It’s 22 now, confirmed child victims, but the main takeaway from the story is Islamophobia on Twitter.

“ready to face and endure danger or pain”

Bravery has nothing to do with morality. Look up the definition. Would you call kamikaze pilots cowards?

Bravery has absolutely nothing to do with morality.  

I’ve seen your comments here and 99 percent of the time I vehemently disagree with you, but you’re absolutely correct on this. As a leftist, feminist, and gay dude, it’s beyond infuriating to watch the vast majority of commenters here defend a religious and political belief system that despises everything about us and…

I have an honest question as an American leftist. Why is Islam immune from any kind of structural criticism? If a right wing Christian fanatic had committed a similarly heinous attack, we would rightly pillory both him and the regressive belief system that motivated him. While any kind of racism or attacks on…

Nope. Explanation is not the same thing as justification. If we want to defeat them we must understand them and to understand them we must look at things from their perspective.

We get it. You’re a horrible fucking person. You’ve proved your point beyond any doubt.

Personally I’ve found the majority of Gizmodo commenters to be very thoughtful and more than willing to shut the assholes down right away. So while you’re quoting commenters, why don’t you also quote the one’s who are responding, like this person:

Not to justify any of the violence, but if looked at from an objective POV its quite the contrary. One would have to be very brave to go on a suicide mission. Cowardly is drone bombing kids from a remote facility thousands of miles away. And it doesn’t matter if we only kill their kids unintentionally. The result is…

Oh yes, to assume it’s one specific group of people that did this attack leaves one open to more attacks from other groups.

All I think is that if your initial reaction to something like this is what people are saying about Muslims, instead of you know, the actual loss of life, you’re priorities might be a bit askew.

But that’s just not true. That’s like saying that no real follower of Christ would refuse to bake a cake for a homosexual couple. Actually, you can find very real support for this sort of thing in their religious texts (whether we like to admit it or not). Sure, the vast majority of Muslims wouldn’t do this, and…

because that’s the first thing we should be concerned with when things like this happen. what are those conservatives saying on twitter.

“If you are gonna go on Twitter be ready to get slapped by a SERIOUS wave of racism and xenophobia”

But I was so surprised as to all the assumption

Kind of like when a white male commits mass murder, people here race to post comments about ‘white fragility’ and ‘toxic masculinity?’

i don’t see what’s wrong with people complaining that gizmodo called this an incident. i too thought the word choice was interesting.

Never seen so many assholes show up on twitter so fast. If you are gonna go on Twitter be ready to get slapped by a SERIOUS wave of racism and xenophobia.

Islamaphobic!