Muslims living in France have a lot of reasonable complaints–BUT-these guys didn’t speak for them.

[kpete]

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Even from the perspective of someone who thinks that insulting the prophet is a terrible act, it was clear that, while these guys could perhaps hold their guns steady, they were not the “highly-trained professionals” some anti-terrorism pants pissers would have us believe. Look at the record: First, they went to the wrong address. Then, they killed a Muslim janitor on his first day on the job. The only video that has been widely distributed shows them murdering another Muslim, a police officer who was already down and curled in a fetal position, begging for his life. That cowardly act is all over the Internet as the main evidence of what kind of “heroes” these assholes really are. Finally, when they called in the rest of their crew (one or two other guys) and had them stage a diversion, those guys killed 4 civilians whose only crime against the prophet was (perhaps) being Jewish and needing some groceries that day. The video of the end of that siege, by the way, shows another shithead stumbling blindly out the door of the grocery store and being shot multiple times by paramilitary police in Darth Vader hats. That’s not exactly a modern-day version of Braveheart.

Their messaging, insofar as they had any, was also laughably bad. When our extremist Butch and Sundance where holed up in a print shop and surrounded by Jacques Law, they were interviewed by a French TV station. In that interview, they maintained that they don’t kill innocent civilians. What was that janitor other than an innocent? I realize that Muslims living in France might have a lot of reasonable complaints–these guys didn’t even get that message out.

France woke up this morning to four dead young men who are almost universally despised, after a demonstration of overwhelming, coordinated response by the state. By the time this is over, millions will have gathered in demonstrations. Perhaps a few more young men will be inspired by this, but if they are, it will be despite the bare facts of what happened yesterday, not because of it.


more:
http://www.balloon-juice.com/2015/01/10/accidentally-like-a-martyr/#more-164060

[Sopkoviak]

1. Actually the don't have lot of reasonable complaints

It's not like the Muslims were captured and sent to France on slave ships or that the Muslims were peaceful pastoral indigenous peoples pushed off of their lands by invading hoards of cheese eating cigarette smoking Frenchmen.

No, the Muslims migrated to France and were welcomed by the French but they refuse to assimilate into society.

The Muslims moved to France but don't want to be French. That will create problems and resentment every time.

Please quit making excuses for these ingrates.

[MisterP]

2. perhaps the same dynamic as Colin Ferguson, then?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Island_Rail_Road_massacre