Nothing to see, just no-label “extremists”
BRUSSELS – Belgium said on Saturday it will deploy up to 300 soldiers to help guard vulnerable sites in its two largest cities, as governments across Europe stepped up security in the wake of the terrorist attacks in and around Paris last week.
The troops will be deployed progressively from Saturday, and will concentrate on the capital, Brussels, and the port city of Antwerp, Prime Minister Charles Michel said, following a meeting with his cabinet that lasted into the early morning hours Saturday. […]
The troops will help guard “strategic and vulnerable places,” including foreign embassies and institutions of the Jewish community, that face a higher threat level, Defense Minister Steven Vandeput told Flemish broadcaster VRT.
Antwerp has a big orthodox Jewish community, while Brussels host embassies not only to Belgium, but also to the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
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The “Moderate Muslims” of Pakista (via geoffb)
Pakistani police have clashed with crowds protesting over an image of the Prophet Muhammad published in French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
The authorities used tear gas and water cannon to disperse the demonstration, near the French consulate in Karachi.
The protest was part of a nationwide rally called by Jamaat-e-Islami, the country’s largest Islamist party. […]
On Thursday, Pakistani politicians passed a motion condemning Charlie Hebdo for publishing the latest cartoon.
Religious leaders openly called for journalists at the magazine to be hanged, and several religious groups called for protests after Friday prayers.
And the No-Label Extremists in Niger (also via geoffb)
At least two churches have been set on fire in the capital of Niger amid fresh protests against French magazine Charlie Hebdo’s cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad.
Saturday’s protests began outside Niamey’s grand mosque with police using tear gas a day after at least four were killed in the second city of Zinder.
The French embassy has warned its citizens to stay indoors.
i guess we can dig up dan fogelberg’s corpse and have him play run for the roses
I wonder if those troops deployed to guard vulnerable sites are ready to kill to do it. I have the feeling that they are there as a show of force, but have been ordered to do nothing in the event of an attack.
On NRO, I suggested we use “Salafism” or “Wahhabism” as a better substitute for “extremist” or “radical” or “violent” Islam, because that’s the accurate name for the strain of Islam that’s stirring up things.
[Another commenter (Debbie) provided a good rebuttal to my suggestion (I walk myself back in my response to her.)]
Nonetheless, in the 1950s women in Afghanistan and Egypt and Saudi Arabia were unveiled, going to university in large numbers and enjoying all kinds of freedom.
They were still all Muslim and stuff, but Wahhabism and Salafism (Taliban, al Qaeda), a reaction to Western secularism and hedonism, yanked everyone back into the 9th century.
Because the West is perverse and degenerate.
Which, they’ve got a point. Christians have been complaining about declining moral standards for decades.
But I’ll be damned (or beheaded) before I am judged by degenerate, brutal, sexually distorted Islam. I have already thrown my lot in with the God of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob, who might be using the children of Ishmael as a scourge to humble the rest of us, but accept dhimmitude I will not.
Lan astalem. I will not submit.
“Haaaassssaaannn CHOP!”