Recently, the world has seen a sudden surge in Islamist Terror attacks, specifically regarding Europe and in that too, France. It’s not like such attacks are not happening in other parts of the world but yes media will only highlight incidents of the West rather than those of the other parts of the world. Recently, in Afghanistan, IS claimed a suicide attack on a UNIVERSITY and killed more than 22 people, many of them students; but people are clueless about that attack. Anyway..
Talking about Europe, recently several small but brutal terror attacks happened after a teacher in France showed cartoons of Mohammed, the Prophet in Islam. Islam strictly prohibits idol worshipping and in that they are not even allowed to make any kind of picture or any pictorial representation of their God, saints or prophets. And it’s not like the West or all the “Kaafirs” don’t know it, we do. Why then we have to make cartoons of their prophet that I don’t know, I don’t understand. Is it freedom of expression or not, that certainly is not my task here to debate on. So, apparently the trial of those charged of Charlie Hebdo attacks (2015) started in September. So Charlie Hebdo decided to republish the cartoons again in memory of the victims of the attack. This again enraged the radical Muslims and specifically the Wahabi terrorists and extremists. And a series of attacks started. Let’s look at all the attacks afterwards:
1). Stabbing near Charlie Hebdo Office, September 25:
A young man attacks two people near former office of Charlie Hebdo, who now are located in a secret location. The duo were most probably a man and a woman, as their identity is hidden. They were smoking there. The attacker was a young boy aged 18 viz. Ali Hassan, a Pakistani immigrant. Before the attack he had posted a video on the same day sharing his anger over the republication of cartoons. He was so tense and emotional, he started crying during the video and talked about how French people are making cartoons of Prophet Mohammed and thus insulting him. He then declared he is going to take revenge today only. He was arrested immediately on the spot after the attack. Surprisingly the boy seemed of Barelvi or Sufi branch of Islam; the thing is insulting Prophet can make any Muslim so angry that the line of Wahabi and Sufi sometimes gets faded. Earlier on September 11, AQAP (Al Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula) had urged French Muslims to conduct attacks against non Muslims in revenge of republishing of the cartoons by Charlie Hebdo.
2). Beheading of French teacher in Paris, October 16:
A teacher in a Paris suburban school tried to teach Freedom of Expression by showing cartoons of islamic Prophet Mohammed. This enraged 18 year old Abdullakh Anzorov, who is of Chechen origin, and he travelled from a nearby town to Paris, and beheaded Samuel Paty (47), the teacher, on his way to home. Right after beheading, he posted the beheaded head on twitter with a message praising Allah and warning Macron and all the “infidels”. This act was then praised by IS in its magazine. The attacker was shot dead as he tried to attack the policemen with knife and airgun.
3). Nice Church Attack, October 29:
In Nice (France) a Tunisian Islamist attacker (21) started attacking people with a knife, inside a church Notre-Dame basilica. Three people, two women and a man died. One woman was beheaded. The man’s throat was slit. The attacker’s name was apparently Brahim Aioussaoi. He was shouting “Allahu Akbar” repeatedly.
4). French Consulate Attack, Saudi Arabia, October 29:
Within hours after Nice Attack, a Saudi man attacked a private guard at the French Consulate in Jeddah. He used some sharp tool for the attack. The guard was injured.
5). Attack targeting Western Diplomats, Jeddah, November 11:
Again in Jeddah, a ceremony to commemorate the end of World War 1 by representatives of US, France, UK, Greece and Italy at a non-Muslim cemetery, was target of a blast in which three people were injured. Apparently one was British, one was Greek and the third was a Saudi guard. The attack happened during the end of speech by French Consul General. The target may be the French diplomats, but it’s just speculation as recently France has been target of Islamist extremists due to republication of islamic Prophet Mohammed’s cartoons by Charlie Hebdo.
So what we are seeing here is not just a single or two or three random attacks, but an extremist ideology trying to terrorize the Europeans and the West as a whole that don’t try to live your life the way you want; only Islamist way is the way you must run your countries your societies, otherwise we are going to attack you and force you to apologize for living the western way of life.
So it’s high time Europe realize that appeasing Muslims by letting the Wahabis or Islamists roam free and build their mosques and preach radical Islam or Wahhabism in their community; is not going to benefit anyone be it the European society or the Muslim society. Because common moderate Muslims themselves want the Wahabi extremists to be detained and the society as a whole to be rid of this Wahabi filth which is ultimately demonizing Islam as a whole.
Sources:
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New York Times
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hstoday.us
The Guardian
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