#JeSuisParis

[mylye2222]

DEATHLY MASS ATTACKS ALL ACRISS PARIS..

AT least 60 died.

RIP

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

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[Raster]

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[mainstreetonce]

3. Our prayers

should be with them.

[City Lights]

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[mylye2222]

5. Merci a tous DUERS.

I am so in pain tonight. Stuck at TV shaking with shock. My Parisian friends are OK but one were near an attack site....

[Mass]

19. Just talked to my son.

First time I am happy that he is not a sociable person and was at home on a Friday night.

But I am still in shock too.

[mylye2222]

23. I am not in Paris.

My friends are OK too.

But I am stuck by tv fir all night I think. In shock. Need to talk and exchange.

[MH1]

41. I am so sorry.

This is very terrible.

Hang in there, I sure hope all your friends and family remain okay.

[LiberalElite]

101. Glad to hear from you Mylye - it's been a while -

This is a horrendous act. Stay safe.

[darkangel218]

6. Stay safe, Mylye

X

[historylovr]

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[petronius]

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[beam me up scottie]

9. Je suis Paris

[Shandris]

10. I wonder if they got one of those 'misplaced weapons crates'...

...that kept miraculously showing up in 'refugee nations'.

[Glimmer of Hope]

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[rollin74]

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[Krytan11c]

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[haikugal]

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[polly7]

15. I'm so sorry, mylye.

Just so horrible.

[HuckleB]

16. Peace...

[mcar]

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[Generic Other]

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[spanone]

20. JeSuisParis

[nolabear]

21. ...

[Dont call me Shirley]

22. ...

Je suis Paris!

[Solly Mack]

24. K&R

[dorkzilla]

25. President Hollande said they’re closing the French borders

OMG - my husband and I were just talking about going to Paris in February. To think of such ugliness again in such a beautiful city.

[Yorktown]

26. I got relatives in Paris and would like to thank religion in general

for all the goodness it brought Paris in recent times.

[liberalla]

27. JeSuisParis

no words... so sorry...

[ucrdem]

28. :-(

[KamaAina]

29. Done.

[retrowire]

30. je suis paris!

...

[MerryBlooms]

31. I have no words.

[Surya Gayatri]

32. Je suis à la limite du 20 et 11 Arrondissements. Les sirènes retentissent sans cesse.

Je suis écoeurée et au bord des larmes.

[mylye2222]

34. OmG are you OK.

Im close to tears myself...

Oh why.. WHY??????

[Surya Gayatri]

35. I'm OK. Stuck at home since I broke my "col du fémur".

Paris is at the heart of Europe--excellent, high visibility target for those wanting to cause panic and mayhem.

[Lifelong Protester]

71. I am sorry for Paris, and glad you are OK

You were very kind to me in posting tips and ideas when I was there (in Paris) this summer.

[Surya Gayatri]

72. So sad, but otherwise fine. Paris is the world's favorite city and she will never be cowed!

[Lifelong Protester]

102. Beautiful!

Love that picture!!

[Surya Gayatri]

113. Here's another spectacular one...

[perdita9]

33. We are all French today

Dear France,
We will have your back, no matter what happens.

[hifiguy]

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[SunSeeker]

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[LostOne4Ever]

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[octoberlib]

39. So incredibly sad.

[TeeYiYi]

40. (((((((mylye2222)))))))

TYY

[suffragette]

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[BooScout]

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[RiverLover]

44. Be careful Emile!!

Thank you so much for checking in here. As soon as I heard about the attacks over there, I thought of you & hoped you were ok. So glad you are, & so sad you've lost so many fellow citizens.



We all share your loss & heartbreak here in the US.

We Stand with France!!!

[mylye2222]

48. Thank You..

[tavernier]

45. My friend Marie is a sports photographer

and I was frantic! She finally replied on facebook that she is safe and cannot express how much our concern means to her...

(and a million more)

Please kick!!!

[Rose Siding]

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[Paka]

47. JeSuisParis

My heart bleeds. The death toll will rise.

