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~chut~
Profile Joined September 2003
France1317 Posts
January 08 2015 00:07 GMT
#781
On January 08 2015 09:04 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
NBC: One of the terrorists was arrested and jailed for two years after trying to recruit people to send to Iraq and kill American soldiers.


This part looks true. At least we got the same info in France.
heliusx
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
United States2306 Posts
January 08 2015 00:08 GMT
#782
On January 08 2015 08:57 Biff The Understudy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 08 2015 08:53 heliusx wrote:
On January 08 2015 08:47 Biff The Understudy wrote:
On January 08 2015 08:40 SoSexy wrote:
It's funny how for you guys nothing is a problem, everyone is super good and respectful, violence episodes are 'media baits' but bombing and attacks actually happen and then you go like 'how could this happen?'. Do you live in the world of magic unicorns?

No you are right. You and me, we have a little secret, but don't tell them because there are PC police around. See, the thing is (not too loud): it all because there are too many brown people. They smell a bit. And they are muslims, you know that stuff that says you have to kill people and rape women because.

Ok, seriously, look, I see you want absolutely people to go with your xenophonic anti immigration stuff, at any cost in that thread. It's not happening, apparently. Too bad. Next time.

I spent 10 hours at my job, I come back to read this thread, and you're still strawmanning people? We get it you're an immigrant or offspring of immigrants yourself so you take it personally. The problem biff, is not people like you who integrate into society and contribute. It also has nothing to do with skin color so I think you can save that one for another time.

There is no strawmanning. There are people who are using a mass murder commited by French people against French people to throw anti immigration crap that is completely unrelated. It has been said a hundred times: those people were not immigrants. If those guys did not integrate and did not contribute, it is not to blame on immigration, they were French. Blame it on unemployment, bad education, exposure to propaganda, etc etc etc. Is that too hard to understand, or am I "strawmanning"?


I think you need a break from this thread. Get some sleep bud.
dude bro.
Yorbon
Profile Joined December 2011
Netherlands4272 Posts
January 08 2015 00:09 GMT
#783
On January 08 2015 09:07 ~chut~ wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 08 2015 09:04 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
NBC: One of the terrorists was arrested and jailed for two years after trying to recruit people to send to Iraq and kill American soldiers.


This part looks true. At least we got the same info in France.
I read it a few times earlier in this thread as well, although I'm too lazy to look them up..
Makro
Profile Joined March 2011
France16890 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-01-08 00:11:37
January 08 2015 00:10 GMT
#784
apparently there is an other intervention at CharlevilleMezieres

it said that journalist are restrained from the area
Matthew 5:10 "Blessed are those who are persecuted because of shitposting, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven".
TL+ Member
dmnum
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Brazil6910 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-01-08 00:13:32
January 08 2015 00:11 GMT
#785
I don't know if this has been posted already but the names of the dead were released:

Charlie Hebdo staff:
Stéphane Charbonnier, AKA Charb
Wolinski
Bernard Maris
Jean Cabu
Bernard Verlhac, AKA Tignous
Phillippe Honoré
Mustapha Ourad
Elsa Cayat

Police Officers:
Franck Brinsolaro
Ahmed Merabet

Third-Party:
Frédéric Boisseau, a Sodexo employee
Michel Renaud, a man who was visiting the Hebdot office

Also, Charlie Hebdot's journalist Philippe Lançon is gravely injured.
Biff The Understudy
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
France8100 Posts
January 08 2015 00:12 GMT
#786
On January 08 2015 09:09 Yorbon wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 08 2015 09:07 ~chut~ wrote:
On January 08 2015 09:04 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
NBC: One of the terrorists was arrested and jailed for two years after trying to recruit people to send to Iraq and kill American soldiers.


This part looks true. At least we got the same info in France.
I read it a few times earlier in this thread as well, although I'm too lazy to look them up..

Well, it seems that foreign media is saying those arrests did take place while French media is saying that they absolutely didn't happen. I would be inclined to trust Le Monde in that case; they even minutes ago said they had been in contact with the police who has confirmed they didn't arrest / killed anyone.

