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posted by martyb on Monday October 02 2017, @04:18PM   Printer-friendly

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/02/554976369/section-of-las-vegas-strip-is-closed-after-music-festival-shooting

A gunman fired upon thousands of people attending a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip Sunday night, in a brutal attack that is blamed for at least 58 deaths, police say. In the mass shooting and panic that ensued, 515 people were injured. At least one of the dead is an off-duty police officer who was attending the concert.

Editorializing: Interesting how media always emphasize ISLAMIC terrorists, but downplay domestic terrorism as psychologically disturbed individual lone-wolfs.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @07:11PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @07:11PM (#576100)

    I agree this is only salting the wound. But I don't agree with the implication that this is the cause. Islam has a major problem with violence. Even between Muslims, Shia and Sunni to this day are killing one another over a disagreement on who should succeed Mohammed after his death... 1400 years ago. Maybe that is something more fundamental. Islam itself seems to be stuck about 1400 years in the past. You can find awful things in all religions' texts. Deute|ronmy 13:6-11 [biblegateway.com] clearly says to kill anybody who encourages you to apostatize by stoning them to death, and then make sure everybody knows about it so they're scared and won't do such an evil thing. Literally. But the thing is, nobody takes that crap seriously. By contrast the whole of the Koran and side writings are, to this day, treated as the literal word of god by many Muslims. And those words tell people to do incredibly awful things.

    There are many reasons for the more literal take on Islam today, but I think that alone is the root cause.

    As an aside you can also look to countries that have treated Muslims kindly. There's hardly a country in the world that has ever had any significant number of Islamic individuals that did not begin to experience Islamic terrorism and insurgencies. Sweden has done absolutely every single thing they possibly could for Muslim individuals and refugees. They've been rewarded with terrorism. If you're not Islamic you're the enemy. If you're Islamic, but not the right type of Islamic, you're the enemy. The religion has fundamental issues.

  • (Score: 2) by infodragon on Tuesday October 03 2017, @02:26PM

    by infodragon (3509) on Tuesday October 03 2017, @02:26PM (#576595)

    Most people don't realize that the religions surrounding the Jews, at that time, involved human sacrifice... So those people attempting to convince you to worship other gods secretly were in reality asking you to murder others. There was a very good chance that if you refused you would be killed otherwise you could expose their desires. That text you link to is permission for self defense. Not to mention, there is a significant amount of context missing from this from the oral tradition.

    You have done what so many others have done to pervert and twist religious text, take something out of context to make a point.

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