Mass shooting at Gay night club in Orlando

There was a preacher at a Ted Cruz talk thing(Yes some people went to see Ted Cruz talk) who was more less saying the same stuff and the odd(and evil) connection between this Muslim preacher and the Christian preacher was that they both though they where helping homosexual by killing them, really disturbing.

Yeah, I posted the same a few pages back. Actually pretty much EXACTLY the same, and it was ignored. The Preacher was called Kevin Swanson fwiw.
 
Is the linkage really that strong? I mean was he just a nutter who watched a few extremist vids online and the claimed to be Isis or was he really a trained up sleeper? Am guessing the former, but Isis will happily take the credit either way.

Valid question. Reports are that he called 911 before he did it and 'pledged allegiance' the IS, fcuk knows.
 
Is the linkage really that strong? I mean was he just a nutter who watched a few extremist vids online and the claimed to be Isis or was he really a trained up sleeper? Am guessing the former, but Isis will happily take the credit either way.

Sounds very much like the first one to me.
 
But aside from an isolated terror attack at the Atlanta Olympics, we've not really ever had big fights at all at these big events, much less shootings. At least not to my knowledge.

At the risk of repeating myself, that's not a very well thought through argument. No-one has been shot dead at the Euros; the situation at the Euros is actually a great argument against allowing members of the public to buy and walk around with guns. The worst that happened was bottles and chairs being thrown about, not a gun massacre.
 
I did not know that. That is interesting.

The limitation is on your end, they wont stop you from going from here. I know people that have gotten fines for smoking weed in Norway that has been stopped and refused entry into the US. And if you have violence or something on your record like I reckon most of these hooligans do, you are sure as hell not getting in.
 
It's cultural / tribal & societal. You don't get that to the same extent with US sports.

Something similar happens with Gaelic sports in Ireland but the violence happens on the pitch.

There is never any trouble at rugby matches for example, most of the rugby crowd coming from a more middle class background than football.
It kinda gets into what one of my college professors wrote his doctoral thesis about... the use of football (sport) as a replacement for warfare in Europe.
 
There is also the fact that if you have a criminal record you will not be allowed to travel to the US, we don't have limitations like that in Europe.

Most of these hooligans will have something on their record, for sure.
They only block you from travelling to the US if you have fairly grave crimes on your rap sheet tbf. 'Crimes of moral terpitude'.
 
At the risk of repeating myself, that's not a very well thought through argument. No-one has been shot dead at the Euros; the situation at the Euros is actually a great argument against allowing members of the public to buy and walk around with guns. The worst that happened was bottles and chairs being thrown about, not a gun massacre.
Which seems as though you're implying that we'd have had tons of people shot dead at these big events we've hosted in the States.. but we haven't.

So is yours a very well thought out argument?
 
50 dead?

Awful. Will the culture of hatred against gay people be allowed to continue unchecked in Western mosques and madrasas as it currently is? I don't know what the situation is like in the US, but in the UK the most recent polling data on the matter suggests half of adherents to Islam think that homosexuality is so objectionable that it should not be permitted by the law. This kind of thinking doesn't just develop from nowhere. It is entrenched in Islamic thinking and is the mainstream. It is taught in mosques and in state-funded Islamic schools. We need less talk of 'extremism' and more talk about the kind of thinking that is the norm. Islamic teachers have a right to teach that homosexuality is a sin if that's what they believe, but they don't have a right to do it in schools and they do not a have a right to do it without being subject to full and unrestrained scrutiny. feck 'sensitivity'. Islam requires about as much sensitivity as any fascist political ideology does.

I've never really understood this. To me, gay men are awesome. Why? They don't like women. Less competition. However, I have a theory. I think they hate gays because of jealousy. They are jealous that these men, have come out, and they themselves haven't, and every night, they go to sleep dreaming of getting air tighted, aka a dick in every hole, by as many hot gay men as possible. Basically it's confirmed that if you hate gays, you are gay, and you hate yourself for not embracing the all the sex you could possibly want, anywhere at any time #grinder lifestyle.

