Well, I have no idea if that's true. But that is why I wrote the words "in part due to the American media." (e.g. Fox news).

I believe Europeans... due to the Norway massacre. However while that may have been the worst incident, I'm still not sure total gun homicide rates were more. I'm also not bothered to look it up, as I get his point - it isn't an exclusively American problem, though it seems more common there than elsewhere in the Western world.

Without rushing off to Wikipedia, I would have thought that the majority of terrorist attacks against the US were homegrown/domestic.

but in terms of numbers killed?

[QUOTE=Corbets;1627137]The quality of insight in some of these posts is unmatched - I wish I had your deep and intuitive understanding of events I know nothing about, people.

"The man was white, therefore it must be a hate crime." Wow. Let's go for all-in racism on that


There, got it off my chest. You folks can now return to building your soapboxes atop the latest tragedy.[/QUOT

Clearly you didn't bother to look at the Harvard link I posted (never let evidence get in your way I see.) I said probably a hate crime as in likely not for sure. Lets LOOK at the numbers -most hate crimes in the US are perpetrated by whites and most Americans do not know the difference between Muslims and Sikhs. This wasn't an evil mastermind here. It was one gun in a place of worship different from ones own. We won't know anything until the investigation is further underway. Will any motive make killing 6 people better anyway? The question was asked and I am proposing EDUCATED speculation, nothing more.

So, the verdict is in that the shooter was a white supremacist - unequivocal tattoos and singer in a skinhead band.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1746579.html

Just some more perspective, not my conjecture.

I like the pic at the bottom best.



Either those cops have tiny guns or this gentleman needs a workout...

Just end racism already...We're in the 21st century!

Then call them radikals or idiots but by calling them muslims you put billions of people in the same group with those idiots, that is just not fair.

It seems more and more likely that this was a racist fail.
Reports are coming in that suggest that the bugger was too stupid to tell the difference between Moslems and Sikhs.

I just read this:

"Authorities said the gunman had used a 9mm semi-automatic handgun, which was recovered at the scene. They were trying to track the origin of the weapon.

Wisconsin has some of the most permissive gun laws in the country and passed a law in 2011 allowing citizens to carry a concealed weapon."

Here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012...?newsfeed=true

I do not quite get your argument. Muslims do NOT wear turbans

I've nothing sensible to add to the debate. So, I'll say nothing.

Except, I'm sorry for the people who've been killed, their families, their friends and every American citizen affected by this murdering POS.

Well, THESE reports
http://www.siasat.com/english/news/k...-golden-temple
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Blue_Star
show what lead to the military operation in question. Indira Gandhi possibly had not too much of a choice

Btw. the Saudi government militarily intervened in Mekka twice, once with the help of Jordanian elite soldiers

I did call them radical?



most of the news reports I recall from the US likewise used adjectives such as "radical" or "fundamentalist" to describe the factions that were responsible for terrorism against the US. I agree entirely that it is unfair to take a single radical idiot and characterize an entire set of people on the basis of that single idiot's behavior.

Just to keep things as warm as toast, a mosque got burned down in Kansas today http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/20...-incendiee.php . Can't yet find an English link but that'll come. Looks like preelection fun is hitting new highs!

EDIT

Found this from a local source: http://www.kswo.com/story/19205707/j...ze-this-summer

Here's a link to NBC

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...to-ground.html