[quote]Amonero wrote:
[quote]SexMachine wrote:
[quote]Amonero wrote:
[quote]SexMachine wrote:
[quote]Amonero wrote:
First, because people were screaming about a muslim attack without any evidence pointing to that
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I agree with everything you say except the above. It’s not fair. All that was known at the time was that it was a coordinated car bomb/civilian shooting massacre in Norway and that a Jihadist group had claimed responsbility. Anyone who suspected/believed yet another Jihadist attack was completely justified in their expectation based on the information available and recent historical precedents.[/quote]
No. The Norwegian media was very conservative, they called it a terrorist attack, which they shouldn’t have, but no Muslim groups claimed responsibility. The group in question, Ansar al-jihad al-alami, said the reason for the event was our presence in Afghanistan and publishing drawings of Muhammed. They also said they had warned about attacks of this kind after Stockholm, but any informed reader should know this always happens after events such as this, and showing support is by no means the same as being responsible.
It went as far as muslim and other with coloured skin being harassed in the streets - it is scary how ignorant fear can make people. Even after it was known that the killer was a sacndinavian, the American media speculated that he might me recruited by islamist groups, or brainwashed.
It was a classical case of fear-induced mass hysteria, and when you start pointing fingers randomly based on past events and close your eyes to the actualities, you risk doing unjustified harm by acting out those fears.
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Any ‘fear-induced mass hysteria’ that resulted was entirely due to the terror and propaganda of Islamic fundamentalists. Like I said, there are literally WEEKLY attacks like this committed by Jihadists. It bears all the hallmarks of a Jihadist attack; coordinated vehicle bomb and small arms massacre of civilians. A Jihadist group ‘associated’ itself with the attack and claimed themselves it was a Jihadist attack. You cannot blame anyone for believing that it was.[/quote]
You are wrong and misinformed. Nowhere in the world are there weekly massacres of 100 people by one man and bombs blowing up government buildings. If you had read the statement made by Ansar al-jihad al-alami, you would have to have pretty low reading comprehension skills to read that as ‘associating themselves’ with the attack, or want to believe it was done by Islamists. Understand this - alot of the world’s perception of ‘terrorism’, islamism’ and ‘jihadists’ is created by the U.S government and media in collaboration - reality differs.
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I didn’t suggest there are weekly attacks with the exact same details as this one, as you must well know. I didn’t read the Islamist claim of responsibility either because by the time I heard about it I also knew it was bullshit. I also don’t want to derail this thread, so I won’t repeat what I have already said but I will reaffirm it.