The only people who have a right to hate gay men, are women, who are being denied stylish, snappy dressing life partners.
 
They only block you from travelling to the US if you have fairly grave crimes on your rap sheet tbf. 'Crimes of moral terpitude'.

Isn't it often left up to the customs agent? The guy I know that have gotten busted with 15 grams or more of Marijuana in Norway and therefore got it on his record look fairly dodgy so that might have something to do with it.
 
Isn't it often left up to the customs agent? The guy I know that have gotten busted with 15 grams or more of Marijuana in Norway and therefore got it on his record look fairly dodgy so that might have something to do with it.
I checked online because I was shitting it about my drink driving record, as it's a felony in some states. I was ok though, but yeah, drugs and violence are the big no nos.
 
Yeah, I posted the same a few pages back. Actually pretty much EXACTLY the same, and it was ignored. The Preacher was called Kevin Swanson fwiw.
Cheers couldn't remember his name. How that didn't automatically kill Ted Cruz's political career forever is slightly worrying.
 
While this has been connected to ISIS and all, I have to say, the things I have heard from American "Christians" about homosexuals haven't created a particularly glowing image of them in my mind.
 
I've never really understood this. To me, gay men are awesome. Why? They don't like women. Less competition. However, I have a theory. I think they hate gays because of jealousy. They are jealous that these men, have come out, and they themselves haven't, and every night, they go to sleep dreaming of getting air tighted, aka a dick in every hole, by as many hot gay men as possible. Basically it's confirmed that if you hate gays, you are gay, and you hate yourself for not embracing the all the sex you could possibly want, anywhere at any time #grinder lifestyle.

The only people who have a right to hate gay men, are women, who are being denied stylish, snappy dressing life partners.

That's such a stupid argument, am actually suprised you posted it.
 
I've never really understood this. To me, gay men are awesome. Why? They don't like women. Less competition. However, I have a theory. I think they hate gays because of jealousy. They are jealous that these men, have come out, and they themselves haven't, and every night, they go to sleep dreaming of getting air tighted, aka a dick in every hole, by as many hot gay men as possible. Basically it's confirmed that if you hate gays, you are gay, and you hate yourself for not embracing the all the sex you could possibly want, anywhere at any time #grinder lifestyle.

The only people who have a right to hate gay men, are women, who are being denied stylish, snappy dressing life partners.
You really went into every nuck and cranny for that one.
 
That's an anecdotal example, which is fine when disproving an absolute i.e. "all muslims are homophobes" but doesn't disprove "there are many muslims who are homophobes."
Well some people in the thread are happy to go around saying that Islam is the problem, which is pretty absolute, no?
 
Which seems as though you're implying that we'd have had tons of people shot dead at these big events we've hosted in the States.. but we haven't.

So is yours a very well thought out argument?

Missing the point. If a set of people were hooligans plus had access to guns easily, it would be mayhem. The fact that the hooligan culture is in europe and the gun culture in US has been a saviour in this case. That's what he meant.
 
That's an anecdotal example, which is fine when disproving an absolute i.e. "all muslims are homophobes" but doesn't disprove "there are many muslims who are homophobes."
Well some people in the thread are happy to go around saying that Islam is the problem, which is pretty absolute, no?
 
No different to the right wing Christians who wish death to gays, or who blame all natural disasters on allowing gays to marry or women to have abortions.
can't disagree with that

Because one scholar defines a religion? :rolleyes:
one scholar, and 77 countries that forbid homosexuality, including 10 that hand out death penalty for the abhorrent crime of having same sex relationship.
 
Which seems as though you're implying that we'd have had tons of people shot dead at these big events we've hosted in the States.. but we haven't.

So is yours a very well thought out argument?

