Has France begun to?
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This was sent to me by one of my closest friends and fellow memo readers. "Given events in Paris, this seems appropriate,especially since Obama wants to take in 10,000 refugees and Kerry wants another 85,000 Muslims."
MAKE THIS THE TEST: (See 1 and 1a below.)
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Which road?
Pam Geller writes : "The West Has Lost The Will To Live.". (See 2 below.)
Or
Adrienne Yaron's: "It Is Time To Take A Stand." (See 2a below.)
Will the Negev begin to look better than Paris and Europe? (See 2b below.)
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More Fatah cartoon propaganda. (See 3 below.)
Even Obama's underlings lie! (See 3a below.)
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And so iy goes! (See 4 below.)
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I leave for a Committee Meeting of GMOA which I chair in Athens and will send upon my return.
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DickWhich road?
Pam Geller writes : "The West Has Lost The Will To Live.". (See 2 below.)
Or
Adrienne Yaron's: "It Is Time To Take A Stand." (See 2a below.)
Will the Negev begin to look better than Paris and Europe? (See 2b below.)
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More Fatah cartoon propaganda. (See 3 below.)
Even Obama's underlings lie! (See 3a below.)
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And so iy goes! (See 4 below.)
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I leave for a Committee Meeting of GMOA which I chair in Athens and will send upon my return.
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---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1) Having earlier read "Infidel", I have just finished, and highly
recommend, Ayaan Hirsi Ali's book: "Heretic, Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now".
The book is a fountain of knowledge of the who and when of people and events
surrounding Islam and offers five "musts" for the future.
In my words, she asks for a reformation of changes which entail:
1) Stop calling Mohammad as the last and infallible word;
2) Stop looking to the afterlife instead of the here-and-now;
3) Stop treating sharia law as the comprehensive law of the land;
4) Stop ordinary Muslims from commanding right and forbidding wrong;
5) Stop using the concept of jihad, or holy war.
This lady, having lived her early life as a believing Muslim, found conversion to a western concept of life and lived under threat as an apostate first in the Netherlands and now in the U.S.,
I find her book incredibly articulate and should be read by all, from Obama to you to any Muslim
we allow to enter our country. It should be an evaluation test for entry.
1a) Europe’s Terrorist War at Home
1a) Europe’s Terrorist War at Home
Learn from Israel, end the open-borders policy, and dig in for a long war of ideas against Islamists.
French President François Hollande declared the Nov. 13 terrorist attack in Paris an “act of war” by Islamic State, and he was right, if belated, in recognizing that the jihadists have been at war with the West for years. Islamic State, or ISIS, is vowing more attacks in Europe, and so Europe itself—not just France—must get on a war footing, uniting to do whatever it takes militarily to destroy ISIS and its so-called caliphate in Syria and Iraq. Not “contain,” not “degrade”—destroy, period.
But even if ISIS is completely destroyed, Islamic extremism itself will not go away. If anything, the destruction of ISIS would increase the religious fervor of those within Europe who long for a caliphate.
European leaders must make some major political decisions, and perhaps France can lead the way. A shift in mentality is needed to avoid more terror attacks on an even bigger scale and the resulting civil strife. Islamic extremists will never succeed in turning Europe into a Muslim continent. What they may well do is provoke a civil war so that parts of Europe end up looking like the Balkans in the early 1990s.
Here are three steps that European leaders could take to eradicate the cancer of Islamic extremism from their midst.
First, learn from Israel, which has been dealing with Islamist terror from the day it was born and dealing with much more frequent threats to its citizens’ security. True, Islamic extremists inside Israel today resort to using knives and cars as their weapons of choice, but that is because attacks like those in Paris last week are now simply impossible for the terrorists to organize. Instead of demonizing Israel, bring their experienced, trained experts to Europe to develop a coherent counterterror strategy.
Second, dig in for a long battle of ideas. European leaders will have to address the infrastructure of indoctrination: mosques, Muslim schools, websites, publishing houses and proselytizing material (pamphlets, books, treatises, sermons) that serve as conveyor belts to violence. Islamic extremists target Muslim populations through dawa (persuasion), convincing them that their ends are legitimate before turning to the question of means.
European governments must do their own proselytizing in Muslim communities, promoting the superiority of liberal ideas. This means directly challenging the Islamic theology that is used by the Islamist predators to turn the heads and hearts of Muslims with the intent of converting them into enemies of their host countries.
Third, Europeans must design a new immigration policy that admits immigrants only if they are committed to adopt European values and to reject precisely the Islamist politics that makes them vulnerable to the siren song of the caliphate.
