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In remarks today in Paris, France, Secretary of State John Kerry justified the terror attack earlier this year that targeted the magazine Charlie Hebdo in January. This latest attack, by contrast, was different, said Kerry.
"In the last days, obviously, that has been particularly put to the test," Kerry said, according to a State Department transcript. "There’s something different about what happened from Charlie Hebdo, and I think everybody would feel that. There was a sort of particularized focus and perhaps even a legitimacy in terms of – not a legitimacy, but a rationale that you could attach yourself to somehow and say, okay, they’re really angry because of this and that.
"This Friday was absolutely indiscriminate. It wasn’t to aggrieve one particular sense of wrong. It was to terrorize people. It was to attack everything that we do stand for. That’s not an exaggeration. It was to assault all sense of nationhood and nation-state and rule of law and decency, dignity, and just put fear into the community and say, “Here we are.” And for what? What’s the platform? What’s the grievance? That we’re not who they are? They kill people because of who they are and they kill people because of what they believe. And it’s indiscriminate. They kill Shia. They kill Yezidis. They kill Christians. They kill Druze. They kill Ismaili. They kill anybody who isn’t them and doesn’t pledge to be that. And they carry with them the greatest public display of misogyny that I’ve ever seen, not to mention a false claim regarding Islam. It has nothing to do with Islam; it has everything to do with criminality, with terror, with abuse, with psychopathism – I mean, you name it."
originally posted by: IAMTAT
originally posted by: angeldoll
a reply to: IAMTAT
I think he's just saying last time they at least imagined they had something to pin it on, this time they got nothin'.
mehhhh...NO.
originally posted by: IAMTAT
a reply to: introvert
C'mon...the moron is the Secretary of State, for God'sake!!! Is he trying out-dumbass Hillary?
originally posted by: rigel4
a reply to: IAMTAT
I think John Kerry is pretty genuine myself, his words
are taken out of context by you..
he's obviously try to say that the cartoons of Mohammed in the eyes of some Muslims was something
to get upset about, but these attacks on Friday were completely uncalled for.
But you knew that already.
originally posted by: IAMTAT
originally posted by: rigel4
a reply to: IAMTAT
I think John Kerry is pretty genuine myself, his words
are taken out of context by you..
he's obviously try to say that the cartoons of Mohammed in the eyes of some Muslims was something
to get upset about, but these attacks on Friday were completely uncalled for.
But you knew that already.
So the Hebdo attacks WERE 'Called For'? Because that's what you're implying he meant!