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> Maybe because during ramadan terrorist attacks are up significantly and perpetrated by people looking lik you in an outstanding proportion? Where did you stu
by churchillracist 6y ago
> Maybe because during ramadan terrorist attacks are up significantly and perpetrated by people looking lik you in an outstanding proportion?
Where did you study these statistics? And how do you know what "people looking lik you" is given that the author didn't post his/her photograph?
> Can't stand the arrogant victim-posing tone of this article.
Is there a different possible explanation for why you can't stand it? Perhaps something more internal to yourself?
- Thomas812 6y agoHe specifically said the homeland security started to talk to him in hindi and referred to himself as Americanised so if you have two atoms of common sense you'll understand the man looks Indian, Pakistani, or anything between middle east and India. Now you can just open Wikipedia and have a look at biggest terrorist attacks on US soil, and attacks numbers during ramadan and realise what I said is simply true. Unless you're convinced 9/11 and the Orlando terrorist attacks were inside jobs of course...
- drumhead 6y agoSo the only cause they had to detain him was that he was the wrong colour. Reminds me of that that scene in Family Guy with the colour chart.
- Thomas812 6y agoAh yes, the TSA you spend more time stopping and searching 80 years old white females instead. Makes lot of sense to waste your time with profiles that have historically not been involved.
- reallydontask 6y agoso all you need to do is to convince/coerce somebody from a historically non-involved profile and it's all plain sailing for the terrorists ...
- Thomas812 6y agoGeez, I really wonder why they haven't switched to that strategy yet.... They must be really stupid.
- reallydontask 6y agoThey have tried in the past [0] It's also worth bearing in mind the rather low number of terrorist attacks that involve planes. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindawi_affair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindawi_affair
- drumhead 6y agoSo you're confirming that colour was the only justification to detain him?
- reallydontask 6y agoHow many of those were by Indian terrorists?
- Thomas812 6y agoHe was arrested because Indians and Pakistani/other Muslims from countries of the area people are very similar looking. And in that region of the world attacks are up during ramadan.
- throwaway4666 6y agoYou're being downvoted because "all brown people look the same to me" is not really a good look
- Thomas812 6y agoI'm being downvoted because most people follow the sexy political opinion of the moment and they wish all the biggest terrorist attacks on the west were done by white Christians.
- throwaway4666 6y agoMost terrorist attacks in the west are done by alt-righters though
- Thomas812 6y agoHaha good one The Orlando shooting + 9/11 as I said earlier covers more than the entirety of right wing extremists in the last 20 years.
- throwaway4666 6y agoIt's not that hard to look up and prove you wrong mate: https://www.euractiv.com/section/justice-home-affairs/news/far-right-terrorism-has-more-than-tripled-over-last-four-years-report-warns/ https://www.euractiv.com/section/justice-home-affairs/news/f... >“In 2018, far-right terrorist attacks accounted for 17.2% of terrorist incidents in the West. By contrast, attacks by Islamist groups accounted for 6.8% of attacks, and attacks not attributed to any group accounted for 62.8% of incidents in the West,” the report has found.
- iso1631 6y ago> Unless you're convinced 9/11 and the Orlando terrorist attacks were inside jobs of course... Ramadam 2001 started on Nov 16th The deadliest mass shooting since the Greenwood Massacre 100 years ago was the Las Vegas one in October 2017, committed by a white male. Ramadan was in June that year. Indeed the vast majority of mass shootings in the developed world are committed by white Americans.
- Thomas812 6y agoIf you actually read books on terrorism you'd know it is about ideology, a political cause or movement. The Las Vegas mass shooter had absolutely none of those but yeah just keep making things up.
- throwaway4666 6y agoMost terrorist attacks are done by far-right extremists in the name of a far-right ideology though
- iso1631 6y agoMost recent terrorist attack in the US was the 2019 El Paso attacks, which was a White American Male who killed 23 people Before that another white american male in Poway (and an attack on a mosque earlier than that), another in the Pittsburgh synagogue, the Blaze Bernstein shooting, and if you don't include the ones where nobody died - the mail bombing attempts aimed at people like Obama and Biden One thing all these terrorist attacks on american soil have in common? The perpetrator was a white american male. This doesn't mean that all white american males are terrorists, but if we were to take the attitude that many have towards Muslims, white american males are at best supporters of terrorism.
- enriquto 6y ago> One thing all these terrorist attacks on american soil have in common? The perpetrator was a white american male. I do not see why you introduce the race issue here. All the terrorist attacks in the USA after 1995 (last unabomber kill) have been performed by far-right extremists, and this includes islamists and american conservative nationalists. Terrorism in america is clearly a matter of politics, not of race.
- churchillracist 6y ago> you can just open Wikipedia > biggest terrorist attacks on US soil, Ok. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_States What you said, "during ramadan terrorist attacks are up significantly", does not line up with the source you asked to look at. Also what does "looks Indian, Pakistani, or anything between middle east and India." even mean? You do realize the spectrum of that population range envelopes the entirety of the human race.
- Thomas812 6y agoIt's funny because the very link you pasted illustrates perfectly that in the last 30 years middle easterners and Muslims are hugely over represented among the deadliest attacks. Ah yes, let's pretend you can't tell someone is from south Asia or Caucasian.
- john4532452 6y ago> Ah yes, let's pretend you can't tell someone is from south Asia or Caucasian. Its not about the way people look, its about their belief, Islam prohibits very seriously about blasphemy and that's why even the intelligent people can not help but comply. The same is not true about other religions.
- churchillracist 6y ago> Ah yes, let's pretend you can't tell someone is from south Asia or Caucasian. First of all, you previously included the Middle East. And yes, I would not be able to determine ethnicity with certainty given the significant variation. Would you define Jason Mantzoukas as Caucasian? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JtamJmtc0g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JtamJmtc0g
- Thomas812 6y agoThat's precisely why stopping someone is not a conviction by court. It's just a step to check that the individual doesn't have any forbidden materials in his clothing.