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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,023 ✭✭✭testaccount123


    endacl wrote: »
    Fault me hoop. The only 'fault' lies with the prick behind the wheel. I hope he died roaring.

    France should have doubled his benefits, its clearly their own fault here


  • Posts: 14,242 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    You tell the rest of us why its really France and Belgiums fault that these people were murdered yesterday so. We're dying to hear it.
    I don't claim to know, and I suspect the root causes of extremism in Belgium and France defy simplistic, one-line answers.

    I'm saying these are the questions we should be asking. We are all intelligent people, capable of using our brains, and not emitting the first idea that pops into our heads.

    I think it would be helpful if we tried to imagine what it feels like to find comfort in extremist ideology, and why that might be appealing. We should look at economic and educational empowerment as possible solutions, and maybe that's what Norway is getting right.

    But if you think the answers lie in counter-terrorism alone, I think you're fooling youself. I think anyone pursuing that policy is only putting more people in harm's way.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,949 ✭✭✭A Primal Nut


    This guy wants us to think about the feelings of people who rape kids to death and burn apostates alive on camera. Look at this guy everyone.
    Yeah. I want us to better understand how their mind ticks, what they're thinking and feeling when they commit to this ideology.
    The Israelis have managed to reduce suicide attacks to almost nothing despite being surrounded by Islamicists. Unfortunately, its time to start following their example on how its done.
    2016 Jerusalem bus bombing

    Almost 1 in 10 residents of Oslo are Muslims. They've never had a suicide attack, nor are they likely to. It would be interesting to discover why Norwegian muslims don't behave like those from France or Belgium, don't you think?

    Many ISIS members in Syria and Iraq come from Scandinavian countries, including Norway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,610 ✭✭✭ArtSmart


    Seems at the moment he had no links with terrorist groups.

    Described by neighbours as a 'weird loner'. Info is that wife left him recently, he'd become depressed.

    It may well be that he was just that, a psycho loner. So could have been of any race. Time will hopefully give us the full picture.




    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/15/nice-terror-attack-driver-who-killed-84-on-french-riviera-was-cr/


  • Posts: 14,242 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    BoatMad wrote: »
    France has been active recently and historically in many traditional Islamic parts of the world. It has many enemies with long memories. Hence it has long been perceived as an enemy of Islam.
    Norway is one of the few European countries that also sent soldiers to Syria to train the Army against so-called ISIS.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,199 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    One things for sure, they will never attack their best friends Germany.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,506 ✭✭✭✭BoatMad


    Norway is one of the few European countries that also sent soldiers to Syria to train the Army against so-called ISIS.

    Yes. But France's involvement has been over 100s of years in many theatres.

    In the " auld enemy" type of thing


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,023 ✭✭✭testaccount123


    I don't claim to know, and I suspect the root causes of extremism in Belgium and France defy simplistic, one-line answers.

    I'm saying these are the questions we should be asking. We are all intelligent people, capable of using our brains, and not emitting the first idea that pops into our heads.

    I think it would be helpful if we tried to imagine what it feels like to find comfort in extremist ideology, and why that might be appealing. We should look at economic and educational empowerment as possible solutions, and maybe that's what Norway is getting

    But if you think the answers lie in counter-terrorism alone, I think you're fooling youself. I think anyone pursuing that policy is only putting more people in harm's way.
    Muslims didnt start arriving in Norway in any meaningful numbers until the 1990s. Its the second and third generation which are radicalised in France. Just wait.

    The answer is not 'give Muslims more money', thats been tried. Counter terrorism policy akin to Israels is inevitable.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,199 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    ArtSmart wrote: »
    Seems at the moment he had no links with terrorist groups.

    Described by neighbours as a 'weird loner'. Info is that wife left him recently, he'd become depressed.

    It may well be that he was just that, a psycho loner. So could have been of any race. Time will hopefully give us the full picture.




    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/15/nice-terror-attack-driver-who-killed-84-on-french-riviera-was-cr/


    So maybe no link to any group. Just a crazy incident all to do with the person involved and no one else.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,651 ✭✭✭tomofson


    ArtSmart wrote: »
    Seems at the moment he had no links with terrorist groups.

    Described by neighbours as a 'weird loner'. Info is that wife left him recently, he'd become depressed.

    It may well be that he was just that, a psycho loner. So could have been of any race. Time will hopefully give us the full picture.




