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Is this article seriously arguing that governments trying to prevent a terrorist attack from sparking rioting and tit-for-tat revenge attacks is a bad thing?
by beojan 7y ago
Is this article seriously arguing that governments trying to prevent a terrorist attack from sparking rioting and tit-for-tat revenge attacks is a bad thing?
- cannedslime 7y agoIts a bad thing when it is this dishonest. They aren't actively fighting terrorists, or deradicalizing anyone. They are just obscuring truth and seeding public opinion under false premises. Do you honestly think that staging "muslims handing out roses" and paying imams to say one thing in public, while they continue to say something else entirely in the mosques, will help anyone? With all the recent years of attacks in Europe, I would say that a little bit of outrage over terrorism would be more healthier than the current response with facebook filters and staged "organic" protests.
- beojan 7y agoTake a look at countries in Africa and Asia. Anger turns into rioting, revenge attacks and all out civil war. Preventing this by encouraging harmony is a good thing.
- cannedslime 7y agoExcept it doesn't encourage harmony. I would say it has the opposite effect for people intelligent enough to see through the bullshittery. In the long run it just harms the relationship between state and citizens. The special treatment that radical islamism gets in Europe is no less than bizarre. You get media appraisal in the UK for throwing milkshakes at center-right politicians and ousted by the same media for saying that Europe has an islamism problem.
- beojan 7y agoI think we have very different definitions of the term "center-right".