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Explosion in central Oslo

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Re: Explosion in central Oslo

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Post by nitrogen »

lukeschlather wrote: post #38
swah wrote: post #34

We need to partition HN. I love your input, but "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

I remember someone noting that "If the world ended, I'm confident it would be covered immediately on HN." I think this qualifies as something of sufficient importance that it should be here just so everyone is aware. We could do without the comments though. Maybe a "no comment" sort of link for events of vital importance that are off-topic? It would make a lot more sense than disabling comments for YC job postings.

I'll second your first paragraph, but would prefer to leave the comments. HN is one of my two primary news sources, largely due to it being the only place I've found this quality of discussion. When something really significant happens, I enjoy participating in a discussion about it with the HN crowd.

Re: Explosion in central Oslo

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Post by tlb »

netmau5 wrote: post #3

Is there any reason to want to terrorize Norway?

Norwegian oil companies are drilling in Islamic countries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statoil_operations_by_country

Oslo is known for the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo_Accords, an attempt at peace between Palestine and Israel.

Re: Explosion in central Oslo

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Post by eibrahim »

cheez wrote: post #40
InclinedPlane wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That doesn't necessarily rule out al qaeda involvement, there have been caucasian taliban et al before. But we shouldn't jump to conclusions until we have the facts regardless.

I remember the Oklahoma bombing and the first picture was of some random brown muslim guy. Turns out, it was a white athiest. Look up the FBI stats on radical muslim bombings on US soil vs radical christian vs radical athiest bombings. In fact, I seem to recall that radical jews had more attacks on US soil than radical muslims. And since 9/11 was so neatly sown up, we'll never really know who was truly behind it.

Come on man. You are delusional!!! Terrorist attacks are 90% by muslim extremists... Stop living in a fantasy world... new york, washington dc, london, spain, egypt, turkey, mumbai, kenya, yemen, thailand, Philippines, russia etc... I am not saying all of them but 90% is probably very accurate...

Instead of blaming it on others, it should be addressed by the muslim world and not just denied. When a radical christian does something like, he is denounced by all christian leaders and people.

Love thy enemy != Kill the infidels

Re: Explosion in central Oslo

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Post by [deleted] »

lukeschlather wrote: post #38
swah wrote: post #34

We need to partition HN. I love your input, but "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

I remember someone noting that "If the world ended, I'm confident it would be covered immediately on HN." I think this qualifies as something of sufficient importance that it should be here just so everyone is aware. We could do without the comments though. Maybe a "no comment" sort of link for events of vital importance that are off-topic? It would make a lot more sense than disabling comments for YC job postings.

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Re: Explosion in central Oslo

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Post by slowcpu »

ujal wrote: post #46
orblivion wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They say a humble foreign policy will prevent shit like this, but I was always hesitated to accept it wholesale.

They are involved in Afghanistan...

Norway's troops in Afghanistan have contributed to the deaths of far more civilians than were killed in this episode. Killing people is a bad long term policy.

Re: Explosion in central Oslo

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Post by slowcpu »

netmau5 wrote: post #13
InclinedPlane wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm curious, why would you imagine that al qaeda et al wouldn't want to attack Norway?

I suppose bad people do bad things, regardless of an honorable ideology. Still, I see Norway in the same way as I see Canada. They do not take strong statements for or against others, they do not engage in the affairs of others, they have had a long (modern) history of peaceful relations/intentions. The most aggressive thing they've done is commit handfuls of troops to a multinational "peacekeeping" missions. I guess…

"The most aggressive thing they've done is commit handfuls of troops to a multinational "peacekeeping" mission" ie: They are aiding the Americans in killing civilians. I guess that the civilians are now fighting back. Funny how that happens...

Re: Explosion in central Oslo

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Post by ComputerGuru »

guard-of-terra wrote: post #11
InclinedPlane wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That doesn't necessarily rule out al qaeda involvement, there have been caucasian taliban et al before. But we shouldn't jump to conclusions until we have the facts regardless.

Arabs tend to be caucasian as in Europoid - they're semitic, and semites are usually Europoid. I don't have a word for what you wanted to say readily available, sorry.

Yes, but only to an extent. There are no (to the best of my knowledge) actually blond arabs (though hair dye is a dime a dozen these days, of course). And Semites can generally be readily identified by certain features that while they can be shared with Caucasians are rarely not present on Arabs (bridge of the nose, the brow, the eye placement, etc.).
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