WNW 172-Islamic Terror Spreads West, Oil Price Plunge, Declining Economy

Oracle 911 01/09/2015  •

Hi Greg
I just want point out few things:
1st Islamist attacks are not unintended. Yes, somebody is using these Gladio-like tactics to form the public opinion to push agendas.
2nd Paris attackers are childes of immigrants.
3rd Up to 5% of Muslims are wackjobs-Islamists.
4th Only 16% of Russian GDP is from oil and gas revenues, about 10-15% is from other resource selling.
5th Obama is either provoking the Russians or the falling oil prices are unintended consequences of strong US Dollar or more likely both.

My 2 cents
Oracle 911

allen ols 01/09/2015  •

greg;

There are two ways to look at the alleged terrorist attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

One is that in the English speaking world, or much of it, the satire would have been regarded as “hate speech,” and the satirists arrested. But in France Muslims are excluded from the privileged category, took offense at the satire, and retaliated.

Why would Muslims bother? By now Muslims must be accustomed to Western hypocrisy and double standards. Little doubt that Muslims are angry that they do not enjoy the protections other minorities receive, but why retaliate for satire but not for France’s participation in Washington’s wars against Muslims in which hundreds of thousands have died? Isn’t being killed more serious than being satirized?

Another way of seeing the attack is as an attack designed to shore up France’s vassal status to Washington. The suspects can be both guilty and patsies. Just remember all the terrorist plots created by the FBI that served to make the terrorism threat real to Americans.
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/01/08/charlie-hebdo-tsarnaevs-trial-qui-bono/

J Medina 01/09/2015  •

Greg,
US supported terrorists have been trying to attack the US/West for many years. Remember the attacks on US embassies in Africa and the USS Cole in Yemen. Is blow-back coming to haunt the West? Now it is so overt that Stevie Wonder can see it. NATO announced this week that Russia was an ally against global terrorism. Look at some of the countries that have been attack recently by terrorist. For instance, Australia signed a trade agreement with China in November 2014 and suffered a terrorist attack four weeks later. Also, French President Holland recently stated the sanctions against Russia should end immediately. A few days later terrorist attacked Charlie Hebdo. Is this a coincidence ? Those who are moving away from the US sphere are getting attacked.
Terrorist attacks in Europe are an attempt to further create chaos and a scapegoat. Muslims are one of the fastest growing minority/immigrant group in Europe. If people act in vigilantism, it could cause great riots over Europe. A way to distract people from the horrible European economy. This is similar to the chaos in the US caused by the false narrative, with respect to police actions and minorities. This is a way to divide and conquer; mental slavery. These distractions are a way to control the conversation away from the collapsing economy, corrupt government, and their puppet masters, banksters.
Although the US economy is dying from its core, Russia has one of the strongest economies. From what I found Russia has zero external debt, massive amounts of natural resources with a large amount of readily customers, increasing trade ties around the world (BRICS and their associates), not only great technological advances in defense systems, but also medicine and a strong currency (I think it is free floating).
The US economy is sinking. It is up to us to decide if we will go down with the ship or build lifeboats.

paul 01/09/2015  •

Greg …
Just a thought … if Islamic terrorists from Syria (planning and carrying out attacks on France and England) were backed and financed by Assad … do you think both France and England would be sending their fighter jets over the Syrian Capital?
Most probably France and England would without a doubt go after Assad for backing and financing these terrorists attacking them … so the question then arises … why don’t we see French and English fighter jets flying over Washington (for financing and backing the Islamic terrorists now attacking London and Paris)??

DiscoProJoe 01/09/2015  •

Great commentary, Greg, but with one point of disagreement. You say, “The real enemy is radical Islam.”

However, my views are as follows:

A. Your worst enemy (and the biggest threat to your freedom) is *yourself*: making unwise decisions, remaining in situations that don’t suit you, and blaming yourself for other people’s problems.

B. The second-most-significant threat to your freedom is *your own government*: confiscating a large portion of your income, stifling the economy, attempting to micromanage every facet of your life, and putting you at risk of rogue attacks and terrorist acts because of your regime’s insane foreign policies.

C. Foreign enemies (and terrorists) pose *very little* threat to your freedom — especially when compared to yourself and your own government. Politicians, the mainstream media, and some of their major lobbyists, shareholders, and advertisers love to fool people away from this obvious fact.

