Liam Duffy |
When Charlie Hebdo was struck in 2015, France was defiant. When blood soaked the floors of the Bataclan later that year, France despaired. Now, after seeing a schoolteacher assassinated for simply doing his job, for doing what the Republic asked of him, France is furious.
For France, the time of hashtag solidarity and “Don’t Look Back in Anger” has passed. After years of terrible bloodshed on its streets, the usual lines and excuses are well worn out among French audiences. Now, France is clearly staking out its position: that the jihadist terror they’ve endured — more than any country in Europe — is a product of the growth of Islamist ideology inside its own borders, and the cultural chasm it creates.
In a speech to honour the slain schoolteacher, the French President himself could barely hold back his emotions, while in private he is said to be ready for a “fight to the death” with Islamists. His interior minister has denounced “Islamist barbarism” and said it’s time for Islamists to feel the fear and shock of France’s actions, not the other way around. The public, too, wants real action.
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France is fignting Islamist fascism but the religion of Islam. It is time that scared liberals in the Anglophone world understood the distinction aand gives France the whole-hearted support it deserves. For whwrever fascism appears it must be defeated.
ReplyDeleteBarry,
ReplyDeletePlease, please, please use spellcheck. That first sentence sounds almost like the opposite of what you mean.
Steve R
DeleteI meant to say "not" rather than "But". Sorry for the genuine error but the dialog box makes my characters quite small; almost pt6.
Barry,
DeleteIt's OK, it just can detract from your point. Anthony told me to put it in a word document then copy and paste from there. Works for me and spellcheck is automatic. Might be worth you considering?
And I see another Jewish/Christian terrorist has beheaded another elderly woman in Nice last night along with another few while shouting God is Great.
ReplyDeleteOh,wait....
@ Steve R
ReplyDeleteIn the mid 1970s, what should have been done to combat the knife attacks on civilians being carried out almost exclusively by Christian Protestants?
Should the UK Government have announced that it was ready to "fight to the death with with fundamentalist Protestants?" Or announce that it is at war with "Protestant barbarism"?
With the problems inherent within the terrorist Protestant community in the mid 1970s, what measures should have been taken to deal with th problem of Protestantism?
"With the problems inherent within the terrorist Protestant community in the mid 1970s, what measures should have been taken to deal with th problem of Protestantism?"
DeleteThe Government of the day should have said to the Unionists that Sunningdale was being implemented and if they carry on with that sectarian nonsense they'll be on their own.