The same Muslim “youths” who have flexed their muscles by setting thousands of cars ablaze in France have a new feather in their cap: the punishment of Ilan Halimi, who was found guilty of being Jewish.
Halimi was tortured for 25 days for this crime. The kidnappers would call up his family and read them verses from the Koran while he screamed in the background. After they finally let him go, he was found naked and handcuffed, stumbling down train tracks south of Paris, with burns and bruises over 80% of his body. He died on the way to the hospital.
Halimi’s 3+ weeks of torture occurred in one of the many “no-go” areas that Muslims have carved out in Europe — areas in which the police cannot operate freely. Welfare checks go in and violence comes out; that is the extent of these areas’ interaction with the European society around them.
The gang that committed the torture-murder fittingly calls itself the Barbarians. Its core consists of Muslims with roots in Africa.
Our pro-Muslim MSM may try to spin this as a simple crime motivated by money, but the kidnappers never appeared to be serious about collecting ransom. Even the thoroughly dhimmified Washington Post was willing to quote Ilan’s mother, Ruth Halimi, as stating the obvious fact that “If Ilan hadn’t been Jewish he wouldn’t have been murdered.”
The New York Sun goes farther, quoting a police source as stating that the kidnappers’ “behavior was very different from what is usually expected from abductors motivated by greed,” and that one of the kidnappers admitted to putting out cigarettes on Halimi’s face “because he didn’t like Jews.”
Guess what? It’s not just Jews they don’t like. Unless you’re a Muslim, they don’t like you either.
The Wall Street Journal quotes Le Monde — which they refer to as “the voice of the French establishment” — as calling Halimi’s murder “a crime of an era, a sort of looking glass onto the true state of our society.”
True enough — and we’re not just talking about French society. Let’s hope people have the courage to realize it.
Islam is not just another flavor in the multicultural variety pack. It is evil. It offers a stark choice: convert to it, submit to it, or be willing to die fighting it. If Western Civilization hasn’t been rotted away by moonbattery to the point that it no longer deserves to exist, it will choose the latter.
Cross-posted at Moonbattery.
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VH,
I couldn’t agree with you more. The Muslims are looking for a fight. Either we defend our homes and culture, or we all become slaves or converts. As for me and mine, I am not becoming a Muslim nor is my wife going to be wearing burqa. Not while I still have breath in my lungs….
Comment by Duncan Avatar — 2/26/2006 @ 1:05 pm
One of your most moving posts, VH.
I’ve been trying to give Islam the benefit of the doubt, trying to believe that there is such a thing as “Moderate Islam” and that the Wahhabists and al Qaeda fanatics are the aberration. But then I started reading The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam by Robert Spencer.
Then… seeing this post. It makes you think… for survival.
Comment by The MaryHunter — 2/26/2006 @ 1:33 pm
Before the formation of Israel, Muslims, Christians and Jews lived together in the area known as Palestine. Neither side to my knowledge was trying to convert the other. I’ve never had a Muslim knock on my door to discuss Islam with me in an attempt to convert me. I realize that in Afghanistan you had no choice under the Taliban but to adhere to their brand of Islam and I know that in Saudi Arabia Christian artifacts are banned but it seems to me that both of the extremists groups you mentioned are political religious groups. Groups that want power so that they can cement their brand of religion on everyone else but then that is why they are considered extremists. I am just not convinced that the Muslim religion is bad/ Rather I see it as there are bad Muslims.
Comment by Carol — 2/26/2006 @ 6:00 pm
Where is the evidence that the gang was Islamic ? It wasn’t. Some of the gang had a Muslim family background, that’s all. And the suburb where this occurred was quiet, definitely not a no-go place.
Stop that slander, will you ?
Comment by Remi — 3/3/2006 @ 1:16 am
geez remi….I don’t know where the evidence thatth gang was islamic is…..could it be that it was deduced and extrapolated from the fact that THEY CALLED HIS FAMILY AND READ THE KORAN WHILE TORTURING THIS JEWISH KID??????????
Nah….I suppose it could have been some german kids on france just trying to get thhe muslims in trouble, after all, the germans supposedly hate the Jews too.
Comment by Kender — 3/4/2006 @ 6:51 am