For the first time in 10 years, the Prime Minister said the terror threat had been raised to the highest possible level, from severe to critical, meaning an attack is "expected imminently".
[...] Mrs May also announced that troops would replace police officers at set-piece events including sports venues and concerts.
It will be the first time since 2003 – when the Government reacted to a plot to bring down an airliner – that troops are deployed on the streets.
[...] It is the first time Britain has been on maximum terrorist alert since 2007, when a blazing car loaded with gas canisters was driven into Glasgow Airport.
Source: The Telegraph
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Wednesday May 24 2017, @05:57PM (3 children)
Did you note the assassination of Jo Cox back in June?
/article.pl?sid=16/06/17/0240252 [soylentnews.org]
The Real IRA was active until 2001, and there have been a few other incidents not perpetrated by Muslims.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in_Great_Britain [wikipedia.org]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlo_Lapshyn [wikipedia.org]
For the U.S., Wikipedia has some examples from the last 20 years; the Army of God attack on the 1996 Olympics was notable even though it happened before the cut-off date.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_States [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 24 2017, @06:24PM (2 children)
The Joe Cox murder was the only non-islamic UK act of terrorism that resulted in death for the last two decades. [twitter.com] I'm also unaware of any of the other groups you mention being involved in industrial scale child rape.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Wednesday May 24 2017, @06:41PM (1 child)
> The Joe Cox murder was the only non-islamic UK act of terrorism [...]
The murder in Birmingham I mentioned doesn't count?
> I'm also unaware of any of the other groups you mention being involved in industrial scale child rape.
I didn't say they were.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 24 2017, @06:58PM
You are indeed correct, it is listed in the linked chart under "other"... so that's 2 non-islamic terrorist murders against 85 islamic.
I know you didn't, that's why I mentioned it as an addition to the statistics. [conservapedia.com]