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posted by n1 on Saturday November 14 2015, @01:00AM   Printer-friendly

France has declared a national state of emergency and has closed its borders after at least 40 people were killed in multiple shootings in Paris.

At least 15 people were killed near the Bataclan arts centre, where up to 60 people are being held hostage. Explosions and gunfire are reported.

Three people were killed in an attack near the Stade de France, with some reports suggesting a suicide blast.

Paris authorities have urged people to stay indoors.

Military personnel are being deployed across Paris.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/11/13/455943961/violence-reported-in-paris
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/13/world/paris-shooting/index.html

Update #1 [BBC updates]:

Scores of people have been killed in multiple gun and bomb attacks in Paris

At least 100 people are reported to have died inside the Bataclan concert hall in central Paris

Others died in attacks near the Stade de France, where France were playing Germany, and at restaurants

France has declared a national state of emergency and has closed its borders

Paris residents have been asked to stay indoors and military personnel are being deployed across the city

[...] Reuters. quoting an un-named official at Paris City Hall, says the current death toll in Paris is around 140.

Update #2:

According to the Paris prosecutor, of the four assailants who died during the sidge at the Bataclan, three committed suicide by detonating explosive vests. The prosecutor has warned that some of their accomplices may "still be on the loose".

[...] Here is what French president François Hollande told reporters outside the Bataclan concert hall just now: "To all those who have seen these awful things, I want to say we are going to lead a war which will be pitiless. Because when terrorists are capable of committing such atrocities they must be certain that they are facing a determined France, a united France, a France that is together and does not let itself be moved, even if today we express infinite sorrow."


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  • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by gman003 on Saturday November 14 2015, @01:49AM

    by gman003 (4155) on Saturday November 14 2015, @01:49AM (#262971)

    If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known,
    gods of the peoples around you, whether near or far, from one end of the land to the other),
    do not yield to them or listen to them. Show them no pity. Do not spare them or shield them.
    You must certainly put them to death. Your hand must be the first in putting them to death, and then the hands of all the people.
    Stone them to death, because they tried to turn you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
    Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and no one among you will do such an evil thing again.

    Deuteronomy 13:6-11 [biblegateway.com], canon in Judaism and many forms of Christianity, assuming this is classed as "moral law" and not "ceremonial law".

    I suppose you were correct in that I was hard-pressed to find this evidence, because I am not intimately familiar with any of the major religious checks. But it still wasn't too hard to find.

    Oh, and "unified front"? Radical Muslims spend most of their time killing each other for not being the right flavor of Muslim. ISIS counts among their enemies all members of Shia Islam, whom they execute when found.

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  • (Score: 2) by kurenai.tsubasa on Saturday November 14 2015, @03:55AM

    by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Saturday November 14 2015, @03:55AM (#263033) Journal

    My favorite translation can differ in interesting ways, even from NIV (and certainly from KJV), but not in this case.

    Deuteronomy 13:6–11 (MSG):

    And when your brother or son or daughter, or even your dear wife or lifelong friend, comes to you in secret and whispers, “Let’s go and worship some other gods” (gods that you know nothing about, neither you nor your ancestors, the gods of the peoples around you near and far, from one end of the Earth to the other), don’t go along with him; shut your ears. Don’t feel sorry for him and don’t make excuses for him. Kill him. That’s right, kill him. You throw the first stone. Take action at once and swiftly with everybody in the community getting in on it at the end. Stone him with stones so that he dies. He tried to turn you traitor against God, your God, the one who got you out of Egypt and the world of slavery.

    Every man, woman, and child in Israel will hear what’s been done and be in awe. No one will dare to do an evil thing like this again.

    I included the part about throwing the first stone because I find it highly contradictory to Jesus' Message (and the Buddah's Message).

    All of the Abrahamaic religions have this built in. That includes Baptists, Catholics, Southern Christian Identity, Reformed, Mormonism, etc. Wasn't it Saint Augustine [wikipedia.org] who advised against literal interpretations?

    Exodus 20:1–6 (MSG):

    God spoke all these words:

    I am God, your God,
            who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
            out of a life of slavery.

    No other gods, only me.

    No carved gods of any size, shape, or form of anything whatever, whether of things that fly or walk or swim. Don’t bow down to them and don’t serve them because I am God, your God, and I’m a most jealous God, punishing the children for any sins their parents pass on to them to the third, and yes, even to the fourth generation of those who hate me. But I’m unswervingly loyal to the thousands who love me and keep my commandments.

    Seems like a terrible and unjust god to me (certainly not a rex tremende majestatis, unless the “awful” part of most translations is the salient part), one who endorses genital mutilation, but hey.

    Observe how, through, how this comes out after 2,500 years of history. Most of the denominations of Christianity I mentioned overlook this part, just the same as they overlook the prohibition against bacon(++).

    But hey, maybe it was just a proscription against worshiping those Goa'uld bastards [wikia.com]. If that's the case, everybody should chillax, especially the jihadists, because SGC has everything under control!