Posted on 03/23/2012 8:21:00 AM PDT by IbJensen
When in doubt, kill a Jew. That seems to be the de rigueur thing to do. After all, even after a cold-blooded and ruthless radical Muslim killer deliberately takes a sub-machine gun and mows down three small Jewish children and a young rabbi-teacher in front of a Jewish day school in Toulouse, France, no one seems capable of just saying that an extremist Muslim murdered four Jews because they were Jews.
No. If it comes to Muslims killing Jews, and not merely Jews, but even targeting small school children, there are always mitigating circumstances. There is always a perspective with which to view this act of terrorist murder that begs us to “understand” why this person was “driven” to carry out these horrible acts. He is at fault, but not entirely, since he was “driven” to it by circumstances beyond his control. In brief, the murderer is a victim too.
A blatant example is The Washington Post Editorial Board that issued their official diagnoses in their editorial of March 22nd: “French Attacks Highlight the Country’s Immigrant Challenge.” In other words, the problem just isn’t an Islamic jihadist killing Jewish school children in cold blood, it is a social issue.
The socially challenged Islamic killer, 24 year old Mohammed Merah, attacked the Jewish Otzar Hatorah day school in Toulouse. First, he opened fire at random at the parents, children, and teachers in the school’s courtyard before stepping down from his bike to kill four Jews in cold blood: Thirty year-old rabbi- teacher Jonathan Sandler, his two sons Aryeh (5) and Gabriel (4), and then he grabbed an 8 year-old girl, Miriam Monsonego, by the hair and fired a bullet in her head from point blank range.
French journalist Michel Gurfinkiel, founder and president of the Paris-based think-tank the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute, reported: “According to various sources, Merah is primarily a thief who grew radicalized by jihadists while incarcerated. After jail he traveled to Pakistan and possibly Afghanistan, where he received first class combat training……. his systematic murders of French soldiers (especially Muslim French soldiers, seen as renegades) and Jews (including children) fit with jihadist and al-Qaeda ideology, strategy, and tactics.”
But for The Washington Post, facts are not enough. Merah, “a French citizen of Algerian extraction…. said he had traveled more than once to Pakistan and Afghanistan, and he may have been arrested and imprisoned in Kandahar.” The poor fellow.
The editorial continues: “When he returned to France, Mr. Merah became involved with a group of up to 15 extremists, authorities said.” The impression one is given is Mr. Merah, the bloody murderer, is a poor soul who was arrested in Afghanistan where he was apparently a tourist. In fact, he was indeed arrested in Afghanistan, but not for loitering. He was caught bomb making. And when he returned home to France he “became involved”, through no fault of his own, of course, “with a group of up to 15 extremists.” Should one wonder what kind of extremist, the answer is of the Islamic jihadist variety, but you wouldn’t necessarily know it from the Post’s editorial.
No matter. Mr. Merah, the poor victim of French immigration policy, who was influenced by these 15 extremists (and perhaps during his combat and bomb making training in al-Qaeda/Taliban training camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan), also, according to The Post’s editorial: “also managed to accumulate weapons, including rifles, material for bombs and the .45-caliber handgun with which he allegedly executed the soldiers as well as three French-Israeli children and a rabbi.” There is no assumption that he was deliberately one of these extremists and that they comprised a terrorist cell.
Now, a simple review of the facts might lead one to believe that Mohammad Merah was a radical Muslim terrorist trained by al-Qaeda and the Taliban, who carried out his jihadi training and ideology and murdered, first several French-Muslim soldiers and then followed up with the daylight massacre of Jewish school children. But let’s not jump to conclusions.
True, he did all these things, but it is the reason he did them is what is important. After all, the Post editorial reminds us:
“In fact, Mr. Sarkozy’s government has not done enough to improve conditions for young French Muslims who often live in immigrant ghettos. Mr. Merah reportedly told the police besieging him that his killings were meant as revenge for the ban on the public use of the Islamic veil, which was supported by Mr. Sarkozy. Though such policies don’t explain or excuse the attacks, more discrimination against Muslim communities is hardly the right response.”
A rational person might read the qualifying words: “Though such policies don’t explain or excuse the attacks” and wonder if indeed that is the case, why write the rest of the paragraph unless one is trying to offer extenuating circumstances for acts that have none, by criticizing French government policy as if there is a justifying connection.
Had a French-Israeli Jew rode his motorcycle down to a Muslim Arab school in Toulouse, and deliberately and cold-bloodedly opened fire on young school children from point-blank range, one sincerely doubts whether The Washington Post’s Editorial Board would be offering the same sort of mitigating pontification.
While it is certain that the members of The Washington Post Editorial Board condemn the vicious killings in Toulouse, their editorial, whether intentional or not, can too easily mislead readers into thinking there are others issues at play besides what it is: a radical Islamic jihadist brutally murdering innocent Jewish children simply because they are Jews.
