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Malian special forces have entered the Radisson Blu Hotel in Mali's capital, Bamako, to end a siege by gunmen who had been holding 170 people hostage. The gunmen stormed the US-owned hotel, which is popular with foreign businesses and airline crews, shooting and shouting "God is great!" in Arabic. Malian state TV is reporting that 80 people have now been freed. At least three people are reported to have been killed in the siege that started around 07:00 GMT. Six staff from Turkish Airlines were at the hotel when it was attacked, and a Chinese guest told China's state news agency Xinhua he was among about seven Chinese tourists trapped there. A French presidential source said French citizens were also at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Reuters news agency reports.
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(Score: 2, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Friday November 20 2015, @09:31PM
There have been more terrorist attacks in the US committed by Christians than by Muslims.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 21 2015, @01:27AM
Same in Europe. By an enormous margin.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by jmorris on Saturday November 21 2015, @02:28AM
If there are so many, perhaps you could be bothered to mention one. No, every drive by shooting where the loser has a crucifix doesn't count anymore than some guy named Mohammad whacking somebody in a bad drug deal or who kills some asshole porking his wife is committing terrorism. You need to point to a hew hundred deaths by Christians who killed in the name of Christ. Post 1900 would probably be best for your argument. Better still would be killings where the victim was killed for not being a Christian or for being the 'wrong' kind. And of course the final qualification of 'terrorism' is the deaths have to be intended to cause political change due to fear/terror.
I can think of an abortion butcher who got whacked that should probably be counted because it ticks all the boxes, a killing based on religious belief with an intention of causing political change by fear. One. There are websites that try and fail to track the deaths by Islam and can't seem to keep up. If we expand it to the Western World we also get the IRA but they don't really count since they were a Communist Front so those deaths should at least be split 50-50 between the Deaths by Communism and Death from Christians entries. So that is what I got, you got anything? I'm waiting. Anyone?
(Score: 2) by Wootery on Tuesday November 24 2015, @10:20PM
Don't be so disingenuous.
It may well be true over all history, simply because in the west there are so many more Christians than Muslims. Start talking proportions, and things suddenly look rather different. And in modern times, Muslims seem to be responsible for most terrorism in the west, despite their small numbers. If we look only at religiously-motivated terrorism (discounting your average school shooter for example), things start looking even 'worse'.
There is no Christian equivalent of the global movement of violent jihadism. The closest you'll get trying to make a comparison would be abortion clinic bombers, but it's off by orders of magnitude.