Another terror attack, 15 dead.

Rekop dog

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/06/deadly-car-bomb-attack-rocks-somalia-mogadishu-170620111009266.html

Death toll expected to rise. Horrible scenes.

Glenster

15 Black people dead.

Pac1Man

Ah it's grand. Not the West.

silverharp

a bit click bait there, you know the equation, 1 Yank = 10 Europeans = 100 Asians = 1000 Africans.

wakka12

silverharp wrote: »

a bit click bait there, you know the equation, 1 Yank = 10 Europeans = 100 Asians = 1000 Africans.

Mostly true but Ive noticed that people who die in terrorist attacks in asia or africa even if they are american or european victims receive very little coverage too.
Like 5 westerners were killed at that resort in Mali a couple days ago, wouldnt say it exactly shook the world like 6 westerns killed in london did

Spanish Eyes

Sad but true, when it happens over THERE (Somalia, Sudan, Syria etc.), it just does not register with many the same as European/US terrorist attacks.

Maybe that's because very very few of us will ever visit the hotspots in Africa/Middle East now and have no experience of the people or the countries either. Whereas many have travelled all around Europe and the States.

I know there are intrepid travellers out there, but that is a tiny minority of people. But I dunno, it's very sad no matter what.

Glenster

Glenster wrote: »

Am I the only one who was horrified, clicked on the link but as soon as I saw Somalia closed the link without reading it?

Yeah I did that as well. Somalia is very far away and we have no close ties. I actually talked about this with my Ethiopian friend before, he said its the same in Africa when they open up a link and see people in Europe have died they also dont care to much. It's just human nature, you care about the people who are close to you and have links to you.

How Soon Is Now

**** sake this is awful!!
























The Somalian flag is gonna look like **** over my facebook profile picture......

wakka12

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Sad but true, when it happens over THERE (Somalia, Sudan, Syria etc.), it just does not register with many the same as European/US terrorist attacks.

Maybe that's because very very few of us will ever visit the hotspots in Africa/Middle East now and have no experience of the people or the countries either. Whereas many have travelled all around Europe and the States.

I know there are intrepid travellers out there, but that is a tiny minority of people. But I dunno, it's very sad no matter what.

Its a mixture of that and the fact that London and Paris etc are ordinarily extremely safe and peaceful places..its why its so shocking. Much more so that the skin colour of the victims or the fact that theyre places we visit

Dravokivich

It has nothing to do with perceived value of people based on their region. It's so far away from us it's practically noise for the most part.

Rekop dog

Dravokivich wrote: »

It has nothing to do with perceived value of people based on their region. It's so far away from us it's practically noise for the most part.

Australia is further away and believe me it wouldn't be just noise if something similar were to happen there.

JPCN1

Al-shabab... More innocents through the meat grinder of militant islam. A55holes.

wakka12

Rekop dog wrote: »

Australia is further away and believe me it wouldn't be just noise if something similar were to happen there.

It would undoubtedly be less covered than if it occurred in europe.
The amount of coverage in Ireland and UK of a terrorist attacks has to do with location, cultural ties, victims ages and nationality, and nature of the crime/intent/motive and also the perceived crime rate and poltical/military stability of the nation in which it occurs

Rekop dog

wakka12 wrote: »

It would undoubtedly be less covered than if it occurred in europe.
The amount of coverage in Ireland and UK of a terrorist attacks has to do with location, cultural ties, victims ages and nationality, and nature of the crime/intent/motive and also the perceived crime rate and poltical/military stability of the nation in which it occurs

It would register infinitely more than this has that's for sure so the distance argument doesn't really hold through. From a quick scam of websites: Sky news, Guardain, Journal, this has yet to even get the smallest amount of coverage.

Rekop dog

Rekop dog wrote: »

Australia is further away and believe me it wouldn't be just noise if something similar were to happen there.

Well obviously Lots of Irish go off to Australia on working holiday visas and we have strong cultural ties to OZ. It's a bit obvious why we would care more about OZ than Africa, we are more likely to be affected by it. England/Ireland/OZ/Canada all have strong ties due to our common language and common history.

Rekop dog

Toll rises to 18, some truly harrowing pictures being released of aftermath.

Sweetemotion

silverharp wrote: »

a bit click bait there, you know the equation, 1 Yank = 10 Europeans = 100 Asians = 1000 Africans.

Stop. With that agenda crap, a life=a life.

You should be ashamed, using this event for your own political goal.

thee glitz

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Sad but true, when it happens over THERE (Somalia, Sudan, Syria etc.), it just does not register with many the same as European/US terrorist attacks.

This massacre brings total reported killings in the name of Islam to about 220 for the last week.

TROP report for 2017:

There were 1013 Islamic attacks in 47 countries, in which 7334 people were killed and 7770 injured

Omackeral

Sweetemotion wrote: »

Stop. With that agenda crap, a life=a life.

You should be ashamed, using this event for your own political goal.

Pretty sure it's satire.

Harry Palmr

Sweetemotion wrote: »

Stop. With that agenda crap, a life=a life.

You should be ashamed, using this event for your own political goal.

Whoosh, you have made the mistake of reading that post in a very literal fashion, it plays on the truism of our parochial view of the world

How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is, that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here, because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing...

etc.

FireFoxBoy

The news is catered for the white western world. The last time I checked, Africans didn't care too much for Europeans living in Africa.

FireFoxBoy

FireFoxBoy wrote: »

The last time I checked, Africans didn't care too much for Europeans living in Africa.

When exactly was the last time you checked?

In my experience, African media (certainly in South Africa .. can't say I've surveyed an entire continent as you seem to claim) are *extremely* sensitive to racial tensions, on all sides.

Indeed, some African media articles have even resulted in hysterical claims of a "white genocide"

What are you basing your claim on?

FireFoxBoy

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

FireFoxBoy wrote: »

The last time I checked, Africans didn't care too much for Europeans living in Africa.

When exactly was the last time you checked?

In my experience, African media (certainly in South Africa ..  can't say I've surveyed an entire continent as you seem to claim) are *extremely* sensitive to racial tensions, on all sides.

Indeed, some African media articles have even resulted in hysterical claims of a "white genocide"

What are you basing your claim on?

South Africa's treatment of white people.

biko

The religion of peace strikes again