Friday the 13th– The Attacks in Paris
Back on Friday, the thirteenth of June 2014, we wrote an essay entitled “Wars, and Rumors of Wars”. In that essay we indicated that we in the West are at war with radical Islam, for the simple reason that radical Islam is at war with us. Also in that essay, we took note of the fact that they know it, they say it, and we won’t, which is why they are at a distinct advantage- essentially arguing that if one cannot name their enemy, one cannot possibly defeat their enemy.
On the evening of Friday the 13th of November, 2015, Paris was attacked by an ISIS- backed cabal in six separate, albeit coordinated, incidents and the carnage was severe- one hundred twenty-nine dead, hundreds of others injured. Planned by one Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a 27-year-old Belgian national of Moroccan descent, these attacks answered, once and for all, questions concerning the wisdom of allowing Syrian refugees into Europe by the tens of thousands- something that Barack Obama has begun here in the United States.
Hand it to the French, who wasted no time in responding militarily, with an aerial attack on an ISIS stronghold in Raqqa, Syria, and with law enforcement as well, launching one hundred sixty raids, making twenty arrests and confiscating hundreds of weapons in the context of these raids. Some of the assailants were indeed supposed refugees, whose real intent was not to escape ISIS, but rather act as enemy combatants cowardly murdering innocent victims who were doing nothing more than eating at a restaurant, attending a concert in one venue and, along with French President François Hollande, attending a soccer match at a stadium in Paris. In other words, innocent people were only doing what westerners like to do on weekends, and thereby becoming sacrificial lambs at the hands of vicious radical Muslims…. that’s right…. radical Muslims.
Amazingly, not twenty-four hours had passed when the Democrat’s Presidential debate was taking place, and each of the Democrat candidates were falling over one another to avoid naming radical Islam as the culprit, thus following the same ridiculous reticence on the part of President Barack Obama, who would much rather hurl insults and admonitions at Christians, Republicans, Jews, Americans and Israelis, then publicly admit that ISIS (which he calls ISIL) and the horrific attacks they perpetrate is, at root, an extension of radical Islamic theology. More disturbingly, each of the three candidates, Hillary Clinton, Martin O’Malley and Bernie Sanders, agree with, and want to expand upon, a program that would import tens of thousands of Syrian refugees into this country, despite the fact that a plurality of these so-called refugees are, in fact, men between the ages of seventeen and forty years of age.
Setting aside the very real possibility that Obama (and Clinton and O’Malley and Sanders) and many of his Democrat allies in Congress are either naïve, or stupid, there can be, at long last, only one realistic conclusion that can be drawn from the advocacy of such suicidal policies, as well as the extreme reluctance on their part, to name radical Islam as the enemy of the West. That is to say, as much as we otherwise are loathe to do so, Obama and his cohorts want ISIS to win, and they want to import into the United States that which took place in Paris, Friday night.
As “Pogo” the possum once famously said, in Walt Kelly’s cartoon strip of the same name, when it comes to our feckless President who prefers to lead from behind, “We have met the enemy, and he is us…”
January 20, 2017 cannot arrive soon enough. God willing, may this country live to see that day.
-Drew Nickell, 16 November 2015
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