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>globally speaking, a significant number of adherents of Islam hold ideas that are incompatible with an open society.

You could say the same about the followers of other religions. And of certain popular political persuasions. And of many economic belief systems.

Just because adherents don't usually make the news by indiscriminately shooting members of the public doesn't mean they don't do incredible damage in other ways.

A public massacre is a horror, for obvious reasons. But it's not truly more horrible than many other everyday outrages, some of which take place on much bigger and longer timescales.
>One way to do this for the "gig economy" is to provide benefits through a union.

Uber hates unions: http://venturebeat.com/2014/05/20/uber-claims-new-app-based-...

"If an Uber driver wants to make a change they can talk to us directly — they don’t need a bogus organization like this to do that."
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How you should really respond to a terrorist attack
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sure - and the same would be said by a Protestant or pretty much any other denomination of Christianity. my point is - while the Pope can speak for Catholics (and apologize), there is no Muslim equivalent to 'apologize' for terrorist activity.

of course, the point is moot, because these terrorist attacks were not taken out by mainstream Muslims. the Crusades were officially backed by the Church and its leaders.
Are you suggesting that certain power centres are deliberately turning a blind eye to potential terrorist intelligence in order to maintain the "state of tension", as long as that threat is not directly affecting their own citizens and home country?

I.e. the NSA deliberately withholding intelligence from the French in order to bring the French government into the " ignore a basic right to privacy and liberty, we need you to support our bulk surveillance hard-line "?

That would be pretty callous and downright Machiavellian.
Coming soon: 'Strong' encryption is illegal in the UK without a licence. Banks and other institutions will pay for licences for their websites and their behind-the-scenes comms but also be required to use backdoored crypto where the govt and police and govt agencies hold keys.

An inter-country agreement makes us interoperable. All comms are monitored for anything looking encrypted but not decryptable by the state using their keys.

It will be an easy sell because those who want full personal privacy will be seen as suspect. It will also make money from licensing.
My girlfriend taught in the Parisian banlieue for a year. In her experience most of what is said in this article is very much true. In this areas (which would correspond pretty much to inner cities in the US) the draw of radical Islam is very strong, starting with high school kids. After all what else is there to do? Deal drugs?

On the other hand I would like to see this study that shows that increase in the level of education and occupation doesn't do much. I suspect the issue is more subtle: in that many immigrants coming from the former colonies of France don't really identify as French (even after a couple generations) and don't fully accept the so-called 'republican values'.

The fact that many of Portuguese origin are converting to radical Islam seems to me as a further symptom that the power of Jihadism actually stems from socio-economical marginalization.
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Religion is among the best tools to brainwash people then. If something really makes sense, you don't need people to believe it blindly.
You can find pretty horrific stuff in the Bible too (I don't have time to look for much more but http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/22-21.htm is a good example).

http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/ is a good tool to go to the juicy parts quickly.

Both the Qoran and the Bible (and some other sacred books) are full of stuff that is horrific, yet discarded as obviously outdated by 99.9999% of their practitionners. In my book judging a religion by a litteral interpretation is like studying law ignoring jurisprudence, it's not smart.

BTW Parisian here, and I went out to eat pork and drink alcohol on saturday night, because we shall continue to live as we did, and so should the other victims of the crazies, whether in Syria, Lebanon or elsewhere
We Christians are separated into multiple denominations as well. You've got catholics, protestants and eastern orthodox as the biggest ones. The break between catholics and eastern orthodox happened in what is called "the great schism" in the 11th century. It has been attributed to theological disputes by the church, but nobody believes that, as everybody knows the dispute was entirely political in nature.

And the blend of eastern orthodoxy from my country has its own flavor, compared to the the general eastern orthodoxy branch, as we've also picked up a set of local customs and traditions along the way. Consequently I think this is why, even though atheism is on the rise and even though I'm what you could call an agnostic, I happen to believe that religion is ultimately good, as it's a part of the local culture, the local culture being a huge part of our identity.

But speaking of Christianity, our local christians tend to be a little xenophobe. And this I never understood why it happens, because you know, Christianity being about the teachings of Christ above all else, with those teaching inviting us first and foremost to love our peers and to be more tolerant. Skipping over the obvious that sometimes Christianity has nothing to do with the teaching of Christ, I personally think it's more about the true human nature. I believe that in essence a large part of the population is xenophobe, fearing and hating what is different and the material is always there to be exploited by a capable leader that can canalize all that potential hatred towards a common goal that can blur our ethics. After all, we should always remember the nazis, as that's the history that shows us how an otherwise civilized society can turn overnight if you press the right buttons, the anti-pattern we should steer away from.

