Posted on 01/10/2015 6:06:29 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
It would be a big mistake to see the terror attack in Paris as an attack on the freedom of the press. Such a statement puts the massacre in the French capital in line with attacks against journalists by members of a Colombian drug cartel or the Chechen mafia.
That's not the case. The goal of the attack on the office of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo was not to frighten newspaper editors so that they would not publish one cartoon or another. The goal was to show and prove who controls the streets and consciousness of the French Republic: The Western liberalism or the fanatical Islam.
This is a clash of civilizations, not a gang's intimidation campaign.
Many in Europe are finding it difficult to accept this perspective, let alone agree with it. As far as they are concerned, the Muslim terror in the continent has no supreme goal apart from just sowing terror.
And it's not so complicated to buy those who have no ideological urges with economic means: We'll renovate a few housing blocks, fix a few pavements, open a few kindergartens – and voila! There goes terror, along with the threat to the freedom of the press. How convenient.
The journalists who were murdered in Paris on Wednesday were therefore not victims of a battle over the freedom of the press. They were victims of a war between the world view of the radical Islam and the world view of Western humanism, a war which will go on and increase and claim victims until it is won by one side.
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Good article, yes, I totally agree.
Islam plans to enslave us all. And U.S. citizens are not immune. We were stupid enough to elect an Islamist as POTUS. Is there any hope for this nation?
The Ummah Militant, the latest iteration of the cult of Baal, strikes again.
In the intro to his Histories Herodotus notes the enmity of the people on the east side of the Aegean toward those on the west side of the Aegean - a one sided enmity that wasn’t mutual like that of the fabled Hatfields and McCoys - next Herodotus ponders what begen the enmity, considering it may have been the Trojan War, whose pretext was Paris’ ill-mannered dating of Helen of Troy, a basis of war the people on the east side of the Aegean couldn’t comprehend - thus the Trojan War was unjustified in their eyes - however it began, Herodotus remarks that the enmity had been around forever - (and it may have been this fact that prompted Herodotus to write on this theme to gain best seller status forever - for what’s been around forever will probably continue to stay a while) - and so, perhaps the Persian Empire folded into Islam, where the cultural enmity - as a cultural precept - was codified as scripture - toward those on the west of the Aegean, and the greek civilization folded into Christianity, and thus the Persian Wars Herodotus wrote about are still here today - and perhaps this frame of meaning could prove useful - but it presupposes the West is still on the playing field - if the West has walked off the playng field...
No doubt about it, 4th century religious fanatics trying to take on the 21st century press.
False headline. Since when is Islam “civilized”. Should be the West , Civilization vs. Barbaric Islam.
It presumes Greater Barbaristan is a civilization.
People who massacre their own children in cold blood are bestial savages.
But the West keeps right on making excuses for Islam. Its becoming tiresome.
Do you think a group living according to the standards of
650 ad are civilized?
Islamic civilization is an oxymoron.
Ain’t that the truth.
Islam is tyranny.
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