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TheCatt wrote:Muslim Cleric in UK also sides with the terrorists.

Maher called for a complete condemnation of the attack, and broadened his view to the dangers of all religion.

“We have to stop saying when something like this that happened in Paris today, we have to stop saying, well, we should not insult a great religion,” Maher said. “First of all, there are no great religions; they’re all stupid and dangerous. And we should insult them, and we should be able to insult whatever we want. That is what free speech is like.”

Malcolm wrote:This is no different than gang members killing someone on their turf for wearing the wrong colours. Actually, I take that back. The Crips don't claim a divine origin.

TheCatt wrote:You could say bad things about gangs.

Muslim leaders and activists immediately denounced the terrorists actions, reiterating the verse in the Quran that tells Muslims when one kills just one innocent person, it is as if he has killed all of humanity.

Leisher wrote:

TheCatt wrote:Muslim Cleric in UK also sides with the terrorists.

I've heard that guy described as "their Al Sharpton".

France’s ambassador to the United States, Gerard Araud, said on his Twitter account: “The kosher supermarket has been stormed. The terrorist is dead. The hostages are alive.”

Araud also reported that the two brothers were dead and their lone hostage alive after the police assault northeast of Paris.

“At least 12 hostages are free and safe from the grocery store, but there were more hostages than initially thought,” said Christophe Tirante, a senior police official. “Now it’s not clear how many wounded there are inside the store.”

The raid came right at sundown, starting with three loud explosions. A short pause was followed by 30 seconds of sustained explosions and gunfire. The operation came without apparent warning. Amid the blasts, police manning a cordon several blocks away ordered bystanders to move farther back from the site, and parents shepherded screaming children into the shelter of nearby doorways.

Police said the gunman who took hostages inside the store in eastern Paris had links to the two brothers. They also blamed the hostage-taker for the murder Thursday of a French policewoman who was gunned down during an unrelated traffic stop on a Paris street, news agencies reported.

The gunman, identified by police as Amedy Coulibaly, 32, threatened to kill hostages in the kosher store if police stormed a commercial building in Dammartin-en-Goele, about 25 miles northeast of Paris, where the armed brothers suspected in the newspaper massacre were reported to be holed up with at least one hostage, the Associated Press reported.

The video is described as a message for "al Qaeda, the Islamic State and other terrorists," and promises to avenge the killing of 12 people in Wednesday's attack.
"We intend to take revenge in their name, we are going to survey your activities on the net, we are going to shut down your accounts on all social networks," Anonymous said.

Prime Minister Manuel Valls declared Saturday that France was at war with radical Islam after the harrowing sieges that had led to the deaths of three gunmen and four hostages the day before, and as the authorities mounted a frantic hunt for a suspected accomplice.

“It is a war against terrorism, against jihadism, against radical Islam, against everything that is aimed at breaking fraternity, freedom, solidarity,” Mr. Valls said during a speech in Évry, south of Paris.

“I hope things will change,” she said. “People shouldn’t cling to religion too much, because that leads to war.”