Miss Glick makes the case that Islamic murderers such as Major Nidal Hassan, Youssef Fofana, Naveed Haq and now Mohamed Merah are enabled by boorish Western intellectuals who claim that Islam is a Religion of Peace, refuse to identify the killers as Muslim, and the false narrative that Israel kills Palestinian children (actually Palestinians kill Palestinian and Israeli children).
by Caroline Glick
The massacre of Jewish children at the Ozar Hatorah Jewish day school in Toulouse presents us with an appalling encapsulation of the depraved nature of our times – although at first glance, the opposite seems to be the case.
On the surface, the situation was cut and dry. A murderer drove up to a Jewish school and executed three children and a teacher.
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But dig a little deeper and it becomes clear that justice has not been served.
Indeed, it hasn’t even begun to be addressed. The killer, Mohamed Merah, was not a lone gunman. He wasn’t even one of the lone jihadists we hear so much about.
He had plenty of accomplices. And not all of them were Muslims.
An analysis of the nature of his crime and the identity of his many accomplices must necessarily begin with a question. Why did Merah videotape his crime?
Why did take the trouble of strapping a video camera to his neck and filming himself chasing eight-year-old Miriam Monsonego through the school courtyard and shooting her three times in the head? Why did he document his execution of Rabbi Jonathan Sandler and his two little boys, three-year-old Gavriel and six-year-old Aryeh?
The first answer is because Merah took pride in killing Jewish children. Beyond that, he was certain that millions of people would be heartened by his crime. By watching him shoot the life out of Jewish children, they would be inspired to repeat his actions elsewhere.
And he was surely correct.
Millions of people have watched the 2002 video of Daniel Pearl being decapitated. Similar decapitation videos of Western hostages in Iraq and elsewhere have also become runaway Internet sensations.
Led by Youssef Fofana, the Muslim gang in France that kidnapped and tortured Ilan Halimi to death in 2006 also took pictures of their handiwork. Their photographs were clearly imitations of the photos that Pearl’s killers took of him before they chopped his head off.
The pride that jihadist murderers take in their crimes is not merely manifested in their camera work. US Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who massacred 13 US servicemen at Fort Hood in 2009, showed obvious pride in his dedication to jihad. Hassan gave a presentation to his colleagues justifying jihad. He carried business cards in which he identified himself as an “SOA,” a soldier of Allah.
Similarly, Naveed Haq, the American Muslim who carried out the attack at the Seattle Jewish Federation building in 2006, murdering one woman and wounding another five, bragged to his mother and friend about his crime in monitored telephone calls from jail. Haq boasted that he was “a jihadi” and that his victims deserved to die because they were “Israeli collaborators.”
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THIS SITUATION is bad enough on its own. But what make it truly dangerous are the West’s responses to it. Those responses together with the crimes themselves expose the depraved and perilous nature of our times. And they show that Merah’s death can bring no closure to this story.
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Ignoring and denying the openly expressed aims of jihadists like Merah is of course only part of the problem. The second aspect of the West’s effective collusion with these killers is Western elites’ justification of their crimes.
After initially pinning the blame for the Toulouse massacre on Nazis, when French authorities finally acknowledged Merah’s jihadist identity, they also provided his justification for murder. Speaking to reporters, French Interior Minister Claude Gueant gave us Merah’s name and his excuse at the same time.
Gueant told us that Merah was associated with al-Qaida and he was upset about what he referred to as Israel’s “murder” of Palestinian children.
It should be unnecessary to note the simple truth that Israel doesn’t murder Palestinian children. Palestinians murder Israeli children.
But then, if Merah got his news from the Western media there is a reasonable chance that he wouldn’t know that.
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IN ADDITION to denying, justifying and inciting jihadist violence, Western elites and authorities also engage in facilitating it and, after the fact, excusing it. In the case of Merah, although details are still unclear, it has been reported that he underwent jihadist training by al-Qaida in Afghanistan and was apprehended by Afghan authorities.
Despite his ties to al-Qaida, either US or French military authorities decided he should be sent back to France even though he clearly constituted a danger to French society.
Moreover, according to media reports, French authorities knew that he was dangerous and still failed to apprehend him. They had been informed that at least on one occasion, Merah sought to radicalize a 15-year-old Muslim boy. And yet, he was allowed to remain at large.
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Together, the behavior of proud jihadist warriors of the West like Merah, Hasan, Haq and Fofana, and the depraved silence, indifference and complicity of Western elites with their jihadist aims, form the physical and moral landscape of our time. And it is because of this evil mix of perpetrators and enablers that Merah’s death is not a victory of justice.
Read the rest: Mohamed Merah – Man of the West
Tags: Caroline Glick
The Left coddles Islamists.
@ Speranza:
This shows all the stories about Israel launching air strikes is BS. It’s to keep the Iranians looking the other way.
The Media are the Enemy. It really is that simple.
Sorry for the O/T, but it is important.
Dear Rep. Michael Turner, it’s called TREASON.
Meanwhile in other parts of the ooohmah, muslims will be muslims
Afghan soldier kills 2 U.K. troops on NATO base
So now we are compensating muzzies with sharia compliant blood money?
