UPDATE FROM FRANCE FROM NIDRA POLLER….SEE NOTE PLEASE
My dear friend Nidra is a respected French journalist, commentator and novelist and has sent updates and commentary and reporting from France….in the belly of the terrorist beast….rsk
From MEMRI, our goldmine of information, ample details about the social media production of Adel Kermiche. I have seen none of this information in French media. Kermiche used various noms de plume, including Abu Jayyed, for his accounts. Since June, the real Abu Jayyed has been running a program called “Jihad from A to Z” on the Telegram channel. It’s on the model of advice to the lovelorn…but aimed at the jihad fighter seeking clarification, for example, of the rules of combat. Well, our real Abu Jayyed recently announced that he was giving classes at the St. Etienne du Rouvray mosque!
Did you even think to wonder who is the St. Etienne of the sorrowful Normandy church? I just learned, from Edouard Tertreau in le Figaro, that Saint Etienne (Stefanos or Stephen), who was Jewish, is the first Christian martyr. I can’t find his Hebrew name. [http://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/politique/2016/07/27/31001-20160727ARTFIG00272-face-aux-mecreantsde-daech-l-heure-du-devoir-pour-l-islam-de-france.php
According to l’Annuaire chrétien, [http://www.annuairechretien.com/etudes/0217-etienne-le-premier-martyre.php] St. Etienne is known for his vigorous efforts to prevent the backsliding of early Christians into Judaism. “He announced the end of the ‘old alliance,’ insisting on the difference between Judaism and Christianity, making impossible all compromising between the church and the synagogue.” So here we are, in a Normandy town with 2000 years of history in our hands!
And speaking of shameful compromising, here’s another admirer of Marion Maréchal Le Pen, la petite chérie of her grandfather who was, among other compromissions, a close friend of Saddam Hussein. The article ends with the bit about the killers “giving a sermon at the altar” before slaughtering the priest. Could Ruthfully Yours be the only English-language outlet that says they took an oath? Oath, as in oath to the caliphate? http://www.meforum.org/blog/2016/07/france-lepen-we-must-kill-islamism .
DEBATE
The government pursues its rear guard combat against the Opposition. But PM Valls did finally concede that it was a mistake to let Adel Kermiche out on parole. If the Le Pens, Aunt & Niece, were the only ones identifying the enemy and calling for résistance, I suppose the president and his allies would direct all their rebuttals against the Front National.
On the contrary. The report of the bipartisan Parliamentary Commission investigating the November 13th massacre was made public just before the Nice attack. It concludes with concrete proposals for improved security. Dismissed with hardly a blink by the Prime Minister and Interior Minister at the time, the proposals are snapping back with renewed punch today.
Nicolas Sarkozy, president of the parliamentary opposition (Les Républicains) outlined his vision in a full page interview with le Monde, July 28, 2016
Calling for a change in the “dimension” of the response to Islamist terrorism, President Sarkozy touches on a series of issues. Known security risks: The public deserves to know exactly how the jihadists slipped through the cracks of the judicial system and committed their crime. The Opposition has repeatedly asked for strict measures against anyone that goes or attempts to go to wage jihad; they should be in prison and eventually released into deradicalization centers. The most dangerous security risks should be placed in administrative detention. If you are serious about fighting a war you take away the liberty of those who want to attack our country. Asked why the Opposition did not respect the mourning period before stoking controversy, Nicolas Sarkozy replied that asking questions and proposing to improve national security it is not stoking controversy. Parliament finally acted on a repeated demand of the Opposition for penalization of the incessant consultation of jihadist sites. So much is left to be done. And quickly. Foreigners who are security risks should be deported.
The Left is stunned by this new level of savagery, says Sarkozy, and cannot adapt measures to deal with it. He does not claim he could guarantee zero risk if he were president; he asks for “zero tolerance.”
Q. Do you agree with your colleague MP George Fenech [president of the aforementioned Parliamentary Commission] who calls for a French version of Guantanamo?
A. We can’t just flag security risks and then leave them free to attack. The situation is exceptional and will be lasting. We cannot deal with it without changing our approach. French and European legal guidelines must be adapted. This does not jeopardize the rule of law. Any person charged with terrorist intentions and/or activities should remain in preventive detention.
Q. Doesn’t that violate the presumption of innocence?
A: “Our system should give greater protection to potential victims than to probable perpetrators of the next attack.” We consider it is already criminal to be in regular contact with jihadists.
