Incident on London Bridge

These things have a habit of happening before elections man, make of it what you will. Im not a huge conspiracy nut but these things have to be considered.
What is the thing you want to be considered?

Also the Westminster attack happened before the election was called
 
There isn't specific Christian churches I'm aware of that are actively producing terrorists through a particular interpretation of the Bible, though.

There are mosques in England right now that are Saudi funded and attempting to pervert vulnerable people. If there was churches doing something similar, such as teaching an awfully literal interpretation of the Old Testament that could be used to hurt other people, then we would be having a wider debate on the role of these churches in our society.

Islam isn't a problem. But it does have a problem. The real problem is the Saudis and their role in spreading this perverted interpretation.

This has to be stopped, of course.
 
Exactly right, you can't.

You can fight an ideology though and you can try to help educate people, on both sides. You can also stop bombing the shit out of everywhere and creating massive refugee problems, and you can help the refuges that are created. You can also fight hate groups on the internet. Feck there are lots of things we can all do, voting in leaders who want to help the problem not create more or make the current ones worse Is a big start.
Careful there mate, you have to specifically state that the people responsible for tonight's incident are bad too otherwise some prick will suggest you're condoning their actions.
 
By addressing the fact that modern Islam is not compatible with the West and that a reformation of said religion should be encouraged. Also, banning Wahhabism and expelling any Wahhabist preachers, putting pressure on Saudi Arabia.

In the meantime immigration from Islamic countries should be limited so that only people in smaller numbers who can integrate in modern society should be allowed to come in, rather than vast numbers of uneducated and unwilling to change their ways Islamists.

You may think I'm harsh but there is no other way. There is no magical and "nice" way to fix this. It won't go away unless the necessary steps are taken.

and a good example of that strategy is to sell them £200billion of weapons and arms to protect themselves. I'm sure that will really pressure the Al Sauds and send a big scary signal to those pesky Wahahbi priests.

I don't think you're being harsh at all. I think you are being either naive or very hypocritical.

This terrorism is accepted collateral damage for the war with ISIS in Syria and the status quo relationship required with Saudi Arabia. It has nothing to do with Islam, British Muslims or anything else.

The Governments since 9/11 have hoodwinked everyone and most still fall for it.
 
"Modern Islam" is, for the most part, living peacefully in the West. I know plenty of Muslim who are perfect citizens. Perfectly moderate and compassionate human beings who while having a very different culture in some areas have managed to integrate with few issues.
Meh, can't really agree with this. Even though not every Muslim is a terrorist obviously, many of them actually support these attacks, a large part of them even though they do not support said attacks, agree with the reasoning. I mean you do not have to be a terrorist to be a problem, closing your eyes is just as bad.

Muslim extremists on the other hand, which I think you have mistaken for "modern Islam" is a different beast altogether. The vast majority of terrorist attacks in the US are carried out by far right wing white supremists of varying Christian flavours. Is modern Christianity "not compatible with the west" or is it just a few that are spoiling it for the many?
That's absolute fallacy. "White supremacists"? Where? And what do white supremacists have to do with Christianity? They're main trait is in their racism towards other races, not the fact that they're Christians.

Let's not forget that with well over a billion Muslims world wide, if Islam was really at war with us, we'd already be dead.
What the feck are you talking about? You think the Middle East can take on the West?

It seems you missed the last 200 years of history because they're rife with Christian abuse. Up until very recent times they were doing the same things as the more extreme Muslim countries. Parts of Africa and Russia still do.
No, I have not. Show me something in the past years that Christians have done in the name of Christianity.
 
They aim to justify their actions....Use anything to forward their own agenda's, and prey on the weak and defenceless. Evil can have brains, they just don't work in a way that any modern society can ever accept.
But you called them stupid a minute ago? I think you need to take a minute out because you're not thinking things through and are responding emotionally. It's understandable, something really shit and rage inducing just happened, but you're all over the place here.
 
Because Europe has been where refugees went to since the Middle East countries didn't take refugees. Lots of extremists entered Europle along with the refugees. That is the reason why terrorist incidents in Europe have increased since the refugee crisis started.

