Society/Culture At Least 42 Dead And Hundreds Injured In Church And Hotel Bombings (Now 359 Dead)

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the media haven’t really touched this. Not surprised.

Such a sick situation when Christians are getting slaughtered and Msm go quiet.

Where is the 24/7 coverage? Like when a few Muslims got shot by a Lone Ranger.
Bullshit. Every news service I've seen has gone with it as the lead story. Four different stories on MSN on the attacks right now.
 
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I am somewhat suprised at how much coverage this has received, it is trending on top of page for most news outlets. Also they are only reporting on the known facts at this stage, that is they have labelled it as a likely terrorist attack but no group has claimed responsibility.
It is probably a very fair guess to say this attack is Islam related but I would very much prefer to have this reported as fact and not conjecture. Also the media is not holding back on reporting the warnings about Muslim extremists that were going around before the attacks.
I am very very wary of the media and the far left but my tinfoil hat is off for the moment.
 

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Pffft, I don't have a newspaper. I posted my sympathies after Christchurch and denounced the killer. The only double standards evident are those of the Left.
So are you saying it's only people on the right that are posting sympathies and denouncing the killers?
 

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the media haven’t really touched this. Not surprised.

Such a sick situation when Christians are getting slaughtered and Msm go quiet.

Where is the 24/7 coverage? Like when a few Muslims got shot by a Lone Ranger.
No one is scared of blowback after an attack on Christians
 

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So are you saying it's only people on the right that are posting sympathies and denouncing the killers?
No, but sympathy and denouncement on behalf of the Left are muted. See Di Natale's response quoted earlier for a classic example. Where are Waleed's tears, or has terrorism reverted to a "perpetual irritant"?
 

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No, but sympathy and denouncement on behalf of the Left are muted. See Di Natale's response quoted earlier for a classic example. Where are Waleed's tears, or has terrorism reverted to a "perpetual irritant"?
The issue there is you are assuming Di Natale or Waleed speak for all people on the left. I've just been listening to 3LO - according to some (note some) people, the ABC is a hive of left wing radicalism. They have been unequivocal in their condemnation of the terrorists this morning.
 
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It’s not the reporting it’s the analysis afterwards. After Christchurch all white people, and Australians, were implicated, according to people like Jason Wilson at the Guardian, or Richard Cooke at the Monthly, due to our racism and islamophobia.

When instead the barren ideology of Islam kills people in the West, it’s the fault of the imperialism of the West - “what do you expect when you start the Iraq war?” Sykes-Picot might be cited by more learned chums on Bigfooty. They’ll say nothing on this, or other attacks on brown Christians or other religious minorities, because it doesn’t serve their narrative. Similarly they are silent on Uyghur repression by the CCP.

Their Islamophilia only serves as a means through which to express their loathing of Western civilisation, and conservatives especially.
 

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The issue there is you are assuming Di Natale or Waleed speak for all people on the left. I've just been listening to 3LO - according to some (note some) people, the ABC is a hive of left wing radicalism. They have been unequivocal in their condemnation of the terrorists this morning.
Easy to condemn what at this stage is an anonymous group. Already the focus of the ABC is on the possibility that police failed to heed prior intelligence.
 

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Sri Lankan Government Minister tweets out the same document that was accused of being fake earlier.
So it seems that accusations of Indian News carrying false reports, may of been just an attempt to dampen down the potential for ethnic vigilante retributions after all.

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the far left "news" website Perthnow.com.au has now reduced the attacks to a pathetic running late story which hides the magnitude of the event. 260 killed is too real for that shitty webpage.

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You can thank Kerry Stokes and the boards editorial directions for WA based media now being effectively completely run by one entity.
Check out "The West Australian" front page online as well. Both owned by Stokes now and neither has anything on the bombings on their front pages.
Neither is worth even skim reading anymore.
 

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Relative peace for years, and now all this (including early attacks of retribution) because of some sick and hate-filled people.

My understanding is that SL is divided down much finer lines than simply Sinhalese and Tamils, and they don't mess around when it comes to harm against their own. Hoping the Gov can control the situation before it spirals out of control.
 
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