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Carnage in Nairobi

  • 21-09-2013 08:39PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,110 ✭✭✭


    terrible scenes of innocent people being massacred in a shopping mall..........why?

    because they're not muslims, that seems to be the case anyway.

    will it happen here eventually?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,649 ✭✭✭Catari Jaguar


    Kenya isn't a predominantly Muslim country.. Pockets are like Oldtown in Mombasa. This is terrible if it's true. I found Kenyans to be really gentle and happy as a nation :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭dan1895


    Had lunch in that shopping centre while in Nairobi last year! Have a couple of friends living nearby. Sometimes I just wonder why.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,110 ✭✭✭Hitchens


    Kenya isn't a predominantly Muslim country.. Pockets are like Oldtown in Mombasa. This is terrible if it's true. I found Kenyans to be really gentle and happy as a nation :(

    first reports are that the attack is being carried out by a Somali militant group called al-Shabab


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Hitchens wrote: »
    terrible scenes of innocent people being massacred in a shopping mall..........why?

    because they're not muslims, that seems to be the case anyway.

    will it happen here eventually?


    It's Nairobis biggest lingerie section, I understand.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,855 ✭✭✭Nabber


    Pointless violence has never achieved anything but hatred for the perpetrators.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38 Hurricane Fly


    Sure who cares, they're black.



    Banned


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,193 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    I wonder why the media are avoiding call it a radical Islam attack?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,230 ✭✭✭Merkin


    I don't think anyone is quite sure who exactly is responsible yet


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,285 ✭✭✭Oscars Well.


    Sure who cares, they're black.

    What the fuck?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭Duff


    Sure who cares, they're black.

    Get the fúck out.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,889 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    Sure who cares, they're black.

    What the hell is wrong with you?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,193 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    Merkin wrote: »
    I don't think anyone is quite sure who exactly is responsible yet

    Al-Shabaab have said they did it, and anyone who was non-Muslim was shot


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,172 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    According to new reports, a Somali Islamist group called Al-Shabab has claimed responsibility. The shooters explicitly targeted non-Muslims:
    The Economist correspondent in Nairobi, Daniel Howden told the BBC he spoke to one man with a Christian first name but a Muslim-sounding surname who managed to escape the attackers by putting his thumb over his first name on his ID.

    However, the man told Mr Howden that an Indian man standing next to him who was asked for the name of the Prophet Muhammad's mother was shot dead when he was unable to answer.
    Great advertisement for the "religion of peace"... maybe they think that they'll have peace once they kill all non-Muslims, but given the Shia/Sunni divide, that's not a remote possibility. I would say more, but this is AH.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 245 ✭✭Hedgemeister


    The sad fact is that terrorism, along with its pointless violence works, in the long run.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭Duff


    IvySlayer wrote: »
    Al-Shabaab have said they did it, and anyone who was non-Muslim was shot

    That really is insane. I know it happens in a lot of countries including here in the past, but just think about it.. Shot dead because of your religion. It really does test your faith in humanity.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,285 ✭✭✭Oscars Well.


    Sure who cares, they're black.



    Banned
    IvySlayer wrote: »
    Al-Shabaab have said they did it, and anyone who was non-Muslim was shot

    Fcuking racists :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,193 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    bnt wrote: »
    Great advertisement for the "religion of peace"... maybe they think that they'll have peace once they kill all non-Muslims, but given the Shia/Sunni divide, that's not a remote possibility. I would say more, but this is AH.

    Radical Islamists hurt Muslims as much as others

    99% of Muslims are decent folk. Poverty plus extremism will result in these attacks


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,193 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    Fcuking racists :mad:

    Al-Shabaab are part of Al-Qaeda, please point to what I sad was racist.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    Disgusting sectarian killings. What's the fcuking point of it?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,285 ✭✭✭Oscars Well.


    IvySlayer wrote: »
    Al-Shabaab are part of Al-Qaeda, please point to what I sad was racist.

    Not you, the towel heads


    Mod: Banned


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,047 ✭✭✭Da Shins Kelly


    Apparently the attack is in retaliation against atrocities committed by the Kenyan army in Somalia. I don't understand how they think bursting into a public place and shooting dead civilians does any favours for their political point though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,754 ✭✭✭Itwasntme.


    A sad and tragic state of affairs :(.

    Warning: some of the photos are graphic in this article from the daily mail.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,110 ✭✭✭Hitchens


    On its Twitter feed, al-Shabab, which has links to al-Qaeda, said it was behind what it called the "Westgate spectacle"

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24191606


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,630 ✭✭✭themandan6611


    Sure who cares, they're black.



    Banned

    scum bag


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 245 ✭✭Hedgemeister


    Imagine if such a scenario played out in this country, armed gang holed up in a shopping centre holding hostages, demanding some unattainable deal from the authorities?

    It's not that we haven't the police and military capacity to deal with it, but we've turned into such a nation of softies the terrorists would be knee deep in Fr. Trendy type clergymen, bleeding hearts, and cheerleading anti-rascist supporters before you could say Al Queda!


  • Posts: 25,909 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    It's not that we haven't the police and military capacity to deal with it, but we've turned into such a nation of softies the terrorists would be knee deep in Fr. Trendy type clergymen, bleeding hearts, and cheerleading anti-rascist supporters before you could say Al Queda!

    You badass.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    I none of our very own resident islamic extremists were caught up in this while on holiday with the kids


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,297 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    Posters getting offended by a comment and carry on quoting the be jaysus out of it :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    IvySlayer wrote: »
    Radical Islamists hurt Muslims as much as others

    99% of Muslims are decent folk. Poverty plus extremism will result in these attacks

    99% per cent of japanese were probably "decent" folk, if you didn't count their mental supremacist beliefs. Firebombing them to f**k softened their cough in that regard


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 433 ✭✭average hero


    You badass.

    Unfortunately he's right though. This was a disgusting event and we have to realize and question why it's not being labelled as a horrible sectarian attack in the Western media as it would be if Christians did this to Muslims (which I don't condone in the least).

    We have become so politically correct that we cannot label things for what they are - these animals who did this should be labelled as such and ripped to pieces in the Western media.


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