39 killed in terrorist bombing in Mogadishu

Atlantic Dawn

39 killed in a terrorist bombing in Mogadishu today, the world is a dangerous place...

A car bomb ripped through a market in Mogadishu today, killing 39 people and injuring around 50, a local official said, days after Somalia elected a new president.

The car was driven by a suicide bomber, said Ahmed Abdulle Afrax, the mayor of Wadajir district where the bombing happened.

"We carried 39 dead bodies and there were many others injured," Dr Abdikadir Abdirahman, director of the Aamin Ambulance Service, said.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2017/0219/853828-somalia-market-bomb/

#PrayForMogadishu

Jack the Stripper

And the weather op?

Stigura

" Black Hawk Down " was a good film

jacksie66

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Atlantic Dawn

jacksie66 wrote: »

And stop with those stupid virtue signalling hashtags...

My post was to take the piss out of mainstream media, if 2 or 3 people were gunned down in a European city by terrorists this evening we would be in hashtag this hashtag that, change lights on buildings to match the country etc etc, but because it's a 3rd world country that 39 people were blown to bits it's a full case of fook them, sad but true.

wakka12

jacksie66 wrote: »

The world is the safest its ever been. It seems so bad due to quick access to news and 24 rolling media coverage.
You think the world was a grand auld happy place for the last 1000 years?

And stop with those stupid virtue signalling hashtags...

Well its different type of safety. Yes murder and assault rates and the like are down..but they didnt have the means (such as concealable highly effective bombs) 1000 years ago to cause such high fatalities in such a short amount of time. Its very much a modern danger and we shouldn't try to take away from the severity of things like this with that argument!

Jack the Stripper

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

My post was to take the piss out of mainstream media, if 2 or 3 people were gunned down in a European city by terrorists this evening we would be in hashtag this hashtag that, change lights on buildings to match the country etc etc, but because it's a 3rd world country that 39 people were blown to bits it's a full case of fook them, sad but true.

Keep the hashtag for that twitter crap.

jacksie66

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newacc2015

wakka12 wrote: »

Well its different type of safety. Yes murder and assault rates and the like are down..but they didnt have the means (such as concealable highly effective bombs) 1000 years ago to cause such high fatalities in such a short amount of time. Its very much a modern danger and we shouldn't try to take away from the severity of things like this with that argument!

I disagree with this. People seem to forget that Europeans were blowing up other Europeans until very recently? I am not talking WWII. Look at the IRA bombing the **** out of London for ****s and giggles. Or the fact that nearly all terrorist attacks pre-2004/2005 in Europe were carried out by European separatists. When the London bombing were carried out, the IRA was suspected immediately for it. I think that says a lot of the Europe we live

Have a look at all the Europeans, who killed over Europeans for their 'cause'. We might like to talk about these terrorist attacks, as we might like to admit that Europeans love to kill each other for poor reasons like muslim terrorists do
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_Europe

We are in a unique period in Europe. We arent killing each other like we used. We haven't gone to war with each other in decades. There are no separatists bombing up innocent people for the sake of it. Yet you think we live in a unsafe period....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_Europe#/media/File:Terrorist_Attacks_in_the_EU_by_Affiliation.png

This graph is really interesting. Notice how nearly all terrorists are separatists? It is amazing that the media does not like to report the fact Europeans until very recently used to regularly kill a lot of other Europeans. We are only afraid of terror attacks now since the people are different to us IMO and media likes to report that

rachb

jacksie66 wrote: »

The world is the safest its ever been. It seems so bad due to quick access to news and 24 rolling media coverage.
You think the world was a grand auld happy place for the last 1000 years?

Really??
So all these countries who have been bombed in the last few years haven't been affected tourism?

jacksie66

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Noveight

Never heard of Mogadishu before. Something new every single day.

Jack the Stripper

jacksie66 wrote: »

rachb wrote: »

Tourism? What are you on about..

#wildatlanticway maybe?

eeguy

150,000 people die every day.

