London acid attack injures at least six

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Okay, before we have a s**tfest here just keep in mind three things:

1. It is not known whether these two teens are Muslims or of Muslim heritage.
2. Out of recent acid attacks in Britain, Muslims were among the victims as well.
3. While there is a troubling... more like dramatic rise in these attacks, it's neither a new nor foreign phenomenon in Britain. Such monstrosities dates back to the Victorian times.


"Terrorism" is a matter of definition. Usually we're referring to ideologically motivated violence/large-scale attacks, but Sanchez made a good point here.

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I'm sure a lot of thugs would prefer to think of themselves as "terrorists", which suggest something less undignified than a common criminals.

I'm doubtful that singular acts without political/ideological motives are fitting the definition of terrorism. But how do we classify, let's say, somebody like Olga Hepnarová, who had no political/ideological motives per se, but conducted her attack in a way and a scale that is now considered a terrorist trademark.  

I have hard time considering a cop killer, who committed the murder in course or in relation to purely criminal activities, as "terrorist".

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"Acid attack = reasonable to assume it was done by a Muslim" talking point is, beside other issues, not based in reality.