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The saddest part about the recent terrorist attacks in the U.K. — aside from the actual horror for the victims and their families, of course — was that there was so little new to say about it.

Contrast the reactions to the London attacks and to Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris accord. A writer for the Nation spoke for many when he assured readers that “this is murder” and a “crime against humanity.”

In 2014, Jeremy Corbyn, who has a remote but possible chance of being the next British prime minister, argued that supporting Islamic State is just another “political point of view” and that the government shouldn’t put up “legal obstacles” to Islamic State fighters trying to return to England.

This perspective hasn’t cost him much with his admirers on the left.

But I have to wonder what the reaction would be if he described climate change “denial” as just another political point of view.

We are growing numb to the problem as it becomes part of the background noise of daily life. Even these attacks will be forgotten, absorbed into the gray maw of the “way things are.”

Don’t believe me? Do you remember the Paris terrorist attack that took place a month before the Manchester bombing? How about the Stockholm truck attack two weeks before that? The St. Petersburg bombing four days prior? The Westminster Bridge attack in London two weeks earlier? The machete attack at the Louvre the previous month? What about the horrible Christmas Market attack in Berlin? The assaults at Ohio State University; Hamburg, Germany; and Normandy, France?

I suspect we’ll stay in this rut reading from stale scripts for a good while. {Many will] kept reminding us that more Americans die in bathtubs than from terrorism.

This assertion is based on a polling question whether respondents have "sympathy with young Muslims who leave to UK to join fighters in Syria".
Respondents (1,000) were allowed to say whether they had "a lot", "some" or "no" sympathy with such people travelling to Syria.

Besides the questions what "sympathy" means for whom or why there's nothing besides 'a lot/some/no' ... besides that, the same poll question, asked for Sky News in the same year (2015) to all UK residents, found that 14 per cent of the general population had some "sympathy" for young Muslims leaving to fight in Syria.

Third assassin 'was arrested last year trying to get to Syria but was still able to get into UK

The third terrorist behind the London Bridge attack has been named as an Italian-Moroccan man who was arrested last year attempting to get into Syria.

Reports in the Italian media said Youssef Zaghba was able to enter the UK, despite being stopped in Bologna.

Zaghba was stopped at Bologna airport in 2016 when he was trying to fly to Syria via Turkey, and Italian authorities tipped off Britain about his movements. Italy put him on a list of people considered “at risk,” and informed both British and Moroccan authorities of his movements, the paper said.

Police said Zaghba had not been a subject of interest for them or for the MI5 domestic intelligence agency.

In particular, the revelation that at least one of the attackers, Khuram Butt, was well known to security services has raised concerns that they lack the resources to prevent attacks.

British police said the third assailant was Youssef Zaghba, 22, and that he had not been a subject of interest for them or the MI5 domestic intelligence agency.

But Italy's Corriere della Sera reported that Zaghba had been stopped at Bologna airport in 2016 when trying to fly to Syria via Turkey, and that Italian authorities had identified him as as a potential "foreign fighter" and tipped off Britain about his movements.

Butt, a 27-year-old British national born in Pakistan, had appeared in a British TV documentary called "The Jihadis Next Door."

As details about the jihadists have emerged, Prime Minister Theresa May has faced questions about her record overseeing cuts to police numbers when she was interior minister.

The latest opinion poll on voting intentions, by Survation for ITV, had the Conservatives' lead over Labour narrowing to just one point from six points in the same poll a week earlier.

The consensus among pollsters remains that May's party, who have been in government since 2010, will win a majority. But a campaign email signed by May told Conservative supporters: "With the polls tightening and with just two days to go until polling day, we need to go all out with one final push.

Hell, based on some definitions of sympathy, even I, an atheist, could be said to have some sympathy for them. Not agreement of course, but sympathy.

This assertion is based on a polling question whether respondents have "sympathy with young Muslims who leave to UK to join fighters in Syria".
Respondents (1,000) were allowed to say whether they had "a lot", "some" or "no" sympathy with such people travelling to Syria.

The 615-page survey found that only one in three British Muslims (34%) would contact the police if they believed that somebody close to them had become involved with jihadists.

The 615-page survey [also] found that more than 100,000 British Muslims sympathize with suicide bombers and people who commit other terrorist acts.

in addition, 23% of British Muslims said Islamic Sharia law should replace British law in areas with large Muslim populations.

On social issues, 52% of the Muslims surveyed said they believe homosexuality should be illegal. Thirty-nine percent of Muslims surveyed believe women should always obey their husbands. One in three British Muslims refuse completely to condemn the stoning of women accused of adultery.

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Hell, based on some definitions of sympathy, even I, an atheist, could be said to have some sympathy for them. Not agreement of course, but sympathy.

You seem to be receptive to the plight of these people, maporsche. Flip the situation 180 degrees. The US is being attacked, has been attacked by powerful outside forces for generations. Millions of Americans have been murdered, raped, beaten, tortured, the wealth of the US stolen, you have no control over who governs you, these outside forces treat you and yours like garbage, ... .

What would you do? What might you do if you had moved abroad to one of these countries that was doing this to your homeland, to your kith and kin that lived in the US?

In an essay for the Sunday Times, Trevor Phillips, the host of the documentary and a former head of Britain's Equality and Human Rights Commission, warned of a growing "chasm" between Muslims and non-Muslims in Britain that "isn't going to disappear any time soon."

Phillips wrote that the poll reveals "the unacknowledged creation of a nation within the nation, with its own geography, its own values and its own very separate future." He added: "I thought Europe's Muslims would gradually blend into the landscape. I should have known better."

Are they not justified in their actions?

Well, it seems to me that a person expressing this degree of honesty might want to suggest to others that there is a reason for these actions. Actions that would be taken by how many Americans, virtually all? tens of millions? if the situation were reversed?

How many Americans think there was justification for going into Iraq and Afghanistan?

And now that facts have shown there was no justification, that the US/UK invasions were illegal and immoral, are there no westerners who feel the confusion, the anger, the hatred that these "terrorists" could be feeling?

I ask a hypothetical question, strictly for discussion purposes.

Are they not justified in their actions? Possibly even much more so than the actions taken by the US/UK/... .

Isn't anyone willing to consider how quickly ISIS type bands of Americans/Brits would form within their respective countries to battle the invaders if the situation was reversed, another powerful country invading the US/UK/Canada/Australia/... ?

How do you explain the modern American progressive left's refusal to believe the Russian campaign tampering narrative without evidence?

Which particular sect of islam are you devoted to

How do you explain the modern American progressive left's refusal to believe the Russian campaign tampering narrative without evidence?

I have to admit that I'm not familiar with Richard Viguerie

Which particular sect of blind Americanism are you devoted to, layman?