Frimet/Arnold Roth..
This Ongoing War..
19 April '12..
The murders of three French servicemen followed shortly afterwards by the killing of a four innocent Jews – a young schoolteacher and two of his small children and then a third little girl – are receding into the background. Not for the families, not for the friends. Perhaps not entirely for Toulouse and Montauban. But probably for France. Certainly for Europe and the rest of us. The tragedy becomes an event, and the event turns into a small bump in a long road. So it goes.
But there are people out there who understand its significance and will not allow it to blend into the background. They are the jihadists. For them, the cold-blooded murder of four innocent Jews in France has become an inspiration, a treasure – literally. Astonishingly, they are terming it an “operation”, a “raid”, even a “battle”.
A brief analysis, "Jihadis' New Toulouse Inspiration", published this week on the website of the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT), looks at how the killings, executed by a young French-born Moslem called Merah, are being celebrated by means of a widely circulated (and translated) essay called "Lessons and Treasures from the Battle of Toulouse".
(Read full "How the murder of three French children has become the launch of a new chapter ...")
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