Horrible attacks in France

[english si]

Looks like one of the attackers posed as a Syrian refugee:

http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/15/world/paris-attacks/index.html

All the passports are thought to be forgeries. Serbian authorities arrested someone since the attack with the same Syrian passport that that article mentioned.

Posing as a Syrian refugee, when you are an EU citizen (all the perps currently identified were French or Belgian citizens and almost all born there), isn't going to help you get through borders that you can get through anyway. Posing as a Syrian refugee when you are massacring people is a good way for ISIS to get the European borders closed and stop those in the Fertile Crescent that it wishes to eradicate (Kurds, Christians, 'apostate' Muslims that won't join in their Caliphate, Druze, etc) from successfully fleeing to safety (even if, in ISIS's view, it is safety for a limited time).

What makes this attack more newsworthy than Beirut in the West is that it is not done by Iraqi/Syrian IS people 'over there', but done by French/Belgian people over here. I agree that the solidarity hype is excessive, especially given we even didn't do it for Madrid's more murderous attack by Al Qa'ida, let alone the Russian passenger jet shot down by ISIS (or the Malaysian passenger jet shot down by Russians) or stuff in Lebanon, India, Kenya, Nigeria, etc.

[vdeane]

It also helps ISIS in the propaganda wars by cementing their portrayal of the west as anti-Muslim.  This makes people in the middle east more sympathetic to their cause.

[bing101]

http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/16/world/paris-attacks-syrian-refugees-backlash/

Well now some state governors and state congress may will have to go back to the negotiating table with Homeland Security into this issue over how they will handle the refugee issue from Syria are now at play.