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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: 3, Interesting) by Grishnakh on Saturday November 14 2015, @03:44AM

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Saturday November 14 2015, @03:44AM (#263028)

    Unfortunately, there's very different strains of the Islamic religion, just as there's very different strains of Christianity.

    Your Lebanese friend is obviously from one of the more moderate strains. Probably something like the Lutherans in Christianity.

    But there's some really wacko strains of Christianity out there: the snake-handlers, the Seventh-Day Adventists, the Pentecostals, etc. In Christianity, these groups aren't really very big, but over on the Islamic side, the "extremists" seem to be a pretty large fraction of the whole, and they're far, far more violent than even the nuttiest Christians. They're like the Christians were before the Enlightenment: burning people at the stake for "heresy" etc. Well, it took half a millenium for the Christians to shed most of that nonsense and become somewhat civilized. The Muslims aren't going to do it in a decade.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2015, @05:24AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2015, @05:24AM (#263081)

    > the Seventh-Day Adventists,

    They aren't particularly wacko, more on the amish side of things - they brought us breakfast cereal after all. Yes Kellog was a 7th day adventist.

    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2015, @10:12AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2015, @10:12AM (#263158)

      It was also invented to make you stop masturbating.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_flakes [wikipedia.org]

      Dr. Kellogg introduced Kellogg Corn Flakes in hopes that it would reduce masturbation.[5] In fact, Kellogg devoted much of his energy to discouraging sexual activity of any kind, and was an especially ardent critic of masturbation, which he believed could cause "cancer of the womb, urinary diseases, nocturnal emissions, impotence, epilepsy, insanity, and mental and physical debility" as well as "dimness of vision" and moral corruption.[6]

      • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2015, @01:22PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2015, @01:22PM (#263225)

        Was it common for men to masturbate in their breakfast, in dr. Kellogg's time??

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Saturday November 14 2015, @12:47PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Saturday November 14 2015, @12:47PM (#263208) Journal

    the "extremists" seem to be a pretty large fraction of the whole

    No, they're not. They're not even a blip. There are 1.57 billion, with a "b," muslims in the world. ISIS are a rounding error. That's like saying my crazy Christian cousin Greg is a "pretty large fraction of the whole" of Christians. He's not.

    I really wish this religious bigotry, because that's what this is, would cease because it is not only hateful, but also tedious, and worst of all, incorrect. It's flat wrong from any perspective.

    --
    Washington DC delenda est.
    • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday November 16 2015, @01:18AM

      by Grishnakh (2831) on Monday November 16 2015, @01:18AM (#263809)

      No, they're not. They're not even a blip.

      Bullshit. If they're "not even a blip", then please explain how it is they control many nations. Saudi Arabia and Iran for starters, Egypt (where they elected the Muslim Brotherhood in a *popular election* but the military overthrew this democratically-elected government), Afghanistan which used to be under the control of the Taliban (and they're still trying to retake it), and Iraq where much of it is under the control of ISIS. Don't forget all the other Islamist factions in various places, such as the ones trying to take over Syria (which includes ISIS but also several other extremist factions), and I'm sure I'm missing a bunch.

      But somehow it's "religious bigotry" to point out that Islamic extremists enjoy wide, popular support throughout the Middle East.