A man has been beheaded on the street in Eragny, near Paris.The victim was a school teacher who had shown Mohammed cartoons. The terrorist has been ki

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This was an 18 year old who decapitated the teacher for showing news article about current events, the Hebdo trials , in class. The teacher showed caricatures of Mohammed during aclass.
 
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Intentional homicide rate per 100,000 inhabitants:
  • France: 1.2
  • United States: 4.96
You are more than four times more likely to be murdered in the US than you are in France.

Also, please note that by European standards, France actually has a relatively high intentional homicide rate. European countries with lower intentional homicide rate per 100,000 include:
  • Andorra: 0
  • Bailiwick of Guernsey : 0
  • Bailiwick of Jersey: 0
  • Isle of Man: 0
  • Monaco: 0
  • San Marino: 0
  • Vatican City: 0
  • Luxembourg: 0.3
  • Norway: 0.47
  • Slovenia: 0.48
  • Italy: 0.57
  • Croatia: 0.58
  • Netherlands: 0.59
  • Switzerland: 0.59
  • Czech Republic: 0.6
  • Spain: 0.62
  • Poland: 0.73
  • Portugal: 0.79
  • Ireland: 0.87
  • Iceland: 0.89
  • Greece: 0.94
  • Germany: 0.95
  • Austria: 0.97
  • Denmark: 1.01
  • Sweden: 1.08
  • Scotland: 1.12
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina: 1.17
The only countries in Europe with a higher intentional homicide rate than the United States are Russia and Ukraine.

As a New Zealander, I’d like to add that New Zealand and Australia have intentional homicide rates of 0.7 and 0.89 per 100,000, respectively.
 
Why do Americans think that they are the only country with regional differences?
 
France and the USA are both countries, I don’t see why they can’t be compared directly. France and the US are both nation-states - the fact that you call your regional administrative units “states” doesn’t make them separate countries.

As to your first argument, you could also take regional areas within France and get a very different homicide rate. Like in the US, it will be very high in some areas and very low in others. This would apply to all countries.
 
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I am not entirely convinced of the validity of your point, but I don’t mind copying and pasting the desired information for you.
  • Louisiana: 11.4
  • Missouri: 9.9
  • Alaska: 8.2
  • Maryland: 8.1
  • New Mexico: 8.0
  • Alabama: 7.8
  • South Carolina: 7.7
  • Tennessee: 7.4
  • Arkansas: 7.2
  • Illinois: 6.9
  • Nevada: 6.7
  • Indiana: 6.5
  • Georgia: 6.1
  • Pennsylvania: 6.1
  • North Carolina: 6.0
  • Mississippi: 5.7
  • Kentucky: 5.5
  • Michigan: 5.5
  • Florida: 5.2
  • Oklahoma: 5.2
  • Arizona: 5.1
  • Delaware: 5.0
  • Ohio: 4.8
  • Texas: 4.6
  • Virginia: 4.6
  • California: 4.4
  • Kansas: 3.9
  • Colorado: 3.7
  • West Virginia: 3.7
  • Montana: 3.2
  • New Jersey: 3.2
  • Washington: 3.1
  • Wisconsin: 3.0
  • New York: 2.9
  • Hawaii: 2.5
  • North Dakota: 2.4
  • Connecticut: 2.3
  • Nebraska: 2.3
  • Wyoming: 2.3
  • Idaho: 2.0
  • Massachusetts: 2.0
  • Oregon: 2.0
  • Minnesota: 1.9
  • Utah: 1.9
  • Maine: 1.8
  • Iowa: 1.7
  • Vermont: 1.6
  • New Hampshire: 1.5
  • Rhode Island: 1.5
  • South Dakota: 1.4
  • France: 1.2
 
This is a terrible crime. The following is most useful comment I can come up with right now:

Peace Prayer of Saint Francis

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Amen.
 
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This is indeed a horrific crime. Not to quibble but in fact that prayer is not written by St. Francis. It’s a World War I era poem from France. So I suppose it’s particularly appropriate.
 
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France and the USA are both countries, I don’t see why they can’t be compared directly. France and the US are both nation-states -
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Because the US is a Republic. Each state has their own ways to govern and thus do not have to have the exact same laws.

For example the Gun laws. The constitution give is the right to bear arms. That is that, and nothing else, no restrictions. Well the government started making “restrictions” on gun laws not long ago. But each state has added or taken away this laws.

For example Philadelphia lets you have weapons. But the amount of paperwork needed for it is ridiculous. They even want you to write an essay. But other states like Texas you only need ID.

The government rules states that a background check needs to happen. All the states do that. Those who do no background check, are breaking the law.

There is more, but that is just an example.
 
It is. Nice, I did not know.

Edit: Actually I did used to know that. I simply forgot. Oy me!
 
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This took place in France, where Islamists are responsible for a majority of terrorist incidents. In the United States, on the other hand, a majority of terrorist incidents are perpetrated by right-wing extremists.
 
scousekiwi said:
a majority of terrorist incidents are perpetrated by right-wing extremists.
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you don’t consider the current burning of USA cities terrorist acts? these aren’t being burnt by right-wing extremists.
terrorist act - the calculated use of violence against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature;…
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Left-wing terrorism in the United States is rare. Right-wing extremists commit more terrorist incidents than Islamists and left-wing extremists combined.
 
scousekiwi said:
Left-wing terrorism in the United States is rare.
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you don’t consider the current burning of the USA cities terrorist acts?
terrorist act - the calculated use of violence against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature;…
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upant said:
you don’t consider the current burning of the USA cities terrorist acts?
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It’s certainly criminal, but I doubt it meets any widely accepted definition of terrorism. I was in Liverpool during the Toxteth riots in 1981. Would you classify that as “black terrorism”? I would just call it rioting. With regard to the unrest that has taken place in areas within some cities in the United States this year, one must also bear in mind that extremists from both the left and the right have been involved.

It certainly wasn’t my intention to provoke any such reaction. I believe that I am correct in thinking that France has the largest Muslim immigrant population in Europe, both numerically and as a proportion of their population. I am not naïve enough to imagine that a European country with a complex religious identity based on Catholicism and secularism can absorb a population of almost 6 million Muslims, comprising almost 9% of the population, without any problems arising. However, I also don’t believe that we have to be alarmist about this. We have a small Muslim population in Cambridge (a little over 3% of the total), and I have always had perfectly amicable interactions with them. Anyway, I am an Irish Liverpudlian New Zealander and an Anglican convert, and my wife, children, and grandchildren are all Māori to a greater or lesser degree, so I am in no position to complain about anybody else’s ethnicity or religion!

I hope not. Brenton Tarrant, the Australian terrorist who murdered 51 Muslims in New Zealand on 15 March 2019, had the names Marcantonio Colonna and Sebastiano Venier inscribed on some of the weapons he used in the attack.
 
using violence against civilians to attain political or religious goals is a terrorist act.

left or right-wing extremist burning cities seem to fit this description.
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I doubt it meets any widely accepted definition of terrorism
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when you look at the violence being perpetrated by mostly white activists against the citizens in minority districts for political reasons, it is hard to not call it terrorism.
 
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