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Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Muslims Celebrate Bastille Day: 80 Dead, 68 Injured

Jul 15, 2016 2:28 pm By Robert Spencer

“The worst tragedy in the history of Nice” – but many more are to come. My latest in FrontPage:

Nice attack

The truck was loaded with explosives and hand grenades as it plowed into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, France, Thursday night. It was no accident: Nice authorities emphasized that it was a terror attack, which was fairly clear already from the fact that the driver exchanged gunfire with police after he rammed into the crowd.

At least eighty people are dead and 68 wounded, and Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi calls it “the worst tragedy in the history of Nice.” But given the harsh realities of the contemporary world, it probably won’t be the worst for long.

Jihadis have had their eyes on France for quite some time. The Islamic State issued this call in September 2014:

So O muwahhid, do not let this battle pass you by wherever you may be. You must strike the soldiers, patrons, and troops of the tawaghit. Strike their police, security, and intelligence members, as well as their treacherous agents. Destroy their beds. Embitter their lives for them and busy them with themselves. If you can kill a disbelieving American or European — especially the spiteful and filthy French — or an Australian, or a Canadian, or any other disbeliever from the disbelievers waging war, including the citizens of the countries that entered into a coalition against the Islamic State, then rely upon Allah, and kill him in any manner or way however it may be….If you are not able to find an IED or a bullet, then single out the disbelieving American, Frenchman, or any of their allies. Smash his head with a rock, or slaughter him with a knife, or run him over with your car, or throw him down from a high place, or choke him, or poison him….

Yes, “run him over with your car.”

Then again from the Islamic State in May 2016:

“The French must die by the thousands…. Towards paradise, that is the path….Come, brother, let’s go to paradise, our women are waiting for us there, with angels as servants. You will have a palace, a winged horse of gold and rubies….With a little rocket-launcher, you can easily get one of them… you do something like that in the name of Dawla (Islamic State), and France will be traumatised for a century.”

The French are already traumatized. The BBC reported last week that “more than 5,000 French police will be deployed at key venues in and around Paris ahead of the Euro 2016 football final between France and Portugal,” and that “there will be no victory parade if France win.” Why not? For fear of jihad terror attacks.

The Bastille Day jihad massacre demonstrates that the answer to jihad attacks is not to curtail one’s activities and cower in fear. Even if free people do that, the jihadis will strike anyway. Even without a victory parade, the jihadis struck yet again in France. The response should not be to cower in fear, but to recognize that this is a war and act accordingly. France has just suffered a fresh attack in a war that is being fought by people in service of an ideology that France, like other Western countries, refuses to acknowledge even exists.

France, even as it is under serious attack by the warriors of jihad, continues to pursue policies that will only result in the arrival of still more Muslims to France – and with them will come jihad terrorists, and many, many more jihad massacres like the one on Bastille Day in Nice. French curtailing their activities for fear of being struck by jihadis did not save them. The Bastille Day jihad attack should be the last to take place under the regime of politically correct fantasy that forces law enforcement and intelligence officials to pretend that the threat is other than what it is, and that the remedy is to apply, one more time, policies that have failed again and again and again.

Bastille Day should be a day for the releasing of prisoners. In the war against the global jihad, the truth has been prisoner for too long. It is time to set it free – before it, too, becomes irrevocably a casualty of this war against an enemy no one dares name.

“On behalf of the American people, I condemn in the strongest terms what appears to be a horrific terrorist attack in Nice, France, which killed and wounded dozens of innocent civilians,” Obama said.

Question: did Franklin Delano Roosevelt, on behalf of the American people, condemn in the strongest terms every German and Japanese strike during World War II? Did he add that the U.S. administration was in touch with Hawaiian or Polish or French or Midway etc. officials and was ready to offer any assistance in the investigation?

The answer is no, because there was no need to offer such condemnations. The world was at war, and the world knew it was at war. The fact was obvious, as was which side each combatant was on. Nor was there any need for an investigation after each battle. Everyone knew what was going on, and why.

The reason why Obama offers these condemnations now after each jihad massacre is because he treats each as if it were an isolated incident, not as if it were one more battle in a long war. And he offers help in an investigation for the same reason: if U.S. officials do end up helping the French with an investigation of this latest jihad massacre, they will like come back with a characteristically Obamoid conclusion: they’re unable to determine the motive of the perpetrator.

In reality, there is no need for an investigation, because the jihadi’s motive is obvious. There needs to be an admission that we are in a full-scale war — not just lip-service as French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve offers, but a genuine acknowledgment, followed by a genuine war footing, and an end to the weepy memorials, empty condemnations, and po-faced get-nowhere investigations. This is not crime. This is war.

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  1. linnte says

    Jul 15, 2016 at 2:42 pm

    Newt Gingrich has stated just what you have been saying for a long time Robert. It was so refreshing to hear right in the news! Monitor Mosques, deport Muslims who adhere to Shari’a or do not denounce Shari’a and he revealed that Muslims coming into the USA and Europe/Britain are adherents to Shari’a. Basically ban Muslim immigration. He also spoke about Barack Hussein Obamas denial and outright obfuscation of the truth, along with Jeh Johnson, Loretta Lynch and others in our Government.

