Stv @ Nov 15th, 2015 at 1:20 pm
What about [this] Mosque in Munich

…if the intelligence agencies are gleaning useful info, case-by-case.

Otherwise: No quarter. No sanctuary. No safe haven. No excuse.

Anywhere.

…the clerics have morphed islam into an active existential cultural threat to the West.

Rules change during wars; time to change the rules.

I believe that what Sabrina meant by “this” was the restaurant, the concert hall, and the soccer game. Western culture and its amusements.

Granted, the terrorists were free to go out to dinner or a concert or a soccer game. No one barred them. But if they either don’t have the money, or their religion forbids such frivolities, or their countries of origin aren’t as rich and don’t have a lot of fancy restaurants, or whatever might engender their rage and/or their envy—that’s the exclusion that Sabina’s talking about.

She’s also talking about her own “white privilege,” the guilt she’s been convinced she should have because she has those things and they don’t.

I wonder what on earth people like Sabrina would think…

They don’t think, they emote.

I wonder what on earth people like Sabrina would think IS evil, if not this.

The oppressors of the West?

“It’s very personal, what’s happened,” said Stephan Byatt, an actor who lives on a nearby street. He has a hard time finding the words to describe what he’s feeling. His friend, Bruno Michlaud, a graphic artist, tries to help out. “It’s a symbol of Paris, a symbol of life. They hurt us in the center of our lives and each of us could have been one of those killed.”

But they aren’t angry, at least not at the perpetrators. “They’re stupid, but they aren’t evil,” their friend Sabrina, an administrative worker in one of the theaters in the 11th arrondissement, said. “They are victims of a system that excluded them from society, that’s why they felt this doesn’t belong to them and they could attack. There are those who live here in alienation, and we are all to blame for this alienation.”

That neighborhood is the 11th arrondissement, where most residents are “bohemian and bourgeois, middle-class academics in their 30s and 40s with clearly leftist leanings”.

The right is mad about it, the left is sad.