Now, imagine how much better most people’s lives would be if each of them focused 97 percent of their personal energy on (A), three percent of their efforts on (B), and almost nothing on (C). Wow…it’s amazing, isn’t it!

Anyway, on this topic, check out my favorite author Harry Browne’s most widely-read article he ever published, entitled, “When Will We Learn?” released online late in the evening of September 11, 2001. I remember cheering when receiving it in my e-mail late that evening. He eventually made it into a 4-part series. You can read it here: http://www.wnd.com/2001/09/10817

Happy New Year, and happy enlightenment! 🙂

Mason 01/09/2015  •

To illustrate my point that the islamist terrorits attacks in Paris serve the purpose of the government:

Martin Armstrong writes:

Italy’s Version of the Patriot Act?

“The Italian government is preparing to enact stronger anti-terrorism laws in the wake of the Paris attack. Our sources in Italy see this as an opportunity much like the Patriot Act was used in the USA after 911. Any terror suspects who wish to leave the country, their passport can be withdrawn. The police should have more rights to block websites that used the terrorists for propaganda as well. THE DEFINITION OF A “TERRORIST”: IS BECOMING ANYONE WHO DISAGREES WITH GOVERNMENT. The problem in italy is the rise resistance against Europe. This is being fueled as unemployment among the youth exceeds 50%.”
[emphasis mine]

http://armstrongeconomics.com/2015/01/09/italys-version-of-the-patriot-act/

Robert E. Salt 01/09/2015  •

I doubt very much that Islamic terrorists were involved with the attack in Paris. The identity of patsies were conveniently left in the killers’ vehicle, just like the passport of a patsy was left at 9/11. Who do you suppose would set up Arab muslims? “War by deception”. This story conveniently happened right after Prince Andrew was linked to Epstein island. I just found out that some of our abortion clinics uses fetuses to be raised like cattle and used as sex slaves for pedophiles in the military industrial complex and for powerful people in government and the motion picture industry. Without parents these children have no one to care about them. Prominent American names have been linked to the Epstein island of sex slaves as well as Prince Andrew.

In God eTrust 01/09/2015  •

So How Will This Screwed Up World Be Put Out It’s Misery?

“You are not in darkness, so that that day should overtake you as it would thieves.”—1 THESS. 5:4.

Unseen developments are indicated in the following scriptures.

1 Thessalonians 5:3
Revelation 17:16
Daniel 2:44

What will help us to keep on the watch and cope with trials to come?

EARTHSHAKING events will soon occur. The fulfillment of Bible prophecies confirms this fact, so we need to keep on the watch. What will help us to do that? The apostle Paul urges us to “keep our eyes . . . on the things unseen.” Yes, we need to bear in mind our reward of everlasting life, be it in heaven or on earth. As the context shows, Paul wrote these words to encourage fellow believers to focus on the happy outcome of their faithful course. Doing so would also help them to cope with trials and persecution.—2 Cor. 4:8, 9, 16-18; 5:7.

EVENTS LEADING UP TO A TIME OF PEACE
So, do the events that are yet unseen that we considered so far, lead us to a time period we will enjoy? Significant developments and earthshaking events are ahead of us. We look forward to seeing how the saying of “Peace and security!” will come about. Then we will witness the destruction of Babylon the Great, the attack by Gog of Magog, the battle of Armageddon, and the hurling into the abyss of Satan and his demons. After these events, when all wickedness is gone, we will enter a new chapter in life—Christ’s Millennial Reign, during which we will enjoy an “abundance of peace.”—Ps. 37:10, 11.

And in addition to the five events we have examined so far, there are other “things unseen” on which we want to “keep our eyes. . .”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-nPsrX05Rk
Empires come and go and life will go on and will continue on, forever and forever. Be there to enjoy it! Prepare for the worst and expect the best,… outcome, . . . that is!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqvlucAVoqI

James Sullivan 01/09/2015  •

Greg, I usually find your statements / interviews to be balanced for the most part….but i think you are missing some of the backstory re the muslims. France has approx 5 million muslim , none of which have been offered French citizenship. Immigrants always search out neighborhoods of like ….language, food, and family are more comfortable when surrounded by similar immigrants. In North America, these immigrant ghettoes end up losing their cohesion as upward mobility allows the children to move out into the larger world of the main culture. In Toronto, the Kennsington district was first populated by the Italian immigrants, but after their children grew up, and left home, one could then see the next immigrant wave (Protugueese) move in and the ghettoe became more Portugueese in flavor.
The muslims in France were like most immigrants…searching for a better life for their family etc. FRANCE, in its zenophobia (anything not French) did not offer these people the rights of citizenship ….and have created an intractable problem. Notwithstanding the small % who turn terrorist, most immigrants enrich their new homeland ….but not so much when they are treated as lower class non-citizens.

