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Robert Spencer in the Detroit News: Another casualty in the war against jihadism

Jul 28, 2016 3:23 pm By Robert Spencer

In the Detroit News, I elucidate again the war that only one side is fighting.

Jacques-Hamel

An 84-year-old Catholic priest, the Rev. Jacques Hamel, was beheaded Tuesday morning while celebrating Mass at his church in the town of Saint-Etienne-du Rouvray in Normandy.

Reports indicated that his attackers were wearing Islamic clothing while shouting “Daesh” — i.e., “Islamic State” — and “Allahu akbar.” The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the murder, and it was further revealed that the church where the attack took place was on a jihadi hit-list of Catholic churches.

In reporting on all this, the UK’s Telegraph declared: “The attackers’ motives are unknown.”

Can you imagine a reporter in Warsaw on September 1, 1939, writing that German soldiers were coming across the border in large numbers and killing Polish soldiers, and authorities were insisting that there was no necessary relationship between these men and the German government, and that they would be opening criminal investigations of each soldier in order to try to determine his motive?

As long as Western authorities continue their refusal to acknowledge the motivating ideology of the enemy, they will remain completely unable to deal with it adequately.

French President Francois Hollande reiterated after the beheading of Hamel that France was at war with ISIS, but he continues to behave as if it isn’t: What nation at war allows the enemy ideology to proliferate within its borders, and invites in thousands more people among whom are certain to be an unknown number of enemy combatants?

Hollande persists in the same myopia that afflicts leaders in all Western countries: They refuse to acknowledge in any meaningful way that the West is really at war. Each jihad terror attack is carried out by people who hope to weaken and ultimately bring down the free world, so that they can impose Islamic governments and convert the West. Yet each jihad terror attack is treated as if it were a separate, discrete event, for which the motive must be established, and an investigation carried out, as if it were a criminal act pure and simple.

That’s no way to win a war.

And it gets worse. One of the jihadis who beheaded Hamel had tried to go to Syria to join ISIS, but had been stopped by French police. In light of the well-founded suspicion that Muslims who want to wage jihad in Syria but are prevented from doing so may decide to wage jihad at home, he wore an ankle bracelet to track his movements. It wasn’t enough — as it turned out, it was turned off for several hours every day, a humanitarian gesture that cost the life of Hamel and demonstrated the abject failure of contemporary approaches to the jihad terror threat.

That failure begun with the general refusal to acknowledge and confront the enemy’s motivating ideology, and including the fact that there are (thanks to Europe’s immigration and refugee policies) so many jihadis in Europe now that are known ISIS sympathizers wearing ankle bracelets who cannot be prevented from beheading priests in broad daylight during morning Mass.

The Rev. Jacques Hamel is a casualty in wartime. Yet the aftermath of his death only demonstrates anew that while this is a war, only one side is fighting it as such. Until that changes, the only guarantee is that there will be many more casualties like Hamel.

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  1. Walter Sieruk says

    Jul 28, 2016 at 3:46 pm

    The jihadist Muslims who compose the violent and deadly jihad entity ISIS detest all who say that they are Christians. The jihadists who make up ISIS don’t care if that person who professes to be a Christian is a Catholic or Protestant. The jihadists of ISIS hate them all. One of the reasons why the Muslims who compose ISIS are so much against Christians is that some Christians teach the Bible with its many doctrines to others. The Bible that is so very damaging to Islamic doctrine that the Muslim clerics sand strongly against the people obtaining Bible’s. For example, Islamic [Koranic] doctrine denies the Jesus is God. In other words Islam denies the Deity of Christ. Nevertheless, the Bible teaches “For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form.” Colossians 2:9. [N.I.V.] Moreover, the Jesus is God may further be seen in the Bible. As in, for example, John 1:1-3. Colossians 1:15-17. Romans 9:5. Second Peter 1:1. Titus 2:13. First John 5:20. In addition, for a person to further find out that Jesus is God all a she or he has to do in to compare the Old Testament with New Testament to see that Jesus is God. AS by comparing Isaiah 45:22, 23 with Philippians 2:5-11. Likewise by comparing Psalm 89:8,9 with Matthew 8:23-27. Will also confirm that Jesus is God. Also by comparing Psalm 62. 5-7.with First Corinthians 10:4. Just by comparing the New Testament books together will like show that Jesus is God .For example, comparing John 5:22. with Romans 14:12 shows the Deity of Christ. The list can go on but this should be enough for anyone who is willing to see, and not as those who Bible calls those who are willingly ignorant, II Peter 3:5., that Jesus is God. The imams and mullahs as well as the other apologists for Islam will try to “explain “ all this away by making the claim that the Bible had been corrupted by Christians, through time, and that’s why the Bible reads as it does. This claim they make very much underestimate the Power of God to preserve His Word and keep it safe and intact and away from the corruption of men. In conclusion, The Muslim clerics strongly dislike the Bile because the Bible greatly exposes the terrible doctrinal errors that Islam with the Koran as Islam’s foundation have concerning the nature of Jesus. Likewise the Bible exposes Islam as a false religion, Isaiah 8:20. Proverbs 14:12. All Muslims be they jihadist /ISIS Muslim or non-violent peaceful Muslims are invited to turn away for the false religion of Islam and come to and receive the real Jesus of the Bible. Who is the True Light to the world, John 8:12. and the only way to God the Father , John 14:6.

