Coordinated attacks ongoing in France

America has been bombing them as aggressively as possible for months.

Teams around the NFL decided to pay tribute to those affected by Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris before kickoff this weekend. Some of the tributes – like the one in Philly – were pretty touching, but the one in Green Bay went a bit off the rails. During the pregame moment of silence, one fan at Lambeau Field thought it would be a good time to shout an extremely inappropriate comment directed at Muslims.

A fan reported this: “I just heard "Death to Muslims" during the moment of silence at Lambeau. Stay classy, Green Bay.”

The comment was apparently heard by many, including Rodgers and his Packers teammates. After the game, Rodgers called out the fan during his press conference with the media.

“I must admit, I was very disappointed with whoever the fan was who made a comment that I thought was really inappropriate during the moment of silence. It’s that kind of prejudicial ideology that puts us in the position that we’re in today.”

Islamic State fighters learned how to change their tactics to avoid being hit by the high-precision weaponry (the GBU-38 is guided by GPS, while the GBU-54 by a laser beam). Accordingly, they began travelling in smaller groups so they could not be spotted from the air. In response, the U.S. Air Force has concentrated on areas of intense fighting and individual vehicles. That means the air force is having to rely increasingly on intelligence from sources on the ground and is expending a greater number of munitions than before.

That air campaign has grown much wider over the past year. Pentagon officials say some 6,000 more bombing runs have been flown over both Iraq and Syria against the self-declared Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL.

From August: http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/08/07/430151358/after-a-year-of-bombing-isis-u-s-campaign-shows-just-limited-gains[/quote]

France carried out massive airstrikes Sunday night on Islamic State group targets in Raqqa, Syria

Revenge, rather than willingness to compromise or submit to the victors, is the traditional response of Islamist Muslims to the defeat of Muslim armies. And for them, this battle has no front line and is not limited to a few years or even decades. They think in terms of conflict spread over generations.

A call for jihad against British rule in India, for example, resulted in an underground movement that began in 1830 and lasted well until the 1870s, with remnants periodically surfacing well into the 20th century.

The fundamentalist interpretation of Islam is not a common mode of thinking for most Muslims, especially in recent times. But it is clearly driving the political agenda in Muslim countries. Not all Muslim modernisers are willing to confront the anti-Western and anti-Semitic beliefs that feed the Islamist narrative. The Islamists are dominating the discourse within the Muslim world by murdering secularists and forcing many of them to leave their countries.

With over 1.4 billion Muslims around the globe, the swelling of the fundamentalist ranks poses serious problems. If only 1 per cent of the world’s Muslims accepts this uncompromising theology, and 10 per cent of that 1-per cent decide to commit themselves to a radical agenda, we are looking at a one million strong recruitment pool for groups such as al-Qaeda, IS and whatever comes next.

Only a concerted ideological campaign against medieval Islamist ideology, like the one that discredited and contained communism, could turn the tide.

Why do the refugees prefer to go to European countries instead of other Muslim countries in the ME?
Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Iran, Jordan, Morocco are all stable and have safe harbors for Sunni or Shia, no?