"Shootings" reported in central Paris.

Excuse me earlier I replied my thoughts went out to the people killed only then I saw the comments later saying Muslims are evil etc been a 100 replies since then open your eyes.

How many more sickening attacks like this need to happen before Eu leaders take their heads out of the sand and actually tackle the issue which is Isis?
Had this had been swiftly dealt with even back in spring 2014 many of these tragedies might have been avoided. Instead size, power and influence has been allowed to continue to grow in strength and numbers.

Is the priority of people hearing about such atrocities to assign blame instead of promoting support and contributing their wishes and prayers to the victimised?

I opened this thread expecting it to be filled with "My prayers are with the French.", "This is an atrocity to the human race.", "We should rally for aid to be given to the French" but instead it's filled with talks of Nazism and religion and petty blame.

Can we please put aside all of that and just be supportive for a few hours, please?

Not what I want to hear when I am going to Paris next week

Sky News saying both the gun men killed.

Shown me 2 post that has stated all Muslims are terrorists

Look now is not the time you can make excuses and distract later but wait for it to end ffs.

I hate them all, I wish they'd just die

My prayers are with the French.

However if we dont look at the cause there WILL be repeat attacks. Possibly in London possibly in Paris again

I opened this thread expecting it to be filled with "My prayers are with the French.", "This is an atrocity to the human race.", "We should rally for aid to be given to the French" but instead it's filled with talks of Nazism and religion and petty blame.

Can we please put aside all of that and just be supportive for a few hours, please?

The problems is that western interventionism in the Gulf directly sowed the seeds for ISIS to appear.

How do you neutralise a guerilla terrorist force that blends into the general population? The only way is to completely shut the country down, and inevitably there are civilian deaths, invasive stop & search, and a loss of social cohesion

Say a teenager living in Afghanistan had a friend blown up mistakenly by a drone strike, suddenly you've created a new person hell-bent on bringing righteous vengeance on western heathens.

So we can't just walk in and obliterate ISIS, because direct military action just pisses off more of them and creates more terrorists

Is the priority of people hearing about such atrocities to assign blame instead of promoting support and contributing their wishes and prayers to the victimised?

I opened this thread expecting it to be filled with "My prayers are with the French.", "This is an atrocity to the human race.", "We should rally for aid to be given to the French" but instead it's filled with talks of Nazism and religion and petty blame.

Can we please put aside all of that and just be supportive for a few hours, please?

Because the best compassion will be to prevent any further events of this kind and to do that one needs to understand the causes of current ones..

I agree - but that comes after. When things have settled down for a bit and it's been a few hours, people have been confirmed as being safe, etc... then we can start thinking about all of this.

Quite a few people have been coming on here and done nothing but spread hate. It really does show what the human race has become.