NO SUCCESS BY FRENCH GOVERNMENT IN COMBATTING ISLAMOFASCISM

Zvi Mazel wrote about France's serious crisis with Islamofascism, and says that there's been no true success:

With the slaughter at Charlie Hebdo and at the Hyper Cacher supermarket, France has experienced a heightened level of Islamic terrorism since the beginning of the year. Yet it is strangely reluctant to tackle the phenomenon, which threatens the whole of Europe.

In the past Islamic terrorism has mainly, but not exclusively, targeted Jews. Mohammed Merah had killed two French soldiers and wounded a third before murdering Jewish children and teachers in Toulouse.

French security services are working round the clock to prevent further attacks, meeting with little to no success. Only recently they prevented large-scale attacks on the country’s vulnerable churches.

However, with radical organizations working within the large Muslim communities, which are to be found everywhere now, and with a Muslim population estimated at six million, security services have their work cut out.

The French government has chosen a rather circuitous approach to the problem and set up a framework of dialogue with its Muslim minority – or, more precisely, with its religious leaders. The first meeting was held in Paris on June 14 – under the auspices of Prime Minister Manuel Valls and his minister of interior, Bernard Cazeneuve – with some 150 Muslim dignitaries, led by Dalil Boubakeur, president of the French Council of the Muslim Faith, whose creation in 2003 was promoted by then-president Nicolas Sarkozy.

The council has failed dismally to fulfill its intended goals – namely, promoting dialogue with non-Muslims and addressing Islamic terrorism – and has lost much of its prestige.

In the course of several seminars, the dignitaries were asked to formulate their demands, and they asked for more protection for their mosques, a stronger government response to what they called Islamophobia, the building of more mosques – 5,000 were mentioned – as well as more mundane subjects such as a greater supply of halal meat and imposing a special tax on that meat to finance building and other community needs.

On the latter point the minister of interior stated that France, being a secular country, could not do so, but would see what could be done regarding the building of mosques as well as taking steps to ensure greater security for mosques and other community infrastructures.

One of the participants suggested turning churches into mosques; the outcry was such that he quickly retreated. Yet the bishop of the city of Évry went on the record to say that he would rather see a church become a mosque than a restaurant. This readiness to forgo centuries-old traditions raised quite a few eyebrows.

Interesting that the bishop has a dislike for places to eat. Obviously, that's one dhimmi of a Christian, but one who's also against people having a great place to dine for happiness. You can see pretty well why people could become so disillusioned with the Church.

Worse, there was no mention of anti-Semitism, one of the major problems in Europe today. The growing number of anti-Semitic incidents in 21st-century France has led more and more Jews to flee a country where Jews have been living for over a thousand years, yet France resolutely refuses to recognize Muslim anti-Semitism as well as renewed Christian anti-Semitism.

I wonder if Sarkozy now regrets promoting a council that's only self interested? If he's ever reelected to office, he'll have to do a lot to apologize for any missteps he made when he was president.

UNHRC MINIMIZES ROCKET ATTACKS

The UN's corrupt Human Rights Council has downplayed the seriousness of rockets fired at Israeli targets from Sinai:

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the UN Human Rights Council on Friday after it ratified a Palestinian-presented resolution on last summer's war in Gaza, saying the body was unnecessarily harsh on Israel and "is not really interested in facts and human rights."

The premier issued his fiery statement shortly after a projectile launched at Israel exploded in the southern Eshkol Regional Council. Despite previous uncertainty over the rocket's origins, according to Netanyahu, the projectile was launched from the Sinai Peninsula where Islamic State-linked fighters recently carried out a series of deadly strikes on Egyptian military posts.

In his condemnation of the UNHRC, the prime minister mentioned the rocket strike along with brutal Islamic State terrorist attacks in Syria, the atrocities of the ongoing Syrian civil war and Iran's arbitrary executions of minority group members, indicating that the UN body should concentrate on those issues.

"The council has now adopted more resolutions against Israel than the total number of resolutions it has made on other countries," the premier said, adding that the UNHRC "cannot call itself a human rights council."

"Those who fear to openly attack terrorism will – in the end – be attacked by terrorism," he said in reference to the UN council.

However, Netanyahu stressed that Israel would continue to defend its citizens from those who aim to destroy it.

"The State of Israel acted to defend itself against a murderous terrorist organization," he said of Israel's operation against Hamas last summer.

