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by Douglas Murray
• July 27, 2016 at 6:00 am
- What
"provocation" had the murdered priest, Father Jacques
Hamel, provided?
- An enemy
willing to slaughter the most rollicking secularists and the most
devout priest, both in their places of work, is an enemy with the
entirety of French civilisation and culture in its sights. It is an
enemy -- extremist Islam -- clearly intent not on some kind of
tributary offering or suit for peace, but rather an enemy which
seeks its opponent's total and utter destruction.
- Should this not
be the moment for the entirety of one of the greatest cultures on
earth to unite as one, turn on this common enemy and destroy it first,
in the name of civilisation?
An enemy willing to slaughter the most rollicking
secularists and the most devout priest, both in their places of work, is
an enemy with the entirety of French civilisation and culture in its
sights. Left: Father Jacques Hamel, murdered yesterday in Rouen, France
by an Islamic jihadist. Right: Stéphane Charbonnier, the editor and
publisher of Charlie Hebdo, who was murdered in Paris on January
7, 2015, along with many of his colleagues, by Islamic jihadists.
It is now 18 months since two gunmen forced their way into the
offices of Charlie Hebdo
in Paris and set about murdering the staff of that magazine. The gunmen
from al-Qaeda in Yemen called for the editor -- "Charb" -- by
name before murdering him and most of his colleagues. In an interview shortly
before his death, taking into account the threat to his life which
entailed constant security protection, Stéphane Charbonnier had said,
"I prefer to die standing than live on my knees." Charb did die
standing, in the office of the magazine he edited.
by Lawrence A. Franklin
• July 27, 2016 at 4:30 am
- Jesus warned
his Apostles that men of faith would kill them, thinking they had
done God a favor.
- Pope Francis,
in the Vatican, referred to this killing as "an absurd
murder." He could not be more wrong. This was a purposeful act
of war against Judeo-Christian civilization. The murder of Father
Jacques has great meaning. Our would-be replacements are telling us,
"it is time for you to leave the stage of history."
- This most
recent murder is additional evidence that the old France is dying.
The church of St. Étienne-du-Rouvray in Rouen, France,
pictured yesterday after two Islamist terrorists murdered Father Jacques
Hamel. (Image source: AFP video screenshot)
Yesterday at a Catholic church in France, there were two quite
different types of martyrdoms.
Two young male Muslims, bent on waging personal jihad and thereby
securing salvation through martyrdom, burst into the old church of St.
Étienne-du-Rouvray in Rouen, Normandy during the morning Mass. There they
martyred the 85-year old priest, Father Jacques Hamel. They slit his
throat as if he were an animal killed for the recent Eid-al-Adha
("The Feast of Sacrifice"), celebrated by Muslims all over the
world on the last day of Ramadan.
The Catholic Mass is re-enactment of the voluntary sacrifice of
Christ crucified to redeem us before God.
The murder committed by the two terrorists was in obedience to the
Koran-directed will of Allah, to "slay the idolaters wherever you
find them" (Quran 9:5).
We Christians believe that Father Hamel's martyrdom ushers his soul
before the presence of God.
by Burak Bekdil
• July 27, 2016 at 4:00 am
- The head of a
department of the Supreme Court of Appeals has revealed that nearly
3,000 marriages were registered between the victims of sexual abuse,
including rape, and their assailants. The judge mentioned a
particular case in which three men kidnapped and raped a girl, then
one of them married her and the sentences for all three were lifted.
- Instead of
passing legislation to amend grotesque articles in the penal code,
Erdogan keeps doing "family engineering" in line with his
Islamist thinking. Most recently Erdogan told a women's association
that "family planning and contraception were not for Muslim
families."
- Turkey's First
Lady, Emine Erdogan, shocked many people when she said that the
Ottoman-era harems were "educational centers that prepared
women for life."
A Turkish court sentenced journalist Arzu Yildiz to 20
months in jail for publishing a video that showed Turkish intelligence
agents shipping weapons to Islamist groups in Syria. The court also stripped
Yildiz of legal guardianship over her own children, for breaching the
confidentiality of the court case.
There have been several dramatic aspects of Turkey's creeping
Islamization over the past 15 years. Anti-Semitism, xenophobia, an
eroding secular social life and majoritarianism (that the majority in a
society is entitled to primacy) are not all. The Islamization of Turkish
society has also made life more difficult for women.
In 2015, Turkey ranked 130th in gender equality among a
group of 145 countries. But that was hardly surprising. Only a year
earlier, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had objected to equality between
men and women. "Women's equality with men is against nature,"
he said.
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