The "hostage situations" are finis in France. Three of Islam's finest are dead along with 12, plus the policewoman plus four hostages..17 citoyens la republique. Good haul for Islam, great ratio, awful 72 hours for France.
These were attacks on France, Je Suis Charlie doesn't cut it. But neither would Nous Sommes Tous Francais. If the French were Americans on 9/11/01 and Americans are French today it is because we are all Westerners. These were attacks on the West, attacks upon Western Civilization. They were installments of the clash between the Western and Islamic civilizations that have been going on since 1095.
"Islam has bloody borders," Samuel Huntington wrote but in the modern age those borders are fuzzy as well as bloody. There are 5,000,000 Muslims in France, every one of them a border with Western Civilization; every one a potentially bloody border. Islam has bloody borders because Islam is a violent religion. The clashes between Islam and the West which have now lasted over 1,000 years will continue. They will continue until Islam undergoes reformation, as Christianity did. The West must attack Islam, must destroy this Islam.
I am not Charlie, I am not French; today, I am not American. All non-Muslims in France, in America, in Britain, Germany, Canada--we are all Westerners today. I am a Westerner.
These were attacks on France, Je Suis Charlie doesn't cut it. But neither would Nous Sommes Tous Francais. If the French were Americans on 9/11/01 and Americans are French today it is because we are all Westerners. These were attacks on the West, attacks upon Western Civilization. They were installments of the clash between the Western and Islamic civilizations that have been going on since 1095.
"Islam has bloody borders," Samuel Huntington wrote but in the modern age those borders are fuzzy as well as bloody. There are 5,000,000 Muslims in France, every one of them a border with Western Civilization; every one a potentially bloody border. Islam has bloody borders because Islam is a violent religion. The clashes between Islam and the West which have now lasted over 1,000 years will continue. They will continue until Islam undergoes reformation, as Christianity did. The West must attack Islam, must destroy this Islam.
I am not Charlie, I am not French; today, I am not American. All non-Muslims in France, in America, in Britain, Germany, Canada--we are all Westerners today. I am a Westerner.