Islamic APPEASEMENT is not an A-PLEASE-MENT for Security!
November 9, 2005
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Historically, when a country has a policy of APPEASEMENT toward a renegade belief or a rogue nation, it does not produce the condition of A-PLEASE-MENT to the extent they are satisfied permanently.
It will invariably lead to more and more appeasement to satisfy their lust for their cause.
They will never be fully satisfied until you appease them by submission to all their demands.
I have been amazed at the International news medias carefulness not to cast any dispersions against Islamic based populations, as if to call a spade a spade is some sort of horrible, politically incorrect, act against a belief that considers America to be the Big Devil and Israel the Little Devil. The efforts of the French leaders to relieve the Islamic belief of any possible responsibility in instigating or inflaming the long chain of riots, killings, and burnings in France is understandable – they do not want to make them so mad they will worsen – their cowardice toward standing against
the Islamic madmen in the Middle East is well known. The news media continuously refers to the trouble makers as a group of poor mistreated immigrants from Africa and the Middle East.
Since France controlled some of these countries before the breakup of the colonial empires, it was only natural that many of the Muslims would flee to France when the harsh Islamic Revolutionary leaders became their rulers after the French pulled out. It is almost as if they fear to call them Muslims, seemingly inferring that has absolutely nothing to do with the riots, and that the only way to stop the riots is for the French government to give in to
them by improving their standard of living by a massive effort, involving welfare and better everything for them on a silver platter. Please do not accuse me of believing that all Muslims are bad people, or that I have the old west attitude of the only good Muslim is a dead Muslim. But do believe I am persuaded the Islamic extremists are desperately trying to get all Muslims to believe and act as they do! So who are these rioting burners and destroyers of public property
?
They keep telling us they are poor mistreated immigrants from Africa and the Middle East, without identifying them as Muslims or Islamic in their proclamations.
So of what faith are these mistreated immigrants? Let’s take a look at the countries they came from, and the percent of the population in those countries that follow the Islamic faith!
Morocco (98.7%) – Algeria (99%) – Tunisia (99%) – Egypt (91%) – Syria (88%) – Libya (97%) – Lebanon (70%) – Iraq (97%) – Iran (99%) – Saudi Arabia (95.7%) – Sudan (65%) – Somalia (100%) – Comoros (99%) – Somaliland (100%)
There is no question that their economic conditions contributed to a large extent to the riots, but to believe that Islamic extremists would be as innocent as the driven snow in any involvement in this uprising is really an insult to their ability to take advantage of the situation.
I believe this article of November 7, extracted from the Jerusalem Post, is a fair and balanced analysis of the riots in France.
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The Paris Intifada
THE JERUSALEM POST
November 7, 2005
In the immediate aftermath of the September 11 attacks, the US media became preoccupied with a key question: “Why do they hate us so much?” A fair-minded people, the Americans believed there must be a good, rational explanation why 19 educated, economically comfortable young men would ram planes into buildings, killing themselves along with thousands of innocents.
Among the many reasons proffered, one that appeared frequently – and drew concern in Jerusalem – was that it was all due to US support for Israel. If the US would only toe a more pro-Arab, pro-Palestinian line, this argument ran, then the Arab and Muslim masses wouldn’t hate it so.
The events in Paris over the last 12 days have confirmed the vacuity of this argument.
Since the mid-1960s, France has consistently been among the most pro-Arab countries in western Europe.
Indeed, one can make a compelling argument that one reason French President Jacques Chirac was so opposed to the US war in Iraq was that he believed this would give France special status among the world’s Muslims.
France, unlike the US, cannot be accused of a pro-Israeli slant. Nevertheless, its Muslim youth are rioting in the banlieues of Paris. Though it is too early to dissect this ongoing French revolution, one thing that can already be said is th
at these rioters hate France – otherwise they wouldn’t be destroying its property and setting fire to its towns and suburbs.
And this hatred of France has nothing to do with Israel.
Why is this important to state
? Because for too long much of the West, with France at the vanguard, has tried to paper over its real conflict with radical Islam with the argument that if only a solution to the Israeli-Arab conflict could be found, then all would be well with the world and Islamic enmity would disappear.
Not so. The Muslim youth in France are not rioting as a sign of solidarity with their Palestinian or Iraqi brothers. They are rioting in large part because they feel discriminated against, alienated, and cut out of that great French “liberte, egalite, fraternite” pie.
The French would be wise to pay attention to the fact that
these flames of alienation are being fanned and leveraged for their own use by Islamic radicals who – as the homegrown London bombers proved in July – are thriving on the streets of Europe.
Parallels can be found with our reality. At one time the Arab-Israeli conflict looked predominantly like a territorial
one. Indeed, this thinking underpinned UN Security Council Resolution 242, which created the territories-for-peace rubric.
What was ignored was the religious and ideological component of the conflict.
It is not coincidental that the recent Palestinian paroxysm of violence here goes by the name of al-Aksa Intifada – and not, for instance, the Gaza intifada, or the West Bank intifada.
Naming the violence after the mosque on the Temple Mount, and not one or other of the disputed territories, underlines that religious component, a component that – with the help of Iran, Hizbullah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad – has made the conflict much more violent, volatile and intractable.
Land-for-peace, for the radical Islamic groups, has always been obsolete.
France – yes, ironically, France – has now awakened to find itself facing a similar dilemma.
The instinctive reaction in France to the rioting has been twofold: a pledge to restore security and to address the “causes” of the rioting: the deprivation, discrimination, alienation and rootlessness of the rampaging, largely Muslim, youth.
One cannot argue with either of these two points.
But French policy makers would be unwise to overlook the religious, ideological dimensions of the battle, and the way Islamic radicals preaching from the mosques and spewing out hatred via the Internet are able to prey on this disaffection and import a toxic ideology into France and the heart of Europe.
True, the current riots in France may be about rootlessness and alienation of minority youth, but they are not only about rootlessness and alienation.
Radical Islam is part of the mix as well, and the French will ignore that at their own peril.
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