Posted on 11/16/2015 12:46:42 PM PST by SJackson
The darkness of evil descended on the City of Light last Friday night as eight jihadists conducted coordinated attacks at six Paris locations. They slaughtered at least 129 people in cold blood. It was the worst such massacre in France since World War II and the deadliest jihadist incident in the West since the Madrid train bombings slightly more than a decade ago.
The Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL) claimed responsibility. In a statement it posted online, ISIS boasted that the eight âbrothersâ acted âin the name of Allah and Allah strengthened the hands of the warriors and put fear and terror in the hearts of the crusaders.â ISIS adherents had already jumped the gun before the official ISIS statement, creating the hashtag âParis in flamesâ as the attacks were unfolding. French President Francois Hollande called the coordinated deadly attacks a "cowardly act of war" and declared a state of emergency. He promised that France âwill be merciless against Islamic State's barbarians."
The death tally included at least 89 persons attending a rock concert. Many were gunned down by four of the jihadists shouting âAllahu akbar.â More innocent civilians were killed when three of these murderers blew themselves up as the police raided the concert venue. The fourth jihadist was killed by the police. Suicide bombers also took several innocent lives outside the Stade de France national stadium, where French President Francois Hollande was in attendance for a soccer game. Other innocent civilians were gunned down as they sat in restaurants and cafes.
ISIS warned of more carnage to come:
âFrance and those who follow its ways should know that they remain at the top of the Islamic State hit list and that the smell of death will not leave their noses as long as they continue on their crusade and continue to insult the Prophet and boast their war on Islam in France while attacking Muslims in the land of the caliphate.â
The day before the Islamic Stateâs horrific attacks in Paris took place, President Obama said during an ABC interview that he did not think the Islamic State was gaining strength. "From the start, our goal has been first to contain, and we have contained them. They have not gained ground in Iraq.â This self-deluded puffery is consistent with Obamaâs whole approach to ISIS.
When ISIS first emerged as a potential threat and could have been rather easily stamped out before it spread, he referred to ISIS as a JV team. He did nothing then to counter them. As ISIS expanded the territories under its control, Obama reluctantly decided to undertake a slow incremental military approach that relied on a limited number of airstrikes, supplemented over the following months by a limited number of non-combat ground forces. Not until Russian President Vladimir Putin intervened in Syria with his own airstrikes in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assadâs regime against ISIS and against âmoderateâ rebel strongholds did Obama move towards stepping up the pace of U.S. airstrikes. He decided to send 50 special-operations troops to Syria in support of airstrikes which will soon be ramped up according to a senior U.S. military official cited by the Wall Street Journal. On Thursday, November 12th, a drone strike reportedly killed the infamous ISIS executioner known as Jihad John in the ISIS de facto capital of Raqqa.
The juxtaposition of Obamaâs ISIS containment statement with ISISâs successful multi-pronged Paris attacks demonstrates how out of touch the president is with the enemy we are fighting. In all likelihood President Obama was thinking of the tactical victory by Kurdish and Yazidi fighters, backed by U.S. airstrikes, who managed to liberate the northern Iraqi city of Sinjar from Islamic State occupation. He may also have had in mind the reported killing of Jihad John. As positive as those developments are, however, Obama thinks tactically and not strategically. He misses the big picture. The Islamic State is not contained. To the contrary, just within the last two weeks or so, it has managed, with the support of its âbrothersâ operating outside of its declared caliphate, to down a Russian jet over Egypt with an explosive device, to conduct a double suicide bombing that killed more than forty people in Beirut Lebanon, and to successfully carry out the coordinated Paris attacks.
Hillary Clinton tried to distinguish herself from President Obama, saying during the November 14th Democratic presidential debate that ISIS âcannot be contained, it must be defeated.â But following in the footsteps of Obamaâs failed âleading from behindâ foreign policy, she declared that âthis cannot be an American fight.â If not America firmly in the lead, then whom Madame Secretary?
President Obama decried the Paris massacres as âan attack on all of humanity and the universal values we share.â He promised full support to France, without specifying exactly what that meant.
