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To think protesting doesn't work anymore?

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022828MAN · 06/09/2020 03:25

From BLM, Extinction Rebellion, Anti lock down protests in Melbourne.

I'm not arguing whether the context or reason for the protesting is justified or not, but I just wonder whether protesting is ever going to get results for anyone in this day and age.

It seems as though it's just the go-to answer nowadays, yet I've not seen anywhere it seems to have yielded any results. All I see is prolonged anguish, anxiety, vandalism, violence and arrests.

I feel like police / gov actively won't respond to demands through protesting as they believe it will show them to be able to be manipulated, and therefore they purposely do not give in to protests.

I'm not here to say people shouldn't be vocal when they believe in something, but is protesting the answer in modern times?

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NiceGerbil · 07/09/2020 21:28

Agree with rosetti.

1996 Manchester? I was there when that one went off.

And what about Omagh. Different group but related to cause. Many people killed.

NiceGerbil · 07/09/2020 21:30

I mean it's all freely available info.

Here for instance.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in_Great_Britain

Mimishimi · 08/09/2020 10:17

"Total destruction of the West and all it's ways to be replaced by a Caliphate is the TL;DR of Islamic terrorism"

I'd say that was pretty much achieved in WW2 though.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust

DGRossetti · 08/09/2020 10:32

[quote Mimishimi]"Total destruction of the West and all it's ways to be replaced by a Caliphate is the TL;DR of Islamic terrorism"

I'd say that was pretty much achieved in WW2 though.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust[/quote]
Not quite sure how little you have to know to make that connection to be honest ?

The Nazis were not religious zealots whose sole aim was to extinguish all other religions but Islam and establish an Islamic Caliphate across the globe. They had very little time for any religion.

Admittedly their atrocities were just as ideological but that's because once you've reached the stage of shoving people into ovens it's really immaterial why you are doing it - it's a horror beyond comprehension that has no sense to it.

TheEmpressOfUtterBastardry · 09/09/2020 10:14

So the Nazis were in fact Islamic were they? Thanks for enlightening us Mimishimi.

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