Everyone who doesn’t practice their flavour of extreme Wahhabism is an infidel who needs putting to death, including other Muslims. The West receives less terror attacks than Muslim majority populations in the East. With that said this is looking less like a coordinated attack by an Islamist group and more like just one mental **** who wasn’t all there in the head.
Is anyone prepared to blow themselves up as well as any random and innocent bystander, regardless of race, religion, skin colour, ethnicity or gender, all there in the head?
All there in the head is a poor choice of words from me. There is a difference with being actually mentally ill with a condition and being someone who isn’t mentally ill but has been indoctrinated so far that they commit such an evil act. I think this guy was the former. No excuse though, diagnosable mentally ill or not, you’re an evil **** who deserves hell.
Their politics is about power. Persia was affluent, modern, fancy cars/clothes and the Shah was a friend of Britain and the U.S. Then Ayatollah Khomeini started preaching his anti west rhetoric, suddenly he is the big cheese and Iran was born.
Hanging would save all that bother, you know...investigation, trial that sort of stuff. If a few innocents got killed, well tough.
Iran was doing well when Mosaddegh was in charge nationalising oil which USA and UK wanted to keep so they intervened and put the Shah dictatorship in charge so they could still have direct access to the oil, and it was a brutal regime. Khomeini was a response to US meddling, and they reaped exactly what they sewed.
I was pointing out that it is too simplistic to say it is all about British imperialism. The US is the main target and I don't recall them being very British, not after they threw our tea overboard.
Britain seems like a soft target for terrorists. The Atlantic Ocean is a powerful barrier to entry, which is why we look very closely at who crosses the southern and northern borders. Canada is an even larger, and often more welcoming and liberal, melting pot than the US. That feels like a threat to many Americans.
That is twisting the truth to fit what you want it to be. Yes the U.S. and U.K. supported an internal coup but we didn't put the Shah in charge, he took over after power was retaken. His father was the previous Shah. This was many years before the revolution
Not really I think Churchill once send in relation to Germany invading Russia " If Hitler invaded hell I would at least make a favourable reference to the devil in the house of commons*
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Which event most historians now say never happened. Was a piece of anti British propaganda. Restore the colonies!
Yeah, it did. I was spat at and punched on public transport in the 80s because of my Irish accent. Luckily I'm built like a brick shithouse and have a terrible temper. The cowardly cunts didn't try it twice. And both my mum and dad were told to "go back home, Micks".
We’re alright thanks, don’t need those nutters!