Deadly explosions hit US city of Boston

[Futuwwa]

Summary of thread:

"Muslim victimhood" > "Other victimhood"

Change "Muslim" for "Jewish" and you essentially get the attitude of most Zionists. Don't be like them.

 

[سيف الله]

Salaam

A horrible atrocity, condolences to all involved.

Like people have already said one here, one of the reason there’s more media coverage about this event is because it’s much rarer in America or Europe. We do get information about bomb blasts in the middle east but they’re happening so often that if they were to give the same amount of coverage there would never be anything else on the news.

Regrettably have to agree reminds me of this quote

'A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.'

On the reason why Americans don't seem too concerned about atrocities committed by their troops air-force etc

'The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.'

On the other hand this is an important domestic issue for them (not so much because of the scale of the attack but because the symbolism of it) so there going to make an issue of it.

Mind you it is odd why it gets such disproportionate coverage in UK, I know the UK is a loyal lapdog but seriously, really shows you how culturally colonised the UK has become. My main worry is that the American government may respond violently and given their past record we all know where that leads.

Lets hope they don't.

 

[Khaajit]

Truly sad. I pray for the lives lost there including that of an 8 year old boy. Truly sad. I pray for all those who die throughout the world.

 

[جوري]

back on topic and what actually matters:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/...id10|htmlws-main-bb|dl7|sec1_lnk3&pLid=300521

 

[Independent]

Back in the real world, I see they have released photos of two suspects. One of their faces is quite visible, good enough for people to recognise.

 

[جوري]

Yes indeed hope everyone will see the link (and vid) I included above your last comment and the outrage toward the two photos prematurely released.
And that in fact should be our main concern. Mob mentality, and vigilante justice and the victims borne of those not whether or not an SN has displayed phony sentiment!

best,

 

[abo mussaab]

We would like to offer our sincere condolences for the victims' families and injured civilians who were targeted in the Boston explosion. We lost a lot of our friends and families so we know what it means to lose a dear person to the heart, a brother, sister, or son.
May you rest in peace brothers and sisters and may God be with your families now and grant them patience and serenity.

 

[islamica]

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[islamica]

back on topic and what actually matters:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/...id10|htmlws-main-bb|dl7|sec1_lnk3&pLid=300521

[h=1]'I'm NOT a terrorist... I was just watching the marathon:' Moroccan high school runner is wrongly linked to Boston bombings after photograph of him at finishing line sweeps the internet[/h]

He said: 'I worry that someone, a mad person, might come after me and my family'

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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-picture-widely-circulated.html#ixzz2QsDD4bJD


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[جوري]

He said: 'I worry that someone, a mad person, might come after me and my family'

ya think? Their disgusting media isn't gonna be responsble for ruining a few hundred lives out of this?
I am at a loss for words.. al7mdullilah at least a few people on here get it, so it isn't a total loss in the midst of so much manure!

 

[islamica]

ya think? Their disgusting media isn't gonna be responsble for ruining a few hundred lives out of this?
I am at a loss for words.. al7mdullilah at least a few people on here get it, so it isn't a total loss in the midst of so much manure!

They should sue the post for lies and endangering their lives.

FOX News

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[abo mussaab]

http://livewire.wcvb.com/Event/117th_Running_of_Boston_Marathon
An MIT police officer was shot and killed Thursday night. In addition, police were led on a chase into Watertown, where a gunfight and explosives were detonated.

Read more: http://livewire.wcvb.com/Event/117th_Running_of_Boston_Marathon#ixzz2Qsuq0ilA

 

[islamica]

These are exactly the kinds of horrific, civilian-slaughtering attacks that the US has been bringing to countries in the Muslim world over and over and over again for the last decade, with very little attention paid.

a re-tweet from Washington Examiner columnist David Freddoso, proclaiming:

Idea of secondary bombs designed to kill the first responders is just sick. How does anyone become that evil?"
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I don't disagree with that sentiment. But I'd bet a good amount of money that the person saying it - and the vast majority of other Americans - have no clue that targeting rescuers with "double-tap" attacks is precisely what the US now does with its drone program and other forms of militarism.

whatever rage you're feeling toward the perpetrator of this Boston attack, that's the rage in sustained form that people across the world feel toward the US for killing innocent people in their countries. Whatever sadness you feel for yesterday's victims, the same level of sadness is warranted for the innocent people whose lives are ended by American bombs.

Former Democratic Rep. Jane Harman went on CNN to grossly speculate that Muslim groups were behind the attack. Anti-Muslim bigots like Pam Geller predictably announced that this was "Jihad in America". Expressions of hatred for Muslims, and a desire to do violence, were then spewing forth all over Twitter (some particularly unscrupulous partisan Democrat types were identically suggesting with zero evidence that the attackers were right-wing extremists).

