As Willie Sutton replied when asked, why he robbed banks, “Because that’s where the money is.” If we could ask the planner of this massacre why France, he might reply, “Because that’s where the lambs are.”
That is indeed where the lambs are! France is one huge gun-free zone. Randomly shooting innocent people in that country is like “shooting fish in a barrel.” The gun laws of France are an incredibly complicated mess of restrictions and prohibitions that virtually deny ordinary citizens the ability to own a weapon or buy ammunition for one. To use a weapon for self-defense is strictly prohibited.
True, other European nations have onerous gun laws too, but the French have other factors that, when added to the easy pickings, may have made them a prime target.
The long-time relationship with ex-French Algeria has left France with a burgeoning Muslim population that is increasingly calling for Sharia law. Muslims block the thoroughfares with huge crowds kneeling on prayer rugs at prayer times. The French population of Muslims in 2014 was 4,704,000, that is 7.5 percent of the entire population. The projection of increase at that time put the Muslim population in 2030 at 10.3 percent
France is legally prohibited from collecting statistics based on race or religion, so the actual number of Muslims may be far greater. With the “refugee” situation now, though, that number will only grow at an alarming pace.
Please note that I merely called them refugees, not Syrian refugees. Many of these, seemingly mostly young men, are from a number of Muslim countries. Are these immigrants being screened and to what depth?
In January, two men barged into the offices of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris and killed 11 people. Both were Muslim jihadists seeking revenge for a cartoon of Muhammad. Leaving the building, they killed a police officer and several related attacks followed in the Île-de-France region, where a further five were killed and 11 wounded. All participants in this massacre were members of Islamist terrorist group Al-Qaida's branch in Yemen.
The Gatestone Institute, an international policy council, issued a report titled The Islamization of France in 2013. Here are some interesting quotes gleaned from the report:
“Who has the right to say that France in thirty or forty years will not be a Muslim country? Who has the right in this country to deprive us of it?" — Marwan Muhammed, spokesman for Collective Against Islamophobia in France (CCIF), Paris.
And: "The Islamic movement will become a system of life under your nose. Your wife, French women, the people of France, will live under the Islamic movement, even if you don't like it. Most of the residents of Paris are Muslims. Allah willing, most of the French system will be according to Islamic Sharia law. Most of the residents of France will be Muslims, Allah willing." – a British Islamist said this in a video posted on YouTube on January 20, 2014.
Is this merely jihadist bluster? Maybe, but look what is happening in that country. First Charlie Hebdo, now a coordinated Paris massacre with 129 dead. Also, there has been a rash of car burnings and other “protests” by French Muslims in the past few years. Some 40,000 cars were burned in 2014 alone. French President Francois Hollande has called the shootings and bombings "an act of war."
France has suffered greatly and this may be just the beginning. Germany and England are increasing their Muslim population with more “refugees”, and many other European countries have agreed to take “refugees.” President Obama recently ordered the US to take 10,000 of these “refugees” promising to perform a strict screening.
All in the free world sympathize and stand with France and the people of Paris in this moment of grief. But the free world needs to wake up and see this Islamic jihadist movement for what it is, a true act of conquest and subversion of democratic principals in favor of life under Sharia law for all. The consequences of not recognizing that are too terrible to even imagine.
