Breaking News Two Explosions At Brussels Airport.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3503928/Two-explosions-heard-Brussels-Airport.html

Could these have been intended to be set off aboard a US bound aircraft?

[Gromit]

Naomi,

You blame liberal lefties but you cannot name ONE.

[mikey4444]

I am with Fraser here. Stop squabbling....dozens of people are lying dead in Belgium.

[anotheoldgit]

jim360

/// I don't think the Germans who lived on our shores during WWII could have done much damage, radicalised or not, as they were all in internment camps for the duration (along with Italians). ///

Maybe at the start of the war Jim, but most were released soon after.

[naomi24]

Gromit, I think you're being silly, but just for you here's a self-confessed liberal leftie.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11059643/Denis-MacShane-I-was-too-much-of-a-liberal-leftie-and-should-have-done-more-to-investigate-child-abuse.html

[Svejk]

Yeah, let's have a candlelight vigil and then do *** all, like we always do.

[naomi24]

Mikey, we know - and you and Fraser are no more upset by it than anyone else.

[Svejk]

sp1814
///Svejk
Be careful of using expletives on AB. It's what gets people suspended. ///

Oh no. I'm so sorry.

[anotheoldgit]

Zacs-Master

/// I really can't believe that banning Islam is even being discussed. We would have to build Berlin walls in just about every major city! ///

And how have you come to that ridiculous conclusion, we are not suggesting the banning of people or even creating walled ghettos, but simply banning a particular religion.

[Zacs-Master]

Ha! 'simply banning a particular religion'. If you think that's 'simple' then you're not joining the dots my friend.

[Gromit]

We can all agree that it is convicted fraudster Denis McShane's fault.

[mikey4444]

Naomi...how do you presume to know the level of my distress at the events of this morning ? This could have happened anywhere, even here in my home town.

[naomi24]

Mikey, Really! And you’re the bloke who said only a few weeks ago that if you suspected a fellow passenger travelling with you on an aeroplane of being up to no good, you wouldn’t report it - you’d mind your own business.

Gromit, now you’re really being silly. You wanted a name – you got one.

[Gromit]

Naomi,

I was expecting the name of a mover or a shaker, Someone with influence to stop all these good people from doing the right thing. You delivered the name of a no mark ex-MP who I had to Google to find out who he was. The only thing he managed to influence in his career, was his own expenses sheet.

[naomi24]

Gromit, Oh dear. Silly me. I should have known I’d pick someone who doesn’t suit you. Still, never mind. At least the article has given you the gist of the liberal leftie mentality.

[Svejk]

There are 2 opinion pieces about this from typical liberal-lefty's in The Guardian. They haven't gone down very well.

[Khandro]

After the Paris attacks the president of Egypt, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, did what no other leader of the Muslim world has done to date: he named Islam’s real enemy. In a gathering of religious clerics at Cairo’s ancient Al Azhar University, he called for the rescue of Islam from ‘ideology’. His speech was given little coverage in the western press, but it is worth repeating, he said;

‘We are in need of a religious revolution, you, imams, are responsible before Allah. The entire world, I say it again, the entire world is waiting for your next move because the Islamic world is being torn, it is being destroyed, it is being lost. And it is being lost by our own hands.’ It is inconceivable, he said, that ‘this thinking — and I am not saying religion — should cause the entire Islamic world to be a source of anxiety, danger, killing and destruction for the rest of the world.’ The remedy, said al-Sisi, was for Islam to recognise and talk about its mutant strain. ‘Religious discourse is the greatest battle and challenge facing the Egyptian people,’ he said. ‘We need a modern, comprehensive understanding of the religion of Islam,’ rather than ‘relying on a discourse that has not changed for 800 years’.

That was 14 moths ago, but what have they done since?

[jourdain2]

I do remember that speech, Khandro, thank you for reminding us about it.

[naomi24]

Trouble is, no one is listening.

[sp1814]

Khandro

They killed Ashraf Ali Ali Hassanein al-Gharabli in November last year.

The Bedouin tribesmen are fighting ISIS in the Sinai Peninsula.

Earlier this year, after ISIS executed 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians in Libya, Egypt took the fight there too.

The Egyptian army killed 56 ISIS fighters in the Sinai Province, in September.

In February last year, Egypt entered (officially) – the war on ISIS through the Libyan gateway. That was when Jordan stepped up its military operations against ISIS through the Syrian path.