Obama still believes we are dealing with deviant violent extremists who are defying âuniversal values.â He still does not connect what happened in Paris to the ideology of Islam, which rejects âthe universal values we shareâ as posited by Obama and offers an alternative worldview based on global jihad and Islamic supremacy.
In her comments during the Democratic presidential debate, Hillary Clinton also refused to use descriptions of the enemy that included the words âIslamâ or Muslim.â She hesitated to even embrace the phrase âradical Islamists.â Just like President Obama, Hillary talked instead more generically about âviolent extremism,â although at one point she did describe ISIS as âa barbaric, ruthless, violent jihadist terrorist group.â She said that we are at war with âpeople who use their religion for purposes of power and oppressionâ and referred obliquely to âthe kind of radical jihadist ideology that motivates organizations like ISIS.â Her analysis of the root causes of ISISâs rise went no further than blaming oppressive dictatorships and the âincreasing globalization without any real safety valve for people to have a better life.â ISISâs âbehavior is so barbaric and so vicious,â she said, âthat it doesn't seem to have any purpose other than lust for killing and power.â
Erroneous diagnoses of the fundamental roots of the problem lead to faulty solutions. ISIS is not motivated by a âlust for killing and powerâ for its own sake. It does not consist of just a bunch of violent extremists steeped in nihilism. They do reject modernity (except its technological tools such as social media). In its place, however, they operate on the basis of a wholly alternative paradigm of their own, which represents for them the perfect society. ISISâs purpose is to build and expand its caliphate to make Islam supreme globally.
As Graeme Wood wrote in his thorough analysis of ISISâs ideology in The Atlantic:
âThere is a temptation to rehearse this observationâthat jihadists are modern secular people, with modern political concerns, wearing medieval religious disguiseâand make it fit the Islamic State. In fact, much of what the group does looks nonsensical except in light of a sincere, carefully considered commitment to returning civilization to a seventh -century legal environment, and ultimately to bringing about the apocalypseâ¦the religion preached by its most ardent followers derives from coherent and even learned interpretations of Islam.â
Jihadists committed to Islamic supremacy adhere to a literal reading of Sharia law, which stands in opposition to the sacredness of life for all human beings regardless of belief. They reject the idea that all human beings are entitled to be treated with equal dignity and have inalienable rights. They respect only Allahâs divine law and the teachings of their prophet Muhammed, which separates believers from non-believers, sanctioning inferior status, if not outright death, for the latter. Belief in the validity of man made law, whether enacted through a democratic process or a dictatorâs edict, is heresy. Self-government is anathema.
To believe, as President Obama does, that more jobs, economic opportunity and inclusive pluralistic governance will defeat ISISâs ideology demonstrates the presidentâs utter naivete. Hillary Clintonâs reference in the debate to the need for âdevelopment aidâ to help counter the ISIS threat is equally misguided. ISIS adherents are not looking for development aid from the West. They are looking for its destruction and the death of all âinfidels.â Their apocalyptic vision of a global caliphate is to strip all lands of âunbelieversâ or subjugate them under the caliphateâs rule.
ISIS is spreading, not only by recruiting Westerners to fight for its caliphate in Syria and Iraq, but also to launch terrorist attacks in their own homelands. One of the attackers in Paris was reported to be a Frenchman whom had spent time in Syria nearly two years ago.
ISIS is also using the cover of migration to enable jihadists from Syria and elsewhere to enter Europe under the guise of asylum seekers. According to a report in The Guardian, while several of the jihadists responsible for the Paris attacks may have had ties to Belgium, one was âsaid to be Syrian who passed through Greece on refugee route.â A Syrian passport was found near his body. The article quoted a Greek deputy minister in charge of policing, who said: âThe holder of the passport passed through the island of Leros on 3 October 2015, where he was identified according to EU rules.â According to subsequent reporting, it appears that a second jihadist registered as a refugee on Leros last August.
