{"id":1568,"date":"2015-11-13T20:36:15","date_gmt":"2015-11-14T01:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2015-11-13T20:36:15","modified_gmt":"2015-11-14T01:36:15","slug":"attacks-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2015\/11\/attacks-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim terrorist attacks in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2015\/11\/13\/attacks-paris\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/files\/2015\/11\/Paris-attacks.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tonight, Paris lived a series <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/paris-attacks-live-updates\/\">terrorist attacks<\/a>. They were carried out by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AFP\/status\/665312486040596482\">Muslims who shouted <em>Allah Ackbar<\/em><\/a> before shooting.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->What goes through my mind right now:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 My thoughts are with the French people.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The attacks are the sole responsibility of their authors: people are responsible for their own actions \u2014 if you come to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2015\/09\/08\/western-imperialism\/\">blame the West<\/a><\/strong>, you may well turn around and go back the way you came, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2015\/01\/29\/is-this-blog-for-you\/\">this page is not for you<\/a><\/strong> and will not be used to blame the victims for the atrocious crimes of their perpetrators.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 There are heads of state who refuse to admit that <strong>much suffering is directly derived from religious doctrines<\/strong>. As long as they keep making excuses for anti-democratic totalitarian ideologies (which are all faiths, not just Islam, which just happens to be more dangerous), their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/paris-attacks-live-updates\/kerry-heinous-evil-vile-acts-in-paris\">expressions of shock, horror and support<\/a> are empty words offered only as a formality. If they&#8217;re not willing to stand up for democracy, they are accomplices of terrorism by default and will be accomplices of future terrorist attacks. <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The vast majority of the <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humanisticas\/2015\/01\/08\/refusal-to-print-cartoons-is-to-capitulate-to-violent-extremism\/\">media around the world are accomplices<\/a> for what happened today, because they refused to publish back then the covers of <em>Charlie Hebdo<\/em>, supposedly because they were offensive. Oddly, they did not seem offensive to show how one of the savages finished off one of the victims on the sidewalk.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Shortly apologists of terrorism will appear saying that pointing out the obvious amounts to the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2013\/11\/17\/islamophobia\/\">made-up concept of Islamophobia<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>(image: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2015\/11\/13\/world\/paris-shooting\/index.html\">CNN<\/a><\/em>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, Paris lived a series terrorist attacks. They were carried out by Muslims who shouted Allah Ackbar before shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":1569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[302,110,266],"class_list":["post-1568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-secularism","tag-france","tag-islam","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}