George W. Bush was going to do it. So was Obama. And David Cameron. And Theresa May. And Nicolas Sarkozy. And François Hollande. And Emmanuel Macron. And Muhammadu Buhari. And a host of others. It always goes this way: Islamic jihad terrorists commit mass murder. The usual candlelight vigils and tearful displays ensue. Then the stricken nation’s leader appears in front of microphones, chin out, resolute, righteously angry, and vows to hunt down and crush the jihadis. After that, nothing happens until the jihadis strike again, and the whole sorry charade plays out yet again.
“Burkina Faso leader vows to defeat ‘terrorists’ after ambush,” by Arsene Kabore, Associated Press, November 11, 2019:
Burkina Faso’s president vowed Thursday that security forces will hunt down “terrorists and all their accomplices,” a day after at least 37 people were killed in the West African nation when gunmen attacked a convoy carrying employees of a Canadian mining company.
President Roch Marc Christian Kabore also called for volunteers “to defend the homeland in the areas under threat” following what is believed to be the deadliest attack in Burkina Faso since Islamic extremists became active in the country in 2015.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Wednesday’s ambush but the high death toll and targeting of a foreign company’s employees suggest that well-armed jihadists carried out the assault. At least 60 other people were wounded in the ambush, according to regional governor Col. Saidou Sanou.
Wednesday’s attack happened in eastern Burkina Faso, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) from the Boungou mine, which is owned Canada’s Semafo company. The gunmen attacked a convoy of five buses carrying mine employees that was accompanied by a military escort….
Emilie Green says
“After that, nothing happens until the jihadis strike again, and the whole sorry charade plays out yet again”
This cartoon is that sentence visually,
http://www.parsonrob.com/uploads/1/2/1/6/12161577/emergency-plan_orig.jpg
jimmy rooks says
You forgot to take your usual swipe at Trump!…you know, the way you USED to follow everything with “damn that George W Bush” only attacking Trump?!?
gravenimage says
Emilie, that cartoon is grimly spot on.
DHazard says
None of those leaders understood Islam, or they did and lied about it. Along the way they should have realized that religions are NOT all the same. They would have understood what “jihad” really means in both intent and practice. They would have scolded feminists for providing cover for people who believe that every man is at least twice as good as the most brilliant woman. How could a World leader not realize and explain to their fellow citizens that in Islam “their God, Allah” wants them to suffer horribly and forever? And that Muslims believe that this is the direct word of their emotionally unstable god? … that Muhammad, the world’s meanest religious founder, didn’t make up the whole thing so he could have power, wealth and women? Or that the Quran is chock full of vile hate speech?
The only place common sense seems to have taken sway is in a few of the former Soviet Union’s colonies. Otherwise it’s a race to see who is the most ignorant of Islam and, in many cases, a race to earn the most gold stars from among their liberal constituents.
Lydia Church says
The clencher is when they declare US as the ‘terrorists’ and come after us, the ‘right wing extremists.’ Ya’ll just wait and see!
Agha Ali Arkhan says
Wait and see? Their declaration and they are here already. Better watch your wing and your tail.
Wellington says
Life is often a farce. Rarely more so than evidenced by this article by Robert Spencer.
Until the world at large, and in particular the West (because freedom traditionally has resided with this civilization as it has not even remotely with no other civilization or society), realizes and acknowledges that Islam, all of it, is dismal beyond all measure, this farce of farces will continue; these stupid games will continue. And they are often lethal games at that—no doubt.
Even the mildest of Muslims, i.e., those who don’t agree with or enforce the many heinous dictates of Islam, or who are even deluded enough to think that Islam is something good and can be reformed, stand guilty before the human tribunal respecting what is ethical. Most assuredly, Islam is not ethical and by now one knows this or should know it.
There is no longer any valid excuse for the continuation of Islam. None.
Agha Ali Arkhan says
How wrong you are! It will continue because it works.
Wellington says
I mentioned “any valid excuse” and not just any excuse. Just because deception and iniquity “work” often times does not extend to them validity.
gravenimage says
Yet again: Burkina Faso President becomes latest leader to vow to hunt down “terrorists and all their accomplices”
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President Roch Marc Christian Kabore sounds like Goodluck Jonathan, the former president of Nigeria. He never got anywhere with this, either.
Burkina Faso is 89% Muslim, so most there don’t want anything done about these Jihadists murdering Christians, anyway.
Angemon says
Will they be given islamic burial rites?…