Quote Originally Posted by Idaho View Post
Salience is everything for humans. If we are bombarded with alarming stories about terrorism, we think it's more important.

Is this terrorism? Yeah of course it is. Just like the hundreds of other US mass murders are. But these are brown mass murderers with muslim names. They are, in media terms, different and more scary.

Personally, if I was American, I would be no more afraid of brown terrorist mass murderers, than the usual sort. In the end they are the same.
I don't understand the need to relativate an obvious kick in the nuts. How many do you need before you understand that someone is kicking you in the nuts. Radical islam is just a threat, and more attacks like in Paris (and possibly this one) are just going to happen, especially after that eastblock-workhorse Merkel with her messias-complex welcomed them to travel along