  2. linnte says

    Jul 28, 2016 at 4:49 pm

    Detroit News is in the middle of the hornets nest Mr. Spencer! Excellent article and just what that area of the USA needs to hear. Illinois, Ohio, Indiana and Minnesota; the Mid West heart of ISLAM along with my home state Michigan as you well know. And they all read the Detroit News.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Jul 29, 2016 at 8:17 am

      So “Detroit News” is a standard mainstream-type newspaper/ news outfit?

      If so, this is *excellent*, that Mr Spencer has been invited to write this article, and that the article has been published.

      Here’s hoping they take the next step and give him a regular *column*.

      American jihadwatchers – contact the “Detroit News” and tell them how much you enjoyed this article.

      If they get enough letters / emails they might wonder whether giving Mr Spencer a platform might not garner *new subscribers* and *ad revenue*.

      • John C. Barile says

        Jul 29, 2016 at 10:22 am

        Yes, DDA, doubly so.

    • August West says

      Jul 29, 2016 at 12:28 pm

      The Polish analogy was particularly appropriate as HAMTRAMCK, a formerly Polish community, which is a city within the.boarders of.Detroit, now has a Muslim majority city council.

      As a side note, Sharia compliance is readily visible in nearby Dearborn. The Ottoman style Islamic Center of America visible from the Southfield freeway sits adjacent to an old Christian church. In full Sharia compliance, the dome of the mosque over tops the steeple of the church.

      You can rest assured that planning g and zoning won’t approve renovations to the church when they are needed.

      On a recent trip to Detroit I was on a Southwest airlines flight. There is no assigned seating on Southwest as everybody who buys a ticket knows. An Islamic family – two teenage.daughters in Hijab, mother in full veil, father with died beard and teenage son boarded late when only middle seats were available. Flight attendees asked seated passengers to move so that this “religious family” could sit together. People moved to accommodate them. This was done.despite the fact that they could have purchased upgrades featuring early boarding

      Detroit needs all the clarity Mr Spencer can give them.

      PS Ford Motor Co, based in Dearborn, now has prayer rooms littering their Dearborn facilities. You can hear islamic call to prayer from the restaurants on Michigan ave. I have stopped buying Fords, and so should everybody else.

    • Shane says

      Jul 29, 2016 at 4:54 pm

      The motivation was to fight the enemies of Islam and become a martyr which is the surest way for a Muslim to go to heaven.

  3. Angemon says

    Jul 28, 2016 at 5:43 pm

    Hollande persists in the same myopia that afflicts leaders in all Western countries: They refuse to acknowledge in any meaningful way that the West is really at war.

    At best, ignorant buffoons. At worse, complicit. In any case, they can’t fool all the people all the time. And their time is coming to an end.

  4. Michael Johnson says

    Jul 28, 2016 at 10:11 pm

    More of this is gonna happen if the west don’t wake up soon and I mean now

  5. Miriam Feldstein Case says

    Jul 29, 2016 at 4:33 am

    This was an excellent article. God bless and protect the USA!

    • Yorkshire Kufir says

      Jul 29, 2016 at 7:09 am

      Don’t rely on an imaginary friend, protect it yourself, because imaginary friends won’t, because they don’t exist. But your freedom to beilive in an imaginary friend is at risk, fight for that. Don’t pray, that’s wishful thinking with rhythm.

      • John C. Barile says

        Jul 29, 2016 at 10:58 am

        Speaking in purely naturalistic terms, it suits human beings to pray. It complements action and strengthens human resolve. It also instills a realistic, practical humility to acknowledge our infinitesimal stature in relation to the Power that IS, and to invoke that Power. The well-known Serenity Prayer expresses this perfectly–“God grant me the serenity to.accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.”

        Paul quotes Epimenides–“In him we live and move and have our being.” It does no one any good to reflexively scoff at theistic notions. Merely sneering at theists doesn’t begin to consider the ultimate question of existence.

      • John C. Barile says

        Jul 29, 2016 at 11:38 am

        Freedom is an intangible article. Does it actually exist, or is it merely the construct of deluded human thought? An empty slogan? An opiate? Perhaps it only signifies the freedom to believe in Allah and his decrees.

        To this American, it signifies the sum of those unalienable rights bestowed upon us by our Creator.

      • Western Canadian says

        Jul 29, 2016 at 10:16 pm

        And your bigoted contempt for those who believe other than as you do, is also at risk….. Jerk.

  6. Nigel GFF says

    Jul 29, 2016 at 7:08 am

    “…each jihad terror attack is treated as if it were a separate, discrete event,..”

    This aspect is particularly galling, along with the ‘motive unknown’ knee-jerk.
    One cause of this ‘myopia’, a wilful denial of the pernicious nature of Islamic ideology, is that the authorities are in self-defence mode, quite literally, defence of themselves and their position (job) in a democratic society. They (the authorities) suspect that if the dots get joined and the commonality of ‘motive’ is made obvious to the general public (I happen to think that it IS obvious), then they would be subject to the order of the boot. Boot out these b*ds and their appointees, who follow their own ideology of relativism, and consign them to a bloody page of history. And what a bloody business it must have been, may the good Fr. rest in peace.

  7. Crusades Were Right! says

    Jul 29, 2016 at 7:51 am

    The damn fool who ordered the switching off of Islamic Chummy’s bracelet should be charged with being an accessory to murder….
    ….AND TREASON IN WARTIME!

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