Patrick 01/09/2015  •

Thank YOU Greg. See ya on Monday.

Janet G. 01/09/2015  •

Suggestion to all

Google Pepe Escobar on who really is behind the Paris murders. Learn.
The comments here seem to be exactly the sheeple preferred by the US Government.

Charles H. 01/09/2015  •

Greg,

With respect to many Muslim friends… because the Law is coded into Islamic Scripture, it is a bomb whose fuse can be lit whenever the time or motive comes. The many Muslims in the world who desire peace and harmony are admirable. Still because it is written for them, and available to be studied and used: the source material for radicalization is there. And since it is a Charter of both religious and governmental purpose: it sets the broad Arabic family (originally) to be the exclusive franchise of representing God to the world, and governance for the Human Race. I can only say, that my idea of God is One that respects individual sovereign will for matters of Faith; and Self-defense for practices of morality.
As far as arming “moderate Muslim” fighters: this is a farce. Genesis 16:12,13. “And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard of thy affliction. And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.” IF you ARM one: you arm THEM ALL. Nothing will degrade the cohesion that Islamic identity bestows. Obama MORE THAN SYMPATHIZES with his father’s Islamic roots.

The Scope of Nature reveals the scope of Man’s confusion and greed. Man is building another Tower of Babbel, in an economic/governmental sense: and nobody is going to get their mind around it. Their purpose in building it will go on… until it falls. And fall – it will. The last Tower (or monolith), so to speak, will be a pure and absolutely imposed governmental/religious (One World) one, rising out of the rubble soon to come.

Rick Perkins 01/09/2015  •

Greg,

When you mention “Islamic terrorism” please consider the following possibility..

“…what is unfolding today is, not a war on terrorism to defend freedom, but a war on freedom that requires the defense of terrorism…” – G. Edward Griffin, “The Chasm, The Future Is Calling (Part One)”
http://www.freedomforceinternational.org/pdf/futurecalling1.pdf

Creating an enemy to instill fear in the public in order to more easily manipulate them is a common and very reliable political tactic that has been used throughout history but which absolutely nothing to do with religion. The use of the presstitute phrase “Islamic terrorism” is beneath you, in my opinion.

paul 01/09/2015  •

It seems Russia, the Saudi’s, China, and most of the rest of the world … are joining together to hurl the evil Cabal down into the abyss where Satan and his other demon sociopaths reside!

All the Cabal’s sociopaths (without conscience or morals) are presently killing innocents in a flurry of false flag operations … to try and bail themselves out of the certain fate that awaits them … but once their Tower of Babble [their world fiat empire] crumbles … and the fiat paper they print (with their Illuminati symbols) is no longer accepted as legitimate payment for anything of value … the people, the politicians and even the military they control with their fiat … will all “Stand Down” and not take orders from the Cabal anymore.

This is why it is vitally imperative that the evil Cabal do everything in their power to keep the fiat Ponzi Scheme going … to do so however will likely require many more false flags … to take “the focus off” the fact that they will likely need $100 quadrillion more paper dollars to keep their Ponzi Scheme going … but printing more and more fiat simply pushes the Cabal’s “matrix money” closer and closer to the “worthlessness” they fear the most … as worthless fiat takes “their power over others” away from them!!

Thus the intense hatred by the Cabal for “unencumbered” money like gold and silver … and is why they fight and fight to push gold and silver down … but people have awakened to the fraud … and even with the US dollar rising people are buying millions and millions of silver coins … they see what the Fed has done since 1913 … sucking the value out of the US dollar to such an extent that it is now worth only 2 cents in purchasing power! … the Cabal’s hubris and immoral acts they do for greed and power is insatiable but won’t last much longer … for the world has awakened!!

