"not Terror Related", - Of Course?

Khandro | 23:15 Sat 13th Aug 2016 | News

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http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/699701/Switzerland-train-knife-attack-burns

Why are so many 'maniacs' suddenly starting to stab innocent people on trains then ?

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jackthehat

*understanding...

Baldric

JTH, thanks,
I was just coming back to type that myself for the benefit of the hard of understanding.

hc4361

The news reports states that the man is a Swiss national with a typically Swiss name. It is not mandatory for Muslim converts to change their names to an Islamic one but the vast majority do.

At the moment there is no indication at all that this man is either Muslim born nor a Muslim convert.

anotheoldgit

jackthehat

/// I don't think AOG minds looking
silly..... ///

It's not that, I just do not like standing out from the crowd.

/// And if he is going to start calling his fellow ABers 'apologists', I believe he'll find himself in a bit of hot-water. ///

Is that some kind of threat? Because if it is I assure you that I am not quivering in my boots.

Khandro

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hc; What you say is true, but in my entire life I cannot recall any incidents of people attacking fellow passengers with knives and machetes on trains and it is suddenly becoming a weekly occurrence. Don't you find that a tad strange?

Mamyalynne

Though the man (and one of those he attacked) is now dead, maybe the motive/reason he did this may come to light.

hc4361

Khandro, I don't think it strange. Every incident across Europe is being reported in the British media as it never has been before and of course we read and hear about the same incident many times from the report of the attack to (hopefully) the trial.

hc4361

There is speculation that this was a 'crime of passion' directed at one woman known to the attacker.

sp1814

I predict that if this attack turns out to have been nothing to do with terrorism, it will fade very quickly from view, and we will be left thinking that it was.

And then it will form part of a larger narrative.

Just like some stories about the E.U. (banning jam jars and bent bananas).

hc4361

sp, it would not surprise me if 'so called ISIS' claims it even if were not a terrorist attack nor involve a Muslim at all.

andy-hughes

Jackdaw - //Of course it's terror-related, it's a no brainer.

I am not saying that it is ISIS related, but anyone who starts a fire then goes around stabbing people is a terrorist. Full stop. Are you saying that the people on the train were not terrified? //

This I think is the result of people like George Bush mis-using the term 'terror' for his own propaganda.

He was the first politician I heard mis-use the term, in his speech about a 'war on terror' which is a nonsensical concept.

'Terror' means fear - 'terrorist' is an entirely different noun, and mixing the two causes confusion.

So, accurately, the incident could be said not to be 'terrorist related' - but it is obviously 'terror' related because it caused terror in the dictionary definition of the term.

Lazy publicity seeking politicians served by lazy journalism result in this mangling of language, which is to no-one's benefit.