Islamists planning terror attack at Taylor Swift Concert force cancellation

Probably a bad idea for Isis to go after another group of radicals: Swifties.

In all seriousness though, great it was stopped before it could happen. I do wonder if it was targeted because of the fame and success of Taylor Swift (an attack at her concert would get worldwide attention) or any band who happened to be playing around that time

Not forgetting that the three little girls murdered last week were at a Taylor Swift dance class.

The fact it was Taylor swift gigs that were threatened doesn't matter. It could've been anyone playing there and it would have been planned like the Manchester bombings.

So if U2 were playing there they wouldn't have planned to bomb it because they're male That's a bit of a stretch. All that matters is the authorities prevented a catastrophic event and they should be applauded for that. The sex of the artist is irrelevant IMO.

How many attacks have we not heard about is probably something not considered.

Although maybe I am watching too much American crime series.

Unfortunately you're bang on the money.

It simply can't be reformed because there is no Institutional Hierarchy to lead it to do so. There is no equivalent to the Pope or Papal Council that issues writs, bulls, or documentation to guide the Imams or Muftis.

The Quran is the final, immutable word of God. That's the basis of Islam, and it is not going to change for Western sensibilities.

I just read that article- in terms of what this “person” intended to do there would have been absolutely no way to prevent him from carrying out his actions.

He planned to use a car and plough into a crowd

He planned to detonate a bomb killing himself and those around him, as they were gathering towards the concert.

So vetting staff whilst not pointless wouldn’t necessarily have shown up anything as whilst one of the suspects did get a job at the stadium the other was planning an attack outside- assuming both don’t have criminal convictions nothing would show up in general unless they’re on a watch list.

Traffic restrictions would have prevented him getting close to the stadium -but he’d still have access to large crowds walking towards the stadium

An incredible bit of policing - however the pr1ck organisation behind this will learn from it unfortunately - whatever mistakes were made this time will unlikely happen the next.

It’s frightening stuff - the irony is that the crowd at a Taylor Swift concert are probably THE most innocent of all concert going attendees

Sharia law does a good job of killing Muslims as well.

Just ignore how badly females are treated in Islamic countries, and how the Grooming gangs we have seen recently have all been Muslim men targeting females and the like.

Just ignore all that as well.

Yes terrorists will want to cause terror and strike the population at large, but followers of this radical faith have a long proven history of deep misogyny.

The home office did a report on grooming gangs in the uk.

They found most perpetrators were white. They also found that while some studies indicated an over representation of Black and Asian offenders, there overall finding was, 'it is likely that no one community or culture is uniquely predisposed to offending'.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-65174096

Vienna does have a lot of problems with the lack of integration of foreigners, especially with a muslim background. There were recent gang wars of immigrant groups, shootings and stabbings. The situation with the Taylor Swift concert doesn't surprise me at all. Police in Vienna seems surprisingly effective.

Targeted the largest concentration of teen and preteen girls humanly possible

So in your opinion Islamic terrorism in the “west” (which includes Ireland) is all kosher because “whataboutism Gaza” and “whataboutery some random lot in Middle East killed”

Thankfully they were caught

Few big concerts coming up at Croke Park in the next few weeks. AC/DC on the 17th and then Coldplay for 4 nights 29th-2nd Sep. Will our authorities take serious note and act accordingly after this ?

Ironically Coldplay playing same Stadium in Vienna before they head to Dublin

It’s ok

I am just amazed at the self loathing the far left has and the mental gymnastics they perform over the Middle East

In parallel threads they are busy excusing and cheering on despicable scum who are part of Hamas and Iranian revolutionary nonsense

Here we have “the west deserves it for helping Israel”

These people would see their own kids hurt at a concert and go “we deserve it, them Islamics are correct, we should totally listen to barbarians who are stuck in 8th century and treat half their population like cattle”

FML

When did I say it was kosher? I said that the likelihood of Islamic terrorists stopping is about the same as the likelihood of western countries supporting and facilitating the bombing of Muslim countries.

Perhaps if they stop with the Islamic terrorism then there be no need to eradicate terrorists?

if your child was raped and murdered at a concert (something that did happen less than a year ago) would you just go “yeh this is fine, maybe those Islamics are onto something”

Before the the October attack, 37 Palestinian children had been killed by Israeli forces that year. Not sure why you would expect them to just go "yeh this is fine, maybe those Israelis are onto something."

Well, most perpetrators would be white, given the UK's demographics. The question is whether certain minority groups are overrepresented in terms of offending - and there is evidence for that.

BTW you quoted part of sentence but left out an important part of it:

It found there was limited research on offender identity and poor quality data, which made it difficult to draw conclusions, however "it is likely that no one community or culture is uniquely predisposed to offending".

There's nothing that says that this is not just wishful thinking. Certainly Danish data (where they publish ethnicities of offenders) suggests that sex crimes among non European immigrants and their offsporing is several times higher than the Danish or European averages.

Back to the UK and your link:

A previous piece of research from 2015 found that of 1,231 perpetrators of "group and gang-based child sexual exploitation", 42% were white, 14% were defined as Asian or Asian British and 17% black.

The problem is that the data is from only 19 out of more than 40 police forces and nearly a decade old.

From UK data (2021)

• people from Asian ethnic groups made up the second largest percentage of the population (9.3%), followed by black (4.0%), mixed (2.9%) and other (2.1%) ethnic groups
• according to the 2021 Census, the total population of England and Wales was 59.6 million, and 81.7% of the population was white

So over 80% of the general population are white but only 42% of sex offenders are white. Unless sex offences by white men have risen massively since 2015, that alone suggests there is an issue. As there is in Denmark - only the BBC are determined to ignore it and to call anyone mentioned it racist.