    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/15/nice-terror-attack-driver-who-killed-84-on-french-riviera-was-cr/

    The anti islam brigade will have to keep on milking hes background though.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,506 ✭✭✭✭BoatMad


    ArtSmart wrote: »
    Seems at the moment he had no links with terrorist groups.

    Described by neighbours as a 'weird loner'. Info is that wife left him recently, he'd become depressed.

    It may well be that he was just that, a psycho loner. So could have been of any race. Time will hopefully give us the full picture.




    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/15/nice-terror-attack-driver-who-killed-84-on-french-riviera-was-cr/

    Indeed. But " strangely " he is a Muslim , and there is in effect s call from radical sections of Islam to strike in any way you can at the west

    Most of the recent attacks have been carried out by " fellow travellers "


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,688 ✭✭✭timmyntc


    So maybe no link to any group. Just a crazy incident all to do with the person involved and no one else.


    With a truck full of explosives, there's surely more to it than just a crazy loner?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,785 ✭✭✭Jesus.


    tomofson wrote: »
    The anti islam brigade.

    How could any right minded individual be anything other than anti Islam?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,506 ✭✭✭✭BoatMad


    tomofson wrote: »
    The anti islam brigade will have to keep on milking hes background though.

    I think it's s fair deduction that he's s radicalised Muslim , that was formerly in trouble ( we e been here before ! )

    It's not a simple nut job


  • Posts: 14,242 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Muslims didnt start arriving in Norway in any meaningful numbers until the 1990s. Its the second and third generation which are radicalised in France. Just wait.

    Ok, lets just sit and wait 3 generations and see if your claim comes true (which makes no rational sense... why would it take generations to materialise?)
    Counter terrorism policy akin to Israels is inevitable
    Countries that are pursuing counterterrorism initiatives, such as France and Belgium, are continuously attacked.

    Norway, which has a history of wealth redistribution, integration and good educational structures, and a large, urban Muslim population, has never been attacked by Islamic extremists.

    Are you suggesting Norway should stop all that, and behave like Israel and France?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,023 ✭✭✭testaccount123


    Here come the 'crazed loner, isnt a Muslim at all' deniers that we get every time Muslims carry out mass murder in France


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭Amalgam


    BoatMad wrote: »
    France has been active recently and historically in many traditional Islamic parts of the world. It has many enemies with long memories. Hence it has long been perceived as an enemy of Islam.

    Not all to do with recent activity. There has been bubbling resentment, anger, in the Tunisian/Moroccan/Algerian populations going back to the 1950s. Algerian war of independence, building boom using mainly North African labour in the 1960s, the offspring of those migrants then being isolated (..and isolating themselves) in the French education system and the very burdensome and over bureaucratic labour market. A grey list of who gets what jobs etc..

    My grandparents were farmers in a small village in the South of France and the arab population, then, lived in awful shacks on the edge of town. There was a very distinct, us and them vibe. The North African men would make themselves available for crop picking work, a lot of it was cash in hand and that was it, no socialising, not even talking, the non african and african workers took breaks apart, ate and spoke apart.

    You have some dark history that is barely known outside France.. Some very very dirty events that show what the popular mood was like, in decades past. Events like the Paris massacre, in 1961.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_massacre_of_1961

    Things have moved on, but it is hard to tell by how much. A polarised society, a deeply resentful one.. still exists in parts of France.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,651 ✭✭✭tomofson


    Here come the 'crazed loner, isnt a Muslim at all' deniers that we get every time Muslims carry out mass murder in France

    Just noticing truths you refuse to.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,519 ✭✭✭Flint Fredstone


    tomofson wrote: »
    Just noticing truths you refuse to.

    Truths? Have you verified these claims?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,950 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    Jesus. wrote: »
    How could any right minded individual be anything other than anti Islam?

    I'm anti all religions.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,788 ✭✭✭weisses


    An actual reaction seems to be taking an alarmingly long time. The parade of apologists for this murderous ideology every time there is an attack is infuriating.

    12% of the US population is African American

    37% of the people in Prison is African American

    Can you label them with Having a Backwards ideology as well? Or is there something else at play

    I do however see similarities in how both groups live and gets treated


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭donegaLroad


    change your FB profile pic to the French flag.. that will make them think twice before 'they' do anything stupid again


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,950 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    timmyntc wrote: »
    With a truck full of explosives, there's surely more to it than just a crazy loner?

