As hardly a few days pass without some Islamic terror attack in the West—recently and as of this writing an “Allahu Akbar” shouting Muslim man stabbed a Jew in France and an “Allahu Akbar” screaming Muslim woman ran over two policemen in Canada—the West risks becoming desensitized to and seeing Islamic violence as “just another part of life.”
The words and deeds of Western leaders are not helping. After the Islamic terror attack in Nice, France, where 84 were killed, counterterrorism chief Patrick Calvar said: “Today, France is clearly the most threatened country. The question about the threat is not to know ‘if’ but ‘when’ and ‘where’.” Prime Minister Manuel Valls declared that “Terrorism … is a threat that weighs heavily on France and will continue doing so for a long time.”
As if such resignation wasn’t bad enough, at the memorial event for the 84 Nice victims, Valls declared, “Times have changed and we should learn to live with terrorism.”
Actually, the main thing to change with time in France is its demography. The largest Muslim population of Europe resides there and, in accordance’s with Islam’s Rule of Numbers, is the real reason why France “should learn to live with terrorism.”
More apathy was in the air during the Munich massacre, where a Muslim gunman killed nine.
While somberly addressing the massacre still in progress—with the usual boilerplate “our hearts go out to [X victim of terror]”—U.S. President Obama managed to crack a joke, grin, chuckle, and draw laughter from his audience.
After all, what is the big deal? Shouldn’t we be used to Muslims rampaging and killing by now? And really, what’s nine dead compared to the many hundreds killed by Islamic terrorists around the world in recent weeks?
As for the leader of the nation where the attack took place, Angela Merkel waited almost 24 hours before she delivered yet another perfunctory speech containing all the usual words, condolences, and platitudes.
Then again, what was the hurry? Muslims abusing, raping, and killing Germans in Germany is old hat. A new poll by ZDF found that a record 75 percent of Germans “expect”—which is not unlike accept—more terror attacks in their nation. Must a statement be made after every single one?!
Needless to say, lesser Islamic terror attacks which once would’ve been extremely newsworthy and received condemnation from the highest echelons of the political wrung now receive perfunctory or no media coverage and little comment.
On July 18 in Germany, another “Allahu Akbar” shouting, axe-waving Muslim attacked train passengers and critically injured five. The next day, on July 19 in France, a Muslim man stabbed a woman and her three daughters—the eight-year-old was left with a punctured lung and in critical condition—for being “scantily dressed.”
No immediate comments from Merkel and Valls. (See here for numerous other examples of “minor” and “everyday” Muslim “disturbances” in Europe—such as vandalizing churches and urinating on St. Mary statues—that get little or no coverage or comment.)
Western people had better wise up: in the field of behavioral psychology, “systematic desensitization” is a well-known and effective form of graduated exposure therapy used “to help effectively overcome phobias and other anxiety disorders.” Consider the following succinct definition with my relevant examples in brackets:
Systematic desensitization is when the client [the West] is exposed to the anxiety-producing stimulus [Islamic violence] at a low level [reports and images of Islamic violence “over there” in the Mideast], and once no anxiety is present a stronger version of the anxiety-producing stimulus is given [reports of violence closer to home, in the West]. This continues until the individual client [the West] no longer feels any anxiety towards the stimulus [Islamic violence].
Is this the plan? Are the “global elite” producing situations, such as the manufactured “migrant crisis,” that cause the West to experience incrementally worse forms of Islamic violence, until it becomes desensitized, loses its “phobia”—in this case, “Islamophobia”—and simply “learns to live with terrorism,” in the words of France’s prime minister?
Indeed, if the attacks were to fall back to, say, just once a month, many might accept that as a “positive step” they can live with—at least in comparison to what they’ve been seeing, including four savage Islamic attacks in one recent week in Germany alone.
“Conspiracy theories” aside, a much better way exists. Acknowledge the truth—Islam is inherently violent and intolerant—and build policies on this truth. A ban on or serious vetting of Muslim immigration—which a majority of Americans support—and close monitoring of already existing mosques and Islamic centers would virtually eliminate Islamic terror from America.
For the fact remains: unlike natural disasters—earthquakes, tsunamis, tornadoes, and the like—we actually do not need to “live with” Islam.
Excellent article Raymond.
“..we actually do not need “to live with” Islam.” Though for politicians busy resolving rhetorically induced problems, thereby creating and continuing these cynically generated problems we do.
It is their jobs to do something, but the something that needs doing is unimaginable to this type of individual. All the better to acclimate your constituency to this new normal.
If only we could resolve it all by paying them off like Iran was in theory….many in the citizenry know this is not possible. Our “betters” need to roll the dice a little bit more; easier to BS the public (they believe) than to actually step up to the plate with ideas, that while perhaps not palatable are realistically the few options available.
From your mouth to their ears Mr Ibrahim.
“Nonstop Muslim atrocities” – the word you’re looking for is “jihad”.
And no, it’s not the “new” norm. It has been the norm for 1400 years,
and will continue to be the norm until the last of these barbarians is
annihilated off the face of this planet.
After years of political spin, obfuscation and willful blindness, those who refuse to believe their lying eyes and ears will not suddenly accept the fact that Islam is not now and never has been a religion of peace. They will need to be figuratively dragged, kicking and screaming to that realization and will never admit that their stubborn ignorance has likely caused the deaths of tens of thousands that might have been saved if brutal facts proved to be a stronger influence than their rosy, self delusional, politically correct fantasies. It never ceases to amaze that the Left is blind to their blatant duplicity as demonstrated by their emotional, obsequious, vociferous defense and accommodation to and for all things Muslim, as compared to their condemnation and absolute disdain for all other
religions.
“Nonstop Muslim atrocities” – the word you’re looking for is “jihad”.
And no, it’s not the “new” norm. It has been the norm for 1400 years,
and will continue to be the norm until the last of these barbarians is
annihilated off the face of this planet.
All of this makes me think of how you “boil a frog”. We’ll all be cooked before we realize it if something doesn’t change…
Rendered speechless by the perception, bravery, and articulation of Raymond Ibrahim.
Why use the secular term “terror/ terrorism” to what these Muslims are doing? They are clearly telling – in fact shouting at top of their voices – that their terror is FOR THE SAKE OF ALLAH!
When Islam itself has provided a distinct alternative term – Jihad and Mujahideen – it is better to use it and avoid confusion that a secular term like terror-terrorism-terrorist generates.
What some Muslims are doing is called jihad. Why they are doing it is recorded in Q2:216 & Q9:111 of the Quran.
So what we think is terror by devout Muslims is actually jihad and Muslim antipathy for terror generally hides their sympathy for jihad.
Hence it is unfair, politically correct and confusing to use secular words like terror, terrorism, terrorists, militancy or even vigilantism to describe what is essentially a theologically motivated behavior.
The way we are going, nothing is likely to change in the near future. In other words, we will continue to be held hostage by the Muslims and by their near-obsessive idea of the superiority of their religion. I remember, during India’s last General Election in 2014, hearing a Muslim politician proclaiming that if Muslims do not vote for a particular (Muslim-friendly) political party, they need to have their DNA analyzed to ascertain if they are true Muslims. Whoever thought that a man’s religious beliefs were coded in his DNA structure! The point is not that a puerile politician has the gall to make such a claim in the heat of an election campaign but that he expects to be believed. And no prizes for guessing that there are enough people to believe such a claim (even after 1400 years did I here you say?)