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Europe's nightmare: Terror threats both large and small
AP ^ | 1/9/15 | GREGORY KATZ

Posted on 01/09/2015 8:15:29 AM PST by Kartographer

The military-style attack in Paris has made clear that Europe faces an evolving, ever-more complex terror threat no longer dominated by a few big players.

It's not just al-Qaida, or Islamic State. It's not just the disciples of some fiery, hate-filled preachers.

Instead, security experts say, it's now an Internet-driven, generalized rage against Western society felt by radicalized Muslims that can burst into the open at any time - with a slaughter in Paris, an attack on a Jewish Museum in Belgium, or the slaying of a soldier in the streets of London.

This evolving hydra-headed beast bedevils security chiefs, who have to deal not only with al-Qaida planners looking for another 9/11-style hit but also with, as in Paris, well-trained, well-armed killers intent on avenging perceived insults to their religion by gunning down journalists.

In a rare public speech, Andrew Parker, director of the domestic British security service MI5, said Thursday that thwarting terrorist attacks has become more difficult as the threat becomes more diffuse.

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1 posted on 01/09/2015 8:15:29 AM PST by Kartographer
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Many European countries have long had laws against incitement, but they ignore obvious incitement by radicalized Imams. Even Saudi Arabia requires that Imams there must have their sermons approved by the government before they can be made.

Westerners blanch at such suggestions, because they improperly assume they are like pre-censorship of political speech or creative works. They are not. Though such an Imam might have a dozen creative ways of expressing incitement, it is still incitement.

If they cannot control their passions they are a public menace, so need to be behind bars.


2 posted on 01/09/2015 8:21:09 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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The “Threat” has been intentionally imported and injected into the mainstream of Western countries by Leftists under the guise of Multi-Culturalism!

The chaos the murder the mayhem can be lain at the feet of Leftists who have insisted on letting countless immigrants with alien and even hostile beliefs, into the Host Nation, to set up forward encampments, ready and capable of assaulting the native peoples who offered them hospitality.

People of strongly opposing beliefs trying to co-habitate is a tinder box just waiting a spark. MC’ism on display!

3 posted on 01/09/2015 8:25:05 AM PST by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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As step one, the Western World needs to stop importing the cancer that is Islam, an bar further immigration of Muslims.

Until that happens, we're all marching to oblivion.

4 posted on 01/09/2015 8:25:28 AM PST by Dagnabitt (Amnesty is Treason. Its agents and supporters are Traitors.)
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No Mislims, No Terrorism.

Simple.


5 posted on 01/09/2015 8:29:52 AM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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Once again conservatism is at odds with global corporatism.

The globalists have pushed an agenda of multiculturalism along with destruction of our western culture, (via open borders, amnesty, sanctuary cities, and ever since they opened the flood gates with the Immigration Act of 1965) and the international trade pacts that take away national sovereignty. Americans need to wake up before it is too late, and we are fractured just like they’ve done culturally to Europe via the EU.


6 posted on 01/09/2015 8:30:27 AM PST by apoliticalone (Guns are like a parachute. When you need one and don't have it you'll not ever need another.)
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7 posted on 01/09/2015 8:34:39 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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...and Canada, and the US, and Australia... Politicians can try to continue burying the truth and call these lone wolf attacks, but Islam is at war, and the battlefield is anywhere of their choice. A chocolate shop, a veteran memorial, an airport, a school, a paper, a deli, a gas station - any place, any time, the battle will resume.

Add to all of this the race baiting black leaders with their antipolice protests and these attacks will spread. Can't wait until the Mexican gangs join the party.

8 posted on 01/09/2015 8:42:30 AM PST by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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While the same f@#$%$s pushing diversity and anarchy lead the charge to take away our firearms so we can’t defend ourselves.


9 posted on 01/09/2015 8:52:54 AM PST by apoliticalone (Guns are like a parachute. When you need one and don't have it you'll not ever need another.)
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To: American in Israel
No Mislims, No Terrorism.

It's a start, but not quite that simple. No Muslims, no ISLAMIC terrorism, I'll agree, and that's a start. But, there's a long history of political terrorism that isn't associated with Islam, or at least wasn't at the time. See Russian anarchists, Bill Ayers and friends, etc.

Some people need killin' as they say in Texas, but worse than that, history shows that some people always need an excuse to be killin'.

10 posted on 01/09/2015 8:56:02 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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I’m reminded of what an FBI representative said about color printers, and I paraphrase:

It’s one thing to track down a counterfeiter who prints off $50,000,000 in fifties. It’s quite another to track down 1,000,000 citizens who print one $50 bill to take their wife out to dinner.


11 posted on 01/09/2015 1:39:38 PM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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