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Night of terror in Dhaka left 'bodies in a terrible state'

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"The Japanese victims also included 80-year-old veteran engineer Hiroshi Tanaka." - article

Please ask Saudi Arabia how this is the will of Allah.

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It now turns out that the attackers were all upper class and well educated young men (just like many other terrorists). I guess terror is not just about poverty and lack of education, as we are often told.

One was the son of a politician and his father tried to justify his surprise by saying:

I am stunned and dumbfounded, my son used to pray five times a day from a young age.

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Two people have been arrested over the murders after six suspected jihadists...

Saudi Wahhabi influenced?

Please ask Saudi Arabia...

Where even in Medina near the Prophet's Mosque suicide bombers are killing fellow Muslims during the month of Ramadan. The King of Saudi Arabia is called the Custodian of the Holy Mosques (the two main mosques in Mecca and Medina). There are Islamic factions in Saudi Arabia that see the King and his family as being aligned with the US and western states, and because of their connections (hello Bush family and fellow petroleum industry nabobs worldwide) need to be toppled. To be toppled and replaced by an even more brutal regime, one that wants to return to a time to make Islam great again, i.e. the 7th century?

Saudi Arabia is one of the most repressive states in the world. But even with its ever-present and brutal police force they’re not able to deter terroristic acts. Saudi Arabia has a Shia minority long oppressed by the Sunni majority, an obvious problem. But it also has Wahhabi factions fighting other Wahhabis. And then there’s the age old tribe-on-tribe fighting. My opinion? Every nation needs to develop its own energy alternatives; get out of Saudi and the rest of MENA. Its their internecine mess; let them sort it out.

Islam has no recognized central authority, no Pope, no Archbishop of Canterbury to guide its 1.5 billion followers. There is no central authority to turn to to tell those who think butchering people they see as enemies that it is wrong to butcher - anyone. Lacking a central authority (among numerous other factors) allows for murderous rogue groups to form and follow whichever madman leads them. There is a spectrum of peoples within Islam. Unfortunately the butchering murderers are some of them.

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“I’m Japanese, don’t shoot,” the man apparently yelled.

Radical Islam knows no mercy. They've savagely killed a couple other Japanese in the past.

Please ask Saudi Arabia how this is the will of Allah.

Yup, for once I finally agree with kc. On the other hand, it's funny to see how there are no gun bashers posting. Yet, when it happens in the US, they come out in full force blasting guns & not religion.

Maybe I'm speaking too soon though. Although this terrorism occurred 1/2 way around the globe, someone will try and find a way to blame the NRA. Pathetic. Meanwhile, radical islam tally up their scoreboard and claim another trophy.

This is why Obama & Kerry are so wrong for wanting to allow in islamic refugees into the US. ISIS is on the rise, not on the "run".

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“I’m Japanese, don’t shoot,” the man apparently yelled.

Why on earth would he think that fact would save him?

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It now turns out that the attackers were all upper class and well educated young men (just like many other terrorists).

Wonder if this is also true for the suicide bombers who've just rocked Medina (Holly City) and Qatif in Saudi Arabia. How sickening. Radical extremists are actually targeting "holly, sacred places" and killing other peaceful muslims.

Again. . . they are NOT contained (as the Obama administration would like you to believe) nor are they on the "run". Quite the opposite -they're on the rise. Wake up.

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I don't think the terrorists really discriminate between varieties of infidel.

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I don't think the terrorists really discriminate between varieties of infidel.

But with all their insane zealous jibberish . . . like; "God is great" or "Peace be upon the prophet Muhammad" etc. You'd think that they would have the common decency NOT to commit terror in "holly" places like Mecca or Medina.

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If terrorists had any decency, they wouldn't be terrorists.

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"Why on earth would he think that fact would save him?"

I've heard Japanese aid workers and others suggest this before: that they are peaceful innocent people who love everybody, while aggressive Westerners are the targets presumably because they deserve it.

I assumed the massacre of Japanese people in Morocco about a year and a half ago set them straight, but I guess not, not even among JICA officials, who should know better.

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If terrorists had any decency, they wouldn't be terrorists.

Agree. But let's take it a step further on common decency. Some islamic nations live under barbaric Sharia Law. Look at Saudi. . . . it is their de facto constitution so to speak.

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@Jeff Lee. Then the Japanese better wake up to some hard facts: Radical Islamists offer a binary proposition - you are either with them or against them. If the Japanese are going to benefit from riding the coattails of the world order provided by the West, they have to accept this now makes them targets too.

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Radical Islamists offer a binary proposition - you are either with them or against them.

So do Radical American Presidents.

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There has been a whole string of gruesome jihadist attacks in Bangladesh recently.... critical bloggers, atheists, Christians etc. hacked to death. But you had to look at the small print in the news to find them. Now, some victims are foreigners, and everybody seems surprised, and everybody is running around looking for "clues", as if this attack was unprecedented. While it was simply a contination of the ongoing jihad in Bangladesh.

It is truly amazing to see how the international media and their readers are determined to stick their narrative, no matter what.

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