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

[zoobernut]

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.


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

I don't think low victim count terrorism is new. It has been happening a long time. It just wasn't widely reported before. Terrorism has become a buzz word for the news agencies so anything labeled as such gets huge coverage. Small scale terrorist attacks have probably been happening for a long time.

Remember terrorism isn't about the size of the crime but the motivation behind it and the intended consequences of it.

[Nephlite]

Remember terrorism isn't about the size of the crime but the motivation behind it and the intended consequences of it.

Excellent point and the consequences being to cause terror. Regardless of how many bodies or what method was used, as long as it strikes fear in to the people and makes the government think about it, they did their job. Unfortunately for them, most of the countries they try to hit won't simply just roll over and die easily so they have to do something extreme in order to get the effects they intend.

[tisiphone]

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.

I apologise for getting a fact wrong, but I wasn't intentionally trying to play the race card as you're implying. Personally I don't even care what race or religion they are.