Wednesday, January 7, 2015
From: Gary L. Bauer
Special Report: Butchery In Paris
Radical Islamists have slaughtered Westerners again, this time in the offices of a satirical magazine in Paris, France. The magazine, called Charlie Hebdo, was attacked by heavily armed, black-hooded men, who reportedly yelled Islamist slogans as they killed 12 people (ten journalists and two police officers) and wounded 17 more.
The brutality of this attack cannot be understated. The jihadists not only called out journalists and cartoonists by name, in a clear attack on the freedom of expression that exists throughout the Western world, but now a disgusting video has emerged of a wounded police officer on the ground with his hands up being shot in the head.
Today’s attack in France follows a series of other radical Islamic incidents that took place before Christmas. In December, radical Islamists intentionally drove cars into crowds of shoppers in Dijon and Nantes. Police officers were attacked by a knife-wielding Islamist in Tours. Similar attacks have happened in Jerusalem. And this latest horror in Paris follows similarly inspired incidents in Canada and Australia.
Western cultural and political elites continue to push the myth that attacks like this by radical Islamists have nothing to do with Islam. No doubt before the day is over we will hear high government officials in the Obama Administration and in Europe make exactly that point. Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean (D) said this morning that he refuses to call the attackers Muslims.
The fact is that radical Islamism is growing in the Muslim world. It aims to establish a worldwide caliphate. The attack today will spur its growth among young Muslim men, not suppress it. How obscene that European governments and the Obama Administration continue bashing Israel while refusing to acknowledge the nature of the Islamic movement that wants us all dead.
I mentioned earlier the understandable attempt of a wounded police officer to surrender to these murderers. What is harder to explain is the daily surrender throughout the Western world, including here in the United States.
We vividly experienced this evil on the morning of 9/11. We saw it again in the carnage at Fort Hood and at the Boston Marathon bombing. Sadly, we will surely endure more of the murderous work of this death-worshipping cult in the months and years ahead.
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