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Originally Posted by calgaryblood
"Car kills counter protestor" and not a peep from the guys who said Obama wouldn't call a spade a spade and mention Islamic terrorism by name. That was a terrorist attack and nobody will call it that.
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Hope you're not talking about me because I made basically this exact point already. Though, there is one fundamental difference. There have been now a couple of different vehicular attacks by the right, and a handful by jihadists in Europe. The former are targeted - one against Muslims standing outside a mosque, the other against BLM counter-protesters. They're not random in the way jihadist attacks are. The guy who drove a truck through a crowd of people in Nice was basically indifferent as to who his victims were. He'd have been just as happy killing me or you instead of someone in that crowd. In the case of the far right attackers, they want very specific groups of people dead... it's almost a lynching. I'm not saying that one is better or worse than the other, but it's a difference in tactics that's important. The type of vehicle attack from yesterday is probably much more easily defended against if you plan for it.