I wrote a bit more on this (actually I meant to earlier yet I didn't have the time). I wanted to go and write the history of such attacks yet for each 'major' attack I would find a handful of 'minor' attacks, all decided upon by the thing that is media. It left me cursing humanity more then when I started...
In Russia there have been a lot of terrorist attacks, but reporting of them in the US media is sporadic. Same with India and Thailand.
This unfortunately contributes to the false impression many people have, that jihadists almost exclusively target the West. Any non-Muslim population, or even Muslims who are of the wrong sect or too moderate, can be a target.
Individualist, pro-technology, pro-democracy, anti-religion. I speak only for myself and not for any ideology, movement, or party. It has been my great good fortune to live my whole life free of "spirituality" of any kind. I believe that evidence and reason are the keys to understanding reality; that technology rather than ideology or politics has been the great liberator of humanity; and that in the long run, human intelligence is the most powerful force in the universe.
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I wrote a bit more on this (actually I meant to earlier yet I didn't have the time). I wanted to go and write the history of such attacks yet for each 'major' attack I would find a handful of 'minor' attacks, all decided upon by the thing that is media. It left me cursing humanity more then when I started...
In Russia there have been a lot of terrorist attacks, but reporting of them in the US media is sporadic. Same with India and Thailand.
This unfortunately contributes to the false impression many people have, that jihadists almost exclusively target the West. Any non-Muslim population, or even Muslims who are of the wrong sect or too moderate, can be a target.
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