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Al Qaeda Issues Call For Fight Against France
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I recently discussed a new crusade the French are embarking on against the burqas in their midst. Well, apparently, al Qaeda finally decided to take up the challenge and has now issued a call for “all Muslims to confront this hostility with greater hostility, and to counter France’s efforts to divide male and female believers from their faith with a greater effort … (by) adherence to the teachings of their Islamic sharia.”
They also say that they “will take revenge for the honour of our daughters and sisters against France and against its interests by every means at our disposal.”
So, I guess the real question now is whether or not France will do what it usually does in these situations, i.e., surrender, or if they will suddenly grow a spine and fight al Qaeda’s calls for violence along with their new battle against the Islamo-misogynistic burqa.
Hmm… France didn’t surrender in the 80s during the Iranian bombings, nor in the 90s with the Algerian GIA bombings in the subway, nor in 1994 when Air France flight 8969 was highjacked and all the terrorists were killed by French special forces. Nor did France surrender in Ivory Coast when they retaliated against the IC government for the killing of French soldiers by destroying the country’s entire Air Force. Nor did they surrender against the Somali pirates and instead took an active role in fighting piracy in that area.
My guess is that your knowledge of what “France usually does in these situations” is pretty weak.
Keep guessing, because it seems your own knowledge is pretty limited, as well.
The Iranian bombings you mention? Guess what you forgot to mention: in a pathetic show of groveling to appease Iran (who put the French Embassy in Tehran under siege and additionally held French hostages), France let their bombing suspect go free back to Iran, along with returning about $700 million of Iranian money held by France. As the liberal New York Times put it:
You bring two or three examples of situations where the French has no choice but do act. With the subway bombings, who would they surrender to? They didn’t even have any option of surrendering! So, who’s to say what they would have done given that option.
What you don’t mention are all the examples of kowtowing to Islam (Iran, Iraq, etc.), to fascism (Hitler), etc. You also don’t mention the long history of surrender and/or defeat in their history. It’s nice to cherry-pick a few convenient situations, but you’re fighting a losing battle on this one.
P.S. Here’s an entertaining lesson in French Military History I saw once: