Belgium holds 17 in terrorist plot
 

And not a single Muslim in sight.
Must be why the International media isnt giving much attention to it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5325198.stm

You mean there are bad people who aren't Muslim??? I'm shocked, I tell you -- SHOCKED!!!

I live in Belgium, its a big deal over here and on news programmes and in newspapers we have gotten a lot of details about this.
A huge arsenal of weapons was seized including rocket launchers and even self made explosive devices.

Pretty nasty stuff in all and it actually shocks me to see that internationally almost no one is reporting on this.

There are quite a few terrorists in the world who are not Muslim, it's just that the Muslim variety seem to be much more focused on (in descending order of effectiveness): Other "less right" Muslims, Jews, Westerners, Americans.

Sounds to me that these guys were your garden variety Euro Fascists.

What surprises me is that they got all that armament safely though air-tight non-TSA Euro-security. :-)

The majority of terrorists involved in blood-spilling incidents are not muslims.

And the generalization about what "the Muslim variety" seem to be much more focused on doesn't tell the whole story. Such generalization actually covers up the key story that most terrorist activity is based on local grievances and is aimed locally -- and that "collateral damage" is accepted by them too. :eek: But selling those items to the American public just doesn't sell as well to the general public as a big monster, an overarching enemy of mythical proportions. After all, looking for a replacement of the big bad commie enemies is "useful" and selling such animals has precedent.

We have the same kind of activity happening in the US too. ;)

As I've noted here, there are a lot of right-wingers (including those connected with neo-nazi-type ideologies) who are involved in the European security services, including with airport security and immigration/customs functions. And "the bosses" don't much care to "clean house" even when it's brought to attention. This is one area where the US "security services" are generally better dispositioned than many European security equivalents.

I think what your post is saying is that Muslim terrorist make the news because of who there target is. I would agree with that. More people have died in India from terrorism both before and since 9/11 than on 9/11. Since 9/11 happen so close to home, along with the theatrical nature of TV news, it has had much bigger impact on Americans When we are terrorised by our own kind, we forget more easily than when we are terrorised by someone who looks different.

At least 20+ people have just been killed in India by terrorists, not too far from Bombay. 40+ more are wounded some seriously. It is believed that the deat toll will be at least 25. (The targets were muslims.) How much media attention would this grab in the US? Less attention than a good number of terrorism-related arrests in the US that had zero actual persons killed or wounded.

One of the great things about FT is the international perspective and stories being covered on FT that would otherwise not make most news-reading radars here in the US.

Probably becuase the TSA propaganda machine hasn't dispensed it yet to the American Media. The AM are fixated on the fifth anniversary thing on Monday.

Not to mention that the TSA and the FAA have swept the shoulder-fired rocket launcher possibility under the rug awhile ago.

I'm glad these weapons in Belgium were found before they could be used.

Your observations are far too sensible for a Friday afternoon. Besides, the American public is not yet ready to admit that terrorism is perpetrated by state actors to under the guise of defence of freedom, war on terror (war on brown people), war on drugs (war on poor people), etc.

Extremist and Anti-Government groups also want to bring about the 'racial holy wars' that they are always spouting off about. Anything to make the government look bad is considered good. Some ex and active duty military in the US have been involved in some scary s@#t too, but usually do something stupid to get caught if they try to do it while they are still in the service.

"RaHoWa" definitely has its advocates. :(

And sadly, the extremist groups use the military for supply, training, recruitment, security clearances, etc.

And now they are getting experience on the streets of Baghdad to take back and use against their fellow countrymen and women. Sadly, most of the really bad extremists and gang members in the military act like model Soldiers and quietly do their dirty work without calling any attention to who or what they really are.

On the home-front, amongst my more serious concerns with the Iraq war -- from before the war -- would be that racism would find growing quarter in the US upon return of a minority of troops damaged further by bad circumstances that inculcated the idea that "the enemy looks like that". This time, it'll be even uglier than what people of East Asian descent dealt with after the conflicts in (and around) Vietnam.

One point on this, though. A far smaller percentage of Americans have served in the Armed Forces for this conflict than the Vietnam war. So, it won't be such a large number of people (hopefully). But, they will have a sphere of influence on others.

I'd like to say that we can see past that more now, with smarter troops, but this is certainly not always the case. Even now, the term 'Hadji' is almost exclusively used to describe any person of Arab or SW Asian descent, even though to a Muslim, Hadji would be considered a term of great respect. Similar to how 'gook' indicated foreigner in Vietnamese. Funny how we referred to the local nationals as 'foreigners'.

I saw that too just a few minutes ago. A bombing near a mosque. If I were to guess, it was probably Shiva Sena. An eye for an eye making the whole world blind.