Now that the dust has settled somewhat in Paris, the question is, what next? First, although shocking, the attacks were not entirely surprising. Many French citizens had joined the jihad in Syria. And the attack on Charlie Hebdo showed that there's a sustained risk of terrorist actions in the heart of Europe.
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It happens everywhere. Some polities need to clothe such in terms of the rhetoric of democracy or liberty and equality....but the new boss is often the same as the old boss. In fact the new boss is often the old boss in actuality. And there is nothing egalitarian about it at all.
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"Do not side with terrorists:
A friend posted an image saying that we are at war with Islam. This worries me, as I do NOT want to be on the same side as the tiny Salafist takfiri extremists who want the West to be at war with all of Islam. It is how they hope to take control of the average Muslim. Remember: DAESH, killer of too many fellow Muslims to count, ~wants~ the French and the rest of the West to react in anger and fear and wage war against all of Islam. Please do NOT promote what they want."
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We cannot even whisper it's name, much less look it in the face. The cure is, as of this moment, considered worse than the disease.
Therefore, we will do worse than nothing. Doing nothing would at least have the benefit of being logically consistantly and honest. Instead, we will keep nibbling around the edges, offering easy, feel good half measures, lies about progress, and comfortable placebos to our citizens and hope that when the next strike comes it hits somewhere else. We are big and rich and resilient, on the whole. We can absorb quite a lot of punishment.
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Partly, it was to see if anyone would be grotesque enough to imply that my coyness stood to obscure genocide.
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In 2012, the Ansar al-Sunna Muslim terrorist organization sent a letter to Norwegian authorities bearing the logo of ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria - now called the Islamic State - ordering Oslo to designate a part of the capital as an independent, Shari’a compliant Muslim state, or suffer the consequences.
You're welcome, Norway.
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