Hard to find out what is info and what is just rumor in those cases.
The fellow who is out to burn things up is the counterpart of the fool who thinks he can save the world. The world needs neither to be burned up nor to be saved. The world is, we are. Transients, if we buck it; here to stay if we accept it. ~H.Miller
Faefae
Profile Joined June 2014
2203 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-01-08 00:13:34
January 08 2015 00:13 GMT
#787
Looks like NBC were wrong since the police released wanted notices ?
ForGG. 29/11/2014
Squat
Profile Joined September 2013
Sweden7978 Posts
January 08 2015 00:14 GMT
#788
On January 08 2015 09:07 Biff The Understudy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 08 2015 09:02 Maluk wrote:
On January 08 2015 08:57 Biff The Understudy wrote:
On January 08 2015 08:53 heliusx wrote:
On January 08 2015 08:47 Biff The Understudy wrote:
On January 08 2015 08:40 SoSexy wrote:
It's funny how for you guys nothing is a problem, everyone is super good and respectful, violence episodes are 'media baits' but bombing and attacks actually happen and then you go like 'how could this happen?'. Do you live in the world of magic unicorns?

No you are right. You and me, we have a little secret, but don't tell them because there are PC police around. See, the thing is (not too loud): it all because there are too many brown people. They smell a bit. And they are muslims, you know that stuff that says you have to kill people and rape women because.

Ok, seriously, look, I see you want absolutely people to go with your xenophonic anti immigration stuff, at any cost in that thread. It's not happening, apparently. Too bad. Next time.

I spent 10 hours at my job, I come back to read this thread, and you're still strawmanning people? We get it you're an immigrant or offspring of immigrants yourself so you take it personally. The problem biff, is not people like you who integrate into society and contribute. It also has nothing to do with skin color so I think you can save that one for another time.

There is no strawmanning. There are people who are using a murder commited by French people against French people to throw anti immigration crap that is completely unrelated. It has been said a hundred times: those people were not immigrants. If those guys did not integrate and did not contribute, it is not to blame on immigration, they were French. Is that too hard to understand, or am I "strawmanning"?

For a vast majority of French people it's not only about "French peeps killing French peeps". If a black (not arabian) or white person with something like traditional christian background (or even buddhist for that matter) was the terrorist everyone would be like "what the fuck ?" In this case everyone thinks that this was bound to happen sooner or later and that's what is worrying.

Ok, so people getting into fundamentalist islam are more likely to be from a muslim background and therefore, immigrants of first second or third generation. That sounds logical (even though it's not even always the case, since some of the last ISIS French recruits seen butchering people on those vids were white from christian background but whatever). Does it make the killing an immigration problem or does it shows an obvious link to a hypothetic immigration problem? Not at all.

It really has nothing to do with ethnicity or land of birth, it's about ideas and their consequences. Right now, an alarmingly large group of people who self-identify as muslim harbour ideas which are directly at odds with the cornerstone principles of a democracy. How and why this happens is another matter. The debate always gets muddled by this extraordinary confusion. Fundamentally, we are talking about competing visions for how to build a society, which is really a zero-sum game when we are all living in the same place.
"Digital. They have digital. What is digital?" - Donald J Trump
Biff The Understudy
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
France8100 Posts
January 08 2015 00:15 GMT
#789
On January 08 2015 09:13 Faefae wrote:
Looks like NBC were wrong since the police released wanted notices ?

Well, it's really a matter of hours or days before they get them anyway. I think the problem is that they might have to kill them which would be a shame. I hope they get them alive and it doesn't end up à-la-Merah without a trial of any kind.
The fellow who is out to burn things up is the counterpart of the fool who thinks he can save the world. The world needs neither to be burned up nor to be saved. The world is, we are. Transients, if we buck it; here to stay if we accept it. ~H.Miller
{CC}StealthBlue
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States41117 Posts
January 08 2015 00:15 GMT
#790
"Smokey, this is not 'Nam, this is bowling. There are rules."
SoSexy
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Italy3725 Posts
January 08 2015 00:15 GMT
#791
I so want to keep watching this but I need to go to bed soon
Dating thread on TL LUL
heliusx
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
United States2306 Posts
January 08 2015 00:16 GMT
#792
On January 08 2015 09:13 Faefae wrote:
Looks like NBC were wrong since the police released wanted notices ?

