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Avenging the Defeated Caliphate: The Significance of November 13 in the Paris Attacks

Nov 14, 2015 11:18 am By Ralph Sidway

Did the Muslim jihadists in Paris choose November 13 for its symbolic value in planning their attacks?

Over at Terror Trends Bulletin, a brief but weighty post conveys what to most of us is a forgotten historical footnote (Thanks to Emanuel):

The Historical Significance of November 13th in Islam:

On November 13, 1918 the Allied troops occupied Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire was the Caliphate, the Islamic State of its day.

A little extra background, from the Wikipedia entry, Defeat and Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire:

The Occupation of Constantinople took place in accordance with the Armistice of Mudros [signed on 31 October 1918], ending the Ottoman participation in World War I. The occupation had two stages: the initial occupation took place from 13 November 1918 to 16 March 1920; from 16 March 1920 – Treaty of Sevres.

1918 saw the first time Constantinople had changed hands since the Ottoman Turks conquered the Byzantine capital in 1453. An Allied military administration was set up early in December 1918. Haghia Sophia was converted back into a cathedral by the Allied administration, and the building was returned temporarily to the Greek Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch.

Now, several additional news reports are revealing that the Paris Jihad Attacks were not only carefully orchestrated in Paris, but across Europe, with cells acting in Germany and the UK:

  • German police arrest Muslim linked to Paris jihad attacks: had guns, explosives, hand grenades
  • London: Gatwick Airport terminal evacuated, police arrest man with grenade in his bag
  • As Paris Burned, UK Muslims Told To ‘Struggle’ For Islamic State In Unprecedented Islamist Show Of Force

It seems clear that, whether or not the date was chosen by the jihadis for its link to the Western Allies occupying Constantinople in 1918, it was indeed a carefully planned and executed operation, spanning at least three countries, and marks an ominous turn in Islam’s war on the West.

Responses to the Paris Muslim Jihad Attacks call it an “ACT OF WAR”:

  • ‘ACT OF WAR’: French president responds to attacks, ISIS claims responsibility, Syrian passport found on one of the suicide bombers
  • French Jewish Council Calls for ‘World War’ Against ‘Jihadist Fanaticism’

Earlier this week, merely a couple of days before the Paris Jihad Attacks, GOP Presidential candidate Dr Ben Carson was very direct about the threat from the Islamic State stating: “We’re talking about global jihadists, and their desire is to destroy us and to destroy our way of life….our goal is not to contain them but to destroy them before they destroy us.”

At a Republican Presidential Summit in Florida, just hours after the attacks, the Daily Mail reports Carson again issued a call to “Destroy them,” while also opposing efforts to settle Syrian refugees in the U.S., calling it ‘almost malpractice’ if jihadis don’t try to infiltrate the groups:

Asked how he would handle the threat of violent Islamists if he were elected president, Carson became even more soft-spoken than normal.

‘I think America’s involvement should be trying to eliminate them completely,’ he said. ‘Destroy them!’ […]

DailyMail.com asked Carson how he would persuade Americans that if a Paris-style attack were to hit the United States, his calm, low-volume style wouldn’t hold him back from mounting a vigorous and energetic response.

‘I would say strength is not determined by the number of decibels in your voice,’ Carson responded.

And if he held the Oval Office, he predicted, ‘I think that will be very apparent to people very quickly.’

In contrast, earlier this week,  Hillary Clinton refused to declare war on ISIS.

 

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  1. somehistory says

    Nov 14, 2015 at 11:31 am

    On Thursday, a family member and I were discussing that Friday would be the 13th and we wondered about the significance of the day for what was going on. It was no surprise that the terrorists chose that day to carry out terror attacks.
    And the news made a big deal of the president of the U.S. saying isis was defeated or some such thing not long before the attack took place. Saying the *caliphate* was basically done.\had to be a *challenge* to the moslims running it.
    And on a anniversary important to moslims.
    All of these things really are tied together to fit a very large scheme of things..

    (Revelation 13)

    • WhereAreTheTemplars says

      Nov 15, 2015 at 2:04 pm

      Well, it’s not the ‘Friday the 13th’, that’s significant for their cowardly attacks. It’s the fact that it was November 13th. Could’ve been any day of the week.

      A LOT of people still refuse to acknowledge who they’re up against. ‘You’ (meaning ANY non-Muslim, including Atheists) might not call it a ‘holy war’, but they make no bones about the fact that it’s a holy war against ALL who are non-Muslim.

  2. Jane Doe says

    Nov 14, 2015 at 11:33 am

    https://stuffjeffreads.wordpress.com/2015/11/14/the-paris-attacks-was-the-date-symbolic/ “During the Crusades, France sent the Knights Templar to the Holy Land to fight the Muslims. Afterwards, King Philip, fearing the power of the Templars, orchestrated the arrest and subsequent torture and execution of the Knights Templar on Friday the 13th, 1307. I hate to sound like a conspiracy nut, but the parallel gives me pause. If this was a planned and orchestrated attack, then I can only assume that the perpetrators chose a date that would hold symbolic meaning and would be easily remembered, just as the 9/11 date for the attack on the World Trade Center.”