    NOW IS THE TIME TO PUBLICALLY GET LOUD AND denounce CAIR for what they are.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 15, 2016 at 2:46 pm

      Good to hear, Linnte.

      • linnte says

        Jul 15, 2016 at 2:49 pm

        Just before becoming a member of this blog, Newt Gingrich turned my stomach! Now here I am ROOTING for him. My world has done a complete turn around. And I like it! Thank Jesus!

  2. gravenimage says

    Jul 15, 2016 at 2:44 pm

    Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Muslims Celebrate Bastille Day: 80 Dead, 68 Injured
    ……………………….

    Yes–that’s *exactly* what this was–a Muslim “celebration”.

    Muslims often hit Infidels on our most important holidays–Christmas, Easter, Yom Kippur–and for the nation of France, Bastille Day.

    And recall what it is that Bastille Day celebrates–it celebrates *freedom*.

    And so, it is an attack not just on Nice, but on the whole of France, and not just on France, but on the freedoms of the whole of the West–indeed, of every Infidel.

    • TH says

      Jul 16, 2016 at 3:07 am

      As for the truth about the French revolution and not high-minded idea about liberty, equality and fraternity, which were quickly forgotten, it was an unremitting disaster and what it brought was the Reign of Terror and Napoleon. Yes, the revolutionaries even committed genocide of Catholics at La Vendée in 1790, where 20% of the buildings were obliterated by a preconceived plan, and many thousands massacred according to the password: “liberty, equality and fraternity” or death”.

  3. mawskrat says

    Jul 15, 2016 at 2:51 pm

    but…but…but if we were only nicer to them. http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/07/15/485900076/how-a-danish-town-helped-young-muslims-turn-away-from-isis?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20160715

    • TH says

      Jul 16, 2016 at 3:14 am

      It is from NPR. I don`t believe it. I sounds too good to be true. If they were truly imbued with the Islamic doctrine and wanting the 72 virgins, no such program would work. In my opinion, it is NPR propaganda. In a word, it is a bunch of baloney.

  4. nicu says

    Jul 15, 2016 at 3:03 pm

    They celebrated 3 days on 9 / 11 !!! and are still here and almost 2 millions arrived in germany already while 100.000 Non – Muslims left the country 🙁

  5. Walter Sieruk says

    Jul 15, 2016 at 3:13 pm

    The Muslims who are so happy and glad that they are actually celebrating that brutal and murderous jihad terror attack that had the tragic outcome of so many dead and injured people reveals four things which sound be made known. First, the Muslims who were celebrating that cruel and deadly Islamic terror attack in the city of Nice,France on Bastille day are only exposing their own vicious malicious and malice-filled Islamic mindset.. Second, that they were really glad at finding about the jihad disaster that came on all the people in Nice is something that may be seen in the Light of the Bible. For the Bible in Proverbs 17:5 teaches “He who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.” Third, Those jihad-minded Muslims who were celebrating the vicious and wicked Islamic terror attack of the jihad are people who must have such a terribly twisted view of things ,because of their religion, that they in their Islamic way of thinking , see that heinously wicked jihad terror attack as something that is “good.” To who have such a twisted hideous view the Bible also teaches “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil…” Fourth, the Bible informs tits reader as to why such men can be so very callous and heartless. For the Bible teaches that there are some people who are extremely heartless, vicious and callous because they have had “their conscience seared with a hot iron.” First Timothy 4:2. [N.K.J.V.] The “hot iron” in this case is Islam.

  6. Champ says

    Jul 15, 2016 at 3:38 pm

    death toll is at 84 with 202 injured …

    http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/16/world/europe/attack-nice-bastille-day.html?_r=0

    ??

  7. DHazard says

    Jul 15, 2016 at 3:45 pm

    I wouldn’t be surprised if part of the Muslim disdain for the French lies in history. It was in 732 AD that Muslim Jihad met Charles Martel at the battle of Tours. The Muslims lost and their expansion into Europe (beyond Spain) was halted. Now, all the Jihadists can manage is to inflict spiteful terrorist attacks against easy targets. Add to that the fact that ISIS is losing territory and you have people who feel they have nothing to lose. Their identity as a Muslim is falling apart and they know Allah hasn’t done anything for them in a long time. So, kill the descendants of the people who shamed you (with defeat in battle) and especially kill them since they enjoy prosperity and freedom while the jihadist has only promises of a pimp’s Paradise and the hollow word’s of a false prophet telling them how “special” they are.

  8. Angemon says

    Jul 15, 2016 at 4:26 pm

    Off topic: attempted coup in Turkey:

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/15/turkey-low-flying-jets-and-gunfire-heard-in-ankara1/

  9. Nigel GFF says

    Jul 15, 2016 at 4:32 pm

    Coup in Turkey!

    Bonne chance Turkey.

  10. Tommo says

    Jul 16, 2016 at 2:51 am

    The killing and injuring of pedestrians by hit and run incidences has been going on in the UK for years and few if any drivers have been prosecuted. Perhaps now the police might start their investigations at the mosque and among the Muslim community.

  11. Yokel says

    Jul 17, 2016 at 11:51 am

    Where is Charles Martel?

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