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The author is a veteran journalist specializing in geo-political and geo-strategic affairs in the Middle East. His articles have appeared in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, Insight Magazine, Nativ, The Jerusalem Post and Makor Rishon. His articles have been reprinted by Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in the US Congressional Record.
What about the muslim major who killed the GIs at the military post last year. What's the latest on that POS?
Not to be disrespectful, or mix and match stories, but, we’re told that this was a “gunman” who killed these Jews for no apparent reason. We’re told that law enforcement is investigating, searching for a motive and all that.
But in the Trayvon Martin case in Florida, we are convicting Zimmerman in the media. And we are emphasizing that Martin was black, and that this is obviously a hate crime, that a black kid was shot by a racist.
In one case, we can’t see any clear motive for a Muslim targeting Jews. In the other case, we jump to conclusions that the black kid was shot because he was black, and his killer was thus a racist.
Okay, I am gonna explain here one very important reason why the Jewish people in general get so much emnity from other cultures and it is not the Jewish people’s fault at all.
Jews (especially in areas where they are a minority) have had as a matter of history have had to struggle to survive and this struggle leads them to push their children to excel at professions that are synonymous with stabilitty and wealth in order to keep their teniuos grasp at existence in places that hostile to them. This is seen in Jewish culture in general as they push their kids to leatrn and to excel in skills that help them earn a living later in life.
Of course this well justified behavior causes the “green eyed monster of envy” to creep up amongst the majority other cultures who do scratch their heads and wonder “Why are all the Jews doing so well when they are a minority that we routinely beat down?”. So instead of taking a clue from their Jewish Neighbors and pushing their children and by extension their culture to do better the easy “solution” is to place all the blame on the Jews becasue, you know obviously (warning: sarcasm to follow) “The Jews must be (cheating, in a pact with the devil, subverting the rules, influence peddling, etc...)” Pick any of the preceeding “causes” of their sucess.
Instead of seeing them as a hard working people they see them as somone who is using dubious means to get ahead instead of realizing that they are actually getting ahead by means of hard work and sacrifice.
Rather than looking at the Jews and seeing some of the holes intheir own culture they look at the jews and see sucess as a “bad thing”. This is the same diving motivator behind the current admibnistrations love affair with class warfare. The sucessfull people are seen as a “cancer” becasue “how dare they succeed when other people are not....”. This mentality is one of the most destructive cultural foces EVER KNOWN, and in it’s various forms ie. Socialism and Communism and National Socialism has lead to the largest numbers of “Democide” ie. (Death by Government) in the last 100 years humanity has ever seen.
What is a Jew to do, except to work harder to survive which unfourtunately will earn MORE ire from the dipshits who think it is all the “jews fault”. The Jewish people are stuck behind a catch-22, if they work less hard they will surely get wiped out, if they work harder they will be hated more for succeeding more....
I am glad I am not Jewish because who in their right mind would want be stuck in a no-win situation where you have to work harder to survive but that earns you more hate. I will stand with the Jews and Israel if we find ourselves in a repeat of 1930’s europe. I respect the Jewish people and their story has inspired me to work harder even if it does earn the ire of the underacheivers.
Sorry, my spelling is bad, I wrote this out of frustration over why the news media never “gets” the real reasons behind why there is so much Jew hatred around the world in the first damned place.
Ask yourself this question—What if the arab in France had been a Neo-Nazi who shot those children—What would be the Media response?
Rush Limbaugh’s fault of course.
Don't forget Bush.
You have no idea what I’d give to be able to spend just 5 minutes in a locked room with the editorial board of the Washington Post. Just five lousy minutes....
Having been raised working with my father in the post WWII era salvage business I grew up amongst many Jews whom dominated that industry. Jewish people have always been a part of my life since. No, I am not Jewish.
With that experience under my belt I agree with your assessment whole heartedly. I believe you are correct.
You can’t hold them accountable for their actions. They’ve been lobotomized in order to fit it with Obozozombies.
The lazy arabs can’t be blamed for maiming, killing and blowing up Israelis. Who could blame them for excessive animosity?
They look into Israel and see that it’s been turned into an oasis. Even here, in America, we drink their delicious wines, eat their marvelous olives and then there’s all the products that Israel turns out for world markets.
The poor muslims are impecunious, that is if it was not for America giving them money that we borrow from China. There’s not much they can do with money except buy groceries for the families they’ve procreated, but haven’t the will power to provide for.
Muslims, praise Allah, have invented one thing that has benefitted mankind. They have discovered in 1515 that the lower intenstine of a sheep is an excellent condom. However, in 1871 the British, seeing a good thing, improved on the Muslim invention: they removed the intestine from the animal.
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