The long-term solution that French authorities have chosen is to clear away all obstacles to the development of Islam in France. “France faces ‘unprecedented’ terror threat, say officials,” by Michel Moutot, AFP, March 23, 2015:
Paris (AFP) – The threat of a jihadist attack in France has reached a level “without precedent” and new attacks are inevitable, according to top counter-terrorism officials.
“The threat is permanent,” said one high-level official in the defence ministry, speaking on condition of anonymity.
“Not one day goes by without an alert, the discovery of a network trying to send people to Syria or Iraq, or an intervention (by the security services).
“The number of targets has exploded. There are two or three thousand, maybe four thousand, people identified or suspected of evil intentions.”
Nor are they all amateurs, the source added — many are highly educated. “They are pros, not drop-outs,” he said.
Defence ministry specialists say the jihadists “use the best encryption and concealment techniques” and that security services are “playing catch-up”.
“Every time we get our hands on a network, we see they are each using seven or eight SIM cards, changing them constantly. And the most cunning don’t go near phones at all — they use messengers.”
The biggest concerns relate to the estimated 200 individuals who have returned from training or fighting in areas held by the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.
“They have lost all inhibitions about violence,” said another top counter-terrorism official, also speaking on condition of anonymity.
Security services place them under the tightest possible surveillance, but resources are limited and the authorities are also painfully aware that militants may wait years before acting.
That was the case with the Kouachi brothers who carried out the attack on Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine in January.
They had long-standing links to jihadist networks in Paris, and one had travelled to Yemen for training back in 2011, but they had gradually fallen off the radar of security services after laying low for several years….
jihad3tracker says
Let me take this opportunity to mention David Wood’s excellent website — http://www.answeringmuslims.com — for those of us who have not visited it . . .
He is an expert on the texts / teachings of Islam, and sprinkles into that grim reality a bit of dark humor.
Two current vids are highly recommended : “Pop quiz for potential world leaders” & one with a graphic triangle in the entry screen (the title escapes my ancient brain at this moment.)
But all vids he has made are worth watching . . . tell your family and friends about him, too.
William L Playfair, MD says
Thank you for making reference to this truly helpful resource.
cs says
He did a very good one on the death of Mohammed, it was an incredibly insightful video.
Apart from the classical three levels of jihad.
gravenimage says
Yes—David Wood’s work is excellent. Robert Spencer has worked with him many times.
Gamaliel says
In addition to David Wood’s excellent work I recommend the following. http://www.mypracticalphilosophy.com/shelp/muhammad.htm
jihad3tracker says
THANK YOU GAMALIEL — FOR THIS LEAD TO A SUPERB COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY AND FACTUAL RESOURCE . . .
el-cid says
Recent events has made me rethink the history lesson in Spain. I am now doubting that there was ever a “Golden Age”. I suspect that history of the “Golden Age” was written using Muslim “science”, i.e. pure propaganda. I must read RamBam again with a more critical eye. What was he trying to tell us?
More over, even as a Jew, I can now understand the necessity of the Inquisition. How do you remove a virulent ideology from your body politic without a radical counter movement?
I am very afraid that radical solutions will be needed again. As the Buddhist priest said, you can preach love and tolerance, but you can’t sleep with a mad dog.
RonaldB says
el-cid,
I have a Jewish background, and I empathize completely with your feelings. I too have grown up with knowledge of the horrors of the inquisition towards the conversos (Spanish Jews who converted outwardly, but secretly kept the Jewish traditions.)
I had the unforgettable experience of meeting a Jewish woman who was born in Mexico. Her family was Catholic, but performed rituals in the basement, without explanation, warning her to never speak of them to anyone else.
As an adult, she immigrated to the United States. One time, she visited a synagogue, and it hit her like a ton of bricks: she was seeing the very same rituals and hearing the same speech she had seen performed in the deepest secrecy by her family.
The Inquisition had migrated to Mexico, just as the people of Spain, and the secrecy and terror of the conversos was carried over to the new world as well.
She converted to Judaism, and spoke publicly on her experiences.
So, it was very difficult to wrap my head around the idea that there was a reason for the Inquisition: that Spain finally succeeded in retaking all Spanish territory from Muslim conquerors. There were problems with Muslims pretending to convert, but maintaining the determination to not only practice as Muslims, but to retake the lands for Islamic rule. Out of a sense of necessity, Spain engaged in a religious cleansing of the Muslims. Unfortunately, Jews were associated with the Muslim governments, acting as government officials, and the Jews were included in the religious cleansing.
There is evidence that Queen Isabella felt considerable pain at expelling the Jews, and in fact, enforced laws which were meant to protect the Jews from being extorted. But, there were still many thousands of Jews whose lives were permanently turned upside down for nothing they had personally done.
Spot On says
It is not possible to compare 500 years ago to today except possibly with Islam since they are taught the same today as 500 years ago.
500 years ago, people thought that evil was the reason for disease. They would panic at seeing what they thought was evil. They feared catching a disease from evil people which was rampant in those times. Politicians (religious or civil) used these mistaken beliefs to do all sorts of things, including the inquisition.
With respect to Jews, they say that many Christians blamed Jews for killing Christ, however Christ was a Jew and his family were Jews. Certainly Christ loved his family. I personally believe it was basic anti-Semitism as we see so much today. Anti-Semitism is in itself, pure evil.
PRODOS says
Responding to el-cid
Emmet Scott, over at New English Review, has written quite a bit about the myth of the so-called Islamic “Golden Age”:
For instance …
http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/140210/sec_id/140210
His book “Mohammed and Charlemagne Revisited”, is heavy-going but worth the effort.
Best Wishes,
PRODOS
Melbourne, Australia
gravenimage says
Any Muslim “Golden Age” is the death throes of the conquered Infidel culture.
