Do you have a contradictory report?
I'm not the one claiming or implying something regarding what the others on the train were willing or not willing to do. Ergo, I'm not the one who needs to come up with reports.
http://pamelageller.com/2015/08/paris-train-crew-abandoned-passengers-as-muslim-opened-fire.html/"Train staff on board the high speed train which was the scene of a suspected Islamic extremist attack yesterday have been accused of barricading themselves in their staffroom and locking the door, leaving passengers to fend for themselves.
The Moroccan terrorist was disarmed and beaten unconscious by US servicemen and a British man after he opened fire on a Paris-bound train with a Kalashnikov.
Now, French actor Jean-Hugues Anglade, who was on board the Thalys train during the attack has slammed train staff who he claims locked themselves in an office away from the attacker and refused to help the trapped passengers.
...The actor told Paris Match: ‘We heard screaming passengers in English, ‘He shoots! He shoots! He has a Kalashnikov!”
The actor, who was travelling with his two children and his girlfriend, said: ‘Suddenly, members of the crew ran into the hallway and their faces were pale.’
He said the staff hurried towards their own car on the train and opened it ‘with a special key’ before they locked themselves inside.
Mr Anglade claims he and other passengers banged on the door and shouted at staff to open up, but their cries for help were ignored.
He said: ‘Nobody replied, there was radio silence. It was terrible and unbearable, it was inhumane.
‘The minutes seemed like hours and protected my children with my whole body, telling them everything was fine.’
The French Interior Minister said this afternoon that the train attacker is suspected to be a radical Islamist.
US airman Spencer Stone, who on board the train during the attack, spotted the 26-year-old Moroccan acting suspiciously and heard him trying to load his weapon in the toilet.
He was travelling with Oregon National Guard member Alek Skarlatos, 22, who was on leave and travelling through Europe at the time after returning from a tour in Afghanistan.
With the help of their friend Anthony Sadler, from Pittsburg, California, and fellow passenger British IT consultant Chris Norman, they managed to wrestle the attacker to the ground, stopping what could have been a deadly terrorist attack."
http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/24/europe/france-train-shooting/"Mark Moogalian couldn't make it to the Legion of Honor ceremony Monday when four men were honored for subduing an armed terror suspect on a French train.
The French-American academic, 51, was in a hospital recovering from a gunshot wound. Before the other men got involved, Moogalian tried to take away the suspect's rifle but the man shot Moogalian in the neck with a Luger pistol, his wife, Isabelle Risacher, told France's Europe 1 radio.
He'll receive his own Legion of Honor when he gets better, the French government has said.
...A biography on Moogalian's website says he was born in Durham, North Carolina, and that his family later moved to Virginia.
As an adult he moved to France where he worked as a translator and English teacher for business professionals. His website says he's a artist, teacher and musician and recently published a novel.
Moogalian has dual citizenship and has been living in France for almost two decades, Julia Moogalian said. He traveling on the train with his wife and their dog, Benny."
Nope, I have to limit myself to making judgements based upon the best information that I have access to. Just like everyone does for everything they do, everyday. I can't prove a negative, and I Or won't try.
You are not confining yourself to making judgments based on the information you have. You have made a generalisation disparaging an entire people base on nothing more than your own opinion.
That's what a judgement is.
The context of the original comment was of contemporary Europe. Of ancient cultures that appear no longer willing to defend themselves against the cultural influence of a religion & culture stuck in the 7th century, with the predictable end result that the living generations of those ancient cultures no longer consider their own culture and history superior to that which would subjugate it. I may have failed to specify that I was referring to contemporary France, but that was my intention. I certainly did not imply otherwise, and you have chosen to reach your conclusions by way of willful misunderstanding.
The original comment was in direct reply to "So what does it say about the French". Your answer was "That even they don't value their culture enough to defend it."
Nothing about contempary Europe. Nothing about ancient cultures no longer willing to defend themselves. Nothing about religion and culture stuck in the 7th century. There is nothing about any of that in any part of the thread up to that point. All that BS is simply your way of trying to justify your desire to slur an entire people and culture and the men and women who have died defending it, in order to get a laugh on the internet and feel superior for a moment or two.
Do you think I'm here trolling, for giggles? The reference was a contemporary one, therefore I'm not actually required to point out that I'm discussing a contemporary event or it's implications. If I was not, a segway would have been required of me, or it would have been a rational assumption that I was
speaking about a contemporary event. Since I didn't provide such a segway, or even imply such a leap of logic that you have taken, my only conclusion is that your assumptions are based upon willful misinterpretations. Unless, of course, you have some other excuse. Is English not your native language, perhaps?
