Crixus
Gold Member
Naturally, I don't condone any of those goings on or think it is any less heinous because it wasn't being done for political purposes, but what I was TRYING to say was, at first I thought it may not have been done by Muslim jihadists.You never heard of the Mad Bomber? What about the pyros that set fire just to watch the response? Not everyone is politically motivated, ya know.I wasn't sure the NYC bombing was terrorist until today, because authorities seemed completely unaware of this apparent active cell. I thought it could be a Mad Bomber, just another pyromaniac off his meds. The terrorists have discovered a new way to communicate, apparently. Like talking face to face maybe? I wondered how long it would take for them to ditch the internet and go back to old fashioned visiting.BS. Common sense dictates it was a terrorist attack of some type. When one does shit like that it's purpose it to terrorize people. I can agree that calling it Islamic terror out the gate as problematic, but then there was the guy praising Allah while he was stabbing everyone so implying it COULD be Islamic terror would not be a stretch, but to deny it as anything else is just impossible. Eric Randell Rudolf by Bamma's definition would not be a terrorist, yet he did exactly what terrorists do. Killed some folks, and terrified thousands more. Tim McVeigh, same thing. Only diffrence is they didn't shout praise to Allah when they did what they did.
No kidding, I thought it was another damned Amish attack.
I was shocked to see it was an Islamic attack.
That is true, but all those acts are terrorism as demonstrated by the Webster definition of terriorisem. If you look at the definition it says this,
terrorism
[ter-uh-riz-uh m]
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noun
1.
the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes.
2.
the state of fear and submission produced by terrorism or terrorization.
3.
a terroristic method of governing or of resisting a government.
So while the aims can or can not be political in this case or that, the desired results are the same for both.
Oh it was done by jihadies, its a fact, only diffrence is they were jihadies from the US.