Rodan wrote:
I agree. Too much info out there about air strikes. Ummmm has anyone heard about the element of surprise???
Egypt working to prevent Iran attacks on Israeli targets, sources say
@ Speranza:
This has more to do with the Syria situation. The Muslim Brotherhood is fighting Iran and Hizb’Allah there. So they went after these cells because of their links to Iran. It wasn’t for Israel as opposed to a Muzzie turf fight.
@ Iron Fist:
Exactly, they must be treated as an enemy entity.
I believe muslims should be encouraged to settle their differences their way
Rodan wrote:
You are probably right. The fall of Mubarak has had negative consequences despite McCain’s foolish statements.
@ waldensianspirit:
Yup!
Iron Fist wrote:
Actually Palestinians also kill Palestinian children.
@ Speranza:
McCain is giving Obama cover from the Right. Him and his girlfriend on the side, Ms. Lindsey!
Rodan wrote:
McCain and his girlfriend Miss Graham actually are Manchurian Candidates.
doriangrey wrote:
Damn close to treason
@ doriangrey:
@ Nevergiveup:
That’s one of those so overtly outrageous things that it just might make it to The Daily Show, and therefore the mush-skulls.
Rodan wrote:
That’s just the nice multiculturalists we are
@ doriangrey:
@ Nevergiveup:
With applause from the Media!
@ Bumr50:
I don’t know. Stewart is an Obama cultist. He will not put his beloved Pharaoh in a negative light.
@ Speranza:
They do more damage to the Right simply by going on every MSM news show they can and, well, being themselves than the Democrats and the Left could ever hope to do on their own.
My grandparents get almost all of their news from such outlets, and so do all of their friends. So when they think “Republican circa 2012,” up pops a picture of McCain, Graham, or at best George Will.
They need to GO.
Rodan wrote:
Actually he is not.
@ Bumr50:
George Wiill is past his prime and past his time.
@ Speranza:
SO why does he still carry water for them?
Rodan wrote:
He actually makes fun of Obama quite often. Stewart is liberal but his audience is far more liberal then he is.
@ Speranza:
He does it a lot more in the area of foreign affairs. That’s why I’m hoping this gets some traction there.
Occasionally Jon Stewart and even Bill Maher go against the liberal grain.
@ Fred Derf:
They may break the mold occasionally, but will do nothing to destroy the Aura of Obama as god-king.
Rodan wrote:
They are too far in to ever get out even if they would want too.
By the way -- I am loving the Diary of Daedalus threads.
@ Fred Derf:
Charles is ranting about Stormfront and Nazis.
@ Rodan:
His Mossberg is his persuader
SCOTUS skeptical of idea that mandate is a tax
@ waldensianspirit:
It was never called a Tax.
Rodan wrote:
His favorite topics.
@ Fred Derf:
He probably has every book available on the Nazis.
@ Rodan:
Yes, actually it was. It has to be a tax, pretty much, for it to be Constitutional. That is a pretty big thing, if the Supremes are skeptical that it is a tax. I hope they throw the whole thing out, but they probably won’t. The Supreme Court tends to do things in measured steps. I could see them throwing out the mandate without totally invalidating the entire thing.
Rodan wrote:
He also watched the Military Channel religiously.
This will leave a mark:
So much for the poor, innocent boy. That’s felony assault. Looks like self-defense wins this one.
Iron Fist wrote:
That won’t get played up.
@ Iron Fist:
Yup! What the idiotic race baiters have accomplished is show Hispanics are expendable in the Left’s racial hierarchy. We are Brown when convenient and then White when it suits them. If the GOP was smart, which they are not, this could give them a opening in the Hispanic community.
New Thread.
@ Iron Fist:
I have not been able to figure out how this was a racial incident. Other than rev. al and jesse jerkson were getting a little bored.
Especially interested in how the Zimmerman was described in the media as a white hispanic, never heard that before. Nor the vigilante lynching obama and holder’s black panthers are attempting to sponsor.
Iron Fist wrote:
The real Trayvon Martin is starting to take shape and it’s far cry from the pic of the happy 12 year old we’ve been seeing for a month. Quite an accomplishment to have gold teeth and an armload of tats by the time your 17. Also, check out his Twitter nic.
@ citizen_q:
I think they’re trying to use race to get attention, and then switch it to a gun control issue.
@ Bumr50:
That’s as good an explanation as any. Like vultures they wait for some incident that could be twisted to their purpose.
citizen_q wrote:
Race hustlers are like that.
I’m dreaming of a white Hispanic
Just like the ones I used to know
Before las comunistas y Sandinistas
Made the “people of color” categories grow
I’m so tired of the racist panic
Irrelevant relics seek to induce
Don’t you wish that they’d finally get the news
They’re the only ones who care
Who’s black or white or puce?
Even the kid’s mother is looking to make a few bucks off of his death.
Mother Seeks Trayvon Martin Trademarks
@ 6 citizen_q: We are following the muslim rules in afghani. The lives of any muslim are highly valued when killed by a non muslim. The lives of non muslims killed in the battle have no value. The media supports it.
We should be teaching them how to value life correctly.
darkwords wrote:
Muslims don’t give a crap about human life otherwise they would not aspire to be “martyrs”.