NEWS #3

PARIS ATTACKS: FURY OVER CLAIMS BY PHILOSOPHER ONFRAY

Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34904939

SUMMARY:
A French philosopher named Michel Onfray has given his opinion about the attacks in Paris. He has basically said that France had started by joining the United States in trying to impose their ideas on the Middle East. He says the Islamic State (IS) has attacked Paris in a response to their attacks. The philosopher doesn’t argue that the Paris attacks were justifiable; he simply says that they were inevitable. Onfray’s words in a 2013 interview were: "Why do we have a problem of terrorism? Muslims are not stupid. We bring war to their homes and kill them by tens or hundreds, and then expect them to be nice.”

His words had been so criticised by other Parisians such as Laurent Joffrin, an intellectual man who is against immigration and Michel Houellebecq, a novelist that has caused controversy in France with his ideas.

OPINION:

As Onfray says, France has started it all. In my opinion, he is totally right, because what the terrorists had done isn’t justifiable, but France can neither justify his actions. It’s totally normal that French people criticise him, because their main city has been attacked, but analysing the situation France should have thought before attacking Syria. 

This is what wars consist of, attacking and attacking pretending to defend each ones actions and not trying to solve the problems. This, my friends, is the world of capitalism and interests.                         

VOCABULARY: sowed, maverick, scornful, endorsement. megalomaniac, hotbed.