(November 17, 2015 at 5:27 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: One has to wonder exactly why ISIS choose to attack France in this manner, when Europe is struggling with the refugee crisis in Syria.As revenge for French involvement in Syria. Also because their intelligence agencies aren't as good as those in other European countries.
Quote:To me the answer Seems at least in part to discourage emigration. ISIS doesn't just want to create a fundamentalist taliban like state for their own army of thugs and mercenaries. It wants to rule a state. But the state it is trying to build is being hollowed out by refugees fleeing. So ISIS is trying to strike at where the refugee is going precisely to elicit the sort of reaction we see from malrastoner, governors would not take refugees, their supporters on this forum, and other knee jerk morons, in order to make emigration from the areas controlled by ISIS less appealing.True and also this:
Nader Atassi Wrote:Attacks like the ones tonight in Paris are committed to purposely trigger an Islamophobic backlash. That backlash is not an unintended consequence of such attacks, it is part of their logic. ISIS types want an Islamophobic backlash because it lends credence to their narrative that there is a war between the West and Islam. By strengthening and emboldening the xenophobic right-wing in Europe, they strengthen their own worldview as well. And the most tragic irony is that that backlash may target refugees who themselves had been fleeing ISIS' reign of terror.
Sum ergo sum