Netanyahu's remarks came after the UNHRC called on Israel and the Palestinians to prosecute alleged war crimes committed in the 2014 Gaza war and to cooperate with the International Criminal Court's preliminary investigation.

Which is just a lot of moral equivalence, and nothing else. When will the UN ever be dissolved, as would be for the best?

MESSAGE TO GOP: LET'S HELP BERNIE DEFEAT HILLARY

Both Iowa and New Hampshire allow GOP voters to vote in Democrat Primaries - in Iowa, a Gop voter just has to switch party affiliation at the time of voting; NH is an open primary.

I think GOP voters in these two states should vote for SOCIALIST Bernie Sanders.

At this stage, defeating Hillary is more crucial to the survival of the USA and the Free World, than which GOP candidate gets the nomination.

Defeating Hillary in Iowa and NH would put the Dems into complete disarray making GOP victory more likely.

UH OH UH OH UH OH: CHINA MAKES ANOTHER MAJOR MOVE TO HALT CRASH

Uh oh.

ANCIENT MIKVEH DISCOVERED BENEATH JERUSALEM HOUSE

The Jewish Press reported about a 2000 year old ritual bath discovered underneath the living room of a house in the Ein Kerem neighborhood. Simply incredible where and how some remote artifacts can be found.

ANOTHER TERRIBLE SPATE OF JIHAD ATTACKS

The latest in Israel includes one where an IDF official was attacked by a rock thrower and had to shoot the enemy down:

In response to being pelted with stones, a brigade commander in the IDF's Judea and Samaria Division shot and killed a Palestinian on Friday morning, the IDF confirmed.

Palestinian rioters began throwing stones at Col. Israel Shomer's vehicle and in response, after firing warning shots he opened fire and killed one of them. The victim was identified as a seventeen-year-old named Muhammad al-Casba.

The incident took place near the West Bank village of Al-Ram which is north-east of Jerusalem, at a time of heightened security in the West Bank following a spate of terrorist attacks against Israeli targets. The commander was on his way to the Kalandiya checkpoint in between Jerusalem and Ramallah when his vehicle was attacked.

There were no injuries among the IDF personnel but a photo of the scene showed an IDF vehicle with a smashed windshield.

"The commander reacted exactly as expected given that the incident presented an immediate risk to life," an IDF source said on Friday.

The source described the attack on the commander's vehicle as an ambush that was planned.

Large forces were sent to the area following the shooting as the IDF assessed that disturbances to public order would come in its wake.

Because of these recent incidents, that's another reason why the public would like a cease in leniency on Islamists who're potentially dangerous. Sooner or later, that's what'll have to be done.

Update: more on the topic at United With Israel.

Update 2: Naftali Bennett also reminds that there are cases where stone-throwing can kill people:

"Stones kill, just ask Adele Biton," Bennett added, referring to the toddler who was seriously injured in a stone-throwing terror attack in the West Bank in 2013.

Biton died of pneumonia in February, and at the time her mother claimed that the severity of the illness was a direct result of the wounds she suffered in the terrorist attack.

Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid also expressed his support for the IDF commander.

"Stones kill, and IDF soldiers need to be able to defend themselves and know that their political leaders will back them up completely," Lapid said at a conference in Kfar Saba.

Stones can kill people no matter the size and weight.

UH OH: GLOBAL RECESSION AHEAD

Latest economic numbers in the USA point to a slowdown.

With China slowing and the EU slowing that doesn't leave anyone to stimulate any growth in the near-term.

And central banks have used up their bag of tricks.

The correction us coming. And sooner than anyone thinks....

IT'S OFFICIAL: MONOGAMY UNDER LEGAL ATTACK....

... AND BECAUSE OF THE GAY MARRIAGE DECISION - ACCORDING TO CJ ROBERTS,  THERE IS NO LEGAL BASIS ANYMORE TO STOP THE POLYGAMISTS.

News of the legal challenge here.

This is all part of thr left's Gramscian Agenda and plan to TRANSFORM America into a second rate world power and third world socialist banana republic.

As Chavez did to Venezuela, so Obama is doing to the USA - in spades...

NYT WON'T PUBLISH MUHAMMED CARTOONS, BUT WILL PUBLISH PICTURE MOCKING POPE

Hot Air wrote about the New York Times' refusal to publish Muhammed cartoons. Yet when a picture showing the Pope designed from condoms comes out, they're suddenly willing to publish that.

