by Dr. Ephraim Herrera
Europol has estimated that as many as 5,000 jihadists made it into Europe in the huge wave of immigration in 2015
The headline that
topped France's Le Monde newspaper the day after the murderous attack in
Nice read: "84 killed, state of emergency extended by 3 months," with
the subtitle "A man driving a truck raced toward the crowd." The
headline in newspaper Le Figaro was similar: "How did the police stop
the murderer with the truck?" While the fact that it was a terrorist
attack was mentioned, no details about the attacker were included --
specifically, that he was a Muslim of Tunisian origin and a French
citizen who, like most of the terrorists in last year's attacks in Paris
and in the attack at the Brussels Airport, had gone over to the side of
the Islamic enemy.
In France, it is not
appropriate to mention the very essence of the war that is made
explicitly clear in Islamic State group publications. The top headline
in one of the group's French-language publications a year ago read: "May
Allah curse France!" Islamic State group spokesman Abu Mohammed
al-Adnani recently called on Muslims in the West, saying, "If you are
able to kill an American or European infidel -- and particularly the
malicious and impure French ... then place your trust in Allah, and kill
him in any way possible. ... When the infidel is a civilian or a
soldier, the ruling is one and the same."
Two days before the
terrorist attack in Nice, the French security chief said it was likely
that Islamic State loyalists would start using car bombs and that there
would be a clashes between the far Right and the Muslim world. He even
dared to specify "not the Islamists, but the Muslim world." His words
were not echoed in the media, as news outlets were too busy writing
about France's big soccer loss.
Research shows that
young Muslims in France are more religious, extremist and alienated from
the values of the country than are their parents or grandparents.
Europol has estimated that as many as 5,000 jihadists made it into
Europe in the huge wave of immigration in 2015. It is unlikely that the
terrorist attack in Nice will be the last of its kind. But because the
French authorities do not want to admit that the root of the problem is
militant Islam -- which is being taught inside France, in mosques and in
suburbs that have become lawless zones -- there is no real way to fix
the problem.
Current efforts -- an
increased presence of security forces and increased
intelligence-gathering -- will not be enough to fight the system
invented by Abu Musab al-Suri, the foremost ideologue of the Islamic
State group: lone-wolf attackers who are not formally affiliated with
the organization but carry out its tenet of launching attacks that
strike fear into the hearts of the infidels. The terrorist in Nice
underwent a rapid process of radicalization and implemented Islamic
State's ideology without becoming detectable to intelligence agents. And
since no one is fighting the Muslim Brotherhood or the Salafists, many
Muslims will continue to watch programs and take in internet resources
encouraging jihad, convincing them that they must wipe out the infidel
"crusaders" and the Allah-hating Jews.
Before a lecture I gave
last year before the Jewish community in Nice, one woman told me,
"Don't scare us too much." Those who close their eyes will not see the
terrorist in the truck racing toward them.
Dr. Ephraim Herrera is the author of "Jihad -- Fundamentals and Fundamentalism."
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=16721
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