Shootings in Paris - Multiple fatalities.

The Bould Rabbit

Breaking now. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30710883

From BBC -

At least two gunmen have attacked the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing a number of people, French media report.

Witnesses spoke of sustained gunfire at the office as the attackers opened fire with Kalashnikov assault rifles.

The satirical weekly has courted controversy in the past with its depiction of news and current affairs.

Its latest tweet was a cartoon of the Islamic State militant group leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Meglamonia

Headquarters of some magazine 10 dead, witnesses say masked gumen entered the building and a shootout followed.

conorhal

I what comes as a surprise to literally no-one, it is being reported that the attackers shouted 'the Prophet has been avenged'.

The Moldy Gowl

I wonder will the shooters see the irony?

The Bould Rabbit

According to radio reports one of the gunmen shouted "The Prophet will be avenged".

The Backwards Man

Police say one dead, not ten.

speedboatchase

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Police say one dead, not ten.

Reuters says 10, Le Parisien says 11. Let's wait and see. Tragic stuff.

AndonHandon

Kalashnikovs? Jesus, talk about terrorist stereotypes.

SEPT 23 1989

AndonHandon wrote: »

Kalashnikovs? Jesus, talk about terrorist stereotypes.

And a RPG

suicide_circus

Multiculturalism: a work in progress

jimgoose

AndonHandon wrote: »

Kalashnikovs? Jesus, talk about terrorist stereotypes.

Not surprising, sure those things are all over the place, millions of them. They're not the most elegant device but by Cheeses they get the point across.

iDave

Gowlasauras Rex wrote: »

I wonder will the shooters see the irony?

Islamists don't get irony

http://andyflavoured.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/freedom-of-speech-go-to-hell.jpg

suicide_circus

Those lads might as well be putting up election posters for Maria La Pen

Has the shooter/shooters escaped?

Aljazeera reporting they have

ThisRegard

Terrorists have escaped apparently, at least one of the dead a member of the police.

speedboatchase

Quick, someone arrange a feel-good, car-sharing hashtag in Paris so that Muslims don't feel bad!

Bob24

suicide_circus wrote: »

Multiculturalism: a work in progress

Coming to Ireland in 10 years.

LuckyLloyd

Religion of peace

Timberrrrrrrr

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

Religion of peace

A couple of gob****es commit an atrocity and you blame the whole BILLION+ members of the religion :rolleyes:

chrysagon

seemly have escaped.. knocked pedestrian down..same building suffered 2 previous attacks,

Smiles35

Bob24 wrote: »

Coming to Ireland in 10 years.

The French have been coming here for centuries.

The Backwards Man

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

A couple of gob****es commit an atrocity and you blame the whole BILLION+ members of the religion :rolleyes:

It's the AH way.

Timberrrrrrrr

The Backwards Man wrote: »

It's the AH way.

ArseHoles?

chrysagon

eleven dead the news have said..

DeadHand

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

A couple of gob****es commit an atrocity and you blame the whole BILLION+ members of the religion :rolleyes:

It's happening far too frequently in the name of this particular religion.

LuckyLloyd

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

A couple of gob****es commit an atrocity and you blame the whole BILLION+ members of the religion :rolleyes:

No, I blamed the religion itself. It is because of religion that rubbish like this is happening. No Islam, no Islamic terrorism. You might counter that the people involved would find something else to shoot others over and you might well be right.

AndonHandon

jimgoose wrote: »

Not surprising, sure those things are all over the place, millions of them. They're not the most elegant device but by Cheeses they get the point across.

But in France are they all over the place? Those weapons were designed to kill as many people as possible as easily as possible.

ThisRegard

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

Religion of peace

Yes, if only everyone was a good catholic and protestant the world, and more importantly Ireland, would have been so much more peaceful in the last 50 years or so.

DeadHand wrote: »

It's happening far too frequently in the name of this particular religion.

Do they not teach Irish history in schools any more ?

Bob24

chrysagon wrote: »

seemly have escaped.. knocked pedestrian down..same building suffered 2 previous attacks,

And it was actually monitored by the police. But the plain cloth policemen who where on site had to wait for reinforcement as they didn't have enough firepower to handle such weaponery :-/

anncoates

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

And a RPG

Needs more tea towels and a 70s VW van.

