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Re: Explosion in central Oslo

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Post by meric » Sun, Jul 24, 2011, 9:38 AM UTC

meric wrote: post #80

pyre wrote: post #73

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> Extremists and fundamentalists are all the same, > regardless of what they're worshiping Wouldn't this make it less likely to be Islamic extremists vs fundamentalists from ? > given that Islamic extremists would be the > most obvious conclusion Because Muslims are more prone to being crazy and/or extreme than Christians (or people of )? Because Islamic extremists are the only people that use guerrilla tactics and e…

>> Because Islamic extremists are the only people that use >> guerrilla tactics and explosive devices to get their point >> across? Until July 1997, the IRA carried out several bombing and shooting attacks. These included the Docklands bombing and the Manchester bombing, which together killed 2 civilians, injured 212 more and caused around £500 million in damage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Irish_Republi…

Sorry, missed the sarcasm there. ( Can't edit above post anymore )

Re: Explosion in central Oslo

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Post by guard-of-terra » Mon, Jul 25, 2011, 6:59 AM UTC

ComputerGuru wrote: post #50

guard-of-terra wrote: post #11

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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.).

Race is determined by genes, not looks. There are, AFAIR, only five human races and arabs, being semites, belong to one of those called "europoids" (aka "caucasians").

Re: Explosion in central Oslo

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Post by stcredzero » Mon, Jul 25, 2011, 6:53 PM UTC

cheez wrote: post #63

stcredzero wrote: post #20

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The problem with distributed command & control, is that sometimes small groups of people working on their own initiative can talk themselves into wacked-out stuff. There is a lesson here for startups. EDIT: And by "wacked-out" I mean, "wack by even the standards of Al Qaeda." 9-11 didn't help their cause in my eyes, but I can see how they justified it to themselves. Whoever bombed Oslo - is a WTF on top of a WTF.

Obviously the solution is to control everyone.

In the case of terrorism, the solution is to address grievances before they build up into smoldering resentment.

I was surprised to learn that this was done by Norwegians.