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When will it end

kilroy_is_here — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 14:24:02 GMT

100 Pakistani children killed by Taliban in terrorist attack

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kilroy_is_here — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 14:40:08 GMT

It's time the majority stood up and stopped the minority from driving the agenda

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channys_mum — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 15:45:22 GMT

When with think of how we mourn our dead heroes of Martin Place, how tragic the loss for these people.

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kilroy_is_here — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 16:07:05 GMT

Not sure of the details just saw it on late news on either abc 24 or sbs can't remember as I was flicking channels

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aps1080 — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 16:39:33 GMT

Pakistan Taliban attack Army school (school for kids) in retaliation for Pakistan Army attacks on them in the remote wilds of Peshawar Pakistan.

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myoclon1cjerk — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 19:00:54 GMT

Last report (BBC) was about 130 kids and a few adults.Anywere from 6-9 Taliban killed.

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i-need-a-martini — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 20:43:27 GMT

It won't end while they continue to retaliate against each other.

Those poor kids.

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aps1080 — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 20:46:49 GMT

Taliban foot soldiers are expendable so they won't care.

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nero_bolt — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 00:34:16 GMT

http://www.news.com.au/world/middle-east/taliban-storm-school-in-pakistan-in-revenge-attack/story-fnh81ifq-1227158633485

141 KIDS DEAD in the name of ALLAH

six Taliban gunmen in government paramilitary uniforms went from classroom to classroom shooting children, some as young as 12.

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polksaladallie — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 21:34:45 GMT

There will never be an end to war and killings.

What is a war?

War is defined as an active conflict that has claimed more than 1,000 lives.

Has the world ever been at peace?

Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history.

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lal-au0 — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 23:46:30 GMT

It will end when sunnis and shias have all killed each other and there are no muslims left.

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gleee58 — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 23:47:53 GMT

Such a terrible tragedy for all those families.

People have been fighting back against these types of attacks for years but nothing seems to be working in the long term, yet.

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the_great_she_elephant — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 03:02:15 GMT

@kilroy_is_here wrote:
It's time the majority stood up and stopped the minority from driving the agenda

I'm sorry, Kilroy, but that statement is nothing more than a piece of chest thumping rhetoric.

What on earth is it actually supposed to mean?

What steps are we supposed to take to stop this "minority" from driving the agenda?

I presume you are referring to Muslims, so do we ban the burqa; forbid Australian companies from applying for halal accreditation; make Muslims wear identifying armbands? How about - as a last resort - round them all up and put them in concentration camps?

And if we did all this, what would it acheive? Would it have stopped the Taliban attack on that school in Pakistan? Would it have stopped the tribal massacres in Ruanda; the "ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia and Croatia or the almost inevitable civil war into which the Ukraine is currently sliding. Would it stop some future crackpot with an axe to grind from taking hostages and shooting innocent people?

Extremism has a multitude of faces, all of them hideous, but persecuting one section of society in one country isn't going to solve the world's problems

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the_hawk* — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 08:12:39 GMT

they really are a mis understood peaceful people.

and we should have more of them here because they fit in so well and want to become just like Ozzies

yes I am joking

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grandmoon — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 09:04:59 GMT

Pakistan's High Commissioner touched by affection of Canberra children after terror attack

Just hours after learning more than 130 school children had been murdered in a Peshawar classroom, Pakistan's High Commissioner was moved to tears when Canberran children brought her flowers.

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/pakistans-high-commissioner-touched-by-affection-of-canberra-children-after-terror-attack-20141217-1295gt.html

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the_great_she_elephant — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 09:09:59 GMT

@the_hawk* wrote:
they really are a mis understood peaceful people.

and we should have more of them here because they fit in so well and want to become just like Ozzies

yes I am joking

How many Muslims have you worked with or known personally, hawk. Were they all wannabe terrorists.

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nero_bolt — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 09:11:44 GMT

@the_great_she_elephant wrote:
@the_hawk* wrote:
they really are a mis understood peaceful people.

and we should have more of them here because they fit in so well and want to become just like Ozzies

yes I am joking
How many Muslims have you worked with or known personally, hawk. Were they all wannabe terrorists.

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the_great_she_elephant — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 09:15:59 GMT

A crystal ball? surely you mean T.E.A. leaves.

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i-need-a-martini — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 11:52:31 GMT

I was trying to rummage my way through Martin Place yesterday and again today trying to get to meetings and there are hundreds upon hundreds of people there. Even as late as 6.30 tonight the crowds were huge. Either standing around of queuing up to lay flowers to what is already a phenomenal amount of floral tributes.

It is very touching.

But it did make me question where are we showing the same (or any!) outpouring of grief for those 130 children?

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Anonymous — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 12:07:10 GMT

Candle Lighting for Peshawar Massacre

Thu Dec 18 2014 at 07:30 pm

Hyde Park, Sydney