This revelation demonstrates how deformed the public discourse has become all over the West. These foiled attacks are by jihadis; Castaner doesn’t say that, but there is no doubt of its truth. France is not plagued by violent “right-wing extremists.” But discussion of terrorism all over the free world centers today on those “right-wing extremists,” who actually pose a minuscule threat that authorities are doing all they can to exaggerate. Meanwhile, discussion of Islamic jihad terrorism focuses not on how to understand and counter the jihad ideology, but on “Islamophobia” and on how terrible the people are who call attention to this threat. All right. One can’t play with fire forever, however. One day, after all the foes of jihad terror have been silenced as “bigots” and “racists” and “Islamophobes,” those who have been doing the silencing will discover that there really was a jihad threat after all. Of course, the way the Leftist elites are behaving now, they may welcome that discovery.
“French intelligence services thwart ‘9-11-style terror attack,’” by Matt Drake, Independent, October 18, 2019:
A terror plot inspired by the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Centre in New York has been foiled by the French intelligence services.
One person is being held in custody in France on preliminary terrorism charges after apparently planning a September 11-style plane hijacking and attack.
According to French paper Le Parisien, the suspect was looking for a weapon to hijack a plane.
Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said on France-2 television on Thursday night that the person was arrested on 26 September while “in the process of planning” such an attack.
He provided no further details but said it was the 60th time French authorities have thwarted a potential attack since 2013.
Mr Castaner said: “An individual who wanted to draw inspiration from 9/11 and planes that destroyed the towers of the World Trade Centre was stopped by our services.
“It was his project, he was organising himself like this and our services have done the necessary to get him arrested.”
In a tweet, he added: “60 attacks have been foiled since 2013 and every week people are arrested….