Over the Weekend: Paris Demonstration Against Terrorism Attracts World Leaders
In case you missed it, the weekend found Paris hosting a big demonstration:
All well and good that political leaders and common Frenchmen rally, but the real question we might ask is whether anything has been or will be accomplished to reduce such attacks in the future. Which brings me to something else the esteemed Monsieur Hollande said shortly after the Muslim terrorists were killed by French security forces:
I'm not saying all Muslims are terrorists, and certainly understand any effort to avoid mob reaction to the recent killings. But if the purpose of Hollande's remark was to avoid irrational responses that might result in unjustifiable maiming or killing of innocent people simply because one believes they are Mulsims, why doesn't he just say that? Why does he feel compelled to opine on the beliefs or doctrines of "the Muslim Faith"?
Frankly, these lame attempts by political leaders to keep the mob under control won't work. In fact, I'm not even so sure they're concerned about acts of mob violence as much as they are about the growing "anti-Islam" and "anti-immigration" trend in Europe. Such trends directly reject the open borders policies these leaders have promoted for decades. And such policies could stand some rational and thorough critique. But we suspect our political leaders aren't interested in any of this seeing the light of day. Rather they will continue to reap the consequences of their ill-conceived policies and make believe that those who perpetrate them have nothing to do with either the immigrants, specifically the Muslim immigrants, that they have allowed to pour into their countries.
Of course, any reasonable person knows that it is those very immigrants, and specifically those Muslim immigrants, who have and will continue to murder innocent people. If anything, it's reasonable to suspect these recent killings are just the tip of the iceberg.
One assumes Netanyahu was particularly cited here because of the killings in the kosher deli, perceived, and probably rightfully so, as an "anti-Semitic' act. Remember the Muslims who perpetrated this most likely hate not only the Israeli government but Jews themselves, as their compatriots in Jihadism never cease to remind us.Paris braced for one of its biggest security challenges as it prepared to protect world leaders including Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu who’ll join a march today to mark France’s worst terror attack in more than half a century.
“Paris is the capital of the world today,” President Francois Hollande said as he received dignitaries from around the world at the Elysee Palace.
All well and good that political leaders and common Frenchmen rally, but the real question we might ask is whether anything has been or will be accomplished to reduce such attacks in the future. Which brings me to something else the esteemed Monsieur Hollande said shortly after the Muslim terrorists were killed by French security forces:
“Those fanatics have nothing in common with the rest of the Muslim faith.”I'm not sure what the French President knows about the "rest" of the Muslim "faith," but we might wonder what his point might be here. Clearly these were Muslims. And they base their actions on their understanding of Islam. Hollande's comments remind me of George W. Bush's comments after 9/11 that Islam is a "religion of peace." At the time, I wondered how he knew that, too. In light of events following 9/11, culminating with these latest attacks, do either of these comments make any sense?
I'm not saying all Muslims are terrorists, and certainly understand any effort to avoid mob reaction to the recent killings. But if the purpose of Hollande's remark was to avoid irrational responses that might result in unjustifiable maiming or killing of innocent people simply because one believes they are Mulsims, why doesn't he just say that? Why does he feel compelled to opine on the beliefs or doctrines of "the Muslim Faith"?
Frankly, these lame attempts by political leaders to keep the mob under control won't work. In fact, I'm not even so sure they're concerned about acts of mob violence as much as they are about the growing "anti-Islam" and "anti-immigration" trend in Europe. Such trends directly reject the open borders policies these leaders have promoted for decades. And such policies could stand some rational and thorough critique. But we suspect our political leaders aren't interested in any of this seeing the light of day. Rather they will continue to reap the consequences of their ill-conceived policies and make believe that those who perpetrate them have nothing to do with either the immigrants, specifically the Muslim immigrants, that they have allowed to pour into their countries.
Of course, any reasonable person knows that it is those very immigrants, and specifically those Muslim immigrants, who have and will continue to murder innocent people. If anything, it's reasonable to suspect these recent killings are just the tip of the iceberg.
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