MORE TERRRORIST ATTACKS!

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The White House condemned two terrorist attacks in Pakistan on Friday that have left at least 80 people dead.

"The United States strongly condemns the terrorist attacks in Parachinar and Quetta on Friday," White House press secretary Sean Spicer said in a statement.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The first attack occurred in the southwestern city of Quetta, where a suicide bomber detonated explosives at a police checkpoint leaving 13 dead and dozens injured.

Both ISIS-K and a faction of the Pakistani Taliban have separately claimed responsibility for the attack.

The deadlier second attack occurred in the northwestern town of Parachinar, where two suicide bombers detonated explosives in a crowded market killing at least 55 and injuring hundreds. Lashkar-e-Jhangvi al Alami, a terror group with ties to al-Qaeda, claimed responsibility for that attack in a message to news agency AFP.

Spicer noted the attacks "are a strong reminder of the threat posed throughout the region by the scourge of terrorism."

"We stand with the people of Pakistan in their fight against it," he said.

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the color of the text... why???

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14 minutes ago, ZombieSurvivalist224 said:

The White House condemned two terrorist attacks in Pakistan on Friday that have left at least 80 people dead.

"The United States strongly condemns the terrorist attacks in Parachinar and Quetta on Friday," White House press secretary Sean Spicer said in a statement.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The first attack occurred in the southwestern city of Quetta, where a suicide bomber detonated explosives at a police checkpoint leaving 13 dead and dozens injured.

Both ISIS-K and a faction of the Pakistani Taliban have separately claimed responsibility for the attack.

The deadlier second attack occurred in the northwestern town of Parachinar, where two suicide bombers detonated explosives in a crowded market killing at least 55 and injuring hundreds. Lashkar-e-Jhangvi al Alami, a terror group with ties to al-Qaeda, claimed responsibility for that attack in a message to news agency AFP.

Spicer noted the attacks "are a strong reminder of the threat posed throughout the region by the scourge of terrorism."

"We stand with the people of Pakistan in their fight against it," he said.

The statement if anyone wishes to read it

[Little Ring 440 / 7,172]

Religion of peace. 

[Astro 451 / 10,622]

I thought this was my handwriting.

 

Random words everywhere and using colors for no reason.

[Coolest Cat 1,266 / 14,449]

6 hours ago, Kurama said:

Religion of peace. 

 

I mean, I'm willing to bet that more of the people who died were peaceful Muslims than radical extremists.

But yes, I agree, let's just over generalize the actions of a few to the whole, even if the majority of that whole are the people who are the most common victims in these attacks.

 

While we're at it, because some religious people are willing to kill in the name of religion, that means that all religious people are extremists who will kill in the name of religion. We should take precautions and kick out all of the religious folk from the country starting with those who are trying to impose their religious law on others in the U.S. I'm, of course, talking about Christians/Republicans because lord knows they are special snowflakes when it comes to religion.

 

Anyway, people who say "religion of peace" mockingly whenever one of these attacks occur really are delusional, ignorant, and sick.

Go outside and realize that the vast majority of Muslims are not terrorist extremists who are willing to kill for their religion.

 

Also, have some respect for the victims. It's absurd to blame the entirety of the religion due to the actions of some mentally ill individuals, especially when the peaceful Muslims are the ones who suffer through these attacks the most. It's sickening to paint the victims with the same broad brush that you use for the perpetrators. Seriously stop and consider how bigoted and warped your views are. The peaceful Muslims who die in these attacks aren't trying to kill everyone, they're people trying to live their lives and survive just like everyone else. Have some compassion.

