147 killed in attack on Kenyan university dormitories by al-Shabab

[bryant.coleman]

OK, thanks. I think piracy is down thanks to increased security with more international patrol boats. So that leaves remittance, but I don't expect this to be large. It isn't like ISIS which started with the backing from some guys with big money in the Gulf.

The Somali dispora is one of the largest in the world, with more than a million ethnic Somalis living in Western Europe and North America. There are a lot of them in the Middle East as well. Annual remittances to Somalia are worth many billions of USD.

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Kenya is holding three days of mourning for the 148 (147?) victims of an attack on students by militant group al-Shabab.

President Uhuru Kenyatta has vowed to respond to the attack "in the severest way possible". One of the four gunmen who carried out the attack has been identified as the son of a government official, the interior ministry has said. He was named as Abdirahim Abdullahi, whose father is a local chief in Mandera County in the north-east of the country.

"The father had reported to security agents that his son had disappeared from home... and was helping the police try to trace his son by the time the Garissa terror attack happened," ministry spokesman Mwenda Njoka said. Abdullahi studied law in Nairobi and was an "upcoming lawyer", Mr Njoka added.


More at: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-32187891

[nikona]

I saw this photo online today, kind of really sad to see this. Don't open the link if you don't have the heart to:  https://i.imgur.com/2XmPtn1.jpg  . Disappointed in humanity.

[bryant.coleman]

One of the four gunmen who carried out the attack has been identified as the son of a government official, the interior ministry has said.

Wonderful... this lowlife lived a life of luxury thanks to the tax payers of Kenya. And in the end he decided that he is going to pay them back by mowing down 150 people.

[panju1]

OK, thanks. I think piracy is down thanks to increased security with more international patrol boats. So that leaves remittance, but I don't expect this to be large. It isn't like ISIS which started with the backing from some guys with big money in the Gulf.

The Somali dispora is one of the largest in the world, with more than a million ethnic Somalis living in Western Europe and North America. There are a lot of them in the Middle East as well. Annual remittances to Somalia are worth many billions of USD.

Total remittances to Somalia are estimated to be $1.6 Bn annually, with ~$200 Mn coming from the US. Seems like that is not going smoothly either.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-31168615
Somalia has criticised a move by a US bank to close accounts of money transfer companies, warning it could create a dangerous black market.
Merchants Bank of California handles about 80% of money transfers - remittances - from the US to Somalia, worth about $200m (£131m) annually.
But it announced on Thursday that it had to withdraw its services due to new money-laundering regulations
Regulators are concerned that money is being funnelled to extremists.

[bryant.coleman]

^^^^ This $1.6 billion figure is the amount of legal remittances. 80% to 90% of the remittances to Somalia are illegal, done through various means. The true figure might be around $10 billion per year.

[prodigy8]

What a tragedy... these people only are in school trying to learn and better their world.

[twister]

I saw this photo online today, kind of really sad to see this. Don't open the link if you don't have the heart to:  https://i.imgur.com/2XmPtn1.jpg  . Disappointed in humanity.

Ahh...This is horrifying!   
Why do these people even call themselves humans, they're worse than animals.

[Twipple]

What a tragedy... these people only are in school trying to learn and better their world.

Well you can also argue that all the Christians they have been killing have been doing no harm to other religions and are only following their own religion. But even then a lot of Christians have been murdered irrespective of them being a child or an adult.

I saw this photo online today, kind of really sad to see this. Don't open the link if you don't have the heart to:  https://i.imgur.com/2XmPtn1.jpg  . Disappointed in humanity.

Thats definitely sad, unfortunately a lot of earlier massacres have been equally bad or worse.

[bryant.coleman]

Well you can also argue that all the Christians they have been killing have been doing no harm to other religions and are only following their own religion. But even then a lot of Christians have been murdered irrespective of them being a child or an adult.

Suddenly Christians have become saints? In the past 500 years, Christian religious fanaticism have claimed 100 times more victims than that by any other religion. Almost 90% of the pre-Colombian population of the Americas were wiped out by the Spanish and Portuguese, who considered non-Christians as less than human.

[twister]

What a tragedy... these people only are in school trying to learn and better their world.

Well you can also argue that all the Christians they have been killing have been doing no harm to other religions and are only following their own religion. But even then a lot of Christians have been murdered irrespective of them being a child or an adult.

Why is there any need to make an argument??
If Christians did the same thing in the past, does that mean this is justified?

Why is it that whenever there are attacks by Islamic groups, there are people defending their deeds by saying Christians did this this in the past? Why is this the only counter argument? Why can't they just say that this is wrong?

Two wrongs don't make a right.

[nikona]

I saw this photo online today, kind of really sad to see this. Don't open the link if you don't have the heart to:  https://i.imgur.com/2XmPtn1.jpg  . Disappointed in humanity.

Ahh...This is horrifying!   
Why do these people even call themselves humans, they're worse than animals.

I also wonder the same thing. And its not one person, but a lot of them equally being responsible and doing these acts of inhumanity.

[jaysabi]

What a tragedy... these people only are in school trying to learn and better their world.

Well you can also argue that all the Christians they have been killing have been doing no harm to other religions and are only following their own religion. But even then a lot of Christians have been murdered irrespective of them being a child or an adult.

Why is there any need to make an argument??
If Christians did the same thing in the past, does that mean this is justified?

Why is it that whenever there are attacks by Islamic groups, there are people defending their deeds by saying Christians did this this in the past? Why is this the only counter argument? Why can't they just say that this is wrong?

Two wrongs don't make a right.

It's not a justification or a defense when people point that out, but a reminder that all religions are the same, in case one religious group is trying to claim moral superiority to pass judgement on other religious groups.

[Twipple]

What a tragedy... these people only are in school trying to learn and better their world.

Well you can also argue that all the Christians they have been killing have been doing no harm to other religions and are only following their own religion. But even then a lot of Christians have been murdered irrespective of them being a child or an adult.

Why is there any need to make an argument??
If Christians did the same thing in the past, does that mean this is justified?

Why is it that whenever there are attacks by Islamic groups, there are people defending their deeds by saying Christians did this this in the past? Why is this the only counter argument? Why can't they just say that this is wrong?

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Sorry if you misunderstood me. I mean an argument against the ISIS as well. I never said Christians did anything in the past. I meant that ISIS should not have a problem when some other person is following their own religion.