Posted on 03/25/2019 2:56:33 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism
Seven years ago, Mohammed Merah pointed a gun at the head of 7-year-old Miriam Monsonego.
The blonde little girl was the daughter of the school principal and moments ago had been playing in a French schoolyard. The Monsonego family were Jewish immigrants from Morocco. The Ozar HaTorah school invaded by the Muslim terrorist was home to the children of Jewish refugees from North Africa and the Middle East who had fled to France after their countries had fallen to Muslim rule.
North African Jews had first received equal rights under French rule. When the French left, Jews lost their lives and their rights. Many began new lives again in places like Toulouse and its schoolyard.
But the Muslim violence that had deprived them of their rights and their lives followed them there.
Before Miriam, Mohammed had murdered a Rabbi and his two little boys, six and three years old. The other children ran. He cornered Miriam, grabbed the little girl by her hair, and pulled the trigger.
A miracle happened and the gun jammed. But with the determination that made him a hero to many French Muslims, he didn’t give up. He switched guns and shot her.
As she lay bleeding, he lifted up her head and shot the dying little Jewish girl two more times.
Miriam died in her father’s arms.
"I kissed her, I said 'goodbye', I did not think it was going to be the last time," her mother later said.
Seven years later, the brutal Islamic massacre of March 19 was commemorated in France, but forgotten outside it. The same American corporate media focusing in detail on shootings in New Zealand, with a special emphasis on the victims, hadn’t paid much attention to Miriam even right after her death.
An AP story of a little over a hundred words briefly covered the anniversary. Miriam’s name was left out.
But the story isn’t over. It’s just beginning.
In 2018, anti-Semitic acts increased 74% in France. Mohammed Merah, Miriam’s killer, remains a hero to many Muslims. Even though both Merah was a terrorist trained in Pakistan and Afghanistan, a popular French documentary portrayed the killer as suffering from mental illness. “I Love Death as You Love Life”, a play by Mohammed Kacimi about the terrorist was condemned by families of the victims.
The play was based on Merah’s rants to the police in which the “soldier of Allah” declared that Jews had to be “removed from the face of the earth” and that he regretted not being able to “kill more Jews”.
A year after the massacre, a man wearing an Arafat shirt was photographed performing the quenelle, an ironic version of the Heil Hitler salute spread by Muslim and leftists in French pop culture to taunt Jews, outside the school. Muslim hip-hop acts in France have celebrated Merah and his murderous spree.
Merah’s massacre of Jewish children was not accidental. Nor was it one man’s horrifying crime.
The origins of the attack lay in Islamic anti-Semitism. Merah identified as a “soldier of Allah”. His murderous hatred for the Jews came not merely from YouTube videos, but Islamic family values.
Mohammed had been “raised to be an anti-Semite because anti-Semitism was part of the atmosphere at home," Abdelghani Merah, his brother, had said.
Another brother was an Al Qaeda supporter who was sentenced to twenty years in prison in 2017. Souad, his sister, praised Mohammed, and said that, "Jews deserved to be killed."
When the New York Times ventured into a Muslim neighborhood in Toulouse later that year, it had no trouble finding locals who praised the Muslim terrorist as a “hero” and a “martyr of Islam”.
A Muslim family tried to name their child after him.
To understand the origins of Rep. Omar or Rep. Tlaib’s anti-Semitism, look to the Merah family.
Shortly after the attack, a rally in support of Merah was held. Slogans in support of the Muslim terrorist were spray painted outside the site of the massacre and near the Great Synagogue of Toulouse.
The 2019 anniversary commemorations were held behind barricades under the protection of a heavy police presence. The Interior Minister described the dead as, "victims of anti-Semitism, this poisonous infection." But there was no mention of the Islamic motivations for the massacre of Jewish children.
Statements by public officials attributed the attack, along with so many others, to “barbarism”, to “radicalism” and to “racism”.
“Seven years after the massacre,” Miriam’s father, Yaacov Monsonego, who still works at the school where his daughter was murdered, said: “Seven as the number of victims. As the age of Miriam, the little princess who should have been in her class right now.”
