WHY have jihadist terrorists made France Europe’s bloodiest battlefield?
Andrew Bolt in the HUN
Simple answer: Because France let in the most Muslims.
This link between immigration policies and terrorism largely explains why the French are the greatest victims of Europe’s jihadists.
It also explains why we are fools not to change our own immigration policies to protect ourselves.
No European Union country has a higher proportion of Muslims than France — up to 10 per cent of its population, or six million people, though statistics are vague, and vary.
Yes, numbers don’t tell the whole story, but they do count.
Another example: Belgium’s capital, Brussels, is Europe’s biggest Islamic city, with 300,000 Muslims, and has paid terribly for it.
It suffered mass murder by jihadists at its airport last March, its police have had two shootouts with terrorist networks, and an Islamist murdered four Jews at its Jewish museum. But it is France where the fiercest frontline runs in this war between Islam and the remnants of European Christendom.
France has the most Muslims, and that is why four people were killed, three of them children, in an Islamist attack on a Jewish day school in Toulouse four years ago.
That is why 20 people were murdered in Paris in last year’s Islamist attacks on the Charlie Hebdo magazine and a kosher supermarket.
The Nice terrorist truck driver Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel.
That is why 130 more people were murdered in Paris last November in an Islamic State assault on restaurants, a concert hall and a football stadium.
That is why a policeman and his wife were last month murdered by a jihadist outside their home.
That is why 84 people died in last week’s terrorist attack in Nice, when a Tunisian-born man rammed his truck into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day.
That is why there have been dozens of other Islamist attacks and plots, including the beheading last year of a factory manager at Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, and the running down of 21 people by cars driven by jihadists in two attacks the previous year.
This slaughter has forced the French Government to turn parts of France into what looks like a military occupation: 10,000 soldiers have been deployed in the streets, and the country has been under an official state of emergency for eight months now.
“We are in a war,” declared Nicolas Sarkozy, the former French president.
True, the number of Muslims in a country does not tell the full story.
Indeed, by some counts Germany may have even more Muslims than France, after an estimated 600,000 more crossed into the country illegally last year — though Muslims do still make up a smaller proportion of Germany’s bigger population.
Yet, Germany has until now been spared the mass murders suffered by so many other countries. Perhaps this is because many of its Muslims have come from Turkey, a country that is more Westernised and advanced than the North African countries which fed France.
Rescuers evacuate victims near the Bataclan concert hall in Paris last November.
But many of the Muslims who crossed into Germany last year did come from North Africa. Germany’s Justice Ministry said this month it was conducting nearly 120 investigations involving more than 180 terrorism suspects.
Nearly 500 suspected extremists are being monitored.
So for Germany, too, more Muslims means more danger, whereas the situation in, let’s say, Japan, suggests fewer Muslims means less danger.
Japan has strict controls on immigration and its 127 million people include just 100,000 Muslims. Result: zero Islamist attacks.
Contrast that with Australia, which has a population of just 24 million, but 500,000 Muslims. How we’ve paid for leaving our door open.
For a start, the past three successful terror attacks here — the Lindt café siege, the shooting of police accountant Curtis Cheng, and the stabbing of two police in Melbourne — were all carried out by Muslim refugees we had allowed in.
That story is now terribly familiar. For instance, IS’s most influential recruiter in Australia, Mohammad Ali Baryalei, was another Muslim refugee we took in.
Harun Causevic, put under a control order by a Melbourne court last week to prevent terrorism, is from yet another Muslim refugee family.
On it goes. The Islamists jailed for plotting an attack on Sydney’s Holsworthy army base included refugees and men from Muslim immigrant families.
Many of the jailed Benbrika plotters were born overseas. Hate preacher Sheik Taj Din al-Hilali was born in Egypt.
The Jew-hating Sheik Ismael al-Wahwah, head of the radical Hizb ut Tahrir movement in Australia, was born in Jordan.
A police operation in Brussels after the airport attack in March.
Hamdi Alqudsi, found guilty this month by a Sydney court of recruiting jihadists for IS, is a disability pensioner born in Palestine.
In fact, of the 21 men already jailed in Australia for terrorism, 12 were born overseas. Seven more were born here to Lebanese families.
Who let them all in? Why?
How can our politicians excuse running such a dangerous refugee and immigration program?
How can they have imported such trouble that at least two Australian journalists have been forced to move homes after being threatened with death for mocking Islam or reporting on IS?
No person should have to live in such fear in this country. No one should have to risk death for simply speaking their mind — and risk it, worse, at the hands of extremists we actually invited in.
Of course, most Muslims are great citizens and some are widely admired. They hate terrorism. They want peace. All that is true and must always be kept in mind.
But most are troublingly silent when their top Muslim leaders preach hatred, excuse terrorists and blame the West for inviting jihadist attacks.
They even allow our Grand Mufti, Dr Ibrahim Abu Mohammed, to speak in their name when he lists as the “causative factors” of IS’s murder last year of 130 people in Paris not the Islamic faith which inspired the killers, but five alleged anti-Muslim sins of the West, from our “racism” and “Islamophobia” to our foreign policies.
It is much the same story with our most prominent Muslims — including presenters such as The Project’s Waleed Aly — who turn almost every discussion on Islamic terrorism into a criticism of the West.
Take Aly’s explanation when the Islamist son of Afghan immigrants last month killed 49 people at a gay bar in Orlando.
To Aly, this actually showed that our “freedom just kind of ends up consuming itself in a very strange, dark sort of a way”.
It seemed that to Aly the problem was the West’s freedom, not the Islamist hatred of it.
But the time for such sophistry is long gone. The luxury of such vaporous debates is now beyond our capacity to pay. The mathematics is clear: The more Muslims we import, the more danger we are in.
Isn’t the next step now obvious? What will our Prime Minister and Immigration Minister do now to protect us?
