by Robert Spencer
“The worst tragedy in the history of Nice” – but many more are to come.
The truck was loaded with explosives and hand grenades as it plowed into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, France, Thursday night. It was no accident: Nice authorities emphasized that it was a terror attack, which was fairly clear already from the fact that the driver exchanged gunfire with police after he rammed into the crowd.
At least eighty people are dead and 68 wounded, and Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi calls it “the worst tragedy in the history of Nice.” But given the harsh realities of the contemporary world, it probably won’t be the worst for long.
Jihadis have had their eyes on France for quite some time. The Islamic State issued this call in September 2014:
So O muwahhid, do not let this battle pass you by wherever you may be.
You must strike the soldiers, patrons, and troops of the tawaghit.
Strike their police, security, and intelligence members, as well as
their treacherous agents. Destroy their beds. Embitter their lives for
them and busy them with themselves. If you can kill a disbelieving
American or European — especially the spiteful and filthy French — or an
Australian, or a Canadian, or any other disbeliever from the
disbelievers waging war, including the citizens of the countries that
entered into a coalition against the Islamic State, then rely upon
Allah, and kill him in any manner or way however it may be….If you are
not able to find an IED or a bullet, then single out the disbelieving
American, Frenchman, or any of their allies. Smash his head with a rock,
or slaughter him with a knife, or run him over with your car, or throw
him down from a high place, or choke him, or poison him….
Then again from the Islamic State in May 2016:
“The French must die by the thousands…. Towards paradise, that is the
path….Come, brother, let’s go to paradise, our women are waiting for us
there, with angels as servants. You will have a palace, a winged horse
of gold and rubies….With a little rocket-launcher, you can easily get
one of them… you do something like that in the name of Dawla (Islamic
State), and France will be traumatised for a century.”
France, even as it is under serious attack by the warriors of jihad, continues to pursue policies that will only result in the arrival of still more Muslims to France – and with them will come jihad terrorists, and many, many more jihad massacres like the one on Bastille Day in Nice. French curtailing their activities for fear of being struck by jihadis did not save them. The Bastille Day jihad attack should be the last to take place under the regime of politically correct fantasy that forces law enforcement and intelligence officials to pretend that the threat is other than what it is, and that the remedy is to apply, one more time, policies that have failed again and again and again.
Bastille Day should be a day for the releasing of prisoners. In the war against the global jihad, the truth has been prisoner for too long. It is time to set it free – before it, too, becomes irrevocably a casualty of this war against an enemy no one dares name.
“On behalf of the American people, I condemn in the strongest terms what appears to be a horrific terrorist attack in Nice, France, which killed and wounded dozens of innocent civilians,” Obama said.
Question: did Franklin Delano Roosevelt, on behalf of the American people, condemn in the strongest terms every German and Japanese strike during World War II? Did he add that the U.S. administration was in touch with Hawaiian or Polish or French or Midway etc. officials and was ready to offer any assistance in the investigation?
The answer is no, because there was no need to offer such condemnations. The world was at war, and the world knew it was at war. The fact was obvious, as was which side each combatant was on. Nor was there any need for an investigation after each battle. Everyone knew what was going on, and why.
The reason why Obama offers these condemnations now after each jihad massacre is because he treats each as if it were an isolated incident, not as if it were one more battle in a long war. And he offers help in an investigation for the same reason: if U.S. officials do end up helping the French with an investigation of this latest jihad massacre, they will like come back with a characteristically Obamoid conclusion: they're unable to determine the motive of the perpetrator.
In reality, there is no need for an investigation, because the jihadi’s motive is obvious. There needs to be an admission that we are in a full-scale war -- not just lip-service as French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve offers, but a genuine acknowledgment, followed by a genuine war footing, and an end to the weepy memorials, empty condemnations, and po-faced get-nowhere investigations. This is not crime. This is war.
Robert Spencer
Source: http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263520/muslims-celebrate-bastille-day-80-dead-68-injured-robert-spencer
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