Paris newspaper attack underscores terrorist shift to "soft targets"

The Washington Times ^ | January 9, 2015 | Guy Taylor

[SisterK]

Who says they don’t have teams here? Teams waiting for the green light?

[Carriage Hill]

They’ve been hitting ‘soft targets’ here for many years, and we don’t do squat; we just makes excuses for them and their murders. The filth called islam gets an eternal pass.

[sargon]

These Islamic madmen are out to die anyway, so even if they're going to be shot to death by American civilians, they could still do a lot of damage first.

Despite the fact that there's a "rifle behind every blade of grass" in America, it's absolutely astounding to me that this sort of attack hasn't begun to happen here yet, because there are plenty of "soft targets" around.

It's a testament to the moderating effect which living in America must have on most Muslims, IMHO. Most people, given a taste of Peace and Liberty, even if it's only partial, tend to like it. They see people of very different cultures living together in peace and tolerance (for the most part) and their bloodlust subsides.

I can't think of any other reason that these sorts of attacks haven't yet begun here in America. It is, in a word, incredible.

What other reason could there be? Either radical Islam doesn't appeal to most Muslims, or else America's relatively open society has some kind of moderating effect. Probably a mixture of both.

[Pollster1]

Islamic terrorists are sissies (literally, in the sense that they like young boys, and figuratively in the sense that they are afraid to fight anyone who is not incredibly weak). Killing cartoonists is as brave as it gets for terrorists.

[Lazamataz]

Where the al Qaeda of Osama bin Laden’s leadership flew an airplane into the Pentagon in a meticulously prepared operation, the tip of today’s global jihadi spear is increasingly pointed at exploiting such “soft targets” as shopping malls, sporting events, tourist attractions and, in the case of this week’s horror in Paris, the office of a satirical news magazine.

Mosques are soft targets.

Just sayin', is all.

[Biggirl]

Good comments.

Plus also they know that there is such a thing called “CCW laws” and that forces them to let’s just say, “mind their p’s and q’s.”