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Denmark's "Open Door" and its Limitless Beneficiaries
by Ingrid Carlqvist and Lars
Hedegaard • January 22, 2015 at 5:00 am
As Amir
Taheri said: If you want to integrate newcomers, you have to get rid of
people who make a living out of integrating them.
Whether
or not the majority if Muslims are peace-loving, tolerant and democratic is
of no consequence, so long as the violent, radical and undemocratic minority
calls the shots.
It is no
help to peace-loving Muslims or to the rest of us that our Western leaders
keep portraying Islam as if it is something that might have been concocted by
the Salvation Army. One might even say that the "narrative" of many
politicians is the true perversion of a message that is as clear as it could
be.
If
Denmark is lost as a result of a crazed, multicultural experiment, Danes will
have no home.
Last week, in the article "Sweden: From 'Humanitarian Superpower'
to Failed State," we promised to address the question of what motivates
those who are opening the gates for the current massive influx of Muslims and
other hard-to-integrate newcomers to Europe. There is no one simple answer
but there are partial answers, which combined may shed some light onto
"Who benefits?".
As a point of departure, let us revisit UK Prime Minister David
Cameron's and U.S. President Barack Obama's recent joint press conference in
the White House. Despite an impressive amount of huffing and puffing, they
once again demonstrated that their understanding of Islam leaves much to be
desired. A more sinister explanation is that they understand more than they
are willing to say for fear of offending "1.6 billion Muslims."
Iran's New Terror Base against Israel
by Yaakov Lappin
• January 22, 2015 at 4:45 am
The new
base in Syria gives Hezbollah the option of attacking Israel and drawing
Israel's return fire away from Lebanon, where its most precious assets are
hidden: well over 100,000 rockets and missiles that might be saved for a
future battle over Iran's nuclear weapons program.
Hezbollah, exploiting its presence in Syria, has been attempting to open
a new front against Israel.
Over the past 18 months, Hezbollah and its enablers from the Iran's
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps [IRGC] have begun launching a series of
attacks on Israel from their new center of operations in southern Syria.
After Sunday's air strike (attributed by the media to the Israel Air
Force) that killed 12 high-ranking Hezbollah and IRGC operatives near
Quneitra, Syria, along the Israeli border, Israel is bracing for the
possibility of an attack by Hezbollah and Iran.
Although Israel has not officially taken responsibility for the strike,
it would make sense to view the action as a preemptive move designed to
remove a clear and present danger arising on Israel's border with Syria. The
danger is the formation of a second Hezbollah terrorism base, in addition to
Hezbollah's home base already in Lebanon.
"Unity"? About What Exactly?
by Jeremy Havardi
• January 22, 2015 at 4:00 am
Meanwhile,
Saudi Arabia tried to fool the world by joining France's "Unity
March" for free speech just two days after a young Saudi blogger, Raif
Badawi, received the first installment of 50 lashes -- out of the 1000 he is
to get -- "very severely," the lashing order says. Badawi still has
950 lashes to complete.
Mahmoud
Abbas, whose genocidal, jihadi partner, Hamas, was just declared not a
terrorist group by the European Union, joined the forefront of the
"Unity March" at the same time as a Palestinian human rights groups
published a report accusing the Palestinian Authority of "waging
war" against university students in the West Bank.
What
"Islamophobia" motivated the killing of Jewish customers in a
kosher supermarket? What had those victims done to deserve that?
We may
like to imagine that this is not Islam, and that the faith promotes peace and
nothing else. But the murderers say it is Islam, and they act accordingly.
Much of
the media has offered up a context for these killings that is false.
The real
story is that despite a few sporadic incidents, there has been no backlash
against the Muslim community.
The recent rally for free speech and against the terrorism in Paris
initially appeared to have generated a surge of defiance and resolve, not
just in France but around the world. People were actually talking about a
turning point in the battle against terrorism and radical Islam.
If only it were true.
The reality is that much of the political class and media remain in
denial about the events in Paris.
Ban Ki Moon explained that the tragic events had nothing to do with
religion. Signing a condolence book for the victims of the attacks, he said:
"This is not a country, a war against religion or between religions...
This is a purely unacceptable terrorist attack – criminality."
France's President François Hollande said that the Charlie Hebdo
fanatics had "nothing to do with Islam," and he was joined in this
view by commentators on France24, as well as the German Interior Minister,
Thomas de Maizière.
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