Could this be true? I guess it depends what you read.

[donnashuggy]

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@bsal6160 wrote:

But when was the last time you heard about a rogue budhist monk blowing up a train station or a terrorist Hindu preist suicide bombing an airport? Face the fact...where ever islam spreads so does indiscrimant killing of innocent civilians by COWARD muslims. The majority are supposed refugees from their own war torn country. So they repay the sheltering country by murdering its citizens.

Assimilate or leave I say.

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http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/2/myanmars-buddhist-terrorism-problem.html

Should we conclude from this that all Buddhists are fanatics and terrorists?

[donnashuggy]

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

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@bsal6160 wrote:

But when was the last time you heard about a rogue budhist monk blowing up a train station or a terrorist Hindu preist suicide bombing an airport? Face the fact...where ever islam spreads so does indiscrimant killing of innocent civilians by COWARD muslims. The majority are supposed refugees from their own war torn country. So they repay the sheltering country by murdering its citizens.

Assimilate or leave I say.

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http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/2/myanmars-buddhist-terrorism-problem.html

Should we conclude from this that all Buddhists are fanatics and terrorists?

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History proves that humans are not great, hopefully all these events will bring people together, we have wealth, education etc to make the planet better.

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

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@bsal6160 wrote:

But when was the last time you heard about a rogue budhist monk blowing up a train station or a terrorist Hindu preist suicide bombing an airport? Face the fact...where ever islam spreads so does indiscrimant killing of innocent civilians by COWARD muslims. The majority are supposed refugees from their own war torn country. So they repay the sheltering country by murdering its citizens.

Assimilate or leave I say.

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http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/2/myanmars-buddhist-terrorism-problem.html

Should we conclude from this that all Buddhists are fanatics and terrorists?

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In the past decade, extremist Hindus have increased their attacks on Christians, until there are now several hundred per year. But this did not make news in the U.S. until a foreigner was attacked. In 1999, Graham Staines, an Australian missionary who had worked with leprosy patients for three decades, was burned alive in Orissa along with his two young sons. The brutal violence visited on Muslims in Gujarat in February 2002 also brought the dangers of Hindu extremism to world attention. Between one and two thousand Muslims were massacred after Muslims reportedly set fire to a train carrying Hindu nationalists, killing several dozen people.

http://www.hudson.org/research/4575-hinduism-and-terror

Does this mean all Hindus are fanatics and terrorists?

[Anonymous]

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@***super_nova*** wrote:

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@*julia*2010 wrote:

op, where did you get that list from?

i specifically remember the headlines

about the 2015 october bombing in

ankara. (seems like it was only yesterday)

it was during a peace protest ?

and it certainly made news headlines

so i wonder what else on that list is not

accurate. 

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Some of these bombings were mentioned, but there were no vigils, nobody changed their facebook avatar, and next day it was forgotten. 

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imo the reason why paris got so

much attention is because we and

others around the world  love to visit it;

a city of love and all that.. france stands

for liberty etc.."we are all parisians"

was the message. 

paris is popular, that was probably

why facebook had the french flag 

filter for profile photos.  no such 

facebook option is available for belgian

flag.  no australian landmarks lighting

up in belgian colours, unless i missed 

it?

[donnashuggy]

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@*julia*2010 wrote:

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@***super_nova*** wrote:

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@*julia*2010 wrote:

op, where did you get that list from?

i specifically remember the headlines

about the 2015 october bombing in

ankara. (seems like it was only yesterday)

it was during a peace protest ?

and it certainly made news headlines

so i wonder what else on that list is not

accurate. 

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Some of these bombings were mentioned, but there were no vigils, nobody changed their facebook avatar, and next day it was forgotten. 

---

imo the reason why paris got so

much attention is because we and

others around the world  love to visit it;

a city of love and all that.. france stands

for liberty etc.."we are all parisians"

was the message. 

paris is popular, that was probably

why facebook had the french flag 

filter for profile photos.  no such 

facebook option is available for belgian

flag.  no australian landmarks lighting

up in belgian colours, unless i missed 

it?

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Each to their own but educated people could/should scoff at it. Australians seem to care more about the Bali 9 than what is happening in the world.

[Anonymous]

not sure what you mean.

what should educated people scoff at?

[donnashuggy]

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@*julia*2010 wrote:

not sure what you mean.

what should educated people scoff at?

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paris is popular, that was probably

why facebook had the french flag 

filter for profile photos.  no such 

facebook option is available for belgian

flag.  no australian landmarks lighting

up in belgian colours, unless i missed 

it?

[Anonymous]

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@donnashuggy wrote:

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@*julia*2010 wrote:

not sure what you mean.

what should educated people scoff at?

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paris is popular, that was probably

why facebook had the french flag 

filter for profile photos.  no such 

facebook option is available for belgian

flag.  no australian landmarks lighting

up in belgian colours, unless i missed 

it?

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imo there is nothing silly about showing

solidarity.  its the same as the rainbow

filter in support of same sex marriage.

i can't really understand why some ppl

would want to scoff at something that 

is positive. but as you said -

each to their own. 

[Anonymous]

Australians seem to care more about the Bali 9 than what is happening in the world.

if you say so.

personally, i don't know any bogans.

[go-tazz]

The popularity of any news story only depends on whether it will be seen as selling papers and making enough

people watch that news story,(eg: the story has to be able to "sell" itself).

When there are bush fires around they have to print extra papers to allow for the demand and more people

watch the news.

The Sydney siege was the same as are other stories that have "impact" values.

Overseas stories have to have that "impact" for them to show as headlines,(they have to have enough 

interest to "attract" people to the papers and the news channels).

The difference with the bolded stories is that they are perpetrated against people that the majority of

readers/viewers can relate to and are one off's.

With the others it's more the case of it happening on a "regular" basis and so they have no "shock" value.