# Massacre in Tunisia **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 19, 2015, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massacre-in-tunisia/715348 "2015-03-19T01:39:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stringbean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Stringbean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stringbean)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massacre-in-tunisia/715348/1 "2015-03-19T01:39:12Z")
Terrorists [killed 19 people](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/19/world/africa/gunmen-attack-tunis-bardo-national-museum.html?_r=0) visiting a museum in Tunisia. Mostly tourists not even from Tunisia. Let’s put a wager on who thinks this was the work of Islamists: Deluded PC Liberals to the left. Rational people to the right. The real question remains, however: how can we blame this on Bill Maher? Let the exalted cries of Islamophobia and bigotry floweth! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massacre-in-tunisia/715348/2 "2015-03-19T01:46:04Z")
Probably Islamists, but, I’m sure Islamists are not the only sort of malcontents in the MENA. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massacre-in-tunisia/715348/3 "2015-03-19T01:46:28Z")
> [@Stringbean](#): > > Terrorists [killed 19 people](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/19/world/africa/gunmen-attack-tunis-bardo-national-museum.html?_r=0) visiting a museum in Tunisia. Mostly tourists not even from Tunisia. > > Let’s put a wager on who thinks this was the work of Islamists: > > Deluded PC Liberals to the left. > > Rational people to the right. > > The real question remains, however: how can we blame this on Bill Maher? > > Let the exalted cries of Islamophobia and bigotry floweth! Jesus, I have to hear this shit every day from my boss. Now I have to hear it from my botanical twin? ---
**Author:** ![vd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b19c9b/32.png) [@vd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vd)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massacre-in-tunisia/715348/4 "2015-03-19T01:55:48Z")
Did the terrorists poison all the wells, too? ---
**Author:** ![Stringbean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Stringbean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stringbean)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massacre-in-tunisia/715348/5 "2015-03-19T02:13:31Z")
> [@Green\_Bean](#): > > Jesus, I have to hear this shit every day from my boss. Now I have to hear it from my botanical twin? Islamic terrorist attacks are a lot like our Phaseolic kind, Greenie: Try as they might, we just keep growing. _Ba-dun dun chhh_ ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massacre-in-tunisia/715348/6 "2015-03-19T02:13:57Z")
Come on guys, let’s not let Islamophobia rule our thinking. This looks to me like the work of an angry white man, probably a Christian fundamentalist of some kind. These are the guys who are the real problem. Islam is a religion of peace, and we need to embrace diversity. #I’llRideWithYou #HugAHijabi #Coexist . . . Ok, fine. I’m guessing this attack on tourist in Tunis probably has something to do with Islamic terrorists. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massacre-in-tunisia/715348/7 "2015-03-19T02:16:48Z")
If we could just find the sweet spot, the perfect nomenclature, the terrorists would cry uncle and abandon their evil ways. #oplogic ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massacre-in-tunisia/715348/8 "2015-03-19T05:16:54Z")
I’m gonna go way out on a limb here and say that this attack sounds very much like the work of terrorists. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massacre-in-tunisia/715348/9 "2015-03-19T06:05:11Z")
I don’t understand this game. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massacre-in-tunisia/715348/10 "2015-03-19T06:18:53Z")
ISIS type groups from Libya which arose when the US stupidly decided to support the Euros in deposing Gaddaffi, tell me did the US learn anything from Iraq? ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Parker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@Richard\_Parker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Parker)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massacre-in-tunisia/715348/11 "2015-03-19T09:13:49Z")
It would probably blow OP’s mind to learn that the likely terrorists, Salafist-jihadists, often aren’t Islamists, but that in Tunisia Islamists are often the targets for violence because they constitute the center-right party. Though, to be fair, it’s probably pretty easy to blow OP’s mind. ---
**Author:** ![Latro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a87d85/32.png) [@Latro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latro)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massacre-in-tunisia/715348/12 "2015-03-19T10:13:31Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > ISIS type groups from Libya which arose when the US stupidly decided to support the Euros in deposing Gaddaffi, tell me did the US learn anything from Iraq? It’s not stupidity. Stupid is thinking the US is a force of good, or even wants to be. Have you learned anything about the US, looking at what the US has been doing around the world for the last 50 years or so? ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massacre-in-tunisia/715348/13 "2015-03-19T12:27:00Z")
It was the work of violent criminals. Do we really care what religion they think they are? ---
**Author:** ![Randolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Randolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randolph)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massacre-in-tunisia/715348/14 "2015-03-19T13:23:58Z")
> [@Stringbean](#): > > … You’re an idiot. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massacre-in-tunisia/715348/15 "2015-03-19T13:31:54Z")
> [@Aspidistra](#): > > It was the work of violent criminals. > > Do we really care what religion they think they are? Yes. We should seek to understand all of the social and cultural components of crime, criminals, and criminal behavior. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massacre-in-tunisia/715348/16 "2015-03-19T13:43:25Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I don’t understand this game. The rules are simple: To play is to lose. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massacre-in-tunisia/715348/17 "2015-03-19T15:17:49Z")
> [@Stringbean](#): > > Deluded PC Liberals to the left. Ah. So it’s the mythical “PC Liberals” that are the problem? 'Cos I’m pretty damned leftist, but when I say “yes, of course there’s a good chance these terrorists are Islamist,” you’ll just say “well, _you’re_ not who I was talking about!” :rolleyes: **Stringbean** , you’re not stupid (this trolling OP notwithstanding). You know very well that calling them Islamist terrorists when they actually _are_ Islamist terrorists is not the issue. ---
**Author:** ![Kinthalis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kinthalis/32/16084_2.png) [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massacre-in-tunisia/715348/18 "2015-03-19T15:55:53Z")
Maybe it was one of 'em crazy liberuhls jacked up on the devil’s parsley. Do we know if the bus was carrying a bunch of patriotic republicans? ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massacre-in-tunisia/715348/19 "2015-03-19T16:07:30Z")
[ISIS is claiming responsibility](http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/19/africa/tunisia-museum-attack/index.html). ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massacre-in-tunisia/715348/20 "2015-03-19T16:42:22Z")
> [@vd](#): > > Did the terrorists poison all the wells, too? The PC stands for poison control. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massacre-in-tunisia/715348.md?page=2)