In this mailing:
- Giulio Meotti: France: A
Decomposing Civilization
- Bruce Bawer: Christmas in an
Islamized Europe
- A. Z. Mohamed: "Allahu
Akbar": Islamic Battle Cry
by Giulio Meotti • November 9,
2017 at 6:00 am
- France's authorities
and elites are tearing up, piece by piece, the country's
historical, religious and cultural legacy so that nothing
remains. A nation dispossessed of its identity will see its
inner strength broken.
- No French terrorist
who went to cut off heads in Syria lost his citizenship. The
magazine Charlie Hebdo is now receiving new death
threats, and no major French publication expressed solidarity
with their murdered colleagues by drawing Islamic caricatures.
Many of the French intelligentsia have been dragged in courts
for alleged "Islamophobia".
- The martyrdom of
Father Jacques Hamel at the hands of Islamists has already
been forgotten; the site of the massacre is still waiting for
a visit from Pope Francis as a sign of condolence and respect.
- France
"sacrificed the victims to avoid fighting the murderers".
— Shmuel Trigano, sociologist.
A medic
tends to a victim of a terrorist attack in Paris, France, November
13, 2015. (Photo by Thierry Chesnot/Getty Images)
France is about to commemorate the victims of the
terror attacks of November 13, 2015. What has been achieved in the
two years since the attacks?
The French authorities are sending compensation to
more than 2,500 victims of the jihadist attacks in Paris and
Saint-Denis, who will be compensated with 64 million euros.
Important victories were also attained by anti-terrorism forces.
According to an enquiry by the weekly L'Express, in the last
two years, 32 terrorist attacks were foiled, 625 firearms were
seized, 4,457 people suspected of having jihadist links were
searched, and 752 individuals were placed under house arrest. But
the general impression is that of a country "frailing from
within".
by Bruce Bawer • November 9, 2017
at 4:30 am
- Of course,
shoehorning Koran verses into a Christmas event does nothing
but cause misunderstanding.
- The whole thing was
pretty bizarre, given that (a) Christmas is not an Islamic
holy day, and (b) thanks to such misguided innovations, a
whole generation of Norwegian children will grow up thinking
"that Allah and the Koran have something to do with
Christmas."
- The StigerĂ¥sen
School's Christmas plans provide yet another example of dhimmitude:
craven European submission to Islam. This year, there might be
a couple of Koran verses in a Christmas show; next year, a
yuletide event at which both religions are celebrated on an
even footing; and not too many years after that, perhaps, a
children's celebration at which there is no cross and no
Christmas tree, only prayer rugs, benedictions in Arabic, and
hijabs for the girls.
A
Christmas tree in Oslo's central railway station, Norway. (Image
source: Jorge Franganillo/Wikimedia Commons)
Compared to Americans, as everyone knows, people in
the Nordic countries -- and here I am speaking of the blond,
blue-eyed natives who descend from generations of Christians (and,
before that, followers of Thor and Odin) -- are not big believers
these days, and do not spend a lot of time in church. But that does
not mean they are not devoted to their Christian heritage. At least
in Norway, which is probably the most culturally conservative of
the Nordic lands, Confirmation is still a universal rite of
passage. Most of the official national holidays are Christian holy
days, even if most people could not tell you exactly what Ascension
Day and Pentecost commemorate. At Christmastime, the main streets
are decked out with lights and wreaths, every home has a Christmas
tree, and you cannot turn on the radio without hearing Christmas
songs.
by A. Z. Mohamed • November 9,
2017 at 4:00 am
- What the phrase
"Allahu Akbar" actually means is that
"Allah is greater" than any other god. When
recited, it empowers Muslims, making them feel superior to the
rest of mankind. "Allahu Akbar" has, in fact, been a
jihadist tool since the early years of Islam.
- Muslims do use it in
various benign situations, as well. When it is shouted
publicly as an expression of rage, however, particularly
during an attack on others, it is intended to intimidate or
threaten; its purpose is to emphasize that the assault is
being committed on behalf of Allah -- submitting to his
command to kill enemies -- and in the expectation of the
reward of eternal paradise.
- When mainstream
media outlets in the West whitewash a key tenet of Islam --
jihad in the name of Allah -- these "fellow
travelers" are both enabling the problem and obstructing
its solution.
Sayfullo
Saipov shouted the Arabic phrase "Allahu Akbar" when he
exited the truck with which he murdered eight people and wounded
more than a dozen others, during his October 31 terrorist attack in
Manhattan. (Image source: Gh9449/Wikimedia Commons)
Within hours of the recent ISIS-inspired
truck-ramming attack in lower Manhattan -- which left eight
innocent people dead and more than a dozen others wounded -- much
of the media began to divert attention away from the plight of the
victims and focus instead on defending Islam. A common thread in
the coverage of the mass murder was an accompanying analysis of the
Arabic phrase "Allahu Akbar," which the terrorist,
Sayfullo Saipov, shouted when he exited his vehicle and continued
his rampage on foot.
The New York Times, for example, prefaced the
tweet of an article about the use of the phrase, by saying:
"'Allahu akbar' has somehow become inextricably intertwined
with terrorism. Its real meaning is far more innocent."
The Times, like Shariah law apologist and
Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour, played down the
definition of "Allahu Akbar," by insisting that it simply
means is "God is great."
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