If you want
to see how a Westernized France responds to Jihad, here’s an essay from FrontPageMag.
It’s called, “Exceptional Measures against Jihad” (Kenneth Timmerman, November
17, 2015). I’ve edited it. I’ve also done some rewriting so that the essay fits
my format.
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As I
listened to French President Francois Hollande over the weekend, I was struck
by the familiarity of the ritual phrases he used. He spoke about the French
response to terror attacks that had swept through my old neighbourhood in Paris
on Friday the 13th.
“France will
be merciless toward the Daesh barbarians,” the president declaimed, referring
to the Islamic State by its Arabic-language sobriquet. “France will act with
all the legal means at its disposal.”
As I recall,
that’s the same thing Hollande said in January 2015 after another group of
jihadi Muslim terrorists attacked the editorial offices of the satirical
weekly, Charlie Hebdo, murdering journalists, cartoonists, and a security guard.
It was the
same language he used a few days later when yet another group of jihadi Muslims
hit a kosher supermarket in Paris.
Between
January 2015-November 2015, what ‘merciless’ steps did France take against
Daesh? As it turns out, not much….
For example,
the Direction de Surveillance du Territoire (DST), the French equivalent of the
FBI, maintains a registry of “radicalized” young Muslims, known as “S-cards.” The
French S-registry contains no fewer than 16 nuances of radicalization and other
threats to national security, from S-1 to S-16. The French could identify a lot
of radicals with such an impressive approach.
Indeed, many
of the perpetrators of recent terrorist attacks in France had S-cards. But then,
the DST never brought them in.
With the decree
of a nation-wide State of Emergency for the first time since 1961 (during the
war in Algeria), President Hollande explicitly authorized the DST to act. It’s to
conduct warrantless searches. It’s to detain individuals without charge.
Will it do
that?
Christian
Estrosi, the Mayor of Nice, cancelled a planned performance of La Traviata. He
asked restaurant, bar, café and night club owners to ‘take all necessary
measures to protect their establishments’, something their Israeli counterparts
have lived with since the homicide bombings of 2002.
He also spelled
out one concrete measure. ‘I’ve asked that all persons with S cards be placed
under house arrest’, he announced. Let’s see if that actually happens.
There is
something France can do. But no one has dared say it out loud: round up radical
imams and deport them. If they have no other nationality, then jail them on
charges of sedition….
France
hasn’t done enough. For example, I arrived at the Nice airport on Sunday
morning an hour-and-a-half ahead of my flight to Washington via Germany, twice
the normal time. But [there was little increased security visible]….
We didn’t
even have to take off our shoes!
It would certainly
have been reassuring to see someone, somewhere, actually question passengers
intelligently about where they were coming from, whether they had been given
anything to carry on board, whether they had packed their own bag, etc. But,
apparently, the French still consider that too intrusive….
As always,
when jihadi Muslims commit terrorist attacks, the French national media bends
over backward--to be politically correct--to air the voices of “moderation” within the Muslim community and
the political Establishment. These wise men and women caution against
scapegoating. They proclaim that terrorism is a “social” problem. They tut-tut
that talk of a “war” against terrorism (even when announced by the President of
France) is absurd, since everybody knows that such attacks are criminal in
nature and require good police work, not a military response. …
My friend
Mark Durie, an Anglican pastor from Australia, has written several books about
Islamic doctrine. He offers us an instructive lesson from the Dutch war against
radical Islam in Indonesia at the turn of the 20th century.
The Dutch
East Indies Company and its commanders were losing the war in Aceh to a Muslim
uprising. Eventually, they hired a consultant named Christiaan Snouck
Hurgronje, a Dutch expert on Islamic doctrine, who told them they were fighting
against a Jihad.
‘Hugronje
counselled them to change tactics’, Durie told me. ‘Instead of going after the
insurgents and the villages they controlled, he said they needed to chase the
mullahs out into the jungle and kill them, so they could empower the
traditional leadership and the local clans. And it worked’.
One of the
reasons cited for the Dutch success in putting down that rebellion was that
they buried the rebel imams with the carcasses of pigs and made it known. That
meant that instead of dying as martyrs for jihad, they died with the certainty
they were unclean and were going to Hell. It was a message was not lost on the
young men the imams had been so successful in recruiting up until then.
Remember
President Obama explaining to an uncomprehending public that the U.S. military
had given Osama Bin Laden a burial at sea to preserve his “dignity” and so not
to offend Muslims?...Imagine if we had buried Osama Bin Laden with a pig
carcass and broadcast the video? Or if each time we blast an al Qaeda or ISIS
leader with a drone we send in special operations troops to gather up his
remains to give them an appropriate burial and post the video on YouTube?
We will not
win the war against the barbarians by playing nice. You want exceptional
measures? Defeat the Jihadis by robbing them of their ultimate victory: their
dream of paradise.
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My comment:
I’ve heard stories about ending a Muslim uprising by burying slain Muslim
fighters with pigs. I don’t know if the stories are true. I don’t know if
burial with a pig has the effect described above.
Two things,
however, are certain. First, the West doesn’t know what to do about the Islamic
war it faces; and second, the West doesn’t yet have the courage to act against it.
Israel has
that courage. But each time Israel acts against similar ideological-religious attacks,
the West won’t lift a finger to help Israel. It talks about criminalizing
Israel instead of helping it.
Jihadists
see that—and take note.
Now, Jihad
has come to France. Following the Paris attack, an emboldened ISIS threatened
Britain, Australia, Canada and the US. The West reacted to all of this with
outrage—followed by political correctness, to soften anti-Muslim reactions.
Jihadists
see that, too.
My advice is
simple. If you’re Jewish, make aliyah. Live in Israel. Israel knows how to
respond to these killers. Then, when the you-know-what hits the proverbial fan,
you’ll be a lot safer.
(The
original essay is at FrontPageMag. Please read it)
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