JVLV: A SPIRIT IS HAUNTING EUROPE. IT IS A SPIRIT OF ISLAMIC TERRORISM, By Jiri & Leni Valenta, 1-7-15

A spirit is haunting Europe;  It is a  spirit of  Islamic terrorism.  The latest attack is not just on the 12 dead editors and artists of a Paris magazine that satirized the prophet, it is an attack on free speech worldwide.  

Would President Obama finally wake up to the international dimension of the conflict?  Would he have the courage to understand that his enemies are not the Republican majority or the builders of the Keystone Pipeline or the critics of Obamacare in Congress? The enemy is Islamic terrorists worldwide.   Nor is the seriousness of an attack on America´s Fort Hood  by an attacker shouting “Allah Akbar,“ diminished by the President misnaming  it  “workplace violence,” and stubbornly refusing to call the attack on the Frrench journal  Islamic terrorism.  Shakespeare, not soporific terms are apropos;  A rose by any other name is still a rose. 

The Paris attack was brilliantly planned and executed.    Like other past attacks, particularly the one a few years ago in Holland, this one attack is on free speech.  The French journal was publishing funny cartoons about the Islamic prophet.  It follows the recent cyber-attack by North Korea on Sony for producing a video discomforting to the leader of this terrorist state.  North Korean terrorist regime also threatened a major attack on America if the video was released.  Muslim terrorists have gone a step further – no warning with an actual attack. 

 Not only theattack on the  Parisian editors, but also the social media, are spreading the terror.   For disclosure, we have received threatening comments on Linkedin for our website, jvlv.net, that accuses us of “hating Moslems.”  In fact, we have Moslem friends around the world.  We also believe there is a prevalent, positive message in the Koran.  However, invidious interpretations of the Koran are being used to justify not just religious and racial hatred, but mass murder, torture, slavery, rape and anti-Semitism.  And astonishingly, in defiance of the teachings of all the world prophets including Mohammad himself, this is being perpetrated in the name of God! Consider that attacks are being launched not only on Paris, Sydney, Boston, New York, Ottawa, London, Holland, northern Nigeria and Russia´s northern Caucasus, but also Peshawar in Muslim nation Pakistan.

European fears are now emptying churches and causing synagogues and Jewish museums to become fortresses.  Nor do the Chamberlain-like illusions of policy-makers that they can cope with Islamic terrorists by paying ransoms or boycotting Israeli goods help the situation.  Appeasement is never the answer and surely not here. New alliances, and new laws and actions, like the U.S. Embassy in Paris reprinting the daring caricature of Mohammed on its site,  are necessary to plan and respond to the world struggle against terrorism.

  Since this is an ideological battle, an outreach on many levels is needed to peace loving Moslems and to others who do not adequately understand their own religion.  The terrorists can never ultimately win.  They are too divided among themselves.  But they can surely intimidate and terrify Western cities and nations, help to forge anti-Israel boycotts and pump out anti-U.S. propaganda if we do not defy them and defeat them.

JVLV.NET also deals with post-communist conflicts.  Our site has taken to task President Putin for the violence in the Eastern Ukraine.  Yet, we believe ultimately that Putin or his successor will join our struggle against terrorism.