Over A Dozen Dead After Explosions At Brussels Airport Check-In Hall

Chancer, smug much? I thought John's comment was reasoned, balanced and spot-on. Oh, and please spare us the laughably lame "Christian moral equivalency". You would be correct if this was the 7th century. In the 21st century there is no hate filled rhetoric coming from the pulpit of ANY Christian church in the western world. Bottom line, fnck these 7th century, 75 IQ, knuckle dragging zealots. They are truly the worst type of cowards as they never target a hard-target politician or banker, instead they go after poor slobs just eating pizza, attending a soccer match or trying to catch a flight? Way to win "hearts & minds." I guess 7th century-era, plow-horse-like IQ zealots don't care about that stuff. Read this Mr Know-it-all: http://www.politico.eu/article/molenbeek-broke-my-heart-radicalization-suburb-brussels-gentrification/?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits

Well said, Keith!

@ John - What you are railing against are called freedom of speech and freedom of religion. They go hand in hand with western, democratic societies. If you cannot stand these freedoms, it is very likely you are anything but the liberal you claim to be. Actually, you are the one with his head in the sand. Freedom of speech and freedom of religion have also encouraged the rise of Christian extremists who can be as violent as any other religious terrorists. Google Christian Identity and read about it yourself. In the meantime, save the high and mightiness for when you actually know what you are talking about.

I am a liberal who romanticizes how europe could of been, one step closer in the long march to dissolving borders and petty tribalism, but if there is one thing these attacks have taught me is that the quality of human being needed for that to happen doesnt exist yet. Decades of delusional liberals with their heads in the sand letting the mosques and hate preachers have free reign without even trying to counter the ideas with speech never mind any police action, so many opportunities to act and make Islamic literalism/conservatism as taboo and socially unacceptable as homophobia and racism. Now with millions of people still with their heads in the sand, a select few are no doubt popping their heads out of the sand trying to make sense of all the explosions, looking for the bad guys who wear turbans and look like osama bin laden, sadly all they see is everyday people who look and talk like them. The saddest question of them all: Will the west wake up in time to save the world from police state anti muslim hysteria, sadly I doubt it.

I hope like hell the TSA doesn't pull a knee-jerk reaction to this.... I can see it now. Pre-screening area before the screening area. Long lines will ensue, an attacker will drop a bomb in the line... then we'll end up with a Pre-Pre-screen area leading to a Pre-screen area leading to the screening area. Rinse, wash, repeat. It's why we have nude-o-scopes, shoe carnivals, the War against Water, etc. By the time TSA reacts, it's too late. And this sort of thing will likely happen in the USA because of egos of people in law enforcement/intelligence. Note that both the CIA & NSA were fully aware of Al Qaeda's presence & activities within the US borders over a year before 9/11...and refused to share information with the FBI. Each agency wanted the victory for THEIR own scorecard. In the end, we all lost and those responsible within our government got promoted / their sins covered by calling things classified/secret material. I'm working on a case right now (non-terrorism, just your garden variety drugs/gun running case) and the various government agencies REFUSE to share information with each other. I share everything we have in our files, but when I start asking for a little reciprocity I get silence. When I talk with officers at other agencies, they'll tell me they've never heard about the info I'm giving them. Scary. Flat-out scary.