Shit seems crazy right now. Anyone in the area? I hope you’re staying home and safe.
Actually yes, there is someone in Boston
I am glad that guy is caught and because of this whole thing, all I see over facebook now is “OMG THE GOVT IS PREPARING TO TAKE YER GUNS AND YER FREEDUM DIS IS A COVER UP FOR THE FUTURE ILLUMANATI DOLLAR BILL!!!”
le sigh
I’m glad they got him alive. He probably doesn’t know everything but hopefully he can at least give us some information on why him and his brother did this. I try not to be prejudiced like this but it did end up being someone who practices Islam (as well as a Chechen). I know that it’s not the whole religion that’s like this but a lot of people are making it difficult to not see the religion as bad.
You say that because they (the media) are constantly reminding the public that he is indeed Muslim.
You never heard them include “Christian” in their descriptions of Adam Lanza.
That is true. My family was originally watching coverage on CBS and there was mention that he was Muslim. They then changed it to Fox who must have said “Muslim” or “Islam” once every couple of sentences.
Anders Breivik? Hm.
I actually hadn’t heard that he was muslim until you mentioned it, only his nationaliy.
I have a great amount of appreciation for this post.
Actually, I’m from Boston. My uncle had his leg injured in the bombing. Fortunately, he’ll be fine, and the rest of my immediate family lives elsewhere.
I was listening to the BPD scanner through Twitch.tv and other sources for several hours. Heard the announcement when they caught white cap live and literally yelled for joy. BPD did a bang up job.
Oh. How close was he to where the bombs went off? How bad was his injury?
now imagine the tremendous hate and harassment his family and relatives will get after this whole ordeal, they say he have 2 sisters in New York
Just sayin’, you should Judge whether or not a religion is bad/violent based on its teachings, not the actions of its professed followers. Having said that I have heard the case made both ways as to whether or not Islam’s teachings in the Qur’an/Hadith condone violent Jihad. Personally I don’t know enough about Islam to have a justifiable viewpoint on this.
Depends which media you go to. Most newsmedias nowadays are either so terrified of Islam or are so drenched in political correctness that they will barely mention Islam in the event of a terrorist attack (Example: BBC). Sadly that’s not so true anymore of Christianity, once upon a time maybe so, but today the media will largely jump upon any so-called “Christian’s” terrorist attempts as an opportunity to attack all Christianity.
Example:
While we’re on that note I should also mention that it has since been discovered that Brevik was by his own profession not a Bible-believeing, sincere Christian, he Just wrote in his manifesto that he saw Christianity as an opportunity for the Consolidation of European Cultural and Ethnic Identity.
This. Another tragic and inevitable byproduct of such events.
You’re lying to yourself.
No, he’s right.
News media sculpts islam into this big bad terrible monster and that’s why half of the people in the US can’t tell brown people apart and are avid supporters of the “Kill dem fuken towlhead sand niggers” way of thinking.
that’s basically the opposite of what he said though
Stop being silly.
He was saying that the mainstream media is trending towards ignoring Islam and demonizing Christianity, which is completely false. In general, the only place where I see people hating on Christians is the internet.
He was rather close I believe. But the explosion only burned up his right leg and side. He’s already home, so that’s nice. Course, it’s my opinion that whoever is responsible should be turned over to a couple of good ol’ Boston boys. They won’t let the person or people responsible die quickly. They’ll suffer.