[840high]

49. Prayers and thoughts.

[sarge43]

50. ....

Paris

[MissDeeds]

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[MsLeopard]

52. ....

No words....

[Live and Learn]

53. Damn, stay safe. nt

[LovingA2andMI]

54. .....

[DinahMoeHum]

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[icymist]

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[Jester Messiah]

57. Horrified, disgusted, and enraged.

Fuck these subhuman garbage with a white-hot poker!

[MadDAsHell]

67. Racist. nt

[MadDAsHell]

69. And judgemental of another religion; wow. Step down from your tower. nt

[RiverLover]

73. I hope this doesn't get a hide. Justified!

The people that did this are subhuman garbage!!!

Its far from being racist to point that out.

[thebighobgoblin]

88. We need to stop dancing around the truth

Islam is a problem.

Do I think that all Muslims are violent? A majority? No, of course not.

But it doesn't take a majority to cause problems. No other religion has even a fraction of people who think in violent terms the way that a lot of Muslims do, and if you want to hide my posts, fine, but you're just consciously choosing to limit free speech. This is one of those rare times when this isn't really bigotry; it's pointing out the truth. We should be fair. We should not apply a broad brush to all individuals. But there's a huge problem within Muslim communities the world over right now. And their faith, their tenets lend themselves to interpretations that make it easy to preach intolerance, hatred, fanaticism, and ultimately, violence.

I don't care if you don't agree with me. I know what I know.

[RiverLover]

91. You sound like Bill Maher. And I agree with your words here 100%.

I have a liberal friend who is very angry with the SILENT majority of Islam who don't strongly condemn the violence of the few. She blames them. This was before today.

[MadDAsHell]

95. "We need to stop dancing around the truth"

Islamic extremism has murdered civilians for decades. Why do we now have to stop "dancing around the truth"?

[Admiral Loinpresser]

98. I consider Christianity much more of a problem.

The white terrorism in the New World over the last 500 years is unparalleled and going strong. Statistically, I am much more likely to be harmed by a Christian terrorist than a Muslim terrorist in the USA.

I agree that any terrorist is a scumbag, but let's not discount the hysteria about Muslim terrorists, whereas white terrorists aren't even ACKNOWLEDGED to be terrorists.

Havng said that, I hope France catches those bastards and gives them a taste of Gallic justice!

[thebighobgoblin]

116. Oh yeah, well...

...the reality is that you're pretty comfortably living in a world that is the product of "white terrorism." And I doubt very seriously you'd trade it in for something else. I'm hardly a right wing nutbar but I am disgusted whenever I see comments such as yours every time a bunch of barbarians commit mass murder. Whether you realize it or not, you're tacitly endorsing such behavior and you're encouraging more.

So, stop. Just call an outrage and outrage for once...and leave it at that.

[Admiral Loinpresser]

117. Of course it is an outrage.

I stand with the French people regarding this tragedy and hell yes, I hate the people responsible.

But I don't want to hear any Bill Maher pseudo intellectual bullshit. The biggest terrorist of the last 20 years has been a white Christian: George W. Bush. And the ONLY terrorism in my part of the country has been white terrorists killing black people, Jews and abortion doctors. When white people commit terrorism, the CCM doesn't even call it that, except for the IRA. Maybe we should just agree to disagree about who wins the terrorist Olympics.

[thebighobgoblin]

119. No, you don't stand with the French people.

There have been plenty of opportunities, at times other than this moment, to condemn the policies of George W. Bush or the rhetoric and vitriol of Christian conservatives. There have been plenty of opportunities in the past, and there will undoubtedly be more in the future. That time is not now...for reasons that should be obvious.

So I again submit that you cannot equivocate and stand with anyone. You cannot sit and stand at the same time. You either stand, or you sit. Are you sitting or standing?

[Admiral Loinpresser]

120. I'm standing AND thinking.

YOU are the one who raised the Bill Maher bullshit. Lashing out at all Muslims wasn't right on 9/11 and it's not right now. I'm tired of talking to you. I won't reply because you will be on ignore.