    • Jupe77 says

      Nov 14, 2015 at 9:43 pm

      Can you imagine? Still holding a grudge 600 years later. Disgusting.

      • WhereAreTheTemplars says

        Nov 15, 2015 at 2:14 pm

        Correction – 14 CENTURIES.

    • WhereAreTheTemplars says

      Nov 15, 2015 at 2:08 pm

      Minor correction, it wasn’t France, or the French King that sent the Templars to fight the Muslim terrorists, it was the Pope. The Templars have never been accountable to any King, President, Prime Minister, or Head of State at any point in history.

      • tony says

        Nov 16, 2015 at 1:10 am

        …and the Pope that sent the Templars to crusade was Pope Clement-the first French Pope who the Islamofacist refer to as the Cross of France.

    • JawsV says

      Nov 16, 2015 at 9:07 pm

      September 11 was chosen purposely by bin Laden. The Battle of Vienna was fought on Sept 11-12 against the Ottoman Turks. The Turks lost.

  3. CogitoErgoSum says

    Nov 14, 2015 at 11:41 am

    So many people in the West want to live in peace with Islam. Well, Islam does NOT want to live in peace with you …. unless you agree to change your way of life and your ideas about freedom and religion. Islam wants you to submit and those who have already submitted will not stop waging war against you until either you submit or are dead OR they are dead …. UNTIL YOU SUBMIT OR ARE DEAD OR THEY ARE DEAD. Those are the only choices. Think about that ….

    • Greyhound Fancier says

      Nov 14, 2015 at 6:07 pm

      If enough are killed, then “islam” will be at a crossroads. Only Saudi $$$$ will keep the jihad going.

      • Jay Boo says

        Nov 14, 2015 at 6:24 pm

        Saudi $$$$ is funding and instigating racial divisions at US universities.

        Muslims are causing mischief — in our lands

    • kay says

      Nov 15, 2015 at 11:47 am

      Re: “It’s a shame that total genocide of all muslims is the only solution to this problem.”
      _______________________
      No, that’s wrong. That is the Nazi approach. It was also the approach of Che Guevara wrt the economic elite in South America. Lining women and children up against a wall and machine gunning them.
      That is a feminist issue.
      Genocide means mass murder of children. Children who have no idea what the issues are.
      There will be wars and civil wars in this century in may places.
      However, the main concern must be the health and safety of the free societies and of civilization.
      A more reasonable approach is put forward by Geert Wilders.
      And it is of course necessary to kick Chancellor Merkel out of office.
      And break up the European Union. And shut Turkey out of Europe..
      These approaches are more practical.

      The goal must be to save Europe while that remains possible. It is quite possible or even likely that Europe will be mostly lost in ninety years.
      The very seriously bad ideas that some people explicitly put forward, like nuking Mecca, only cause more problems. Like basically endless global rioting.
      Several hundred million Muslims are psychopathic and dangerous jihadis in principle. Several hundred million more Muslims are Sharia sociopaths. Who would kill their own children and close relations in the name of Allah.
      So there is a global problem. The problem is endemic and pandemic.

      But we cannot defeat fascism or Isalmofascism by ourselves becoming sociopaths or psychopaths or Nazi types. We have to defeat the doctrine of Islam by providing a real alternative. Which is peace and freedom for all reasonable people, and severe consequences for all who menace the public good.

      We have to take the high ground, which is to uphold the UN Declaration of Human Rights. And also kill as many aggressors as possible.
      That is the Middle Way.
      When there are brave men knocking at your door, you have to meet them.
      That requires leadership and training. And every battle or frontline must be handled case by case.

      GoT 2×09: Tyrion’s Rally Speech

  4. BlueRaven says

    Nov 14, 2015 at 11:59 am

    “”Asked how he would handle the threat of violent Islamists if he were elected president, Carson became even more soft-spoken than normal. ‘I think America’s involvement should be trying to eliminate them completely,’ he said. ‘Destroy them!’””

    I did not read any Islamic country condemning this or any other terrorist attack openly, or calling out that they will make Islamic practice illegal in their country because Islam is never peace.

    If Carson were to take on Jihad, he need to do his homework. JIHAD and ISLAM are equivalent, That means he need to take on 100s of millions of Muslims. I guess that is good enough reason why nobody like to take on Jihad. It is up to the Muslims to denounce Jihad. From then on there will be nothing worth left to practice about Islam. It is mindboggling how successful the Muslims been to promote this evil ideology in the West for years and without any hit backs.

    • Greyhound Fancier says

      Nov 14, 2015 at 6:13 pm

      Suppose we decided that “Operation Elijah” was needed. We turned Mecca to glass, thus demonstrating the falsehood and impotence of “Allah”.

      This would be of a type of when Elijah demonstrated the falsehood of the priests of Baal by showing that the LORD is God. However, Elijah was persecuted by the politically correct people of his time, including Queen Jezebel. The remnant of believers was only a few thousand. Is there any parallel to our situation now?

      [Jezebel ended up dead on a street with dogs licking up her blood. The name given to her by the biblical writer means “fly droppings”, BTW.]

