Ten years after the Bataclan attacks by Muslim terrorists, Italian journalist Giulio Meotti considers the question of “who is winning?” Is it the Muslims, or those whom they threaten? More about his answer can be found here: “Ten years later, the Bataclan terrorists are winning,” by Giulio Meotti, Israel National News, November 14, 2025:
“The strategy of Islamic terrorism always unfolds in two phases. First, the violence itself constitutes an initial gain, derived from the sheer pleasure of unleashing it. Then comes the long-term gain: intimidation, fear, and the demonstration of power it creates. Once the possibility of violence has been internalized, one hesitates to unleash it.
“Appeasement, and thus the renunciation of power, is now the political response to the risk of violence. This amounts to a discourse of fear and submission, revealing an inability to confront force with force. As a symbol, the eruption of violence into a peaceful, comfort-seeking society is profoundly destabilizing. It provokes various reactions (denial, anxiety), but above all raises the question of its appearance as a social problem that challenges the entire society.
“As a signal, the terrorist act enters public debate and, through the discourse it generates – whether apologetic, condemnatory, or analytical – already begins to normalize the issues it raises. We know how skilled Islamist ideologues are at turning our own way of thinking – that of Human Rights – against us, leading to self-victimization, which in turn justifies marginalization increasingly encouraged by religious representatives, who portrayed those rejecting integration based on republican values and principles as victims of a supposedly intolerant system.
It is the Muslims themselves, though they complain about their marginalization in Western societies, who refuse to integrate into those societies. For the Qur’an teaches that Muslims are “the best of peoples” and non-Muslims “the most vile of created beings.” That being the case, it makes no sense for Muslims to accept the values of the larger society created by non-Muslims.
“We never saw them take to the streets shouting ‘Down with Islamism!’ To this reality was added the unexpected internal support of a part of our intellectual and political class, which saw in colonial history the source of all evil. Instead of a clear and massive defense mechanism, after November 13 there was a discursive dilution, in which some opinion currents minimized the violence and managed to reverse the aggression through a narrative in which the victim becomes the perpetrator and Islamism becomes the result of Islamophobia.
“Political Islam now sees an opportunity to infiltrate the machinery of democratic power through elections to advance its program. Anxiety can be soothed by cowardice: the slogan ‘You will not have my hatred’ allows people to pretend to take a morally superior, sovereign, and seemingly courageous path. In reality, it’s a denial that allows us to avoid confronting reality by pretending that evasion is a form of strength. We saw very few movements proclaiming a specific identity, apart from the consumerist assertion that we must keep enjoying café terraces.”
So in a sense François Hollande is right when he says today: “Terrorism is a slow poison; its effects are felt long after the horrific acts it produces.”
Ten years after the Paris attacks, Gilles Kepel tells Le Figaro, “they are winning the cultural battle.”
Gilles Kepel, a political scientist at Sciences Polytechique, used to be a well-known apologist for Islam. He has changed his mind; reality has finally set in.
They haven’t won in the way the terrorists hoped – not by territorial conquest. But in a subtler, more poisonous, and longer-lasting way. They haven’t won the war, but they’ve changed the battlefield: no longer the streets, but our minds.
Looking at the thousands of crowds over these past two years rallying in support of Islamist terrorism – Who is winning?…
Meotti is referring, of course, to the enormous crowds all over Europe who since the war in Gaza began have been coming out to denounce Israel, on campuses, at sports events, at political rallies, and to shout their support of the terror group Hamas, depicting Israel’s war for its survival as, instead, a war of aggression by the “genocidal” Jewish state against the “resistance” of Hamas.
The Muslim terrorists responsible for the Bataclan attacks had survived in France before those attacks by taking advantage of all the benefits the generous French welfare state provides: free or greatly subsidized housing, free medical care, free language tuition, family allowances, and more. The French taxpayers have been supporting, nolens-volens, those who want to destroy them.
The French state provided the mass murderer Salah Abdeslam, the main perpetrator of the Bataclan atrocities, with every possible accommodation in his prison of satellite television, regular visits from family and friends, mail, two hours each day of recreation, use of a private gym, and of a rowing machine installed next to his cell. No prisoner in America, not even those at Lompoc, have been provided with similar arrangements. And yet this Muslim mass murderer is in Fleury-Mérogis, France’s maximum security prison, where one might have thought his living conditions would have been much harsher. Are Muslim terrorists being treated more gently out of fear that their coreligionists on the outside will, if the likes of Salah Abdeslam are not given such kid-glove treatment, wreak a terrible revenge, with suicide bombs and kalashnikovs blazing?
Kevin Kraemer says
I’m thinking of 3 words for the non-conforming muhammadists; Go suck it!
Wellington says
What about the marginalization of non-Muslims in Islamic societies, even to the point of death in a country like Nigeria?
There are a few sentiments worse than self-pitying mixed with hypocrisy, respecting which “mixing” Muslims are superb at. But right now I can’t think of any.
God, how I despise Islam. Even if it’s the true religion, and which I literally would bet my life on that it isn’t, defying Allah is at least as noble as Prometheus defying Zeus and with due apologies to Zeus here whom I consider infinitely preferable in virtually all of his characteristics to Allah. Yes, give me Zeus over Allah any day of the week. Easy call.
Meanwhile, Islam continues in its effort to destroy Western Civilization, complaining all along how it’s the real victim. Right.
OLD GUY says
Absolutely correct, Islam has NO intensions of integrating into our society. Their sole plan is to disrupt and destroy our country. As you Siam just look at how they treat non-muslim or non-Islamic people in their islamic countries. And that includes Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
Troybeam says
Islam only conquers and nothing else will do.
