http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/01/were_the_recent_terror_attacks_in_france_a_watershed.htmlJanuary 19, 2015
Were the recent terror attacks in France a watershed?
By Carol Brown
There’s much talk about the recent massacre of twelve journalists in France. “Charlie Hebdo” has become a household name that symbolizes a great deal to a great many. (There’s been far less discussion of the Jews who were also murdered, but more on that later.)
It would be a good thing if the terror attacks in France were a catalyst for a mass awakening in the West. The lives lost would not be in vain if people started talking about, and addressing, the cancer that is Islam. Sadly, that has not been the case.
For starters, there’s been a lot of concern about how Muslims feel about the most recent Charlie Hebdo cover. Here are the Cliff Notes: Many of them are offended. Gee, what a surprise.
Why all the fuss when so little attention is paid to how offended (to say the least) people feel who are being murdered by jihadists every day the world over? Jihadists are coming after Christians, Jews, Hindus, women, children – all non-believers – and killing them. Day in and day out. And now the West is in a state over whether to publish a Charlie Hebdo cartoon and how Muslims feel about it?
Seriously? Or I should say: Genuinely? Because the fuss is not really about how Muslim’s feel. It’s about being scared of what an insulted Muslim might do – a fear reserved for Muslims because many have proven to be a bit touchy about quite a few things.
As in murderous.
Meanwhile, despite the non-stop talking about the terror attacks in France, the discourse goes around in circles focusing on how journalism should adapt to this (presumably) new age of violence against free speech. Unfortunately, journalists and others don’t seem to understand there’s nothing new about Islam’s repression of free speech. Nor do many seem to appreciate there are no protected classes of infidels under Islamic law. Journalists are fair game like everybody else.
This isn’t about France. Or journalists. Or Charlie Hebdo. It’s about Islam.
We need to stop this obsessive conversation about Charlie Hebdo cartoons and step back in a forest-for-the-trees moment to put what happened into a broader perspective: the savage violence recently aimed at journalists and Jews in France is the same savage violence that has been aimed at non-believers for 1400 years. The attacks in France were just the latest in the bloody trail that follows Islam wherever it goes.
No. Actually, I need to correct that. They are not the latest terror attacks. Not by a long shot. Because Islamic terror is carried out every single day all over the world. Since the terror attacks in France many more lives have been claimed by jihadists. And every moment we delay grasping the big picture is another moment lost.
Big picture = Islam
So as I listen to journalists talking about how they are now targets, I am reminded of the oft-quoted poem, First They Came, by Pastor Martin Niemoller.
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me.
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