Kabul Terror attack

[Redfox]

A terrorist attack happened earlier today in Kabul Afghanistan, 80 people have been killed with hundreds more injured, many of them women and children.

I thought that a thread might already of been created by someone for it as it's a major terror attack on innocent people like what happened over here and in other Western countries like Paris etc, I also noticed that the BBC website does not have it as one of their main headlines.

So are Afghans not humans too? Do they not deserve people over here coming out with thoughts and prayers for their families? Are people not going to set their Facebook profile pictures to the Afghan flag?

 

[NorfolkWomble]

We're gonna be making a lot of this threads over the next weeks. ISIS are being battered in Syria and Iraq, and need to keep showing their strength, hence the declaration of a month of terror in Ramadan.

 

[Stevencc]

A terrorist attack happened earlier today in Kabul Afghanistan, 80 people have been killed with hundreds more injured, many of them women and children.

I thought that a thread might already of been created by someone for it as it's a major terror attack on innocent people like what happened over here and in other Western countries like Paris etc, I also noticed that the BBC website does not have it as one of their main headlines.

So are Afghans not humans too? Do they not deserve people over here coming out with thoughts and prayers for their families? Are people not going to set their Facebook profile pictures to the Afghan flag?

Without the ability to read peoples thoughts and receive their prayers (unless...are you God?) how do you know that people aren't thinking about and praying for the victims of the Kabul attack?

 

[Renegade]

There's a thread for the Middle East here:

http://www.onefootballforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/the-middle-east-thread.564/

It does say quite a bit about the human condition that we have become desensitised to commonplace terrorist attacks that aren't in our immediate realm, but this has always been the case when it comes to worldwide horrors (see African/South American/East Asian famines, genocides, dictatorships, etc.). The same argument can be levelled at people that donate to local charities when it's apparent that the money would be much better served going to someone in far more dire need of help across the globe (say a local mental health charity vs charities that prevent imminent starvation or fatal dehydration). The majority of people care more for their in-group and they don't have the awareness to think outside the issues that immediately impact themselves. Also, the less common the tragedy, the more likely it will get top billing on news websites and news networks (to be fair, there probably is a sinister capitalistic element to this). Despite the value of lives being equal around the world, human empathy sadly weakens the further away a tragedy is (from impacting the in-group, not literal distance from the in-group) and how commonplace that type of tragedy is.

There is a bit of "oh dearism" about terror in the Middle East too, a sense of utter helplessness, whilst some people feel that they can help (through charity, through equal rights activism, through closing borders, etc.) in the wake of something like Manchester.

 

[The Eyes of Self Actual]

Sadly it's a very common occurance in certain countries. Hardly news.

It never used to be in Europe. Big news.

Give it a decade or two and it will probably not be news in The West, either.

Like the Labour London Mayor has said "it's all part and parcel of living in a big City".

Of course it doesn't have to be, but that's the choice we are making.

 

[Renegade]

 

[The Eyes of Self Actual]

http://www.wlox.com/story/35567678/shots-explosions-rock-resort-in-manila-philippines

Just another day in the new world we are living in.

IS terrotiry continues to expand.

Don't worry - it's nothing at all to do with the fastest growing religion in the world.

There were other attacks today, hardly worth reporting on. This seems like a bigger one. Wait to see deathcount.

Ramadan death count quickly approaching 300.

 

[Stevencc]

Do you touch yourself as the death-count rises?

 

[TheMinsterman]

Interestingly neither of you make many appearances in threads unrelated to terrorism....

 

[JoshBCFC]

Another supposedly terrorist incident today in Kabul. That's 3 in 4 days apparently.

Link here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-40142606

 

[Ebeneezer Goode]

It's only natural that we would care more about people with fewer degrees of separation, so to speak.

Plus if we talked about every Middle Eastern atrocity we'd talk about little else.

 

[JoshBCFC]

It's only natural that we would care more about people with fewer degrees of separation, so to speak.

Plus if we talked about every Middle Eastern atrocity we'd talk about little else.

Agreed, there have been 13 (including this recent one) Islamist terrorist attacks in the Middle East in 2017.

 

[AFCB_Mark]

Reports surfacing of an incident in Tehran earlier today. Men with guns stormed the parliament building, reports of a hostage situation for a time. People leaping from windows to escape. Security forces went in and killed 4.

In another part of the city a suicide bomber (a woman) and other gun men went on a separate killing spree. All in all 40 people dead from the two incidents. It's being reported as the most serious terrorist violence in Tehran in decades. Iranian officials have announced a nationwide state of emergency.

Daesh/IS said it had carried out the attack and later substantiated this with a video it claimed was footage from inside the parliament building.

 

[Redfox]

Reports surfacing of an incident in Tehran earlier today. Men with guns stormed the parliament building, reports of a hostage situation for a time. People leaping from windows to escape. Security forces went in and killed 4.

In another part of the city a suicide bomber (a woman) and other gun men went on a separate killing spree. All in all 40 people dead from the two incidents. It's being reported as the most serious terrorist violence in Tehran in decades. Iranian officials have announced a nationwide state of emergency.

Daesh/IS said it had carried out the attack and later substantiated this with a video it claimed was footage from inside the parliament building.

I just wonder what ISIS's goal is in all of this, it just seems to be to cause as much death, destruction and mayhem wherever they go.

I guess peace talks are off the table.

 

[Abertawe]

I just wonder what ISIS's goal is in all of this, it just seems to be to cause as much death, destruction and mayhem wherever they go.

I guess peace talks are off the table.

Where's this notion that peace talks were ever on the table coming from?

 

[Redfox]

Where's this notion that peace talks were ever on the table coming from?

Since we became a nation of pussies who don't want to fight, not even to even save our lives.

The only hope now is that America else comes in and saves us, as usual.

 

[NorfolkWomble]

I just wonder what ISIS's goal is in all of this, it just seems to be to cause as much death, destruction and mayhem wherever they go.

I guess peace talks are off the table.

Its goal is the isolation of all Muslims in the West, that they are driven to the radical fringe of society and join ISIS.

Since we became a nation of pussies who don't want to fight, not even to even save our lives.

The only hope now is that America else comes in and saves us, as usual.

We're already fighting ISIS.

 

[TheMinsterman]

Since we became a nation of pussies who don't want to fight, not even to even save our lives.

The only hope now is that America else comes in and saves us, as usual.

I'm sure Abdul and Karim will be delighted to hear we're opting to drop kindness on them from our warplanes now and arming the Kurds with hugs.

 

[HertsWolf]

Since we became a nation of pussies who don't want to fight, not even to even save our lives.

The only hope now is that America else comes in and saves us, as usual.

Says the man who said he wouldn't fight himself, but actively wants other peoples' brothers and sons to go and fight ISIS.