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[URL]http://www.werenotafraid.com/[/URL]
This supposition, that terrorists only 'win' if they make us afraid and change our lifestyles, seems to have gathered a tremendous following.
But is it actually remotely accurate?
What is the typical Al-Qaeda / Islamic fundamentalist terrorists' agenda?
Simply to cause fear? Is that supposed to be it?
Or are they trying to show citizens of western states what our governments have done to people in the middle east?
Bin Laden's inspiration for the Sept 11 attacks was supposedly seeing 'his' towerblocks toppled by American strikes.
The bombs on London, while of course completely unjustified murders, have given the people of the UK a new level of insight into the daily bombings and attacks taking place in Iraq.
For a more generic kind of warfare surely the motivation is more for killing the enemy than it is scarring some of them a bit.
A lot of people seem to argue that since they're terrorists, their agenda is to incite terror.
A bit shortsighted, the label terrorist is now simply used to describe a non-state-forces fighter. It no longer refers to agenda at all.
It's understandable - people want to understand why, people want to be able to do something to overcome the perpetrators, to claim some form of victory.
But if we can't even grasp the reality of the situation, if we can't understand why these things happen, how can we hope to change things?
This supposition, that terrorists only 'win' if they make us afraid and change our lifestyles, seems to have gathered a tremendous following.
But is it actually remotely accurate?
What is the typical Al-Qaeda / Islamic fundamentalist terrorists' agenda?
Simply to cause fear? Is that supposed to be it?
Or are they trying to show citizens of western states what our governments have done to people in the middle east?
Bin Laden's inspiration for the Sept 11 attacks was supposedly seeing 'his' towerblocks toppled by American strikes.
The bombs on London, while of course completely unjustified murders, have given the people of the UK a new level of insight into the daily bombings and attacks taking place in Iraq.
For a more generic kind of warfare surely the motivation is more for killing the enemy than it is scarring some of them a bit.
A lot of people seem to argue that since they're terrorists, their agenda is to incite terror.
A bit shortsighted, the label terrorist is now simply used to describe a non-state-forces fighter. It no longer refers to agenda at all.
It's understandable - people want to understand why, people want to be able to do something to overcome the perpetrators, to claim some form of victory.
But if we can't even grasp the reality of the situation, if we can't understand why these things happen, how can we hope to change things?
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That's beautiful man.
If I was dead I'd be proud to have that on my tombstone.
If anyone reads this when I am dead, this isn't a request. Unless you're paying.
If I was dead I'd be proud to have that on my tombstone.
If anyone reads this when I am dead, this isn't a request. Unless you're paying.
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It's the man of hope with stunted arms and legs.
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This is his dog.
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It's the man of hope with stunted arms and legs.
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This is his dog.
People should put more effort it in.
Thats an insult to the dead.
Thats an insult to the dead.
This kind of 'terrorism', as you said, isn't to insite fear.
Its partially to try and make people stand up and realise what is going on in Muslim countries...
...and the other side of the coin is the Jihad, the facist 'Islam will conquer the world', bullying, that the extremists trying to impose on our freedom to believe what we want to believe...
It's not purely about terror.
Its partially to try and make people stand up and realise what is going on in Muslim countries...
...and the other side of the coin is the Jihad, the facist 'Islam will conquer the world', bullying, that the extremists trying to impose on our freedom to believe what we want to believe...
It's not purely about terror.
Someone has to say it
"Thanks for your picture of hope, by the way it's **** so take it back"
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I once had an idea for a website that let you upload an image from your old school tea-towel. That's the most bizarre thing in the world - millions of kids bringing home badly drawn scribbles of themselves and their classmates on cloth.
They sell crap through cafepress.
The images certainly do all suck. I guess it's supposed to be the thought that counts, but they could at least pick out the best ones for a 'not lame' gallery.
The images certainly do all suck. I guess it's supposed to be the thought that counts, but they could at least pick out the best ones for a 'not lame' gallery.
They claim to have raised over $10,000 for the Red Cross, which is amazing for a website that doesn't really do anything. Not sure if London needs a helping hand from the RC, maybe it should be going elsewhere?
Despite the good it's done, the pictures on there are bloody cringeworthy. "Here's my kid typing into a computer that he's not scared lol thx!", "Me and my daughter on a beach lol, we're not scare rofl!", ugh.
Despite the good it's done, the pictures on there are bloody cringeworthy. "Here's my kid typing into a computer that he's not scared lol thx!", "Me and my daughter on a beach lol, we're not scare rofl!", ugh.
I think it was started by a londoner, whose friend was on one of the trains (survived).
And apparantly they're donating merchandise money to charity - not sure if that's *all* of it though - you'd hope so, but often someone has a fiddle...
And apparantly they're donating merchandise money to charity - not sure if that's *all* of it though - you'd hope so, but often someone has a fiddle...
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