You're right. What was I thinking? Immediate vigilante attacks on Syrian refugees is the way to go.

Just stop it. This pathetic even by your standards

but i changed my facebook picture to a croissant im helping right?

Nick, you're too old to be a troll now.

This is low even by your standards

There obviously is going to be neither an executive order rounding up Muslims nor widespread "vigilante" attacks on Syrians in this country. This sort of discussion is such a red herring. The emphasis should be on the victims of the attacks in France and their families and friends , as well as retribution, which France is already doing with their attacks on the ISIS scum in Syria. I have absolutely no sympathy for the pieces of shit that carried out or facilitated the murders in France. No set of circumstances justifies committing murders in the name of your "religion".

Going to work today was really strange. The subway's never seemed so silent and odd.
A minute of silence was programmed in every government-ruled institution, including mine. Viewing those minutes on tv during football games, you usually have somebody too eager to speak up to have that whole minute kept for grieving. Today, it was the opposite: noone dared break the minute of silence which seemed to last wayyy longer.

The attack took place while people were not at work.
I believe meeting everyone's colleagues, more and more people, will help in the end.

We had planned to go out wednesday night in a restaurant.
We've cancelled (we can't force people to go there if they're scared); the restaurant didn't judge us; 90% of their clients do cancel (there was a 300 people meeting programmed that night).

yeah Paris was super weird yesterday... I live in Oberkampf (Bataclan neighbourhood) and noticed tons more people using bicycles, as if nobody wanted to use the subway. People were riding erratically as well, as if everyone was out of their mind. going back to uni was also strange - even the teachers seemed not to be able to speak at all. I felt the same during our minute of silence.
good luck for today Bertrand - I guess it's gonna be another strange day..

It's awful. The world is becoming a shit place.

there are still sunsets, beautiful music, sticky lambsbread, etc.

It is all cycles. Religion will always feed a certain level of obsessive personality that seeks to shove their beliefs down everyone's throats.

It wasnt that long ago that Catholic "terrorists" were blowing up Protestants in merry ol England....

True and while very similar that was different. The "Troubles" was more overtly a political conflict than a religious one. While these IS attacks are also very much politically motivated they are also more overtly veiled in religious imagery

it is ALWAYS similar but different, and it will never end until people stop seeing their own personal beliefs as mandates for the rest of the world to follow.

but no one really cares until people "like themselves" get hurt. Tens of thousands of brown, "heathen" Syrians have been murdered by IS and such assholes but no one gave a flying fuck until "white" Europeans are hurt and killed. Hundreds die each month in Beirut, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. The powers that be really do not give a fuck as long as our petroleum keeps flowing....

and heroin

Are people angry in Paris? Has there been an increased interest in anti-immigrant, neo-nazi movements? Or is it just sadness and quiet reflection?

From what I can tell, a loud segment of the US population can't process events very well. Now and then a political opinion comes along that is so heartless, so unbelievably "How do you manage to feed yourself?" stupid, that I just want to puke and cry. Republican governors trying to prevent Syrian refugees is a good example.

when your mind is full of only commercials and brain-numbing local news, it cannot process the big picture.

I'm curious about this and hope one of the locals from SYG will share their thoughts. From a few things I've read, it doesn't sound like many are angry.

Video: Turkey fans boo moment of silence for Paris attacks, then chant "Allahu Akbar"

Football fans have a high affinity to be idiots.