Posted on 11/15/2015 4:41:54 PM PST by Kaslin
What is it with people on the left that brings them to the conclusion that the Islamic State isn't evil, let alone be angry with the perpetrators of the horrific Paris attacks last Friday? In the 11th Arrondissement, or administrative district, of Paris, some residents aren't angry with ISIS, nor do they consider them evil (via Haaretz):
A group of friends was standing near the candles that had been lit at the foot of the monument at the square, trying to find out if the waiter that had served them at La Belle Equipe, one of the restaurants attacked in the 11th arrondissement, had been killed.
But they aren't angry, at least not at the perpetrators. "They're stupid, but they aren't evil," their friend Sabrina, an administrative worker in one of the theaters in the 11th arrondissement, said. "They are victims of a system that excluded them from society, that's why they felt this doesn't belong to them and they could attack. There are those who live here in alienation, and we are all to blame for this alienation."
"After the attacks in January, they said we should unite, but that essentially meant that we should be together and not think independently," says Clemens Mama, a teacher. "They don't want us to think that maybe it's connected to the policies of our government and of the United States in the Middle East." No, she wasn't surprised that the attackers apparently included people who were born and raised in France. "These are people the government gave up on, and you have to ask why," she said.
No one wanted to talk about Islamists or the Islamic State, even after it took responsibility for the attacks and French President Francois Hollande announced that the group was behind them. "Daesh is so dangerous to France," said Johann Crispel, a business student at a college near one of the restaurants that was attacked, using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State and wrinkling his nose as he enunciated it. "Perhaps it'’s correct to bomb them in the name of democracy and freedom, but it brought the war in Syria to us in France. I don't think it's worth it."
It was hard to find anyone at this gathering who would say a bad word about the attackers, and expressions of patriotism were restrained. Perhaps it should be no surprise in this part of town. Most residents of the 11th arrondissement are what the French call "bobo," bohemian and bourgeois, middle-class academics in their 30s and 40s with clearly leftist leanings.
Yes, airstrikes was one of ISIS' insane grievances with the French that prompted this attack, but so was the fact that they viewed Paris as the capital of abomination and perversion. These folks will find any reason to attack the infidels, and, of course, this action was done to place pressure on the French government to stop the airstrikes in Syria and to inject fear that no one is safe until these actions are taken.
Also, alienation is a reason to commit terrorist acts that claims the lives of innocent people? I never knew the attendees inside the Bataclan Concert Hall were agents of this system, I guess they all deserved it or something, which appears to be the mindset of these "bobos." Nothing excuses terrorist actions. Nothing legitimizes it. Also, do these people not know what they're doing to the women in their territory?
This afternoon, France responded to this horrific attack by bombing ISIS military targets in their capital of Raqqa in northern Syria.
Their “religion” and faith is “diversity”, the catchy term for universalism, the idea that all limits to human altruism are immoral.
Universalism is the basis of the post-war European moral settlement, and it has motivated two of its great revolutions .. European integration and the creation of multi-ethnic societies. This followed two appalling nationalist-fuelled wars, and Europe’s universalist leaders believe that nations “lead to war”, in the words of the EU President Herman Van Rompuy. Any opposition to universalism, whether to trans-national governments or open borders, is therefore racism, xenophobia or “far-Right rhetoric”.
oy....not sure why that was a double-text. pls excuse.
Leftists/LIBs are the same everywhere self-loathing and mentally ill.
4 working brain cells. lol. out of 100 billion.
and i think you’re being kind.
taqiyyah,-- In Islam, the practice of concealing one’s belief and foregoing ordinary religious duties when under threat of death or injury.-- Lying to non-Muslims in advance for Islam is allowed till Judgment Day Quran 3:28, 16:106
-- It is fine to deceive the infidels. They are just pigs anyways. In fact, al-Taqiyyah of the Qur'an compels protection of Islam by deception.
IS doesnt need to kill in this area they could easily get elected and impose the islamic state without a single protest from the left who live there
These people are absolute morons.....AT LEAST WE DON’T HAVE A MONOPOLY.........
Yes, I am a very kind person. :-)
French people have no freedom of speech. Their legal system labels any criticism of Islam as hate speech and hauls the speaker into court for a trial which ends up with the levy of hefty fines. Brigitte Bardot was punished many times for speaking out. The French people are so used to editing their speech and thoughts that they can’t think any other way.
That’s nice :)
We need more kind people in the world.
I dont think i qualify but i’m nice :)
most of the time.
I think...
The “alienation” of which they speak is actually
failure to assimilate.
God protect us from your thinking.
OTOH, there are some people whom one just can't be "nice" to, because they'll stomp on your head/stick a knife in your back, no matter what, and so it would be stupid to even try to be "nice" to them.
VERY true.
SPOT ON !
Things all adults should have learned long ago, but which many haven't.
Trump gets it! He is nice to people who are nice to him, but doesn't take crap from anyone.
It is as if they were never taught the history of Europe.
They do not see the continuity of this attack with the Mohammedan assaults on Europe in the past.
And now it’s not looked at as insane anymore.
which is GREAT. More people are thinking “wow, he is right about that person, so why not say it”
he took the shock value out of it by NOT backing down and stopping.
Now, people listen.
Cruz did that to some extent too, before Trump, but not at this level and he just didn’t catch on as much as Trump.
I REALLY like Cruz. He is young and would make a great VP.
that stuff about picking a vp to win their state hasn’t held water for a while, i think.
Pathetic. Government fault, society fault, but leftists never believe the perpetrators are at fault.
My grandpa was blown out of his tank in France, and lived the rest of his life with physical disabilities... All for these worthless losers who won’t even fight for their own survival.
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