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Really alarming that this is starting to happen on an almost weekly basis. So sad to me, violence from another part of the world spilling into Western Europe,
by aerovistae 10y ago
Really alarming that this is starting to happen on an almost weekly basis.
So sad to me, violence from another part of the world spilling into Western Europe, an area that's finally settled into stable and peaceful democracy after millennia of war.
- Aelinsaar 10y agoNot to mention that this is certainly going to play into the hands of nativist and xenophobic elements in those regions, regardless of whether or not perpetrators turn out to be homegrown or not.
- k-mcgrady 10y agoThat's the part that's most alarming to me. The incidents are tragic but the long term consequences will also be bad. Xenophobia is getting much too common and a lot of people are pretty open about it now. Brexit hasn't helped that and if further countries follow suit it's only creating more divisions. Every attack like this (although we don't know anything about the perpetrators in this incident yet it's pretty safe to assume) just gives more fuel to the xenophobia in our society.
- Aelinsaar 10y agoExactly, and ironically terrorists of all stripes seem to be converging on a mutually xenophobic, isolationist ideology. It is unfortunately the real face of that awful phrase from the W. Bush era, "letting the terrorists win". Or at least, letting them experience something like efficacy in their fundamental goals. That should worry us more than it seems to, I think.
- DominikR 10y agoXenophobia is an _irrational_ fear. It is obviously not irrational to fear this uncontrolled immigration as there are enough fanatics among them that go on a killing spree. Two years ago stuff like this happened rarely, now it is happening regularly. And lets not even get started on the rise in sexual assaults.
- xutopia 10y agoPretty nice to see that it is still in the news... pretty soon I fear it won't even be newsworthy.
- jessriedel 10y agoSeeing as that terrorism is one of the few problems that would literally go away if we ignored it, I hope news readers do become bored with it.
- DominikR 10y agoI wonder how anyone could believe that. In the Middle East they experienced terrorism for decades and it gets only worse.
- jessriedel 10y agoThey have news in the Middle East.
- dogma1138 10y agoYes busses blow up in Israel, markets blow up in Iraq, and schools get blown up in Syria because of news papers.
- eanzenberg 10y agoThis isn't fantasy land where you can wish something go away by believing it doesn't exist. You may not value innocent life or freedom but there's plenty of us who do.
- undersuit 10y agoI can value innocent life and freedoms without it being blasted on my media 24/7. The media is biased anyways, my country, the United States, has apparently killed 73 civilians in one Syrian village, Tokkhar, and HN doesn't even have coverage. Media coverage does not help the victims, it glorifies the attackers.
- zhengiszen 10y agoI think you're mistaken. It is European violence and its greed that began this cycle and we are "lucky" to witness decades of injustice...
- kyriakos 10y agothere is still no word if this is an act of terrorism or some deranged person with a weapon.
- DominikR 10y agoThis is terrorism, police said that multiple shooters are at large. link (sorry, German): http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/muenchen-schuesse-in-olympia-einkaufszentrum-a-1104387.html http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/muenchen-schuesse-in-o...
- tazb 10y agoAre those not the samething? I'm sure a terrorist is also a deranged person
- dogma1138 10y agoYes, but terrorism has a political goal, some one who's simply insane doesn't.