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Explosions in Stockholm

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  • #252
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    jugger0 wrote: »
    Your the one making excuses for muslims...........

    As far as I can see, he's pointing out the misuse and abuse of statistics by the Swedish far right, thus he doesn't have to make excuses for anyone. You and 'Travis Bicklesen', however......


  • #253
    Manic Moran
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,502 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    Well seeing as both men tried to kill random people, and one is being called a terrorist, it is only reasonable to call them both terrorists.

    John Allen Muhammed (The D.C. Sniper) killed random people, but his immediate goal was financial extortion, not political change.

    I think the more appropriate American equivalent to the Swedish guy who went around shooting immigrants would be 'hate crime', much as homophobes and racists get charged with such a term when they go around selecting specific segments of the population.

    NTM


  • #254
    wes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,747 ✭✭✭✭wes


    Manic Moran wrote: »
    John Allen Muhammed (The D.C. Sniper) killed random people, but his immediate goal was financial extortion, not political change.

    True enough.
    Manic Moran wrote: »
    I think the more appropriate American equivalent to the Swedish guy who went around shooting immigrants would be 'hate crime', much as homophobes and racists get charged with such a term when they go around selecting specific segments of the population.

    I agree to a certain degree, but by targetting immigrants, the shooters was clearly trying to effect Anti-immigrant political change, e.g. scare the immigrants away, or seeing it as waging war against them, and as such I would call it terrorism. Either way, its pretty messed up that anyone would support such a thing.


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