European countries need to cancel the passports and citizenship of those people who travel to Pakistan, Syria, Iraq, Libya etc for training and fighting. They should not be allowed back in.
Most of these attacks have been done by people born in the country. Cancelling their passports won't achieve anything.

Why the feck are the refugees getting the blame for these things? Its stupid.
 
There isn't specific Christian churches I'm aware of that are actively producing terrorists through a particular interpretation of the Bible, though.

There are mosques in England right now that are Saudi funded and attempting to pervert vulnerable people. If there was churches doing something similar, such as teaching an awfully literal interpretation of the Old Testament that could be used to hurt other people, then we would be having a wider debate on the role of these churches in our society.

Islam isn't a problem. But it does have a problem. The real problem is the Saudis and their role in spreading this perverted interpretation.

Easy to solve though isnt it? UK and US should stop selling weapons and befriending the Saudi's and tackle them on these issues. Obviously never going to happen because they provide £££ to our great economies
 
and a good example of that strategy is to sell them £200billion of weapons and arms to protect themselves. I'm sure that will really pressure the Al Sauds and send a big scary signal to those pesky Wahahbi priests.

I don't think you're being harsh at all. I think you are being either naive or very hypocritical.

This terrorism is accepted collateral damage for the war with ISIS in Syria and the status quo relationship required with Saudi Arabia. It has nothing to do with Islam, British Muslims or anything else.

The Governments since 9/11 have hoodwinked everyone and most still fall for it.
Almost everything I said was pure fantasy and nothing of what I wanted will happen anytime soon, if ever. But that's the only solution.
 
There's been a lot of discussion on what "the problem" might be.

Personally, I think that if you stop creating refugees (a lot of whom are unsurprisingly angry as their loved ones have recently perished) with sustained bombing campaigns and stop arming some of the worst offenders then you will go some way to subsiding the hate.
True.
 
They don't have the mental capacity to follow anything remotely as complex as religion. To say they are misguided would be a gross understatement. The actions of such people, brain washed or otherwise are simply incompatible with any civilised society and utterly devoid of morality.
They get their ides from somewhere, finding out where the ideas are coming from is the first step to a solution. It's the people who are giving the people who are comiting these atrocities the ideas to do so who are the root of the problem. Hitler didn't kill all the people who where killed in the holocaust single handedly but it was his words and orders who killed them.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-abortion_violence

Literally the first thing that comes to mind.
Are we really going to go down that route? Do you know that they still stone women in the Middle East if they don't act "right" enough? Do you know that "honor killing" in Muslim countries is a thing and is perfectly normal? The fact that women aren't allowed many basic freedoms and that they could be raped and still be found guilty? I mean I can go on and on, but I think you get the picture.
 
Easy to solve though isnt it? UK and US should stop selling weapons and befriending the Saudi's and tackle them on these issues. Obviously never going to happen because they provide £££ to our great economies

Ay, you're bang on. And the UK should be held accountable. Amber Rudd as good as stated we need the Saudis for the health of the economy as recently as this week.
 
Wow. Yet another thread that is supposed to give information on an atrocity, descends into a religious debate
 
Yes, fair point. However this is just one attack in the matter of how many years? How many Islamic attacks have happened in Europe and in the world (mind you) from 2011 to 2017 and how many Christian ones?

The problem isn't just these Muslim attacks, it's the RATE of them. They're happening almost every day. And the one common thing with them is that the person that's doing said attack is following a certain religion.

But Christians don't go around bombing people. I mean, as I said, I'm not a Christian, however Christianity hasn't done anything in the past 200 years to warrant any special attention.

Yep, they certainly do their part in promoting this violence. That's a major problem.

I agree. The problem is nobody is stopping them from integrating, they just don't want to integrate, that's a problem in their culture. Their parents don't want their children to associate with Westerners. Their parents, for the most part, also don't respect the country they've immigrated to. There's nothing you can do fix this problem besides limiting immigration to sustainable levels were integrating them will be a lot easier. Otherwise we just sit and count the days until the next attack.

