Islamic Militants kill 2,000 people in Nigeria in one attack

Islam is getting a bad rep in 2015.

Highflyer13 wrote: »

Its amazing the lack of coverage this is getting in comparison to the Paris attacks. Surely it should be propelled to the same platform.

Not even one story reported on sky news as of yet. I guess a dozen french people dying is more interesting than 2000 poor people dying :mad:

dissed doc wrote: »

Criticism of Islamic fascism/extremism is still deemed as racist by many people, who in their viewpoint (somewhat racist actually, as it judges people based on religion (can be judged harmless, violent whatever) cannot be harmful because it creates too much cognitive dissonance.

The idea that people could be muslim but also dangerous does not compute, as we are meant to prejudice all muslims as being perfect. This two legs good, four legs bad black and white thinking is racist and prejudiced and that is what gets people killed.

Look past religion, sexuality and gender. People can still be, despite being gay Islamic women, completely dangerous for reasons entirely separate to religion.

Seriously? the problem isn't islam. It's people like this.

These are a very backwards people. they believe all kinds of ****.

In the Central African Republic you have the Anti-balaka. They massacre Muslims and are just as bad as Muslim militants.

In Uganda you have the Lords Resistance Army under Joseph Kony. They are responsible for multiple atrocities and train child soldiers.

If course you'll look at that and you won't say that Christianity is the problem. It's one standard for Muslims and one standard for Christians. When a Muslim does something it's representative of all of Islam. When a Christian does something it's an aberration.

the problem is that these are people in incredibly isolated areas who will use violence to get their means. They'll tie their flag to whatever the local religion is. If they are from a Christian area suddenly they are Christian militants. If they are from a Muslim area then they are islamic militants. Really it's down to cultural/tribal differences and they just use the religion to differentiate. Like northern Ireland most of these conflicts have little to do with religion and they're just labels that are applied to underlying issues that exist between disparate cultural/ethnic groups.

The best example of this is Rwanda. When the genocide occurred there a lot of churches actually gave their support to the genocide. Yet that's not considered a "Christian" genocide. mainly because both sides were Christian so the ethnic fault-lines were more visible.

Wish I could turn into a goat.

Boring username wrote: »

No, that is not a typo. In what is one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in history, up to 2,000 people have been killed in a single town in Nigeria by Islamic militant group, Boko Harem. The local security forces have given up trying to count all the bodies at this point, as there are simply too many to keep track.

theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/09/boko-haram-deadliest-massacre-baga-nigeria

How is the global community going to deal with these extremists?

By ignoring when it is in Africa.

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

An average of 3,000 people a day were dying during the Second Congo War.

Yeah, could never understand how this war got very very little coverage, when over 5 million people died from the war and the effects of the war.

Maybe the media views Africans as being lesser people,. It is Animal farm in the media, we are all equal but some are more equal than others.

RobertKK wrote: »

Maybe the media views Africans as being lesser people,. It is Animal farm in the media, we are all equal but some are more equal than others.

I think there is a kind of discrimination when it comes to this kind of stuff. It might be because they're black, or not as "civilised" or because it's remote but it does happen quite a bit.

The most likely victims of these medieval scum are fellow muslims. These fcukers are pure dirt who basically just need to be wiped out.