There are distinct weaknesses in Europe’s current immigration policy: It is too easy to gain citizenship without necessarily being loyal to national constitutions; it is too easy for outsiders to get into European Union countries with or without credible claims for asylum; and, thanks to the open-borders policy known as Schengen, it is too easy for foreigners, once they are in the EU, to travel freely from country to country. This state of affairs has been revealed as unsustainable by this year’s migrant flood into Europe.
Does this amount to “Fortress Europe,” with a new Iron Curtain to the east and a naval cordon sanitaire in the Mediterranean and the Adriatic? Yes. For no other strategy makes sense, given a threat like the one posed to Europe by Islamic extremism. And if Europe’s leaders persist, like German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in making a virtue of the openness of their borders, they will soon be chased out of office by populists better attuned to public feeling.
The trouble is that such people generally bring to the table other ideas beyond immigration control—not least the kind of fervent, illiberal nationalism that has torn Europe apart in the past.
To achieve all this, Europe would need to overhaul treaties, laws and policies—in other words, take steps that before the atrocities in Paris on Friday couldn’t even be discussed. Maybe this will be the watershed moment for Europe to rethink the path it has been traveling.
Ms. Hirsi Ali, a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and the American Enterprise Institute, is the author of “Heretic: The Case for a Muslim Reformation” (HarperCollins, 2015)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2)-THE WEST HAS LOST THE WILL TO LIVE
by PAMELA GELLER
2a)The most basic, primitive honor a nation owes to its dead is to fight to defend itself—to defeat the enemy and win. And yet the West won’t.
The West is hanging on by a thread and doesn’t even know it. We are living off the fumes of the accomplishments of our forefathers and those who fought and died in the cause of freedom and individual rights. But the thread is wearing thin. Time is just about running out.After the murderous jihad attacks in Paris comes the predictable Western response: not resolute self-defense, but weepy candlelight vigils, protestations of unity, and hashtags. After the jihad attacks in Garland, Texas, Chattanooga, the University of California Merced, and scores of arrests of American Muslims working for ISIS (the FBI has 900 ISIS-related investigations currently ongoing), our top priority should be to crush the enemy.Instead, we get pathos and pitiful memes. NBC reported: “Paris residents were using the hashtag #PorteOuverte — French for ‘open door’—on Twitter to offer safe haven to strangers stranded after a string of deadly attacks Friday night.” Everyone is congratulating himself over this hashtag. “Twitter users in other countries,” NBC added, “also began using the hashtag to share their delight that social media was being used for a good cause”—colossal stupidity.“Share their delight?” This delight is misplaced. I would expect nothing less than that Parisians should offer safe haven: just because savages are at war with us doesn’t mean that we should be less human.This hashtag is just the latest in an endless stream of manifestations of the sophomoric, embarrassing, preening self-indulgence that is endemic in our sick culture. It is reminiscent of “Boston Strong”: Really? How? After the Boston Marathon jihad bombings, the media and Boston elites refused to call the attack jihad. The Boston city government refused repeatedly to run our American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) counter-jihad ads, but run vicious Jew-hatred ads regularly. We are en route to the Supreme Court compelling Boston to run our ads. What’s strong about Boston? What stand did Boston take against jihad?Equally revolting is the Eiffel Tower peace symbol that is circulating around. Do the leftists think the ISIS jihadis will see this and lay down their arms? If the Christians and Yazidis in Syria make the peace sign, will all be well? If the kidnapped schoolgirls—now sex slaves—make the peace sign, will they be freed? Such idiocy is an affront to every freedom-loving human being.The endless patting ourselves on the back that citizens of Western countries engage in after a mass slaughter by jihadists is disgusting. People are crowing about hashtags and blood donations as if this is somehow new. Of course we care. We always care. That is our value system, that is a Western value. The United States of America is the most charitable nation on earth. That is who we are—although when Obama speaks about universal values, G-d only knows which ones he is talking about: those of the West or those of Sharia.What no one is talking about is taking on these savages. That is what is so morally depraved about our response. The idea that we’re not allowed to take the appropriate measures to defeat the Islamic State is obscene. The idea that the United States of America cannot defeat the Islamic State or al-Qaeda is absurd, and the whole world knows it. But we choose not to use our strength. We choose to be victims. It’s shameful.And clearly, since everybody knows that we are not physically weak, where is the basic dignity that any nation should have, to stand up for its own values? If nothing else, when we find ourselves involved in a war, we should fight it and finish it. You either win or you will be defeated.Obama has aligned with the jihad force. In Syria, Egypt and Libya, and worst of all, now Iraq. He has blood on his hands. He has the blood of hundreds of thousands of Christians, the blood of our soldiers. By abandoning Iraq, he takes on his hands the death of every soldier who gave life and limb in Iraq to defend this country. Whether you agreed with the Iraq war or not, we did it. We went in and asked the native population to help us. You cannot just withdraw