Islamists attack Paris building killing 11.

To answer your question, I don't think we will see any attack here similar to what has taken place in Madrid, London, New York, Paris etc Not that there might not be an isolated single incident but nothing on the scale of the aforementioned.

Of course the extremism of Al Nusra/ISIS/ISIL and other groups is hard for us from our perspective to comprehend, but as much as we want to pigeon hole ALL of them as madmen (and alot of them are ) without ANY political objective, then we fail to understand that there is a context and as much as it seems simply blind terror there is also a "reasoning" (from their twisted "logic") to their actions. That doesn't mean we lend even a shred of credibility to their views or actions but I think it does require us to be a bit less Sky News about it. 

I wonder how many people here actually talk to Muslims of any sect beyond street talk? It's like people who have a blanket prejudice towards ALL Travellers but don't know a single one.

I have several friends from both Palestine and Lebanon. All but one are Sunni and each of them, whilst having what might seem to most people here fairly strident views about whats happening in the Middle East, are at the same time always at pains to point out how they don't see any reason why Ireland should perceive itself as any sort of either threat or target for extremist groups.

The one thing we certainly do not wanting to be doing is participating in any way on interventionist military missions in these countries, nor facilitate rendition flights to Guantanamo etc. 

Instead we should take a non-aligned Independent stance in the World and speak out against human right abuses from wherever they come and continue to participate in UN sanctioned peace-keeping operations. Let the French, Brits and the rest flex their muscles if they like, thats not our way.

Being a non-colonising, non-interfering state has it's rewards at times such as these.