Prolly. Over here they like to be first with breaking news, accuracy be damned.
dude bro.
Yorbon
Profile Joined December 2011
Netherlands4272 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-01-08 00:17:25
January 08 2015 00:16 GMT
#793
On January 08 2015 09:12 Biff The Understudy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 08 2015 09:09 Yorbon wrote:
On January 08 2015 09:07 ~chut~ wrote:
On January 08 2015 09:04 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
NBC: One of the terrorists was arrested and jailed for two years after trying to recruit people to send to Iraq and kill American soldiers.


This part looks true. At least we got the same info in France.
I read it a few times earlier in this thread as well, although I'm too lazy to look them up..

Well, it seems that foreign media is saying those arrests did take place while French media is saying that they absolutely didn't happen. I would be inclined to trust Le Monde in that case; they even minutes ago said they had been in contact with the police who has confirmed they didn't arrest / killed anyone.

Hard to find out what is info and what is just rumor in those cases.
Agreed, the killing and arresting people seems to be not quite sure yet. Some dutch media have said that as well, but they refer to NBC.
However, I quoted someone talking about the past of one of the killers, I thought it was relatively sure he had been convicted years back?
Paljas
Profile Joined October 2011
Germany6926 Posts
January 08 2015 00:16 GMT
#794
On January 08 2015 09:05 darkness wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 08 2015 09:01 Biff The Understudy wrote:
On January 08 2015 08:58 darkness wrote:
On January 08 2015 08:54 nojok wrote:
On January 08 2015 08:43 darkness wrote:
I think the question isn't about a citizenship here because it seems fair to be of a certain nationality if you are born in that country. The real problem is immigration isn't as successful as it should be or not the one outside Europe. In other words, integration should be greatly reconsidered in the next few years. Terror attacks have taken place in Australia, Canada, France, etc and it's often connected with islam. The world needs to either find a way to integrate muslims or never allow them in a country for a living. Racism? No. Just unbridgeable gap in culture.

Wtf?! One of my best friends is a black Muslim, I've been checked 11 times by the police in my life, 10 times with him. I've several other sons of immigrant friends, life is just tougher for them. The problem comes from our society not them. Sure it was easier to integrate Polish, Russians, Portuguese , Italians etc in France but they got accepted once a new wave of immigrants arrived. Also most of our wonderful health system works because of underpaid North African doctors. I could get other exemples.

I put this on ignorance but you should visit some North African countries to see what values they have we don't have. Yes there are problems but more often than not the shit comes from Europe and US in the grand scheme of things.


Well, do you ask yourself why other Europeans aren't checked that much? It's not skin. If you open your eyes, you may realise that terror attacks have been present recently mainly because some people refuse to integrate with a country's culture and democratic believes.

I live in Norway and it looks like last time someone refused to integrate the country pacifist culture and its democratic beliefs and made a massacre, he was a white christian norwegian.

Why, why, why, why do we have to turn that discussion into a far right bot flame war? For Christ sake, those guys who got killed were fighting against those ideas. Turning their death into an arguments against european muslims and immigrants is to kill them a second time.


I'm not saying terror attacks are inherently committed by muslims. You're right about the case you mention but what I refer to is the cause of those recent attacks. It's often because someone expresses a disagreement about their religion. When was the last time a christian killed a muslim or another christian for the sake of religion? A long time ago.

Edit: Unfortunately, if the world doesn't solve this integration problem, nazi/radical parties may as well come back.

a long time ago?
there are still religious wars between christians and muslims going on right now.
or how about this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord's_Resistance_Army
TL+ Member
Biff The Understudy
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
France8100 Posts
January 08 2015 00:17 GMT
#795
On January 08 2015 09:14 Squat wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 08 2015 09:07 Biff The Understudy wrote:
On January 08 2015 09:02 Maluk wrote:
On January 08 2015 08:57 Biff The Understudy wrote:
On January 08 2015 08:53 heliusx wrote:
On January 08 2015 08:47 Biff The Understudy wrote:
On January 08 2015 08:40 SoSexy wrote:
It's funny how for you guys nothing is a problem, everyone is super good and respectful, violence episodes are 'media baits' but bombing and attacks actually happen and then you go like 'how could this happen?'. Do you live in the world of magic unicorns?

No you are right. You and me, we have a little secret, but don't tell them because there are PC police around. See, the thing is (not too loud): it all because there are too many brown people. They smell a bit. And they are muslims, you know that stuff that says you have to kill people and rape women because.

