Europe begins to recognize Jihad

When people come out of deep denial about dangers like global jihad, it’s often agonizingly slow and indirect. Obama still can’t see out of his box of jihad denial, and he isn’t even willing to try. After all, he has a lifetime of immersion in peculiar cult beliefs, to the point of self-caricature: Breitbart has counted twenty-two times in recent weeks that Obama declared that “climate change is a greater threat to terrorism.”

But Vladimir Putin and the Europeans are waking up. Putin has fought jihadis ever since Chechen rebels murdered 184 elementary school children in Beslan, followed by the Moscow theater hostage crisis. Putin is a ruthless autocrat, but on the threat of jihad he has never shown a moment of doubt. He thinks Muslim mass murder of civilians is unmitigated evil, and he treated Chechnya “like Stalingrad,” as he threatened to do again a few weeks ago. The West always wants to avoid innocent casualties, but Putin acts to win as quickly as possible. He doesn’t have a gaggle of Harvard lawyers peering over his generals’ shoulders.

Western European politicians are just as slippery as Obama, and just as good at evading hard decisions. When Francois Hollande ran for president of France his biggest promise was a 75% income tax rise for the rich. Yet Hollande has now sent France’s modern aircraft carrier to bomb ISIS, knowing that there is likely to be retaliation from ISIS attack. The fact that the Front Nationale is gaining votes against Hollande with a no-nonsense approach to jihad is certainly helping to push France into a more serious response…

Tet, Take Two: Islam’s 2016 European Offensive

http://gatesofvienna.net/2015/11/tet-take-two-islams-2016-european-offensive/

7. A Score of Beslans

The hard core of the battle-hardened jihadists now fanning out across Europe understands the tried-and-true process of igniting a civil war through terror. They will calculate that the European military and police cannot and will not sustain the battle against an unceasing campaign of terrorism. Brussels cannot remain on virtual lockdown forever without its economy being wrecked. What will happen when a Paris-type attack, or worse, is a daily event in a dozen European cities?

As I mentioned above, just the other day in northern Italy eight hundred combat-style pistol-grip shotguns were discovered in a truck on their way from Turkey to Belgium. Do the math. The Paris attacks were carried out by approximately eight jihadists armed with Kalashnikovs, shotguns and TATP suicide vests (which can be manufactured anywhere there is a kitchen). Now imagine a â€œSuper Tet Offensive,â€ with every type of target on the hit list from airports to zoological parks, each being assaulted by an eight-man squad of such killers. Some attacks smaller, some larger, from pairs to platoons in strength.

Today, perhaps only a few short months prior to Tet 2016, there is no Islamic high command located in Europe or elsewhere in charge of planning specific terror operations. There is no OKW (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, the supreme command of the German Nazi armed forces) planning an Islamic Operation Barbarossa, hence, there is no command and control structure for Western intelligence to penetrate and disrupt.

Instead of a central brain directing many hands, think of a vast swarm of stinging jellyfish, all moving in loose formation, with the same generalized attack plan in their collective hive-mind. At the end of 2015, individual muhajirun may have only a basic awareness that they are heading to Europe to conduct a great jihad. As D-Day draws nearer, coded messages will proliferate with cryptic references to portentous events from Islamic history. â€œGet ready, and prepare to conduct major operationsâ€ will be the thrust of the online chatter and encrypted wireless messages. In each European city, targets will be individually scouted by local muhajirun in anticipation of a general outbreak of jihad terror attacks.

How many mosques have already received a truckload of shotguns or Kalashnikovs? Run the numbers again: eight jihadists per terror attack, eight hundred weapons per truck, 80,000 Viet Cong fighters in the original Tet Offensive, and an estimated 800,000 muhajirun flooding into Europe. Using radical mosques as clandestine armories is S.O.P in the Middle East, so why would the jihadists not use the same tactics in safe and docile Europe? Out of a sense of fairness and respect for European laws? Please. In the words of Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan, â€œThe mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiersâ€¦â€ And bear in mind that anyplace an AK-47 can be smuggled, so too can a few kilos of Semtex.

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