A few of Miriam’s classmates, now teenagers, remembered her as being a very special girl.
Outside the school, the haunting sounds of El Moleh Rachamim, Lord of Mercy, the Jewish prayer for the souls of the dead, rang in the air. “Holy and pure, they shine like the radiance of the heavens”, “beloved children who were murdered”, “shelter them eternally under your wings”, and “the Lord is their inheritance, may they rest in peace”.
Miriam, who will always be seven, and never eight, who will never join her classmates at the mall, will never date, will never have children of her own, is at rest on Jerusalem’s Har HaMenuchot, the Mount of Rest, where no one will scrawl Islamist slogans on her grave or perform the quenelle in front of it.
The Jews of Toulouse are also leaving. The Jewish Deputy Mayor of Toulouse urged the Jews to stop wearing identifiable clothing and declared that, “the future of the Jewish people in Europe is hopeless.” 600 Jewish families had left Toulouse and emigrated to Israel since the brutal schoolyard attack.
Merah’s crime had accomplished its purpose. The ethnic cleansing of the Jews of the area.
The Deputy Mayor was soon forced to apologize for blaming Jewish flight on political Islam and the sizable Muslim population. Toulouse’s mayor relived him of his duties and demanded his resignation.
In an echo of the Democrat refusal to support a resolution condemning Rep. Omar’s anti-Semitic comments, a move to have Muslims condemn anti-Semitism last year met with “violent” opposition.
Also last year, Imam Mohamed Tatai of the Grand Mosque of Toulouse urged Muslims to kill Jews.
The prophet of Islam, the leader of an interfaith dialogue group “told us about the final and decisive battle: ‘Judgement Day will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews. The Jews will hide behind the stones and the trees, and the stones and the trees will say: Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him.'"
The infamous Hadith not only appeared in the Hamas charter but is popular in the Muslim world. And the Islamic hate that killed Miriam still haunts the darkening streets and homes of Toulouse.
Many of Toulouse’s Jews had fled Islamic hate in the Middle East. They are fleeing it again in France.
The Muslim massacre of Jewish children in Toulouse came a few weeks after the Jewish holiday of Purim. Miriam and the other murdered children would have had one last year in which to dress up in costumes, eat candy and enjoy life in celebration of G-d’s defeat of Haman’s plot to massacre the Jews.
2,400 years ago in the Middle East, a man named Haman wrote a fatwa to, “exterminate, murder and destroy all the Jews, from lads to elders, children and women.” The Hamans of Islam have written countless such fatwas. “There are no civilians in Israel. The population—males, females and children—are the army reserve soldiers, and thus can be killed,” Sheikh Rashid Ghannouchi declared.
The New York Times dubbed Ghannouchi a “moderate”. The Washington Post praised him as a “scholar” and a “voice of hope”. Reuters called him a “respected scholar”. Obama’s State Department feted him.
The same media outlets that have cried in outrage over the New Zealand mosque shootings praise the “moderate” Islamist “scholars” who urge the mass murder of Jewish children.
Purim celebrates the defeat of Haman’s genocidal plot. But the Hamans of today are all the rage.
The seventh anniversary of the massacre occurred only a few days before Purim under the shadow of murderous Islamic anti-Semitism around the world, from threats in Toulouse to rockets over Tel Aviv, from Rep. Omar’s anti-Semitism in Washington D.C. to support for Iran’s nuclear program in Brussels.
Its brief prayers are quickly silenced by the media’s propaganda, smears and silence.
The children of Toulouse who stood at a vigil mourning their dead classmates will once again put on costumes, deliver treats and sing. But they will do so quietly because, though it cannot be said, Toulouse has more Mohammeds than Mordechais. And many of them call Mohammed Merah a role model.
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Europe’s demise is unimaginable. The elites fomenting it should hang.
The disintegration of Islam is to be hoped for just as is the disintegration of the Democrat party in the US. Both are founded on evil.
I assume Mohammerhead is still polluting the atmosphere with his breath. Heck, given this is France, he’s probably Foreign Minister by now.
