Attacks in Paris

So gillybob , you see IS in control of parliament in the next generation, I do not

I'm sorry but I don't want our way of life to change Anniebach I don't want me DGD's to be forced to wear a bloody hijab or be treat like 3rd class citizens because they are girls. I don't want them to be forced to marry some old crone in order to protect the family honour....... I could go on and on.

The refugees are fleeing from IS. Now, whether some IS come in on their backs is another issue, and something Europe will need to address. It is notable that so far with Charlie Hebbo, and so far those identified this time are all home grown.

We changed the laws and way of life of many countries

A little extreme I thinkannette18 but I do agree that anyone coming here for a better life should be prepared to abide by our laws.

I don't know how you can be so sure whitewave ?

But what is the point of it all? I don't understand what the terrorists hope to gain by doing these dreadful things. But it is worrying how many are coming to 'our' world and yet they despise everything we stand for. Oh someone help.

I am not more or less interested in France than other countries

The refugees are not the problem

Put all the refugees on an island( Don't know where) build there own community as they don't want to live in our communities and go by our laws and way of life.

I see them as the type of under ground fungus that emanates from the centre and pops up where conditions allow it. If you separate a piece of it though it can still function which is why it is so difficult to control, but if we don't everything will become rotten in its wake.

Without a world view though we will never get a handle on IS. They operate throughout the world particularly in areas where they stand a chance of dividing the existing population.

The media and world governments must treat them as a global organism, simply because that is how they function.

On the other subject, it's natural that we are more interested in our neighbour France, than in further flung countries.

The police, including the armed response teams, constantly do training for exactly this sort of thing, ( I have police officers in the family) and they do so many training days,so that they are ready for almost any situation.
You can never allow for crazy people who will blow themselves up, so we can never be really safe, but that can happen anywhere.

Belgium rather than Brazil? You get my drift.

But now that IS is more relevant to us, we will get Lebanon news or whereever.

Do countries not report news that largely has the most relevance to its citizens, so will go for news of countries close to it rather than those further away on the whole? Is that not logical and reasonable?
So we get French news rather than Ghana, picking a country further away at random.
Germany rather than Puerto Rico?

Thanks for that link Maggie.

It is patently stupid that in times like this cuts are being made to the police and armed response teams. An attack is highly likely and it could be anywhere.

Well said, Alea

merlotgran I was thinking about that too and given the high number of armed police in London, it would make sense not to mount an attack there, but to choose a softer target.

I was impressed at the speed of response on Friday night and it did cross my mind that I was not sure UK police could respond as quickly, but then decided the police must do practice drills in the event of attacks. But after reading that article, the doubts are back. For the first time in my life I think our police should be armed. It is no longer viable for police officers on the front line to wait for the support of armed officers.

I feel Friday night was a game changer.

I am scared it will happen here. It will be like in the 70s when we had bomb scares all the time from the IRA.

Thanks for the link, Maggie. I agree that it's terribly worrying.

We're assuming an attack will happen in London but it could just as easily be Manchester, Birmingham or any other major city.

I hope it is a wake up call to our Government, Merlotgran. The cuts to our police force will mean that if (probably when) an attack happens here, they won't be able to respond as the French police did. We already have a force of 128,000 in England and Wales compared to France's 278,000 (most of whom are armed, of course, compared to 6,000 of ours). The Home Office plan to cut this number to 80,000. What on earth are they thinking about?

I don't normally pay much attention to the Huffington Post, but this former police officer, writing after the Charlie Hebdo attacks, knows what he's talking about.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/chris-hobbs/police-cuts_b_6454652.html

Yes, goes both ways... tragically.

It seems to me,some people value lives less than others.Even their own.

Lebanon is holding a day of national mourning after at least 41 people were killed in two suicide bombings in the capital, Beirut. The Islamic State (IS) militant group says it was behind the attacks in Burj al-Barajneh, a mainly Shia southern suburb and Hezbollah stronghold,2 days ago

"Lebanon holds day of mourning after deadly Beirut blasts" - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk › news › world-middle-east

Was this what you were referring to, Granjura?
It was reported, but like the landslide election of Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar or the killing of the so-called Jihadi John, has been superseded in the media.Why? More recent, more fatalities, closer to home, UK victims, and a scenario we can more easily identify with. It is a sad reflection of our preoccupation with ourselves and those nearest or most like me us, that they are deemed "worthy" of more column inches.