What exactly was the conflict in the recent Paris attacks?

There was no conflict. It was an unprovoked terrorist attack on innocent people.

The conflict is basically created by Radical Islamists who want all of the rest of society to conform to their narrow minded rules.

Until that happens, they have justified in their own warped minds that killing innocents is perfectly acceptable to further their agenda because they are “infidels”. And their version of the Koran sanctions the killing of infidels.

That’s basically it in a nutshell. Same as their justification for flying planes into buildings on 9/11. Paris is just another chapter in the ongoing saga of global terrorism.

We are on high alert with tunnels closed and traffic rerouted. Keeping the route to the airport safe is essential. Also, our busses, trains and ferry services are following more stringent security measures. It is probably even more so in Oslo.

Last century it was two world wars and then the fight against an idealism, communism. Now we have more wars on idealism. Waging war on what lives in a person’s heart is infinitely more complicated. People are somehow convinced that their actions are necessary and think the world deserves it. They no longer see people like the rest of us do. It is such disease in society. Racism and hate will only lead to more people unable to see their fellow beings as nothing more than a target.

The Islamic State group said in a statement it was behind Friday’s attacks, news outlets report. French President François Hollande said the attacks were planned abroad with local help.

I wondered if it might have been provoked from the Charlie Hebdo disaster 10 months ago. Of course there is never a good reason for these sorts of attacks but I also found C.H. highly irresponsible in their ceaseless tauntings and mockery of Islam. I don;t know if they have toned things down or not.

Religious nut jobs did this.

A reaction to the french airstrikes in syria.

It is yet another skirmish in the ongoing Islamic Conquests. They’ve been trying to invade Europe since 630 or so. France has special significance, since it was the French that pushed them back into Spain and North Africa.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/27/middleeast/syria-france-isis-bombing/

France bombed ISIS a month ago. ISIS attacked back.

I mean, America and its allies do nothing but bring peace and stability throughout the world and this was a completely unprovoked attack.

@SquirrelEStuff The bombings were in retaliation. There was this and this and even a beheading on French soil.

Also: Isis are terrorists, capturing peaceful territory and killing civilians who are innocent.

@marinelife

I understand that it was retaliation. My point is that this has become a pissing match of retaliation against retaliation.
We tend to forget that according to Bin Laden, 9/11 was also retaliatory.
I agree that Isis are terrorists and kill innocent civilians. Of course we are going to retaliate. But we forget that we too use drones and kill civilians. Of course they are going to retaliate.
We have been trying war and retaliation for too long and we have yet to try any kind of peace. I understand that there will be evil people, but I just feel that we are on a path of self destruction because we continue trying the same thing over and over.
We have been fed this excuse that terrorists are run by religion, but we never examine that maybe, just maybe, our foreign policy PLUS religion, fuels extremism even more than just religion alone.

Well, face it, we ARE at war, it may be undeclared but it’s unfolding, declared or not.

@SquirrelEStuff Civilians wouldn’t die if the cowards didn’t use human shields. It is a recruitment tactic they learned from Hamas. If you use the populace as shields, they die, and a whole new generation of disaffected people are ready to be recruited.

Is it about those towers around the mosque that ring five times a day that France refused to give building permits for?

It might be that the Muslims are angry at the denial of a building permit for four Minarets to a Mosque in France last year.