Just a Regular French Youth

Serge Trifkovic, Just a Regular French Youth

Mohammed Merah (23), who was killed at his apartment on Thursday after a 30-hour standoff, was a Muslim — one of at least twenty million who now inhabit the European Union. The “context” was duly provided by The New York Times ... about this “soft-spoken and alienated youth” ...

1. Had Mr. Merah and his ilk had more “formal religious training,” they would have been less likely to kill ...

2. Had the infidel host-society been less racist and had it provided “jobs” ... they would not have succumbed to the lure of jihad.

The variants on the theme of “racism” as the root of all evil in France are too numerous to quote or hyperlink. The Associated Press report, carried by dozens of newspapers all over the United States, took note of the supposedly “chronic and ambient discrimination within French society.” ... “France is a deeply racist country, and Toulouse will only make that worse” was Adrian Hamilton’s headline in The Independent ...

This is all predictable liberal nonsense. The key neglected aspect of the Merah case is that he should have been marked, tracked, and prevented from carrying his murderous plans years ago...

The problem of Muslim terrorists with Western passports is not new, and the solution exists: European countries (as well as the United States) need laws that will treat a Muslim citizen’s links with Islamic extremism — amply documented in Merah’s case — as grounds for the removal of citizenship and deportation to the suspect’s country of origin, or in Merah’s case his parents’ country of origin. The only obstacle to such reasonable and morally as well as legally justified course is the self-destructive mindset of the Western liberal society itself.

Once it is accepted that a bona fide Islamist cannot and should not be a citizen of a secular Western state — and that realization will eventually sink in, after dozens, perhaps hundreds more lives are lost — the political will can be easily translated into legislation. Those who preach or promote jihad from Marseilles to Malmo, and advocate the introduction of sharia in the non-Muslim host-societies, can and should be treated in exactly the same manner as ideological extremists of other hues who preach violence. It will be a long and hard struggle to open the eyes of legislators and legal regulators that Islam itself is a radical, revolutionary ideology, inherently seditious and inimical to Western values and institutions, but it can be done. If France now gets closer to that realization, Merah’s victims will not have died in vain.

Other necessary measures would then follow ...

File under: the self-destructive mindset of Western liberal society.