As well as Paris, there was another terrorist attack on Sunday, this one taking place in Marawi in the Philippines. A Catholic Church, with people attending Mass, was the target of a bombing, which killed at least 4 and injured 50 others. Today Islamic State claimed responsibility. The attack caused barely a ripple in the MSN.
Another terrorist attack, again in Paris. One man dead, two injured. The assailant shouted 'alluh akbar' as he did his work. He was later apprehended, and explained he did what he did because he was upset by the deaths of Muslims in Palestine and Afghanistan.
What did you expect? When you allow scorpions into your home, it is inevitable they will bite you.
More pro-Palestinian marches in a number of cities across the country today, calling once more for a ceasefire. It seems they have failed to notice it was Hamas who broke the last ceasefire, although of course that is not really what they want is it? Their goals are altogether more baleful; they want to see the destruction of Israel, the annihilation of the Jews. They are barbarians.
Am Yisrael Chai.
The Israel – Hamas ceasefire ended this morning. Terrorists killed a couple of people in Jerusalem yesterday, and this morning Hamas launched missiles towards the Israeli city of Sderot. Not surprisingly, the way the media report such things, you would think it was Israel that broke the ceasefire. Such is the way at the moment.
Owen Jones (the Guardian journalist, described by Ed Balls as a second rate intellectual), has seen the Hamas videos of their slaughter of the innocents on the 7th October, and has produced his own video in which he casts doubt on the brutality inflicted on the victims. I have always thought of him as a pip squeak, but I much prefer a description I saw yesterday, in response to his video: shit weasel. He really is an odious individual.
Hamas still hold about 130 hostages, seized from Israel last month, and for the moment the cease fire is holding.
On October 7th, Hamas crossed the border into Israel and slaughtered 1400+ innocent civilians, children, babies, the elderly amongst them. Before Israel had even launched its response, Palestinian supporters were on the streets of cities around the world, celebrating Hamas' strike for freedom. Even as the video footage taken by the terrorists was published, and which showed the sickening depravity of the butchery, the pro-Palestinian marches continued. Their supporters try to justify the killings as a response to Israeli occupation, while others claim it was the Israeli's themselves who carried out the attacks.
Since the slaughter reports of antisemitism in this country have reached unprecedented levels. Massive demonstrations have taken place in London, with the crowds calling for jihad and the destruction of Israel. British Jews no longer feel safe on the streets of our capital. Week after week, the marches take place, and nothing is done in response to the hatred some of the protestors spew. And so they become more brazen.
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented
Elie Wiesel
Today we learn that a council in east London has scrapped plans to install a Chanukkah menorah for fear of “inflaming community tensions”. The Metropolitan police meanwhile warn the public to be vigilant before Christmas fearing a terrorist attack. So much for our lauded multi-cultural society.
The barbarians are amongst us, and given half a chance they will slaughter more innocents. For the sake of clarity, by they I mean Islamist Fundamentalists. Theirs is the only religion which is so profoundly violent that it seeks to destroy all non-believers. Whose supporters bully and cow their opponents and whose adherents think nothing of butchering innocent people.
The response of some (many) to the 7th October massacre in Middle Eastern countries was predictable. But to see the same reaction here in the UK has shocked me. I begin to see now parallels with 1930's Germany, and to be frank it is deeply worrying. Whatever else, we must maintain our support for the Jewish people of this country.
For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing
Simon Wiesenthal
When the teacher Samuel Paty was murdered in France, we were told he had brought it on himself. What did he expect, they said, showing those terribly insensitive cartoons? When the next attack occurred, this time in Nice, some commentators explained the act was un-Islamic, but France had to pay for the crimes of colonialism.
Now the attack in Vienna, and I am left to wonder what is it the Austrians have done to offend Islam? Perhaps they remain upset that the Austrian capital stood as a bulwark against the invading Ottomans in the 17th century, and prevented Europe being overrun?
Despite what the apologists might say there is of course no justification for this or any of the other earlier attacks. What we are seeing is an assault on European values, a war being waged against our society by groups of Islamists who are offended by our laws, our culture and our way of life.
The Islamists pose a greater long term threat to the stability of Europe than the coronavirus, and this assault on our society cannot be allowed to continue. President Macron is reported to have promised after Paty’s murder to crack down on Islamist extremism, including shutting down mosques and other organisations accused of fomenting radicalism and violence.
The nations of Europe should follow the President's lead and root out this evil.