You don't need to read between the lines and look for hidden meaning in what I was saying, I didn't imply anything; it was all there in black and white. You've argued that there hasn't been violence at major sporting events in the US, apart from pipe-bombing, and then compared that situation to the Euros. The reasons for the violence at the Euros have been covered by others, it's a sub-culture of a small minority in European football, but that is immaterial to this debate. The point of my statement is that if gun laws in Europe were as unrestricted as they are in the US, it would have been a gun massacre in Europe. So using the situation at the Euros to support your pro-gun argument is not that well thought through..
 
Missing the point. If a set of people were hooligans plus had access to guns easily, it would be mayhem. The fact that the hooligan culture is in europe and the gun culture in US has been a saviour in this case. That's what he meant.
Gotcha.

Well, we have gangs coming out our arses, but at least we don't have Hooligans!
 
What's the betting he's a wannabe with no friends, and is using Islamic State as an excuse.
 
can't disagree with that


one scholar, and 77 countries that forbid homosexuality, including 10 that hand out death penalty.

Compared to all the Christian nations that do it too and their historically awful record on the subject too.

There's no doubt Islam has a problem with attitudes to homosexuality, but its a far more complex issue than 'Islam turns people into dicks' which the rampant rise of Islamophobia in the past few years would have people believe.
 
You don't need to read between the lines and look for hidden meaning in what I was saying, I didn't imply anything; it was all there in black and white. You've argued that there hasn't been violence at major sporting events in the US, apart from pipe-bombing, and then compared that situation to the Euros. The reasons for the violence at the Euros have been covered by others, it's a sub-culture of a small minority in European football, but that is immaterial to this debate. The point of my statement is that if gun laws in Europe were as unrestricted as they are in the US, it would have been a gun massacre in Europe. So using the situation at the Euros to support your pro-gun argument is not that well thought through..
I mentioned the Euros because I was randomly wondering why, considering all the violence we do have in America, we don't have the kinds of things happening at the tournament. It had literally zero connection to the gun debate.

I apologize for having a random thought and asking about it.
 
Interesting live news coverage online at ABC News. A neighbour of the gunman told the reporter that he and his family and friends rented 3 units in the complex where they live. They also said that of the three units was occupied by some gay guys and they saw the gunman going to visit their apartment on numerous occasions.

Also, there is now a report that just before the shooting, the gunman called 911 and told the operator he was pledging allegiance to the leader of ISIS.

If anyone's interested, President Obama is due to address the nation very soon.

http://abcnews.go.com/live?stream=1

I only saw a small part of it on the headlines, but it seemed to me like several of the last similar statements he has given after gun massacres in the last 12 months - a very pissed off resignation that the status quo will persist. Even when he said words like "we are angry", he didn't sound angry to me - just absolutely fed up with the disastrous and illogical situation the country finds itself locked into.
 
can't disagree with that


one scholar, and 77 countries that forbid homosexuality, including 10 that hand out death penalty for the abhorrent crime of having same sex relationship.

A religion of peace can't forbid same sex marriage? Until recently same sex marriages were banned in the west but I don't think anyone was arguing that those countries were anything but peaceful.

It's not that rare within Islam, or other religions for that matter, though.

See above, am more talking about his point about Islam not being a religion of peace based on that one scholar.
 
What's the betting he's a wannabe with no friends, and is using Islamic State as an excuse.

I was thinking exactly the same thing, however that wont make an ounce of difference to Trump, Cruz or Rubio or the other right wing morons just looking for an excuse to ban Muslims, or bomb the shit out of any Middle Eastern Country or to use it to push their agenda and get elected through fear mongering and propaganda. Unfortunately many will lap the fear up and rush to seek safety under Trump's grubby little wing.
 
It kinda gets into what one of my college professors wrote his doctoral thesis about... the use of football (sport) as a replacement for warfare in Europe.

Definitely applies, there are generations who have never established their identity in the same way as most previous generations did.