Saturday, October 6, 2012
French Police Track Down Jihadist Cell
French police today arrested 11 young jihadist terrorists in raids across the country. In one arrest in the northern city of Strasbourg, three police were injured by gunfire and responded, killing a 23-year-old described as a delinquant who had served 2 years in prison for drug trafficking. He then turned to radical Islam. The other young Frenchmen, all under 30, also sought out radical Islam. Their first attack was a grenade thrown into a Jewish grocery in a Paris suburb on 19 September, the day that Muslin protests started against a film that showed the Prophet in what Muslims called blasphemous images. The French police traced the group because of DNA found on the grenade. France has the largest Muslim population in Europe and is actively engaged in hunting down and eliminating jihadist cells on French territory. You can imagine, dear readers, how delicate a balancing act this is, especially when you consider that France also has a large Jewish population and that this latest cell had compiled a list of Jewish organizations in Paris with the presumed intent of attacking them as well. You may recall that earlier this year a jihadist gunned down Jewish school children and a rabbi in the south of France. What must be most troubling for France is that the man who killed the Jewish children, as well as those arrested today, are all native-born French citizens with no history of traveling to the Middle East for terrorist training. These are homegrown French terrorists. One can point out Great Britain as having the same "homegrown" jihadist problem. We can only guess that the United States has similar active jihadist cells.
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ReplyDeleteI believe that the"chickens have come home to roast" for France finally. many people have contended that if or when the first European country tuns into an Islamic state it will/would be France. Their level of socialism, immigration laws, willingness to look the other way when warning signs are ever present has lead them to this point. Now its up to the "French people", not the French politicians to decide their faith. Do they want to be the European stepping stone for jihadist or do they want to be democratic in government and social liberals in their private lives - aka Libertarians. I would hope that when push comes to shove, and they must decide it will be on the side of democracy they fall. The French are a great people historically, there must still be some thing left in the blood. They need a strong conservative leader who understands their social needs.
The Jewish people all over the world (except in Israel, that could be gone soon in the blink of an eye) are under attack. The Obama administration has all but abandoned them. If the Jewish vote goes to Obama in any thing over 35% for Obama and 65% for Romney I'll be surprised and bewildered.
The English - I'm personally fearful of where the English are headed. The never have a government in power long enough to set up anything. It's always change. Four years of labor and then four years of conservative. back and forth, back and forth. Pick a road and walk it for a while. Give the people something to vote for or against.
The USA is not facing up to the growing problem of weak immigration laws and enforcement, but also protecting our border with Mexico. We have a very serious problem with not so much home grown jihadist but, trained jihadist just walking into Arizona, Texas, and New Mexico. But no one expects President Obama to do ANYTHING about it. So solution to our problem lies down the road with Romney I hope.
Your intuitiveness is right on again
Thank you for a good read
"How can we protect homeland security unless the government stops the invasion of illegal aliens"
ReplyDeletePhyllis Schlafly
Maybe this says better what I was trying to
The cells are everywhere and they all need to be put in cells.
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