“The killing of the Islamic State leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was met this week with no outpouring of joy or even relief in France, even though this is the European country that suffered most from his depredations. The reason is simple: the Islamic State’s crimes, and the fear they instilled in the national psyche, are so ingrained in France that the daily fabric of life has been inexorably altered.”
This is all part of a larger scheme. Islam has a 1400-year history, and countries existing under the sharia today are proof enough of its nature of oppression, subversion and conquest.
Recall the words of Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM) — the mastermind of 9/11 — about defeating America:
“We will win because Americans don’t realize . . . we do not need to defeat you militarily; we only need to fight long enough for you to defeat yourself by quitting.”
Large-scale attacks such as 9/11 were “nice, but not necessary.”
“Jihadi-minded brothers would immigrate into the United States” and “wrap themselves in America’s rights and laws” until they were strong enough to rise up and attack us. “He said the brothers would relentlessly continue their attacks and the American people would eventually become so tired, so frightened, and so weary of war that they would just want it to end.”
The French and many other Western nations have now become “so tired” and “so frightened” that “the daily fabric of life has been inexorably altered.” Western leaders have failed to resist Islamization, as KSM predicted. French President Emmanuel Macron has stated that terrorism will be “part of our daily lives for the years to come”; former French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said similarly that “times have changed and we should learn to live with terrorism.”
The West absolutely should not learn to live with terrorism. Nor should it submit to intimidation from Islamic supremacists. It should stand firm on its principles of freedom, beginning with upholding the freedom of speech, including the right to openly discuss and to criticize Islam, like any other ideology and religion. Immigration also needs to be controlled and restored to a commonsense approach.
The demise of the terrorist leader did nothing to heal the wound that the Islamic State opened in French society with the terrorist attacks of 2015 and 2016. Every day, in the persistent mutual fear and suspicion that exists between France and its large, imperfectly integrated Muslim minority, the wound festers.
Let’s hope that it is not too late for France and other Western nations that have been apathetic and cowardly in their approach to Islamization.
“Death of ISIS Leader Is Scant Consolation to a Changed France,” by Adam Nossiter, New York Times, October 31, 2019:
PARIS — The killing of the Islamic State leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was met this week with no outpouring of joy or even relief in France, even though this is the European country that suffered most from his depredations.
The reason is simple: the Islamic State’s crimes, and the fear they instilled in the national psyche, are so ingrained in France that the daily fabric of life has been inexorably altered.
As if proof were needed, within the last month, a former far-right candidate shot two Muslims who stopped him from burning down a mosque. A Muslim mother was reprimanded by an official for wearing a head scarf. And President Emmanuel Macron called for a “society of vigilance” after a Muslim employee at Police Headquarters in Paris killed four officers in a knife attack.
These recent symptoms of what some call an ongoing trauma for France demonstrate why Mr. al-Baghdadi’s death was ‘‘no more than a step,” as Mr. Macron put it Sunday in a muted reaction to the news.
The demise of the terrorist leader did nothing to heal the wound that the Islamic State opened in French society with the terrorist attacks of 2015 and 2016. Every day, in the persistent mutual fear and suspicion that exists between France and its large, imperfectly integrated Muslim minority, the wound festers.
In a survey published Sunday by IFOP, a respected polling firm, in the Journal du Dimanche, 61 percent of respondents said that Islam was “incompatible with the values of French society,” an increase of 8 percent over February. Nearly 80 percent said they felt that the vaunted French creed of secularism was “in danger,” largely because of Islam…..