Hystery

The manhunt continues. This morning at 4:20AM, the men of the RAID started an operation in a city near Paris. 7 people suspected to be related to the attacks of Friday have been arrested, 2 others have died, blowing themselves up. 5 members of the RAID team have been injured during the operation.

A video that made me smile after those dark hours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5NvFCzTusM

Ehm, no, I am not confusing them. Islam = religion, muslim = person actively practicing Islam as a religion. But admitting all what you said is ultimately the truth (which I don't think it is, but let's admit it for the sake of the reasoning), what is the solution? Going into a crusade against Islam? Slaughtering muslims simply because they are muslims? Because with that way to see things, I hardly see another outcome.

Alright. Let's think about it two minutes. What do they want, by planning and doing terrorist attacks? They want to bring fear. In addition to fear, if people think the way you do, an amalgam "Muslim/Islam = terrorist" will plague the population (EDIT: as a proof of what I'm saying, some mosques in France got tagged with swastikas and pork got dropped in front of the doors). And it'll work, because fear is an uncontrollable emotion, people will be scared for their loved ones and will react aggressively towards where they are pointed to. As a result, the western population will blame muslims for their religion. Muslims will feel threatened, persecuted, unable to practice their own religion without being judged or pointed out, deprivated of their freedom of belief. And THIS, this very thing, will become an argument of recruitment for ISIS, a golden occasion to gain new recruits and radicalize them, using their feeling of persecution to twist their minds and make them believe western countries are the problem. Radicalization amongst muslims will raise, and at the end, more terrorist attacks will happen. That's the ISIS recruitment tactic. Well I'm telling you, I am NOT going to fall for this. Muslims in France are at 99% completely harmless. Sure, they could integrate themselves a bit better in french society, but at least they are productive citizens. Their religion is not the cause of why some people blow themselves up. People blow themselves up because they are just CRAZY, and freil of mind, easily manipulated. All muslims of France, all muslims in the world, and all muslims leader made it clear that they condemn what happened, and that this is NOT the Islam religion they are teaching to their believers. I'll say it again, and I'll repeat it as much as needed, religion is not the problem. Blaming religion will only result in dividing the population and make us weaker. Religion is not the problem. It's not. The madness of some humans is. Muslims of France are french. They defend the values of our republic as much as other citizens do. And I won't blame their religion for the acts of a few completely retarded terrorists. You say Islam is a violent religion, I say look in the streets of France. As I said, Islam is the SECOND most PRESENT religion in France. Do you see muslims cutting other peoples throats in the streets? No. Do you see muslims insulting other people for not being muslim? Heck no. We all live together, including muslims, because what the Quran says is different from what they do in their everyday life. The same way christians and catholics are living differently from what the Bible tells them. Quran is just a book. A book can be interpreted in many ways. The real people interprete it with a message of peace and respect, the crazy fuckers interprete it with a message of war. And here we have it again. Craziness. That's what caused those horrible attacks. Not Islam. Not muslims. Just a few completely twisted people, manipulated by ISIS.

I'll put my thoughts here. Christian or muslim? No one cares. This is an unrelated matter here. People got killed because they (terrorists) are CRAZY. Using extremist religious views is just a mean to brainwash them, like sects do (hello scientology). So, if you want to keep talking about christianity or islam, feel free, but I believe it doesn't belong in this topic, because there was nothing religious in what happened. Same thing for "Refugees are the problem blabla". Two of the terrorists that were killed have been indentified and are french. FRENCH. Completely french, born in France. So refugees are, also, an unrelated matter. But sadly, people with narrow-minded views or with a right/extreme-right wing opinion will quickly mix the two. On topic now. Our president wants the state of emergency to last for 3 months at least. State of emergency as I stated in a previous post means that no public event can occur unless direct derogation, with possible curfews and forbidden areas. Cops are also allowed to investigate as they wish, and to make a search in anyone's house without having the authorization of a judge beforehand. Now I'll be honest, I don't like that. It feels a lot like our democracy turns into a temporary dictatorship.

Thank you very much for the advice, but I think I'll keep posting anyway. I've had enough evidences that french intel is one of the worst amongst western countries. Failing to prevent the Thalys attack, failing to prevent the Charlie Hebdo and Hypercasher attack, and so on. They weren't even able to give correct information when our armies tried to take back the capital of Mali, misinforming our own soldiers. Curiously enough, ALL suspects in the terrorist attacks we had the last few months were "on the records" for their "radicalization", but none of them had an investigation on their back. Worst intel, period.

Ehm, yeah, but again, religious books always tell that people from another religion are the enemy, including christians. What the Quran says is definitely different from what people do. Islam is the second most present religion in France, right after Catholicism. That doesn't mean that the few millions of muslims in France are terrorists. As one of our politician says (you can enable english subtitles): Religion is NOT what we have to blame. Terrorists are guilty. They are simply crazy. Look at it the other way, if a christian was bombing something in the middle east while saying that the white god is the true one and others must die, would the western countries blame christianity? No, they'd say the guy is just nuts. Same goes there. Terrorists, and only terrorists are guilty for their crimes, nothing more, nothing less.

250 injured people, roughly 80+ of them critically injured to be exact, according to the last reports. All election campaigns have been stopped for an undetermined period of time by all political parties until further notice. A Syrian passport has been found on a terrorist, but the information has to be verified since it could be a stolen ID.

Last information report -at least- 128 civilian deaths, as well as 8 terrorist deaths, including 7 kamikazes. The president decided of 3 days of national mourning. ISIS also declared to be the authors of the attacks.

Sadly that's going to be a very common thought across the country after this, especially considering we have elections coming in less than a month now, with the extreme-right fascist party gaining voting intentions every day.

As for people who would wonder what the state of emergency is in France: it can last up to twelve days maximum, past this delay if the government wants to keep the state of emergency, they must vote the law to the parliament. It forbids meetings that can disturb the peace, and can regulate what places are accessible to the public at what times. Concerts and events having a high concentration of people can be forbidden too, for national security. On the other hand, the government decided to control the borders again for an undetermined period of time, as it is in the Schengen Agreement.

What makes you realize how horrible it is, is when you go on FB and Twitter, and you see tweets of hundreds, even thousands of people asking if they've seen this man, this woman, this girl, this boy, begging people to tell them if they've seen them somewhere.

In the place where the hostage situation was occuring, rumors talk about a hundred of deaths...

From the last news, 7 attacks have occured at the same time, which means 7 groups of people worked to organize this, to prepare the attacks without anyone noticing anything. I swear, french intel is one of the worst, they are -always- late, in every situation.

Hostage situation is over, 2 terrorists dead, unknown if there was more of them. EDIT: Apparently, the inside was a true massacre. They attacked people with grenades -inside-, people dismembered, truly a sight of horror for the RAID and cops.

40 deads. 3 explosions around the national stadium. 6 shootings. An hostage situation. That's what I got so far on our newsfeed. Glad I'm not in Paris, and glad I'm living in the countryside when this shit goes down, but that's really bad.

EVL. But you've to use EVL enabled vehicles for that.