Sad day in Belgium :-(

Can't really think about programming today. It's a sad, sad day in Belgium. Terrorism took over 30 lives today. How pointless...

It's indeed one of the darkest days in our history.

kind of expected tho but still sad that innocent lives have been taken again.

And I'm afraid that it isn't over yet.
I'm glad that I live in a rural area and not one of our bigger city's.

I myself live in West-Vlaanderen, but I have lots of friends in the bigger cities and my thoughts are with them now.

No words..
My deepest condolences and sympathy to our Belgian fellow members and to all of us as humans.
What's going on in this world today is beyond comprehension. God only knows what his will is.

Beja said:

God only knows what his will is

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True, but the sad fact is that people who do these things are doing this in the name of religion/God.

The most horrible crimes in mankind history were committed in the name of any God... but most of their words were about loving and peaceful behaviour... At least the 5 most representatives (Christianity, Judaism, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist)

Descartex said:

The most horrible crimes in mankind history were committed in the name of any God... but most of their words were about loving and peaceful behaviour... At least the 5 most representatives (Christianity, Judaism, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist)

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Maybe some formal similarities exist.. but I beg to differ because what's happening today never happened before in the name of any god. In the past, parties to all wars or even atrocities knew and expected their enemies.. and it was army against army, men against men, bayonets against bayonets.. Muslims knew the crusaders were coming.. Muslims sent warnings before conquering other nations,
and regardless of the correctness or incorrectness of these incidents in history, but all parties to them were transparent and their intentions and goals were known to each other. Even in invading other nations, Mohamed told his men not to kill a child, a woman, the old, and not to cut a green tree. Muslims today are receiving better treatment as citizens in the West than in their home countries and when Muslims ruled parts of Europe, Jewish people had a golden age in terms of freedom and well being and lived in a much better position than under other nations.
Today I don't know these people (as Trump says ).. by no means they are Muslims regardless of their claims or apparent practices of Islamic prayers. The problem is that Muslims are not voicing their positions enough, and in my opinion this is out of ignorance and confusion.

The problem is when an ignorant and fearful bastard rise to power, usually gets a wonderful text and perverts so that, when reciting, has nothing to do with the original message. It reaches deep into the minds of the poor people in poverty, ignorance and despair, as well as the easily impressionable young minds. Usually are much more radical young veterans, even those who have suffered in their own flesh the abuses of their "enemies".
What we still have not realized is that the concept of "war" has changed. No longer respect anything ... civilians are the primary objectives in modern war zones. At other times, civilians were collateral damage, secondary objectives.
A greeting.

Beja said:

what's happening today never happened before in the name of any god.

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if it isn't why are they always yelling "Allahoe akbar" or what ever it is before they start killing people?

sorex said:

if it isn't why are they always yelling "Allahoe akbar" or what ever it is before they start killing people?

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If they kill people then I think it wouldn't be that hard for them to yell allau Akbar...