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The Religion of Peace strikes again.:mad:



'All muslims leave' order... then gang target victims who can't name Prophet's mother: Britons caught in crossfire as masked gunmen slaughter 39 in Kenyan mall and terrorists blog attack live on twitter

Foreign Secretary William Hague confirms British citizens are caught up in the terrorist attack in Nairobi
The US State Department has also confirmed Americans were at the shopping centre

Somalian terrorist group al-Shabaab, which has links to Al-Qaeda, has now claimed responsibility for the attack

The terrorist organisation released a statement saying it warned Kenya to remove troops from Somalia

Hostages are being held by at least five attackers still in building
The army and special forces are helping police flush out the gunmen

Upmarket mall is a favourite shopping spot for expats and wealthy Kenyans
Police opened fire after gunmen launched attack at midday today
Security guards wheel out bodies in shopping trolleys from Westlands Shopping Centre
Witness says attackers told shoppers non-Muslims were the targets of the masked terrorists



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...an-shopping-centre-targeted-non-Islamics.html
 
This is the best link to keep up to date on what's happening in Westgate Mall in Nairobi.

http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/ktn/live

It's mostly in English, some Swahili, not difficult to follow.

Poor bastards held hostage by godbothering nutters.

Let's hope the hostages get out alive and the terrorists live to have their balls slowly fried.

gg
 
Religious nuts are the worst, somehow worse than any other random bunch of nutters. :2twocents
 
A guy I talk to on another forum I frequent was in the mall at the time and was shot. He's about to have surgery and his wife is still missing.:(

Reports are that the gunmen were mainly Westerners of Somali background (Americans, Candians, Brits).
 
ohlookitsadam said:
The war on "terror" (or muslims) is one war which does not have a happy ending.
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I fail to see how "war" and "happy" can ever appear in the same sentence.
I also fail to see how callous cowards massacring unarmed civilians can be called anything but terrorists. It's about time that true Muslims recognise this and join the fight on the side of humanity.
 
What is worse is that quite a few were US citizens based in Minneapolis. What is going on?
 
One aspect of the reporting of these events I find really distasteful, and I've heard it on the ABC, is that the (insert name of terrorist group) has 'claimed credit' for the massacre.

Surely to god you'd say "has claimed responsibility" or a similar term", not "credit'"which implies a praiseworthy effort.
 
No, Mr Cameron. The Kenyan massacre is all about Islamism


Here we go again. A group of Islamist terrorists armed with guns and grenades head into a shopping mall in Kenya. They separate out the Muslims from the non-Muslims, let the former go free and massacre the latter.


Cue the usual responses. The British Prime Minister, David Cameron, says:

‘These appalling terrorist attacks that take place where the perpetrators claim they do it in the name of a religion – they don’t. They do it in the name of terror, violence and extremism and their warped view of the world. They don’t represent Islam or Muslims in Britain or anywhere else in the world.’

I don’t think any sensible person would argue that the perpetrators represent all Muslims. But it seems strange to say that a separation of people ”” and massacre of them ”” based solely on their religious identity can be said to have nothing to do with religion.

Various Muslims and other commentators have done the same shtick ”” once again claiming that the motivations of the extremists are nothing to do with religion, but are instead political in motive. More original attempts to escape the point include the suggestion by Sir Simon Jenkins in today’s Guardian that shopping malls themselves are to blame for the attack:

‘The modern urban obsession with celebrity buildings and high-profile events offers too many publicity-rich targets. A World Trade Centre, a Mumbai hotel, a Boston marathon, a Nairobi shopping mall are all enticing to extremists. Defending them is near impossible. Better at least not to create them. A shopping mall not only wipes out shopping streets, it makes a perfect terrorist fortress, near impossible to assault.’

All of which suggests, for the thousandth time, that everybody is trying to avoid the point.

I can see why politicians like David Cameron want to make sure that nobody blames Muslims as a whole for attacks like this. But telling the lie that such attacks have nothing whatsoever to do with Islam does no good at all. It lets the extremists off the hook and infuriates everybody else who end up wondering why the Prime Minister cannot see what everybody else can see.

As I have said often in response to this ‘noble lie’, the only way that Islam is going to get through its current problems is if followers of the religion realise that they have to actively confront the problem. Each provision of an opt-out and excuse delays the day when the religion properly confronts itself and makes the claims of the jihadis a wholly impermissible ”” instead of plausible and sometimes permissible ”” response to the religion in whose name they act.
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http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/douglas-murray/2013/09/no-mr-cameron-the-kenyan-massacre-is-all-about-islamism/
 
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