Ok, seriously, look, I see you want absolutely people to go with your xenophonic anti immigration stuff, at any cost in that thread. It's not happening, apparently. Too bad. Next time.

I spent 10 hours at my job, I come back to read this thread, and you're still strawmanning people? We get it you're an immigrant or offspring of immigrants yourself so you take it personally. The problem biff, is not people like you who integrate into society and contribute. It also has nothing to do with skin color so I think you can save that one for another time.

There is no strawmanning. There are people who are using a murder commited by French people against French people to throw anti immigration crap that is completely unrelated. It has been said a hundred times: those people were not immigrants. If those guys did not integrate and did not contribute, it is not to blame on immigration, they were French. Is that too hard to understand, or am I "strawmanning"?

For a vast majority of French people it's not only about "French peeps killing French peeps". If a black (not arabian) or white person with something like traditional christian background (or even buddhist for that matter) was the terrorist everyone would be like "what the fuck ?" In this case everyone thinks that this was bound to happen sooner or later and that's what is worrying.

Ok, so people getting into fundamentalist islam are more likely to be from a muslim background and therefore, immigrants of first second or third generation. That sounds logical (even though it's not even always the case, since some of the last ISIS French recruits seen butchering people on those vids were white from christian background but whatever). Does it make the killing an immigration problem or does it shows an obvious link to a hypothetic immigration problem? Not at all.

It really has nothing to do with ethnicity or land of birth, it's about ideas and their consequences. Right now, an alarmingly large group of people who self-identify as muslim harbour ideas which are directly at odds with the cornerstone principles of a democracy. How and why this happens is another matter. The debate always gets muddled by this extraordinary confusion. Fundamentally, we are talking about competing visions for how to build a society, which is really a zero-sum game when we are all living in the same place.

I don't know, Squat, I met a very, very large number of muslims in France, (and have an uncle and cousin who are muslims - he is algerian), and they were all well integrated and as democrat as you and I.

It just seems to me that muslims who have a problem with western values (whatever that means: I have very little values in common with Marine Le Pen or Nigel Farage) and their religion are a tiny, tiny minority.
The fellow who is out to burn things up is the counterpart of the fool who thinks he can save the world. The world needs neither to be burned up nor to be saved. The world is, we are. Transients, if we buck it; here to stay if we accept it. ~H.Miller
BigFan
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
TLADT24920 Posts
January 08 2015 00:20 GMT
#796
Sad news overall. Condolences to the families of those who are killed and hope they catch and jail the bastards who did this!
Former BW EiC"Watch Bakemonogatari or I will kill you." -Toad, April 18th, 2017
jinorazi
Profile Joined October 2004
Korea (South)4948 Posts
January 08 2015 00:23 GMT
#797
its unfortunate this will grow more anti-islam sentiment in europe...though i really hope some people are smart enough to step up and protect the minority.

i hear about political parties that are dedicated to anti muslim, like blocking their immigration and whatnot, how really bad is it? is it mixed feelings or is it mainstream to hate on muslims? (in europe)
age: 84 | location: california | sex: 잘함
Ishentar
Profile Joined February 2014
France122 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-01-08 00:25:52
January 08 2015 00:23 GMT
#798
The problem is that a minority of ******* ****** ******** that is very loud because of its acts can very easily have in the popular opinion a way bigger impact than the others who are a very very large majority. And even if the good majority tries to show their good intentions, medias, and people will most often only focus on the bad.

It's like on many games, and we know it very well on forums, even on Starcraft II, if 1% of the population whine on the forum, it will look like everyone's whining, because the one who aren't, are playing the game, or are posting posts that causes way less debate ... etc... peacefully without posting whine and bothering anyone, but the 1% can spam forums and harm the community a lot.
Shield
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Bulgaria4824 Posts
January 08 2015 00:30 GMT
#799
On January 08 2015 09:23 jinorazi wrote:
its unfortunate this will grow more anti-islam sentiment in europe...though i really hope some people are smart enough to step up and protect the minority.

i hear about political parties that are dedicated to anti muslim, like blocking their immigration and whatnot, how really bad is it? is it mixed feelings or is it mainstream to hate on muslims? (in europe)


