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30th January 2017, 12:02 AM | #1 |
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Québec mosque shooting.
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30th January 2017, 12:12 AM | #2 |
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So much for escaping the madness by going to Canada.
It's not a wild world, it's a sick sick world right now. I do wish all these white supremacist creeps would go back into the woodwork. |
30th January 2017, 12:13 AM | #3 |
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I hope it wasn't a "retribution" terrorist attack as it appears to be. Two suspects are in custody, so we'll know within a couple of days I suppose. https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-canada-deaths McHrozni |
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30th January 2017, 01:05 AM | #4 |
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Any idea who the suspects are?
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30th January 2017, 01:07 AM | #5 |
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30th January 2017, 01:25 AM | #6 |
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According to Radio-Canada:
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30th January 2017, 01:31 AM | #7 |
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30th January 2017, 01:32 AM | #8 |
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30th January 2017, 01:34 AM | #9 |
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30th January 2017, 01:34 AM | #10 |
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here is one which mention the same in english from a quebecoise french tv :
http://magafeed.com/breaking-tva-rep...f-arab-origin/ |
30th January 2017, 01:36 AM | #11 |
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Keep in mind that NOTHING was confirmed by official source...
ETA:; the translation is bad , the guy in the video says "two persons of origin arabs and quebecoise" which does not necessarily means one of each, they could be both quebecois of arabs origin. Or this call be fluff sensationalism journalism which has no basis. |
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30th January 2017, 01:39 AM | #13 |
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Anne Coulter is a terrible person.... But she does have a law that is pretty accurate in these situations.
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30th January 2017, 01:39 AM | #14 |
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30th January 2017, 01:40 AM | #16 |
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Yes I am sure she has. A "law" which would probably have been utterly wrong less than 2 decades ago, and will be wrong in the future, and does not really apply to the blond guy Dylan I am betting (or Breivik).
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30th January 2017, 01:49 AM | #17 |
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30th January 2017, 01:50 AM | #18 |
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30th January 2017, 01:54 AM | #19 |
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I can't argue with that.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017...c-city-mosque/ "It seemed to me that they had a Quebecois accent. They started to fire, and they they shot they yelled, 'Allahu akbar!' The bullets hit people that were praying. People who were praying lost their lives. A bullet passed right over my head," said the witness who asked to remain anonymous. We should be very careful not to ascribe that too quickly to anyone. At the first glance this looks like a retribution attack on Muslims, on the second it looks like Muslim on Muslim violence so prevalent in Islamic world. We should wait until at least tomorrow to see what the investigation reveals. These reports could easily be fake, but it could just as easily be something else entirely. We'll see. McHrozni |
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30th January 2017, 01:56 AM | #20 |
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30th January 2017, 01:57 AM | #21 |
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30th January 2017, 02:37 AM | #22 |
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No politics right now, just a thought for those killed. Whoever did this are jerks who belong behind bars.
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30th January 2017, 02:41 AM | #23 |
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Dude. It exists on the Urban dictionary. No it is not a real scientific law. Just an observation that seemingly holds true in this time and place. Who did these crimes are used to further ones politics. On both sides. It's a running joke. Authorities get all worked up about protecting effected groups from backlash. It's just a fact that when the perp is white, the fact is usually released quickly, I guess to avoid the majority population to get worked up into a frenzy and go killing minorities. And the other aspect is media have sources, media generally leans left and if their source can confirm their narrative they usually run with it. The fact that we don't no who did this yet, increases the likelihood in this case. Even though the moment it happened a Muslim on Muslim attack in Quecbec city, seemed very remote, especially considering the strong ties between Quebec and France and know the current issues with Muslim integration into French society. Initially it was almost assuredly an attack by someone deeply entrenched with these ties and hatred of Muslims along those lines. That and Trumps ridiculous EO seemed a sure thing. But as times passes and reporters aren't revealing their source knowledge and government isn't releasing perp details, the very unlikely scenario becomes more of a possibility. Hence Coulter's law.
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30th January 2017, 07:36 AM | #27 |
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30th January 2017, 07:41 AM | #28 |
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Now lets imagine if two radical Islamist had opened fire at a bunch of church parishioners and killed a bunch of them. Suddenly it's okay for people to panic and be fearful of Muslims who could kill them at a moments notice.
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30th January 2017, 10:22 AM | #29 |
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30th January 2017, 10:35 AM | #30 |
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http://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2017/01/3...mohamed-khadir
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30th January 2017, 10:39 AM | #31 |
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This is the photo on the newsfeed that claims to be of the alleged shooter.
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30th January 2017, 12:20 PM | #32 |
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The Shape Of Things To Come in the US, sadly.
My fear is that the next terrorist attack in the US by a nutjob Jihadist..which is inevitable....touches off a progrom against Muslims in the US. |
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Some more about the alleged shooter. Apparently he is an internet tough-guy of some repute:
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Alexandre Bissonnette is known in the community of Quebec for his criticism online. Seeing his photo circulating in the media as the suspect in the killing of Sunday night, François Deschamps, who manages page group welcome to the refugees, said have immediately recognized one of his 'trolls', either a person of harassment online. "It's been a year that we saw him go", he said. The Administrator said do not have in mind specific attacks targeting Muslims, but rather foreigners in general. Mr. Deschamps indicates that Bissonnette was especially feminist groups, which he termed "feminazi". However, to his knowledge, the young man was not close to openly racist groups. Source |
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30th January 2017, 01:14 PM | #35 |
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Google translate?
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I must confess that I have not been an avid consumer of mainstream TV news and some of the other sources Ann Coulter may refer to, but it strikes me that the very opposite is true. When a suspect in a crime is a minority, it seems almost automatic that that is brought up from the start, while nothing at all is said of those who are of the majority. Of course, I get most of my news from the paper, so maybe by the time things are printed they know what they're talking about. Sad.
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