and abandon those people.Is it proper for us to defend ourselves and to take the appropriate action to defend this country? Of course. One of Obama’s historic crimes is that he allowed our superiority to deteriorate. But that doesn’t mean our enemies have disappeared, or that we cannot or should not defend ourselves against them. Just hours after Obama insisted that he had contained the “Junior Varsity team” ISIS, they laid siege to Paris. And this goes unchallenged.When Muslims attack, the left attacks us. MSNBC, the Guardian, and Salon all ran pieces blaming the “right-wing” for the Paris attacks. Outrageous, but not surprising. The enemedia is aligned with the jihad force. As the jihad heats up in the West, the media is becoming more clumsy and desperate in its attempts to deflect attention away from the jihad and back to its favorite bogeyman, “right-wing extremists.” Now, even when the evidence of Islamic jihad responsibility is everywhere, as it is with the Paris attacks, “journalists” still find ways to put the blame on the “right-wing” that they hate far more than they do bloodthirsty jihadis, whom they don’t dislike at all.If you have an ounce of self-esteem, when someone comes at you with a gun, you answer with force. If he is out to destroy you, you owe it to yourself to defend yourself. We need to understand that the left is as dangerous, if not more so, than the suicide bomber, for obscuring this basic fact—because leftists have the legitimacy of the mainstream, the imprimatur of respectability, and they wield this spurious legitimacy like a club to destroy all opposition to their totalitarianism.We need to go to war against the left. We have to get that into our heads. We have to accept that terrible reality. They want to destroy our freedom. They want to destroy our country. They want to steal our children. That’s war. There is no one on the right who has the correct philosophy about this. The left demands the right to lie, and they are lying to the American people on a massive scale, even to the extent of making people think there is something wrong with loving and defending our nation.The idea that the Paris attacks happened on the eve of a global conference not on the gravest threat to freedom, not on the global jihad, but on climate change, speaks to how unreal and sick we are as rational beings. Even worse, as if that weren’t bad enough, you have a presidential candidate saying that climate change is responsible for terrorism. And the very serious talking heads in the mainstream media are reporting this with a straight face.The fact is, global jihadists, whether they’re ISIS or al-Qaeda or Hamas or Hezbollah, are monstrous aggressors. We don’t have to wait for the first sign that they are attacking; they have declared war against us. They must be destroyed. We can’t complain about what we should or shouldn’t be doing, we have to correct it. This idea of containment, as Obama claimed the other day to have “contained” ISIS, is absurd—an intermediate state.There is no intermediate state. It’s either/or. This is war. We have to fight it.
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| Dear World: The attack on Paris was not some inexplicable "tragedy" that we need to "grieve." This was a purposeful, despicable act of violence in the name of religion that all good people must forcefully condemn. Holding hands and singing songs and lighting buildings in pretty colors may make us feel warm and fuzzy for a moment but it will not solve the problem. Failing to confront this evil will only make it worse, as it has done steadily since 9/11. For too long, the world has avoided facing this problem. But we cannot avoid it forever. At some point, we must collectively take a stand. Imagine, if you will, that on December 7, 1941, F.D.R. had said: “America condemns this act. We stand in solidarity with the people of Hawaii.” And then went back to planning the White House Christmas Party. And what if Lincoln had not gone to war? What if he had simply allowed the South to secede, what would America look like today? Yes, good people love peace. We long for peace. But peace does not come of its own accord. Peace comes when good people defeat those who use violence to impose their will on the peaceful. We must stop reacting with shock and sadness and sympathy to every vicious and gruesome terror attack. We must begin strengthening our resolve, and rising up defiance. We must make “never again” mean something, in our time. The time has come to stop talking and start acting, and to demand results from our leaders. 152 years ago this week, Abraham Lincoln said this:
“It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” (Gettysburg, November 19, 1863).
These words are just as true, and just as critical for us to hear today as they were then. Lincoln's fight was against slavery, and to reunite America under our constitution which enshrines freedom, democracy and justice as inalienable rights. Today, we have a new fight on behalf of freedom, and against those that would oppress us and others. At every point in history, in every generation, when a dictator or a dictatorial ideology rises up against freedom and all those who love it, we must stand fast against them. We must join together and fight to defend our rights, our way of life, and all those things we believe to be good and decent in the world. Or we will lose it all
2b) We are all Israelis now
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Europe now finally has its very own 9/11. To be sure, Friday’s multiple attacks in Paris, killing nearly 150 people and severely wounding another 200, was not Europe’s first brush with the barbarism of radical Islam. There was the train explosion in Madrid, the Tube bombing in London, the machine gunfire on a free speech event and a local synagogue in Copenhagen, the murders at the Jewish Museum in Belgium, the Jewish day school in Toulouse and, of course, at the offices of Charlie Hebdo and the kosher market in Paris.
