RE: 10 dead in Paris after attack on Magazine
January 7, 2015 at 12:33 pm
(This post was last modified: January 7, 2015 at 12:35 pm by Hoopington.)
(January 7, 2015 at 12:28 pm)abaris Wrote: Not with the intent to kill, but with the intent to cause bodily harm to opposing fans. The result however, 39 dead.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heysel_Stadium_disaster
I'm more than familiar with the reason for English teams being banned for 5 years mate, but those 39 people died because the stadium was a decrepit relic not fit for purpose, not because an opposing fan shot them with a Klashnikov. Quite apart from the fact that you had to go back 30 years to find that.
Sorry, but using football fans when discussing religious nutters who take up arms to shoot or blow people up is more than a bit of a stretch in my opinion.
(January 7, 2015 at 12:24 pm)Alex K Wrote:(January 7, 2015 at 12:12 pm)Hoopington Wrote: Terrible analogy. Not sure how often a football fan kills another because their team was merely insulted. My guess would be it being the exception rather than the rule.
Not very often. But there is for example a whole list of players and even a referee or two who were killed by fans, some even by their own. I'm not saying the two things are equivalent, but some people really get worked up about sports, and I was saying that if religion is just a few times as powerful in evoking those feelings, we have the makings of a terrorist.
I still think it's a very loose analogy, sorry