It's just like the NYT to make themselves that much more irrelevant by only willing to publish pictures involving easy targets.

IS A MEGA-TERROR ATTACK ABOUT TO HAPPEN IN THE USA?

IS A MEGA-TERROR ATTACK ABOUT TO HAPPEN IN THE USA, SOMETHING BIGGER THAN TH BOSTON MARATHON, SOMETHING ON THE SCALE OF TUNISIA OR BOMBAY - OR EVEN 9/11?

I THINK MAYBE IT IS.

HERE'S WHY:

THERE HAVE BEEN A SPATE OF ISIS ARRESTS RECENTLY.

AND UNPRECEDENTED PUBLIC WARNINGS ABOUT THIS HOLIDAY WEEKEND.

FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE FBI HAS SET UP COMMAND CENTERS AROUND THE USA AND CANCELED ALL VACATIONS AND LEAVES DURING THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND.

I THINK THE ARRESTS ARE PART OF A DESPERATE EFFORT TO FIND OUT WHERE AND HOW THE ENEMY WILL ATTACK.

IT WOULD SEEM, PERHAPS, THAT THEY ARE EXPECTING SIMULTANEOUS ATTACKS AROUND THE NATION - BUT HAVE SO FAR FAILED TO FIGURE OUT WHERE, HOW OR EXACTLY WHEN...

AFTER ALL: BECAUSE OF OBAMA'S POLICIES, THE USA HAS BEEN GETTING LESS INTEL... SO WE ARE RELATIVELY BLIND COMPARED TO THE BUSH ERA...

BE CAREFUL FOLKS...

HILLARY AND OBAMA ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE JIHADO-TERROR ATTACK IN TUNISIA

REUTERS: "Tunisia hotel gunman trained in Libya jihadist camp"

The Tunisian gunman who carried out a deadly attack on a hotel last Friday trained in a jihadist camp in Libya last year, Tunisia's government said on Tuesday. The death toll from the assault on the Imperial Marhaba beach hotel in the popular resort town of Sousse was revised down on Tuesday to 38 from a previously given 39. Most of the victims were British tourists. A spokesman for the prime minister said Saif Rezgui, who was killed by police following the rampage, was in Libya at the same time as two Tunisian gunmen who subsequently stormed the Tunis Bardo museum in March. The museum assault killed 21 people. The twin attacks have dealt a brutal blow to the country's vital tourism industry. 

Authorities have arrested three others for allegedly helping to plan Rezgui's attack, a security source said. "Rezgui had training in Libya at the end of 2014. He was trained during the same time in Libya as the Bardo attackers," prime ministerial spokesman Dafer Neji told Reuters.

OBAMA AND HILLARY DECIDED TO GET RID OF KADDAFY - WHO, AT THE TIME - AND FOR YEARS, WAS HELPING US FIGHT THE JIHADISTS.

OBAMA AND HILLARY GOT RID OF KADDAFY AND TURNED LIBYA INTO A JIHADIST SAFE HAVEN.

IF KADDAFY HAD BEEN LEFT IN POWER, THEN LIBYA COULD HAVE NEVER BEEN WHERE THE TUNISIA TERRORIST GOT HIS TRAINING AND PERHAPS THIS ATTACK WOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED - (AND THE JIHADISTS IN SYRIA WOULD HAVE GOTTEN FEWER WEAPONS).

HILLARY AND OBAMA ALSO ASSISTED THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD TAKE OVER EGYPT.

THE JIHADISTS HAVE STEADILY STRENGTHENED EVER SINCE OBAMA AND HILLARY TOOK OFFICE.

IN LIBYA, EGYPT (UNTIL - OVER OBAMA AND HILLARY'S OBJECTIONS - AL SISI TOOK BACK POWER), SYRIA, IRAQ, AND AFGHANISTAN, THE ENEMY IS DOING BETTER NOW THAN IN 2008.

THEY'RE NOT FOR PEACE  - OR SECURITY; THEY'RE ON THE OTHER SIDE.

BLOODY FRIDAY OF THE ISLAMOFASCISTS

Truth Revolt wrote about the bloodbath by jihadists this past week, including another massacre that occurred in Kuwait at a mosque, performed by Muslims against other Muslims, leaving at least 16 people dead. It's now known as "Bloody Friday".