Still in shock, the French may awaken to a very different reality in an agonizing fight to preserve their once cherished way of life. No longer are the victims limited to audacious cartoonists and innocent Jews. Parisians now know that it may be deadly to attend a soccer match, a rock concert, or even to dine in a restaurant. When French restaurants are off limits, terrorism is on the brink of victory.
Welcome to Israel, western world. Now get ready to implement some serious post-9/11 strategies for your national survival.
For anyone keeping score, this was inevitable. After all, a caliphate has but one purpose: to spread. Murderous rhetoric was casually dismissed as idle trash talk. When world leaders speak openly of wiping other countries from the map, or when a bloodthirsty wannabe state boasts that its flag will be flown outside the White House, it’s time to dispense with all that jazz-jive about JV teams.
Earth to Europe, start facing the new reality of your continent: Hundreds of people were murdered and maimed in France simply because they aren’t Muslims, because they believe in personal freedom and religious tolerance, because they want to live in a world where homosexuals possess human rights, where journalists can report on the world with their heads securely attached to their necks and where women who may wish to divorce their husbands, learn to read, or drive a car, won’t lose a limb or be stoned to death.
Those are the crimes ISIS believed its European victims had committed. It’s the lunacy they live by. It’s also the reason why, judging from its relative silence, so many Muslims tacitly accept the cult of death that has engulfed the Islamic world. Far too many believe that apostates and those who mock Muhammad deserve to die. And yet not nearly enough westerners have come to realize that a caliphate blanketing the world is the end of civilization as we know it.
If reform doesn’t come to Islam soon, this “religion of peace” is going to be known for one thing only: blowing innocent people to pieces. These killings in France took place just days after the 77th-anniversary of Kristallnacht. The events of this past November 12th, however, may one day come to be remembered as the Night of the Broken Continent.
Europeans are now getting more than just a glimpse of what it means to be an Israeli in the Middle East. The Muslims of Europe have shown little interest in being good neighbors or grateful citizens. Some are hoping for regime change, a continental sweeping away of democracies to be replaced by one vast theocracy, the rule of law forsaken in favor of Sharia and its corrosive effect on human freedom and dignity.
Hundreds of millions of Muslims believe in an Islam that is fundamentally incompatible with liberal ideals and values. The sooner the western world internalizes this truth — speaking of it openly and honestly — the sooner it can save its democratic societies and protect its terrorized citizens.
France, which has the largest Muslim population in Europe, will painfully have to undertake the most drastic changes. The nation that has long extolled its liberté may have to explore democracy, Israeli-style, with a security fence barricading “no-go zones,’ or adopt the intrusive CCTV cameras of Britain, or even employ the concessions on civil liberties — warrantless surveillances and Patriot Act protections — that were made in America.
One storyline back in January after the kosher market tragedy was the number of French Jews who were likely to abandon Europe and decamp to Israel — not only because France was becoming unsafe for Jews, but because Israeli society was the most experienced in the world in dealing with the scourge of Islamic extremism. Israel was the canary in the coal mine of radical Islam, a nation fighting to retain its democratic ideals while also taking occasional liberties with its liberty. Now the French, no less prideful of its culture and its contribution to European society, will be wrestling with these very same set of contradictions.
France will have to undertake its own soul searching. If it chooses not to, it won’t be simply the Jews of France looking to make aliyah to Israel. All of Europe may decide that the Negev looks better than the dimming streets in the City of Lights.
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Fatah cartoons: Israel behind Paris terror attacks
that killed 129
[Official Facebook page of the Fatah Movement, Nov. 16, 2015]
by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
Today, Fatah posted two cartoons that reiterate the Palestinian libel that Israel is behind the Paris terror attacks that killed at least 129 people. One cartoon (above) shows Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with an ISIS terrorist near the Eiffel Tower. Netanyahu is pictured helping the ISIS terrorist aim his machine gun. The other cartoon shows two matches in a matchbox labeled "Terrorism." The head of one match is shaped as an ISIS terrorist and the head of the second match is an orthodox Jew [Official Facebook page of the Fatah Movement, Nov. 16, 2015]
Palestinian Media Watch exposed yesterday that an op-ed in the official PA daily said that Israel's secret intelligence agency, the Mossad, was behind the attacks, and other PA - Fatah statements compared Israel to the Islamic State terror organization.
The PA and Fatah repeatedly compare Israel to ISIS, inventing a parallel between "the Jewish State" and "the Islamic State." The accusations that Israel and the US are behind ISIS terror attacksand benefit from them has also been voiced before.
Click to view other examples of PA conspiracy theories.
In the wake of Friday’s horrific terror attacks in Paris, Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes was dispatched to the Sunday morning talk shows to spin his boss’ claim the previous day that the ISIS threat had been “contained.”
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