    Link to explosives?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,519 ✭✭✭Flint Fredstone


    change your FB profile pic to the French flag.. that will make them think twice before 'they' do anything stupid again

    How original...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,506 ✭✭✭✭BoatMad


    Ok, lets just sit and wait 3 generations and see if your claim comes true (which makes no rational sense... why would it take generations to materialise?)

    Countries that are pursuing counterterrorism initiatives, such as France and Belgium, are continuously attacked.

    Norway, which has a history of wealth redistribution, integration and good educational structures, and a large, urban Muslim population, has never been attacked by Islamic extremists.

    Are you suggesting Norway should stop all that, and behave like Israel and France?

    France has an embedded Muslim culture that is not present in Norway where significant Muslim populations are recent.

    It's takes time to embed Muslim culture amongst a countries population , seperate school development , religious teaching etc all take time to establish themselves.

    In France's case as in Britian the issue is second or even third generation domestic Muslim that be one radicalised by what the see happening in the MA.

    In Norway ,as elsewhere , first generation immigrants tend to keep their head down.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,298 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    which makes no rational sense... why would it take generations to materialise?
    Actually makes good sense and seems to be part of what happens. I suppose the first generation see themselves as "foreign" and tend to keep their heads down and are often grateful for the new home if they've come from a hellhole. The second and third generations are naturalised "locals" born and bred, but are seen and treated as foreign so this is more likely to cause friction, particularly among younger men if their job opportunities are lacking and the latter is or is seen to be because of institutionalised racism within a culture.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,227 ✭✭✭✭jmayo


    Well some must do because all we hear in these threads are people claiming that muslim communities are harbouring them and giving g them support.

    It aint Middle East we should worry about, but Europe.
    One of the Paris attackers was hiding out in Brussels for how long ?
    And when he was arrested some of the locals got a little upset.

    Winning the war in Iraq and Syria will wipe all of this out and if only ISIS were defeated everyone would be grand is being short sighted.

    As for the idea of using nukes on a chunk of wherever is laughable and something you hear some Americans trot out in a bar.

    Comparing extremist and fundamental muslims to Christians, Hindus etc is in my mind just trying to obfuscate and basically deflect the problem.

    This is a problem that all muslims, in Europe especially and indeed in other parts of the world, are going to have to accept is now a major problem that is linked to their religion.
    When do we see the mass protest rallies after a major muslim fundamentalist attack or do we only see them when a cartoon is printed ?

    As usually happens in these threads we also get an attempt to obfuscate the debate further by comparing islamic terrorists to the likes of the IRA, ETA, etc.
    IRA, ETA were linked to one particular country and one particular cause, the independence or self determination for one particular patch of land.

    Islamic terrorists are not linked any one country or the freedom of any one patch of land.
    That has long since died with PLO.

    But no matter what way you swing it they are all linked to one particular religion and the only discernible aims are to firstly rid their islamic world of western influence, wipe out anyone that doesn't follow their devout interpretation of islam and then spread that to the wider world.
    Boko Haram grew out of desire to stop western education.

    Fundamentalist islam and islamisation is being pushed by the Saudis and some other gulf states.
    That is a huge worry and politicians in the West, bar the right wingers, appear to be ignoring it.
    Even worse the government and media turn to these exact people when someone wants to discuss islam.

    What is happening would be akin to Bills Gates/Warren Buffet bankrolling churches worldwide that spread the Westboro Baptist Church version of christianity.

    People would be screaming from the rooftops, but yet Wahhabism or Salafism is quietly being spread across the world and indeed in Ireland.

    I am not allowed discuss …



  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,785 ✭✭✭Jesus.


    Amalgam wrote: »
    Algerian war of independence, building boom using mainly North African labour in the 1960s, the offspring of those migrants then being isolated (..and isolating themselves).

    Funny that second generation Irish didn't start ploughing through their English compatriots in a truck after England's building boom in the 60's used Irish labour. I can recall only one English Ra-head of Irish parents and they were Protestants.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,023 ✭✭✭testaccount123


    I'm anti all religions.

    lol


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭Amalgam


    Jesus. wrote: »
    Funny that second generation Irish didn't start ploughing through their English compatriots in a truck after England's building boom in the 60's used Irish labour. I can recall only one English Ra-head of Irish parents and they were Protestants.

    I'm not making excuses about last night's events, just pointing out there's decades at work there.. Just saying.


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