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Terrorists have attacked the Ayatollah Khomeini mausoleum and Iranian parliament in two nearly simultaneous incidents:
There have been multiple attacks in the Iranian capital of Tehran, according to state media. A woman was arrested after a bomb attack and shooting spree wounded two people at the Ayatollah Khomeini mausoleum south of the city Wednesday, the semi-official Fars news agency reports. The news agency reported that a second attacker is currently surrounded by security officers.
That attack occurred at the same time as a shooting in the Iranian parliament, in which at least three people were injured after an attacker stormed the building in central Tehran, according to state-run Press TV.
Also at Washington Post, BBC, Reuters, Al Jazeera, and Tehran Times.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday June 07 2017, @06:26PM (35 children)
I just think it's interesting how we only ever cover murder-while-brown on this site.
Within a few days three people were stabbed to death in on incident. Five people were shot to death in another incident. Which one did we cover?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2017, @06:47PM (33 children)
Pissed off Bernie Sanders supporter.
Psychopathic former employee.
Mass murder being committed worldwide in the name of Islam, on an almost daily basis, is more newsworthy. Currently averaging around 60 islamist murders a day during this years ramadan. Don't let the shocking number of victims put you off your racism narrative though.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2017, @07:03PM (19 children)
Another sucker sticks his nose out. Compare that /day rate to population size. Besides, using religion as a scapegoat is the #1 used strategy of all time. Who cares about a little racism and the murders of innocent locals, we need to be outraged about a problem that statistically does not matter for any locals outside the middle east. We can't discuss the systemic problems that have lead us to this point, we need to focus on bombing the shit out of the area some more while justifying rampant bigotry which will totally not bite us in the ass.
Number of victims? Hahahaha pleeeease, ousting Saddam Hussein with the Iraq War over bullshit lies about WMD takes the prize many times over: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War [wikipedia.org]
But hey, don't let the truth get in the way of your bigotry.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2017, @07:13PM (18 children)
Evidence to the contary. [twitter.com]
I did not support the war in Iraq, very few westerners did. It was a war, not civilians being murdered while socialising during peace time.
You appear to be the one with the preconceptions here.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2017, @07:26PM (5 children)
Statistically you goof. Terrorist attacks are scary, but statistically you're more likely to die from just about anything else. You're pushing a narrative of fear and xenophobia unfounded in reality, my counter example of the Iraq War was to point out the hypocrisy and ignorance of your stance. It doesn't matter if you supported it, your country did it! If you're not in the US then you're country probably participated, or at least condoned it. To ignore a war started on false pretenses is absurd. To ignore the responsibility the major world players have in the Middle East is willful ignorance.
You're equating a huge percentage of the world's population (muslims) with the extremists. That is like me accusing you of being a KKK member who bombs abortion clinics and curb stomps gays. All I did was call out your bigotry, specifically bigotry since I can't claim you're racist. Currently you're just bigoted against muslims it would seem. What about illegal mexican immigrants? Are they all rapists, thieves and murderers?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2017, @07:39PM (1 child)
In the UK today, we've had a nursery worker slashed with a knife by three females "for Allah", a youth with a machete apprehended by police in Barking and reports of a similar incident in Luton.
Do you mean "for"? Yet almost nobody supports interventionist geopolitik.
The word I used was "islamist". [oxforddictionaries.com]
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday June 08 2017, @03:43AM
You actually have a place called Barking? That's apropos somehow. I'd like to think that's an example of dry British self-deprecation.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2017, @08:03PM (2 children)
OK genius here is a list of random causes of death:
Death by Police
Auto Accident
Airplane Crash
Bathtub Slip and Fall
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Terrorism
Now let's say I really wish to avoid being a statistic and I do some of the following:
Not own a bathtub, I'm fine with showers
Obey the fucking Law
Avoid Air travel
Don't own a car or drive anywhere
Change batteries in my Carbon Monoxide Detector religiously
Now genius do pray tell how do I avoid dying from terrorism?
I have a likely solution, but you are not going to like it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2017, @10:28PM
kill everyone? I'm all for a humanity culling, but the only you'll be safe is to kill absolutely everyone on the planet, except yourself. So it doesn't matter whether we like it, do YOU?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Roger Murdock on Thursday June 08 2017, @05:52AM
I have a likely solution, but you are not going to like it: Carry on with your life as normal. Do not panic.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2017, @07:28PM (5 children)
Really?
You are the one who thinks the guy in portland attacked those muslim women because bernie sanders told him to hate muslims.
Putting the blame on sanders is like putting the blame on the chocolate bars the guy liked to eat.
However there was another candidate with a message the guy really liked too. Guess who that was?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2017, @07:45PM (4 children)
No, I never stated that and have read a number of articles on the guy. Politically he was all over the place, there was simply no coherent political ideology or motivation behind his behaviour.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2017, @08:24PM (3 children)
Ah, literalism! The last refuge of the online coward: I never said that I just implied it by citing this totally unrelated fact right in the middle of saying the attacks weren't racist.
Hey, I can be disingenuous too, hold my beer: I never said you stated that either. I said you think it! Totally different thing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2017, @08:54PM (2 children)
Yes, literalism. As opposed to people taking comments completely out of context to score political points. If you want to know why I stated he was a Bernie Bro, I already did: he had no coherent political ideology but the media insist on creating a false narrative to frame all conservatives as "far right". This murderer did, factually, express support for Sanders/Stein on his facebook page. Just a crazy person who is now claiming he acted in self defence.
(Score: 2) by Ezber Bozmak on Wednesday June 07 2017, @11:54PM
So what?
Most people do not have a "coherent political ideology."