All my Facebook friends and twitter followers left me as I had them flooded with hash tags and news links.

#prayforeeguy

Stigura

Noveight wrote: »

Never heard of Mogadishu before.

" Black Hawk Down " was a good film

rachb

jacksie66 wrote: »

rachb wrote: »

Tourism? What are you on about..

You said the world is the safest it's ever been.
If it is then why aren't people still travelling to these places that are being attacked?
The world is a real dangerous place at the moment. Most people don't care about bombings in Africa the way they do if it happened closer to home but they will choose different destinations to holiday due to these circumstances.

BorneTobyWilde

Had this happened in Ireland we'd have more than a few posts. I guess truth be told all lives don't matter and are not equal in the eyes of most.

Banana Republican

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Had this happened in Ireland we'd have more than a few posts. I guess truth be told all lives don't matter and are not equal in the eyes of most.

The same MSM that drone on 24/7 about what a bad guy Trump is couldn't give a hoot about these people because they are dark skinned. If it had happened in France or Italy we'd have wall to wall blanket coverage. MSM is racist.

dav3

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

My post was to take the piss out of mainstream media, if 2 or 3 people were gunned down in a European city by terrorists this evening we would be in hashtag this hashtag that, change lights on buildings to match the country etc etc, but because it's a 3rd world country that 39 people were blown to bits it's a full case of fook them, sad but true.

Your post quoted from what one would assume to be mainstream media. Are you perhaps mixing up mainstream media with what your friends on twitter and facebook are posting?
Your faux outrage is pointing in the wrong direction.

wakka12

newacc2015 wrote: »

I disagree with this. People seem to forget that Europeans were blowing up other Europeans until very recently? I am not talking WWII. Look at the IRA bombing the **** out of London for ****s and giggles. Or the fact that nearly all terrorist attacks pre-2004/2005 in Europe were carried out by European separatists. When the London bombing were carried out, the IRA was suspected immediately for it. I think that says a lot of the Europe we live

Have a look at all the Europeans, who killed over Europeans for their 'cause'. We might like to talk about these terrorist attacks, as we might like to admit that Europeans love to kill each other for poor reasons like muslim terrorists do
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_Europe

We are in a unique period in Europe. We arent killing each other like we used. We haven't gone to war with each other in decades. There are no separatists bombing up innocent people for the sake of it. Yet you think we live in a unsafe period....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_Europe#/media/File:Terrorist_Attacks_in_the_EU_by_Affiliation.png

This graph is really interesting. Notice how nearly all terrorists are separatists? It is amazing that the media does not like to report the fact Europeans until very recently used to regularly kill a lot of other Europeans. We are only afraid of terror attacks now since the people are different to us IMO and media likes to report that

My post was not about this at all. I didnt once mention muslims or who were carrying out attacks like this. My post was referring to the fact that terrorism has taken a new form in the modern age, where you have technological means to create bombs that kill hundreds of people in seconds. Something which was not possible a thousand years ago. So while the world is safer on average today than it used to be, there is still this new danger which people hundreds of years ago never had to deal with.

For Forks Sake

rachb wrote: »

Really??
So all these countries who have been bombed in the last few years haven't been affected tourism?

I don't think anyone can claim that Mogadishu, where they have been knocking the sh1t out of each other for nigh on a quarter of a century now, is on too many peoples Must Visit list.

wakka12

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Had this happened in Ireland we'd have more than a few posts. I guess truth be told all lives don't matter and are not equal in the eyes of most.

Had this happened in Ireland do you think that it would be a major discussion topic on Somalian internet forums? Somehow I doubt.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Had this happened in Ireland we'd have more than a few posts. I guess truth be told all lives don't matter and are not equal in the eyes of most.

Or, you know, people can't relate to Mogadishu.

Butters1979

wakka12 wrote: »

Had this happened in Ireland do you think that it would be a major discussion topic on Somalian internet forums? Somehow I doubt.

It sure wouldn't. So that must mean Somalian's are racist right?

Or it could just be people are much more concerned with stuff that happens in their own country.

