Hostage situation, fatalities as militants attack museum near Tunisian parliament, most of them Europeans.

[pajomife]

At least eight people have died following a shooting at a museum in Tunis, the Tunisian Interior Ministry says. Two militants disguised as soldiers carried out the attacks, while hostages are still believed to be in the building.

A spokesman for the Tunisian Interior Ministry, Mohammed al-Aroui has confirmed a hostage situation is taking place at the Bardo Museum. The museum, located in Tunisia's capital, is part of the Bardo Palace, which is also home to the parliament.

The Ministry says that seven tourists have been killed and the other victim is a Tunisian citizen. There are has been unconfirmed reports that some of the tourists were from France, Spain and Italy.http://rt.com/news/241873-tunisia-mu...stage-gunfire/

[Roma_Victrix]

If there's one thing an Islamist terrorist hates the most, clearly it is loud European infidels in flip-flops snapping pictures of them. Seriously, though, I hope Tunisia's tourist industry doesn't suffer as a result of this, or that people are cowed into changing their vacation plans to see the ruins of Carthage this summer. My condolences to the victims and of course a big middle finger to the terrorists for killing random people over the pettiest of reasons. How dare they tread on Islamic soil, those Spanish, French, or Italian infidels! The audacity.

[Vanoi]

19 people dead, 17 of them tourists so far.

[Mary The Quene]

The terrorists are already killed right?

9/10 They were some kind of Salafist

[pajomife]

Libya is a terrorist nest right now,Tunisia will have some serious problems due that,one of theirs main industry,the tourism will be seriously affected.
As someone said in their signature,do you miss me?

[Papay]

Just yesterday a Tynisian rebel leader was killed in Libya. 99% that the attack has to do with this

[hellheaven1987]

Yes, destroy the tourism industry of Tunisia!!

[Davius]

Am I late for the deniers?

[Roma_Victrix]

Am I late for the deniers?

Who's denying what now?

[mrmouth]

The sad reality is that the reason Tunisia was the lone success of the Arab Spring is that most of its homegrown militants were fighting elsewhere. Most of which eventually flocked to Syria and became the majority nationality group in IS.

[Papay]

The sad reality is that the reason Tunisia was the lone success of the Arab Spring is that most of its homegrown militants were fighting elsewhere. Most of which eventually flocked to Syria and became the majority nationality group in IS.

No the reality is that Tynisia was ruled for 30 years by Bourgiuba who was a secular anti-islamist dictator. Just like Kemal he imposed many "secular" reforms like legalising abortion in 1970, imposing a more modern education system and hunting down tribalism which is a huge problem for countries like Libya. Tunisia is also, historically, the friendliest Arab country to go for tourism. Many Hollywood films that supposingly took place in Egypt (pyramids, mummies etc)actually were shot in Tynisia

[mrmouth]

No the reality is that Tynisia was ruled for 30 years by Bourgiuba who was a secular anti-islamist dictator. Just like Kemal he imposed many "secular" reforms like legalising abortion in 1970, imposing a more modern education system and hunting down tribalism which is a huge problem for countries like Libya. Tunisia is also, historically, the friendliest Arab country to go for tourism. Many Hollywood films that supposingly took place in Egypt (pyramids, mummies etc)actually were shot in Tynisia

I don't quite understand what you are arguing. Tunisia has even admitted they have gotten lucky as most of their militants have gone to Syria or Iraq, creating the kind of power vacuum that democracy filled instead of the other way around, as is normally the case.

As The Washington Post has documented, Tunisians were among the largest groups of foreign fighters who journeyed to Syria and Iraq to join the Islamic State.

[Denny Crane!]

Religion of peace strikes again!

[hellheaven1987]

Religion of peace strikes again!

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Zoroastrian part is debatable currently.

[PointOfViewGun]

Religion of peace strikes again!

Stupendously ignorant comment strikes again!

[Denny Crane!]

Stupendously ignorant comment strikes again!

The truth stings I know. No one likes to hear they participate in something that on its extreme fringes causes this.

[Roma_Victrix]

The truth stings I know. No one likes to hear they participate in something that on its extreme fringes causes this.

Actually, the most frightening and disheartening thing about this terror attack is that it was carried out by very young men (19 and 20 year olds) who completely fooled their parents and families into believing they were just normal kids. One of them worked a regular job at a travel agency, which makes his slaughter of random tourists all the more ironic and shocking. The families allege that these were not the boys they knew and raised, not in their liberal households where Salafism couldn't be found. They all basically said the same thing, though, that after attending certain mosques that have been radicalized since the Arab Spring, it is the only logical place where these young men could have learned about the salafist and takfiri ideology and been recruited into terror networks operating in and out of war-torn Libya. Indeed, the shooters in this attack spent time in Libya, which should have raised red flags and alarm bells for starters.

The attackers were Tunisians and belonged to an organization that's mostly financed by Arabs, and their ideology is from Saoudi Arabia as well. What exactly about them is European?

Their Adidas tennis shoes, maybe? Adidas, after all, is a German multinational corporation. Clearly when one dons on a pair of their tennis shoes they instantly become German citizens with German passports and can vote for the next chancellor.

[Denny Crane!]

Actually, the most frightening and disheartening thing about this terror attack is that it was carried out by very young men (19 and 20 year olds) who completely fooled their parents and families into believing they were just normal kids. One of them worked a regular job at a travel agency, which makes his slaughter of random tourists all the more ironic and shocking. The families allege that these were not the boys they knew and raised, not in their liberal households where Salafism couldn't be found. They all basically said the same thing, though, that after attending certain mosques that have been radicalized since the Arab Spring, it is the only logical place where these young men could have learned about the salafist and takfiri ideology and been recruited into terror networks operating in and out of war-torn Libya. Indeed, the shooters in this attack spent time in Libya, which should have raised red flags and alarm bells for starters.

Indeed I agree.

[Phier]

Actually, the most frightening and disheartening thing about this terror attack is that it was carried out by very young men (19 and 20 year olds) who completely fooled their parents and families into believing they were just normal kids

Thats pretty typical. Males of that age tend to be idiots, they have nothing to lose, and little sense of their own morality. They are prefect fodder for this. Its more surprising with a 35 year old father of three does it.

ISIS had opportunity from the Arab Spring and the Iraq War but the roots are far deeper than that.

All starts with this guy.


So yea the roots are pretty deep.

[PointOfViewGun]

The truth stings I know. No one likes to hear they participate in something that on its extreme fringes causes this.

Yes, the truth that such ignorant comments do exist does sting. It's quite annoying that often people use the same deceptive arguments that perpetrator of such acts use.