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The Patriot Post Digest 3-28-2016
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Even more infuriating, it has been for some time. There have been at least five terrorist attacks linked19 to Molenbeek, including the assassination of anti-Taliban leader Ahmad Shah Massoud in 2001, the Madrid train bombings in 2004, the 2014 attack on the Jewish Museum in Brussels, the 2015 attack on the Kosher grocery in Paris following the Charlie Hebdo atrocity, and the 2015 Paris train attack thwarted by three Americans.
Yet Molenbeek is hardly an anomaly. Neighborhoods such as Ca n'Anglada in Barcelona, Spain, Marxloh and Neukölln in Germany, Seine-Saint-Denis and Clichy-sous-Bois in France and several enclaves in Britain are also afflicted by unassimilated Muslim ghettos. Communities best described — despite the predictable uproar from progressive denialists — as “no-go” zones. No-go zones where these unassimilated minority communities operate their own “justice” systems. Places where honor killings, domestic violence, sexual abuse of children and female genital mutilations occur without being reported to police.
Neighborhoods and enclaves that breed radical Islamic terror.
Brussels itself currently has a Muslim population of 300,000, and sociologist Felice Dassetto predicts20 they will comprise the majority of the city’s population by 2030. In 2012, two Muslim politicians won municipal elections based20 on campaign vows to implement Sharia law in Belgium. More than 500 jihadists from that nation, mostly Belgian nationals, are fighting21 for the Islamic State, 16% of Belgian Muslims believe terror is justified, and a whopping 65% support the imposition of Sharia law22.
And again, Belgium itself is not a statistical anomaly. Support23 for Sharia law in Austria, France, Germany, Holland and Sweden averages the same 65%, and 30-40% of British Muslims feel the same way.
The result? “ISIS organizers are simply plugging into standing extremist communities,” explains24 Heritage Foundation Vice President James Jay Carafano. “These networks are popping up all over the world … [but] by far the most concerning networks right now are in Western Europe.”
Frontpage Magazine’s Daniel Greenfield observes, Molenbeek is “just 12 minutes away from the European Parliament, 15 minutes away from the European Commission, 23 minutes away from NATO HQ and 22 minutes away from Brussels Airport,” meaning that “ISIS doesn’t have to invade Brussels. It just has to take a short drive.”
Such daunting reality prompts an essential question asked25 by American Enterprise Institute’s Gary J. Schmitt:
“Is this the new normal?”
That depends on whether one is referring to the EU’s feckless elites, who remain committed to open borders and mass immigration, or the EU people themselves, some of whom are voting in elections to reject such insanity.
Unsurprisingly, the EU’s ruling elites and their media enablers are “shocked” and “alarmed” by this turn of events. Those would be the same ruling elites who, much like their American counterparts, are wholly removed and/or protected from the possibly deadly results of their interminable infatuation with open borders and uncontrolled immigration.
Unfortunately, such societally suicidal nostrums are embraced by the Islamic State, which has trained 400 fighters to attack the EU in “waves.” That announcement occurred the same day it was revealed26 Belgian intelligence and security forces “had advance and precise intelligence warnings” regarding the airport and subway attacks. One day later, we learned that Belgian police spent27 only one hour over four days interrogating Abdeslam, because the terror mastermind had been shot in the leg during his capture and was “too tired” to talk following an operation on it.
“There is no way to sugarcoat it: the European continent, long considered one of the most prosperous, safe and multicultural regions of the world, is effectively a battlefield in the war against international terrorism,” writes28 the National Interest’s Daniel R. DePetris. Islamic international terrorism, Mr. DePetris. Terrorism that will be aided and abetted by allies in the EU’s parallel societies.
On a final note, Secretary of State John Kerry hypothesizes that the Islamic State “is resorting to actions outside the Middle East [because] its fantasy of a caliphate is collapsing before their [sic] eyes. Its territory is shrinking, its leaders are decimated, its revenue sources are dwindling, and its fighters are fleeing.” Dead wrong. The Islamic State isn’t attacking worldwide because the policies of Barack Obama and European leaders have been so successful, but because the West has been so utterly unable to deal with — or even identify — the real threat.
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OPINION IN BRIEF
Peggy Noonan: “When I think of the future I find myself going back to what I freely admit is a child’s math, a simple 10% rule. There are said to be 1.6 billion Muslims in the world. Most are and have been peaceful and peaceable, living their lives and, especially in America, taking an admirable role in the life of the nation. But this is a tense, fraught moment within the world of Islam, marked by disagreements on what Islam is and what its texts mean. With that context, the child’s math: Let’s say only 10% of the 1.6 billion harbor feelings of grievance toward ‘the West,’ or desire to expunge the infidel, or hope to re-establish the caliphate. That 10% is 160 million people. Let’s say of that group only 10% would be inclined toward jihad. That’s 16 million. Assume that of that group only 10% really means it — would really become jihadis or give them aid and sustenance. That’s 1.6 million. That is a lot of ferociousness in an age of increasingly available weapons, including the chemical, biological and nuclear sort. My math tells me it will be a long, hard fight. We will not be able to contain them, we will have to beat them. We must absorb that central fact, as Ronald Reagan once did with a different threat. Asked by his new national security adviser to state his exact strategic goals vis-à-vis the Soviet Union, Reagan: ‘We win, they lose.’ That’s where we are now. The ‘they’ is radical Islamic jihadism.”
SHORT CUTS
The Gipper: “Our friends in the other party will never forgive us for our success, and are doing everything in their power to rewrite history.”
For the record: “It’s rich seeing Obama attacking me when he just got back from going to a baseball game with the Castros… As the president noted, yes, my father was in prison and tortured in Cuba. So was my aunt. She was imprisoned and tortured by Castro’s goons in Cuba. … Obama and Hillary seemed more mad at me than they are at ISIS, than they are the terrorists who are murdering us.” —Ted Cruz
A broken clock is right twice a day: “As of 2015, the United Nations [Human] Rights Council had issued more official condemnations of Israel than the rest of the world’s nations combined. I wonder now that Europe has been attacked four times, I think, now in a little over a year … [if] maybe Europe will have a little more sympathy for what Israel goes through.” —Bill Maher
Village Idiots: “Everywhere I go, every leader I meet, they ask about what is happening in America. They cannot believe [what Republicans are saying about Muslims]. I think it is fair to say that they’re shocked. … Some of the questions, the way they’re posed to me, it’s clear to me that what’s happening is an embarrassment to our country.” —John Kerry
The BIG Lie: “The greater majority of domestic terrorist attacks are not by Muslims at all. They’re by people like Timothy McVeigh. And so, you know, we got to understand terrorism as a generalized threat, various ideologies that drive it.” —Rep. Keith Ellison
Last-night humor: “The State Department is having to hire more staffers to review all of the requests that are being filed for Hillary Clinton’s emails. Or as Hillary put it, ‘See, I’m creating jobs already. I told you!’” —Jimmy Fallon
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