[thebighobgoblin]

122. I confronted an uncomfortable truth.

I accept that Western foreign policy has had a negative influence on the Middle East and stoked the flames of radical Islamist ideology with unintended consequences. I'm pretty familiar with the history and get what you're saying.

None of that changes the fact that we have probably large numbers of people in the West who put their own religious values ahead of values that we consider essential to our way of living -- values such as free expression, which we happen to be making the most of right now on this message board.

I am tired of pretending like there's not a problem, when there clearly is a problem. I think it needs to be addressed before we in the West decide to permit more people from these cultures into our societies.

This is one example where perhaps I feel compelled to be just a little bit conservative to protect the rest of me that's progressive.

[Quantess]

121. It is definitely possible to denounce both George W Bush's policies and denounce ISIS

I've been righteously vocal and upset about "Pretzeldent" since before the Iraq invasion, and now I'm upset about muslim terrorists. The Middle East invasion doesn't make terrorism okay.

[SCantiGOP]

74. I hope you know you just picked up dozens, maybe hundreds of Ignores

Your comments have no place in this forum and certainly not in this thread.

[Jester Messiah]

76. oh no!

Anyone aligned with that shit pile is no one worth speaking to.

[thebighobgoblin]

89. Did you know that

A lot of Muslims HATE gays? I'm not talking ISIS Muslims, either. I mean Muslims who live right here in the United States.

[merrily]

105. So do a lot of Christians who live right here in the United States.

I know a Jewish gay whose family declared him dead and sat shiva for him.

"People of the Book"

Killing gays by law is despicable. Christians in this country having been trying to get other countries to do that and it happens in some Muslim countries.

[thebighobgoblin]

123. Right, but this isn't a mainstream belief in the West

I know of no Christian or Jewish country that executes gays. Don't confuse an exception with something broader.

[merrily]

124. Homophobia was mainstream in the US for a long time and until relatively recently.

We never made it government policy to kill gays, but we did make it government policy to exclude them and/or discriminate against them. DADT was not repealed until the current administration and DOMA was recently overturned by the SCOTUS. Churches all over the US are still preaching against gays and running camps and programs to "cure" them. Gays are still very much fighting for equal rights in employment and on so many other fronts.

Don't confuse an exception with something broader.

I'm not the least bit confused about this, thanks.

[thebighobgoblin]

127. That's right, it was.

But ideas changed. The free exchange of ideas happened. The society trusted its more secular instincts. You're not going to get that with an influx of people who aren't secular, and who aren't in any way prepared to find work and function economically in a new society.

[merrily]

128. What the hell does Muslims finding work have to do with my post?

Every time something happens, DU goes batshit over the religion followed by a billion and a half people all around the world. It's disgusting.

[thebighobgoblin]

131. Maybe because it's the same religion that is causing people to go understandably batshit

You don't see Christians strapping themselves with explosives. I can't think of any other religion with a substantial number of adherents who do this.

[merrily]

132. I have less than no interest in discussing this with you any further. Have a great day.

[Babel_17]

92. We seem to not have an uproar when that language gets applied

We seem to not have an uproar when that language gets applied to perpetrators of large scale hate crimes here in the USA. Or even some single despicable acts.

Did I miss something? Or are many of us assuming that the comment was used in regards a group? I can see how that might happen, but I definitely didn't take it that way.

[MadDAsHell]

80. Disturbing how quickly "liberals" become conservative assholes after violence hits close to home. nt

[thebighobgoblin]

90. A foolish consistency...

...is the hobgoblin of little minds.

[thebighobgoblin]

84. What are your dealings with people from this other religion?

I'm just curious. Tell us what you know.

[bravenak]

97. He said nothing about religion. He was speaking of the MURDERERS!!!!

[thebighobgoblin]

83. Oh yeah, call him a racist

At some point, people are going to stop caring what you call them. People are judged more by deeds than by words.