[CNe7532294 171 / 4,777]

I have to say something because of some personal experiences. I've experienced all forms of crazy coming from the 4th largest city in the US (projected to overtake Chicago as the 3rd largest). They can come in robes and a turban. They can come from someone in camo or cowboy hat. They can come from someone in a suit. They can have an MD or PhD in the medical field. They can come right up to you in the street. In my face one came to me taking the North line to go to the Mike DeBakey VA (which is impossible btw) to demand 1 billion dollars from Uncle Sam. Speaking of the VA, we are required to take self defense classes just in case the vets we serve have an episode. Generally just simply nod and agree with whatever outlandish but harmless things they say while mentally thinking of rolling my eyes and thinking "oboiherewego" So most certainly I agree anyone can be crazy and that shouldn't make any one group of people be those practicing Muslims or Christians crazy.

 

That being said Islam has major problems in today's world that needs to be addressed. Islam in itself could be in a grey area as a religion (something to debate outside the scope of this post) since its a religion with politics and defines pretty much every act of behavior you have or will ever make. Its pretty authoritarian if you're part of a community enforcing it. The Quran contains wording, debatable as clear or not valid, that enables people to commit these acts (this has been quoted on these forums). It does not radicalize all the people of the faith since said people are capable of using their own judgement like anyone else but is has been proven to enable some time and time again. It gets worse if you have a questionable Imam or cleric or a small circlejerk declaring others as heretics or infidels.

 

My own personal experience stems from this girl I knew from our medical lab program. I knew not what she did wrong in her words and its too late to ask because she is dead. What I do know is her dad killed her when his "honor" was violated by marrying a Christian along with a convoluded story of more killing of others claimed to be organized by said father and/or his friends. Link to prove I'm not making shit up. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/3-family-members-charged-in-texas-honor-killing-of-iranian-activist/ This is something that is still regularly talked about with UTMDACC alumi both muslim and non-muslim to this day be it social media to my 30 minute lunch break. Heck since where I work is close to reliant stadium (now NRG) some of my co workers get scared during the ramadan mass held there recently. Theres also a mosque on Almeda across the VA. Non stop talking about it for a full week.

 

If you are a woman you have little rights compared to other places. I have not even begun to talk about people who are gay. You are an outcast. You are viewed in general to have no rights. True you might not die from most Muslims but you will always live in fear of being an outcast (you will be scrutinized where you want to work, where you want to live, etc.). If I where gay I would rather take my chances in a bleeding red bible belt southern state than in the middle east because at least those places stateside respect laws (or rather recognize the punishment that follows) for human rights violations as per federal law.

 

TL;DR before I write more of an essay with various tangents: The takeaway point that we all seem to agree on is that Islam needs major reform. So while I scoff at people saying "religion of pieces" I tend to find myself partially aligned with how they feel and equally scoff at people thinking Islam as an idealogy in its current form is ok and everyone criticising it is automatically a bigot and we should let the status quo remain. Again in plain words I'm not against people but the ideology in its current form. Lest we forget what brought 9/11 and lest we forget the Madrid bombings (someone I personally knew died from this as well). There is a reason why I get personally invested in any Islamic post on these forums (and outside of here) if anyone keeps tabs. If everything works out for everyone where yall are at more power to ya but on the flip side I don't care if I get called out on by anyone making baseless assumptions I'm using someone's death to supposedly score precious brownie points to feel vidicated or whatever. I do care that a person did not die in vain and with said violence, that it never happens again. To you, me, someone we know or some random person I know nothing about. If I or anyone with a similar story uses death to drive much needed reform that ends in peace then more power to that as well. There are things that make our gov't with the Muslim ban fiasco and the band wagon that follows it make me think what are we even doing with full shame but that does not take away from the fact that there is a legitimate sickness in Islam that needs desperate change. Shit I wrote an essay with possible tangents. GG

[Coolest Cat 1,266 / 14,449]

I 100% agree that there needs to be reforms within a lot of Muslim communities in regards to things like honor killings, women's rights, gay rights, etc. 

