His Wife and Daughter was on the way home last night when they were stopped by a checkpoint of police, thankfully they are safe

In the TV footage, my flatmate can see his Daughter's school just across the Australian and Russian Embassies

What's happening?

terrorist attack a restaurant in Dhaka Bangladesh, still ongoing

My flatmate laments that this is the first time this kind of thing happened in his country

These mofos seem to be scheduling attacks during Ramadan no?

Yes, i think to increase the element of surprise

Ooh. Islamic terrorists.

Good job by the security forces.

My flatmate was describing to me the scene on TV as we watched, who the special forces were, the police, the firemen

Ramadan is apparently auspicious for the attackers. And, on a practical level, yes, the element of surprise.

It invalidates their Islamic creds though

cvj: Some imams would disagree. The relationship between Ramadan and Jihad (fighting) in the way ...

"Linking Jihad in general with Ramadan is a link between two close friend."

Ah, you have those in every religion

You have the equivalent of ISIS and Al Qaeda in every religion? (I spot irony but it's an in-joke so, carry on. )

Yup

Fantasyland.

Every religion has their extremists, that's not a fantasy

I'll let you in on the irony: I first heard of the Tu Quoque fallacy from you. And ISIS/Al Qaeda have no analogies in other religions.

Analogues

Other religions don't have their extremists? (or at least not to the extreme level of AQ or ISIS?)

You said yup to my Q on analogues of IS/AQ in other religions, not 'extremists' in gen. Moving goalposts this time eh?

What about the Christian Evangelicals? Aren't a section of them as extreme as AQ/ISIS?

Please... You must stop. You're just making the hole you're in deeper. Say, "No, there is no analogue of IS/AQ in other rels." Bec fact.

Evangelical Christianity is the apocalyptic faith i am more familiar with, difference is no need to resort to terrorist-guerilla tactics as they have the US military and the Bible-belt Lawmakers behind them

Cheeses! They're a persecuted bunch in the ME. They're illegal in Nokor, heavily regulated in china with jail for preaching in public.

Please stop digging.

Countries where the is no need to 'resort to terrorism' bec US military.Where in the world is the worst place to be a Christian?

i was referring to Evangelical Christians in the USA

There are also persecuted Muslim communities around the world e.g Rohingya, Palestinians

. Walks away