Valls has been more forthright than most Western leaders in identifying the foe as “radical Islam,” but here he shows that he is just as clueless as the rest of them when it comes to knowing the root causes of Islamic terror. Valls shares the paternalistic assumption that virtually all Western leaders hold: that Islamic […]
French PM: “The charge of ‘Islamophobia’ is used to silence people”
Valls also says, ““It is very important to make clear to people that Islam has nothing to do with ISIS.” How exactly he proposes to do that is unclear, at least if he intends to be honest, since what the Islamic State does all has foundation in the Qur’an and Sunnah. But he is absolutely […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: French PM Declares War on ‘Radical Islam’
In FrontPage I discuss what may be a crack in the edifice: It was an extraordinary breaking of ranks. For years now, since 9/11 and before, Western leaders from all points of the political spectrum have unanimously maintained that Islam was a Religion of Peace and that Islamic jihad terrorists were a tiny minority of […]
French PM declares “war against terrorism, against jihadism, against radical Islam”
This is extraordinary: a declaration of war against “jihadism” and “radical Islam” is also a declaration of war (wittingly or unwittingly) against the general refusal of Western leaders to describe the crisis they face as having anything whatsoever to do with Islam. This should make it easier for the French to call upon Muslims in […]