Re the bolded, it has, though. Hitler was a Christian. His own private views were largely conflicting and it's likely he used this as more of a rhetoric than anything else, but in the most basic sense of the word he came from a Christian background. Similarly, plenty will argue that perpetrators of Islamic terrorism are using their views as a religious front. Christians in the US systematically oppressed ethnic minorities for generations and were lynching/oppressing them barely over half a century ago. Breivik was a far-right Christian. The church have systemically committed abuse, often at a high level, and have often used their religious views to protect their own status/position. Again, the actual religiosity of such figures is often tenuous at best...but then the same can be said for many of the "lone wolf" attackers who have often been distant from the religion and find themselves drawn back to it as they become radicalised.

That's obviously naturally very different to the current problem we face, and the issue within Britain right now - although even here we saw an MP murdered by a far-right terrorist last year.

Again, I'm happily willing to condemn elements of Islam. While I think most of the comments highlighting good, positive passages in Islamic scripture are well-natured, I also think that if we're going to highlight such passages we also need to be equally willing to examine the negative scripture within the religion that can influence terrorists.

On the integration problem, again - I'll agree with the problem, but I think you're partly generalising. They refers to a large group of the British population and essentially groups them into one stereotype; again, it may apply to certain portions of the Muslim population, but even the religions harshest critic would also surely acknowledge that tons have been willing to integrate. And while there should be an expectation on those who come to Western nations to adapt to the countries they're entering, we're equally not helping on our side if we're going to group them into one convenient mass stereotype.
 
But you called them stupid a minute ago? I think you need to take a minute out because you're not thinking things through and are responding emotionally. It's understandable, something really shit and rage inducing just happened, but you're all over the place here.

I'm not responding emotionally mate. There are those who just want to spread hate, they know what they are doing. They can say they're doing it in the name of x or y, but what I'm saying is that is their own simplistic justification. There is no justification- hence their stupidity.
 
Wow. Yet another thread that is supposed to give information on an atrocity, descends into a religious debate
I know, usually takes about 20 pages and rednev for it to start in earnest.
 
That's absolute fallacy. "White supremacists"? Where? And what do white supremacists have to do with Christianity? They're main trait is in their racism towards other races, not the fact that they're Christians.

Funny that people can easily tell the difference between the KKK and Christians but can't tell the difference between terrorists and Muslims.

In the 70's and 80's the main terrorist attacks in the UK were to do with a sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland with Christian religious dogma playing no small part. Despite this to suggest that most Irish people supported terrorists and that Irish migration was a problem would have been idiotic.
 
"Last 200 years of Christianity doesn't warrant special attention" :lol:

Let's see... Hitler, and yes he stated a few times he felt he was doing the Lord's work by exterminating the Jews amongst others.

There's the countless Catholic church coverups especially sexual abuse.

Kony and the LRA. There's also the KKK, Neo Nazis, and whacko right-wing nutters in the US and other parts of the world.

Christian terrorism may not be as prevalent as Islamic terrorism these days but to dismiss its history altogether is nonsense.
 
Pictures of suspects on BBC news now. Man lying on the floor been shot with canisters strapped around his abdomen.
 
Are we really going to go down that route? Do you know that they still stone women in the Middle East if they don't act "right" enough? Do you know that "honor killing" in Muslim countries is a thing and is perfectly normal? The fact that women aren't allowed many basic freedoms and that they could be raped and still be found guilty? I mean I can go on and on, but I think you get the picture.
Yes. It's a shit religion and I'm not defending it. I'm just pointing out you're wrong about the others not being shit too.
 
This is getting depressing. Lost for words!
 
Careful there mate, you have to specifically state that the people responsible for tonight's incident are bad too otherwise some prick will suggest you're condoning their actions.

Feck, I forgot where I was for a minute. I should really know better by now.
 
Are we really going to go down that route? Do you know that they still stone women in the Middle East if they don't act "right" enough? Do you know that "honor killing" in Muslim countries is a thing and is perfectly normal? The fact that women aren't allowed many basic freedoms and that they could be raped and still be found guilty? I mean I can go on and on, but I think you get the picture.

Many of your posts seem to be ill informed, but ill draw your attention to the "honor killings". These have nothing to do with religion but are actually based on cultural beliefs particularly in Asia, hence you will see many honor killings in countries like India, which if youre not sure, isnt a muslim country. I understand you have views and opinions on certain matters, but alot of what youre saying isnt the reality
 
Still waiting to hear from my sister who was in the area this evening. I'm on all sites, twitter all sorts.