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Facebook post on Islam leads to Jordanian atheist writer Nahed Hattar’s murder
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook...hattar-murder/
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Probably not, but I'm guessing I'd be bombarded with a few pages of NRA stats and semantic arguments.
Facebook post on Islam leads to Jordanian atheist writer Nahed Hattar’s murder
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook...hattar-murder/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/22/w...ting.html?_r=1
U.K. Parliament Attacker Is Shot; Panic on Westminster Bridge
LONDON — Britain’s Parliament was placed on lockdown on Wednesday, plunging the country’s seat of power into turmoil, after an assailant stabbed a police officer outside the building before he was shot, and a motorist on an adjacent bridge plowed over at least five pedestrians, killing at least one.
The Metropolitan Police described the attack as a “a terrorist incident,” but many details, as well as the sequence of events, remained unclear. Security officers shot the assailant outside Parliament. But it was not yet known whether the assailant was the same person who ran over the pedestrians on the bridge. The police also responded to reports of a person in the River Thames.
The attack came on the anniversary of suicide bombings at the Brussels airport in Zaventem and a subway station that killed 32 people, along with three bombers. Though the authorities did not immediately identify the assailant in the attack on Parliament, the violence raised fears that London, which has been largely spared as a target of recent terrorist attacks, has now joined cities such as Paris, Brussels and Berlin.
Ambulances and other emergency vehicles thronged the scene, and helicopters flew ahead, as one of the busiest sections of London was cordoned off and evacuated. The Westminster station on the Tube, London’s subway system, was closed. Prime Minister Theresa May was rushed into a vehicle and spirited back to her office, where her aides reported that she was safe.
“A full counterterrorism investigation is underway,” Cmdr. B. J. Harrington of the Metropolitan Police said at a brief news conference, at which he pleaded with members of the public to stay away from a broad section of central London, to report any su ious activity and to share any images or video of the violence.
Commander Harrington said that the police knew of “a nubmer of casualties, including police officers,” but that he could not confirm a precise figure. He also said that the acting police commissioner, Craig Mackey, was at the scene of the attack, was not injured, but was “being treated as a significant witness.”
Throughout the afternoon, astonished lawmakers inside the House of Commons, some of whom had ducked for cover, were told to stay in place as officers searched the premises, office by office.
“At the moment, the very clear advice from the police and the director of security in the house is that we should remain under suspension, and that the chamber should remain in lockdown until we’ve received advice that it is safe to go back to normal procedures,” David Lidington, the leader of the House of Commons, or lower house of Parliament, told lawmakers in remarks broadcast live on the BBC.
Olly Grender, a member of the House of Lords, said that lawmakers were staying put. “We were in a meeting, I heard shouting through the window,” she said, adding that a colleague then came in to tell them that a serious incident had taken place.
The police said officers had been summoned to the bridge around 2:40 p.m. because of reports of “a firearms incident.” Witnesses said they had heard gunfire near Portcullis House, an office building for lawmakers and members of their staff.
Jayne Wilkinson, 59, from Birmingham, England, was near the statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square with her partner, David Turner, 56, when they saw people suddenly running from Parliament.
The couple said they had seen a middle-aged man holding a knife. He ignored warnings from the police, running though the gates into the compound of Parliament, she said.
“They were shouting to warn him,” Ms. Wilkinson said. Soon after, she and her partner heard three gunshots and saw the man on the ground.
Three construction workers who were inside the grounds of Westminster Palace said they heard shots fired in rapid succession before they were escorted off the premises. “It was bang-bang-bang,” one of them said.
Reuben Saunders, an American student at Cambridge University who was visiting Parliament, said he was on his way out of the building when he saw a police officer being attacked by the assailant.
“He was at the gate, I heard screaming,” Mr. Saunders said, adding that the assailant had two knives or similar weapons. “I saw the man on the ground being repeatedly stabbed, or pummeled,”
“There was another policeman standing by,” he added. “I thought he should have shot, but maybe he was unarmed.”
Mr. Saunders said that two or three other police officers arrived and, at that point, he retreated. “There were two or three gunshots,” he said.
Corinne Desray, a teacher who was outside Parliament with 39 teenage students on a three-day school trip from northern France, said they heard three shots. “My colleague saw bodies lying on the floor and someone said a policeman has been knived,” she said. “I told the kids to leave quickly. We’re heading back to the bus.”
Kirsten Hurrell, 70, who owns a newsstand opposite the clock tower known as Big Ben, said she saw a car swerve across a bicycle lane and into a fence around Parliament. She saw a body lying on the ground and called emergency services. “At first I thought it was an accident but then I was told the car had already mowed down quite a number of people on Westminster Bridge,” she said, adding: “Now that it is a terrorist incident, it is a bit more daunting.”