Which brings me to the point that I wanted to make. I see a lack of tolerance and hatred even in many atheists, having the same potential for evil as everybody else, atheists who otherwise claim to be more enlightened. Not all of them of course, just like how not all Muslims are jihadists. And so I don't think changing the naming would make that much of a difference.
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How does "it's about religion" imply "they're trying to spread their religion"? It's about cultural dominance. It doesn't have to make heretics convert, it just has to make them scared of heresy.

Terrorist attacks aren't about defeating the enemy, they're about terrorizing the enemy and inciting them to make the wrong decisions -- like mistreating peaceful Muslims and thereby supporting the Islamists' propaganda that this is a jihad in defence of Islam.

The easiest way to gain sympathy is to portray yourself as the victim and your attacks as righteous self-defence.
...while it should be blamed on spying agencies' incompetency despite
pervasive surveillance.

Not that I think they're incompetent, just this stance would shift balance in
public discussion towards privacy a little.
> It's hard to imagine any effective strategy that doesn't involve killing people

I disagree, one is actually described in the article:

"[For] the youth of the nation are closer to the innate nature [of humans] on account of the rebelliousness within them."

Do you think capitalism/democracy/whatever mix we have in the West does a good job of preventing these people fighting for "Jihad"?

We don't really give young people (say ages 15-25, before males are fully emotionally developed) a chance to "rebel safely". We don't even have a definition of what it could be! I'll just leave it here, there are many options where to go from there, I think.

It actually reminds of "drug education" we had in high school. The guy was a social worker who worked with people on drugs, gave them clean syringes, put them on methadone, etc. His idea basically was, it's perfectly cool if you want to try it, but it's better to understand the risks and wait a little bit, until you grow older. I think it was very sane approach (and very counter-intuitive to people who support war on drugs and "say no" and similar things). Maybe the same should be done with weapons and war, and if someone still wants to try the war, send him as a journalist to war zone.

Recently I had another related weird idea: Someone should write a sci-fi story about a society which puts its youths through a very strict, military like institution. It would then be revealed that the whole purpose of the institution is to make young people rebel against authority, in a safe environment. That would be akin to a successful graduation exam, because the society would believe that those people who do that are going to be the best citizens.

(You can also read my earlier comment on the topic here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10572797)
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What is the deal with insidesources.com? Something feels a "little off" after browsing the rest of the site. It feels like a undercover PR machine for someone or some group. It also seems like they hate copy editors.
All of those are ideologies with certain views on how the world is and how it should be, which can also said of religions.

If religions where purely spiritual and said nothing about the world then I would agree with you, but then I guess there wouldn't be any problems either.
West Germany had a similar culture to their occupant, the east not so much. Germany also became the centrepiece for a US vs. Russia proxy war, Syria would likely become the same and is arguably already in that state.

In any case it would depend on whether a post WWIII and independent(ish) Syria, much like the post WWII Germany, makes the prudent decision to outlaw and taboo the fanaticism that got it into that situation in the first place.
The language seems pretty reasonable...

"The attackers are believed to have communicated using encryption technology, according to European officials who had been briefed on the investigation but were not authorized to speak publicly. It was not clear whether the encryption was part of widely used communications tools, like WhatsApp, which the authorities have a hard time monitoring, or something more elaborate. Intelligence officials have been pressing for more leeway to counter the growing use of encryption."
Hi these don't offend me at all but I think they deserve a more thoughtful response than I am able to give at this moment. I'll try to write a proper response during lunch today.

Ok I've got some time now for a brief response.

1. There are none. And where there are I try to push them. I don't really see your example as a boundary issue. If other people malign or ridicule my beliefs it doesn't really bother me except to feel sadness for those people.

2. Acts 17:11 says: Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily, whether these things were so.

It's out of context but basically its commending the Berean Jews for closely examining the teachings they were receiving from the apostles to verify that they were true. My faith demands rationality and my God is a rational God.

3. The Bible is not a science text book. The Bible is not a fairy tale either. I accept the bible as true understanding that it's purpose is not to teach me about scientific phenomenon. The travesty to me about evolution and the big bang is not that it is or isn't opposed to biblical teachings, it's that it is such a huge distraction from the true message of my faith.

