AIBU to question the media response to the Belfast attack?

[Squirrel001]

Why are the media being silent on the Belfast attack?

Is the open borders narrative that important to them that they feel the need to ignore one of the most horrific attacks ever seen on a UK street?

I despair for the future of the UK. It’s grim.

This is typical but no. Politicians are going to have to ensure beheadings and eye gouging don’t happen on the street.

I think she means others will use this as an excuse.

'Every Catholic beaten bloody in their homes, every loyalist bomb and every loyalist shooting, men shot in front of their children, children burnt in their homes, pregnant women shot in the head, people shot just driving along by panicked young soldiers at checkpoints. You've no clue of the place you speak because you only get the British news coverage on it.'

It was all reported on. I've no idea why you're suggesting we didn't have it rammed down our necks for years. It was horrific the murders committed in the name of a 'cause'.

Minor crime in NI, your pub brawls in the Falls or wherever reported nationally no. Attempted beheading yes.

Only the atrocities of the IRA and not those committed by loyalist paramilitaries? Your own statement confirms not all atrocities, crimes, murders were reported, only those of the Irish.

AI is designed to be an interactive supportive experience for the user. It will respond to what you specifically want - and it will know that by your phrasing and other searches.

It can also only mine info already on the net - just faster than you or I - I’m old enough to recall GIGO (garbage in, garbage out) as a computer term - it’s pretty accurate for AI too.

Exactly this.

I want to add that It's not just the fact that undocumented, unskilled, fighting-age, often religiously fervent men are coming unchecked into the country who see women as cattle. For example, the Egyptian murderer who raped and tortured that poor woman on Brighton beach, my hometown, and reportedly told police that rape was "just sex" to him.

As someone who is Judaism adjacent (I'm Christian, my husband is Jewish) this is also about the importation of violent antisemitism. These men are coming from cultures where talk of killing Jews is the norm.

So to all of the ideologically captured, woke, Green voting, do gooders on this thread who insist that unrestricted or poorly controlled immigration is harmless, I would ask: what happens when this policy has deadly consequences for the safety of Jewish communities? Dismissing those concerns out of hand means asking others to bear risks that you may never face yourself. You are playing Russian roulette with Jewish lives while expecting Jews to accept the consequences. You think you're all so virtuous, so compassionate, and empathetic, but you're not. It's not your partner's and children in the cross hairs of these religious extremists.

I've lived in Scotland for decades and the reporting here versus the reporting back home is entirely one sided.

Your straw man arguments aren’t going to cut it, and it’s fucking pathetic that you’d even resort to that.

What about the number of women raped and murdered by British men? Who see women as cattle. This idea that British men are somehow respectful and feminist minded when women are murdered in their own homes regularly is baffling.

Can we ship them out somewhere too? If you're keen to get rid of any man who shows violent tendencies or religious fervour I'm on board for that. We can get rid of the evangelical christians in northern Ireland wanting to take us back to the dark ages for a start.

We can get rid of the Catholic priests who were around during the pedophile scandals and the Magdalen laundries.

Religious fervour absolutely has a lot to answer for as do men.

@Gloriia it could be assumed that you weren’t fully aware because you’ve consistently written ‘IRA’, with no mention of loyalist paramilitaries or the illegal and murderous actions of the British army/ state.

There was no UK reporting of the woman in ballymena murdered and dismembered in a bin by local men. Is that not horrific enough to make the UK news?

If you had to wake up alone in either of these two countries tomorrow; which would you pick? And why?

1. England
2. Afghanistan

Resort to what? Pointing out that northern Ireland has a history of brutal murders not being reported?

Yet the racists are complaining it took 12 hours overnight for a murder to reported in the UK news?

Oh whatever, still reported on though yes?

You said earlier this level of horrific violence was due to coming from a war torn country. So as you grew up in the troubles does that make you likely to gouge eyes and attempt to behead or do you agree some people are indeed violent and bad?

If you happened to have been born in Afghanistan and were an average, ordinary woman... Would you want to stay there?

Just answer.

If we have enough of our own rapists and murderers, why import more?

Speaking of media bias, The media, including the BBC and the times, recently report the case of a group of 7 British teenagers who were arrested following a prolonged period of racial abuse, racial assault and burglary in Warrington as "Boy, 13, among those arrested".

And not too long ago, when 8, literal neo-nazis, were arrested for racial assault and disorder in Durham, which included chasing non-white families around a park with weapons and fireworks while shouting white power, it was reported as "Eight in court over alleged disorder".

So yanbu, there's definitely some sort of agenda in the media but it's probably not the way you think it is

What open borders narrative? Are the UK Borders wide open, according to you?

I’m interested too @Velumental

It’s literally the first line on the BBC article that the perpetrator is Somali

I was aware of loyalist terrorists as well as republican terrorists (please don't call them 'paramilitaries', they were ocgs at best). I just obviously had an opinion like most?

Anyway. Back to the thread!

No I didn't say this level of horrific attack is due to growing up in a war torn country I pointed out that growing up in a war torn country could certainly account for mental health difficulties.

And as a matter of fact I have had counselling for things I witnessed and lived through in my childhood. Which will have been mild by comparison.

What I am actually trying to point out though is that the OPs premise is incorrect. She's surprised a serious and horrific assault wasn't reported sooner? Suggesting it's to cover up that an attack was carried out by a somalian.

I'm pointing out that many absolutely horrific violent crimes and murders have occurred recently in northern but because they are in northern Ireland they are not covered in the wider BBC news.

The real surprise is that this one HAS been covered which is deliberately TO stole racist undertones and anti immigration feelings.

Is this inherently worse than the northern Irish man who bet his pregnant girlfriend to death the covered it up? Or the northern Irish men who murdered a woman and dismantled her in a bin? Or the northern Irish group of thugs who set fire to a wheelie bin with a man they'd tortured naked inside it?

Weird that racism and sectarianism and anti Irish feelings exist together within you. Or not.

I can't disagree with this.