Re: Priest killed after attackers chanted Daesh in France.
Pete - I think you've stumbled onto the truth here. They were undoubtedly Presbyterians just pretending to be Islamic Fundamentalists.
Oh stop the arrogant bull****.
All I want is the ****ing truth and as many facts before I start condemning people.. people have many different motivations for their actions and at best these guys were inspired by ISIS. It is amazing that people have not learned their lesson after the German gun man.. where it was "oh another Islamic attack", and despite there being some odd reports on what happened. Now a week later we know that the kid was a very disturbed kid and no radical islamist.
This attack had one major issue with it, and that was the reports that they said Daesh. I have yet to see the Daesh confirmed or discounted, but we still lack a lot of information about the people involved, but more and more come out every day. And to those people who dismis the Daesh comment... pathetic. Understand a true ISIS follower would never use that word to describe the group.
What we do know is that one of them came from a clearly middle class family.. mostly non religious. So what made him suddenly go crazy religious? We also know from several sources that he acted strange for a small period of time, including talking to himself. We also know that he attempted several time to go to Syria, was stopped, and that he openly talked about supporting ISIS. His parents tried to have him arrested. A lot of things were done to stop this guy.
In the end it was the French police and system it seems that dropped the ball. The family and friends had warned the officials about him, and yet there was (as far as we know yet) no mental evaluation and the other measures were not exactly effective. He was under surveillance (supposedly) but that certainly did not work. Of course according to what I understand there are over 10k that are under surveillance for radicalization.
So we have some questions that need answering... very important ones. How could a young teenager go from a normal boy to a radical fanatic within a few months? If we want to prevent these cases in the future, then we need to figure it out. We need to understand why so many of our own citizens are turning to radicalism and willing to commit attacks against their own friends and families. Dont you think that is something the government and people in general need to address?
In the end blaming it on Islam in general is nothing but bull****. All that does is create a fertile recruiting ground for the the radicals... is that what you want? Do you blame all the Irish people and Catholicism for the acts of the IRA?
And I never said that this was not an radical Islamic attack or make excuses for these bastards.. I just questioned if it was linked to ISIS because of the Daesh comment and was still questioning it until ISIS (allegedly) released the video yesterday. I question it less now, but it still bothers me the reports of the Daesh comment, and that it took ISIS so long for the release of the video. They are usually way faster.
