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Paris terror attacks an alarm bell for liberal, borderless Europe
Telegraph ^ | 12:37PM GMT 14 Nov 2015 | Simon Heffer

Posted on 11/14/2015 9:21:12 PM PST by GonzoII

France could be one step closer to a far-Right president, Marine Le Pen, after the deadly Islamic State attacks in the French capital

The attack on Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket last January proved that Islamic extremists regarded themselves as at war with France. It is now clear to everyone - including some French public figures who have resisted the idea - that, as President Hollande said on Saturday, France is now at war with Islamic extremists.

Because the enemy is already within - and the eight terrorists killed in the attacks in Paris are merely the tip of the iceberg - fighting this war will be unpleasant, difficult and controversial.

The website of Le Figaro, the conservative French newspaper, proclaimed that there was "war in the heart of Paris". It is a mood widely shared by the French people, whose attitudes have themselves been radicalised by these terrible events.

Above all, we must realise that although this atrocity will change things in France quite profoundly, it is an alarm call to the rest of Europe, to us, and to the whole of Western civilisation.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: eussr; france; parisattacks; rop; schengen
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If you can tolerate the far-right label; not a bad read.
1 posted on 11/14/2015 9:21:12 PM PST by GonzoII
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To: GonzoII
Because the enemy is already within - and the eight terrorists killed in the attacks in Paris are merely the tip of the iceberg - fighting this war will be unpleasant, difficult and controversial.

Controversial?

As if the ISIS synchronized attacks last night were not controversial?

This writer and his paper are barack wussybama.

2 posted on 11/14/2015 9:29:17 PM PST by Vision Thing
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To: GonzoII
it is an alarm call to the rest of Europe, to us, and to the whole of Western civilisation.

I they had been readers of Mark Steyn, they would have known that years ago.

3 posted on 11/14/2015 9:31:46 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Evil, in this world, comes from sin. Not from income disparity or 'climate change.' - Dr.Cernea)
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To: GonzoII

Western Nations refuse to admit that Leftist Ideals of Multiculturism are a deadly failure. Until they are willing to acknowledge this, they will die. I’m ok with that. Stupid is fatal. Nothing can be done.


4 posted on 11/14/2015 9:33:27 PM PST by The Toll
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To: GonzoII

It sounds like the Terrorists Without Borders thing isn’t working out.


5 posted on 11/14/2015 9:34:31 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (#blackfridaysmatter)
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To: GonzoII

What’s so “Far Right” about defending borders, language and culture?


6 posted on 11/14/2015 9:36:38 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

It also helps explain this spin-doctoring:

Predicting which party will win the White House: follow the numbers
[headlines have no impact at all?]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3360416/posts


7 posted on 11/14/2015 9:37:55 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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There is no such “alarm bell” for the Left.

I remember Limbaugh describing the well-disciplined that kept its mouth shut in the days/weeks/months that followed 9-11. But eventually, the Left let loose its depraved imposition.

# the Left. It is the enemy.


8 posted on 11/14/2015 9:48:11 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: GonzoII

“If you can tolerate the far-right label; not a bad read.”

By European standards, Bill Clinton would be far-right! ;)


9 posted on 11/14/2015 9:48:38 PM PST by Frank_2001
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To: Jeff Chandler

Steyns piece last night was spot on. You can tell he is pi$$ed.


10 posted on 11/14/2015 9:55:28 PM PST by digger48
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To: Vision Thing

I trust FReepers realize nothing has changed. Western Europe is gone.

I’ve seen no statement defining muslims as the problem.

Terrorism is a nonsense word. It’s a strategy. That’s all.

War on Terror was the stupidest slogan created so far in the 21st century.

Maybe war on guns is close.


11 posted on 11/14/2015 9:59:29 PM PST by dp0622 (..)
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To: GonzoII

{”Because the enemy is already within “}

And who the bleep let them in?

Yes, Liberals, you thought if you were nice to them, they would love you. And, after all, they hate Jews so they can’t be all bad.


12 posted on 11/14/2015 9:59:39 PM PST by Calpublican (Republican Party Now Stands for Nothing!!!!!(Except Conniving))
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To: GonzoII
It's not an 'alarm bell.'

It's a diagnosis: terminal pancreatic cancer that's spread to the brain, lungs, throat and bone marrow. The patient's not dead, but you can schedule the funeral.

There is a such thing as too late, and this is one such thing.

Europe should be scheduling a funeral, not a war. Europe slept through the war.

13 posted on 11/14/2015 10:08:52 PM PST by tinyowl (penguin in transition and C. Edmond Wright thinks I am an idiot and a Trump sycophant)
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To: GonzoII

Once the Paris street cleaners go through and pick up the wilted flowers, and moldy teddy bears, and the police crime scene tape is removed, it will be business as usual. Muslims will pour in unchecked. Lenin’s omelette.


14 posted on 11/14/2015 10:11:36 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: GonzoII

The armed man on the train who was stopped by the three Americans should have been a sign for the French that they were a muzzie target. He could have slaughtered the passengers as they did in the Parisian theatre.


15 posted on 11/14/2015 10:18:18 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: GonzoII

Europe ran a sewer pipe from the middle east right into their little garden and now wonder why the flowers are dying.


16 posted on 11/14/2015 10:18:38 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: GonzoII
A message to all Parisians... how's that working out for you?


17 posted on 11/14/2015 11:13:58 PM PST by Daffynition (*Gun control is a tool to make innocents pay the price for the guilty* W.LaPierre)
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To: GonzoII

It should be an alarm bell for borderless America, but the ding-ding-ding is not heard because America is fast asleep.


18 posted on 11/14/2015 11:28:15 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: dfwgator

What exactly does the author call the people who move in and refuse to assimilate but instead seek to change their hosts? Far left virus’s?


19 posted on 11/15/2015 12:15:45 AM PST by wiggen (#JeSuisCharlie)
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To: dp0622

If LePen and Cruz get in then we’ll hear it, right?


20 posted on 11/15/2015 12:17:37 AM PST by wiggen (#JeSuisCharlie)
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