      Those of the remnant, who see the threat, must be prepared to act. Our govt. is not willing to do what’s needed, and in fact by offering to take in more “Syrians”, is all right with putting our lives in danger.

  5. Indian says

    Nov 14, 2015 at 12:01 pm

    Nov 13 is my birthday but very sorry my fellow non Muslim brothers died in the hands of Muslims. We Hindus will be with you, don’t feel alone France, India always supports you.

    • JawsV says

      Nov 16, 2015 at 9:14 pm

      Indian, I hope you had a nice b’day despite the horror. September 11 is a tough b’day now for people, too. The Moslems really know how to f*** up the world. If only Muhammad had died and Islam withered on the vine.

  6. خَليفة says

    Nov 14, 2015 at 12:30 pm

    November 13, 1918 = Safar 8, 1336 AH

    November 13, 2015 = Safar 1, 1436 AH
    November 20, 2015 = Safar 8, 1436 AH

    It is amazing how much respect those cray cray Muslims show for the Kuffar’s calendar. -sarc-

    URL for Islamic calendar conversion ( can’t go too far into future as official Islamic calendar still needs visual confirmation of moon for start of month )
    http://www.irulz.com/islamic-calendar.html

    • Jay Boo says

      Nov 14, 2015 at 6:20 pm

      When Muhammad was born his own mama did not want him.
      Historical fact

      • خَليفة says

        Nov 14, 2015 at 6:59 pm

        And his birth name was Qathem…

        https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A8au1Py1I3g

      • Cecilia Ellis says

        Nov 15, 2015 at 1:39 pm

        Jay Boo wrote: “When Muhammad was born his own mama did not want him.”

        Do you blame her?

    • خَليفة says

      Nov 14, 2015 at 6:28 pm

      I wonder if these recent events in Paris, etc. have anything to do with what has been going on in Turkey.

      http://sendika7.org/category/english/

      Have not seen anything in the Western news on this, only found out from a Turkish friend.

  7. Clearsighted says

    Nov 14, 2015 at 1:00 pm

    Robert,

    You have commented a number of times on the views of Dr. Ben Carson regarding the global jihad. While I agree that Dr. Ben Carson has the clearest understanding of the threat of the jihad doctrine and what needs to be done to confront it, and, as much as I like Dr. Ben Carson, I do not believe he is electable in a general election. On the other hand, I do believe that Marco Rubio may well be the Republican candidate when all of the dust settles.

    Therefore, I would be very interested to know what your take is on Sen. Rubio with regard to His understanding ofthe jihad threat. Would he be better than Sen. Cruz?

  8. Angemon says

    Nov 14, 2015 at 3:34 pm

    Did the Muslim jihadists in Paris choose November 13 for its symbolic value in planning their attacks?

    Over at Terror Trends Bulletin, a brief but weighty post conveys what to most of us is a forgotten historical footnote (Thanks to Emanuel):

    Very good point – as it’s been shown over and over, just because we in the West consider something to be old history and water under the bridge, it doesn’t mean islamic-based cultures look at it the same way.

  9. Francis Merde says

    Nov 14, 2015 at 6:14 pm

    My money is on them not being that smart, or well read. Friday the 13th is unlucky in western cultures, or it might just be because Muzzies like to start most of their shit on Friday.

    • Jay Boo says

      Nov 14, 2015 at 6:37 pm

      Every day is unlucky when Muslims are around.

      They can’t even stand each other, not that I blame them for their mutual disgust with other Muslims.

  10. Jay Boo says

    Nov 14, 2015 at 6:35 pm

    Coincidence???
    Obama called the French President that same morning reportedly about the G20 meeting. Did Obama lecture the French President on hijab bans or encourage more appeasement before Obama called in this attack.

    Did Obama or his Muslim allies hope to distract from the Republican summit to aid Hillary?
    NPR commentators cleverly called the Republican Presidential Summit in Florida boring and when on as if to imply that the terrorist attack had nothing to do with the lack of follow-up media coverage.

  11. Dallas says

    Nov 14, 2015 at 8:39 pm

    Time to reclaim what was stolen in 1453 – the amazing city of Constantinople. Far as anyone should be concerned, that’s a blight on the region, a wrong which needs to be made right.

  12. The awful truth says

    Nov 14, 2015 at 8:56 pm

    So Ben Carson wants to destroy ISIS and do Saudi Arabia’s work for them? Will the USA understand that for too long it’s been a puppet of the Saudi regime and that Obamas current policies go very nicely with Saudi plans to maintain their hegemony? Sometimes you just have to stop putting in coins into the ME fruit machine and allow it to come to a stop, while working out a shift in energy policy.

  13. S R Wakankar says

    Nov 15, 2015 at 8:23 am

    Most unfortunate. It is really a big challenge to deal with this grave problem which has become global now.
    I again say we have to go and discover “true/authentic” Islam which in my humble view is the non-Arab Asian religious tradition of Hindu Islam of which AfPak is the birth-place. We have to discover this old buried and lost tradition
    Arab Islam is a typical brand of Islam. which is “for the Arab by the Arab, of the Arab”. Otherwise it is sheer Arab Imperialism. They were purely military/political factors which brought it such successes.

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