Tourist massacre in Tunesia

[abaris]

There has been an attack on tourist resorts earlier this day. At least 28 are believed to be dead.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/5870...sia-Sousse

Now, what these shitheads are planning is pretty obvious. Tunesia is one of the select few countries where the Arab spring really delivered. As with the attack on the museum, they're targetting the major source of income of the country - tourists. As it happens, European countries are already handing out travel warnings. Mission accomplished. They can't have a successful and halfway democratic muslim country, so they try to shoot it back into chaos.

[Cyberman]

Heard about this a little while ago. We had a scare about it, because my nephew Chris and his girlfriend Becky arrived there yesterday evening for a fortnight's holiday. Apparently they're in a different area further up the coast or whatever and out of danger, but there's armed security all over the place and around the hotel.

[Anomalocaris]

There has been an attack on tourist resorts earlier this day. At least 28 are believed to be dead.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/5870...sia-Sousse

Now, what these shitheads are planning is pretty obvious. Tunesia is one of the select few countries where the Arab spring really delivered. As with the attack on the museum, they're targetting the major source of income of the country - tourists. As it happens, European countries are already handing out travel warnings. Mission accomplished. They can't have a successful and halfway democratic muslim country, so they try to shoot it back into chaos.

That's pretty much what they do everywhere any Muslim country without strong arm internal security and border control tries to come closer to modernity by integrating in some way with more developed parts of the world.

This would happen a lot more now in Egypt were it not for the military dictatorship.

[Longhorn]

Fucking barbarians. All the worse because they know what they're doing.

[abaris]

This would happen a lot more now in Egypt were it not for the military dictatorship.

But you can also argue that Tunesians have elected a functioning government and the country is also on it's way to economical recovery, which is what they fear most, since people aren't interested in what they're selling. It's instability on what they thrive.

[CapnAwesome]

How come Tunisia's strict gun laws didn't prevent this?

http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/tunisia

[Anomalocaris]

This would happen a lot more now in Egypt were it not for the military dictatorship.

But you can also argue that Tunesians have elected a functioning government and the country is also on it's way to economical recovery, which is what they fear most, since people aren't interested in what they're selling. It's instability on what they thrive.

I would not give Tunisia's elected government any chance at all against Islamization in the not too distant future were it not for the presence of a strongly authoritarian but non-Islamist Egypt blocking the rest of North Africa from the Middle East, and excerting some stabilizing influence in neighboring Libya.

[Brian37]

Can we stop pretending religion is harmless?

[LastPoet]

You do sound like a preacher Brian.

[JesusHChrist]

Can we stop pretending religion is harmless?

But these were EXTREMEMISTS! Even though Allah's Holy Book is chock full of exhortations to violence, you can't blame Islam! It's their interpretation at fault!

It's not called the Religion of Peace for nothing.

/sarcasm