Off The Editor’s Desk – 11-18-2015

ATTACK ON PARIS

I was, as was the rest of the world, shocked about the attacks on Paris late Friday. ISIS has taken credit for these killing and injuries in the City of Light. A city where guns are banned. This attack only highlights the possibility that the United States may also be a target for future attacks.

Not only did 129 people die, but several hundred were injured. Besides the number in Paris, a suicide blast in Baghdad killed 26, and the Islamic State Group claimed responsibility. The same group claimed another 42 people in Beirut. Beware of Friday the thirteenth.

I have a story that was forwarded to me several years ago, written by Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez and published in a Spanish Paper back in 2008.

In part the story goes like this:

“I walked down the street in Barcelona, and suddenly discovered a terrible truth, Europe died in Auschwitz. We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims. In Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, talent. We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen because they produced great and wonderful people who changed the world.

The contribution of these people is felt in all areas of life: science, art, international trade, and above all, as the conscience of the world. These are the people we burned.

And under the pretense of tolerance, and because we wanted to prove to ourselves that we were cured of the disease of racism, we opened our gates to 20 million Muslims, who brought in religious extremism and lack of tolerance, crime and poverty.

They have blown up our trains and turned our beautiful Spanish cities into the third world, drowning in filth and crime.”

Now, Mr. Rodrigez blames an entire race and culture for what has happened. I do not wish to do that. There are rotten apples in all cultures. But that Middle East culture is the one that is taking credit for the killings on Friday.

Europe has taken in Muslims since the end of World War II and for months, hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children have pushed into Europe, fleeing war, poverty and hunger in the Middle Rast.

In a published story in the Sunday St. Paul Pioneer Press, written by Alison Smale of the New York times she stated: “Even before the Paris attacks, some of the most welcoming Europeans were beginning to lose patience. Borders were closed, warnings issued in Arabic to stay away.

But Saturday, French officials revealed what could prove to be a turning point in the debate over migration: One of the gunmen was carrying a Syrian passport, and perhaps more ominously, may have entered Europe along the migrant trail.”

The story continued; “It was too soon to say for certain whether the attackers had likes to the refugees form the Syrian conflict, but investigators believe that militants have tried to hide among the masses legitimately seeking asylum.”

President Obama has proposed inviting some 200,000 of those migrants to the United States. If only one percent of those migrants proposed for the United States are part of ISIS or another group seeking to harm us, well that’s only a couple thousand to contend with. Let’s not invite them in.

As everyone should know by now, I am a staunch supporter of the Second Amendment of the Constitution. Guns are banned in Paris and those seeking to harm us seek areas where large groups of people are gathered. Putting up a sign that states “Guns are banned on these premises” is an open invitation to those who would hurt us.

Mark Levin stated on his radio show over the weekend that anyone seeking to shoot up a gathering would not launch an attack against a gun show or a NRA convention.

One other thing that Mr. Rodrigez pointed out in his 2008 story was this: The global Islamic population is approximately one billion, two hundred million, or about 20 percent of the world’s population. In comparison, the Jewish population is of 14 million is about 0.02 percent of the world’s. But, who has received Nobel Prizes? With 20 percent of the world population, only seven from the Islamic group have received Nobel Prizes, including Yaser Arafat (Peace 1994). Do you remember who Arafat was? On the other hand some 129 Jews have received Nobel Prizes, including Henry Kissinger (Peace 1973). I hope everyone knows who Kissinger is!

Thanks for reading!       ~Carlton