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In Paris, Terrorists Kill 2 More, Take At Least 7 Hostages
As reported by The Daily Beast, news on the ongoing terror attack (or attacks) in Paris. Chérif and Saïd Kouachi, who are accused of slaughtering 12 in an attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine, have been cornered by hundreds of security officials close to Charles de Gaulle Airport, north of Paris. Officials say they believe the heavily armed brothers are holding one hostage.
Twenty miles south, in the east of the city, at least one gunman is believed to have taken six hostages at a Jewish store. Police suspect that the third gunman is the same man who shot and killed a policewoman on Thursday morning before escaping in a bulletproof vest. Update: 01/09 17:44 GMT by T : And now all three of the gunmen involved in today's hostage taking are dead.
Watch this space for updates.
Update: 01/09 17:15 GMT by T : CNN's story features a stream of updates (and an autoplaying video ad to beware), as does The Telegraph. Latest news is that brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi have been killed by police, but it's unclear whether the same is true of the third hostage-taker.
Go out, and spread the religion by any peaceful means necessary. If your friend won't accept Allah, peacefully flog him in the streets. If someone insults Allah, peacefully remove his head. If a group refuses to convert to Islam, very peacefully bring your guns and bombs and peacefully kill as many of them as you can. If possible, obtain a peaceful nuclear weapon, and detonate it peacefully in their cities. They will be at peace. We bring them PEACE in the name of Allah!
Look where all this talking got us, baby.
I heard some standard issue left wing apologist halfwit on the radio here this morning in the UK trot out the usual "it was society's fault" rubbish. Yeah, because everyone with a fucking grievance grabs an AK-47 and shoots up a magazine don't they love?
Just what the hell does it take to knock some common sense into these bloody liberals??
Norway's Christians didn't have to apologise for Anders Breivik, and it's the same for Muslims now.
That's comparing apples and oranges, Breivik for the most part killed Norwegian Christians belonging to a political youth party that he felt was "selling out" the country. Of the list of his 77 victims there's 11 with names I'd generally consider foreign leaving 66 that probably were ethnically Norwegian, from statistics around 80% would be nominally Christians. I say nominally because many belong to the state church without being very religious at all, but they wouldn't have any other religious affiliation. His action was more like the Muslim-on-Muslim slaughter in Pakistan, killing our own "fallen" over ideology.
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
All he (and other xtian morons) want is to blame all muslims for the actions of some, but with the option of NOT blaming all christians for the actions of some.
Hence the "Why don't they speak up?" meme.
How many xtians do you hear decrying WBC? None. How about the killings of gay men in Africa by christians? Silent on that too.
Thing is, if you ASK them, they'll decry it, but they don't (And should not) feel the need to keep banging on about how they don't like that. They DO expect (and should not) Muslims to do so, though.
isn't it hilarious how MI-5 says these attacks show why they need even more super powers... yet forget the fact they had these guys on watch lists for years. I mean, even Santa checks the list twice, right?
Egypt's president called for a religious revolution against extremism.
Now we'll see if others start echoing this...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Breivik was also arrested and prosecuted by Norwegian Christians, and anyone who would express sympathy or support for him would be denounced and shunned.
Of course there are crazies in the western world as well. Christians who bomb abortion clinics. But these people are a much, much smaller percentage of the populace, and the vast, vast majority of the populace not only condemns their actions, but would speak out against anybody advocating for such violence, and would report to the authorities anyone they suspected of planning violence. And then western (amongst them Christian) authorities would arrest and prosecute them and western (amongst them Christian) juries would convict them.
Islamic terrorism must be stopped. But we in the west can't do it. We're not in the mosques in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan and wherever else the terrorists are indoctrinated and radicalized. We're not the terrorists' neighbors and family members. But the muslims who say "we don't support this!" are. It's going on in your mosques, it's going on in your families and your neighborhoods. It's not enough to say "we don't support it." You have to have a collective political will to ferret it out and put a stop to it.
If somebody at my church were inciting people to violence, ya know what I'd do? I'd report it. And the media would shine a big light on the crazy things coming out of that church and people would talk about how awful what they were saying is, and if you were a member of that church people would think you were crazy and push you out of their lives. And if I thought somebody in my community was planning violence, you know what I'd do? I'd call the cops. They'd investigate and arrest the guy for attempted whatever. And we'd splash him on the news and everybody would say how great it was that I turned him in and what a great job the cops did stopping this guy. Because that's our culture.
It isn't enough for the peaceful muslims to say "we don't support this." They need to work to change their culture to actively stop it.
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.