 

Criticism of Islam as a religion is perfectly fine and I encourage it is a widely accepted religion and whether we like it or not, religion plays a massive role in the way that societies behave. My problem with people saying the whole "religion of peace" thing is that they're the ones who typically criticize the people and not the religion. As in, they're the ones who support a Muslim ban because it's banning Muslims and not because it's banning travel from terrorist hot spots. 

 

So I guess what I'm trying to say is that people shouldn't assume that all Muslims are bad simply because the religion is flawed. Which is what most people who mockingly say "religion of peace" mean by saying that. I don't think I've ever seen anyone say that because they're criticizing the religion and not as a way of mocking all Muslims.

 

But I don't know, I'd just like everyone to get along. 

[CheapTactic 74 / 3,855]

Ugh, those useless attacks in those sand areas are complete waste of man power, what do they achieve?Killing a few civies, cause hate towards them and that's it, I want a few explosive trucks at the U.N buildings and government buildings in Europe, kill some of those guys, that would be kinda hilarious to see  some dirt Parliament turn to dust while they talk about reducing or increasing taxes, rights and all that other BS., and that would cause a real reaction and a real effect on the world.

 

The religion of Peace in those areas should have gotten some brains by now, maybe then IS would have gotten a longer future and have a somewhat stable zone of control, but I guess its for the better of the world that those areas are inhabited by brainless idiots who can achieve nothing than warfare(not even good at that) and regression of humanity, go figure what would have happened once their massive populations would have united into a mass army under a caliphate with advanced arms and advanced tactics and knowledge, sheesh.  

 

The only thing I can be positively taken by, is the way they fight, at least the Jihadists, especially the IS fighters or Hezbollah in those areas, fighting basically like beasts to the last one, 5-6 and more years of constant war, and still fighting to get their target and mission accomplished, it took so many months much more than was expected for the Iraqi army to actually take over Mosul, while IS even in some situations pushed in some streets, and that was under siege, constant fire, bombings from the air and arty, assaults probably each day, but eventually they lost due to the Iraqis just overwhelming them probably.Too bad the show is almost over there though.

 

If you are really interested, 14~ civilians died in some African country recently, because the army there misidentified them as terrorists, who heard about that?Barely anyone.

Over 20 Egyptian soldiers died and many more injured by IS affiliated group in Sinai, causing a big reaction from Egypt, did anyone hear about that?

And there are just so many many many more that I probably didn't hear about as well. 

 

 

The attackers and the "victims" of such attacks are the same, sorry to tell you that, you kinda need to see also some of their courts big justice decisions, including of one judge giving a death penalty to a Muslim guy who had no control over his farting while praying, but I guess he was merciful enough to let him decide the way that he is going to die.

Its one  Zealous way to another, the majority of Muslims aren't knife wielding terrorists, that is just logical, the same way that the majority of the National Socialists in the 40s weren't SS guards in camps with blood on their hands, but they are massively supportive of religious conservatism, denial of that is just lame and sheer outright denial of reality, the ideology they believe in, is what causing this, they choose to believe in a barbaric ideology, and that turns them to barbaric people, there is no other way to say it or sugar coat it, the same way a NS guy would be NS or anti semitic or Racist or whatever when he believes in the NS ideology.

Do you think women getting killed every month for family honor is just done by some Islam Fairy?Or that gays are bashed there by some magical Islam spirit?Its done by the people there, the Muslim people, I love how calm it sounds too, it needs some reforms, some reforms indeed, "our economic situation is quite bad, I think we need some reforms to improve it", if a muslim wants to be in western societies and countries, he will need to give in to western values and ethnic values at a 100%, not some not a bit not majority, he can live with his religion whatever, but the other barbaric cultural alien gifts he might bring or spawn will have to go with no way of staying. 

Yeah sure, some people there died boo hoo happens, happens on a daily basis, only that Western racists and pretenders of human rights advocates will pretend like they give a damn to have some sort of a check list filled out of "good deeds and humane values", and would forcefully want to change their ways in an Imperial/colonial like way.

Edited July 8, 2017 by CheapTactic