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Gun attack at Christmas market, Strasbourg.

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    #122
    Stephen15
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    BBFAN wrote: »
    I'm not a bit delighted. I'm devastated for the dead and their families as I've already stated.

    It's awful that innocent people are killed in their homeland.

    But you're tears and sympathies won't bring the dead back to life. We need to look at measures to prevent these savage attacks happening in the future. Saying "Je suis Charlie" or changing your Facebook profile picture to a French flag won't do anything either.

    What will prevent terrorist attacks is tougher immigration laws and the deportation of those with extreme Islamic beliefs will prevent terror attacks happening in the future.


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    #123
    malinheader
    Registered Users Posts: 4,871 ✭✭✭malinheader


    When is enough going to be enough. How many more innocent citizens have to be killed before they see that what there doing is not working and is getting worse. Our government needs to take a good hard look at what's happening in a lot of other countries.


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    #124
    SEPT 23 1989
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    absolute wimp in charge don't expect much response


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    #125
    Andrew00
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    Cultural enrichment.


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    #126
    BBFAN
    Registered Users Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭BBFAN


    Andrew00 wrote: »
    Cultural enrichment.



    :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:


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    #127
    The Rape of Lucretia
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    Stephen15 wrote: »
    What will prevent terrorist attacks is tougher immigration laws and the deportation of those with extreme Islamic beliefs will prevent terror attacks happening in the future.

    The long term goal though must surely be curing the world from Islam.


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    #128
    BBFAN
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    Andrew00 wrote: »
    Cultural enrichment.


    If Boards were to carry out an analysis of posts for 2018, this has to be No. 1.


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    #129
    Andrew00
    Registered Users Posts: 2,484 ✭✭✭Andrew00


    Mutant z wrote: »
    As usual the do gooders are out in force making excuses for this blatant savagery absolute shame on them.

    Spot on. It’s almost as if they support these attacks


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    #130
    BBFAN
    Registered Users Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭BBFAN


    Andrew00 wrote: »
    Spot on. It’s almost as if they support these attacks

    See above.


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    #131
    Ronan|Raven
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    One hell of a mess now that they didn't manage to capture him / shoot him on Tuesday.

    From France24
    According to local newspaper Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace, the suspect is from Hohberg, in the Koenigshoffen district of Strasbourg. He was sentenced in 2011 to two years in prison for assault with a weapon, says the newspaper, though there has been no official information released on the suspect's identity.

    Meanwhile, AFP says that the suspect was due to be arrested earlier on Tuesday for an attempted murder.


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    #132
    Danzy
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    Confirmed as a diversity incident.


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    #133
    Andrew00
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    The gunman was doing it in the name of Islam but the Do-Gooders will claim he done it after suffering racism and discrimination all his life or something like that


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    #134
    [Deleted User]
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    His name is on Twitter.


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    #135
    BBFAN
    Registered Users Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭BBFAN


    Danzy wrote: »
    Confirmed as a diversity incident.

    What's a diversity incident? Please explain?


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    #136
    languagenerd
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    Stephen15 wrote: »
    BBFAN wrote: »
    I'm not a bit delighted. I'm devastated for the dead and their families as I've already stated.


    What will prevent terrorist attacks is tougher immigration laws and the deportation of those with extreme Islamic beliefs will prevent terror attacks happening in the future.

    This man, it seems, wasn't an immigrant - he was born in Strasbourg in 1989. Most of the Paris attackers were born in Belgium, to settled immigrant families who arrived 30+ years ago. One was French and not even from an Islamic background - he converted in 2002.

    Absolutely, there needs to be more resources put into the screening of immigrants, especially from ISIS-related countries, but that alone won't solve the problem. Most of these attackers tend to be disillusioned young-ish men, radicalised within the country they were born in. There needs to be an equal effort in tackling the reasons they become radicalised, catching those doing the radicalising and providing better opportunities in areas that are at risk of becoming ghettoised (France, in particular, has a decades-long problem with ghettos and disenfranchisement. Tackling that would reduce the pool of people susceptible to being radicalised on the first place.)


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    #137
    CFlat
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    BBFAN wrote: »
    What's a diversity incident?


    Synchronised dancing.


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    #138
    4068ac1elhodqr
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    France 3rd favourite, of the 26 remaining, to leave the EU before 2025.
    https://www.oddschecker.com/politics/german-politics/european-politics/to-leave-the-eu-before-end-of-2025

    Who knows, but 7yrs worth of Christmas markets, is a long time in politics.
    Just 1 week of protests, directly created a minimum wage increase, and tax diversions.


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    #139
    Sycamore Tree
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    Ray Donovan wrote: »
    Decided to travel to a European Christmas market last year. Actually chose Budapest for obvious reasons.

    What reasons? There are many cities with way better Xmas markets than Budapest. Vienna just 2 hours up the river is one.


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    #140
    CinemaGuy45
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    BBFAN wrote: »
    :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

    Nothing intelligent to add I see.


