Stream of Consciousness, River of Doubt, Sea of Tranqility
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The internet helps provide a breeding ground for extremism of all types as the west tries to address the legacy of intervening in Iraq and the Arab Spring
The bare facts of the Copenhagen killings are not in dispute. But the reasons why a European capital and its citizens have again fallen victim to a merciless act of extreme Islamist violence are less easy to fathom, and certainly more contentious.
Already the shockwaves are spreading outwards, like a poison cloud carrying hate to the furthest reaches of a frightened and bewildered continent.
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via Syria | The Guardian http://ift.tt/1L0wM8J
Accused terrorist John Nuttall told an undercover officer in the weeks leading up to his alleged Canada Day plot to attack the British Columbia legislature that he converted to Islam because he wanted “jihad,” his trial heard Wednesday. Nuttall, who is now on trial alongside his wife, sat in a police vehicle with an RCMP officer posing as an Arab businessman in June 2013, unaware their conversation was being recorded.
via Terrorism News http://ift.tt/1DK1piG
As it is with freedom of navigation in international waters, freedom of speech must be exercised to be preserved. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30790409