Deadly attack on office of French magazine Charlie Hebdo

[DVDGuy]

168. I think you do have the right to be offended

Everyone has the right to be offended by what is generally considered to be an opinion (eg. I'm sure almost everyone here is offended by Faux News pretty much all of the time). Muslims, just like anyone, should have the right to be offended by anything they like, even if the rest of us don't find the same thing offensive, but nobody has the right to use threats, intimidation and violence to counter what one finds offensive. If they do that, then they've committed acts of terrorism, whether it's IS sympathizers, or politicians, or anti-gay activist. But like you say, there are many ways to express your offence at something and still be on the right side of the law.

But the main problem I have with your post is the "Time to drone or daisy-cut" line ... since these terrorists are most likely homegrown, which suburb of Paris do you think we should "drone or daisy-cut"?

The real threat of IS is not their leadership, soldiers, tanks, RPGs ... or what are considered traditional threats on the battlefield. It isn't even the crazy ideology that they espouse. The threat of IS, and any terror doctrine, comes from people's willingness to believe and support something that is against humanity and human nature, and IS is more of a threat than any other group in the past because it has been so effective in turning people towards their particular brand of crazy.

The real fight is at home, and we should start by finding out just why something that almost all of us considers to be insane, is so seductive to too many.