Robert Vaudry, 52, a fund manager from Stratford-upon-Avon, England, said he emerged from the Westminster subway station around 2:40 p.m. for a meeting with a lawmaker when he realized that something was amiss.
“I came out of the Tube and there were two armed policemen,” he said in an interview. “One grabbed my arm, pushed me to the left and said, ‘Get out of here,’ ” he said. “They were shouting at everyone to get away.”
As he spoke, police officers were cordoning off the area. One officer shouted, “We need everyone to move back past Downing Street.”
Christopher Hope, a journalist for The Daily Telegraph, reported at 2:41 p.m. that he had heard shots fired outside Parliament.
Not defending the jihadis' actions, but what kind of re lives in the Middle East when they're openly atheist?
Tsa, who was the attacker
Some muzzy. Did you miss the picture?
But the picture is a y not a muzzy!
Don't be fooled by the British media calling them Asians, they've been doing it for years.
http://sikhsiyasat.net/2014/08/29/si...ay-term-asian/
Since you haven't been back I assume you also thought he was Asian
He looks black. At the time you posted, i couldn't find confirmation of who it wasSince you haven't been back I assume you also thought he was Asian
Still no name?
considering the british law enforcement says they believe he was inspired by isis propaganda it's a pretty safe bet he's an arab muslim
Let's not jump to conclusions
Main difference is that Jesus is quoted as saying "Give unto Rome what is unto Rome and give unto God what is unto God." And then of course Paul bent over for the Romans in an effort to get them to accept the religion he was pimping. Not surprising given his history really.
Meanwhile, Muhammad clearly describes a system of laws and justice that all are to follow. There is no analog as Jesus was killed before he could dictate his orthodoxy. Muhammad made it through the early conquering of Mecca and Medina and had to establish laws. Jesus presided over small social gatherings as he building his followers and then hiding from the Romans and Jewish Orthodox.
The HRE just took Justinian's code of laws and applied it to the Church. It's what made Aquinas a big deal. That was actually quite a bit more liberal than the orthodoxy previous to that. The Crusades was more about kings wanting to loot former and current Byzantium than it was religion. They sacked Constantinople after all in the first one. It increased papal power but was not derived from it. From that point they fought over Antioch and Judea over land rights. As time when on Papal power increased but what prevented them from getting their asses kicked moreso was the Mongols who annihilated the Abbasids in the 11th century.
The divine right of kings wasn't really pushed until the renaissance when people wanted to form parliaments. There are examples of the crown choosing kings but much more often it was them capitulating to various Gothic, Germanic, and Hunnic tribesmen who had kicked their ass throughout the former western roman empire.
"Dare I say a holy war or 'crusade' might even be called for...."
The headlines this month have been alarming.
“Steve Bannon’s obsession with a dark theory of history should be worrisome” (Business Insider).
“Steve Bannon Believes The Apocalypse Is Coming And War Is Inevitable” (the Huffington Post).
“Steve Bannon Wants To Start World War III” (the Nation).
A common thread in these media reports is that President Trump’s chief strategist is an avid reader and that the book that most inspires his worldview is “The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy.”https://medium.com/emergent-culture/...5f4#.9p3kuep81
I wrote that book with William Strauss back in 1997. It is true that Bannon is enthralled by it.
"World" War? what countries in the world would be opponents?
Other than US/UK BigOil lusting after Iran's oil, I can't see "world" war.
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Trump is losing ground so he orders attacks in European countries
Now we are after Iran's oil. So we make rules about centrifuges to separate uranium.
Got it.
just a lone wolf, all white people don't have to answer for him, while ALL Muslims have to answer for Muslim extremists
Trash actually excluded white terrorist militias from his definition of terrorism, which is now only Muslim terrorism
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ing slave states, again
Virginia Republicans demand apology from state attorney general for visiting a mosque
Muslim Americans are frequently expected to answer for the crimes that people commit in the name of Islam
https://thinkprogress.org/virginia-gop-mark-herring-apology-mosque-visit-b49b9ad3121e#.x84w64kgy
Was the the purpose of these killings to try and terrorize a country by killings as many people as possible randomly?
Is a major target of these killings airports because they know people are terrified of going down in a plane? Would these same people be happy with taking out a nuclear facility in any country as an act of redemption for purposes of an afterlife?
Yep people are dead, but the intent is slightly different most likely. Many are usually carried out by younger male individuals that are very confused about their purpose and or a bit of paranoia.
some kind of domestic attack and Trash and his generals declare martial law
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a7664251.html
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