Thursday, January 8, 2015

Canada’s Harper: “The international jihadist movement has declared war….we are going to have to confront it.”

Canada’s Harper: “The international jihadist movement has declared war….we are going to have to confront it.”

 http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/01/canadas-harper-the-international-jihadist-movement-has-declared-war-we-are-going-to-have-to-confront-it

Harper

“The international jihadist movement has declared war. They have declared war on anybody who does not think and act exactly as they wish they’d think and act. We may not like this and wish it would go away, but it’s not going to go away, and the reality is we are going to have to confront it.”

If only we had a President of the United States who spoke with this much clarity and realism.

“Jihadists have declared war, world must respond: Canada’s Harper,” by Julie Gordon, Reuters, January 8, 2015:
DELTA, British Columbia (Reuters) – The deadly attacks in Paris serve as a vivid reminder that jihadists are at war with those they disagree with, and the world must confront them, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Thursday.
“The international jihadist movement has declared war. They have declared war on anybody who does not think and act exactly as they wish they’d think and act,” Harper told reporters when asked about Wednesday’s attack.
“We may not like this and wish it would go away, but it’s not going to go away, and the reality is we are going to have to confront it.”…
Harper said any doubts in Canada about the reality of threats posed by such extremists should have vanished on Oct. 22. That was the day when a radicalized Canadian gunman killed a soldier at the national war memorial and then stormed the Parliament building….
Other manifestations of the threat posed by militant Islam in Canada included the case of the so-called “Toronto 18,” Harper said, referring to the 2006 arrests of a group of men charged with planning attacks on Toronto-area targets in a plot to get Canada to withdraw troops from Afghanistan.
Canada’s security agencies have been able to prevent most attacks by extremists from coming to fruition, Harper said.
“But the fact of the matter is this recent development, the emergence of the so-called Islamic State, its sudden control of a vast territory with vast amounts of financial resources, has escalated this to a whole new global level,” he added.

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