4th November 2020
French citizens, having been butchered in Paris and Nice, the media is picking over arguments about what France has done wrong, how it has incited the violence we now see. I have though yet to see a single article questioning why adherents of Islam believe they are justified in butchering innocent citizens. Where is the article asking whether such a religion has a place in modern society?
France has a long history of secularism, going back to the post-Revolutionary period. The laws apply to all citizens, whatever their religious beliefs, so why should France be expected to make an exception for Islam? Why should they be expected to treat Islam with any more respect than they do Christianity? And if they make an exception for Islam on the subject of satirical cartoons, what comes next? Fundamentalist Islam treats women as second class citizens; will all women be required to walk behind their husband, for fear of upsetting the Islamic community?
If you want to believe in God, if you want to follow a particular religious doctrine, that is entirely your right, and that right should be protected. However, in a secular society, whether it is France or Britain, when the religious beliefs come into conflict with state laws, then the state laws must always take primacy. The right to freedom of speech is a basic tenet of a free society, and that includes the right to satirise and question any and all religions. If that means the publication of what you consider to be offensive cartoons, then so be it. After all it is that very same freedom that allows you to practise your religion in peace.
Vive la France.
1st November 2020
Two weeks after the murder of teacher Samuel Paty, three more people have been murdered in France. This time the attack took place at the Basilica of Notre-Dame in Nice. According to the BBC
One elderly victim who had come to pray was virtually beheaded
Despite reports that the murderer shouted 'Allahu Akbar' several times during the attack, the usual suspects are already lining up to argue that the act had nothing to do with Islam.
It is as if we have learnt nothing in the last 5 years. In 2015, following the attack on The Bataclan, some on social media were using the hashtag #terrorhasnoreligion, arguing that religion, and specifically Islam, had no bearing on the the actions of the terrorists. I didn't agree then and I don't agree now.
As I commented in 2015, the perpetrators of these terrible actions
Proselytise a barbaric, medieval interpretation of Islam, which they use to justify the murder and beheading of non-believers, the rape of women, the selling of young girls into slavery, the throwing of gay men from roof tops and the destruction of pre-Muhammaden culture.
They use religion to justify their actions and one cannot divorce their beliefs from those actions. The barbarity of Islamic fundamentalism is there for all to see, and unless we acknowledge the nature of the beast we cannot possibly formulate a suitable response to the threat posed.
Rather than offering sympathy and platitudes, it time for the governments of Western Europe to take meaningful action.
29th October 2020
We wake this morning to the news that a teacher has been murdered in France in what the French government has described as an Islamist terrorist attack.
According to the BBC report,
The victim is said to have shown controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad to his pupils.
The French President, Mr Macron said the as yet unnamed teacher was murdered because,
He taught freedom of expression.
A teacher murdered for discussing a subject his murderer objected to. On social media, the useful idiots are already making excuses, trying have us believe this has nothing to do with Islam, others agreeing that the teachers murder was awful, but by showing cartoons of the Prophet he brought it on himself.
I have in the past expressed the view that multi-culturalism is a failed experiment perpetrated on society. Mass immigration has simply allowed the import of religious intolerance and cultural beliefs that have no place in western society.
When will our leaders acknowledge their is a problem?
17th October 2020
Following the shooting in Las Vegas, in which at least 58 have died and over 500 injured, the debate on gun control is back on the agenda.
I have always taken the view that there will always be those who want to do harm to others; murder and random killing is sadly a part of the human condition, and there is little than can be done to stop it. What Government can control however, is the consequences. A man with a knife can kill a few people. A man with a military grade rifle can kill hundreds. Surely it is not that difficult to see that if access to guns is prevented, killings on the scale seen in Las Vegas could simply not happen?
Some are suggesting that gun control is pointless. After all drug control's have not worked. Despite the laws that exist drug addiction remains a problem and thousands die as a consequence. This is a ridiculous comparison. Unlike the man with the rifle, the man with a syringe will kill just one person, himself.
I write this as an Englishman looking in from the outside, wondering why after so many mass killings in the last few decades America does nothing to control the possession of guns. The Second Amendment was included in the American Constitution at a time when soldiers used muskets, when even the best trained might be able to fire 3 or 4 shots a minute. Now a citizen can easily get his hands on a rifle that can fire hundreds of rounds in seconds, and create complete carnage in the process.
Surely it is time for the laws on gun ownership to change to reflect the realities of the modern world?
4th October 2017