Suicide attacks by ISIS forces in the Belgian capital of Brussels today killed at least 36 people, and left roughly 200 wounded according to officials. The attack came just a day after Belgian officials claimed suspected ISIS bomb-maker Najim Laachraoui was being sought.
The attacks all took place around rush hour, with witnesses reporting gunfire at the Brussels airport and two bomb blasts. Officials later confirmed a Kalashnikov rifle was found at the scene. A third, unexploded bomb was also found at the airport.
An hour later, another bomber detonated himself on a subway train at Maelbeek station, in central Brussels. The station is very close to both the US Embassy and the headquarters of the European Union. At least 20 were killed in this bombing.
All flights in and out of the airport have been cancelled, and all public transportation is shut down. The Eurostar train system to and from Brussels was similarly shut down, with would-be passengers at the airport all taken to a “crisis center.”
Belgian officials say they’ve raised the terror alert level to the highest possible since the attacks, though they conceded that the levels were already extremely high before the attacks, and that they had feared such an attack since last fall’s Paris attacks.
Another false flag operation carried out by the CIA, and other
corrupt alphabet groups behind the New World Order. Their plan
is to frighten (us) masses into believing a Global Police State
will save (us) from these boogeyman (terrorists), whose evil
plan is to takedown Western civilization.
The Rat-bastards responsible for these cowardly attacks are
the same corrupt organizations that pulled off the 1993 WTC
bombing, 1995 Oklahoma City, and 9/11, just to name a few.
Those who don’t believe the garbage from the hapless, worthless,
corporate media are called ‘conspiracy nuts’.
Anything but admit Islam is an utterly toxic religion, right? You can check yourself into a psych ward anytime now for paranoia “EME.”
More than the professed religion of a majority of the white race? A race, for all its great gifts to the world, has also been perpetuating untold evil around it.
Perhaps you are the type who is blind to all that, or is one who believes those gifts justify supremacy at ANY cost.
Both ways, you are one cursed fellow.
There’s no such thing as “the white race.” The whole idea is a mythology developed a few centuries ago for the purpose of justifying chattel slavery of people who didn’t belong to it.
Yes genetic tests like “23 and me,” that can determine a person ethnic background with 100% based on clusters of alleles with unique signatures are just pretend and “social constructs,” right?
https://www.23andme.com/ancestry/
I’d be interested in whether or not 23 and Me’s “ethnic background with [sic] 100% based on clusters of alleles with unique signatures” makes any reference whatsoever to a “white race.”
I rather suspect that it doesn’t. And if it does, it’s a ripoff. The “ethnic background” and “clusters of alleles” reported for someone whose ancestors came from 11th century Norway are going to be very different from someone whose ancestors came from 15th century Serbia.
“White race” theory combined a whole bunch of different ethnic groups for the sole purpose of producing two — one qualified only for slavery, the other qualified to own slaves.
Like white Irish people were never enslaved, or Africans never enslaved other Africans? Please spare me your inaccurate p.c. reconstructions of history, OK?
PC, huh?
You’re an idiot.
Well some of us are surprised to discover that we are part something else.
The fact that you can differentiate that you are “part” something itself is proof that people from different races have different genetic fingerprints to identify the parts. If this was not true and all people were just homogeneous blobs genetically then there would be no distinctive genetic fingerprints only sameness which is clearly not true, despite the fact that Lewontin’s fallacy is taught as gospel to the uncritical masses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Genetic_Diversity:_Lewontin%27s_Fallacy
What is arguably is “socially constructed” is attitudes towards different races, the races themselves however are taxonomically real, which note is not the same thing as saying one is “better” or “worse” than another anymore than a Beagle is better or worse than a Basset Hound.
Apparently by “taxonomically real” you mean “at least as valid as phrenology and sun sign astrology.”
‘mrrcrow’ perhaps you should also. If you’re dumb enough
to believe the crap that’s being fed to you from the MSM that’s
your business.
