I am sorry, I shouldn't have been so harsh

[lal-au0]

now I understand why you blame the victim.

By blaming the victim of "doing something that caused someone else to do harm to them" you can feel safe because you are not doing that thing.

It's a self defense mechanism.

The problem is that it doesn't work that way.

Mindless actions/comments does not change how things are. Burying your head in the sand doesn't make the problem/menace go away.

Ignoring a problem hoping that it will go away if you ignore/deny it hard enough does not work.

It never did and never will.

[nevynreally]

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@*pepe wrote:

i don't believe the extremists are mentally ill so much as brainwashed.

I have not once said we should bow down to them and give them what they demand, I thought I had been clear in saying they need to be stopped.

I have said its not wise or necessary to provoke them. by mocking their beliefs and idols in such an offensive manner.

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What you have never understood. 

It's not about provoking. It's been about encouraging people to think for themselves.

Damn. I think I may be French.

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@lal-au0 wrote:

bears are animals and not even intelligent enough to recognise themselves in a mirror.

from human beings ( and i reply to pepe here too) you can expect a minimum civilised behaviour such as: not killing someone else just because you feel like it. if a human being does so he/she (but usually it's a he) is considered mentally ill.

now, do we bow to mentally ill people and do as they demand?

i don't think so.

also it raises the question if mentally illness is more prevalent in muslims (maybe because they keep marrying their 1st grade cousins?) or if it has something to do with what their book teaches and is not a mental illness.

i would like you (ALL of you) to sacrifice 25 minutes to watch this please.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rjdO4cfeEg&spfreload=10

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do we bow to mentally ill people and do as they demand?

No, but if we have any sense we don't deliberately goad them either.

bears are animals and not even intelligent enough to recognise themselves in a mirror. 

So? I don't believe I suggest the gunmen were bears or any other kind of animal. I said their thought processes were probably not a great deal more sophisticated - in other words, they didn't resort to reason but attacked out of blind instinct - just like the bears. 

[raptor_rebooted]

I said their thought processes were probably not a great deal more sophisticated - in other words, they didn't resort to reason but attacked out of blind instinct 

i think that is a very simplistic/naive

view.

A top leader of Yemen's al-Qaeda branch has claimed responsibility for last week's attack on Paris satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo when two masked gunmen killed 12 people, including much of the weekly's editorial staff and two police officers.

Nasr al-Ansi, a top commander of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP as the branch is known, appeared in an 11-minute video posted online on Wednesday, saying that the massacre at Charlie Hebdo was in "vengeance for the prophet".

Al-Ansi said that France belongs to the "party of Satan" and warned of more "tragedies and terror". He said that Yemen's al-Qaeda branch "chose the target, laid out the plan and financed the operation".

The paper had published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, which is considered an insult to Islam.

"We, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, claim responsibility for this operation as vengeance for the messenger of Allah," Ansi said in the video entitled "A message regarding the blessed battle of Paris."

AQAP was formed in January 2009 as a merger of the Yemeni and Saudi branches of al-Qaeda. Washington regards it as the network's most dangerous branch and has carried out a sustained drone war against its leaders.

"The leadership of (AQAP) was the party that chose the target and plotted and financed the plan... It was following orders by our general chief Ayman al-Zawahiri," Ansi said. 

"The heroes were chosen and they answered the call," he said.

Speaking over footage of the attack that killed 12 people, Ansi said: "Today, the mujahedeen avenge their revered prophet, and send the clearest message to everyone who would dare to attack Islamic sanctities."

Ansi referenced a warning by the late chief of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, who was killed by US commandos in May 2011. "If the freedom of your speech is not restrained, then you should accept the freedom of our actions," he said.

On Saturday, another senior AQAP member Harith al-Nadhari also claimed responsibility for the attack in an audio recording, saying the shooting was an operation to teach the French the limits of freedom of expression.

Charlie Hebdo had angered Muslims in the past by printing cartoons lampooning Mohammed and Islam.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2015/01/al-qaeda-yemen-charlie-hebdo-paris-attacks-20151141...