hypochondriac

It was this graph:

Probably. It's mainly to do with the motivation being a political or religious ideology which to be fair you could argue is any killing except accidental.

I was genuinely surprised by that figure. If I had to guess I would say stuff like antifa violence and I remember a few shootings in America but not much in the UK.

I was genuinely surprised by that figure. If I had to guess I would say stuff like antifa violence and I remember a few shootings in America but not much in the UK.

No: "the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims." Indiscriminate killing of multiple people in heavily populated civillian areas is one type of terrorism and the majority of high profile cases of this in the past decade or two is Islamist in nature with the odd right wing and left wing scumbag thrown in.

TBF he didn't say terrorism he said "attacks like this" ie indiscriminate killing in heavily populated civillian areas. The vast majority of the time in recent years that tends to be an Islamist nutter.

There was the bloke who killed the MP but I'm not sure murdering one person is quite the same- as horrible as it is.

TBF this is a couple of years old but it looks like Far left terror was the major cause of terrorist incidents and deaths although Islamic groups are the largest groups who commit terrorism which is maybe why they are so easily brought to mind when incidents like this occur: Global Terrorism Index 2022: Key findings in 6 Charts - ISD (isdglobal.org)

To be fair I think that speaks more to the fact that the quality in the league this year is particularly strong rather than our players lacking quality. You could make a case for THB, Downes and Armstrong at least alongside KWP obviously.

I expect his point is that in the 80s lots of bombings were committed by the IRA so if there had been a bombing incident it wouldn't have been outlandish to make an assumption about who was behind it. Just because it subsequently turns out not to be them doesn't make the original assumption a racist one. I personally tend to avoid speculation about the perpetrators before facts are known nowadays but everybody thinks about what it could be because often it is someone shouting Allahu Akbar.

So you equate the actions of Hamas to Nelson Mandela? Their actions are justified?

Yeah that's what that Labour trade union member said. He was wrong too. There's no ambiguity that Hamas are a terrorist organisation.

That's what part of the discussions would focus on I'd imagine.

Where did I say that? Absolutely huge jump from that to supporting raping, murdering and kidnapping of hostages.

Like I have said repeatedly, once the hostages have been returned and Hamas has been dismantled for a generation there will hopefully then be an opportunity for negotiation to work towards a process for peace that will hopefully involve both sides being free from violence and this will of course mean compromise and change on both sides. The hope would be that those doing the negotiating are not ideologically captured by fantasy religion and want to work towards a real solution.