RasTa

That's my job done.

twill

newacc2015 wrote: »

I disagree with this. People seem to forget that Europeans were blowing up other Europeans until very recently? I am not talking WWII. Look at the IRA bombing the **** out of London for ****s and giggles. Or the fact that nearly all terrorist attacks pre-2004/2005 in Europe were carried out by European separatists. When the London bombing were carried out, the IRA was suspected immediately for it. I think that says a lot of the Europe we live

Well, that would be to leave out loyalist bomb attacks in Dublin, Monaghan, Belfast, etc, probably with British involvement; the Rote Armee Fraktion/Baader Meinhof Gang; Operation Gladio (NATO/CIA), and more, none of which had anything to do with separatism (except tangentially in the case of the RAF).

The reality is that the vast majority of terrorist attacks occur outside of the so-called western world because the theatre of operations for all major conflict in the world has shifted to the developing world and the Middle East, where the resources are, and all major powers have a finger, or rather a hand, in that pie.

Which makes it rather sickening that the response from western leaders to the French attacks was it was an attack on "our" way of life and "the west" in general. It certainly plays into American and European exceptionalism.

Richard Hillman

These attacks that nobody gives a **** about (and I have no problem in saying I couldn't give a flying ****) are usually a precursor to an attack on Europe. And all of the ISIS apologists and enablers usually point out "something, something Somalia last week, blah, blah, flags on Facebook".

suicide_circus

PRAY FOR MOJO

Dr Crayfish

We don't care because we know nothing about Mogadishu or relate to the people there. They're not white, they don't look like us, it's a completely alien culture.
Are people really wondering why we were all shocked by the Paris attacks and don't care about this?
We go to France on holidays, France has influenced our culture a lot, they look like us...
It's not rocket science!

red ears

jacksie66 wrote: »

And stop with those stupid virtue signalling hashtags...

The hashtags are ridiculous, i'll hashtag #prayformogadishu and then wipe my hands of the whole thing. That's my bit done. I feel good about myself now..

Mint Sauce

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

My post was to take the piss out of mainstream media, if 2 or 3 people were gunned down in a European city by terrorists this evening we would be in hashtag this hashtag that, change lights on buildings to match the country etc etc, but because it's a 3rd world country that 39 people were blown to bits it's a full case of fook them, sad but true.

This thread would possibly also be near 30 pages long rather than the current 3. Seems people only usally care if it happens in a western country. For that reason, and to highlight terrorism also happens else where, if I were to highlight it on my FB or Twitter, I would probably post Pray for (Insert Middle City Here), or a Middle Eastern Country Flag, before I would post a Western one.

RobertKK

This thread/topic made a very valid point.

riffmongous

Say what you like about MSM but the BBC website is very good for covering these attacks, and world affairs that you won't hear about in other places.

riffmongous

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

We don't care because we know nothing about Mogadishu or relate to the people there. They're not white, they don't look like us, it's a completely alien culture.
Are people really wondering why we were all shocked by the Paris attacks and don't care about this?
We go to France on holidays, France has influenced our culture a lot, they look like us...
It's not rocket science!

I disagree on the looking like us part.. violence in south and central america rarely makes the news and they look like us (or at least like south europeans)

Arne_Saknussem

red ears wrote: »

The hashtags are ridiculous, i'll hashtag #prayformogadishu and then wipe my hands of the whole thing. That's my bit done. I feel good about myself now..

Atrocity hipsters claiming the moral high ground, nothing new.

Dohnjoe

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

My post was to take the piss out of mainstream media, if 2 or 3 people were gunned down in a European city by terrorists this evening we would be in hashtag this hashtag that, change lights on buildings to match the country etc etc, but because it's a 3rd world country that 39 people were blown to bits it's a full case of fook them, sad but true.

The "mainstream media" reflects what we deem interesting or newsworthy.

Essentially if you created a news show that covered the most significant incidents impacting human lives across the world, starting with the most significant.. it would be 4 hours long and few would watch it