Explosion at Brussels Airport (Update: also at Molenbeek metro station) 34 dead

[Helsinkian]

All the European politicians will say they are in shock. They will wear a Belgian flag pin in their jacket lapels. They will march hand in hand in a memorial.

And right after that, they will go back to business as usual: having learnt nothing, they will continue to open Europe's borders to the people who commit these atrocities. And they will call their critics racists.

If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, maybe we should get the hint regarding the attempts to make islam and Western civilization co-exist.

[Helsinkian]

Shut the f**k up.

Wow, what an impressive argument!

[Helsinkian]

You're damn right I give a f**K. I've had it.

You're this person, aren't you?

Because as far as I'm concerned their right to free speech is SUSPENDED. Because MY right not to be bothered by their or anyone else's similar bullsh**t ultimately SUPERSEDES their right to free speech.

Guess again. There is no such human right as a "right not to be bothered by the opinions of others". The world isn't one big liberal arts college campus. Deal with it. And if you can't deal with it, tough sh**t.

And to return to the topic of the discussion, anecdote is not evidence. Yes, there are many pleasant Muslims who do not intend to engage in terrorism. But in no way does that erase the huge numbers of Muslims who at the very least sympathise with terrorism. After the Charlie Hebdo attack, 27 percent of British Muslims said that they sympathised with the attackers (another 8 percent were unsure). That is not "a tiny minority".

[Helsinkian]

The "what about muh abortion bombers?!1" argument reminds me of another great argument: comparing the radical islamists to the Westboro Baptist Church. Yeah, WBC is a terrible group, but it has less than 100 members, whereas hundreds of millions of Muslims want sharia law.

here's a start

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I'm not on board with the OMGZ BAN MUSLIMS NOW!!! crew, but let's be honest here, the claim that radical Christians kill more than radical Muslims is chickensh**t.

New York, 2001: 2,977 casualties.
Bali, 2002: 202 casualties.
Madrid, 2004: 192 casualties.
London, 2005: 56 casualties.
Paris, 2015 (both): 142 casualties.

that's merely a matter of the methods chosen.

Yeah, the method being "let's see which terrorists have killed the most people". Sounds like a pretty good method to use when you want to find out which terrorists are the biggest threat to the world.

You don't see a lot of Christian radicalism on this list (but you see plenty of Jihadism): List of battles and other violent events by death toll: Terrorist attacks