A Syrian operative working for ISIS has claimed that thousands of ISIS jihadists have already taken advantage of the ârefugeeâ disguise and entered Europe. "Itâs our dream that there should be a caliphate not only in Syria but in all the world," he said, "and we will have it soon, God willing." Perhaps that explains why the majority of ârefugeesâ from the Middle East and North Africa migrating to Europe are males of fighting age.
As Robert Spencer wrote: âMigrant Jihad has begun.â
Admitting masses of self-declared ârefugeesâ from the Middle East, North Africa and Afghanistan into Western countries starts us down the path towards national suicide. It conflicts with the primary responsibility of every national government to protect its own citizens against invasion. The jihadists are invading. Yet the Obama administration actually intends to expand and accelerate the ârefugeeâ admission process.
The Obama administration had previously announced its plan to admit at least 10,000 Syrian refugees next year, a six-fold increase from present numbers. And Reuters reported on November 6th that the administration is âmoving to increase and accelerate the number of Syrian refugees who might be admitted into the United States by opening new screening outposts in Iraq and Lebanon.â Two senior administration officials told Reuters they are seeking ways to increase the number of Syrian refugees admitted to the United States from the 10,000 figure. "We want to be in a place where we can push out really ambitious goals," said one of the officials, who spoke to Reuters on the condition of anonymity.
During Saturday nightâs Democratic presidential debate, Hillary Clinton went so far as to propose that the United States admit as many as 65,000 Syrian refugees. Yes, she said they must first be very carefully vetted. However, considering that many of those claiming to be ârefugeesâ have no documentation or are carrying false papers, successful screening will be an impossible task.
The Paris massacre should be a call for real action on multiple fronts. These include sharply stepped up military offensives concentrated against ISIS, coordinated with Russia as necessary. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is not a strategic threat to the United States. ISIS is the strategic threat. ISIS can only be defeated by understanding its animating jihadist ideology, and then undermining it by doing whatever is necessary to strip ISIS of its existing caliphate territory. ISISâs strategy to export its jihad to the West must also be stopped in its tracks. Migration to the West from the sectarian cauldrons of the Middle East, North Africa and elsewhere should be discouraged by all means necessary. Exceptions should only be made in the most serious and obvious humanitarian cases, starting with Christian and Yazidi women, children and the elderly fleeing the ISIS killing fields.
French President Hollande seems to have gotten the message. Hopefully, his decision to control Franceâs borders and invoke emergency powers to go after the home-grown jihadists will last more than a few days and be followed by other European countries. President Obama and the leading Democratic candidate for president, however, are still trapped in political correctness and risk aversion, which leads to paralysis in the face of evil.
I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that Western Civilization will do approximately NOTHING in response to the Paris attacks.
For example, demography is destiny. Will France do anything substantial to change the fact that functional muslims will outnumber non-muslim French in about 2 generations?
If youâd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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France Fertility Rates:
Muslim: 2.8
Non Muslim: 1.9
What’s next? liberals moan and groan and blame civilized countries for the murders. Hollande weakens them, but without the help of the USA is unable to wipe the pond scum out. 0bama$hit brings in a million of two of his best buddies. I don’t want to write the rest of what I think will happen.
Any person with halfa brain knows that we, the Great Satan, are on the list, but the mooslimes have so much more work to do in Europe before getting to us. It is far easier to overwhelm the European Socialist governments than ours.
Every opinion-making institution and profession has been infiltrated with Marxist lies and the bundle of closely intertwined agendas: decimating Judaeo-Christian society, overwhelming the system with sure to fail, expensive idiotic programs; creating and bringing in a deluge of freeloaders and criminals, promoting homosexuality, destroying the military, emptying the treasury, prosecuting and chilling free speech, opening the gates to tens of millions of Islamic Jihadists, planting them in sensitive security positions, in short bringing the U.S. governement, law enforcemand and the citizen to their knees. The perpetrators and the mass of useful idiots whom they’re brainwashed are in place in all these professions and planning positions. They’re at the top of their hierarchies and not moving. Look at those idiotic college administrators, for example. Those who care need to step up to the plate now where they can make a chance in who speaks for them and to do so while there is still a chance for peaceful reversal of the terrible damage already done.
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