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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
Mostly Europeans light candles and put flowers on a site. Sometimes they light buildings with colored lights. Mostly light candles. That has not been much of a deterrent so far.
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I know the general idea is that Europeans fight terrorisme with love and scented candles and I know that behind this comment there is compassion for the victims.
But lit buildings and candles is how we show our sorrow and unity as a people.
Our intelligence communities do their best, day in day out, to prevent these types of attacks. And they are succesful and do prevent attempts.
Fact is that these things are very difficult to prevent every time, all of the time. (islamic or not)
Hidden enemy, random strikes, everyone is a potential victim, all of the time...
Our societies (yep, that's right, same goes for you guys over there) are poorly prepared and not organized to have a 100% succesrate preventing this.
Some of the things that the USA had to deal with in the last two decades...
3/1997 USA New York, NY A Palestinian leaves an anti-Jewish suicide note behind and travels to the top of the Empire State building where he shoot seven people in a Fedayeen attack.
10/1999 USA Near Nantucket An Egyptian airline pilot runs a planeload of 217 passengers into the water after uttering a Qur'anic prayer.
*2001 New York World Trade Center hijacked airplanes steered into two towers
*2001 USA Shanksville, PA Islamic radicals hijack plane crashes in field
*2001 DC Sniper - USA Washington, DC 184 Islamic hijackers steer a plane full of people into the Pentagon.
3/2002 DC Sniper - USA Tuscon, AZ A 60-year-old man is gunned down by Muslim snipers on a golf course.
5/2002 DC Snipe - USA Denton, TX Muslim snipers kill a man as he works in his yard.
7/2002 DC Sniper - USA Los Angeles, CA Muslim man pulls out a gun at the counter of an Israeli airline and kills two people.
9/2002 DC Sniper - USA Clinton, MD A 55-year-old pizzaria owner is shot six times in the back by Muslims at close range.
9/2002 DC Sniper - USA Montgomery, AL Muslim snipers shoot two women, killing one.
9/2002 DC Sniper - USA Baton Rouge, LA A Korean mother is shot in the back by Muslim snipers.
10/2002 DC Sniper - USA Wheaton, MDMuslim snipers gun down a program analyst in a store parking lot.
10/2002 DC Sniper - USA Montgomery County, MD 5 0 Muslim snipers kill three men and two women in separate attacks over a 15-hour period.
10/2002 DC Sniper - USA Manassas, VA A man is killed by Muslim snipers while pumping gas two days after a 13-year-old is span>wounded by the same team.
10/2002 DC Sniper - USA Fredericksburg, VA Another man is killed by Muslim snipers while pumping gas.
10/2002 DC Sniper - USA Arlington, VA A woman is killed by Muslim snipers in a Home Depot parking lot.
10/2002 DC Sniper - USA Aspen Hill, MD A bus driver is killed by Muslim snipers.
4/2004 USA Raleigh, NC A Muslim man runs down five strangers with a car.
6/2006 USA Baltimore, MD A 62-year-old Jewish moviegoer is shot to death by a Muslim gunman in an unprovoked terror attack.
6/2006 USA Denver, CO Saying that it was 'Allah's choice', a Muslim shoots four of his co-workers and a police officer.
2/2007 USA Salt Lake City, UT A Muslim immigrant goes on a shooting rampage at a mall, targeting people buying Valentine's Day cards at a gift shop and killing five.
4/2007 Virginia Tech shooting
1/2008 USA Irving, TX A Muslim immigrant shoots his two daughters to death on concerns about their 'Western' lifestyle.
2008 Nicky Reilly, who changed his name to Mohammad Rashid Said-Alimbe, set off his deadly cargo at Exeter’s city centre Giraffe restaurant in 2008 as part of a planned coordinated attack
2/2009 USA Buffalo, NY The founder of a Muslim TV station beheads his wife in the hallway for seeking a divorce. 6/1/2009 USA Little Rock, AR 1 1 A Muslim with 'religious motives' shoots a local soldier to death inside a recruiting center.
11/2009 USA Glendale, AZ A woman dies from injuries suffered when her father runs her down with a car for being too 'Westernized.' (10-20-09)
11/2009 USA Ft. Hood, TX A Muslim psychiatrist guns down thirteen unarmed soldiers while yelling praises to Allah.
12/2009 USA Binghamton, NY A non-Muslim Islamic studies professor is stabbed to death by a Muslim grad student in revenge for 'persecuted' Muslims.
*2009 Ft. Hood, TX Muslim psychiatrist murders 13 unarmed soldiers
4/2010 Marquette Park, IL, After quarrelling with his wife over Islamic dress, a Muslim convert shoots his family members to 'take them back to Allah' and out of the 'world of sinners'.
*2010 Underwear bomber/Christmas Day bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
*2010 New York City, NY Time Square Bomber, Faisal Shahzad
4/2011USAWarren, MI, A 20-year-old woman is shot in the head by her stepfather for not adhering to Islamic practices.
9/2011USAWaltham, MA, Three Jewish men have their throats slashed by Muslim terrorists.
2/2013 Buena Vista, NJ, A Muslim targets and beheads two Christian Coptic immigrants.
3/2013 Ashtabula, OH, A Muslim convert walks into a church service with a Quran and guns down his Christian father while praising Allah.
