Unfortunately, ignoring the jihad will not make it go away. As I show in my new book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, violent jihad against Infidels is a constant of Islamic history, with no reform, no period of tolerance, no respite. Why do these French Leftists believe their experience will differ?
“Leftists Angered over ‘Victim of Islamist Terror’ Message on Hero Police Officer Plaque,” by Chris Tomlinson, Breitbart, June 21, 2018 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
French leftists in the commune of Montfermeil were angered by the inclusion of the term “Islamist terror” on a plaque commemorating hero police officer Arnaud Beltrame who traded himself for a hostage during a terror attack and was killed in March.
Local politicians of the Front de Gauche, or Left Front, said their objection to the wording was because it supported a view of “religious war”, Le Parisien reports.
“We are proud that a place pays tribute to the humanism and sacrifice of Arnaud Beltrame, but by adding the notion of Islamist terrorism, the mayor continues his provocations and inscribes his vision of a religious war in marble,” Front de Gauche member Angélique Planet-Ledieu said.
Members of the Montfermeil Muslims Association were also unhappy over the wording of the plaque with the secretary general of the association Farid Kachour saying he would have preferred the term “victim of terrorism, or Daesh, but not the term Islam”….