The same media outlets that have cried in outrage over the New Zealand mosque shootings praise the “moderate” Islamist “scholars” who urge the mass murder of Jewish children.
Yep, That’s our American Media!
moslims are disgusting. they are grotesque things. They do not belong amongst Christians and Jews. They need to be removed. Let them live in peace is Saudi Arabia. We do not need them.
“When the French left, Jews lost their lives and their rights”
We really need to recolonize these sh*tholes and restore some order.
The Middle Ages lasted from 500 AD to 1500 AD. In that time Spain and a good amount of Europe fell to the hordes of mooslimes that came en masse. It is said that the Italian Renaissance and the Age of Exploration ended the Dark Ages. However, a factor that the mooslimes were expelled from these European lands has quietly been suppressed. It is this time we have the events of the many Crusades that fought the mooslimes in the holy land of Isreal and over the town of Jeruselum. What we are seeing once more is the coming out of a lull for the mooslimes and a run up to a new Dark Age in which people will be suppressed by the theocracy called Islime. It may be too late as this new strategy seems to be working because of the fact the mooslimes are using our money and our laws to suppress us. To them they are using man made laws to implement their so-called god made laws. Their so-called prophet knew that if he suppressed all ideas against Islime only the positive aspects of Islime would remain thus speaking bad about Islime was forbidden. Look at this parallel we have today. The left wants to suppress all ideas they feel are bad. If there are no opposition ideas how can those ideas that remain be bad? People are sheep and most will fall in line with this philosophy. I call them sheeple. These sheeple don’t want to rock the status quo but they also are afraid of what will happen if it does happen. With all of our state of the art technology, with all of our money there will be those who take the side of the mooslime because they have been raised to have low self-esteem - or the victimhood mentality. When people have low self-esteem they seek to either lash out in anger or cower to let others take care of them. We lie in one of the most dangerous times of history as we sit upon a precipice where it will be a very quick slide into the fire and brimstone people lived through in the last Dark Ages. It wasn’t until people had had enough before Europeans rose out of that slump. How long will it be before we say we have had enough. There aren’t enough Donald Trumps in this world to keep the movement going. And some politicians are right they would rather wait him out than move against him. The mooslimes are doing the same to us. We rather not do anything against them than being called racist and islamaphobic. Last time it was 1000 years. Hopefully it won’t be as ong this time.
Bump
bkmk
“soldier of Allah” declared that Jews had to be “removed from the face of the earth”
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That is Islam.
Every muslim is obligated to jihad.
Jihad won’t end until there are no more followers of Mad Mo.
Allahu Fubar
I may get booted off of FR but I have to say it: Complete and total eradication of Islam is the only way we can live free of their hate and barbarism on this Earth. They can’t live in peace, in Saudi Arabia or any place else. War is their life, and if they managed to kill all the rest of the so-called “non-believers”, the various sects of Islam would continue to kill each other. As long as muslims exist on this planet, there can NEVER be peace!
Some one on this board many years ago said that N number of Moslims will have to be killed and unfortunately we do not know the amount of N.
Back when there was a forum called Liberty Post, I got booted from it for espousing what you just did. You’re probably ok, depending on who punches abuse.
Does it matter what N is? All it takes is one Muslim to live and that one will butcher others.
The best way to put a damper on terrorist acts like this is called counter-terrorism. It is not the same as anti-terrorism, but hunting down terrorists and killing them in ways that other terrorists and their supporters find horrifying.
Oddly enough, they are killed using ordinary means, but then their bodies are used for effect, instead of treated respectfully. As such, there are healthy amounts of psychology in use.
For example, this killer “got away with it” by being sent to prison. But what if he was kidnapped from prison, killed, and then his body was displayed wrapped in a pig skin, with a supposed ‘ritual’ performed to assure that he went to Hell for all eternity?
And his family and friends, that celebrated his terrorism, start getting very choppy and difficult to hear “phone messages from Hell”, screaming blasphemous things from his tortured soul. Like “All Muslims are damned to Hell!” and “Killing the innocent is never forgiven!”
If done properly, it is untraceable, but is intended to be unnerving to such barbarians.
You may have found N. I don’t know
Mark
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