The rest of the interview is focused on claims, from the Hollande government among others, that Nicolas Sarkozy actually weakened the security apparatus during his term in office (2007-12). Rejecting the charges, he calls for the creation of a comprehensive ministry of internal security (i.e. Homeland Security).
The Front National, from leaders to rank & file, will dismiss this and similar proposals out of hand: for thirty years both major parties, they delight is saying, have been dragging us into the valley of death. Enough! Yes, but it’s easy for the Front National to say both parties are flops: it has virtually no experience in government. The FN is a skeletal party with a few highly visible pros and a loose knit tissue of amateurs.
And it is comfortable, from the outside, to dismiss Europe in general and France in particular. Is our way of grappling with the issues irrelevant to, for example, the United States? We are not dealing with the same configuration, but we have the same enemy and no decisive victories so far.
I am not a bleeding heart but I am a soft-hearted multi-patriot, animated by affectionate loyalty to the land of my birth, the USA, the country in which I live, France, the nation of my people, Israel, and, probably the Mittleuropa of my family’s origins. This explains the infinite patience with which I seek to understand and articulate muddy issues that look like they’d best be dumped down the drain.
How does a modern developed democratic society built on comfort and pleasure learn to defend itself against jihad conquest, a retrograde, vicious, stupidly stubborn war imposed on the home territory?
Soft voices of “moderation” swear allegiance to the supreme value of vivre ensemble, getting along together, harmony, unity in diversity. As if we, the appointed victims, were guilty of endangering the fragile vessel of a noble society. Hundreds are atrociously murdered, and we are cautioned not to react with hatred, not to point fingers, seek scapegoats, regress to disgraceful practices of dark periods in contemporary history. Now, more than ever, they whisper, we must engage in dialogue. Open our hearts to the Other. Jealously preserve the rule of law. At the end of this slippery slope, Guantanamo, not Daesh is the enemy of liberty! It is incumbent on us to ensure that this does not degenerate into religious war. Incumbent on us! On me?
Above and beyond statements and proposals by political figures, experts, and upstanding humane integrated French imams, two enormous obstacles stand in the way of our survival: the genocidal hatred intrinsic to Islam, and the difficulties of transitioning from a criminal to a military concept of defense against jihad.
“Moderate” Islam is still hiding behind its good intentions… or shame…or deceit. It makes no sense to condemn atrocities, hold hands with a rabbi and a priest, and reiterate the noble precepts of the “real” Islam, blaming “radicalization” on “Google imams.” Genocidal hatred is scriptural, it is anchored in the heart of Islam and if it not extirpated there, no one can prevent it from seething in myriad hearts and minds and wreaking havoc all over the world. Muslims, we are told, are (numerically) the major victims of “radical” Islam. Muslims, I respond, can be individually free of the genocidal hatred of Islam but collectively they are enslaved. If the aim is to conserve harmony between religions then a radical reform of Islam in France is indispensable. Jean-François Copé expressed today (BFM TV) an oft-repeated demand for a Concordat, comparable to the accord concluded between Napoleon and the Beth Din. Setting aside the negative long term effects that has had on Judaism in France, one could argue that it would be worth a try for Islam in these times of bloody murder.
An honest avowal of the scriptural basis for genocidal hatred goes hand in hand with a transition from the criminal to the military treatment of jihadists. The Hollande government, with its back to the wall, stamps its feet and promises to never never never rescind the rule of law. We will not have a Guantanamo, we will not deprive people of their liberty on the basis of suspicion. This would be a victory for Daesh. Yes, they argue, Daesh wants to destroy our democracy just to show we’re not good enough to respect it. No, Daesh is one of the multiform agents determined to destroy our democracy and replace it with sharia law in a universal caliphate. There is a difference between war and crime. People do get away with murder because you can’t lock up every psychopath with homicide in his heart, every jilted husband who might want to murder his children and their mother, every thief who would kill a grandmother to get her savings, every desperate housewife who might drown her children. In war, you take prisoners en masse, not one by one. Guantanamo, if you remember, was established to detain non-uniformed combatants not covered by the Geneva Convention. If you really mean this is a war and we must win it, you don’t put Salah Abdeslam in jail like a bank robber.
Look at a video produced by the likes of Adel Kermiche. And lock him up! Not on suspicion of murder but on solid evidence of genocidal intent.
The task is overwhelming: a vast re-allocation of resources, reorganization of security, military, and police services and, first and foremost, a change in mentality, in worldview, in vision.
I will not put in writing my intuition about the next large-scale attack planned for France. But I know it will be so terrible, it will tip the scales. The transition is inevitable. The population will accept nothing less.
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