Posted on 01/07/2015 3:05:10 PM PST by Jim Noble
LONDON — The sophisticated, military-style strike Wednesday on a French newspaper known for satirizing Islam is sure to accelerate the growth of anti-Islamic sentiment in Europe, feeding far-right nationalist parties like France’s National Front.
“This is a dangerous moment for European societies,” said Peter Neumann, director of the International Center for the Study of Radicalization at King’s College London. “With increasing radicalization among supporters of jihadist organizations and the white working class increasingly feeling disenfranchised and uncoupled from elites, things are coming to a head.”...
Mr. Cantat spoke for many when he said the attacks could fuel greater anti-immigrant sentiment. “We are told Islam is for God, for peace,” he said. “But when you see this other Islam, with the jihadists, I don’t see peace, I see hatred. So people can’t tell which is the real Islam.”
The attack left some Muslims fearing a backlash. “Some people when they think terrorism, think Muslims,” said Arnaud N’Goma, 26, as he took a cigarette break outside the bank where he works....
Samir Elatrassi, 27, concurred, saying that “Islamophobia is going to increase more and more. When some people see these kinds of terrorists, they conflate them with other Muslims. And it’s the extreme right that’s going to benefit from this.”...
Right-wing, anti-immigrant political parties that see Islam as a threat to national values have expanded from the margins in many countries of Western Europe in recent years...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
This isn’t a ‘’right’’ or ‘’left’’ issue. This is an issue of survival, literally. I have never heard of Mexican cartel members flying planes into buildings. This is Islam. Not ‘’extreme’’ Islam. There is no such thing as extreme Islam. All of Islam is extreme. Any people, any nation has a right, has an obligation to protect itself and it’s people from a violent element bent of murdering the citizens of it’s host nation in the name of its god. The Bible says ‘’There is a time for peace and a time for war’’. It is time to start killing Muslims and let them know their murderous barbarism will not be tolerated. I don’t make this statement lightly nor am I trying to be an ‘’internet commando’’ If the West does not do this for it’s self and for the sake of it’s children, who, if they aren’t murdered themselves, will at some point be living as slaves to Islam then there is no hope of the continuation of life as we in the West currently know it. It is evaporating before our eyes..
What you are being told conflicts with the reality you can see.... think about it some more.
This sort of article is often a window into the progressive writer’s psyche.
The writer fears succumbing to “far-right” thoughts. This sort of article is meant to exorcise these thoughts and exculpate the writer for having momentarily thought them.
Progressives regard themselves as rational and thoughtful. Remember how Obama was celebrated as a human “Mr. Spock”? They are often surprised by their own reactions, their feelings. They regard their own feelings, which are based on sensory experience, as inferior to their rational beliefs: “racism is bad”, “terrorist profiling is Islamophobia”, etc.
So they guiltily repent for having felt bad feelings, and castigate the “far right” for honoring the validity of felt experience, expressed sometimes indiscreetly and clumsily. The right is stupid and evil for valorizing mere sensory experience over lofty ideals. The left is vindicated for being “against Islamophobia” although the necessity of this stance has no connection to reality.
One sharp turn to the right coming up...
Note to muzzie scum...my American pals/allies are armed to the teeth!
Yeah. Right. That's the threat.
I'm surprised they aren't blaming all of this on the Tea Party. Normally they would blame it on the Republicans and the Bushes but they are their friends now.
We have something like twenty terrorist training camps in the US. What do we think they're training to do? Sell cars?
If these were self-identified Christians doing these killings, these same liberal apologists for Islamic terror would be demanding a jihad against Christianity. Frickin’ hypocrites.
To be sure, a number of Dummies were more concerned about all those attacks on abortion clinics by Christians than Mozzie savages (who were obviously provoked) murdering innocent people who disagreed with them. Hopefully, more libs will finally wise up. But I'm not holding my breath.
“and benefit to the “extreme right”.
By Euro standards, Bill Clinton is “extreme right” ! /s;)
They can get away with it because liberal educators teach our children that the Crusades were acts of evil white, Christian aggression too.
It’s just a matter of time before the progressives end their handwringing and prosecute the war with terrifying violence. They are the statists, after all. Read through (or listen to) FDR’s Fireside Chats following Pearl Harbor. Now there was a true believer in the munificence of the state, finally done with niceties and diplomacy, preparing to prosecute unmitigated war against the Axis Powers.
FDR and Truman were punitive to our enemies- consider the internment of Americans of Japanese descent, or the “deindustrialization” of Germany under the auspices of the Marshall Plan. Robert Taft protested that the Nazis convicted at Nuremberg should not be executed, that the Marshall Plan went too far by crippling Germany’s economic liberty. By the end of this dark age in human history, I think the right will similarly be pleading with progressives for mercy on our enemies...
WHY MUSLIMS ARE VIOLENT
This is pretty straight forward folks. There are peaceful Muslims, but there is no such thing as peaceful Islam. Violence is not an aberration in Islam—it is DOCTRINE. Dozens of passages in the Quran exhort Muslims to hate or kill or terrorize infidels (non-Muslims) wherever they find them. For examples, see Suras 2:190-193, 2:216, 2:244, 3:56, 3:142, 3:151, 4:56, 4:74 (beheading), 4:76, 4:84, 4:89, 4:91, 4:95, 4:104, 5:51, 5:32-38, 7:96-99, 8:12-15 (beheading), 8:39, 8:57-60, 8:65-67, 9:5, 9:14, 9:20-30, 9:38-41, 9:73, 9:88, 9:111, 9:123, 17:16, 18:65-81, 21:44, 22:18-22, 25:52, 33:60-62, 47:3-4 (beheading), 47:35, 48:16-17, 48:29, 61:4, and 66:8-12. These are the passages that jihadists quote in defense of their horrible atrocities. Unlike the Old Testament, violence in the Quran is mostly open-ended, that is, not restrained by the historical context of the surrounding events.
While there are a couple of passages that Muslims point to that might suggest peaceful solutions (Suras 2:256, 29:46, 41:34), these are overwhelmed by the violent ones. Indeed, the peaceful passages were abrogated by the violent ones—because the violent ones were written later, after Muhammad’s move to Medina (from Mecca). Anyone who wants to commit acts of violence has perfect justification for doing so from the Quran. There is nothing in the Quran comparable to Jesus’ teachings to “turn the other cheek” and to “love your neighbor.”
You can look these passages up for yourself. Below is a site that has three translations of the Quran side-by-side. (Note: English translators of the Quran sometimes try to soften the true Arabic meaning of some of these passages. For example, to “fight” really means to kill in Arabic.)
http://www.usc.edu/org/cmje/religious-texts/quran
In addition to the Quran are the hadiths. These are collections of sayings and actions of Muhammad. Indeed, Muhammad was one of the most violent men in history, setting the example for all Muslims to follow. See this link:
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/quran/023-violence.htm
For more information, see our Faith Facts article:
http://www.faithfacts.org/world-religions-and-theology/christianity-vs.-islam
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Since the NYT’s is run by a red (a trend, it seems, in New York City - mayor, City Council, congressmen and women), let’s rename the “Old Gray Lady” to the “Old Red Hag” and leave it at that.
What did America do after 9/11?
It elected an enemy islamist to the Presidency.
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