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    #141
    seamus
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    Nala Creamy Mountaineer wrote: »
    France 3rd favourite, of the 26 remaining, to leave the EU before 2025.
    https://www.oddschecker.com/politics/german-politics/european-politics/to-leave-the-eu-before-end-of-2025

    Who knows, but 7yrs worth of Christmas markets, is a long time in politics.
    Just 1 week of protests, directly created a minimum wage increase, and tax diversions.
    Yeah, but this has nothing to do with current immigration policy, and arguably is instead strongly linked to the anti-capitalist marches in that wealth inequality and free capitalism tends to cause the kind of disillusionment and anger that fuels these attacks. Leaving the EU won't make them stop, nor make them less likely in future.

    Plus the fact that this guy is clearly a psychopath rather than a devoted soldier of ISIS is always a factor.


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    #142
    BBFAN
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    CinemaGuy45 wrote: »
    Nothing intelligent to add I see.

    That is irony at its finest.


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    #143
    Sycamore Tree
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    BBFAN wrote: »
    That is irony at its finest.

    That's not irony.


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    #144
    emptyhouse2222
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    languagenerd wrote: »
    This man, it seems, wasn't an immigrant - he was born in Strasbourg in 1989. Most of the Paris attackers were born in Belgium, to settled immigrant families who arrived 30+ years ago. One was French and not even from an Islamic background - he converted in 2002.

    Absolutely, there needs to be more resources put into the screening of immigrants, especially from ISIS-related countries, but that alone won't solve the problem. Most of these attackers tend to be disillusioned young-ish men, radicalised within the country they were born in. There needs to be an equal effort in tackling the reasons they become radicalised, catching those doing the radicalising and providing better opportunities in areas that are at risk of becoming ghettoised (France, in particular, has a decades-long problem with ghettos and disenfranchisement. Tackling that would reduce the pool of people susceptible to being radicalised on the first place.)

    tell that to the victims


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    #145
    emptyhouse2222
    Closed Accounts Posts: 119 ✭✭emptyhouse2222


    malinheader wrote: »
    When is enough going to be enough. How many more innocent citizens have to be killed before they see that what there doing is not working and is getting worse. Our government needs to take a good hard look at what's happening in a lot of other countries.

    for politicians, journalists and apologists the victims are only collateral damage


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    #146
    Dante7
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    BBFAN wrote: »
    What's a diversity incident? Please explain?

    BBFAN, you are engaging in what is known as "Sealioning".


    "Sealioning is a type of trolling or harassment which consists of pursuing people with persistent requests for evidence or repeated questions, while maintaining a pretense of civility"


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    #147
    emptyhouse2222
    Closed Accounts Posts: 119 ✭✭emptyhouse2222


    Dante7 wrote: »
    BBFAN, you are engaging in what is known as "Sealioning".


    "Sealioning is a type of trolling or harassment which consists of pursuing people with persistent requests for evidence or repeated questions, while maintaining a pretense of civility"

    getting loads of replies too(not from me)


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    #148
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    BBFAN wrote: »
    That is irony at its finest.

    You add nothing to this board your just a troll and you have disrupted every thread you have spewed your garbage in.

    I will be 100% honest I suspect that boards.ie has leftwing leanings that are why posters like you are allowed to get away with your outrages behaviour.



    Innocent people are dead yet again and I am sad and furious and I am calling you on your BS.


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    #149
    4068ac1elhodqr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    seamus wrote: »
    Yeah, but this has nothing to do with current immigration policy, and arguably is instead strongly linked to the anti-capitalist marches in that wealth inequality and free capitalism tends to cause the kind of disillusionment and anger that fuels these attacks. Leaving the EU won't make them stop, nor make them less likely in future.

    Like Brexit, it would only need to be a protest vote of sorts. The protesters may well (rightly or wrongly) consider the EU to be slightly capitalist or globalist in nature anyway.
    seamus wrote: »
    Plus the fact that this guy is clearly a psychopath rather than a devoted soldier of ISIS is always a factor.

    Rather surprisingly, haven't see the term 'mental health' issue been used for this incident, you're actually the first as of yet. For this chap who was already very heavily weaponised and on a high-level watchlist.

    For the three women critically attacked yesterday, outside a train station by a chap with a knife (also in Eastern France), it was just a 'mental health' indicent, apparently.


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    #150
    languagenerd
    Registered Users Posts: 3,201 ✭✭✭languagenerd


    emptyhouse2222 wrote: »
    languagenerd wrote: »
    This man, it seems, wasn't an immigrant - he was born in Strasbourg in 1989. Most of the Paris attackers were born in Belgium, to settled immigrant families who arrived 30+ years ago. One was French and not even from an Islamic background - he converted in 2002.

    Absolutely, there needs to be more resources put into the screening of immigrants, especially from ISIS-related countries, but that alone won't solve the problem. Most of these attackers tend to be disillusioned young-ish men, radicalised within the country they were born in. There needs to be an equal effort in tackling the reasons they become radicalised, catching those doing the radicalising and providing better opportunities in areas that are at risk of becoming ghettoised (France, in particular, has a decades-long problem with ghettos and disenfranchisement. Tackling that would reduce the pool of people susceptible to being radicalised on the first place.)

    tell that to the victims

    What's that supposed to mean?


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    #151
    emptyhouse2222
    Closed Accounts Posts: 119 ✭✭emptyhouse2222


    languagenerd wrote: »
    What's that supposed to mean?


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