on 08-01-2015 05:26 AM
http://rt.com/news/220603-manhunt-paris-charlie-hebdo/
"The lions of Islam have avenged our Prophet," Abu Mussab, who fights for IS insurgents in Syria, told Reuters via internet connection. "These are our lions. It's the first drops – more will follow," he said, speaking via an internet connection from Syria. He added that he and his fellow fighters are happy about the incident.
Mussab said he did not know the gunmen who carried out the attack, but added "they are on the path of the emir [IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi]....and our Sheikh Osama (bin Laden)."
Reports suggest that the cartoons portraying Prophet Mohammed published earlier by the satirical paper were the reason for the attack. The gunmen reportedly called out the victims by name, shouting: “We have avenged the prophet."
The religion of peace at it again.
on 08-01-2015 11:03 AM
on 08-01-2015 11:04 AM
on 08-01-2015 11:05 AM
@gleee58 wrote:
@punch*drunk wrote:Awful pictures, but agree they shouldnt be killed for them. Having said that, they should probably have been expecting something like this to happen and had higher security.
The cartoons are not that unlike what you see drawn about politicians here in Australia, and probably around the world, but they were targeting a much more dangerous group.
They target anyone and everyone. Check out the father, son and holy ghost.
what was the reaction to that
cartoon?
is that the point you're trying to make?
08-01-2015 11:07 AM - edited 08-01-2015 11:07 AM
on 08-01-2015 11:07 AM
Yes Bushie, exactly! Splitting hairs doesn't work, madmen, terrorists, the difference being that terrorists aren't always just "madmen", rather, these are people who join enormous and dangerous like minded religious/brainwashed armies in the name of their "god/gods" believing they are right, and that everyone in their reach must adhere to that way of thinking and living.
on 08-01-2015 11:07 AM
@*julia*2010 wrote:
@azureline** wrote:
@*julia*2010 wrote:
@azureline** wrote:
@daydream**believer wrote:And at least the French PM has the balls to call it what it is, a terrorist attack
What else would it be called?
Terrorist
1.
2.
i think ddb is trying to make a point here -
the actions are not being labelled as those
of a "madman".
and my point is, 3 madmen, called terrorists....................and an act of terrorism..... not exactly a normal reaction to something they don't like?
do you understand why ddb said
at least the french pm had the etc.
i think that is the point that you missed
or maybe didn't understand
on 08-01-2015 11:08 AM
@outdoorhunting1 wrote:
@debra9275 wrote:I hope they are picked up soon.
Do you expect them to be taken alive ?
or should be taken alive ?
It would be better for an angry crowd to get them first
on 08-01-2015 11:08 AM
"Charlie Hebdo grew out of a weekly called Hara Kiri Hebdo founded in 1969 by a group of left-leaning journalists. The newspaper in its current form dates to 1992, when several journalists pooled their money and set up a foundation to run the publication. According to a 2008 story in Le Monde, the foundation was called “Kalashnikov Editions”—by grotesque coincidence, the name of the rifle used in the terror attack."
Like most newspapers in the 21st century, Charlie Hebdo seemed to consider lack of money as the biggest threat to its existence. According to French press reports, the newspaper had as many as 140,000 regular readers a decade ago, but readership had declined to about 50,000 by last year. Last November, the newspaper made a public appeal for donations, saying it was barely staying afloat.
on 08-01-2015 11:11 AM
@idlewhile wrote:Satire is just what it means, taking a different view of events. We may not like it and we may think it goes too far eg. The 7.30 report when it did a satirical round up on PM Abbott, but we didn't go in there and let rip with Kalashnikovs.
There is NO EXCUSE for this barbarism, NO EXCUSE and we should not bow down to this terror.
Satire has been a part of literature since time began and now these animals take the it as an excuse to kill.
Frankly I'm fed up with any remark that they somehow deserved it because they printed off colour and offensive satire, that's what satire is most of the time.
These people are animals, killers, bloodlust and hate filled and NOTHING we do in the west deserves this.
We just went through one madman killer in Martin Place, did we somehow deserve that by some percieved insult or slight?
It has happened here twice so far and yet somehow people are saying we somehow invited it because of our western democracy and lifestyle.
It has happened here and will happen again because we allow them to come here, they have no desire to be like us, they want us to become like them
on 08-01-2015 11:11 AM
@bushies.girl wrote:
I fully understood whatDDB meant
i think some people only pretend
they don't. not sure why though