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Old 07-14-2016, 08:53 PM   #83
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What a simpleton's and/or ignoramus' analysis of the issue. The Muslims in Turkey and Baghdad who were recent victims of similar attacks were condemning the same criminals.

Such a facile understanding.
more muslims have been killed by Isis than westerners, that's absolutely true...

we just have a more visceral reaction because we can identify with other western democracies...

An Isil truck bomb killed 200 in Bagdad just and the end of the Muslim holy month Ramandan, just as families were preparing to celebrate Eid, which marks the end of the fast.... So, the notion that its "us versus them" is a very superficial reading of what Isil is all about.

Now, i will say that France, much more than any western democracy, has been targeted...so there may be some underlying societal issues there...

but make no mistake, Isil goes after other muslims more often than western targets.
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