Terrorist Attacks in Paris
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Oh wow. Well I'm in Australia and I only found out about it via the internet. Our TV news cycle is still focused on Paris
Force willing, I would have this strength. This from a man that lost his wife in the Paris Terror Attack.:
"On Friday night you stole the life of an exceptional being, the love of my life, the mother of my son, but you won't have my hatred.
I don't know who you are and I don't want to know - you are dead souls. If this God for which you kill indiscriminately made us in his own image, every bullet in the body of my wife will have been a wound in his heart.
So no, I don't give you the gift of hating you. You are asking for it but responding to hatred with anger would be giving in to the same ignorance that made you what you are.
You want me to be afraid, to view my fellow countrymen with mistrust, to sacrifice my freedom for security.You have lost.
I saw her this morning. Finally, after many nights and days of waiting. She was just as beautiful as when she left on Friday night, just as beautiful as when I fell hopelessly in love over 12 years ago.
Of course I'm devastated with grief, I admit this small victory, but it will be short-lived. I know she will accompany us every day and that we will find ourselves in this paradise of free souls to which you'll never have access.
We are two, my son and I, but we are stronger than all the armies of the world.
I don't have any more time to devote to you, I have to join Melvil who is waking up from his nap. He is barely 17-months-old. He will eat his meals as usual, and then we are going to play as usual, and for his whole life this little boy will threaten you by being happy and free. Because no, you will not have his hatred either."
Antoine Leiris
Source: Every News Outlet In The Universe
"On Friday night you stole the life of an exceptional being, the love of my life, the mother of my son, but you won't have my hatred.
I don't know who you are and I don't want to know - you are dead souls. If this God for which you kill indiscriminately made us in his own image, every bullet in the body of my wife will have been a wound in his heart.
So no, I don't give you the gift of hating you. You are asking for it but responding to hatred with anger would be giving in to the same ignorance that made you what you are.
You want me to be afraid, to view my fellow countrymen with mistrust, to sacrifice my freedom for security.You have lost.
I saw her this morning. Finally, after many nights and days of waiting. She was just as beautiful as when she left on Friday night, just as beautiful as when I fell hopelessly in love over 12 years ago.
Of course I'm devastated with grief, I admit this small victory, but it will be short-lived. I know she will accompany us every day and that we will find ourselves in this paradise of free souls to which you'll never have access.
We are two, my son and I, but we are stronger than all the armies of the world.
I don't have any more time to devote to you, I have to join Melvil who is waking up from his nap. He is barely 17-months-old. He will eat his meals as usual, and then we are going to play as usual, and for his whole life this little boy will threaten you by being happy and free. Because no, you will not have his hatred either."
Antoine Leiris
Source: Every News Outlet In The Universe
It was covered here too.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/20/africa/mali-shooting/
http://abcnews.go.com/International/americans-hostages-rescued-mali-hotel/story?id=35319879
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/mali-hotel-terror-attack-what-know-about-ex-french-colony-n466966
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...ke-170-hostages-at-radisson-blu-hotel-in-mali
http://www.npr.org/2015/11/20/456804223/special-forces-clash-with-hostage-takers-in-mali-hotel
There is nowhere in France or Europe where Sharia Law supersedes the existing criminal laws and could prevent someone from being deported if they wanted them to be.
You're conflating a bunch of different unrelated issues like Sensitive Urban Zones in France, which has nothing to do with Sharia Law or non-existent No-Go Zones (except in the ramblings of Fox News), and Muslim Arbitration Tribunals/Islamic Sharia Councils in Britain which handle family and civil arbitration and where participation must be voluntarily agreed upon by all parties. There are similar Jewish arbitration tribunals in Britain as well, and non-religious family and civil arbitration proceedings are very common around the world.
http://www.theatlantic.com/internat...r-to-sue-fox-over-no-go-zone-comments/384656/
Once again, thanks, Locutus, for going to the trouble of untangling the mess of both misinformation and disinformation, to set the record straight.
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Amaris
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Yep, even our little local news station covered it extensively (they gave it 4 minutes, which is a lot for a local news station that's not talking about sports!).
Speaking of "Guilty Until Proven Innocent", this from my hometown:
Two men were kept from boarding a flight from Chicago to Philadelphia this week because they were speaking Arabic, one of several incidents reflecting public paranoia since the Paris attacks.
Maher Khalil and Anas Ayyad were told by a gate agent at Midway Airport on Thursday that they wouldn't be allowed on the plane because a fellow passenger had overheard them speaking Arabic - and was afraid to fly with them.
The two friends reportedly of Palestinian origin and in their late 20s, were eventually allowed on the Southwest flight, but only after being questioned by airport security and police, who Khalil told the local NBC television affiliate he had called himself. Once on board, Khalil said some passengers made him open a white box he was carrying - filled, it turns out, with sweets.
"So I shared my baklava with them," he was quoted as saying.
Southwest Airlines said in a statement the flight "departed a few minutes behind schedule" after airline employees "completed conversations with customers who approached us during the boarding process," without providing more details. Similar incidents have reportedly taken place on other US domestic flights in the wake of last week's attacks in the French capital that killed 130 people.
More at: http://www.khaleejtimes.com/interna...-kept-off-flight-as-they-were-speaking-arabic
Two men were kept from boarding a flight from Chicago to Philadelphia this week because they were speaking Arabic, one of several incidents reflecting public paranoia since the Paris attacks.
Maher Khalil and Anas Ayyad were told by a gate agent at Midway Airport on Thursday that they wouldn't be allowed on the plane because a fellow passenger had overheard them speaking Arabic - and was afraid to fly with them.
The two friends reportedly of Palestinian origin and in their late 20s, were eventually allowed on the Southwest flight, but only after being questioned by airport security and police, who Khalil told the local NBC television affiliate he had called himself. Once on board, Khalil said some passengers made him open a white box he was carrying - filled, it turns out, with sweets.
"So I shared my baklava with them," he was quoted as saying.
Southwest Airlines said in a statement the flight "departed a few minutes behind schedule" after airline employees "completed conversations with customers who approached us during the boarding process," without providing more details. Similar incidents have reportedly taken place on other US domestic flights in the wake of last week's attacks in the French capital that killed 130 people.
More at: http://www.khaleejtimes.com/interna...-kept-off-flight-as-they-were-speaking-arabic
This is disgusting. Totally disgusting.
Turkey said if a Russian plane strayed into its airspace they would shoot it down.
Guess they were not bluffing.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/11/turkey-shoots-warplane-syria-border-151124081519290.html
Guess they were not bluffing.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/11/turkey-shoots-warplane-syria-border-151124081519290.html
