Posted on 01/07/2015 6:48:22 AM PST by LeoMcNeil
Muslim terrorists have murdered 12 people at satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris. The newspaper recently ran cartoons mocking Mohammed and ISIS. This newspaper was firebombed by Muslims in 2011, so apparently there’s a history of Muslims attacking these people. Parisians are understandably shocked over this barbarous act of terrorism. As well they should be, God help western civilization when it gets to the point that acts of terrorism don’t shock us anymore. Especially so when we’re talking about the acts of barbarian Muslim terrorists.
Since the 9-11 attacks on New York and Washington, Muslim terrorists have attacked London, Boston, Frankfurt, New Delhi and now Paris. This in addition to attacks on the Australian Embassy in Indonesia, the attack at Fort Hoot as well as attempts to behead British soldiers and explode car bombs in Times Square. The religion of peace has a tenancy towards extreme violence against anyone who disagrees with them. Howard Dean was very quick this morning to condemn calling these people Muslim terrorists. Dean and the left might want to pretend like Islam and terrorism are separate but with so many attacks by Muslims it’s nearly impossible to separate the two. Considering that Mohammed advocated conversion by the sword, it’s hardly surprising that modern Muslims would extend that teaching to include bombs and machine guns.
The media in Europe has been up in arms over the last few years over the rise of the so-called far right in France, Germany, The Netherlands and elsewhere. We should not make the mistake of tying the right in Europe to the right here in America. The right in Europe is still socialist, they still believe in a massive welfare state. What earns them the label of far right by the liberal press is that they’re anti-immigrant. There have been protests all over Germany for the past several months. Many Germans are disturbed by the increased presence of Muslims in their country. Muslims have created all sorts of problems, not the least of which is the threat of terrorism. France and The Netherlands have seen far right parties gain political power. Not all of the anti-immigrant sentiment is aimed at Muslims, it’s also aimed at the European Union which allows immigration between member states as though it were the United States. Europe has never been the United States in this regard. The French would rather keep out Muslims who threaten the country with terrorism or poor Europeans who end up on the shadowy outside of French society. They appear more than willing to put up with the British and Germans, no matter how obnoxious, so long as they provide something to society.
Today’s Muslim terrorist attack is only going to increase protests against loose European immigration policies. Germany’s anti-immigrant protests have picked up steam over the last month, it’s likely to continue. The French far-right party led by le Pen is likely to pick up support due to this terrorist attack. The EU is already facing increased opposition from the European hoi polloi and this will only get worse as the far-right gets more popular with the average Frenchman or German who is tired of dealing with menacing Muslims. It won’t topple the EU of course, only a financial collapse is likely to do that. However it will make the lives of EU technocrats more difficult.
At what point does western civilization recognize that the danger is Islam? The left pretends like the Muslims are a downtrodden group trying to achieve social justice via bombings and other terrorist attacks. The left may generally oppose Muslim terrorism but they sympathize with their imagined quest at social justice. The issue isn’t that Muslims are a downtrodden group, the issue is that their holy text calls for the forced conversion or murder of infidels. Those who believe the Koran are more than willing to do Allah’s work. This is a holy war that Muslims are fighting and western civilization is foolishly allowing free immigration of holy warriors into our countries. Unfortunately this isn’t surprising considering that western Europe in particular has rejected religious faith altogether. Europe these days doesn’t understand the concept of a holy war. Their enemies do and they’re apparently quite successful in hitting their targets as Paris saw this morning.
Islam is fake religion invented by Muhamad to gain power. it’s a bunch of lies and a threat to freedom
Islam is a perfectly genuine religion. I personally believe it to be false, but it’s still a religion.
God help western civilization BECAUSE it’s still shocked that this kind of thing happens.
The goal world domination
Obama has been busy releasing terrorists. Every terrorist act now belongs to the Democrat Party.
“Parisians are understandably shocked over this barbarous act of terrorism.”
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How can anyone be shocked by these muslim atrocities? We’ve been bombarded by one evil act after another for as long as I can remember. These barbaric acts will continue until governments recognize that islam is not compatible with civilized societies.
Civilized people should be shocked when these barbarous attacks take place, particularly if they take place within a city where we live. Should we be surprised that these attacks take place? Probably not considering they happen routinely. However, just because they happen often doesn’t mean they aren’t shocking when they occur.
I was channel-flipping this morning, because often CNN has better coverage of international events......Amanpour was on, once again doing her mohammedan apologist spiel.
Hey all of you American newspapers, you’d better cut down on your muzzie criticism and start puckering up.
And, y’all congress critters, say some nice words about the ROP.
FLASHBACK: Obama 2012: ‘The Future Must Not Belong To Those Who Slander The Prophet of Islam’
I agree Islam is more than “just a religion.” Though it’s fair to point out so was Christianity up to about 500 years ago.
But that it is “more than a religion” does not mean it is not a religion. It meets every logical, linguistic and legal definition I’ve ever seen.
To exclude it from legally be a religion would require redefinitions of the term, and then giving some government agency the authority to decided which groups do and do not fit the definition.
This would be a really, really bad idea.
Christianity was all encompassing in Europe until the last 200-300 years. The move away from the faith has been more pronounced in Catholic countries. The 16th and 17th centuries saw protestant , particularly calvinist, countries followed various confessions (westminster, heidelberg, begic etc) in and out of government. The biggest break, unfortunately, occurred in the United States with our Godless Constitution. Followed by France with their godless French Revolution (France arguably fell away permanently at the St. Batholomew’s Day Massacre) From there fell the rest of Europe which culminated in the godless World Wars and modern secularism which recognizes no God and has no concept of the danger of Islam.
Yes absolutely... It’s false, NOT fake.
I've noticed this myself. Not, IMO, so much that they move farther away, but rather that the move is so fast when it occurs.
Not very long ago at all Spain, Ireland, Portugal, Italy and Quebec were all strongly religious and Catholic.
They are all now among the most post-Christian countries on earth. This seems to have happened much faster than equivalent movement in Protestant countries like Sweden, England, etc.
To be fair, the movement started for the most part earlier in Protestant countries.
The shift happened in Catholic countries first. France in particular shifted away from religion in the 18th century, so did southern Germany and Austria after the 30 years war. Protestant Germany remained largely Christian until the 19th century, the same can be said for Britain and The Netherlands.
The only countries today where any form of the Christian faith is strong is Poland, Ireland and Northern Ireland. Unfortunately these countries have largely stuck with the faith for political reasons. As those political reasons die away, so does the Christian faith. Which of course means their faith isn’t very strong and is little more than an extension of political views.
France remained heavily Catholic through the end of the 19th century. The anti-religious elements of the Revolution were largely imposed on a still mostly rural and religious populace by the people of Paris.
The Commune was crushed the next time they tried this.
It would have made some sense for southern Germany and Austria to go anti-religious after the 30 Years War, but I have never seen any evidence they did.
I think you’re confusing elite and literate opinion with the people. For a century or so it was fashionable to be anticlerical in these countries, but even these folks were largely scared back into the Church fold by the Revolution. The peasants, most of the population, never left.
As an example, Austria was still heavily Catholic in the 30s, when a Catholic dictator ruled until dethroned by the Nazis. Same was true in Bavaria, where the Center Party, explicitly Catholic, was utterly dominant until the Nazis took over.
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