[Tipperary]

125. How is that racist? To call these terrorists subhuman garbage?

Do you disagree?

[dpatbrown]

58. Two weeks

My wife and I just spent two weeks in Paris, and had a wonderful time. A beautiful city. Our hearts go out to Paris.

[countmyvote4real]

59. Je suis Paris.

[Docreed2003]

60. Prayers...

[silverweb]

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[Lucky Luciano]

62. I support any ultraviolence France does in retaliation to those savages.

Yup - I said it.

[840high]

65. Yes.

[Warren DeMontague]

63. 5 min. after the charlie hebdo hashtag started, certain people showed up here to complain about it.

"Sure, terrorism is kinda sorta bad (but needs to be understood in the proper privilege and colonial context, yakno) but blasphemous cartoons and so-called 'free speech' are worse!"

For some folks, there is no violence or oppression more egregious than certain people not being able to censor pictures they don't like.

They'll stay quiet for a day or two, but their bullshit train will be pulling into the DU station soon enough.

[EileenFB]

64. Thoughts and prayers

[passiveporcupine]

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[SCantiGOP]

75. Peace

The world has gone mad. We need to work to make it better.

[Hestia]

85. Exactly what I told my DH. It's like we've reached a tipping point

[guillaumeb]

77. Je suis les citoyens innocents de Paris, mais pas le gouvernement des

colonialistes et terroristes.

[karynnj]

78. stay safe

This is heartbreaking. Love to Paris.

[WillyT]

79. :( :::::::::::::::::

[glinda]

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[thebighobgoblin]

82. Let's be honest here

The US and UK have been far more involved in Arab / Muslim affairs in recent years. Paris has been much less of a meddler in the Muslim world and yet the boldest attacks have occurred there.

At some point, you have to wonder why these attacks happen in France? And what is the French response going to be? Just turning the other cheek and trying to stay out of wars doesn't seem to be the answer. Sorry, but France has a problem with failing to integrate Muslims into the French mainstream, and idiots like Andrea Merkel had better wake up.

[Surya Gayatri]

86. I LOVE PARIS - How can you not?

[onecaliberal]

87. JeSuisParis

[Liberal_in_LA]

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[Overseas]

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[Depaysement]

96. #porteouverte

[Admiral Loinpresser]

99. Be well.

And may the bastards responsible rot in hell!

[LiberalElite]

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[Pathwalker]

103. We are all French tonight, mylee2222

ignore the ugly here, many just wish you well.

[merrily]

104. Sincere condolences, mylye2222. The aftermath of terrorist attacks is soul numbing.

[rhett o rick]

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[artislife]

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[eridani]

108. Attacks in Paris: Reactions From the Ground

The best way to fight terror is with human solidarity

http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/11/13/paris?cmpid=tpdaily-eml-2015-11-13

In the face of multiple terror attacks that killed more than 100 people in Paris on Friday, local residents took to social media to offer safe haven and track loved ones in the city.

Under the hashtag #PorteOuverte, which translates to #OpenDoor, Parisians offered shelter, a place to sleep—and usually a bit of hospitality—via Twitter.

On Facebook, concerned friends outside Paris were able to use the social media network’s Safety Check function to see if loved ones were near the terror attacks.

On Twitter, this offer came from the 18th arrondissement, the district south of the Stade de France, where multiple explosions were reported during a Germany-France soccer match—an offer of tea and clean sheets.

French news reported that Parisian taxis had turned off their meters to help people get home.

[stage left]

109. #JeSuisParis

[BlueCollar]

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[Pastiche423]

111. !

[CJCRANE]

112. JeSuisParis, JeSuisStPetersburg, JeSuisHumanity. nt

[iamthebandfanman]

114. #solidarité n/t

[LeftishBrit]

115. ....

[gademocrat7]

118. Tragic

[raging moderate]

126. JeSuisParis!

Nous vous aimons, Parisiens! Tous!

[Eleanors38]

129. Stay strong. Most democracies go through this from time to time.

[Bubzer]

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