Foreign policy and terrorism in UK - any connection?

Foreign policy and terrorism in UK - any connection?

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ferrisbueller

29,327 posts

227 months

Friday 26th May 2017
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Yipper said:
Roughly 90% of Islamist terror attacks worldwide so far in 2017 have been against countries *without* foreign-interventionist policies (e.g. Afghanistan).

Labour are pro-terror, anti-Britain apologists, exploiting dead children for crass political gain.
Wow.

anonymous-user

54 months

Friday 26th May 2017
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ferrisbueller said:
Yipper said:
Roughly 90% of Islamist terror attacks worldwide so far in 2017 have been against countries *without* foreign-interventionist policies (e.g. Afghanistan).

Labour are pro-terror, anti-Britain apologists, exploiting dead children for crass political gain.
Wow.
He speaks as he finds.

ferrisbueller

29,327 posts

227 months

Friday 26th May 2017
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desolate said:
ferrisbueller said:
Yipper said:
Roughly 90% of Islamist terror attacks worldwide so far in 2017 have been against countries *without* foreign-interventionist policies (e.g. Afghanistan).

Labour are pro-terror, anti-Britain apologists, exploiting dead children for crass political gain.
Wow.
He speaks as he finds.
Such is the luxury of the society we live in.

footnote

Original Poster:

924 posts

106 months

Friday 26th May 2017
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desolate said:
With reference to the question posed in the title of the OP.

If foreign policy doesn't have any connection to terrorism in the UK - what's the point?
Fair point.

And what about the IRA?

Were their actions not connected to foreign policy?

Randy Winkman

16,134 posts

189 months

Friday 26th May 2017
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bhstewie said:
Something I said on another thread.

After Monday how many comments have we seen along the lines of "Just fking nuke the middle east" or "We should bomb the st out of Libya"?

Some people take the view "They killed our kids on Monday night so let's kill them" and whilst it's only a tiny minority who think that way if they had the chance they'd press the button and do it

See any parallels?

It doesn't excuse it in any way shape or form but it seems very simplistic to say our actions overseas have absolutely nothing to do with it.
Exactly. But in another thread some people are saying that those who try to understand the situation and don't respond by joining the hate and trying to ban everything don't want to find a solution.

anonymous-user

54 months

Friday 26th May 2017
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footnote said:
Fair point.

And what about the IRA?

Were their actions not connected to foreign policy?
Yes.
Andrew Neil just spent about 10 minutes discrediting Corbyn's position on the IRA. In a few days we will know what people think.

Wills2

22,819 posts

175 months

Friday 26th May 2017
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These animals will kill anyone who doesn't conform no matter what, it doesn't even matter if you're a Muslim they will kill you if you're not the right kind of Muslim.

They will just swap one reason for another, Corbyn's appeasement of them is a disgrace.


mickmcpaddy

1,445 posts

105 months

Friday 26th May 2017
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Everyone is so fking wishy washy nowadays about everything, trying to find an acceptable reason for everything that happens. Anyone that can't see that the Muslims want world domination is either stupid or deluded. Why do they all have 27 kids each? its in their genes, slowly but surely they are accomplishing what they want. They resemble something like locusts, devour everything and move on, everywhere they have been and occupied is like somewhere after a nuclear winter.

Maybe there can be no peace, ever, has anyone thought about that, maybe annihilation one way or the other is the only thing that will ever stop this.

anonymous-user

54 months

Friday 26th May 2017
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Q. Foreign policy and terrorism in UK - any connection?

My answer: Yes because by helping topple some regimes we have made our country less safe. It gives an excuse for radicalised young men and women both from abroad and here to attack us.
But if we never got involved in any other countries events again we would still be fair game.

gothatway

5,783 posts

170 months

Friday 26th May 2017
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mickmcpaddy said:
Anyone that can't see that the Muslims want world domination is either stupid or deluded. Why do they all have 27 kids each
Let me guess - you don't know any muslims, let alone count any amongst your friends.

HappyMidget

6,788 posts

115 months

Friday 26th May 2017
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s2art said:
gadgetmac said:
Ms Abedi said she thought he was driven by America's military attacks in the Middle East.

“I think he saw children - Muslim children - dying everywhere, and wanted revenge," she told the Wall Street Journal.

But yes, you all go on convincing yourselves its ISIS world war against the 5 billion non muslims (kuffars) on the planet armed with no 'war machine' only home made explosives that made him target children on Monday night at a pop festival.
From ISIS in their online magazine Dabiq;

'We hate you, first and foremost, because you are disbelievers; you reject the oneness of Allah – whether you realize it or not – by making partners for Him in worship, you blaspheme against Him, claiming that He has a son, you fabricate lies against His prophets and messengers, and you indulge in all manner of devilish practices.'

