Terrorist Attack in London (1 dead via a knife attack)

**Ratatapa** · 2013-05-23 12:16

Then we gonna learn he was playing Diablo and immitating the Butcher

BLAME VIDYA GAMES

**Odin'sLaw** · 2013-05-23 12:23

Originally Posted by Waraji

Body Carving, that's an interesting hobby. What are your primary tools, I'd like to take interest in this hobby.

sharp item (blade, glass anything with a sharp cutting edge) then find a victim and go to town!

**Waraji** · 2013-05-23 12:41

/read in martha stewarts voice.

**shepardG** · 2013-05-23 12:42

Folks seem to be losing their mind over this.

**Roranora** · 2013-05-23 12:49

Originally Posted by shepardG

Folks seem to be losing their heads over this.

mmm.

**ronin sparthos** · 2013-05-23 12:49

Originally Posted by Odin'sLaw

shocked by how many people believe it means anyone not white, i work with some pretty weird people but at one point i'm pretty sure the other 3 people i work with wanted to go body carving after work

That doesn't sound very European of them. Only brown people are capable of such savage acts.

**Ragnus** · 2013-05-23 13:07

***Ddz*** · 2013-05-23 13:53

Originally Posted by ronin sparthos

That doesn't sound very European of them. Only brown people are capable of such savage acts.

Spoiler: show

**tyven** · 2013-05-23 14:39

link to aftermath video http://gawker.com/heres-the-entire-h...olwi-509554845

**The Stig** · 2013-05-23 15:13

Originally Posted by tyven

link to aftermath video http://gawker.com/heres-the-entire-h...olwi-509554845

I didn't know the video was this long. The TV news only showed the last few seconds of it (when a woman walks past).

I got to admit, I love how that woman walked by though. Either completely confused or no fucks given, but given the circumstances: ranting guy, bloody hands, revealing weapons, she could not have been blind to it.

---

On another note, someone compared this on my Facebook:

When the IRA (an Irish terrorist organisation) bombed London back a while ago, we didn't go around calling all Irish terrorists.

I'm undecided if that's the best comparison here. I see her point, but Irish is a race, not religion, afterall. So far the hate is pointing squarely at a religion, which just happens to comprised of mainly people from the Middle East. What makes it a bit awkward at the moment is that this guy is ... well, arguably, black, lol.

This makes me think/feel, what if it was done under another religion? So say a similar incident happened and Jesus was mentioned, would we all turn on Christians like we (well, the UK) are doing now on Islam?

Either way I'm beginning to lose it a bit by bit with some people lately, it really does make my head hurt somewhat. What I said above might not be very coherent, it's a little difficult to express but it's depressing to see such reactions all aroun. Not even the US (as far as I know/recall) reacted like this as far as I remember (i.e. said it was a terrorist attack, followed by lashing out at a religion).

**Waraji** · 2013-05-23 15:18

Had this happened in the States, he would have been tried both as a black man, and as a Muslim. Fox news would be flipping their shit so many times they wouldn't remember which way was up.

Edit: I'm in no shape or form suggesting Fox already doesn't know which way is up, but merely using it as an analogy.

**kuronosan** · 2013-05-23 17:58

If he mentioned Jesus we would just say he was a looney and mentally unstable. It's only if they're Muslim do we say they're predisposed.

**Elcura** · 2013-05-23 20:36

Originally Posted by Bregor

Yeah, no biggie, just a guy getting hacked apart in broad daylight. /YAWN.

Yeah, so BORING. I was in the area, should've stopped by to tell them all to be real terrorists or whatever.

**shidobu** · 2013-05-24 10:40

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...ocking-1907772

incase anybody wanna see the pew pew

not graphic if your use to American action films.

**Xno Kappa** · 2013-05-24 10:54

So what exactly is the outrage? That the media is overexposing this incident or the claim it was terrorism? The killer himself pretty much said he was a terrorist lol.

**Laugana** · 2013-05-24 11:19

Not to disparage that it was a horrible event, but I do feel that it shouldn't technically be termed a terrorist attack, since it wasn't a mass attack on the nation. Also, it's a slow news week so the media is playing it up too.

**zoobernut** · 2013-05-24 11:36

Originally Posted by Laugana

Not to disparage that it was a horrible event, but I do feel that it shouldn't technically be termed a terrorist attack, since it wasn't a mass attack on the nation. Also, it's a slow news week so the media is playing it up too.

That has nothing to do with terrorism. Yes terrorism is more effective if it is a mass attack but it doesn't need to be.

Noun
The use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims.

**Dimmauk** · 2013-05-24 11:41

Originally Posted by tyven

link to aftermath video http://gawker.com/heres-the-entire-h...olwi-509554845

Two monsters crashed a car into a soldier named Lee Rigby on Tuesday in southeast London, and then they hopped out and murdered him with meat cleavers and a machete. In the interminable lull before police arrived to shoot the men, they danced over Rigby's body and demanded passers-by take pictures and video.

LOL black people

I'm suprised nobody was shouting Worldstar

**Outlaw** · 2013-05-24 15:08

Originally Posted by shidobu

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...ocking-1907772

incase anybody wanna see the pew pew

not graphic if your use to American action films.

Crazy. The Brits don't mess around. Also.. I noticed the first comment made by someone towards the bottom of the page.

One murder does not give to right to LEGAL murder! they should very happy to post this on live web sites. Bravo!

Fuck that guy.

**Ashmada** · 2013-05-24 17:47

Originally Posted by tisiphone

SCO19 (armed response unit of the Met).

I think people are making a huge ass big deal out of it is because a soldier was killed by someone who was foreign born.

But he wasn't? He was british. Dumb attempt to play the race card is dumb.
People are labelling this terrorism because it was, not out of some racist conspiracy. The killer was born in the UK, came from a devout chrisitan family, converted to islam and was radicalised by an imam now prohibited to step on british soil.

As for the low victim count: that's the new terrorism. Due to increased security, major attacks like 9/11 have become unpractical to organise, so they turn to smaller mini terrorist cells that are hard/impossible to infiltrate, often radicalised and taught how to carry out their attacks through internet vids.
In a single year, there's been Toulouse, Boston, Sarcelle (a guy threw grenades in a jewish shop - he failed to cause any victim, so the media didn't really report it) and London.

Crazy. The Brits don't mess around

And that's Londoners. Scots go after terrorists bare-handed. And they'll punch a terrorist even if he's on fire.

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