Suicide bombing at Kabul protest

[GT5Power]

80 dead, 231 injured. ISIS has already claimed responsibility.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ty-targeted-by-suicide-bombs-at-kabul-protest

 

[justin credible]

Looks like an attempt at causing civil war. More deaths just so wrong the earth supposed to be civilised,
What's going wrong.

 

[mustafur]

Looks like an attempt at causing civil war. More deaths just so wrong the earth supposed to be civilised,
What's going wrong.

Religion.

 

[Joey D]

I'm not sure ISIS is even strictly about religion at this point, I think all they really want to do is cause mayhem and kill people while trying to kick up a hornets nest. If it truly was about religion I feel like overall their attacks would be more focused instead of the kill everyone and everything mantra they seem to have now.

 

[mustafur]

I'm not sure ISIS is even strictly about religion at this point, I think all they really want to do is cause mayhem and kill people while trying to kick up a hornets nest. If it truly was about religion I feel like overall their attacks would be more focused instead of the kill everyone and everything mantra they seem to have now.

It looks that way but it's not, the people they kill make sense.

They are Wahhabi Sunni which is like the most strict form of Sunni Islam, and this targets Shia. very much planned, very much religion based.

 

[Obelisk]

And we had the Munich issue just under a day ago...My condolences to the families of those who were lost.

 

[dxm8975]

Heartbreaking suicide bombing attack during a political protest again..... yet somehow we hardly hear news about that on our media which I really don't understand why.

My condolences to those who lost their lives by the bombing attack and their families / friends.

 

[ukfan758]

Heartbreaking suicide bombing attack during a political protest again..... yet somehow we hardly hear news about that on our media which I really don't understand why.

My condolences to those who lost their lives by the bombing attack and their families / friends.

The media assumes that because it happened in the Middle East, it doesn't really matter.

 

[Johnnypenso]

The media assumes that because it happened in the Middle East, it doesn't really matter.

How is it that we know about it then? it's a headline story in the World section of the Guardian in the link above. I only read Western media and it was a headline story when it broke on the sites I frequent. Do you think the recent mass shootings in the United States are headline stories in Afgahnistan?

 

[fumunaplz]

What was being protested?

 

[TenEightyOne]

And we had the Munich issue just under a day ago...My condolences to the families of those who were lost.

And three people shot dead in Spalding during a messy divorce. Just as related, of course.

The media assumes that because it happened in the Middle East, it doesn't really matter.

Perhaps that's down to the news you choose?

 

[FoRiZon]

How is it that we know about it then? it's a headline story in the World section of the Guardian in the link above. I only read Western media and it was a headline story when it broke on the sites I frequent. Do you think the recent mass shootings in the United States are headline stories in Afgahnistan?

Recent mass shootings in US? No.

But Shooting in Munich, Bombing in Paris, etc? Yes in most countries.

 

[Johnnypenso]

And three people shot dead in Spalding during a messy divorce. Just as related, of course.

Perhaps that's down to the news you choose?

I'd say mass killings in terrorist attacks are a little more related than terrorist attacks and murders over a divorce but that's just me. Not that @Obelisk said they were related at all mind you.

 

[TenEightyOne]

I'd say mass killings in terrorist attacks are a little more related than terrorist attacks and murders over a divorce but that's just me. Not that @Obelisk said they were related at all mind you.

You have to presume that Munich was a proper terrorist attack, the nutter's interest in Breivik aside. The majority of the people he killed were invited to his "party" at McDonalds where he then shot them. I find it difficult to link that kind of incident to a large-scale suicide bombing, maybe it's just me.

 

[Johnnypenso]

You have to presume that Munich was a proper terrorist attack, the nutter's interest in Breivik aside. The majority of the people he killed were invited to his "party" at McDonalds where he then shot them. I find it difficult to link that kind of incident to a large-scale suicide bombing, maybe it's just me.

As I said, not sure why you're even making the inference that @Obelisk said they were related at all when he clearly didn't. Obvious agenda is obvious.

 

[Obelisk]

The only connection I made is that countless lives were wasted in senseless destruction in both incidents.

 

[Dennisch]

What was being protested?

They (Hazaras) want the government to extend a main powerline into their territories. They have been protesting for this for a couple of years now.

 

[DK]

The media assumes that because it happened in the Middle East, it doesn't really matter.

I suppose it's more like it happens all too often in that part of the world, as well as its distance from the West.

 

[TenEightyOne]

The only connection I made is that countless lives were wasted in senseless destruction in both incidents.

It was an odd event to pick to follow your "And" in that case.

 

[Obelisk]

It was an odd event to pick to follow your "And" in that case.

Well, the point that I'm making is there's too much violence. The Munich attack and this one were less than a day apart.