Maybe you should read what an honest Muslim has to say about hte relation of Islam to jihad:
“A recent two-page spread in the third issue of ISIL’s propaganda magazine, Dabiq, for instance, appealed to prospective recruits to leave their homeland and emigrate to the Islamic State by quoting a hadith from the canonical collections; it urged them to realize that they are living in times that reflect those of the earliest Muslims by referring to Muhammad’s life; it encouraged them to take a step of faith by quoting the Quran; and it praised them for their obedience by quoting yet another hadith. All four references to the Quran, hadith and the related Sunnah, were on the same two-page spread. Such is the frequency and intensity with which ISIL uses Islam’s foundational texts to appeal to potential recruits.
As a young Muslim boy growing up in the 1980s and 1990s, it was impossible for me to look up a hadith unless I traveled to an Islamic library, something I would have never thought to do. For all intents and purposes, if I wanted to know about the traditions of Muhammad, I had to ask imams or elders in my tradition of Islam. That is no longer the case today. Just as radical Islamists may spread their message far and wide online, so, too, the Internet has made the traditions of Muhammad readily available for whoever wishes to look them up, even in English. When everyday Muslims investigate the Quran and hadith for themselves, bypassing centuries of tradition and their imams’ interpretations, they are confronted with the reality of violent jihad in the very foundations of their faith.
The Quran itself reveals a trajectory of jihad reflected in the almost 23 years of Muhammad’s prophetic career. As I demonstrate carefully in my book, Answering Jihad: A Better Way Forward, starting with peaceful teachings and proclamations of monotheism, Muhammad’s message featured violence with increasing intensity, culminating in surah 9, chronologically the last major chapter of the Quran, and its most expansively violent teaching. Throughout history, Muslim theologians have understood and taught this progression, that the message of the Quran culminates in its ninth chapter.”
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/03/22/radicalization-isil-islam-sacred-texts-literal-interpretation-column/81808560/
And who claimed any such thing?
What I claimed is that the idea of “a white race” (note the singular specific) is a specific fable cobbled together for a specific purpose.
That’s a historical fact. You don’t have to like it. It’s a historical fact whether you like it or not.
Yes being caucasian has nothing to do with genes that code for the amount skin pigmentation one has, right? On this issue Libertarians and the left have embraced a science denial as global warming denial, oh that’s right you are Libertarian so you probably deny the peer reviewed science of climate change as well, snicker.
The idea of “white” or “caucasian” as a single racial category came about a couple of hundred years before Mendel, so no, it has nothing to do with genes. It’s pseudoscientific nonsense that was drummed up for the purpose of creating broad categories to justify an institution.
Libertarians differ among ourselves on global warming — whether it’s happening, whether it is substantially attributable to human activity, etc. Personally I lean toward the conclusion that it is happening and that it is so attributable at least vis a vis threshold levels.
Are you claiming that there’s peer-reviewed literature substantiating the claim of the existence of a “white race?” If so, feel free to cite some.
Look up Lewontin’s fallacy and weep.
Actually, I’ll go look up straw man and laugh.
That’s because Lewontin’s fallacy disproves your p.c. bullshit.
In your imagination, perhaps (that would be the same imagination in which I’m anywhere within a thousand miles of “politically correct”).
In reality, not only does it not “disprove” it, it has nothing whatsoever to do with it.
That’s why I went ahead and threw a flag on your straw man play. If you’re really that interested in “disproving” my “position,” the first step is arguing against my actual “position” rather than whatever “position” you wish I had taken.
What do you mean “thew a flag,” do you mean report fagged me because you have no argument? Either you understand Lewontin’s fallacy or you don’t, if you understand it utterly disproves the sand basic birch liberal and classical liberal lie that race is a construct, shrug.
Muh long disproven tabla rasa, see Stephen Pinker for more details.
I’m not sure what “report fagged” even means. If it has something to do with reporting you to get you banned here, no, I didn’t do that. I’m the moderator here. If I wanted you gone, that would have been a matter of three clicks. When I used the term “threw a flag,” it was to reflect the fact that I caught you in a pretty silly and indefensible error and pointed it out. Having your betters do that for you is an invaluable asset. It’s the kind of thing that may one day allow you to take the training wheels off and be able to actually make real arguments that aren’t idiotic.
I did not claim that “race is a construct” — that’s a completely different argument. I claimed that the idea of a singular “white race” is a construct with a specific factual history. Lewontin’s fallacy has nothing whatsoever to do with that claim because that claim is a matter of irrefutable historical fact, not of later findings regarding the question of whether or not race as such can be tied to specific genetic characteristics.