John M. 01/09/2015  •

I also have one of those 50 trillion Zimbabwe dollar notes framed and hanging in my office. I have had it for several years as a constant reminder to myself of where our US currency is headed. I also have some wonderful cartoons of $100 dollar bills being used as rolls of toilet paper, also not an exaggeration.
I wholeheartedly agree with Donna about Pope Francis, and I’m a ultra-conservative Catholic. There is something sinister about environmentalism being cleverly used by Western governments and religion to destroy our economic system, perhaps to replace it with a one-world economic, political, and spiritual entity. Strange times indeed, and I think we ain’t seen noth’in yet!

Galaxy 500 01/09/2015  •

Greg
Great wrap up. ANOTHER week another atrocity by moslem animals. Paris is surrounded by enclaves were French law is replaced with Sharia law. It seems that the French are waking up and discover that they are surrounded.

Brad 01/09/2015  •

There’s always something interesting going on here at USA Watch Dog. No doubt the west’s security forces are using the ol’ fear game to panic and herd the public with the events in France. Personally, I’d be more worried about surviving and traffic stop in America than having a run in with a terrorist, real or FBI synthetic. Any terrorists strike, real or synthetic, will be stopped just like 9/11 was as the hit is much more usable than the save. The French event was a warning to keep France in line after Hollande last Monday went against an imperial prime directive by stating the sanctions against Russia must end. That’s a big one. Retribution was swift so there’d be no misunderstanding with the Hebdo killings on Wednesday. Not as severe as I would have thought but on short notice it was a strong enough message; unlike in Norway which because it pulled out of it’s active bombing mission of Libya and also perhaps it’s failure to make its national sovereign fund available to the banksters they suffered two downtown bombing and the mass murder of the ruling party’s teens and young adults. Other examples of the demonstration of raw cold power as warnings abound. MH17 may not have had the desired results in the frame and blame game but the room sure went quiet with that display of what can happen on anyone’s flight.

Enjoyed the week here at USA WD and look forward to what will appear here in the future.

Mitch Bupp 01/10/2015  •

Great weekend wrap-up Greg, thank you for your continued reporting … the world needs to hear the astute analysis of you and your guests ……

Old Dog 01/10/2015  •

I know a man working for the oil fields in ND.
Shutdown of new drillings have begun.
He said he was told that the oil companies are preparing for oil to go below $20/barrel and for the price not to start rebounding before 2016.

Don from Oklahoma 01/11/2015  •

To Aurele; I noticed your post and wanted to comment. There is great sadness I feel writing this. I’m over 60, and the foundation that our nation was built on, it’s Christian heritage, the constitution and bill of rights, are all in danger. Most of our leaders since the 1940’s or 50’s though starting out as a small percent have now gone to bed with the globalist. In 1944 the league of nation’s came into being with a global plan of creating a One world government. It latter became the UN, with the same ambition. In 1913 on Jeckell Island off the coast of Mass. the federal reserve was created which gave a private banking cabal the control of our money supply. The banking cabal, was able to control inflation, deflation, war, industry, military, and our leaders through growth of wealth flowing through the hands of the oligarcy, which were themselves the private shar holders of the Federal Reserve, and enrich the politicians that changed the law’s, so greater wealth and power was shuffled into there hands, while the poor and middle class suffered. They would cause years of prosperity, only to shuffle assets back in to their hands using a capitalistic system. Then over a period of time, the politicians were chosen by them, even though the people voted, the media and money, owned by these people would only allow a candidate of there choosing to win, It didn’t matter which one won, both were owned by them. This has created a shadow government within our government. All along the UN developed it’s own global government framework. You can see it by going to UN home page. So the American people have now for decades, been controlled by these globalist through there ever growing web of industrial complex, and central bank expansion around the world. There is only about 3 countries left that do not have a central bank. Syria, Iran, and North Korea. The Technicrats of the Europian Union are an unelected governing body of all of Europe. This is were the world is heading. It is through international treaties, that the world is being divided up into trading blocks, the newest is the bric nations euroasian block, were Russia and China are the big players. Now that the world has been divided up into these trade blocks, the UN is seeking to take its place as each nation gives its own sovereignty over to the UN. Our leaders will one day soon, including Canada as part of the NAFA block give yours and my nation’s sovereignty to the UN. Right now the UN and many nation’s leaders are trying to get the nation’s leaders to levy tax money from there population’s to the UN. This will be a totalitarian world government.

