Paris under attack

[Bengalzona]

(11-14-2015, 08:57 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: The sad thing about this is that while IS is claiming responsibility, what I have been hearing is that some of what was being said by the attackers was not Arabic, but French in origin. Arturo has been saying it all along, it seems as though these were French nationals carrying out this attack. This means, in my opinion, that with or without IS this would have happened. People that can be guided to actions like these are going to be guided no matter who is behind them, nudging them on.

This doesn't mean that we should ignore the role IS played, we should absolutely join France, our oldest ally, in striking back at them in a big way.

The self-made Muslim "ghettos" in the European capital cities have become percolators of dissent and anti-Western sentiment among the 'third generation' of Muslim citizens in those countries. The first gen had work and partially assimilated into the culture. The second gen had no work and turned away from the culture, isolating themselves in the initial areas where the first gen had moved and creating their own ghettos. The third gen grew up in these cesspools and feeling like outsiders. Filled with their parents' resentment, it hasn't taken much outside push from groups like ISIL to incite them to violence. This situation is complicated and there is no easy solution.