A rush to proclaim the guilty party to be Muslim is seen in particular over and over with such events.

As FAIR documented back then:

"In the wake of the explosion that destroyed the Murrah Federal Office Building, the media rushed — almost en masse — to the assumption that the bombing was the work of Muslim extremists. 'The betting here is on Middle East terrorists,' declared CBS News' Jim Stewart just hours after the blast (4/19/95). 'The fact that it was such a powerful bomb in Oklahoma City immediately drew investigators to consider deadly parallels that all have roots in the Middle East,' ABC's John McWethy proclaimed the same day."'It has every single earmark of the Islamic car-bombers of the Middle East,' wrote syndicated columnist Georgie Anne Geyer (Chicago Tribune, 4/21/95). 'Whatever we are doing to destroy Mideast terrorism, the chief terrorist threat against Americans, has not been working,' declared the New York Times' A.M. Rosenthal (4/21/95). The Geyer and Rosenthal columns were filed after the FBI released sketches of two suspects who looked more like Midwestern frat boys than mujahideen."


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This lesson is never learned because, it seems, many people don't want to learn it. Even when it turns out not to have been Muslims who perpetrated the attack but rather right-wing, white Christians, the damage from this relentless and reflexive blame-pinning endures.

The reason there was such confusion and uncertainty about whether this was "terrorism" is because there is no clear and consistently applied definition of the term. At this point, it's little more than a term of emotionally manipulative propaganda.

The history of these types of attacks over the last decade has been clear and consistent: they are exploited to obtain new government powers, increase state surveillance, and take away individual liberties. On NBC with Brian Williams last night, Tom Brokaw decreed that this will happen again and instructed us that we must meekly submit it to it


Full article @ http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/16/boston-marathon-explosions-notes-reactions

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A violent act again in a violent nation
The point is you reap what you sow. Violence begets violence.

So America, the most violent country in the world today, lurches from one act of mayhem to another.

If the government responds to this latest tragedy by doubling down on its domestic spying campaign, by enhancing police powers, by stepping up its deadly global drone war, and by invading or meddling in more countries abroad, we can expect more and more violent attacks aimed at killing Americans here at home.


we Americans could look at the latest carnage in Boston and recognize it as the very thing that our military has been engaged in doing in our name in places like Iraq and Afghanistan - right down to the deliberate and sick timing of a second bomb to blow up people who are coming to the aid of victims of the first bomb, which is the wretched MO of the U.S. bombing and drone strike campaigns along the Afghanistan/Pakistan border.

Boston attack no less twisted than are the Pentagon officers and who planned the attack that killed those 10 children in Kundar, or the president who ordered the leveling of the Iraqi city of Fallujah. We Americans are far too selective in our sense of horror and outrage


http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/298827.html

 

[Jedi_Mindset]

Although i dont support acts like this, i have to agree with the article above.

Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un

although i have to say that i dont know who did this and have some suspicions since blackwater mercenaries were spotted right at the scene. blackwater is responsible for many terrorists acts in iraq.

But i will let the conspiracy sides aside this time, a few of my posts got deleted here because of it.

 

[sister herb]

Salam alaykum

This:

is of my mind absolutely against the basic prinsiples of Islam! Many Americans are muslims too and still they are Americans. Comment is racist.

^o)

How a person who writes or thinks like this can say that islam is religion of peace?

 

[Iceee]

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One dead, still looking for the other "suspect."

Fugitive #Boston bomb suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19; dead is his brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26; both originally from Chechnya: media report

 

[Jedi_Mindset]

they believe the surviving suspect is a chechen.

oh how the US-media contradicts everytime

I dont want to take part in this confusion, you guys can post all you want but the US-zionist media is only contradicting themselves lol.

First blaming a moroccan, then a indian and now a chechen.

 

[Independent]

Let's look on the positive side of this. It seems that the two perpetrators have been identified very swiftly and one of them is already dead, so they won't be making any more attacks and further speculation can be ended.

The negative side is that it will probably be confirmed that they are Muslims as they are of Chechen origin. It would have been better for the world if this had been a patriot attack but that's not the way it is, so it can't be helped.

On the other hand, Chechnya is a Russian federal territory so there is no question of this resulting in an invasion or further war.

 

[glo]

so there is no question of this resulting in an invasion or further war

One hopes ... :hmm:

 

[Pygoscelis]

What do you expect? Its Fox. When you equate that with "the west" in general, that is simple bigotry, and you lower yourself to their level.