Eventually, we know, a few will succeed.
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At the CBS Democratic Party debate on Saturday night, the Paris attacks dominated as a concern. However angry non-Muslims may feel about these attacks, they must not fall into ISIS’s trap by lashing out at all the Muslims in their community and making them feel marginalized. This is the idea of terrorism. This recurring, and seemingly automated Muslim reaction to these types of selected and sensationalized acts of extremism only takes us deeper into an ostentatious black hole, with no foreseeable ending or win game. Interestingly, she was frank in saying that the USA is working with the Kurds in northeast Syria, instead of using the name of an umbrella group (this US-YPG cooperation angers North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ally Turkey).
Since 9-11 we have abridged our civil rights, indeed our Constitutional rights-particularly of privacy and from warrantless search and seizure.
(ThyBlackMan.com) The instant news broke about the disgusting bloodbath in Paris, the predictable happened. At one point, a student tried to restrain a fellow protestor who was getting aggressive and seemed about to physically harass the photographer. I understand the impulse but doubt the efficacy. If they want to live in peace with fellow citizens in secular Western countries, they must abide by the principles of tolerance of the “other”, compromise, and peaceful co-existence with other religions. But striking at them does have its place.
This is relevant because Paris was obviously primarily an intelligence failure, and we can’t avoid the fact that most of the focus on intelligence recently has been about restraining the ability to collect data about the enemy rather than increasing those efforts.
For those who assert that closing our borders and engaging in racial profiling will work to secure France, that is certainly what is keeping my home in Kurdistan safe today, yet for how long, as homegrown radicals carried out the last bombing in Erbil earlier this year. It is a simple equation that can not be overlooked when privileging war over political solutions in the Middle East. Russian Federation recently, the United States in 2001, Spain in 2003, and Britain in 2005 have all been targeted. The Sunni extremists may rationalize that they are motivated by the corrupt Saudis or they may thank the Saudis for financial support. We can blame colonialism or seek the current violence’s origins in the Sunni Shiite split.
We can truly fool ourselves by believing that “they hate us for our freedom”.
This is a well meaning but, I believe, futile pursuit. Their religion is intolerance hatred for Peace.
An Israeli expert on radical Islam who was in Paris advising on the topic before and after Friday’s attacks in the city, told The Jerusalem Post that French officials were shocked and that security measures following the massacre were lacking. Its players revolted, refused to train, and ultimately were denounced as having shamed France at the very moment that their German soccer rivals captured the crown of successful European multiculturalism.
JOHN DICKERSON: Just to interrupt, he- he didn’t say all Muslims.
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Wahhabi refers to the variation of Islam practiced by the Saudi royal family and their followers. We Jews should know how unjust these generalizations are. “We will do whatever we can to help”. But I am going to say this loudly, clearly, boldly and unapologetically. Ann Coulter helpfully: “Think of all the wonderful things refugees are bringing to Europe!”.
