Can you imagine being a resident of Paris now
Can you imagine being a resident of Paris now, especially after the brutal attack on the newspaper in January of this year? That attack was revenge for the paper's continuing to publish what was considered stones sharp anti-Muslim cartoons making fun of the Prophet Muhammad. Many considered that incident as not a threat to them individually. That was not a terrorist attack no matter how barbarous. Friday's was.
Fear hangs in the air of Paris like coastal fog. People are panicked, everyone's lives have been changed perhaps forever, and nagging uncertainty and suspicion will affect the social interaction of all. Serenity was a casualty of these attacks as sure as was life itself.
The psychological impact of a terrorist attack far exceeds the physical damage-even considering the deaths of a multitude of stones sharp accountants people. France's recovery, emotionally and mentally, as individuals and as a nation, will be years hence--if ever. That is the value of terrorism to a rogue nation (Korea) or group of radical extremists (ISIS)--large rewards for little effort. Life to the Muslim extremist is not a valuable commodity, not something we in our culture cherish. The fact that the assailants all died--seven of them self-destructed by activating the bombs attached to their bodies--is inconsequential to the long-term goal of Muslim radicals to establish a world-wide caliphate to rule the entire earth under Muslim law and religiosity.
Do not, even for one minute, think it cannot stones sharp happen here in the United States. It already has--in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on July 16, 2015, with the murder of five American servicemen by a Muslim assassin. At that time I wrote in an article:
It has been a week since a crazed Muslim fanatic attacked two military locations in Chattanooga, Tennessee. I am still in shock. Not so much for the terrorist attack; that is part of today's world. We are at stones sharp accountants war with a dangerous and deadly foe--radical Muslim extremists worldwide, including right here at home regardless of whether or not our feckless president recognizes the threat, which he does not.
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