Lucid Mind wishes the media could tell the difference between an airsoft skirmish and an extremist training camp:
misinformation extremist trainingcamps in the ardennes – SHAME ON YOU VTM
Following the recent and extremely tragic events that occurred in Paris and unfortunately our own country, where 2 terrorists got killed during a police raid, national media has been looking for ways to give color to their news broadcasts.
Today, our complete community was shocked to see that old pictures from a Skirm appeared at new on the news to show people that Belgium has "Jihadist training camps" …
To give you an idea … a couple of months ago, a journalist needed to write a story about something, went on facebook, saw a couple of pictures of a skirm with a guy that just happened to be a muslim and the journalist created this fictional story about illegal training camps for extremists.
This article was taken over by nearly any major news agency in the world and nobody checked the sources.
As a community, we went all out to show everybody that the report was false … and most of the newspapers printed rectifications.Yet today, THE SAME PICTURES appeared again to boost the massive terrorist-paranoia that is dominating our country.
Every airsoft in Belgium and The Netherlands – obviously – is repulsed by the death and tragedy that has been created by some extremist punks BUT we would like to point out that :
– Airsofters are A-politic … we play a game, we don’t do politics.
– Airsofters play a GAME with TOYS … we do not play nor train with real weapons
– Airsofters are NON religious … what you believe is your personal business, we just play a game
– Airsoft is a sport for EVERYBODY, we do not discriminate and we do NOT tolerate racism !
Please help us in our cause, by sharing this message internationally … so that the complete community can distance itself from any form of extremism .. .