Mason 01/11/2015  •

Do we want to fix the US? Yes, we do! Here is how:

Ron Paul offers Congress a Ten-point blueprint for how to fix the US:
TEN NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS FOR AMERICA …

1) Bring the troops home
2) Pass the Audit the Fed bill
3) Repeal the PATRIOT Act and rein in the National Security Agency
4) Shut down the Transportation Security Administration
5) End all corporate welfare
6) Repeal and Replace Obamacare
7) End police militarization
8) Shut down the Department of Education
9) Allow individuals to opt out
10) Allow state governments to opt out

http://www.fitsnews.com/2015/01/05/ron-paul-hey-congress-want-to-fix-the-country

diane 01/11/2015  •

Hi guys
I am relatively new to Greg’s great blog here.
I have a sophomoric question.
IF we have a complete economic global collapse? How do we protect any assets we have?
Cash, precious metal coins? Do we sit on equities and wait for recovery?

mohammad 01/11/2015  •

Greg,

This is a post relying to your question:

{{{{{{{{{Mohamad,
Help me out here please. When I put this question in Google: “Does the Koran really say Jews and Christians should be killed?”
I get: “They but wish that ye should reject Faith, as they do, and thus be on the same footing (as they): But take not friends from their ranks until they flee in the way of Allah (From what is forbidden). But if they turn renegades, seize them and slay them wherever ye find them; and (in any case) take no friends or helpers from their ranks. . . Surah 4:89″

The translation below the Surah said, “If Jews and Christians reject Islam, this says to capture them and kill them, wherever they are.”

Is this misquoted from the Koran? Isn’t this why Islamic extremists are killing Christians? I am not giving you a hard time. Can you give your take?
Greg}}}}}}}}}}}}}

First off there is a rule that applies to any textual document, and that is :
If you take a part of it outside the context of the whole you go astray, miss the whole point and worse, if a decision is based on misinformation results can be devastating.

That Surat you referred to is سورة النساء (surat number 4) translation is the “verse of women”, that particular verse shows the utmost respect Islam has to women and the utmost protection of women’s rights in all aspects of life.

The particular Ayat (number 89, hence 4:89″) you referred to are NOT RELATED to Jews nor to Christians, actually if you read the one before and one after you get a good idea about the CONTEXT,

The Aya before is number 88,
{فَمَا لَكُمْ فِي الْمُنَافِقِينَ فِئَتَيْنِ وَاللَّهُ أَرْكَسَهُمْ بِمَا كَسَبُوا أَتُرِيدُونَ أَنْ تَهْدُوا مَنْ أَضَلَّ اللَّهُ وَمَنْ يُضْلِلِ اللَّهُ فَلَنْ تَجِدَ لَهُ سَبِيلًا (88)}
Translation:
“What is [the matter] with you [that you are] two groups concerning the hypocrites, while Allah has made them fall back [into error and disbelief] for what they earned. Do you wish to guide those whom Allah has sent astray? And he whom Allah sends astray – never will you find for him a way [of guidance].”

The Aya that follows the one you quoted is number 90:
{إِلَّا الَّذِينَ يَصِلُونَ إِلَىٰ قَوْمٍ بَيْنَكُمْ وَبَيْنَهُمْ مِيثَاقٌ أَوْ جَاءُوكُمْ حَصِرَتْ صُدُورُهُمْ أَنْ يُقَاتِلُوكُمْ أَوْ يُقَاتِلُوا قَوْمَهُمْ ۚ وَلَوْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ لَسَلَّطَهُمْ عَلَيْكُمْ فَلَقَاتَلُوكُمْ ۚ فَإِنِ اعْتَزَلُوكُمْ فَلَمْ يُقَاتِلُوكُمْ وَأَلْقَوْا إِلَيْكُمُ السَّلَمَ فَمَا جَعَلَ اللَّهُ لَكُمْ عَلَيْهِمْ سَبِيلًا}
Translation:
“Except for those who take refuge with a people between yourselves and whom is a treaty or those who come to you, their hearts strained at [the prospect of] fighting you or fighting their own people. And if Allah had willed, He could have given them power over you, and they would have fought you. So if they remove themselves from you and do not fight you and offer you peace, then Allah has not made for you a cause [for fighting] against them.”

So it is about the Hypocrites, (and not the JEWS, nor the CHRISTIANS) that are conspiring and fighting and in certain timeline killed muslims, so in brief the 3 Ayats , the one you quoted and the two that precedes and follows all stress one thing and that is :
IF SOME ONE FIGHTS YOU, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO FIGHT BACK.
And that is RIGHT.

