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© 2017 AFPLondon attacker was family man nicknamed 'Abz': neighbors
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Luddite
Barking isn't a suburb.
WA4TKG
Yup, yup, WE get it..in actuality, he was just a regular schmuck, and this is all a misunderstanding.
All those people just JUMPED in front of his car, right at the same time his foot got stuck on the gas pedal.
It's all OUR fault for BEING there.
M3M3M3
This man had a wife and young family to provide and care for but he read a book that spoke of another way, a guaranteed way, of getting into a celestial brothel called paradise. Taxpayers will now step in to subsidise the family he abandoned while we wait for the next attack.
Wolfpack
Is radical Islamist terrorist how they define "family man" in Britain?
M3M3M3
We cannot limit the rights of our citizens or destroy everything that makes our free societies worth living in. However, the tremendous rights and freedoms we give to citizens within our societies should sharpen our focus on the immigrants we allow to join us. It's the values they hold that will shape our societies 25-50 years from now. The problems of terror and segregated religious ghettos we face today have been decades in the making and it will take just as long to fix them. There are no quick and easy solution unless we are prepared to destroy ourselves through fascism.
What I propose is a nationality based immigration system (I know this is currently prohibited in America). We should assess and limit immigration base on how people from specific nationalities who have settled in our countries perform on various criteria such as language acquisition, employment, womens participation in the labour market, income, welfare dependency, per capita crime stats, terror, educational attainment, university participation of both sons and daughters, voting, political participation, etc. These statistics can be gathered every 5 years and will determine future maximum quotas for prospective immigrants holding the same nationalities. The fact that fervantly religious countries will score abysmally on these assessments will not be religious discrimination because the criteria I mentioned are entirely neutral.
albaleo
That's not what the article said or even implied. He appeared to his neighbors as a regular guy.
John Brown
(A repost from earlier)
Closing down mosques will only fuel the Daesh propaganda. You want to stop this, stop all hate speech/extremism. Stop funding terrorists or countries who in turn fund them, namely Saudi Arabia. Show more love than hate to people in general.
However also completely destroy Daesh and their ilk. We know where they are, we simply choose not to. Plus their backers are friends/allies. But treating all Muslims as terrorist is stupid and counterproductive.
Kobe White Bar Owner
I come from Barking im not proud to say, it is now a proper dive where it was once considered a wealthy suburb. Im still in my 30's i got on my toes a long time back just visited family in the area and the park where my grandfather built the war memorial and i have many happy memories. Felt unsafe especially up by the station and im not a small or shy bloke.
My J Mrs kept saying oh what a nice place and park she could not feel what i could.CrazyJoe
Police and civilian response in London was outstanding.
kurisupisu
Yet the attacks and deaths keep mounting up-every month for the last three months!
A success?
John Brown
Yet the attacks and deaths keep mounting up-every month for the last three months!
A success?
A small consolation, but it could be much worse. Some may argue it could be much better though I am sure, but until you get to the source, and that is NOT Muslims in general, but terrorist and those who harbor them and or fund them, this will not change.
JeffLee
The scary thing about Muslim radicalization is that the mass murderers are often described as normal friendly people, with stable families and from comfortable backgrounds. They can be a wide range of age and of any socio-economic background: students, workers, teachers, army officers, you name it.
There is basically no way to predict which Muslims will become terrorists. Most however, are from immigrant backgrounds and all share the same faith.
dcog9065
Hopefully they can identify the paths these 3 took to drive them to terrorism and act accordingly, although with the internet it's likely they self-radicalised