Posted on 06/21/2006 7:02:45 PM PDT by lancer
In fact Dahou Meskine along with sixteen other people were arrested on Monday and Tuesday for allegedly financing Islamic terrorism. The most probable organization that benefited from this money is the Algerian terrorist group GSPC. In fact, investigators found out that hundreds of thousands of Euros were funneled through some organizations and corporations owned by Meskine and his son to dubious NGOs. Nonetheles one of the persons in charge of the investigation acknowledged today to the daily Liberation that it will be tough to prove that this was done solely to finance terrorism.
But what's even more troubling is the pedigree of Meskine. He is of Tunisian descent, ex member of the Islamist group An Nahda, founder of the UOIF (the French branch of the Muslim Brotherhood). But he had a change of heart and cut off all ties to UOIF because they were too close for comfort to the Muslim Brotherhood. He had been pushing since for interreligious dialogue between Christians, Jews and Muslims. He had defended France's secularism when it came to the banning of the hijab at school and has been consulted many times by Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy on Muslim issues. Finally he is the founder of the first private Muslim middle school and Secretary Genereal of the Council of Imams of France.
If allegations are correct, then the change of heart of the "very moderate" imam did not reallly occur and the taqqiya was total. That is why being on the lookout and reading between the lines is quite important. Fortunately, it looks like French authorities have been doing a tremendous job in dismantling terrorist cells.
They will have to rejoin the remaining life of the West, the will to live.
They will have to fight. For their culture. And the West, and for Democracy.
They will have to come to the war.
I heard a Frenchman in S.F., to my surprise, tell me a couple weeks ago (I cannot forget his words), "Just because everybody lives doesn’t mean everybody deserves to" ... and, you know, I heard a Pakistani Muslim tell me (in my mind, he said so obviously to justify Islamic terror) that a fire cannot put forth a light without burning something down.
And, I guess he was right. The French Fry, the Paki, both. And maybe if we want to ignite the light of Democracy in the Muslim world, we need to burn a few houses down. Today we live in a world where even a monster such as Saddam can become a pop-image, as long as he’s got a good press agent. The press agent is simply another head, another arm, of the mad dog. The liberal press loves any head, any arm, any mad dog, that will bite America. So perhaps we need to burn down a few press agents to light up the world. It was a nuclear bomb that lit up Japan, the light that brought forth Democracy to a despotic Asian world power with long, deep, traditions of such despotism. If we aren’t ready to understand that there are no “civilians” in some towns, then we aren’t ready to fight a war. And if we aren’t ready to fight a war, we better get ready to burn. Like I said, just because everybody lives doesn’t mean everybody deservers to – you have to want to live. Do you want to live?
Some people need more "discipline" than others. 'Nuf said.
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