Again:
It is very very important to take the whole context and not to snatch a part out of it and conclude.

I hope i made my point clear.
Thanks any way for asking and thanks for listening.

mohammad 01/12/2015  •

Greg,

Here is an interview between O’Riley and dr. Zuhdi Jasser.

http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2015/01/12/is-this-it-for-islam/

in this interview after O’Riley gives the guy a pat on the back and a certificate of “GOODNESS” ( as if the guy needs his certificate) , he goes to say what strengthen’s my theory:
“I think you are going to pay a personal price. I think people have had enough with the Muslims. ”
So here on a national TV where a lot of people tune to (they still do more than alternative media) and inflames emotions against a guy he describes as a “GOOD MAN”.
That drum beat is NOT AT RANDOM.
And i think it is a shame that an anchor watched by many plays a role in inflaming emotions against Muslims.

Mohammad

Davis 01/18/2015  •

Frankly I am sick and tired of all the hypocrisy and kissing of the backsides of the so-called “good Muslims”. Do they exist? Yes. The Mayor of Rotterdam Holland is a great example. He is that rare example of an assimilated Muslim who identifies himself as a Dutchman first and foremost. And a courageous one at that. By his recent statement admonishing that if any of his co-religionists don’t like western and specifically Dutch culture to “please pack your bags and go!” he has put his life on the line for what he believes is right.

I’m sure I’m not the only one who is fed up with seeing some Imams of no particular influence get trotted out on network TV shows to speak out of both sides of their mouths. Out of one side they condemn the perpetrators of whatever ghastly new attack and claim that they are not really Islamic.

It’s all just so much Taqiyya (lying for the sake of Allah). As Yasser Arafat once said; “I’m willing to kill for my cause. Do you think I wouldn’t lie for it?”

In Islam the Sunna (from which the Sunni sect draws its name means “to follow the example of Mohammad”. Well the recent attacks in Paris are a perfect example of Sunna and prove the lie of the Imams claiming that they are not Islamic.

During Mohammad’s siege of Medina a famous Jewish poet of the day, Kab Ashraf, among others wrote pieces that ridiculed and criticized Muhammad. They soon found wide circulation in the towns and villages of Western Arabia. Muhammad response was to send secret assassination squads into Medina and other Jewish enclaves to kill anyone who would dare criticize Muhammad and his movement. Thus we have the beginning of the use of terror by Islamist in order to frighten critics into silence. After the assignations of Kab Ashraf and others a delegation of Jews from Medina was sent to Muhammad to complain of their cruel fate at his hands. Muhammad replied: “He hurt us (Allah and his messenger) and insulted us with poetry, and one does not do this among you (Jews and polytheists) but he shall be put to the sword.”

So then the assignation of Theo Van Gogh, the attacks against the Danish cartoonists and now the wanton murders in Paris are nothing more than a contemporary exercise in the practice of the Sunna. Anyone who denies it or makes feeble excuses for are either fools or simply practicing Taqiyya.

Islam is now and has always been political/military movement covered with a veneer of “religion”. In form and function it is little different than Japanese Shintoism that manifest in Kamikaze attacks and suicidal Banzai charges. (There is a reason Gen. MacArthur insisted that the post war Japanese constitution specifically excluded Shintoism from having any place in the new government.)

Such Imperial death worship, coupled with violent hatred of the Jews was manifested in the long time residence of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem in Berlin during WWII and in the greatly feared Hansar SS division that was comprised entirely of Muslims from the Yugoslavia region and some from Syria who entered Europe through Vichy France.

The Bush administration had us fighting this determined enemy with one hand behind our back. The current administration has undertaken to make sure we have both hands tied.

On a more hopeful note, the Jihadists have created a Frankenstein’s monster in the lone self directed operative. The uncoordinated and extremely violent attacks like those in France, the gang rapes that have occurred in Sweden and Germany have begun to take their toll of the consciousness of growing numbers in Europe. The backlash to decades of “tolerance” and the creation of Islamic “no go” zones, that are the breeding grounds of hatred and violence, have spawned new movements that will only grow in size and political influence. We can only hope that their growth is tempered with wisdom as well as political fervor lest violent retribution become the order of the day as the deteriorating economic situation in Europe piles frustration upon frustration.