The Rising Tide of Terrorism

"We have contained them."

- President Barack Obama regarding ISIS, Good Morning America this morning

A few hours later, Paris erupted in violence with Muslim men screaming Allah Akbar as they gunned down and blew up more than a hundred French citizens in various locations in the city.  It is not yet known if the attacker were faux refugees from Syria.  In February, ISIS did declare plans to infiltrate Europe with terrorists.  Mission accomplished?  How many hundreds of thousands of refugees have already arrived in Europe and what portion are terrorists.  Germany has seen many new refugees vanish from venues provided to house them.  Might some of those have made their way across the mostly borderless Eurozone to join the attack?

 

I don't keep up with French politics and therefore don't know what has been done in the wake of Charlie Hebdo attacks in January of this year.  I would say that the evidence shows that not enough was done.  At the moment, a curfew has been imposed and the borders have been closed.  But the problem is already inside the borders.  France has a Muslim population of 6% as of 2007.  Where might that stand now?  What percentage of those 4 million Muslims are likely to be 'radicalized?'  Even at the low number of 1% of them, that is 40,000 Jihadists already within the borders.  Sadly, the number is higher than 1%.  That's a big problem.

 

Elsewhere in Europe, England is 5% Muslim, Spain is 3.7% Muslim, Italy 2.6%, Sweden 5.1%, and - prior to the big push - Germany was 1.9%.  This is not to accuse all Muslims of being terrorists but the terrorist come from this population.  The Lutherans, the Roman Catholics, and the Anglicans aren't causing the problem.

 

With this in mind, the US is almost 1% Muslim and this is the fastest growing migrant population.  We have already seen radicalization in the population and yet the president is pushing to have 10,000 Syrian refugees resettled in the US.  The Tsarnaev brothers (Boston Marathon bombers) came to the US as refugees.

 

Like it or not, there is a religious war in progress and one side doesn't realize it.  The aggressors use religious words and phrases: Infidel, Allah Akbar, Great Satan.  The timing could hardly be worse with the West suffering a civilization breakdown with the rise of multiculturalism (no culture is better than another), political correctness (self-censorship), and victim culture (large subsets of the population are now victims who have a 'right' to not be offended).  Heck, Jihadists have been adopted into the victim culture, an oppressed group that we must understand, not destroy.

 

Sadly, like we have done as 9/11 has faded further into history, France will likely get into the fray briefly and then lapse back into apathy.  I especially don't expect President Hollande to become the next de Gaulle.  These attacks will certainly benefit the more nativist parties throughout Europe.  Look for Hungary's example to spread.