My heart breaks thinking of all the individual stories family, friends, friends of friends, etc, will tell of this in the days/weeks to come. For those who feel nothing but hatred for this kind of utter evil, just stand with your fellow men and women in love and compassion and give your prayers; it is better to think and respond from that place of kindness than the one of terror.
Paris terror attacks on Friday 13th
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[QUOTE="Neutral, post: 18383943, member: 51449"]I hope people don't take my post as some sort of 'excuse/justification' for terrorists or 'understanding'. I made none and will not make one. One person clearly misunderstood. I was simply responding to someone saying - don't terrorists realize acts like this make 'us' hate 'them' more.
I've been a member here for years now, and I've consistently said once you decide the way to get what you want is to kill innocent people...you don't deserve to be heard. I've said this even in the Israel/Palestine thread - where, people have sometimes justified some Israeli casualties as tit for tat for Palestinian civilian deaths.[/QUOTE]
I certainly didn't take it that way. I just hope people don't overreact along the lines of "nuke em all."
I've been a member here for years now, and I've consistently said once you decide the way to get what you want is to kill innocent people...you don't deserve to be heard. I've said this even in the Israel/Palestine thread - where, people have sometimes justified some Israeli casualties as tit for tat for Palestinian civilian deaths.[/QUOTE]
I certainly didn't take it that way. I just hope people don't overreact along the lines of "nuke em all."
Prayers to the French police and hostages. They are going in the Bataclan now.
Just read about this. This is so awful. RIP to the victims. 
Thank god.
Yep, that was always going to happen the moment they called a blackout. I really hope it doesn't go south
The police officer's must be so scared as well.
Nah, religion isn't the cause. People are just messed up. Religion is just an excuse and gives a target to point at when interpreted the wrong way as they do. If there was no religion, then it would be races or something else.
Media getting confirmation that French special operations teams being deployed at Les Halles as well, not much details
How the hell they can even think that is funny atm. Sickos.
I read that the capacity of the Bataclan is about 1000, it doesn't bear thinking about.
You think isis would have had any chance in these countries had we not already killed their sovereign leaders or funded their enemies?
Not sure this is the time or thread to go into these discussions but to fail to learn from our mistakes make us sure to repeat them.
Repugnant that innocent civilians have to pay consequences for stupid political decisions going back decades and on the other side of the world.
Another sad day.
That was unprecedented at the time. France has had multiple attacks already this year.
1500 capacity apparently
Journalism at its finest shit stirring at a time like this.
Wow, this is horrible.
Thank you. I will not hate people who I know to be good just because they follow a certain religion. If we fracture our society the terrorists win.
I know, why would that even come into your mind? disgusting.
Debatable. I don't know many other causes where someone does something like this in another continent for their own beliefs. People don't fight oppressive governments by blowing up people in another country. This isn't the same as the mass shootings you see in America. This is more related to ethnic cleansing.
The society is fractured now and nothing will change it, you can be sure of that.
RE: the satirist report. It was probably written earlier in the week and auto timed to be published tonight. They've quickly removed it off their social media and sites.
It's a political war propped up by the use of religion.
However, there is a very real problem with Islam and extremist terror. These people are involving their religion in amongst their killing campaigns and its generally exclusive to Islam. We cant skirt around the obvious.
Shit, lots of young people too I suppose.
Assault finished at the Bataclan. Terrorists killed supposedly.
44 dead in Lebanon yesterday
20 dead in Iraq Today
and now this
Absolutely heartbreaking.
20 dead in Iraq Today
and now this
Absolutely heartbreaking.
Religion isnt the cause its the mask that these Psychos hide behind and they pick tiny parts of the religion to justify there actions.
Terrible job by the french police
Doubt it. More likely that some idiot(s) read the situation all wrong and thought it was fun (and a good way to get some easy advertising money), but quickly realised the backlash was too severe.
Agree absolutely.
Might be worth a thread but personally I'm finding the idea this has nothing to do with Religion(Or that Religion doesn't play a major role)and more to do with human nature a bit weak.
The French people are going to want a lot of answers and rightly so.
The West will demand 'action'. This will get a lot worse sadly.
Apparently 7 different attacks. This was highly coordinated.
I don't think you can throw blame or fault at their feet on this. No western nation would have coped well with this situation.
Impale the surviving terrorists.
I imagine he means it should never have been allowed to happen, rather than their reaction once it had happened.
It's how most online publishing works. The speed of which they took it down makes me think this is what happened. If they were after the cash they'd have ridden it out for the night.