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[b]Opinion: The wrong mindset to fight terrorism[/b] Via [url=http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/03/wrong-mindset-fight-terrorism-160325094343215.html]Al Jazeera[/url] _________________________ [quote][img]http://i.imgur.com/JKGDPMm.jpg[/img] [i]Turkey is a country that has been plagued by terrorism for 35 years, a country which has made great sacrifices in the war on terror, writes Aktay [/i] - - - I had only just sat down to write about the terrorist attacks in Ankara and Istanbul, and was still attempting to fully comprehend the damage inflicted by those attacks, when I found myself watching news reports of the attacks in Brussels. The attack in Ankara was carried out by two left-wing militants connected with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). A group called Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK) claimed responsibility for the attacks; indeed it was established by the PKK for the express purpose of claiming responsibility for these types of incidents. The bomb was detonated among civilians waiting to board buses at the busiest bus stop in Ankara, one used by poor and middle-class citizens, and left 36 dead and more than 100 injured. Because the attack took place on the day that university entrance exams were being held, there were more students and young people at the bus stop. This attack was similar to the one that had taken place a month earlier, also in Ankara, resulting in the deaths of 30 people and injuring almost 100. The perpetrators were PKK militants trained in the Democratic Union Party (PYD) camps in Syria. The attack in Istanbul, on the other hand, was also a suicide bomber, but this time ISIL was responsible. Five people - including three Israelis and one Iranian - were killed in that attack, but the incident apparently made a greater impression on the international community. This was due in large part to the fact that three of the dead were Israelis and because the attacker was a member of ISIL. We do not yet know the full details of the attack in Brussels, but initial information indicates that ISIL has claimed responsibility, and that the individuals involved were members of ISIL. [b]Indiscriminate attacks[/b] What all of these attacks have in common is the desire to terrorise and paralyse civilian life and the daily routines of ordinary citizens, to sacrifice without hesitation or compunction the lives of people who have taken no side in any conflict. There comes a point at which it no longer matters who claimed responsibility or perpetrated these attacks because they all begin to look alike and have the same effect. The attacks carried out in the middle of large cities such as Paris, Ankara, Istanbul and Brussels are a manifestation of violence in its most extreme forms, and for a time they paralyse city life. The result is that people feel vulnerable and are afraid to go to crowded places or take public transportation. Although life does eventually return to normal, these attacks carried out one after another have a major negative effect on the trust that people in the city have in their fellow man. Public confidence is one of society's most important social assets and terrorism erodes it significantly. The methods used in all of these terrorist attacks are actually the same. The bombs may be detonated at different locations by different terrorist groups, but the results are the same. Innocent people die; their lives are snuffed out or they are injured with a blow struck just at the moment when they feel the safest. Although the results are the same, the world's attitude towards these tragedies unfortunately varies depending on where the bombs exploded and on who detonated them.[/quote] Very interesting opinion piece. I've always felt like this, and it's far from the "b-but you're all such hypocrites with your French-colored FB profile pics, there's people dying in the Middle East and no one bats an eye for them".

First off this is an opinion post, not an actual news article. Second off Al-Jazeera has some pretty questionable ethics regarding their coverage on terrorism. Outright releasing an internal memo to not call the Charlie Hebdo terrorists terrorists.

[QUOTE=Thlis;50007764]First off this is an opinion post, not an actual news article.[/QUOTE] True that, I found it interesting enough to share it. Hope it's okay.

its pretty much human nature, you steal my chicken, i steal your goat, you torch my crops, i torch your farm, you stab my wife, i kill your children. While we would like to think we are beyond eye for an eye, en mass, we still want to get even whenever we are hurt.

[QUOTE=Sableye;50007790]its pretty much human nature, you steal my chicken, i steal your goat, you torch my crops, i torch your farm, you stab my wife, i kill your children. While we would like to think we are beyond eye for an eye, en mass, we still want to get even whenever we are hurt.[/QUOTE] Most people would have us believe that we're over that, or that we'll get past that way of thinking someday, but we won't.

[QUOTE=Sableye;50007790]its pretty much human nature, you steal my chicken, i steal your goat, you torch my crops, i torch your farm, you stab my wife, i kill your children. While we would like to think we are beyond eye for an eye, en mass, we still want to get even whenever we are hurt.[/QUOTE] Six thousand years of literary skygods isn't going to erase six million years of evolution.

An interesting read, but opinion pieces are outlawed by the powers that be and thus I am forced to eradicate this thread with extreme prejudice. Pow pow ow powo