It depends on which part of Europe. Hatred towards (radical) muslims can be a lot more loose in Eastern Europe in my opinion, while there is some social pressure in the west to be more tolerant of muslims.
Squat
Profile Joined September 2013
Sweden7978 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-01-08 00:33:05
January 08 2015 00:30 GMT
#800
On January 08 2015 09:17 Biff The Understudy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 08 2015 09:14 Squat wrote:
On January 08 2015 09:07 Biff The Understudy wrote:
On January 08 2015 09:02 Maluk wrote:
On January 08 2015 08:57 Biff The Understudy wrote:
On January 08 2015 08:53 heliusx wrote:
On January 08 2015 08:47 Biff The Understudy wrote:
On January 08 2015 08:40 SoSexy wrote:
It's funny how for you guys nothing is a problem, everyone is super good and respectful, violence episodes are 'media baits' but bombing and attacks actually happen and then you go like 'how could this happen?'. Do you live in the world of magic unicorns?

No you are right. You and me, we have a little secret, but don't tell them because there are PC police around. See, the thing is (not too loud): it all because there are too many brown people. They smell a bit. And they are muslims, you know that stuff that says you have to kill people and rape women because.

Ok, seriously, look, I see you want absolutely people to go with your xenophonic anti immigration stuff, at any cost in that thread. It's not happening, apparently. Too bad. Next time.

I spent 10 hours at my job, I come back to read this thread, and you're still strawmanning people? We get it you're an immigrant or offspring of immigrants yourself so you take it personally. The problem biff, is not people like you who integrate into society and contribute. It also has nothing to do with skin color so I think you can save that one for another time.

There is no strawmanning. There are people who are using a murder commited by French people against French people to throw anti immigration crap that is completely unrelated. It has been said a hundred times: those people were not immigrants. If those guys did not integrate and did not contribute, it is not to blame on immigration, they were French. Is that too hard to understand, or am I "strawmanning"?

For a vast majority of French people it's not only about "French peeps killing French peeps". If a black (not arabian) or white person with something like traditional christian background (or even buddhist for that matter) was the terrorist everyone would be like "what the fuck ?" In this case everyone thinks that this was bound to happen sooner or later and that's what is worrying.

Ok, so people getting into fundamentalist islam are more likely to be from a muslim background and therefore, immigrants of first second or third generation. That sounds logical (even though it's not even always the case, since some of the last ISIS French recruits seen butchering people on those vids were white from christian background but whatever). Does it make the killing an immigration problem or does it shows an obvious link to a hypothetic immigration problem? Not at all.

It really has nothing to do with ethnicity or land of birth, it's about ideas and their consequences. Right now, an alarmingly large group of people who self-identify as muslim harbour ideas which are directly at odds with the cornerstone principles of a democracy. How and why this happens is another matter. The debate always gets muddled by this extraordinary confusion. Fundamentally, we are talking about competing visions for how to build a society, which is really a zero-sum game when we are all living in the same place.

I don't know, Squat, I met a very, very large number of muslims in France, (and have an uncle and cousin who are muslims - he is algerian), and they were all well integrated and as democrat as you and I.

It just seems to me that muslims who have a problem with western values (whatever that means: I have very little values in common with Marine Le Pen or Nigel Farage) and their religion are a tiny, tiny minority.

No offense, but this is sort of the confusion I was alluding to.

To elucidate: Do these repeated incidents implicate a majority of muslims? No. Do these reccuring issues mean that anyone who believes in Islam must be anti-democratic or in favour of a theology, or even a significant subset of muslims? No. But it does suggest that the ideology itself has some deep, structural problems that simply does not allow it to mesh well with a democratic society when taken as explicit instructions on how humans ought to live in this world.

We have a problem with certain ideas which act as catalysts to very dangerous and destructive behaviour. There are tons of these ideas in the world, far from all derive their roots from Islam or religion at all, but that does not mean we should ignore the very real issues that are there to be seen by anyone who cares to look. The fact that such a small minority actually heed the doctrines with kind of rigour required to go out and kill people is a very good thing, but we gain nothing by pretending the ideology bears no blame at all when something like this happens.

Edit: by "alarmingly large" I did not mean anything like a majority, or even any kind of significant minority. I meant enough to constitute a real problem.
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