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NYC_SKP

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32. Analogies, and then I have a board meeting to drive over to:

Reply to Warren Stupidity (Reply #31)

Thu Jan 15, 2015, 10:11 PM

Jan 2015

First of all, anyone could have created a video claiming credit and thanking the shooters, and then gotten CNN and NBC to replay it.
That's done all the time.
One year it was all about WMDs. Being on the news didn't make it real.

The analogy:

Cherif and Said Kouachi:Islam :: Jim Bakker:Christianity

I'll have to get back to you on the shape-shifter question, one of them should be at this board meeting.

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If Islamic extremists wanted to make Hebdo a household name, globally... [View all] NYC_SKP Jan 2015 OP

You really don't think it was a reaction to perceived blasphemy? LiberalAndProud Jan 2015 #1

Circulation of 60,000, but at times they only sold 30,000 louis-t Jan 2015 #2

I think this article misses the mark. cbayer Jan 2015 #3

That makes sense, but I wonder to what end? NYC_SKP Jan 2015 #4

Not to shame muslims, to increase their disenfranchisement. cbayer Jan 2015 #5

In any event, harm to the mainstream Muslim community was the intention, IMO. NYC_SKP Jan 2015 #13

I feel strongly that religious beliefs played a role. cbayer Jan 2015 #14

It's obviously the Illuminati edhopper Jan 2015 #25

I was thinking more like some Lenin acolytes who met up with Pol Pot people... NYC_SKP Jan 2015 #27

Jury results oneshooter Jan 2015 #28

Well that was dumb then. trotsky Jan 2015 #6

Clearly this is a plot by Putin Fumesucker Jan 2015 #7

With his elite team of shape-shifting alien Jews! trotsky Jan 2015 #8

It was the CIA. LiberalAndProud Jan 2015 #9

Ok, that is hilarious. I had not seen it before. cbayer Jan 2015 #10

It holds as much truth as the other theories, I suspect. LiberalAndProud Jan 2015 #11

I don't think there is much that is obvious when it comes to determining cause cbayer Jan 2015 #12

Okay. But I find the CIA theory more convincing than the LiberalAndProud Jan 2015 #19

Islam does not take extreme measures against blasphemy. cbayer Jan 2015 #21

Let me rephrase so as not to offend unoffending Muslim people. LiberalAndProud Jan 2015 #22

Well, that's more accurate. cbayer Jan 2015 #24

Conspiracy theory, you mean. AtheistCrusader Jan 2015 #18

Visigoths. NYC_SKP Jan 2015 #29

Are. You. Fucking. Serious. AtheistCrusader Jan 2015 #15

I. Like. How. You. Do. That. Thing. With. Periods. NYC_SKP Jan 2015 #16

Take this shit to Creative Speculation where it belongs. AtheistCrusader Jan 2015 #17

I. Don't. Want. To. NYC_SKP Jan 2015 #20

Well, and this is just for starters but. AtheistCrusader Jan 2015 #23

They should have known, that hasn't changed. NYC_SKP Jan 2015 #26

So you weren't able to persuade them it was shape-shifting aliens? Warren Stupidity Jan 2015 #30

It is a mystery. Warren Stupidity Jan 2015 #31

Analogies, and then I have a board meeting to drive over to: NYC_SKP Jan 2015 #32