GIGN is going in. there is a request by the french police for radio silence on anything to do with the bataclan so that the terrorists aren't informed

police have just stormed the concert hall

Band members are OK, per reports. So the hostages were part of the crowd attending their show?

yes, likely. possibly staff as well. no word on the band's crew

apparently the terrorists were picking off people one by one there, at least there were survivors

this country is fuuuuucked

Islam is fucked.

when i was living in france every muslim i met was an asshole. it sucks how taboo it is to have an aversion to islam in the EU, because damn it's an obvious problem

we don't even know if these people are muslims. i would say it's probable though

at least one report of a gunman shouting allahu ackbar

i really really really really hope they're not islamic

it won't make anything better, but if they're islamic it'll be much worse

this will really change how people think about the refugee crisis

Submitted a news post on this but I guess it might be too divisive to have a comment thread dedicated to this.

I don't have any problem with Muslims (Muslims are leaving the Middle East en masse to leave radical Islam and terrorism), but I just think that it's naive to make the argument that there isn't something wrong with Islam. This type of shit simply doesn't happen in Christianity and Judaism.

just announced, it's all over. gunmen were killed and ISIS is the culprit

the mods need to approve the article. this is a fine place for discussing this

They're probably muslims, but I still think blaming the religion for this is stupid, I hate when people say all muslims are like that

The Bataclan attack is over, but TV news report that it is a massacre scene inside... Apparently the terrorists used grenades.

I'm actually taking a History of Religion class and from what I learned so far Islam is supposed to be a pretty peaceful religion for the most part.

still haven't heard anything about isis