France mobilises 7,000 soldiers and goes on high terror alert
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Saturday's mobilisation announcement came after President Macron held an emergency security cabinet meeting on Friday evening.

France is mobilising 7,000 soldiers and increasing its alert status to “emergency attack” level after the death of a teacher in the northeast town of Arras, stabbed to death Friday by a former student with a record of Islamic radicalisation.

President Emmanuel Macron made the decision after convening an emergency meeting of his security cabinet on Friday night.

Macron has described the stabbing attack, which left two other staff members at the school seriously injured, as “Islamist terrorism.”

  • SpziEnglish
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    9 months ago

    It’s not a random coincidence. Islam, like Christianity, has plenty of calls to violence in scripture and culture.

    For example, see article 7 of the Hamas founding charter:

    “The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (evidently a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews.” (related by al-Bukhari and Moslem).

    Other terror organizations like Boko Haram and Al Quaeda similarly quote other parts from the Quran. Because they can, because it’s there.

    So for your analogy to work, we would have to assume “America” has some inherently violent parts at it’s core. Which it probably does.

    In a true “Religion of Peace”, extremists would have to invent things, not bend things, to justify violence.

    Obligatory disclaimer, the overwhelming majority of Muslims (and Christians) are peaceful, decent people.