Islam is an ideology built on violence and whose scripture is infused with calls for violence. Therefore it should be of little surprise to see that nations that have more Islam have more violence and more terrorism. Would anyone think anything other than that a violent ideology would create people with a propensity for committing acts of violence and terrorism? Religious founders and foundational texts matter. This is why a religion like Islam which takes as its founder, a man called Mohammed who raped and murdered and robbed, is much more likely to be violent than a religion founded in the name of a hippie first century Rabbi. It’s obvious that an ideology that was founded in violence is unlikely to end up as a true ‘religion of peace’. All religions of course have had violent periods but with Islam this violence is with us in the present and that is why France is finding out that the more Islam that there is in France and in French society, the more violence will be aimed at the nation’s non Muslim citizens.
France is having to have a large part of its ground army including parts of the Foreign Legion operating within France to protect citizens from attack from the approximately 8% of the population who are, according to the CIA Factbook, Muslim. In addition to this large military presence the French judicial system is groaning under the weight of more and more terrorist cases coming their way/
According to a Reuters report published on the 24th October 2017, there have been so many terrorist cases that extra staff are required in the investigatory and judicial sectors in order to deal with the arrested terrorist Muslims. Reuters said that there had been tenfold increase in terror arrests in only five years. It appears to me that what France has is not a terror problem or even an Islamic crime problem but a situation that could be developing into a full on insurgency with more and more Muslims taking up arms against the French state and the French people. It’s truly staggering to see such a large increase in terror cases in just a short period of time.
Reuters said:
The workload of the anti-terrorism justice system has risen ten-fold in the past five years, ministry figures show, with a sharp increase since 2014, when followers of the Islamic State group specifically called for attacks targeting the French.
More than 240 people have been killed in the past three years in France, including 130 by a group of IS-inspired gunmen and suicide bombers in Paris in November 2015.
I’m not surprised to see that as the Islamic population of France has grown so has the number of arrests for terrorism. However, it’s even more staggering to see this level of threat and violence when the Muslim population is relatively small. How much worse will it be if there were 15% or 20% Muslims?
The bottom line is that France is at war. They are at war with an imported fifth column that is more and more often and more openly showing that they are separating themselves from both the French state and French culture and society. This is really not going to end well at all for France. It’s all right to treat terrorism as a criminal matter when terrorist groups and their wellsprings are relatively small and of course the judicial system needs beefing up in France. But, when there is so much violence that the state is finding itself unable to cope and there is a large proportion of the military on the streets, then maybe it’s time for France to cease seeing Islamic terrorism as a criminal problem and start to see it as a military problem that needs the by now justifiable harshness of a military solution?
More Islam equals more Islamic violence, and we need now only to look at France to see that statement being played out and proven to be true. I hope the French can survive the Islamic problems that they’ve got but they will only do so if they recognise that too many of its Muslim citizens have declared war on France.