It goes on a bit, google it.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nabeel-qureshi/isis-is-killing-us-because-we-are-not-muslim_b_11793770.html

mickmcpaddy

1,445 posts

105 months

Friday 26th May 2017
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gothatway said:
mickmcpaddy said:
Anyone that can't see that the Muslims want world domination is either stupid or deluded. Why do they all have 27 kids each
Let me guess - you don't know any muslims, let alone count any amongst your friends.
No I certainly don't, but I do know people that are liars and losers just like anyone else can be. just because your BFF is muslim doesn't mean he isn't a megalomaniac.

TonyToniTone

3,425 posts

249 months

Friday 26th May 2017
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I doubt there would be any of these attacks or people pouring into Europe if Husain, Gaddafi, al-Assad etc were still ruling, so there must be some connection to our foreign policy.

grumbledoak

31,532 posts

233 months

Friday 26th May 2017
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Of course these are related. The beach massacre in Tunisia a couple of years ago, trained in Libya. And now Manchester, the father was trained in Libya. We allowed him to go there. There was no training of terrorists in Libya under Gaddafi. Or under Saddam Hussein in Iraq. We destroyed these countries, we helped the people who created the training camps. Of course these things are related.

It's not contentious. It's not new. There is even a term for it: "blowback". Google it.

TonyToniTone

3,425 posts

249 months

Friday 26th May 2017
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grumbledoak said:
Of course these are related. The beach massacre in Tunisia a couple of years ago, trained in Libya. And now Manchester, the father was trained in Libya. We allowed him to go there. There was no training of terrorists in Libya under Gaddafi. Or under Saddam Hussein in Iraq. We destroyed these countries, we helped the people who created the training camps. Of course these things are related.

It's not contentious. It's not new. There is even a term for it: "blowback". Google it.
The IRA trained in Libya but I agree..

s2art

18,937 posts

253 months

Friday 26th May 2017
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TonyToniTone said:
I doubt there would be any of these attacks or people pouring into Europe if Husain, Gaddafi, al-Assad etc were still ruling, so there must be some connection to our foreign policy.
Sceptical. We didnt go into Syria, but its in a massive civil war and ISIS and others are involved. It was only a matter of time before Gaddafi or Saddam would have been in a similar condition (if still alive).

Deptford Draylons

10,480 posts

243 months

Friday 26th May 2017
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Partly. Sadly , some here just wish to start at the Iraq war as being the start of radical Islam in the UK and stopping there so the blame lays solely with us. Problem being you could see the start of the problem in the UK from a Muslim population when a bloke called Salman had the cheek to write a novel . Plus ISIS themselves say foreign policy is only a secondary excuse to kill and its not quite as some would like to portray it as.

ferrisbueller

29,327 posts

227 months

Friday 26th May 2017
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s2art said:
TonyToniTone said:
I doubt there would be any of these attacks or people pouring into Europe if Husain, Gaddafi, al-Assad etc were still ruling, so there must be some connection to our foreign policy.
Sceptical. We didnt go into Syria, but its in a massive civil war and ISIS and others are involved. It was only a matter of time before Gaddafi or Saddam would have been in a similar condition (if still alive).
No, "we" didn't because the powers that be went after Libya instead. Syria had already seen America off once.


pim

2,344 posts

124 months

Friday 26th May 2017
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TonyToniTone said:
grumbledoak said:
Of course these are related. The beach massacre in Tunisia a couple of years ago, trained in Libya. And now Manchester, the father was trained in Libya. We allowed him to go there. There was no training of terrorists in Libya under Gaddafi. Or under Saddam Hussein in Iraq. We destroyed these countries, we helped the people who created the training camps. Of course these things are related.

It's not contentious. It's not new. There is even a term for it: "blowback". Google it.
The IRA trained in Libya but I agree..
Big mistake killing Gaddafi.Libya has a ongoing civil war .Trump is talking to the Saudis the peace makers you couldn't make it up.

bga

8,134 posts

251 months

Friday 26th May 2017
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mickmcpaddy said:
gothatway said:
mickmcpaddy said:
Anyone that can't see that the Muslims want world domination is either stupid or deluded. Why do they all have 27 kids each
Let me guess - you don't know any muslims, let alone count any amongst your friends.
No I certainly don't, but I do know people that are liars and losers just like anyone else can be. just because your BFF is muslim doesn't mean he isn't a megalomaniac.
As a child growing up in the Middle East, I was frequently murdered by meglomaniacal islamists. Fact.