Luchtpint says
The mere suggestion that muslims should integrate serves as the worst affront to them that you can imagine. After all, Islam tells muslims they are the best of people on the face of this planet. Having to abide by and submit to the Western rule of law will invariably make them feel “victimized”.
No leftwing idiot or average politician or MSM editor across the West can face up to this simple truth and get it into his/her thick skull. Because they don’t WANT to do that. That’s total denial for you, plain and simple.
Billy says
Islam is deceitful, terroristic, discriminatory, and violent against all Non-Muslims as taught in Islam’s Quran to help gain ultimate power and control and make Islam supreme(Quran 3:54; 9:5, 29, 111; 98:6-7, etc.). Islam’s Muslims deceive by playing the victim or using any form of deceit to gain the upper hand as also taught in Islamic Law, Sharia.
Allah’s Islam, a CRIMINAL-TERRORIST-GANG ENTERPRISE and a MURDEROUS-DEMONIC CULT OF BELIEVERS, Terrorist Muslim Soldiers for satanic Allah, continually fund, promote, and practice ideological subversion, propaganda, bigotry, discrimination, deceit, industrial-scale slavery, human trafficking, intimidation, supremacy, segregation, hatred, incitement to violence, criminality, genocide, victimhood, censorship, and terrorism as taught in Islamic Law, Sharia, and in Islam’s Qur’an(Qur’an 5:14,35; 8:60; 9:41, 88, etc.).
Deceitful Allah stirs hatred against Christians until the resurrection day when Qur’an 5:14 instructs, “And some of those who say, ‘Surely we are Nasara (Christians),’ we took their covenant. So they have forgotten a part of what they were reminded of, so we have stirred up ENMITY and HATRED among them until the resurrection day. And Allah will inform them of what they were doing.” See also Qur’an 60:4.
As taught by Allah, Muslims are supremacist terrorists for Allah with their MONEY and with their LIVES. Allah in Qur’an 49:15 states, “Surely the believers[Muslims] are only those who believed in Allah and his messenger. They do not doubt, and they performed jihad with their MONEY and their LIVES for the sake of Allah. Those are the truthful.” Allah in Qur’an 4:101 says, “…Surely the infidels(Non-Muslims) were your clear enemies.”
ALLAH’S MUSLIMS are a greater TERROR than diabolical Allah. Allah in Qur’an 59:13 says, “You[Muslims] are a greater terror in their chests than Allah. This is because they[Jews & Christians] are people who do not understand.” Islam must be banned as illegal, and we have the legal right to defend ourselves from Muslim violence. As a result, Non-Muslims are marked for death by Islam and its Muslims. Allah in Qur’an 9:29 commands, “Engage in war with those who do not believe in Allah nor in the last day. Nor forbid what Allah and his messenger forbid, nor believe in the religion of the truth among those who have given the book until they pay the jizyah out of hand and they are subdued.”
Again, Islam is a totalitarian and supremacist system of lies and deceit because Allah, the best deceiver, is the actual source of Muslim deceit. Allah in Qur’an 3:54 says, “And they deceived, and Allah deceived. And Allah is the best deceiver.” Allah in Qur’an 8:30 says, “…And Allah is the best deceiver.” Allah in Qur’an 13:42 says, “And indeed, those before them deceived, so to Allah all the deception…”
somehistory says
This is so much like the abusive husband….be he muzzie or otherwise….beating, raping, assaulting his wife and then blaming the woman for her injuries.
muzzies make it plain that they refuse to leave any of their ‘culture’ behind the doors and meet their infidel neighbors half-way. muzzies are taught not to even be friends….they can pretend friendship….with any non-muzzies.
But when they wish to pull out the weeping, complaining, whining and throwing a pity party, they pretend that they only want to be accepted and welcomed. This pity-party thingy happens most often when some muzzie commits a horrible terror attack.
It’s a weaponization of the need to be accepted.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I don’t think I’d even want muslims to assimilate w/ me, unless they knowingly and consciously decide that they’re not a part of the ummah. Even if they are unaware of what islam actually teaches
somehistory says
I know I wouldn’t want it. I’ve met a couple of young females, but they recognized the evil in which they were trapped. I could have be-friended them had the males not objected and harmed the ladies.
Hoi Polloi says
Isn’t that just it? Why would I, or any other right-thinking individual, want an association with pedo-worshippers?
I’m still on the deport train. Any sign of a naturalized citizen’s allegiance to a legal system other than our Constitution should result in a deportation order. Mamdani and Omar can ride up front. Otherwise we get a broadening and deepening of this nascent two-tier justice we’re already seeing.
As to “discursive dilution,” that seems to be a primary islamic debate tactic.
somehistory says
Anyone here illegally needs to be sent home. Anyone who does what these muzzie pols are doing, needs the same treatment.
Unwelcome interlopers who complain and connive will never appreciate the Freedoms they use against us to force their evil upon us.
Citizenship can be revoked in such cases.
Hoi Polloi says
I’d love to see some denaturalization.
somehistory says
As would I, HP. If only we had a say in such matters, but we are ignored.
somehistory says
It’s like pulling teeth for them to even get rid of the criminal non-citizen who came illegally and committed further crimes….like that abrego scum, the so-called “Maryland man.”
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Thank you, somehistory and Hoi Polloi for your views on this
somehistory says
YW and thank you, Infidel.
John Pepple says
“I’m still on the deport train.” Me too. Ideally, the United States and in fact the entire Western world should be a haven for people trying to escape from Islamic countries, for people who hate Islam but had to suffer from it while growing up. Instead, it is fast becoming another part of the “Muslim world.”