At least nine people were shot dead at a church in the US
state of South Carolina on Wednesday by a man identified
by the FBI as 21-year-old Dylann Roof.
Roof, who was arrested just before noon local time on
Thursday, reportedly let one woman survive so she could
tell others what happened. He is said to have told her: “I
have to do it. You rape our women and you’re taking over
our country. And you have to go.”
Dylan Roof, who was apprehended by police on Thursday and is expected in court Friday.
As data from Mother Jones shows, the majority of mass
shootings in the US are committed by white men - but they
are labelled as “lone wolves” rather than “terrorists”, even
when they are found to hold racist or misogynistic world
views.“

ABC just referred to the #CharlestonShooting as a tragedy.
Nah. A car crash is a tragedy. Shooting up people in a church is terrorism.
— whitney (@whitnaay_70) June 18, 2015“

They're always quiet, softly spoken & acting alone when they're white. Otherwise terrorism/extremism/entire religions to blame #Charleston
— James Rhodes (@JRhodesPianist) June 18, 2015
So what constitutes what? Definitions of terrorism are wide-
ranging.
One of the only core definitions of a terrorist act is that it is
designed to strike fear in a large group of people. With hate
crimes, that is not necessarily true.
Defining “terror” has a long history. According to Vox the
first federal anti-terrorism law ever passed in the US was to
stamp out acts of violence against freed black people by the
Ku Klux Klan back in 1871.
But a 2014 study from the University of Albany in New York
which looked at data from the 1970s to the present day
defined terrorism as an “upward crime”, where perpetrators
are usually of a lower social standing that the targeted
group. By contrast, they found that hate crimes usually involve perpetrators who belong to the majority or most powerful groups in society, who then inflict violence on minority or less powerful victims.
The US government has traditionally used four criteria in
determining what counts as an act of terror:
•Premeditation
•Political motivation
•Aimed at civilians
•Carried out by sub-national groups, rather than the state or army
A sticking point is if Roof is found guilty of acting on white
supremacist ideals as a motive, does he count as a terrorist
even if he wasn’t a member of an organised group?
The FBI and police in South Carolina have defined the
shooting as a hate crime.
Whether you agree with the official classification or not, the
one thing we know for sure is that it struck fear into the
hearts of many.
As Richard Cohen, the President of the Southern Poverty
Law Center said in a statement on Thursday, the massacre
at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church is an
“obvious hate crime”:
“
Since 2000, we’ve seen an increase in the number of hate
groups in our country — groups that vilify others on the basis of characteristics such as race or ethnicity… The increase has been driven by a backlash to the country’s increasing racial diversity, an increase symbolised, for many, by the presence of an African American in the White House.
Since 9/11, our country has been fixated on the threat of Jihadi terrorism. But the horrific tragedy at the Emmanuel AME reminds us that the threat of homegrown domestic terrorism is very real. „
•Richard Cohen, President of the Southern Poverty Law Center
www.i100.independent.co.uk/article/what-do-we-mean-when-we-say-hate-crime-and-terrorism--WygXUSzzqbl
cc: lalasticala

It is terrorism, he motives are political and his tactics towards achieving his motives is to frighten and terrorize black people. The truth is that the west by its definition of terrorism, suffers terrorism more in the hand of supremacists, maxists, seccionists and organized criminal gangs than from religion inspired terrorism. Though the attention seems to be paid more to the latter than the former.

it's called hypocrisy, an offence committed by a muslim or a black is labelled terrorism while the same offence committed by a white is labelled a tragedy or they say the white fellow is'disturbed'.

Foolish americans be decieving themselves
All of em are terrorists in disguise

Whether he was acting alone o or backed by the white supremacist, all I know is that WHITE AMERICANS are terrorist to the BLACK AMERICANS. White Eediots, Racists, Terrorist, etc

Blacks in America should be more serious more than ever before with the civil rights movement, let them be more agile like never before.

Oh God! Missing Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X of blessed memories.

Wow!!
This thread is over an hour old and there are just 4 contributors.
Not only are the west hypocritically labelling similar acts as terror if the guys has any thing islamic connected to him or if he is black, we on our own part also contribute to labelling ourselves as terrorists.
Just imagine how many contributors would have commented within this time period if the guy happen to have a name like Uche or Adewale. Folks from both sides of the river Niger would have been filling google servers with term derogatory terms. E.g Igbos are carni***als, Igbos are kidn***pers, Igbos are crim***als, Yorubas are cow***rds, Yorubas are tra***ors, Yorubas are sl***ves etc

America is evil, if such had been done by a black or a Muslim the news would have been everywhere screaming terrorists and their retaliation would be to hit a country who knows nothing about the thrash happening. You all don't be surprised if this guy is being released. " all they need to say is, he got a mental issue" that's all.

Saw a pic of the guy being arrested and I saw him putting on a bulletproof vest, while in a video on Facebook some blacks were arrested in a party and heads were been smashed on the floor just to make some stupid arrest PURE RACISM...

The name doesn't matter but the punishment.

They both should carry maximum capital punishment.