Except in rare cases like Spain which was reclaimed from Muslim conquest, most of these “Golden Ages of Islam” are short-lived, as Infidels flee, convert to Islam, are killed, or sink into hopeless dhimmitude.
As we can see today, the worst Muslim hell-holes are the most nearly entirely Islamic—places like Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia are virtually 100% Islamic, and are about as far from experiencing any kind of “Golden Age” as is imaginable.
The best way for Islam to have another “Golden Age” would be to conquer the West. It could coast on our wealth and residual innovation for a couple of centuries until we would sink into the complete stagnation of Islam.
Let’s not let it happen!
RonaldB says
This all makes the case for NO MUSLIM IMMIGRANTS…NOT ONE!!!
1. Muslims have a higher proportion of security threats, overwhelming police and intelligence.
2. Muslims organize as Muslims and put political pressure on police and intelligence to ignore Muslim criminals.
3. Muslims organize as Muslims to develop their own legal organs in their segregated communities, effectively overriding the laws enacted by a representative legislature.
4. Muslims use money from wealthy Muslim countries to buy political influence from venal politicians, capturing the government to support the advancement of Islam locally and abroad.
We now have a pretty good idea of the development of a Muslim community within a host country:
1. A small number blends in seamlessly;
2. A moderate number reacts legally to any perceived threat or barrier to their expression of Islam;
3. A large number engages in violent actions against non-Muslims for no particular reason that makes sense to a non-Muslim.
These characteristics are not simply coincidental features of Muslims that are carryovers from their country of origin. They are all rooted in Islamic canonical texts and in respected Islamic commentaries. They are almost uniformly experienced by various countries hosting Muslim immigrants.
Jihad Watch has for years provided not only a spotlight on Muslim activities and violence, but has given its readers a thorough education in basic Islamic law, showing how the law and the actions coincide. The knowledge gained through Jihad Watch makes the pronouncements of most Western leaders concerning what is and is not Islamic simply ludicrous. The most appropriate response in a knowledgeable audience would simply be laughter.
Joe Shmo says
Very good post, very succinct and true.
Unfortunately are politicians are not just corrupt, but have their agenda to destroy our western free societies. It’s up to us to do something about it. Because they won’t.
Spot On says
it is very difficult for a normal human being to understand the mindset of a truly corrupt politician. These politicians are mostly narcissistic. Secondly, they have sociopathic behavior. Third, most of them have no sense of their future beyond the next election. They focus only on their next election to the point of self hypnosis. In addition they are cunning, full of themselves, arrogant, and have few attributes in common with normal humans. There is only one thing that gets them elected, that is their ability to speak. They were born with a silver tongue and they used it all through their lives to get themselves out of trouble when needed. They feel invincible. They are addicted to the kickback money and power. They would take Muslim bribery money, watch Muslims take over, and never lose a nights sleep. because they think they are invincible. They believe they can talk their way out of anything.
don vito says
Cheers to the above three posts, agree completely and wholeheartedly.
Always On Watch says
From the linked article:
“The threat is permanent,” said one high-level official in the defence ministry
Well, isn’t that just wonderful? Islam now “owns” France.
Before long, each of us will personally know someone who went on a tour of France only to be blown to smithereens.
gravenimage says
Always on Watch wrote:
Well, isn’t that just wonderful? Islam now “owns” France.
………………………….
Yes—just sickening.
Over the years I have heard Anti-Jihadists assert that Infidels will wake up as soon as Islam becomes openly violent enough.
But I have always thought that this is true for just a small number of people—that many more, in the face of increasing Jihad, will just uneasily come to regard it as the “new normal”, and just become further dhimmified.
Hank says
When the army is required to stand guard instead of the police, then we are already in a state of war.
Don McKellar says
You know you see these kinds of national suicides in the past. They’ve always been created by dictators who kept the populace ignorant until the country was at the point where war or civil war was unavoidable as the whole place collapsed. But today, in the 21st Century, these things do not have to happen like it is in France. They really don’t. All we have to do is banish the insanity of political correctness and face reality head-on and make practical and required steps and all this could be avoided. This is true in all countries which are under siege by moslem colonists. In France, it’s too late. Civil war is coming. Will other countries learn from this and throw out the Camerons and their like come the next elections before their countries fall into the inescapable nightmare that France faces?
don vito says
thumbs-up
pongidae rex says
We need to be very clear about the situation with Islam in the West.
Islam has not changed in 1600 years. It is unchangeable. This is not some sort of Islamic metamorphasis. Quite frankly, the Islamists terrorizing our societies are a symptom, not a cause. Many of them were brought here at state expense, and lived on benefits after arriving.
What has happened in the west is self-inflicted by a single generation of politicians who have embraced an ideology of ‘multiculturalism’ that is based entirely upon magical thinking and rejection of science, human history and Western civilization. As the effects of this ideology corrode the welfare and security of the population at large, efforts intensify to brand any deviation from the suicidal magical thinking of this ideology as ‘bigotry’ and ‘racism’. Already in Europe, and soon in American, criticism of the ideology of Islamic Terrorism will be a hate crime.
We are on the road to totalitarianism folks. It is entirely self inflicted.
Dave J says
Sounds like it is too late for Britain and France. Mohammedists live by the sword and only respect power, weak minded wiggle words do not impress them. If the Government has really woken up to the clear and present danger it needs to take action: halt all Muslim immigration, suspend all social welfare to such immigrants and instead fund a return to Islam travel supplement, arrest all vitriolic Imams, close all maddrassas and educate citizens to the goals and tactics of Jihad.
Silvia says
We are on the way to civil war in Europe. The right is going to come to power.
citycat says
Do you mean right as opposed to political left or as opposed to perceived evil?