France: A Second Jihad in the Bataclan?

In this mailing: - Guy Millière: France: A Second Jihad in the Bataclan? - Majid Rafizadeh: Story of a Foiled Islamist Terrorist Attack - Amir Taheri: Why Khamenei Can't Do a Kim Jong-Un [] [France: A Second Jihad in the Bataclan?]( by Guy Millière • July 15, 2018 at 5:00 am [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Addthis]( [Send]( [Print]( - Organizations representing the families of the Bataclan victims said that an Islamic rap concert praising jihad, in a place where people were murdered and tortured by jihadists, would be an insult to the memory of the victims, and asked that the concerts be canceled. - "France is at war, and leaves the enemy in peace". — Ivan Rioufol, journalist, in Le Figaro. - Macron and the French government speak and act as if the enemy has won and as if they want to gain some time and enjoy the moment before the final surrender. Pictured: Policemen outside of the Bataclan Theater in Paris, France on November 16, 2015, three days after the murderous terrorist attack. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images) "The French Suicide" ("Le suicide français") is a book published by the author Éric Zemmour in October 2014. Just one year later, on November 13, 2015 in Paris, a horror took place at the Bataclan Theater, when three terrorists fired into the crowd during a concert, murdered 130 people, and injured 413. Some of the victims had been tortured. The French population reacted as usual: shock and horror quickly gave way to resignation and submission. Flowers, candles and teddy bears were placed at the scene of the attacks. The government promised to act, but did almost nothing. A ceremony was organized that ended with a song that said, "When All You Have is Love". A parliamentary commission of inquiry drafted a report. Military forces, deployed in the streets before the attacks, were reinforced. A climate of resignation and submission reigned. [Continue Reading Article]( [] [Story of a Foiled Islamist Terrorist Attack]( by Majid Rafizadeh • July 15, 2018 at 4:30 am [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Addthis]( [Send]( [Print]( - You [Europeans] are supporting a terrorist regime that is determined to terrorize your countries. - You are supporting a regime that does not hesitate to commit some of the worst human rights abuses inside its own country, and abroad. - Where is your sense of decency and respect for human rights that you boast about so often? Pictured: U.S. and Saudi military personnel inspect the damage to Khobar Towers near Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, following the terrorist bombing of the building on June 25, 1996. (Photo By Getty Images) Tens of thousands of Iranians, and non-Iranian human rights defenders from all across the world, recently gathered at a Free Iran rally in Paris, France, to further peace and extend human rights to every person. European, American, and Middle Eastern leaders, as well as many other influential people participated, including former Canadian foreign minister John Baird and other international leaders. Suddenly, according to Reuters, an Iranian diplomat, along with six other individuals, was arrested in Europe over a plot to commit a terrorist attack at that rally. First of all, please imagine the plot these men had in mind for their terrorist attack; it parallels so many other attacks that have occurred. If those men had been successful in this attack, many more people, including international leaders, could have been injured or killed. [Continue Reading Article]( [] [Why Khamenei Can't Do a Kim Jong-Un]( by Amir Taheri • July 15, 2018 at 4:00 am [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Addthis]( [Send]( [Print]( - The Khomeinist regime is programmed in its DNA to be anti-American, anti-West, anti-Semitic, anti-Arab, anti-Turk, anti-Russian, and more importantly perhaps, anti-Iranian. - The "Supreme Guide" is getting less and less "supreme". Signs that he is being cut down to size by events, including nationwide protests, have multiplied. He still makes speeches, summons civilian and military officials, and issues orders. But, increasingly, people hear him but don't listen. - Khamenei's power is declining not because he is challenged by anyone inside the establishment but as knocks on his door. Even if he wanted to do a Kim Jong-un, he can't. He has no organized political party and, heading for his 80th birthday, is unable to attract young Shiites who are thinking of their future. Iran's "Supreme Guide," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (Image source: kremlin.ru) The other day in Tehran, the arrival at the International Airport of a US-registered passenger plane triggered an avalanche of rumors that, for a brief moment, buried the anxieties that grip Iranians with regard to the looming confrontation with the Trump administration in Washington. The wildest, and most popular, rumor was that the "American plane" had brought a special emissary from Washington to invite the "Supreme Guide" Ali Khamenei to a summit with President Donald Trump with a view to "doing a North Korea". The rumor wasn't all that fanciful. The history of relations between the US and the mullahs is full of cloak-and-dagger episodes. [Continue Reading Article]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [RSS]( [Donate]( Copyright © Gatestone Institute, All rights reserved. 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