This morning, at the Place De Verdun in Paris, a vehicle drove right at a group of soldiers during a drill. A BMW drove directly at the soldiers before driving off. To of the soldiers where seriously wounded.
"Local mayor slammed attack as a 'deliberate, odious act of aggression"
Let's not speculate yet..but let's see how this develops. And if..you know, it's an act by the religion of peace, this must be as far as I know, the first attack on actual soldiers on European soil. Does it mark a new era of conflict within Europe?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4773988/Six-soldiers-wounded-Paris.html
As London's mayor Sadiq Khan said terror attacks are “part and parcel of living in a big city”!! This is the new normal.
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New? No. Its the old normal. London has been subject to terrorist attacks for decades. Spain has been suffering from terrorism for a long time to thanks to Basque separatists. Large cities have and will always be the primary targets for terrorism.
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I think it's a little false to use the IRA conflict to sort of apologize for Islamic terror in Europe. There hasn't been any form of terrorism other than Islamic terrorism in Germany with casualties since 1993.
In France there has been almost exclusively islamic terrorist attacks throughout the 80s 90s and escalating in the 2000s.
Same in the US, as showed under.
Muslims in the US stands for under 1% of the population but carry out 27% of all terrorist attacks.
And you can't rule out the fact of what's trending. Is right wing terrorist attacks trending, or are islamic? Give me a list of right wing terrorist attacks in Europe since 2013 vs muslim terrorist attacks with casualties in the same period.
I don't know about any right wing attacks
And that's because there aren't any. After your beloved IRA stopped bombing you can see what's trending in Europe, and let me tell you, it ain't right wing terrorist attacks.
Also keep in mind how relatively few muslims are in Europe, and they now stand for almost all (or all?) terrorist attacks.
If you don't think that trend is scary, then you're just an apologist for islamic extremists.
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I'm not apologising for anything or anyone. I've not made any claims about right wing terrorism. All I said in my comment is that terrorism is not a new thing in Europe, and that major cities have and always will be the main targets for terrorists.
The only thing that has changed over time is who is doing the terrorising. Yes there was a general period of peace where nothing happened and now we have a new enemy. I'm not disputing that.
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Ok. Sounds reasonable.
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Yes, we had european terrorism in the past, but we evolved and had almost 20 years of relative peace in Europe. Now we have to go back in evolution thanks to our cultural diversity "resources" ?
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Paris is a beautiful city. I love, thank you for this great picture.
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Uh..no. That was not what the post was about.
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These kinds of people are getting annoying. Not reading the post, but instantly commenting and hoping you check their profile too.
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This is what happens when I roll our of bed and dont turn on my local news. Thank fully it can be sourced here.
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I wouldn't say it marks an era of new conflict in Europe, merely the adoption of a new strategy. The IRA loved to hide bombs in bins, that was their thing, so we removed all the public bins in city centers. Now that they're replaced with a new terrorist group, and that group has brought a new strategy, using cars to run people over.
I don't think anything has changed in Europe, we've always suffered from terrorism. Its just who the terrorists are has changed.
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The question would be; have we always suffered from terrorism, or have we always suffered from a mighty government controllong people?
This does not mean I'm supporting any sort of violence. I do however support self-defence. The one entity that most people have had to, or should have protected themselves against during our history, is the goverment.
Now, all terrorism is not self defence, but still it might add something to it?
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Well as the saying goes, "one man's terrorist, is another man's freedom fighter".
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Yeah, and getting robbed is paying you fair share when the government demands your stuff xD
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lol!
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Nice post
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And the Media gives the lowest coverage possible to these facts, but in local news these "small, non terrorist acts" seem to rise in number in Europestan.
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It's amazing to me as an American how little (still) my fellow countrymen connect the dots with these attacks.
The countries that occupy and destabilize the Middle East for over a century decide to allow the refugees they helped create flow into their countries, and then with shocking ignorance, are crying in the streets when they are attacked by these refugees.
I don't even touch the religious aspect, as I believe if China invaded and occupied the US for 100 years, you would have a lot of "insurgents" joining up with extremist Christians to fight the "Godless" Communists.
Invasion always radicalizes the population. Hence by the US funds the most extreme when trying to overthrow a government (Ukraine, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq).
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