General Chat

I can understand that frustration leads to terrorism and can see, up to a point, how the IRA were led to commit their atrocities. A gentle people unfairly oppressed for centuries.

If my country was over-run with uninvited Afghan troop I should be doing all I could to get rid of them and if it meant setting booby- traps I might well condone that..

To gain whatever you are after by terrorism you understand that maybe some of your own will be hurt or severely disadvantaged.

So, how the hell does killing somebody who is doing their best to aid those of your own who are suffering aid your cause?

I believe there are people still suffering in Pakistan who were affected by severe floods not very long after 9/11. People were loathe to put their hands in their pockets to help Muslims, who had had no part in the atrocity and may not even have known it happened.

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Eh?

Just to say I read the post and can not see why it was reported. I was thinking about answering, but my only answer could be that there "is no sense" in killing those who are giving aid to your people.

I didn't read it, Rose, was it about terrorists killing hostages?

well someone was quick off the mark

It was a sort of overview and I didn't say I was in favour of anything.

post it again Sharron please

Guinevere, it was, perhaps Sharron copied it?

basically it was that she understood why a people would act for their cause ( eg the same way we would if Britain was invaded)
but that there is / would be "no sense" in killing people who are there to try and help your countrymen.

Sharron if that is not the gist of what you said please correct me.

Seems odd that it would be reported. Don't think GR will have a problem with that.

I think that if they can definitely identify the families of these Jihadists, then THEY should be taken into custody.................and held........in the tower

and please don't riposte by saying "These families are innocent"


so were the victims...

I didn't copy it, all my own ideas, such as they are.

That was more or less it thank you, although I can't remember exactly how I put it.

I think I pointed out that there are still people suffering in Pakistan who were affected by devastating floods not very long after the 9/11 atrocity and may even still not know of that event.

They, however, are still suffering because people were none too keen to put their hands in their pockets for Muslim people in trouble.

I missed the OP post - I have never known Sharron to start a thread which would casue offence :-S

Bob you can't hold a whole family responsible for the actions of one member of it,

what about the female jihadist whose family has publicly begged her to come home?

Wouldn't make any difference to the fanatics, Bob.

They aren't rational human beings. And families have condemned their children who become terrorists, hardly fair to them.

well SOMETHING has to be done...........

But not something that's punishing innocent people.

Sadly, whatever happens, innocent people will suffer.

so the journalists and aid workers' families are guilty of what?

Just because there are 2 or 3 bad apples in the barrel you cannot blame all the other apples for that, and on the issue of the heinous murders, such as that of the aid worker David Haines, sadly the UK played it's part in creating the current situation that has led to the rise of extremist groups like IS .

The policies of the West, in particular the policy of the US and the UK, to bring about a regime change in Iraq - by toppling Saddam Hussein. This left a huge leadership vacuum at the top in Iraq - although Saddam Hussein is reputed to have been a brutal dictator - he did keep extremist groups like IS under control.