Timberrrrrrrr

DeadHand wrote: »

It's happening far too frequently in the name of this particular religion.

Again

A BILLION people, there is going to be a tiny% who are idiotic enough to do this ****, does not mean you can tar the whole lot of them.

BeerWolf

Satirical magazine... let me guess, Islam extremists ?

This is going to do WONDERS with one of the countries in Europe with the most Muslims in... incoming further rift.

El_Dangeroso

suicide_circus wrote: »

Multiculturalism: a work in progress

Blaming Multiculturalism: the politically correct way to express racist views since ever.

Highflyer13

This is ridiculous. Shower of intolerent arseholes. RIP.

MRnotlob606

Religion of peace.

AndonHandon

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

No, I blamed the religion itself. It is because of religion that rubbish like this is happening. No Islam, no Islamic terrorism. You might counter that the people involved would find something else to shoot others over and you might well be right.

But that is very hypothetical so we have to ask 'but for the religious beliefs of the perpetrators would these people have been killed?'.

nokia69

the religion of peace strikes again

and people wonder why the Germans are marching against islam

suicide_circus

El_Dangeroso wrote: »

Blaming Multiculturalism: the politically correct way to express racist views since ever.

I don't blame multiculturalism for anything

Peist2007

ThisRegard wrote: »

Yes, if only everyone was a good catholic and protestant the world, and more importantly Ireland, would have been so much more peaceful in the last 50 years or so.



Do they not teach Irish history in schools any more ?

You comparing not eating meat on a Friday with killing a bunch of journalists in a magazine's office?

Timberrrrrrrr

nokia69 wrote: »

the religion of peace strikes again

and people wonder why the Germans are marching against islam

No

The people who CLAIM to speak for Islam strike again.

DeadHand

AndonHandon wrote: »

But in France are they all over the place? Those weapons were designed to kill as many people as possible as easily as possible.

Indeed, how tight are French gun laws? It strikes me as closer to South Korea than Montana in this respect.

Snake Plisken

And then we question why we see the rise of marches against Islam in Germany and other countries! I await the apologists of Islam to turn up on this thread and defend the religion of peace and say how the Catholic Church carried out worse atrocities 3 centuries ago! Get real, time to kick all these radicals out of Europe and stop pandering to them!

jimgoose

AndonHandon wrote: »

But in France are they all over the place? Those weapons were designed to kill as many people as possible as easily as possible.

It would appear so, yes. Avtomat Kalashnikova 1947, rifle, automatic, calibre 7.62mm Soviet, when you absolutely positively have to kill every last mofo in the room, accept no substitutes.

Bootros Bootros

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

A couple of gob****es commit an atrocity and you blame the whole BILLION+ members of the religion :rolleyes:

Not an argument used when say Christians bomb abortion sites.

gandalf

Peist2007 wrote: »

You comparing not eating meat on a Friday with killing a bunch of journalists in a magazine's office?

I think he is talking about the sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland where ones religion was used as an excuse to kill people as well. Jaysus people in glass houses.

Religion and Extremism are dangerous bedfellows no matter what flavour of religion is involved.

Bob24

Noblong wrote: »

The French have been coming here for centuries.

Ireland is decades behind the rest of Western Europe when it comes to multiculturalism. We just have to look at them to know whatever associated benefits/problems are coming our way.

Sonderkommando

ThisRegard wrote: »

Yes, if only everyone was a good catholic and protestant the world, and more importantly Ireland, would have been so much more peaceful in the last 50 years or so.

Big difference, that was a nationalist struggle and little to do with religion. There was a lot of Irish nationalists who were protestant.

This is just religious fanaticism.

iDave

Its funny how some people will sometimes say militant atheists are just as bad as militant theists. Wonder how many people will get killed by Dawkins next lecture.

Shiraz 4.99

#illridewithyou is not trending on French twitter.

Meglamonia

These Islamic attacks are getting far too frequent.

Why can't the go back to their own sh!tholes and do what they want there.

Give these fellas an inch and they'll take a mile.

Smiles35

Snake Plisken wrote: »

And then we question why we see the rise of marches against Islam in Germany and other countries!

I don't question any march in Germany. Half of them are sensibly dressed babys.