Terrorist Attack on Quebec City Canada (Edit) Local Police has mention the Suspect

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irstupid said:

Faust said:

dont know much about western countries besides the usa, but here, most of the terrorist attacks are commited by christians.

Are you saying yoru from U.S.?

What terrorist attacksa re commited by Christians?

You do realize that to be considered "by christians" that is has to be in the name of christianity. A school shooter or unibomber who happens to be of a certain faith does not mean it's in teh name fo that faith. Most terrorist attacks done by muslims are predicated by "allah Ackbar" or something of the order that shows they are doing it for a religious reason.

If I shoot up my work tomorrow, my work place violence is 100% non religion related.

Thinking on major events, I can only think of a few recently that were non muslim related. Sandy Hook shooting (some mentally unstable white person, no idea motive). Planned Parenthood shooting (very well christian terrorism, guessing he was motivated by somethign like religion), Church shooting (that white kid shooting black people at church. That was purely racism, not religious)

I never understood the necessity to distinguish between terrorism and plain murder/shootings. The effect on the involved is the same, regardless of motivation. If anything, by making the distinction and giving further attention to terrorist attacks, by definition of terrorism, you are helping their purpose, spreading fear.

Iregardless, terrorism is an insignificant problem in the United States, or in all wester countries, really. Since the September 11th attacks, only approximately 200 people were killed in further acts. In the same time frame, over 250 000 homicides were committed and 500 000 people died of car crashes in the US. It's ridiculous just how much media attention these occurences get, especially considering that they were done FOR the media attention.