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Just over a year ago (last October) I wrote an article entitled ‘Is Jihadism Becoming Accepted?” (google to read it in full). After the Paris attacks of last week, and given the length and intensity of the reaction to them, I believe I am justified in recycling some quotes from it.
“During this process of Islamisation…” I began “…a good way of gauging the will to resist in the general population is to monitor the speed of recovery after each individual Muslim outrage; that is, how long it takes for the public to resume its usual apathetic mood after being shocked anew by a terror attack or comparable scandal involving Muslims…”
I then gave a brief history of terror outrages (against Western targets), noting that each reaction was briefer than the one before… “The pattern here is obvious: Years, then months, then weeks, then days… Jihadism – it seems – is becoming assimilated into everyday Western life. This is potentially devastating and for several reasons…Most of all it is because shock and anger are integral to the psychology of human resistance.”
Now, a question: Do you believe the reaction to the Paris attacks of this month has been more proactive, severe or long-lasting than the reaction to the Charlie Hebdo shootings of last January? Personally, I don’t believe so.
Indeed, facebook gimmicks and a few cruise missiles aside, there has been very few political consequences. While, for 24 hours or so, the world was undoubtedly transfixed on the Bataclan carnage, a few days more reduced the event to fish and chip paper. Compare this to the years of outrage over 9/11, the months of outrage over 7/7, the weeks of outrage over Lee Rigby, and the 5 or 6 days of outrage over Charlie Hebdo. While more people dislike – even hate – Muslims than ever before, there is a diminishing vibrancy and intelligence in their emotions. Perhaps needless to say, this is gravely worrying.
Whatever else can be said about Muslims, one cannot say that they are forgetful. Indeed, we are still being attacked in retribution for the re-conquest of Andalusia, the Balfour declaration and the publishing of the Satanic Verses. Muslims remember. They hold grudges. The Western mind, by contrast, is easier to distract than the mind of toddler loaded up on Jelly beans. Whether to facebook, twitter, youtube, xbox or football, Western attention flees from unpleasant realities, having given them only the briefest glance in the first place.
This must change if we are to survive. If terrorism becomes an accepted part of our culture and everyday lives, we will lose the will to do anything decisive or conclusive about it. Religious violence is not acceptable in the modern world, and nor is it inevitable, natural or ‘the way things go’. It is exceptional, horrid and shocking and must remain so to our imagination.
D, LDN
The truth of this article is reflected in the fact that the number of new signatures to the petition arguing for a suspension of immigration has dropped like a stone in the short period of days since the attacks. Peaking as high as 23000 or more per day immediately after the attacks it has now fallen to less than 1000 per day.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/107516
It’s a real shame.
If there is a terror attack in Brussels, the same thing will occur. Brief outrage, followed by guilt and apology.
Do not despair. I was reading something very interesting. It concerns the number of young French people applying to enlist in the French army. At the enlistment website the number of new inquiries was sitting at about 130/ 150 a day *untilI* the Charlie Hebdo attack in January this year. Then it went up to 500 a day…and it *stayed* there, more or less. All year. Not dropping back to pre-attack levels. And then came November 13 2015. Upon which the number of inquiries *tripled*, to 1500 inquiries a day, and is chugging along at that heightened level. The French army bloke who’s in charge of recruitment professes himself to be stupefied by this…it is *unprecedented*. If *that* continues, then what we have to say is that a whole hell of a lot of young French people – especially after their favourite night-spots and people like them have been blown away by dead-eyed zombie jihad terrorists – have dried their tears and dropped off a bunch of flowers…and stamped off to the army website to Register Interest. (Apparently the bricks-and-mortar recruitment centres, as opposed to the recruiting website, s’engager, have *also* had a flood of applicants fronting up). “Give me a gun, give me some training, I want to FIGHT those murdering bastards”….something is turning, something is moving in the depths of the waters. On one website where I read about this, one of the comments was from a person who declared he was off to join the French Foreign Legion. So I wonder, given the publicity about Jihad mass-murder in Paris, just how many applicants the **French Foreign Legion** is finding itself fielding, right now?
That’s certainly encouraging. I just worry about our conventional forces being under the control of quisling regimes. The regimes themselves must change if substantial action is to be taken.
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