4. No. This is the one I'm most likely to get into an argument about because history itself is subject to manipulation and interpretation. Has the bible been used to nefarious purpose? Yes. Is the bible's purpose nefarious? No.
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TL;DR "ISIS" (or merely the concept of ISIS because it will be replaced by something worse when it is "defeated") wants to make the west attack muslims and islam itself so that muslims take their side and go to war for them, because they are only 30k right now and would love 300k or 3M

Conclusively, most religion is moronic and extreme religion is extremely moronic. It's going to get much worse before it gets better and probably not better in our lifetimes or at least this decade.

If Paris was horrible, imagine what they could do in the USA where guns are super easy to collect. They could wipe out entire malls in an afternoon.
To be fair, the US has had a reputation of sloppy warfare before 2001. The only difference between now and then is that it's happening to brown people instead of yellow people or black people.
Precisely! and wrong ideas need to be challenged unequivocally regardless of their origin or dogma.

Although I don't think that is the point you were trying to make.
World's largest arms exporter: US ($10,194,000,000 in 2014)

World's largest arms importer: Saudi Arabia ($4,243,000,000 in 2014)

To me, these are scary numbers.

> When a country decides to invest in arms, rather than in education, housing, the environment, and health services for its people, it is depriving a whole generation of its right to prosperity and happiness. We have produced one firearm for every ten inhabitants of this planet, and yet we have not bothered to end hunger when such a feat is well within our reach. Our international regulations allow almost three-quarters of all global arms sales to pour into the developing world with no binding international guidelines whatsoever. Our regulations do not hold countries accountable for what is done with the weapons they sell, even when the probable use of such weapons is obvious. – Oscar Arias Sanchez, 1987 Nobel Peace Prize winner

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_industry#World.27s_larges...
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Who gets to decide what "basic needs" are? Oh, "in a democracy"! That's ok then.

But I agree with you on the whole. The serfs should just be grateful I'm not beating them.
It's also hard to imagine how not killing doesn't facilitate the vile activities of daesh.

I swear this is the late 1930's all over again. "Surely Herr Hitler will get tired of invading countries before he gets to France. Surely military action will only anger him more..."
How is that this post has 1605 points (and counting), but 'urs2102 only has 648 karma? This is not a complaint, I'm just curious.
You're not addressing me so apologies for butting in but the human brain is perfectly capable of holding contradicting viewpoints at the same time.

This quote is attributed to F Scott Fitzgerald: "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."

My grandmother was deeply religious (Catholic) and yet was very much down to earth and practical when it came to every day life. It never seemed as if she had any apparent problem with this. Religious people are not computer programs and do not need to pass some kind of unit test for consistency before they are allowed into production.

And plenty of so called rational people hold contradictory beliefs as well, in fact I'd be surprised if anybody had a completely consistent set of beliefs and facts that they subscribed to.

Case in point: I have a close family member that is extremely rational except for that one point where we are descended from primates, that's one step too far.
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I agree. The Taliban and Al Qaeda were routed in Afghanistan, and the only thing that saved them was a sympathetic government next door in Pakistan, allowing them to regroup and rearm. The Americans, had they stayed, could have protected the democratic government until it was strong enough to stand on its own, but war weariness and impatience caused them to withdraw prematurely. This was not a sign of jihadist strength and resilience, just good luck. Interviews with some of the fighters suggested actually that they were tired of war as well.
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> The fact that the EU’s replacement rate is 1.59 children per couple and the continent needs substantial levels of immigration to maintain a productive workforce

> The idea here is that all people are the same, and all you need to do is shoehorn enough to keep the economy going.

Maybe it's time to start thinking why people who end up living in the West are unwilling to reproduce, despite having the highest standard of living ever available to humans.

Solving the underpopulation problem by constant import of uneducated masses from all over the world is going to cost more and more, both in terms of the peta-man-hours needed to teach them functioning in new reality (language barrier for a start) and in terms of things going wrong when the former fails.

I mean, what are these guys supposed to do here? Join the rat race, stop reproducing and replace themselves with who-knows-whom 100 years down the line? Despise this culcure and blow stuff up? Something else?
It's the same that ultra right or neo conservatives have more in common with ultra left or communists or ultra religious groups that go for political power. It's the extreme that makes them understand and appreciate eachother (or their cause) better.

