The Tragedy in Paris

[Mean Green 93-98]

It's just disgusting what happened. And it's too bad that the death penalty is outlawed in France.

At any rate, here are the cartoons that the sick Islamists (and many, many others besides those who actually carried out the act) thought justified murder: http://freebeacon.com/national-security/a-tribute-to-charlie-hebdo/

[Coffee and TV]

[FirefightnRick]

They ID'd em. One in custody.

http://speisa.com/modules/articles/index.php/item.624/french-newspaper-police-has-captured-the-terrorists.html

Rick

Edited January 8, 2015 by FirefightnRick

[FirefightnRick]

UPDATE: Suspect in Paris terror attack surrendered to police in Charleville-Mézières, French police tell @ABC News - http://t.co/0WbSnKIrgE

— ABC News (@ABC)

January 8, 2015

Rick

[Mean Green 93-98]

Good news.

And here's Le Pen's response:

“Time’s up for denial and hypocrisy,” Le Pen, who has railed against immigration, said in a video posted on her party’s website. “The absolute rejection of Islamic fundamentalism must be proclaimed loudly and clearly.”

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2015-01-07/le-pen-may-benefit-as-magazine-attack-exposes-french-divisions

Sadly, the outrage will fade and in all likeliness political correctness will win the day.

[FirefightnRick]

Sadly, the outrage will fade and in all likeliness political correctness will win the day.

Yup, just like with the Danish paper 10 years ago.

We'll see how many papers and news outlets publish or show those cartoons tomorrow? I bet very few.

Rick

[UNT90]

It will be interesting to see if the anti-Muslim movement in France gains a lot of steam after this.

Like any movement, it clearly has it's share of mentally unstable, including the ones that vandalized property next to the Eiffle Tower with anti-Muslim hate slogans earlier this year.

Paris has really lax security in many of the tourist locations. I was really shocked by this in a recent visit. Hopefully the Muslim radicals don't decide to up their game with the needless killing of as many humans as possible.

Edited January 8, 2015 by UNT90

[FirefightnRick]

Yup, just like with the Danish paper 10 years ago.

We'll see how many papers and news outlets publish or show those cartoons tomorrow? I bet very few.

Rick

As I figured. Only Matt Drudge and just about ALL of the conservative outlets, blogs etc chose to repost the cartoons. But not the main stream guys though. Especially not ones like the New York Times.....you know, that bastion of Journalistic integrity?

"7 Offensive Images The New York Times Wasn’t Afraid to Publish"

http://gawker.com/7-offensive-images-the-new-york-times-wasn-t-afraid-to-1678338658

Dean Baquet, the executive editor of The New York Times, is defending his decision not to reprint any Charlie Hebdo cartoons depicting Mohammad with an argument that might confuse Times readers. Today he told Politico: “We don’t run things that are designed to gratuitously offend.”

This dictum is confusing because it’s false: On many occasions the paper of record has printed images that are “designed to gratuitously offend.” Here are 7 examples; there are surely more.

Rick

[FirefightnRick]

CBS 11 DFW just reported that the Dallas Morning News will be publishing the Hebdo images tomorrow morning. Maybe our papers are starting to grow a pair after all?

Rick

[FirefightnRick]

Police chase underway, 30 miles north of Paris, near an industrial park. May involve the taking of a hostage?

French media reports are kind of sketchy.

Rick

[FirefightnRick]

Police chase underway, 30 miles north of Paris, near an industrial park. May involve the taking of a hostage?

French media reports are kind of sketchy.

Rick

[oldguystudent]

Maybe our papers are starting to grow a pair after all?

Rick

Not entirely sure what a "paper" is. I think I heard about it from my great grandparents once.

Reddit, which tends to lean heavily liberal bordering on socialist with a side of violently killing the rich, was posting the images extensively, oftentimes in nicely consolidated imgur albums before the French police even had the yellow crime scene tape hung.

I guess what I'm getting at is that traditional news sources, be they conservative, liberal, television, radio, or (seriously? this still exists?) print media are completely irrelevant and meaningless to me, and I'm the old guy on the scene. Nobody under forty gives a left rodent testicle as to what a newspaper does, says, omits, or fudges.

Edited January 9, 2015 by oldguystudent

[FirefightnRick]

Libération d'otages au supermarché casher - photo Thomas Samson #AFP pic.twitter.com/OHY8KIKjwK

— Agence France-Presse (@afpfr)

January 9, 2015

BREAKING: Suspects in Paris attack killed, hostage freed, French police sources say http://t.co/0AucZBgjZv pic.twitter.com/4ftBRoLMWp

— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews)

January 9, 2015

They Gone!

Job well done by the French Tactical Units.

Rick

Edited January 9, 2015 by FirefightnRick

[FirefightnRick]

Video of the Islamo-Nazi who was holed up inside the grocery store, on his one way trip to hell by the French Tactical teams.

Amazing how many hostages come running out afterward.

http://newsninja2012.com/check-out-france-jihadist-amedy-couibaly-shot-while-trying-to-run-from-kosher-market/#.VLD_9Bsr36k.twitter

Rick

Edited January 11, 2015 by FirefightnRick

[Censored by Laurie]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2015/jan/09/joe-sacco-on-satire-a-response-to-the-attacks

[FirefightnRick]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2015/jan/09/joe-sacco-on-satire-a-response-to-the-attacks

Problem is though, Joe, is that non of the other groups supposedly offended in your optional cartoons have been beheading people, stoning to death and genitally mutulating girls, lopping off limbs and killing Gays, all for not meeting demands for submission to a certain religion.

Rick

[FirefightnRick]

"Meet The Honor Brigade"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/meet-the-honor-brigade-an-organized-campaign-to-silence-critics-of-islam/2015/01/16/0b002e5a-9aaf-11e4-a7ee-526210d665b4_story.html

It was the first time a fellow Muslim had pressed me to refrain from criticizing the way our faith was practiced. But in the past decade, such attempts at censorship have become more common. This is largely because of the rising power and influence of the ghairat brigade, an honor corps that tries to silence debate on extremist ideology in order to protect the image of Islam. It meets even sound critiques with hideous, disproportionate responses.

The campaign began, at least in its modern form, 10 years ago in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, when the Organization of Islamic Cooperation a mini-United Nations comprising the worlds 56 countries with large Muslim populations, plus the Palestinian Authority tasked then-Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu with combating Islamophobia and projecting the true values of Islam. During the past decade, a loose honor brigade has sprung up, in part funded and supported by the OIC through annual conferences, reports and communiques. Its made up of politicians, diplomats, writers, academics, bloggers and activists.

In 2007, as part of this playbook, the OIC launched the Islamophobia Observatory, a watchdog group based in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, with the goal of documenting slights against the faith. Its first report, released the following year, complained that the artists and publishers of controversial Danish cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad were defiling sacred symbols of Islam . . . in an insulting, offensive and contemptuous manner. The honor brigade began calling out academics, writers and others, including former New York police commissioner Ray Kelly and administrators at a Catholic school in Britain that turned away a mother who wouldnt remove her face veil.

The OIC invented the anti-Islamophobia movement, says Zuhdi Jasser, president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy and a frequent target of the honor brigade. These countries . . . think they own the Muslim community and all interpretations of Islam.....

Rick

Edited January 18, 2015 by FirefightnRick