Posted on 10/05/2017 4:39:13 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
About a third of the way up Paris’s iconic Avenue des Champs Élysées, in front of a Marks & Spencer store, the trunk of a trimmed horse chestnut tree is ringed by two knotted ropes from which dried, wilted flowers hang.
The tree and the decaying tributes tied around it are easily overlooked, unless you know what happened here in April.
In the nearby lampposts bullet holes remained gouged into the painted green metal like someone had pushed a finger into a pile of play dough. Evidence of when an Islamist militant fatally gunned down 37-year-old French police officer Xavier Jugelé on April 20.
The Islamic State terror group claimed responsibility for the attack; police killed the gunman as he tried to flee.
On Sunday, as this correspondent snapped photos of the decaying flowers and the bullet holes, a curious man who stood nearby while smoking a cigarette asked what it was all about.
At the explanation that this was the scene of a fatal terrorist attack, and at the pointing out of the bullet holes—which were all but invisible to the flocks of pedestrians flowing past—the man, a Pakistani tourist named Fahad Ansari, replied in English, “Wow. That is so sad. I had no idea this was the spot.”
He spat on the ground.
“Daesh can go to hell,” Ansari said, using a pejorative Arabic name for the Islamic State terrorist group.
Reality Check
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You used to be able to walk right into landmarks like the Notre-Dame Cathedral, Sacré-Cœur Basilica, or the Musée d’Orsay without waiting in line. Now, lines stretch for hundreds of yards, and last for hours, as tourists wait to go through security checks.
“No Easy Answers”
“..the French people “will have to live with it during the next coming years or decades.””
“France’s former president, François Hollande declared a national state of emergency..
“Life in France has changed under the state of emergency, in both overt and subtle ways.”
Really? A permanent state of emergency changes the citizens life?
He spat on the ground.
“Daesh can go to hell,” Ansari said, using a pejorative Arabic name for the Islamic State terrorist group.
I have met missionaries to a muslim country and they said that there's nothing more effective in turning muslims against islam than sharia law.
They don't like ISIS either as ISIS butcher and torture and kill even other muslims.
The average joe over there just wants to be left alone and provide for his family in safety, like everyone else in the world.
islam is the scourge of the earth and needs to be eradicated, but I really feel for so many of the people who live under that barbaric cult and were born and raised in it and who want out and see no change of it.
Nope, not now.
But there are answers.
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As an old Bedouin proverb goes, “Me against my brother, my brother and I against my cousin, and all of us against the stranger.”
The average Joe over there believes this, too.
Western people don't think like that.
My wife is Chinese, I've been to China, my children have each spent many summers in China with their grandparents, aunts and cousins.
Chinese people don't think like that.
Pokeston should be taking out ISIS. And the Talibunnies.
My sister was in the AF and said that she was talking with some other service members who had been over there about muslim culture.
Now I remember when GW went after Saddam after the failed Gulf War of his father. I remember hearing all kinds of screeching and crying from the media about how this would make us look weak in their eyes cause he was finishing up what his dad didn’t/couldn’t/wouldn’t do.
Someone pointed out in that conversation she related that that was Western thinking and that actually in muslim culture, where grudges are held for generations and it’s not uncommon for the son to carry on a feud of the parents, that to them, this would make perfect sense and that in their own weird way, they would respect that.
I never heard that confirmed by any muslims, but I guess if that is your culture, then it would make sense to them.
And their kids rediscover their ‘roots’ and radicalize.
That seesm to happen when they move the West.
The war was ongoing every day during the Clinton Regiem enforcing the no fly zones.
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