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From 1933-1945, the enemy was Nazi Germany. Today, it's political Islam
Jewish World Review ^ | 2-27-06 | Caroline B. Glick

Posted on 02/27/2006 5:47:21 AM PST by SJackson

Barbarous murder in France should be wake-up call

http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Ilan Halimi's barbarous murder in France should awaken all Jews to the most significant truth of our times: Today, every Jew in the world is on the front lines of war.

As was the case seventy years ago, every Jew today is a target for our enemies, who shout from every soapbox and prove at every opportunity, that their goal is the annihilation of the Jewish people. From 1933-1945, the enemy was Nazi Germany. Today, the enemy is political Islam. Its call for jihad aimed at annihilating the Jews and dominating the world is answered by millions of people throughout the world.

Among the lessons of the Holocaust, there is one that is almost never mentioned. That lesson is that it is possible, and indeed fairly easy to exterminate the Jews. The fact that the Holocaust happened proves that it is absolutely possible for the Jewish people to be wiped off the map - just as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hamas leader Khaled Mashal promise.

The story of Ilan Halimi's murder at the hands of a terrorist gang of French Muslims brings to the surface the various pathologies now converging to make the prospect of annihilating all Jews seem possible to our enemies. First, there are the murderers who took such apparent pleasure and felt such pride in the fact that for twenty days they tortured their Jewish hostage to death.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: holocaust; jew; nazi; politicalislam; rop
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1 posted on 02/27/2006 5:47:24 AM PST by SJackson
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2 posted on 02/27/2006 5:52:57 AM PST by SJackson (There is but one language which can be held to these people, and this is terror, William Eaton)
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To: SJackson

The harry part is that Islam has a lot more staying power than the Nazis.


3 posted on 02/27/2006 5:56:52 AM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: SJackson
The notion of "political islam" is redundant and, I think, obscures a point that this religion is not compatible with ours.

Christians are politically active, I'm aware of that. But the idea of a Christian theocracy is a moonbat idea. It's not something that Christians want to establish.

But Islam is different. The whole concept of Sharia Law is something that has no real counterpart in Christianity.

To the extent that Muslim populations can influence politics, they will do so in such a way so as to oppress non-Muslims. Truly something that our Founding Fathers did not anticipate.

4 posted on 02/27/2006 6:04:02 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (E)
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To: SJackson

Islam is only the first wave of several.

Above all is the nemy within.


5 posted on 02/27/2006 6:04:33 AM PST by the gillman@blacklagoon.com ("If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth!")
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To: the gillman@blacklagoon.com

Enemy, doh!


6 posted on 02/27/2006 6:05:05 AM PST by the gillman@blacklagoon.com ("If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth!")
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To: Anti-Bubba182
Anyone remotely interested in the Ilan Halami story should get a copy of Saturday's Wall Street Journal article, "Barbarians Inside the Gate."
"...the kidnappers called Ilan's family and read them verses from the Quran while their son screamed in agony in the background."
7 posted on 02/27/2006 6:06:17 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: SJackson

Yet, France is arm-twisting the EU to support Hamas.


8 posted on 02/27/2006 6:06:21 AM PST by veronica ("A person needs a sense of mission like the air he breathes...")
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To: SJackson

I think that when we really look at it objectively, that western man identified totalitarianism as the enemy several hundred years ago. For most of that time, what the world has seen is people rising up against the totalitarianism in their own government (the American Revolution, etc.), but in the mid-20th century we embarked upon a crusade to wipe out totalitarianism throughout the world. Islam is that last real totalitarian threat in the world, of course there are others but they don't want to dominate the world.

The only real problem we are facing now is the deliberate unwillingness to identify Islam itself as the enemy. We had no problem identifying the Japanese or the Germans as the enemy in WWII, but we won't do it now. It is this political correctness that is hindering us in this crusade.


9 posted on 02/27/2006 6:08:33 AM PST by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Such is the nature of their "holy book", that the sound of torture is the perfect background music as it is being read.


