By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--December 19, 2014
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“It is worth recalling that Hezbollah's so-called political wing is legal in the country. According to Germany's national domestic intelligence report covering 2013, and published in June 2014, Hezbollah has 950 active members in the Federal Republic. There are also roughly 6,300 radical Islamists in Germany who are supporters of the Sunni branch of Salafism, Interior Minister de Maiziere said last week. Many of these Salafists are connected to the ideologies of al Qaeda, Shabaab, or the Islamic State. “Germany's latest domestic intelligence report described the growth of Salafists as the most "dynamic Islamic movement" in Germany."How often have we heard in the direct aftermath of the latest terrorist attack: “We shouldn’t rush to conclusions”? Abbott, Merkel and Obama merely frustrate their populations when they defiantly refuse to call terrorism out for what it truly is, but their lack of courage and truth in identification not only enables, but encourages further acts of terrorism by showing the we-don’t-fight-back weakness of the terrorists’ enemies. Terrorists who catch up on the news on the Net are as much online as are politicians and Hollywood stars. There is ample proof that they do most of their recruiting online. Political hacks like Lois Lerner take the Fifth to keep the truth about IRS corruption out of the public limelight, terrorists take to Twitter, and star behind masks in YouTube beheadings that go viral. Terrorists can proceed with the kind of confidence that comes from knowing that as long as Obama is in office, there will be no boots on the ground; no spurning of countries classified as in the state sponsored terrorism category. Kill-happy terrorists of the day, whether called al Qaeda or ISIS, know full well that their Muslim brothers who master minded 9/11 were never--in any way--called to justice. They know, just like most others do that some 14 years on, Congress, courtesy of Senator Diane Feinstein seeks justice, not for the killers of innocents, but for the water-boarding and torture tactics of the CIA. Just two months after Canada’s two 2014 terrorists attacks, one in Quebec, one brazenly at Ottawa’s War Memorial, there’s no talk about terrorism in this country. Days after the terrorist attack snuffed out the lives of 132 school children, and 9 staff members in Pakistan, same thing. A week after the Lindt terrorist attack in Sydney, Australia, mostly Tony Abbott’s voice giving a terrorist the cover of “deeply disturbed individual” status. The mainstream media is not talking about terrorist attacks in Canada, Australia or Pakistan. They’re talking about movie world fears for freedom of speech because the screening of a Christmas Day parody was pulled, due to threats maybe from North Korea, maybe China or perhaps Russia. In the U.S. routine hack attacks on average citizens by their own government agencies like NSA are virtually ignored, but the howls from Hollywood and the White House on the suspected North Korea computer attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment are both dominant and deafening. “The suspected North Korea computer attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment is a “serious national security matter,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Thursday, as officials said the Obama administration is preparing to announce who it believes is behind the devastating hack. (Washington Post, Dec. 18, 2014) Earnest said that the White House is weighing options for a “proportional” response to the attack whose ramifications President Obama is monitoring “very closely himself.” A “proportional” response to the hack attack from Hawaii? Take THAT, Kim Jong-un! It’s the movie world’s fears of loss of freedom of speech for a parody being pulled and not terrorism that finds Obama’s personal attention. Meanwhile, as long as Western leaders take to mics warning the unwashed masses never to refer to terrorism as terrorism, it’s going to be happy hunting for worldwide terrorists.
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