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Sunday, 12 June 2016
quote [ Police confirmed that a number of people had been killed in the attack - in the ?vicinity of 20? - but refused to give a toll. They added that 42 people had been taken to hospital and confirmed the gunman was armed with an assault rifle, handgun and ?some kind of device?.
In a press conference on Sunday morning, an FBI spokesman said investigators believed the attacker may have had extremist beliefs, and would consider possible links to Isis, but cautioned they were pursuing multiple leads. ] Shit.
More here; http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/12/orlando-shooting-nightclub-pulse-gunman?CMP=twt_gu
"One witness told Sky News there were more than 100 people inside the venue for the club?s Latin night when the gunman entered the building and began firing into the ceiling and into the crowd. He could not confirm if there was only one or multiple gunman. Anthony Torres told Sky News he was outside the club when the shooting began and confirmed that he thought more than one person was involved in the attack. He believed the shooting lasted between 15 and 20 minutes."
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1234 said @ 11:17am GMT on 14th June
Interesting to find more references to Christianity in this thread than there are to Islam – odd given that the perpetrator was not a follower of Christ. The media is unanimous in reporting him to be a follower of the Prophet Mohammed. He regularly attended mosque, and helpfully explained, in advance of this slaughter, that the killing of these people was to be understood as the righteous act of a devout Muslim - Many of his followers on Twitter likewise applauded this as an act of Muslim piety.
Yet the conversation here is about Christianity…
WeiYang’s first impulse was to create a fake Christian crime, feeling it important in the wake of a Muslim crime to make up something about Christians. It was a curious impulse, maybe even a revealing one. And although the post was utter hokum, it was nonetheless deemed “good” – even after I posted a link to wiki that showed it was a lie. (That bit of fact-checking earned me the designation “troll” – also interesting).
Now WeiYang is back, trying to find other possible crimes, decades ago, which might cast Christians in a bad light – while “damnit”, et all, aim their righteous indignation at a somewhat tone-deaf tweet, later retracted.
A tweet…
Meanwhile, in the real world…
In the twinkling of an eye since these 50 people were murdered a Canadian has been decapitated by Muslims in Philippines, a Muslim man detonated himself in a hospital in Tripoli, and a Parisian policeman, and his wife, were both murdered in their home by a man shouting “Allahu Akhbar”. There are others, of course – but let’s not belabour the point…
It’s hard not to read much of this as an object lesion in denial with some not very convincing moral equivalency thrown into the mix.
Nonetheless the headlines will continue to make reality increasingly hard to ignore - which likely accounts for the whiff of desperation evident in this search for a counter narrative that doesn’t exist.
1234 said @ 11:55am GMT on 14th June
Interesting to find more references to Christianity in this thread than there are to Islam – odd given that the perpetrator was not a follower of Christ. The media is unanimous in reporting him to be a follower of the Prophet Mohammed. He regularly attended mosque, and helpfully explained, in advance of this slaughter, that the killing of these people was to be understood as the righteous act of a devout Muslim - Many of his followers on Twitter likewise applauded this as an act of Muslim piety.
Yet the conversation here is about Christianity…
WeiYang’s first impulse was to create a fake Christian crime, feeling it important in the wake of a Muslim crime to make up something about Christians. It was a curious impulse, maybe even a revealing one. And although the post was utter hokum, it was nonetheless deemed “good” – even after I posted a link to wiki that showed it was a lie. (That bit of fact-checking earned me the designation “troll” – also interesting).
Now WeiYang is back, trying to find other possible crimes, decades ago, which might cast Christians in a bad light – while “damnit”, et all, aim their righteous indignation at a somewhat tone-deaf tweet, later retracted.
A tweet…
Meanwhile, in the real world…
In the twinkling of an eye since these 50 people were murdered a Canadian has been decapitated by Muslims in Philippines, a Muslim man detonated himself in a hospital in Tripoli, and a Parisian policeman, and his wife, were both murdered in their home by a man shouting “Allahu Akhbar”. There are others, of course – but let’s not belabour the point…
It’s hard not to read much of this thread as an object lesion in denial, with some not very convincing moral equivalency thrown into the mix - Another Muslim crime, let's talk about the evils of Christianity.