It's not that they like or support eachother, but knowing how the other thinks makes a difference. For them it's much more difficult to understand how moderate left or right works and can be influenced. There's a good chance that they fear "moderate" people more than those on the opposite end of their thinking, simply because they don't understand them.
> It's crystal clear that the population there wants and supports Assad.

Do you have a source on that? From what I've read there are plenty of opposition groups still fighting Assad (and ISIS).
couple of thousands pinpointed (and larger) airstrikes, comprehensive wipeout of terror cells in Europe.
maybe it sound extreme, but its a clear action to-face the situation.
ofcurse the first witch should come to mind is to save as many lifes and dignity etc. .
and i think solving it without killing will only make it a dragging problem.
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I respectfully (and partially) disagree.

The invasion of Iraq was stupid, reckless and selfish. It was a for-profit war that destabilized the region and allowed ISIS to take on its present form.

I'll have you remember that France staunchly opposed this war.

Now the US and the brits have left us with a veritable cesspool, and we're bearing the brunt of the consequences.

This isn't a liberation attempt or a preemptive strike. This is responding to an immediate threat. And again, it would be foolish and disastrous to only respond militarily, but it's just as foolish not to protect ourselves from immediate threats while we counter persistent threats through non-military action.

Yours is a false dichotomy.
> religious texts can be twisted to support just about any position

...which is exactly why I said we should reject irrational beliefs.
And yet it's still more useful to me than Spotify, which summarily stopped syncing new music to my phone after a few months (and, no, uninstall/reinstall did nothing to remedy it).

Apple Music's interface can be wonky, but the search bar is going to be %90 of the interface of any music app for me, so I can deal - most of the time I search with Siri and don't even look at it. And the "For Me" tab full of incredible curated playlists in genres of my choosing has introduced me to far more music than Spotify ever did.
You obviously have a blind spot towards American-brand Christianity. Speaking of scary numbers and scary access to nuclear weapons perfectly capable of killing you, me, and the other seven billion of us.
> West Germany had a similar culture to their occupant, the east not so much. Germany also became the centrepiece for a US vs. Russia proxy war, Syria would likely become the same and is arguably already in that state.

That why I said mostly. However I still think Russia/East Germany is way closer than France or US/Syria or Iraq.

Other than that Germany was not the only European power that kept suffering the consequences of WWII well into the '80s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio
Foreign policy certainly created circumstances that enabled the creation of Isis.

But homosexuals thrown off rooftops, infidels and adulterers stoned in the market square, and young girls raped and sold as sex slaves is not a political result. Neither was the targeting of Charlie Hebdo over a few cartoons of a long deceased man.
Make no mistake, I'm not a fan of 'conservative' Christianity. As I mentioned elsewhere, the problems are ideologies, in particular those that promote totalitarianism and unreason - whether or not they are religious in nature is incidental to me.

However, note that no beheadings have been staged in Vatican City in recent years.
> the Parisian battlefield (yes... that's sadly what it has become)

Could you expand on that? I live in Paris too and I don’t feel it has anything different from another city like London or New-York regarding security.
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You seem to think I'm giving Christianity a pass. I'm not.
Agreed but it works both ways - non-religious harmful ideologies can be almost as bad.

What proportion of people - even of western college-educated liberals - genuinely, in their heart of hearts, supports free speech even when it's speech they disagree with, freedom of religion even when it's a religion they disagree with, and all the other enlightenment values? I fear it's pretty low.
Sure, if you think unproven hearsay in NYT that we all ought to take for granted is "reasonable". If the authorities believe it was the encryption to blame, then they should come out and say it outright - with details, of course. They shouldn't hide under the "anonymous officials" tag which "believe" it was encryption the culprit that stopped them from learning about the attacks, and nothing else. It could've been just some random cop's opinion, who heard it from someone else, who was also wrong about it.
>If you read the article, you'll clearly see that they want to provide something

I know they said that. I just don't believe it for a second.

They want a new legal designation for their employees that does not require them to provide any benefits at all. They claim that despite this new-found freedom from legal culpability they will definitely provide some benefits. Honest.

But don't force us to provide benefits or anything.

The current status of their drivers as contractors opens them up to an awful lot of legal risk which they'd like to mitigate, ideally without it costing them anything other than an easily broken promise.