Dear Constance,

Anger and invective are poor substitutes for reasoned arguments and civility. I hope you may eventually be at peace with yourself.

Arjay,

This probably won't make the slightest difference for you:

"French media reported that police timed their raid on the supermarket as Coulibaly was at prayer: he reportedly used the store’s phone and failed to hang up."

Not everything in the world is perfectly planned by unbelievably brilliant but evil masterminds. Sometimes, these blokes are like 'The Four Kings', not the brightest little piggies in the litter.

He was using the phone, by the way, to talk to journalists about how he had already killed four of the hostages (who were probably Jewish).

But I'm sure you could explain all that away :)

Joe

SteeleRedux,

Very funny and I wish that I could photoshop as well as those examples!

A little glimmer of hope, a silver lining, but will they or us live to see it come to pass ?

http://tinyurl.com/mx8sf4p

How long did the reformation of Christianity take ?
Several hundred years I think. Do we have that much time ?

Constance,

To David f: "..... How come leftists are so thick and pathetically self righteous and morally sick?"

How come certain "rightists" are serially abusive and belligerent when they come upon views they don't agree with on public forums?

You love to put up videos of performers you admire to get your message across. Do you think those creative people would stoop to the sort of rhetoric you perpetually slop over your fellow posters?

What a tragedy this has been. Even worse, as such things are prone to do it will undoubtedly lead to more tragedy. There is no shortage of damaged young men brimming with resentments at mistreatments real and imagined and the inevitable response of authorities will add a few more to the list, to be stirred into a horrid fever-dream of heroic vengeance by psychopaths pretending to be holy men.

My Muslim friends, like decent people everywhere, are aghast. As if the horrors of this attack weren't enough, they are once again forced to run the gauntlet of mistrust from a wary Australian public and feel compelled to apologise for the actions of people from the other side of the world with whom they have about as much in common religiously as a Catholic and a Branch Davidian did.

So sad on every level.