The Paris Massacre - Part I

On January 7, 2015, three Islamic terrorists murdered 17 people in Paris - at the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, at a kosher market and on the street where a French policewoman was killed. As outrageous as these attacks were, they were - sadly - not a new occurrence. However, much can be learned about others perceptions of what occurred and why.

Howard Dean, former head of the Democratic National Committee, had this to say: "I stopped calling these people Muslim terrorists. They're about as Muslim as I am." And: "I think ISIS is a cult. Not an Islamic Cult." The lengths to which liberals will go to avoid telling the truth is more than just sad and moronic. It is dangerous. The whole world knows about radical Islamic terror. But Dean and Obama will not say it. Were the Germans Nazis? Hitler said he was. Hmmm.

The USA Today recently had this headline: "Terror attack sparks fears among French Muslims." Once again, the liberal need to make victims out of the same group that gave us the perpetrators. The liberal media did the same thing after the 9/11 attacks here. The USA Today quoted a 31 year old Muslim who said he disagreed with what the terrorists did. But then he added this: "But I also feel that freedom of speech can't justify everything and I was hurt when Charlie Hebdo published drawings of the prophet Mohammed." You know what, I was more hurt by the brutal murders of fellow Jews and other fellow human beings. Hurt by drawings? Grow up, grow a pair, and learn to cope with it. That should be the worst that life throws your way.

It was both amusing and disturbing to watch Obama's spokesperson Josh Earnest discuss what occurred in Paris. He was tripping over words in a convoluted fashion given his boss's instructions to never say "Islamic terror" or "radical Islamic terrorists." Rather, he told the White House press corps that it was "individual extremists" who use Islam to justify their actions. If Josh Earnest had any personal integrity he would have quit before spewing such blatant nonsense. I will say, though, what a coincidence that tens - if not hundreds - of thousands of "individuals" all over the world have taken the same murderous path using the same ideology and terminology to describe their actions and words. The odds must be one in a trillion. Amazing.

The New York Times opined in an editorial: "Perhaps the greatest danger in the wake of the massacres is that more Europeans will come to the conclusion that all Muslim immigrants on the continent are carriers of a great and mortal threat." The greatest danger? How about the greatest morons? The greatest danger is that Europe again becomes/remains complacent in the face of an ever growing danger to its people from radical Islamists.

One Saudi cleric said this: "No sane person, regardless of doctrine, religion or faith, accepts his beliefs being ridiculed." Really? Try being a conservative/Republican in the USA and picking up almost any mainstream newspaper - if you really want to see ridicule. The cleric's words tell you all you need to know about the idea of "free speech" in the Muslim world.

And, once again we heard from the former worst President (now second worst thanks to Obama) Jimmy Carter. In speaking with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show, Carter was asked what may have prompted the Paris massacre. "Well, one of the origins for it is the Palestinian problem. And this aggravates people who are affiliated in any way with the Arab people who live in the West Bank and Gaza, what they are doing now - what's being done to them. So I think that's a part of it."

So, Jimmy, first let's blame the Jews. Can't go wrong there, can you - you anti-Semitic bastard. Second, let's excuse these murders because, if the Islamic terrorists are in fact mad at the Israelis, that gives them every reason to kill Frenchmen and Jews in France who have absolutely nothing to do with Israeli policy.