Time to stop minimizing the JV team. They exist to kill the rest of the world. We are in a one sided holy war and the ocean will not protect us.
The awful thing is that ISIL wants people to bring terror into their own communities all over the world. (Well, that’s ONE of the awful things). They are a death cult and they indoctrinate young people to take their own lives while they terrorize others. It seems so hard to fight compared to state sponsored terrorism. How do you fight the internet without becoming a police state? I don’t want to become a police state yet I wish Twitter would at least shut down the accounts of anyone who is jubilant over these attacks.
Shut them down? Heck no! What a useful tool for identifying & surveilling them.
And, as mentioned previously, the French security forces have rights to check into those Twitter accounts that are unavailable in the US, with no need to a judge’s warrant or anything oversight.
One of the terrorists was apparently Syrian. Another one was French and was known and followed by police services.
Someone on my Facebook reported having been to a Rick Steves lecture recently (obviously before this attack) and had shared some interesting insights from Steves. So then this came up on my Facebook feed today from Rick Steves:
I think what he has to say is spot on.
This is simply delusional.
Europeans are used to terrorism. The UK had been under IRA bombing attacks since the 1970s and that didn’t end until the 90s. Paris went through a wave of bombings in the 80s and 90s. People carried on and didn’t let it affect their lives very much. Walking around Paris in the late 80s, early 90s, there were always plenty of armed police presence, and the Gendarmerie and CRS (riot police) were discreetly placed in the busy areas in case of trouble. I saw armed military with automatic weapons patrolling the train stations. This isn’t anything new there, but it’s a reminder that bad things can happen.
^ it’s not. There WILL be other attacks, but no one can predict where and when - and they’ll be unrelated to those of Friday the 13th. I HIGHLY doubt there’ll be any in the upcoming week in the same places. In short, Paris may be safer now than it was before because security measures have been increased, and at the very least, it’s not worse. The gunmen won’t return to Petit Cambodge, La belle équipe, or Bataclan. They may launch another attack to Stade de France that, this time, WILL be successful (this time, it wasn’t, and the terrorists, in frustraction, detonated their bombs near a closed athletic apparel store.)
And the next attack may take place in Marseille, or Lille, or Strasbourg, or Lyon. Or Stuttgart or München or Dresden or Fiorenze or Roma or Palermo or Sevilla or…
Let’s not stop travelling.
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Yeah, what’s the global body count attributable to explicitly declared crusade in the last couple of decades?
I think the ‘religion of peace’ has a big lead.
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Religious warfare didn’t begin a “couple of decades” ago. Islam has a long long way to go to if it wants to beat Christianity’s record.
They actually are Muslims and they are acting in support of their faith. We know that because they tell us so and as Maya Angelou says, when someone tells you who he is, believe him. Al-Baghdadi has a PH.D. In Islamic theology. It’s time to stop being silly or sacrificing innocents at the altar of the superstition of political correctness.
And as for Rick Steves, who certainly has his own very specific world view, particularly about Jews, the best way to fight terrorism is to WAIT FOR IT fight terrorism.
I usually like Rick Steves and his TRAVEL advice. To say this is an isolated incident is to ignore reality. These peopel are part of an organized group that has an aim to establish a caliphate around the world. “Isolated” incidents are those that are not connected to each other. These are clearly connected. And there have been so many. The beach in Tunisia, the Russian airliner, Beirut, Turkey.
Of course, Steves, whose livelihood comes from selling tours and guidebooks, would downplay the bombings.
The $64,000 question is, “How many more are there?”
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Rick Steves’ advice is not meant to be political advice. He’s saying, Americans shouldn’t stop traveling around the world because of terrorist attacks. There will be other terrorist attacks, but since an American traveler can’t predict where the next one will be, and since the probability that I will be killed in a terrorist attack if I go to Europe is approximately zero, I shouldn’t stay away from Europe for fear of terrorist attacks.
It’s nothing about governmental responses to terrorism. He is giving advice to individuals who want to travel. And in that sense, the Paris attacks were “isolated.” Paris was attacked, but Geneva, Marseilles, Madrid, London, Berlin, Stuttgart, tiny little Alpine towns and anywhere else was not attacked.
I haven’t stopped going to New York City, and I wouldn’t stay away from Oklahoma City for fear of terrorism. I’ll still go to Europe if I want to.
Not that it matters, but Westerners forget that Islam spread by warfare and engaged in warfare in Europe and even into Asia for centuries. I can’t compare body counts, which I think is absurd, but I’d say they’re even.
BTW, already today, the first day after this, I’ve read 3 things that a) blame the West (because we do bad things), b) blame the West because we care more about Western fatalities than fatalities in Iraq, Syria, etc. and c) blame the West for saying that we’ll fight (because that leads to more violence). Idiots.
By that definition, all terrorist attacks are going to be isolated unless there is an entire army of terrorists marching across a swath of land that is under direct attack. That’s not there mode of attack.
Steves’ comment about fighting terrorism was political. But that’s neither here nor there and his statement is a straw man anyway because in the 21st century, we can both fight terrorism AND travel freely.
Travel, yes. But travel free from worrying about attacks, no. I avoid public transportation and crowded places partly for that reason.
I still plan to go to London in 2 weeks. It doesn’t mean I won’t be a teensy bit nervous and try not to stand out like a sore thumb.
So, by this token, when Catholics who say they’re Catholics abuse children, they represent my relatives. When someone bombs an abortion clinic in the name of Christianity, they represent ME? Do you consider all religions to be murderous, then? Because “God asked me to do it” is a ready-made excuse that’s been used for millenia.
Sorry, that’s not the way it works for me.
We are not going to help these fanatics hide behind their pretense they represent Islam.
If you accept their discourse, they win.
Did you stop going to NYC after 9/11?
(I was on a plan October 2001. I figured it was the safest mode of transportation at that point in time.)
I work in Times Square, so I certainly continue to live my life as normal, and terrorism aside, let me tell you that it’s a tough place to be on a daily basis under any circumstances.
I think the thing people are having trouble wrapping their brains around is the fact that being Islamic isn’t the same as the nice Muslim down the street. In the name of of Islam, ISIS is a a staggeringly wealthy, sophisticated and motivated army of conquest. They aren’t poor people trying to stay alive, they are actual soldiers in a war to gain territory and increase power. If they were just as sophisticated, well funded and active, but lacked the religious motivation, there would be no handwringing and no confusion, because it’s the tactics that matter not the reason. Imagine a drug cartel from Central America with the same territorial ambitions and behavior. The western response would have been ruthless and immediate, it’s the inclusion of religion that is making some people and governments suicidally stupid.