Just look at all the fiscally conservative republicans who voted for a guy who said he would provide "health insurance for everyone" and that "the government is going to pay for it." [youtube.com]
The fact is that Jeremy Christian specifically embraced Don the Con's message of hate towards muslims. No other candidate was selling that message.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday June 07 2017, @11:58PM
Filter error: Flame wars are bad for the community
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by Arik on Wednesday June 07 2017, @08:03PM (5 children)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_against_peace
It's possible to be murdered even when one is not socializing during peace time, btw.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2017, @08:21PM (2 children)
Not a chance with the resolution! [wikipedia.org] Unfortunately.
Yes, thank you for pointing that out ;)
(Score: 2) by Arik on Wednesday June 07 2017, @08:35PM (1 child)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_1441#Security_Council_vote
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2017, @09:18PM
We all know the story, that resolution was never anything but a pretext and veil of legitimacy. The US and UK lied to get it passed, were never sanctioned and likely never will be.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 08 2017, @01:07AM (1 child)
Nope wasn't a war. We called it one, but for various reasons didn't make it official.
Besides that, how does that make it any better? Was a war built on lies, and the casualties were way higher than every terrorist attack combined from the last 100 years.
I'm sure the civilians that got bombed by aircraft felt so much better about it. "Well what can we do? Its war! We can't be angry at the Americans, its just war after all. Gotta break a few eggs for the omelette of democracy!"
It is fundamental disconnects and bad rationale that cause these massive divisions in these discussions. Sometimes there is room for different opinions but not in this case. The US perpetrated a massive campaign of terror against Iraq using massive deception and you can't wave it off just because it was backed by the most powerful government. That is tribal thinking, "well we're the good guys sooooo yeah, suck it!"
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 08 2017, @01:44AM
If I had my way, it wouldn't have happened. Even then all the PNAC, zionist nut jobs involved should be in prison. It's not happening is it? They got their resolution, they used it to go war and the UN is so toothless as to be a complete joke.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday June 07 2017, @07:48PM (12 children)
Currently averaging around 60 islamist murders a day during this years ramadan.
[CITATION NEEDED]
Even assuming you're unsupported assertion is correct how does that compare to the US murder rate of 44 murders per day on all 365 days of the year? [reference.com]
Keep in mind that only 1 per every 4-days can be attributed to terrorism (by all religions). [cato.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2017, @08:34PM (10 children)
712 / 12 = 59.3333333 [thereligionofpeace.com]
It's about 75%? A disturbing increase since 2007. [economist.com]
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday June 07 2017, @08:41PM (9 children)
[CITATION STILL NEEDED]
A random jpeg also making an unsupported assertion is not a citation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2017, @09:23PM (6 children)
I am unsupported assertion huh? Here's the list, [thereligionofpeace.com] ramadan started on May 27th.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday June 07 2017, @10:01PM (5 children)
[CITATION STILL NEEDED]
That link does not support your claim.
But, let's take this non-sequitur at face value.
Last 30 Days - During this time period, there were 190 Islamic attacks in 27 countries, in which 1535 people were killed and 1806 injured.
That's 51 per day. So, you need to combine 27 countries in order to beat the US murder rate by 6.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2017, @10:45PM (1 child)
It's the exact same data (constant updates) used to create the graphic (updated daily).
Many of US homicides are gang related and concentrated in certain neighbourhoods. Take Chicago [heyjackass.com] (see most violent hoods stat) and figure out how that violence can be brought under control. Your claims amount to false equivalence and certainly in Western Europe, US style mass murders are extremely rare. Terrorism, not so rare.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2017, @11:09PM
I just did a quick addition for you; running average 767 / 13 = 59.
(Score: 2) by SanityCheck on Wednesday June 07 2017, @11:20PM (2 children)
OK so you are saying the numbers are acceptable given the US homicide rate?
Just out of curiosity, what would be an unacceptable level of Islamic terrorism for you?
(Score: 2) by Ezber Bozmak on Thursday June 08 2017, @12:00AM (1 child)
His point is that the numbers are not out of the ordinary. Particularly given that source's propensity categorize any muslim behaving badly as solely a consequence of his muslimness.
Statistics without context are meaningless at best, and dishonest at worst. Or, as Samuel Clemens said, "Lies, damn lies and statistics."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 08 2017, @01:39AM
Salifism -- this is jihad dickhead! Don't worry, it's only explained on the site; [thereligionofpeace.com] The web site you couldn't be bothered to read before accusing others of bigotry. You fucking bigot!
Or as that quote attributed to Stalin [quoteinvestigator.com] said; "a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic".
I disagree. The US needs to sort out the death tolls in St Louis, Baltimore, Detroit, New Orleans and Chicago. The world needs to sort out the death toll due to jihad.
I do not care if you disagree with me and are pro-murder. I will speak up and out against this bullshit; You just have yourself a nice day!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2017, @09:24PM
Haven't you been paying attention? The pepes memed don the con into the whitehouse.
Jpegs are more powerful and authoritative than any other source in the world. The entire freakin world!#$!%!!
Respect my jpeg's authoritay!!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 08 2017, @07:46AM
Here you are with the past month's list:
https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks/attacks.aspx?Yr=Last30 [thereligionofpeace.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 08 2017, @04:02PM
And 3000 per day die on the roads... but that's normal, so carry on. And in US, similar number as cars die from gun violence, but that's normal too, so carry on. God forbid "islamist" kill a few in mostly unstable areas of the world (like Iraq, thanks GWB!), then everyone goes crazy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2017, @06:55PM
Police shootings have been covered quite a bit before, but I agree the trend on this site is the more politically divisive stories. The middle east is a bigger deal right now, the world is gearing up for WW3 so naturally people will be more interested in stories involving that area. Of course a lot of the western attacks should be treated as local news on par with other local violence, but that misses a great opportunity for propaganda!