In Tunis today – guys with guns killed 19 people at the Bardo Museum.
Italian, Spanish, Polish and German citizens were among those killed, as well as a Tunisian and a police officer, PM Habib Essid said.
Security forces killed two gunmen and were searching for accomplices, he added.
The attack happened at the Bardo Museum in central Tunis.
At the time of the attack deputies in the neighbouring parliamentary building were discussing anti-terrorism legislation. Parliament was evacuated following the attack.
At least 22 tourists and two Tunisians were injured in the attack, Mr Essid said.
A museum, a museum of antiquities.
That attacks a lot of Forbiddens with one shoot-up, doesn’t it – history, education, images, beauty, internationalism, mutual exchange and understanding, mingling, travel, freedom of movement.
The Bardo museum, renowned for its collection of antiquities, is a major attraction in Tunis.
Tourism is a key sector of Tunisia’s economy, with large numbers of Europeans visiting the country’s resorts.
In 2002, 19 people, including 11 German tourists, were killed in a bomb blast at a synagogue in the resort of Djerba. Al-Qaeda said it had carried out that attack.
Religious fanatics hate all of that. They hate human beings, and our ways of being happy. No museums for you, no art, no jokes, no resorts, no antiquities, no Buddhas in earphones, no music, no dancing, no education outside The Holy Book, no recreational walks, no dogs, no reform, no change, no freedom to leave, no future, no joy, no hope.
One of my professors, Jeff Pieper, told us about this in class this morning because he’s scheduled to be a Keynote speaker at IREC next week (which is in Tunisa).
http://www.irec-conference.com/keynotes-tutorials.html
True, but look at the bright side. At least they are not atheists, angry at the god we don’t believe in and utterly lacking any morality.
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Religious fanatics hate all of that. They hate human beings, and our ways of being happy. No museums for you, no art, no jokes, no resorts, no antiquities, no Buddhas in earphones, no music, no dancing, no education outside The Holy Book, no recreational walks, no dogs, no reform, no change, no freedom to leave, no future, no joy, no hope.
The more human activity grinds to a halt, the greater the hold Islam has over the minds of people. Ideally radical Islam would create a world in which opportunities for sin will no longer exist. Humans would be reduced to just eating, shitting and praying.
Well no. There would still be lots and lots of sex, for men – apart from the ones who would be shut out because of all the men who owned four women. It would be rape for women, so not sex in the sense of sex-for-pleasure, but for men who get as many as four it’s yay hooray.
Had it happened in the US the NRA would find some excuse for it as a 2nd Amendment exercise.
And, to warm saddened hearts at stories like this, another quiet, brave person saves a couple of dozen people.
He shut them into several rooms containing valuable/priceless/irreplaceable artworks and told them to be quiet. Some of them stayed there overnight rather than risk facing the attackers.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/19/troops-patrol-streets-tunis-aftermath-of-terror-attacks