Bomb in Finnish shopping centre - 7 dead and ~80 injured

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Eli
It can be the final proof that opression and humiliation are not what causing people to make suicide bombings.

Nope it doesn't.

All it proves it you're a silly person.

[Sirotnikov]

First of all accept my deepest condolences. Sadly, I know very well how most of you feel.

Second - allow me to appologize for feelings that appear as gloating from Eli's side. He is wrong in doing that. But sadly, the grief from the Israeli events, and the frustration of having to live with such bombings daily without being understood, have caused him to be unsocial.

Also please do not think that all Israelis feel the same.

There have been many responses in Israeli forums, ranging from gloat like feelings, to feelings of empathy and support.

I hope you understand that it is very stressing to be living with such events daily, and when it happens to someone else, it is both unsual, and you "hope" for a kindred spirit - someone that will finally understand you.

So it's not a real gloat - 'yay, fins are dead'. Finland is one of the countries which both on apolyton and in real life, have been most supporting of Israel, and the Israeli public is aware of it.

But what it is, is a hope that out of this horror, a new understanding will arise, that such terror, shouldn't be accepted as justified, or as legitimate for any side; and that such events will be more widely seen for the sheer brutality and evil doing they are.

[Winston]

Well said Sirotnikov.

[muxec]

Sirotnikov, why do you use antesemitic quote as signature?

[Kassiopeia]

Sirotnikov, you are very right. This is a very new situation to Finns; we can't even start to imagine the feeling of knowing that every time you go out, shopping, going about your business, you might be killed. I think I've started to understand the Israelis a bit better.

This all feels a bit surreal right now. Vantaa is after all ways from where I live, and since I think this was just a random nutjob, I really can't sense what many people at Vantaa must be feeling at the moment.

Also please do not think that all Israelis feel the same.

Of course not. We all know, and if we don't we should, that Eli is a sad, sad person.

[Bereta_Eder]

so who was it?

[Stefu]

According to YLE, the suspect is a 20-year-old chemistry student. Home search revealed Internet-loaded bomb instructions. Motive is not clear, but he most likely worked alone.

[Bereta_Eder]

thanks

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Eli
I hope it was a suicider.

It's going to be a great argument in the ME threads in our favor.

You really are an ass, aren't you?

[Felch]

if this is a terrorist attack i'll become catholic.

So, Paiktis, when will you come into full communion with Rome?

[DinoDoc]

Soon, I hope.

[Jaakko]

I took up chemistry as a minor subject this year, so the bomber might well have sat on the same lecture as I...

[ranskaldan]

The scourge of terrorism... it's sick, people dying tragically and needlessly, everywhere in the world.

My condolences to Finland...

Originally posted by muxec
Sirotnikov, why do you use antesemitic quote as signature?

I believe he was showcasing CyberGnu's apparent anti-Semitism. Though I wouldn't call it anti-Semitism, not the first quote anyway.

[Bereta_Eder]

it wasnt terrorist attack just some loonie.
if itwasnt from hamas and the like it doesnt qualify. so constantinople it remains.

[Kassiopeia]

I took up chemistry as a minor subject this year, so the bomber might well have sat on the same lecture as I...

The bomber was in the Ammattikorkeakoulu (think of a university, but for the more engineer types) of Helsinki, apparently.