[NEWS] Some links on the November 2015 Paris attacks (#parisattacks)

[rfmcdonald]

• Wikipedia's page on the November 2015 Paris attacks is a good basic source of information, and further links.


• Bloomberg had a collection of articles, one looking at how Parisians are coping the day after, another connecting this to France's role fighting Islamist groups from West Africa to Syria.


• CBC shared early social media footage.


• Slate has terrible reports from the slaughter in the Bataclan theatre, which turns out to have been named after an amusing-sounding Offenbach operetta, Ba-ta-clan.
  
• The Toronto Star noted how soccer fans at the Stade de France remained calm, even exiting singing "La Marseillaise".


• Vox, helpfully, notes that using these attacks to justify an exclusion of Syrian refugees overlooks that these are the people the refugees are fleeing.


• The Atlantic's controversial article examining the roots of ISIS in Islam is a useful starting point, although this critical examination at Lawyers, Guns and Money is also worth noting.


• MacLean's shared reactions from around the world.


• Wired reported on how the Facebook status updates of one Benjamin Cazenoves, trapped in the Bataclan, were widely shared, and also notes the wide use of the #porteouverte hashtag.


• Quartz reports on the universal condemnation of the attacks throughout the Muslim world.


• Esquire argues that the Middle Eastern oil states that funded ISIS should be held to task.


• John Scalzi at Whatever makes the point that buying into ISIS' rhetoric is a trap we must avoid.