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30 March 2016, 01:44 PM

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Do most people think it's new , am I the only one ? Has the media been reporting them all and I've just missed it

It would seem that there's less of a fuss made, but it is reported on.

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30 March 2016, 01:49 PM

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They are discriminatory, it's just that there's a very large set who fall outside of Salafist orthodoxy and are therefore fair game.

That's an arguable position, but so is the one which says that the very methods they use for their attacks make it in many cases nigh-on impossible for them to have more than a very approximate idea of who their victims will actually be.

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30 March 2016, 01:56 PM

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Should tune into something less western biased

like CNN .

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30 March 2016, 02:03 PM

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Yes, but they'd consider that collateral damage. I'm of the opinion that their targets are far from random and indiscriminate; Pakistan's most recent atrocity being a prime example. Brussels was targeted, too, but in a different way and I'm sure I don't need to explain why.

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