We used to be told routinely that jihadis are generally poor and uneducated, and that poverty causes terrorism. This was a justification for showering money upon Muslim countries. But it was never true, and that never worked.
“Church, personalities who are ‘enemies of Islam’… A planned attack involving two radicalized young people foiled,” translated from “Église, personnalités « ennemies de l’islam »… Un projet d’attentat impliquant deux jeunes radicalisés déjoué,” by Jean-Michel Décugis and Jérémie Pham-Lê, Le Parsien, June 20, 2023 (thanks to Medforth):
Two men, 21 and 17, one of whom is a brilliant law student, were indicted on March 5 and June 16 on suspicion of planning a violent action plan. According to the DGSI investigation, various targets were considered.
This is the first failed attack plan of the year 2023. A sign that the jihadist terrorist threat remains diffuse and unpredictable, while the spotlight has been shone in recent months on the rise of violent political extremism, the ultra-right and the ultraleft.…
Despite the terrorist organization’s loss of influence in the Middle East and the diminishing impact of its propaganda, the two Frenchmen, aged 17 and 21, from the Alpes-Maritimes and Seine-Saint-Denis, allegedly planned a knife attack against various targets: Civilians, personalities designated as opponents of Islam, or churches….
The minor with the first name A.N., follower of a radical Islam and socially isolated, is said to have confided to his virtual interlocutors that the desire matured in him to carry out an indiscriminate knife attack “against everyone.”
When he was arrested at his home in early March, the police officers seized stabbing weapons and a patch with the insignia of the Islamic State (IS) organization. They also discover that A.N. is in contact with numerous similarly radicalized youths across Europe in the jihadist scene: the UK, Belgium, Switzerland … All these sympathizers of the jihadist cause have one thing in common: they are young or very young, have little or no contact with jihadists in the Iraqi-Syrian zone and are very active online. Several of them, by the way, have been arrested in their respective countries thanks to information sharing between intelligence agencies….
In his writings, Samy O.-M. harbors an obsession about the “need to strike a blow” against those he sees as hostile to his devoutly held religion. Even more disturbing, investigators found a handwritten plan of a church in Paris in his home. The religious building could not be identified at this time. However, the document suggests that Catholic institutions were also targeted.
DHZ says
Given that emotions usually walk all over intelligence, on top of the fact that the most dangerous Muslims are the most devout ones, none of this is particularly surprising. These are the Muslims who love living in the West because there are so many enemies of Allah within stabbing range. They also love the thing not available in Muslim countries, freedom of worship.
Jayell1 says
That word ‘devout’ has such nice, civilised connotations, but should we be using it in relation to the followers of such a vicious, criminal ideology as islam? We don’t talk about ‘devout’ serial murderers, ‘devout rapists, ‘devout’ fraudsters, or ‘devout’ terrorists; yet islam prescribes all of these. Perhaps the word ‘obsessed’ is more appropriate.
tim gallagher says
Same old, neverending situation with barbaric islam and the evil scum that it produces. islam teaches such vicious, murderous hatred for non-Muslims, and complete intolerance towards non-Muslims, so this type of thing is no surprise when it comes to the Muslims. Muslims are the foes of tolerance, the foes of freedom of expression and of civilised behaviour.. THey do not belong in any civilised countries. To be a “foe of islam” is a badge of honour. It means that you stand for civilised behaviour and values such as freedom of religion, of speech and all the good things western societies value and barbaric islam hates.
abu taleb says
Poor muslims don’t have time to study Islam, so they still have some conscience and can distingusih right and wrong.
Those who have studied Islam deep enough, either they are brain washed to become evil beings with pervert mentality, or they realize that with Islam they can do evil things for their own benefit, in other words, they are evil from the beginning.
The rest, after studying Islam, becoming apostates because they know Islam is evil.
OLD GUY says
Why allow these hateful islamic people into our western countries? If you need workers, why not recruit them from South America at ;east they won’t want to kill you.
Walter Sieruk says
One very good way to describe this twenty –first century “War of Ideas” is that of a great a conflict and a clash between Christianity and Islam. As explained by the Christian author, William Wagner,, in his book which is entitled HOW ISLAM PLANS TO CHANGE THE WORLD had explained on page 155 about a meeting that he had with a Muslim cleric , which reads “Several years ago one Imam told me that ,prior to 1990, the greatest enemy to Islam was Communism but now it is the Christian missions.” Further, on page 208 the Wagner had written about some zealous Muslims that “They have failed to stop Christian missions. They see Christian missions as their number one enemy.” On the very next page the reader is informed that “Christianity remains the number one buffer against Islam, a fact readily recognized by those who seek a world wild ummah.” [1]
[1] Ummah – The community of all those who affirm Islam.
Walter Sieruk says
There are many Muslims who strongly dislike Christians. Some Muslims even hate Christians so much that they even become violence against as reported in this above news article .
One reason for this is that in the mosques and madrasas the Muslim clerics, as the imams who speak many awful and unproven terrible things against Christians and Christian doctrine. So much so the many Muslims get all worked up against Christians and Christian teachings and some those Muslims commit violent actions against Christians. Such false religious teachers, as those Muslim clerics, who speak to people unfounded and invalid evil things about Christians and Christian doctrines have been described in the Bible. For the Bible informs the reader in Second Peter 2:12. “They speak evil of things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption.” [N.K.J.V.]
It also should be make clear that in this specific above Bible verse, as well as in John 3:16. The word “Perish” does not mean loss of being but loss of well-being. As in going to ruin by ending up in languishing in torment in a terrible place of suffering that the Bible calls hell. Luke 16:19-31.