Who’s Winning? Muslims Who ‘Have Been Made Victorious Through Terror’

Italian journalist Giulio Meotti considers a key question: “Ten years later, the Bataclan terrorists are winning,” by Giulio Meotti, Israel National News, November 14, 2025:

Bataclan is no longer the name of a concert hall, but that of a mythical battle, like the Battle of Badr, the first victorious battle of Muhammad against the idolaters of Mecca,” said Boualem Sansal to Le Figaro three years after the attacks. “Poor Hollande didn’t understand that he had to crush the symbolism of that act at its birth. With his laments under the rain, he gave France the image of a defeated nation.”…

Boualem Sansal is a celebrated Algerian writer and scathing critic of “Islamism” — that is, of fanatical Muslims who put into practice the texts and teachings of Islam. Just now, he has been released from a prison in his country, following a request from the German government.

Sansal tells the story of Ute Von Ebert, heir to an industrial empire. She lives in Erlingen, stronghold of the upper bourgeoisie – the archetype of Mitteleuropean fantasy, a typically clean and prosperous German city. In letters to her daughter Hannah, who moved to London, Ute describes life in a city besieged by an unknown enemy she calls “the servants,” because they have chosen to submit to divine law.

It’s not hard to see what Sansal’s dystopia is all about. It’s a description of the Muslim civilizational takeover of Europe. The city leaders represent the political elites who have failed to protect their people from this Muslim invasion and demographic conquest. They issue soothing messages to prevent people from becoming enraged at what these leaders have allowed to happen. Meanwhile, the members of the political elite are planning not to stand up against the aggressive Muslims whom they were responsible for allowing into their midst, but to flee for their own lives, leaving ordinary people to try cope with their new masters.

Europe’s submission to Muslims, including allowing them to continue streaming into the countries of Europe in large numbers, where they batten on the generous welfare benefits provided, engage in criminal activities, and spread the virus of antisemitism throughout those lands, has not done anything to moderate their Qur’an-based hatred of non-Muslims.

In America, meanwhile, Zohran Mamdani, the newly-elected mayor of New York, spent much of his campaign spouting the anti-Israel sentiments that he heard growing up from his father, Mahmood Mamdani. He has repeatedly refused to denounce the antisemitic chant “globalize the Intifada,” that, properly understood, is a call to murder Jews, saying only that it was not a phrase that he would use. He found nothing wrong with “from the river to the sea/Palestine will be free,” which means the Jewish state must be destroyed, its Jewish population expelled or killed, so that a 23rd Arab state can be created in its place. Mamdani still refuses to recognize the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state. Yet despite all this, or perhaps because of it, given the left-wing anti-Israel and antisemitic madness that has taken hold of much of the world since October 7, 2023, particularly among the callow and easily brainwashed young all over the Western world, Mamdani emerged victorious to become mayor of the city with the largest Jewish population in the world.

“Who is winning?” is the question Meotti asks, and concludes that the Muslim terrorists have indeed been winning, as both the immediate and the long-term effect of those attacks has so deeply affected people in the West. They have changed their behavior to avoid likely terrorist targets. Women no longer go out at night alone. Jewish hide their kippahs; Jewish women hide their Star-of-David chains. 130 people in France who have made statements about Muhammad or the faith of Islam that angered Muslims are now provided by the state with round-the-clock protection. The murders of two French high school teachers, Samuel Paty and Dominique Bernard, by Muslim fanatics, have caused tens of thousands of teachers all over France to be unwilling to engage in any critical discussion of Muhammad and of Islam.

Who’s winning? Meotti claims it is the Muslims, who like Muhammad himself, “have been made victorious through terror.” But all over the Western world, political leaders have arisen who are now trying to fight back, determined to reduce the Muslim presence, and menace, in their countries. Such people as Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella in France, Giorgia Meloni in Italy, Alice Weidel in Germany, Nigel Farage in the U.K., Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, Santiago Abascal in Spain, and Jimmie Åkesson in Sweden head parties that are steadily rising in the polls, not despite, but because of, their anti-Muslim immigrant stance. Even the number of antisemitic acts has decreased since the Gaza ceasefire went into effect and has largely held.

Furthermore, more attention is now being given to other conflicts, that takes away from the obsessive attention to Israel and its putative crimes. The greatest humanitarian crisis in the world today is in Sudan, many times worse than what has gone on in Gaza, and what’s more, the main foreign malefactor in this war is the UAE, providing guns and money to the genocidal RSF (Rapid Support Forces). The war in Sudan is a race war, though not a single network or newspaper in the Western world is calling it that. The Arabs of the RSF are the latest incarnation of the Arab militia known as the Janjaweed that devastated the villages of black Africans more than 20 years ago, killing hundred of thousands of black Africans in the Darfur region. That persecution and murder needs to be made much of in the West. Muslims committing genocide, even against other Muslims, are a topic to focus on at every international gathering, beginning with the UN General Assembly. And as attitudes in the West harden against Islam, and its violent and menacing adherents, perhaps the answer to Meotti’s question “Who’s winning?” will be, just in time, “at long last, we are.”