Nonetheless the headlines will continue to make reality increasingly hard to ignore - which likely accounts for the whiff of desperation evident in this search for a counter narrative that doesn’t exist.
1234 said @ 12:39pm GMT on 14th June
Interesting to find more references to Christianity in this thread than there are to Islam – odd given that the perpetrator was not a follower of Christ. The media is unanimous in reporting him to be a follower of the Prophet Mohammed. He regularly attended mosque, and helpfully explained, in advance of this slaughter, that the killing of these people was to be understood as the righteous act of a devout Muslim - Many of his followers on Twitter likewise applauded this as an act of Muslim piety, and sharia itself demands that, "sodomites should be killed in the worst manner possible".
Yet the conversation here is about Christianity…
WeiYang’s first impulse was to create a fake Christian crime, feeling it important in the wake of a Muslim crime to make up something about Christians. It was a curious impulse, maybe even a revealing one. And although the post was utter hokum, it was nonetheless deemed “good” – even after I posted a link to wiki that showed it was a lie. (That bit of fact-checking earned me the designation “troll” – also interesting).
Now WeiYang is back, trying to find other possible crimes, decades ago, which might cast Christians in a bad light – while “damnit”, et all, aim their righteous indignation at a somewhat tone-deaf tweet, later retracted.
A tweet…
Meanwhile, in the real world…
In the twinkling of an eye since these 50 people were murdered a Canadian has been decapitated by Muslims in Philippines, a Muslim man detonated himself in a hospital in Tripoli, and a Parisian policeman, and his wife, were both murdered in their home by a man shouting “Allahu Akhbar”. There are others, of course – but let’s not belabour the point…
It’s hard not to read much of this thread as an object lesion in denial, with some not very convincing moral equivalency thrown into the mix - Another Muslim crime, let's talk about the evils of Christianity.
Nonetheless the headlines will continue to make reality increasingly hard to ignore - which likely accounts for the whiff of desperation evident in this search for a counter narrative that doesn’t exist.
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1234 said @ 11:17am GMT on 14th June
Interesting to find more references to Christianity in this thread than there are to Islam – odd given that the perpetrator was not a follower of Christ. The media is unanimous in reporting him to be a follower of the Prophet Mohammed. He regularly attended mosque, and helpfully explained, in advance of this slaughter, that the killing of these people was to be understood as the righteous act of a devout Muslim - Many of his followers on Twitter likewise applauded this as an act of Muslim piety, and sharia itself demands that, "sodomites should be killed in the worst manner possible".
Yet the conversation here is about Christianity…
WeiYang’s first impulse was to create a fake Christian crime, feeling it important in the wake of a Muslim crime to make up something about Christians. It was a curious impulse, maybe even a revealing one. And although the post was utter hokum, it was nonetheless deemed “good” – even after I posted a link to wiki that showed it was a lie. (That bit of fact-checking earned me the designation “troll” – also interesting).
Now WeiYang is back, trying to find other possible crimes, decades ago, which might cast Christians in a bad light – while “damnit”, et all, aim their righteous indignation at a somewhat tone-deaf tweet, later retracted.
A tweet…
Meanwhile, in the real world…
In the twinkling of an eye since these 50 people were murdered a Canadian has been decapitated by Muslims in Philippines, a Muslim man detonated himself in a hospital in Tripoli, and a Parisian policeman, and his wife, were both murdered in their home by a man shouting “Allahu Akhbar”. There are others, of course – but let’s not belabour the point…
It’s hard not to read much of this thread as an object lesion in denial, with some not very convincing moral equivalency thrown into the mix - Another Muslim crime, let's talk about the evils of Christianity.
Nonetheless the headlines will continue to make reality increasingly hard to ignore - which likely accounts for the whiff of desperation evident in this search for a counter narrative that doesn’t exist.
