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Well, Here's One Paris Neighborhood That Isn't Angry At ISIS
Townhall.com ^ | November 15, 2015 | Matt Vespa

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: france; isis; islamicextremists; liberalacedemia; liberals; paris; parisattack; terrorism
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1 posted on 11/15/2015 4:41:55 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Young skulls full of MUSH IDIOTS!! Wait til THEY are bombed by ISIS!!


2 posted on 11/15/2015 4:44:58 PM PST by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Kaslin

People who do evil are evil! Am I missing something?


3 posted on 11/15/2015 4:45:46 PM PST by stocksthatgoup (When the MSM and Elites want your opinion they will give it to you.)
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To: Kaslin
"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."

They need sharia. Nothing else will do.

4 posted on 11/15/2015 4:46:21 PM PST by Libloather (Embrace the suck)
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To: Kaslin

Bobo ? Is that french for effing retard ? Ah well, i fought for my share of them


5 posted on 11/15/2015 4:47:04 PM PST by onona (something pithy this way comes)
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To: Kaslin

Yes, wait until the Muzzies take over France and these bohemians find themselves kneeling, their arms tied behind their backs, and someone is holding a knife to their throats. Will they still be as forgiving? Somehow I doubt it.


6 posted on 11/15/2015 4:50:44 PM PST by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
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To: Libloather

Apparently.
Until the beheadings and stonings begin, they won’t accept the truth about Islam.


7 posted on 11/15/2015 4:50:48 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Kaslin

I hope she is kidnapped and made a slave. Is that wrong?


8 posted on 11/15/2015 4:51:31 PM PST by dp0622 (..)
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To: Kaslin

Sick beyond recovery.


9 posted on 11/15/2015 4:51:33 PM PST by skeeter
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To: Kaslin

Leftists who think like that need to go to Somalia and sit in a chair on a public street. The savages won’t care what they think. They will be brutally attacked, robbed, raped and/or murdered.


10 posted on 11/15/2015 4:55:17 PM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: Kaslin
You ever get the feeling the debate on the left is between the useful idiots and the useless idiots
11 posted on 11/15/2015 4:56:54 PM PST by tophat9000 (King G(OP)eorge III has no idea why the Americans Patr a in rebellion... teach him why)
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To: Ann Archy
Well.....Didn't Yuri Besmenov warn us about “demoralization”? These people are so “demoralized” that they are completely brain addled. The bombing is right in their backyard and they refuse to see and understand the facts placed immediately in front of them.
12 posted on 11/15/2015 4:57:32 PM PST by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: Kaslin

Stupid is as stupid does ... and it BURNS!


13 posted on 11/15/2015 4:58:46 PM PST by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: wintertime

“demoralization”??? I just call it STUPID....or EVIL!!


14 posted on 11/15/2015 4:58:51 PM PST by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

It’s like that Yuri Bezmenov quote about Communism. That some would not understand until the boot of Communism kicks them in the rear.


15 posted on 11/15/2015 5:00:20 PM PST by CommieCutter
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To: tophat9000

Amazing, isn’t it? Some people just never learn.


16 posted on 11/15/2015 5:00:22 PM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: dp0622
Many a young and not so young French woman dated/were mistresses of the Nazis, when they took over France during WW II.

Agincourt, the 100 years War, WW I and WW II obviously wiped out anyone with more than 4 working brain cells and diluted the gene pool.

17 posted on 11/15/2015 5:00:29 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Kaslin

I kept seeing Shemp Smith saying “We can’t kill our way out of this!” Leftist denial is just incomprehensible to me. Meanwhile, the murderers are celebrating in the streets.


18 posted on 11/15/2015 5:02:59 PM PST by ozzymandus
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To: Kaslin
This is what me and Mr ZinGirl were discussing:

what about those who were killed who HAD the scales removed from their eyes...how do they cope?

Islam HATES truth and justice....yet they KILL indiscrimately. Please explain.

19 posted on 11/15/2015 5:03:50 PM PST by ZinGirl (kids in college....can't afford a tagline right now)
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To: Kaslin
This is what me and Mr ZinGirl were discussing:

what about those who were killed who HAD the scales removed from their eyes...how do they cope?

Islam HATES truth and justice....yet they KILL indiscrimately. Please explain.

20 posted on 11/15/2015 5:03:51 PM PST by ZinGirl (kids in college....can't afford a tagline right now)
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