Maybe we can use this thread instead of international politics: http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/26/europe/france-normandy-church-hostage/index.html
One man was killed and another hostage seriously wounded in an attack on a Catholic church in Normandy, France, on Tuesday, a French official has told journalists at the scene.
Two men took five people hostage in the church in the town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray during morning Mass, Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet said.
Those taken hostage were a priest, two nuns and two churchgoers, CNN French affiliate BFMTV reported.
The situation ended when the two attackers were shot dead by police, Brandet said.
"The two killers came out and they were neutralized," he said.
The wounded hostage was treated at the scene, but had sustained serious injuries and was "between life and death," he said.
As I said in that other thread, any shithead or headcase is now emboldened to go kill some randos under some vague political pretext.
One of the two attackers was a 25 year old French citizen, born in Algeria (Probably from French parents or from a family that immigrated at a young age), who tried to go to Syria twice (his brother is already over there). Arrested in Turkey for his second attempt, he was then placed under house arrest with an electronic ankle collar.
Should we lock up any young adult trying to go fight the jihad in Syria ? Willing to ? Or looking at ISIS propaganda on the net ?
If there's one thing we can say about all the recent attacks and mass killings, in France and elsewhere in Europe or the States, it's that there doesn't seem to be an easily identifiable profile.
You have cells, loosely connected individuals and loners.
You have well educated adults, petty criminals, and people with no recorded police history.
You have Western citizens, people infiltrated from overseas and refugees.
I unfortunately don't fully agree with P.Lager that the issue would mostly be neutralized if we fixed whatever's broken in our own societies (though it certainly provide some favorable recruitment pools). People will always be lured to the promise of swift memorable meaningful action with a semblance of legitimacy. The root cause is political and abroad, resolving it is largely out of our hands. Communist terrorism in Western Europe died out not because western liberal capitalist democracies fixed themselves but because its main backer went into agony and irrelevance.