But if they both carry maximum capital punishment, what will become of the intent to commit such a crime as typified in statements made by Oba of Lagos, Akiolu, Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kalu and Prof. Ahmed Gumi?

gists:
Wow!!
This thread is over an hour old and there are just 4 contributors.
Not only are the west hypocritically labelling similar acts as terror if the guys has any thing islamic connected to him or if he is black, we on our own part also contribute to labelling ourselves as terrorists.
Just imagine how many contributors would have commented within this time period if the guy happen to have a name like Uche or Adewale. Folks from both sides of the river Niger would have been filling google servers with term derogatory terms. E.g Igbos are carni***als, Igbos are kidn***pers, Igbos are crim***als, Yorubas are cow***rds, Yorubas are tra***ors, Yorubas are sl***ves etc

Most people on NL are either kids or they just believe their brain doesn't need to be at work when commenting on here, some people would only open the thread to see the name or religion of the accused. Such a pity this same set of people see themselves as the leaders of tomorrow

THE DISEASE OR CONDITION CALLED

'DISTURBED' IS A RACIST, IT ONLY AFFECT

THE WHITES.

Op thanks for raising this. It was exactly what my friend and I discussed at a point in the club last night when images of the incident were flashed on the tv screen. It is nothing but religious profiling. Had a muslim carried out this act, ain't no chance it hell it wouldn't be tagged "terrorism". In this case they call it a "hate crime" or any other fancy names. The only person who came close to calling it what it truly is is the NWACP president who called it "racial terrorism". The word has been misapplied so much one is tempted to think the definition has been changed in the dictionary to apply to only acts committed by people of a particular faith.

White westerners are only deceiving themselves. Another case in point is them breathing down our necks to handover our leaders for prosecution at the ICC when men such as Bush and Blair are walking freely commanding respect across the world, as though the court was established to handle only cases with African origin.

Smh.

In fela's voice... I just dey looku and laughu... Welcome to uncle Sam enterprise of hypocrisy.. mainstream media how market??.

Did anybody read the above article, where terrorism has just been defined as an "upward crime"? Why insert question-begging epithets into the definition of terrorism?

Terrorism has nothing to do with what class its perpetrators belong to as long as its intent is to instill terror in its target group.

A white guy goes into a church, kills 9 people: they call that "hate crime"; but if an Arab-American moslem does that, he is a terrorist! Wonderful!

This reminds me of Anders Breivik's terror attack in Oslo, Norway. The spontaneous reaction of the western media was Islamic "terrorist" was responsible. But when he was caught and turned out to be a white christian, the term "terrorist" was quickly and conveniently replaced with "mad man", "deranged", "lone wolf" etc. How come as we witnessed in the Charlie Hebdo's case, there have not been a global outcry and global procession for those murdered by Dylann Roof? Western hypocrisy at its peak. Sad thing is we join them in their hypocrisy in labelling ourselves. When the politicians want to manipulate us, they make it convenient for us to see and refer to the other group as Biafra, Ooduanistan and Arewamabad etc. Are all these not rude and stup!d racial profiling too?

Terrorism= ISLAM

Hate Crime= White Racist Crime

omenka:
Op thanks for raising this. It was exactly what my friend and I discussed at a point in the club last night when images of the incident were flashed on the tv screen. It is nothing but religious profiling. Had a muslim carried out this act, ain't no chance it hell it wouldn't be tagged "terrorism". In this case they call it a "hate crime" or any other fancy names. The only person who came close to calling it what it truly is is the NWACP president who called it "racial terrorism". The word has been misapplied so much one is tempted to think the definition has been changed in the dictionary to apply to only acts committed by people of a particular faith.

White westerners are only deceiving themselves. Another case in point is them breathing down our necks to handover our leaders for prosecution at the ICC when men such as Bush and Blair are walking freely commanding respect across the world, as though the court was established to handle only cases with African origin.

Smh.

Yeah.... Does white fools still underate us, we aint animal more and more often, Islam has been
associated with terrorism and violence due to the actions of
a few extreme individuals who’ve taken it upon themselves
to do the most heinous crimes in the name of Islam.
Tragic events such as the attack on the twin towers in New
York, the bombings of Bali, Madrid and London are assumed
to be justified by Islam in the minds of some people. This
idea has been fueled further by many media channels which
defame Islam by portraying these bombers as ‘Islamists’ or
‘Jihadists’, as though they were sanctioned by Islam, or had
any legitimate spokemenship on behalf of Muslims. The
actions of a few fanatical individuals who happen to have
Muslim names or ascribe themselves to the Muslim faith
should not be a yardstick by which Islam is judged. For the
same reason, that one would not do justice to Christianity if
it where perceived as sanctioning the genocide of the Native
Americans, the atrocities of world war II or the bombings of
the IRA.
To understand Islam’s stance on terrorism, one must refer
to its original sources, the Quran and the teachings of
Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him,which are explicit
in their prohibition of any form of injustice including that of
wanton violence which seeks to instill fear, injury or death to
civilians.
The Quran turns our attention to the high value of human
life, whether it is Muslim or Non-Muslim and makes it
absolutely forbidden to take an innocent life unjustly. The
gravity of such a crime is equated, in the Quran, with the
killing of all humanity.

gists:
Wow!!
This thread is over an hour old and there are just 4 contributors.
Not only are the west hypocritically labelling similar acts as terror if the guys has any thing islamic connected to him or if he is black, we on our own part also contribute to labelling ourselves as terrorists.
Just imagine how many contributors would have commented within this time period if the guy happen to have a name like Uche or Adewale. Folks from both sides of the river Niger would have been filling google servers with term derogatory terms. E.g Igbos are carni***als, Igbos are kidn***pers, Igbos are crim***als, Yorubas are cow***rds, Yorubas are tra***ors, Yorubas are sl***ves etc

Omo it is a real shame.