4/2013Boston, MA, Foreign-born Muslims describing themselves as 'very religious' detonate two bombs packed with ball bearings at the Boston Marathon, killing three people and causing several more to lose limbs.
4/19/2013 Boston, MA, Jihadists gun down a university police officer sitting in his car.
8/2013Richmond, CA, A convert "on a mission from Allah" stabs a store clerk to death.
4/2013 Boston Marathon Bombing
9/2013 Washington Navy Yard shooting
2013 Oklahoma, Alton Nolen, a.k.a Jah’Keem Yisreal, stabbed and beheaded a female coworker
3/2014 Port Bolivar, TX, A Muslim man shoots his lesbian daughter and her lover to death and leaves a copy of the Quran open to a page condemning homosexuality.
4/2014 Skyway, WA, A 30-year-old man is murdered by a Muslim fanatic.
6/2014 Seattle, WA, Two homosexuals are murdered by an Islamic extremist.
6/2014 West Orange, NJ, A 19-year-old college student is shot to death 'in revenge' for Muslim deaths overseas.
9/2014 Moore, OK, A Sharia advocate beheads a woman after calling for Islamic terror and posting an Islamist beheading photo.
10/2014 Muslim Hits A NYC Cop In The Head With A Hatchet
12/2014 Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley, 28, killed two New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers
05/2015 Garland, TX, 2 muslim terrorist attack Draw Mohammad Cartoon.
07/2015 Chattanooga shooting suspect muslim terrorist Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez
10/2015 Oregon College Shooter Shiv Sharma Islamic Jihadist Muslim Terrorist.
11/2015 UC Merced Faisal Mohammad stabbed and injured four people.
11/2015 Mass Stabber at Univ of CA Merced Identified as 'Faisal Mohammad'
2015 San Bernardino, CA Mass Murderers Islamic Jihadist Muslim Terrorist Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik killed 16 wounded 21
2/2016 CALIFORNIA CAR JIHAD Muslim driver intentionally runs down jogger
2/2016 Somali man charged into a Columbus, Ohio, restaurant began attacking innocent patrons with a machete, according to reports.
2016 3 University Students Arrested for Building Bombs by Kevin Jackson | Mar 27,
6/2016 CA UCLA shooter Mainak Sarkar a islamic jihadist muslim terrorist
6/2016 EERFIELD TOWNSHIP, Ohio Mohammed Abdou Laghaoui
6/2016 Tampa Florida Stipeclub shooting believed to be Islamic Jihadist Terrorism
6/2016 Orlando Florida Nightclub shooting by Omar Mateen Islamic jihadist muslim terrorism
6/2016 Mohammad Moghadden a Somalian Islamic Jihadist Terrorist took Hostages in Amarillo Texas Walmart: Police Say Suspect was Shot Dead
6/2016 Donte Brooks Island, aka Abdul Wahi Folcroft Police Officer Attacked – Shot Seven Times… Muslim Felon Abdul Wahi Arrested
7/2016 11 DPD were shot and 5 murdered by Islamic Jihadist Muslim Terrorist.ISLAM! 5 Dallas Shooting Suspects Are American Muslims Who Attended South Dallas Mosque one is Micah X. Johnson
7/2016 AZ Street Shooter has killed 8 people
7/2016 Baton Rouge 3 officers murdered and 4 wounded
9/2016 NYC Naturalized US citizen from Afghanistan. 28 year old Ahmad Khan Rahami. The FBI arrest Admad's 5 brothers who lived in NJ.
9/2016 New Jersey Marine Run Bombing Ahmad Khan Rahami and his 5 brothers
9/2016 Minnesota Mall Stabbings St Cloud, Minnisota, Naturalized US Citizen 22 years old Somalian Daher Adnan ISIS fighter. His name was Dahir Adan, a Somalian immigrant, reportedly a “refugee” to the U.S.
9/2016 Cascade Mall Shooting: Five Killed at Macy's in Burlington, Washington. Arcan Cetin is an immigrant from Turkey non-citizen who is a Islamic Jihadist Muslim Terrorist who came to the US to kill American citizens.
9/2016 Houston strip mall gunman is a Muslim Lawyer Who Got Fired shoots 9 people and he is killed by police.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyTHoe-qQss&feature=youtu.be Houston shooter is a Islamic Jihadist Muslim Terrorist wounds 9 people and he is kill by police.
10/2016 Man uses his car for jihad. Says he did it for Allah.
10/2016 Muslim Refugee Beats And RAPES Woman In North Dakota While Yelling ‘Allahu Akbar’ Abdulrahman Ali is a Somalian man who arrived in America four years ago
2016 Rashad Bugg-Bey slashed a woman with a knife about 8:15 p.m. just outside the entrance to the Metro station at Union Station.
11/2016 18 yr old Somali islamic jihadist musloim terrorist butcher knife at Ohio State University
01/2017 Ft Lauderdale, FL shooter was “Aashiq Hammad” on MySpace, Esteban Santiago from Alaska killed 5 wounded 8. Resent convert to Islam.
02/2017 Bearded, “Middle Eastern” Terrorist Hurls BOMB into Cheesecake Factory in Pasadena, California.
002/2017 Knife Jihad in NY: Teen Stabbed By Muslim Refugee from Somalia
I don't know every individual case mentioned above, just trying to put things in perspective.
No nation is immune.