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This is a truth that needs to be addressed... ISRAEL is not our enemy or the worlds enemy....Islamic extremists are... |
It is not a war on terror. It is not a war for free speech. It is a war for the preservation of our western civilisation and modernity. This is Benjamin Natanyahu speaking in Paris:
“Our common enemy is radical, extremist Islam — not normal Islam,” Netanyahu said at the Grand Synagogue in Paris, after briefly joining other world leaders in a march against extremism through the capital that drew up to 1.6 million people, according to AFP. . . .
“Although the various factions of Islamic extremism are involved in their own local bloody conflicts, including among themselves, they are all driven from the same ambition: to impose a dark despotic regime on the world, to take humanity a thousand years backward. They trample anyone who does not share their beliefs, and at the top of the list are their fellow Muslims, but their greatest hatred is reserved for Western culture, the same culture that respects freedom, equal rights, all the things they so despise.”
“Radical Islam does not hate the West because of Israel. It hates Israel because it is an organic part of the West. It sees Israel, and rightly so, as an island of democracy, justice and Western tolerance in a sea of fanaticism and violence that it wants to impose on the Middle East, Europe and the world,” continued Netanyahu.
Israel, he stressed, is attacked “because of its very existence and essence. But not only we are being attacked. Look around you: the whole world is under attack, the whole world.
The war is not on Islam. The war is with Islam, against its extremest fringe. George W. Bush tried to make that point by calling it a “War on Terror”. The same desire not to offend is found in the “Je suis Charlie” slogan. Both fail to get to the heart of the matter because they refuse to make the statement that needs to be said. We are in a struggle on the side of the majority of the world’s Muslim population against our common enemy, radical extremist Islam. Unless there is clarity about who the enemy is, this is a war that cannot be won since there is no clear idea what it is that must be defeated.
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