10 posted on 02/27/2006 6:08:55 AM PST by veronica ("A person needs a sense of mission like the air he breathes...")
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
From this article...

"Anti-Semitism in the Muslim dominated suburbs of Paris and other French cities is all-encompassing. As Nidra Poller related in Thursday's Wall Street Journal, "One of the most troubling aspects of this affair is the probable involvement of relatives and neighbors, beyond the immediate circle of the gang [of kidnappers], who were told about the Jewish hostage and dropped in to participate in the torture."

11 posted on 02/27/2006 6:12:13 AM PST by veronica ("A person needs a sense of mission like the air he breathes...")
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To: ClearCase_guy; SJackson
But the idea of a Christian theocracy is a moonbat idea. It's not something that Christians want to establish.

If Christianity wanted to establish a theocracy, they would have done it well over a thousand years ago. Christianity had absolute control over Europe for centuries and even though the treatment of the Jews was deplorable, at no time did Christianity attempt anything on the level of the theocracy that Islam is trying to impose.

12 posted on 02/27/2006 6:12:27 AM PST by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: SJackson

Islam is a much greater threat than was nazi Germany. Germany was a single counrty bend on world domination and genocide. Simialrly Islam is an extremely repressive totalitarian society with genocidal intentions much greater than those of Germany. Where Germany was localized to europe, Islam is spread theoughout the globe and has over 1 billion supporters including many fanatical enough to sacrifice their lives to kill thousands. They are also well infiltrated among many western nations. Furthermore Islamofanatic countrys are geographically positioned to control the lifeblood of western countries, and the most radical will soon have nuclear weapons and give no indication they will hesitate to use the or be deterred by mutually assured destruction. These people make nazi Germany look like a boy scout troop.


13 posted on 02/27/2006 6:23:17 AM PST by BadAndy (The DemocRATs are the enemy's most effective weapon.)
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To: BadAndy

Its not like they haven't warned us.


14 posted on 02/27/2006 6:31:19 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: SJackson

In a symbolic sense, those of us who are not followers of Islam are all Jews now, so we must stick together in unity.


15 posted on 02/27/2006 6:32:07 AM PST by Sender (As water has no constant form, there are in war no constant conditions. Be without form. -Sun Tzu)
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To: SJackson

It should not surprise anyone that political Islam WAS allied with Germany in WWI, then Nazi Germany in WWII. They had the same goals; world domination and destruction of the Jews.


16 posted on 02/27/2006 6:41:34 AM PST by SuziQ
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
"...the kidnappers called Ilan's family and read them verses from the Quran while their son screamed in agony in the background."

Good lord...

17 posted on 02/27/2006 6:47:33 AM PST by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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To: wagglebee
"The only real problem we are facing now is the deliberate unwillingness to identify Islam itself as the enemy. We had no problem identifying the Japanese or the Germans as the enemy in WWII, but we won't do it now. It is this political correctness that is hindering us in this crusade."


18 posted on 02/27/2006 6:55:24 AM PST by Convert from ECUSA (The "religion of peace" is actually the religion of constant rage and riots.)
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To: MileHi
This article stuck with me all weekend. The kidnappers snatched the young man and held him 25 days while methodically beating and torturing him, finally killing him. They made half-hearted offers to his parents to ransom Ilan but this was more or less terrorism directed at the parents.
19 posted on 02/27/2006 6:58:51 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: the gillman@blacklagoon.com

I agree with you more than 100%.

Say Islamic jihad is silenced and defeated utterly. We still have the ACLU pushing its leftist crap down our throats, and their goal is total control just as totalitarian as Islamic jihad's. Hateseech, hatecrimes, homosexual indoctrination of every school child, destroy the BSA, make sure everyone's a good little multi culti, of course no hateful weaponry, and more - all on our dime.


20 posted on 02/27/2006 7:06:28 AM PST by little jeremiah (Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. CS.Lewis)
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