Mark Steyn lays out some inconvenient truth.

I switched on Fox News in my hotel room this morning to catch Bill Hemmer saying that this means “Seven of the nine terrorists were European.” As the Guardian report continues:

The latest information means that all of the assailants identified so far were French or Belgian, all native French speakers, and the attacks increasingly appear to have been part of a homegrown terror plot.

So “Europeans” are the principal security threat. Along with “Americans” like “28-year-old California man Syed Farook”.

This is why the public is not joining the media, the Democrats and the GOP establishment in getting the vapors over Donald Trump’s comments about Muslim immigration. The men pulling the triggers in Paris and San Bernardino are men with French, Belgian and US passports, but they are not “French”, “Belgian” or “American” in any meaningful sense. They regard their primary identity as Muslim – and their citizenship as a mere travel document. So it doesn’t require a large leap to wonder whether Islam is, in fact, an issue.

Mark also agrees with me on ‘radicalized’.

~The latest brain-dead euphemism is “radicalized”. As in: Oh, did you hear about poor Mohammed? He became radicalized. Don’t know how it happened. He went out for a stroll in the park, and somehow came back “radicalized”. This morning FBI Director Comey, in a fine demonstration of what a money-no-object bureaucracy can buy, announced that Syed Farook and his lovely bride had become “radicalized” even before they began (in Comey’s delightful formulation) “courting”.

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And if you think this has nothing to do with Donald Trump, go to the back of the class.

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Egyptian religious scholars are now admitting what few of them ever even wanted to discuss openly; that Egyptian Islamic scholars provide the religious justification for groups like ISIL (al Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant). Making this public is a side effect of yet another outbreak of Islamic terrorism in Egypt. The last one, in the 1990s, took years to suppress and that campaign only managed to eliminate the most violent Islamic radicals inside Egypt. Many of the Islamic terrorist leaders fled to other countries (one now leads al Qaeda) and many of the Islamic scholars who inspired the Islamic terrorists (but never officially joined Islamic terrorist organizations) remained free on the understanding that they would not encourage any more Islamic terrorists. That restriction began to erode after the 2011 revolution that overthrew the Mubarak dictatorship that had long enforced it. Now some of those pro-Islamic terror scholars are having second thoughts.

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In the last few weeks watertight doors have been clanging shut all along the route taken by the “refugee” flood of that’s been overflowing Europe since the middle of last summer. The point of entry is Greece — specifically, the Greek islands in the eastern Aegean — and the last border that has been tightened is the first one the migrants have to cross, the one between Greece and Macedonia.

The Macedonian government has put up razor-wire barriers and placed restrictions on which asylum-seekers may enter. Needless to say, the “refugees” are unhappy, and are making their feelings known. “Open [the border] or die” — yep, that’s the sort of sentiment that’s bound to melt the hearts of Europeans and cause them to welcome the “New Europeans” into their homes and larders.

Culture-enriching “youths” at one border crossing tore down part of the razor-wire barrier, attacked police, threw stones, and engaged in some of the other high-spirited antics that have made them so popular all over Europe.

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Muslim engineers, that is.

More than twice as many members of violent Islamist organizations have engineering degrees as have degrees in Islamic studies. Nearly half of those terrorists who had degrees had degrees in engineering. Even if you make extremely generous assumptions, nine times as many terrorists were engineers as you would expect by chance. They find a similar pattern among Islamist terrorists who grew up in the West – fewer of these terrorists had college degrees, but even more of those who had degrees were engineers.

So much for the H1-B Visa crowd.

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A discussion in the comments on yesterday’s post about the San Bernardino massacre brought up an important topic: lying and sacred misdirection under Islam. According to Islamic law, lying is not only permissible under certain circumstances, it is mandatory if the goal it serves is obligatory upon Muslims and cannot be accomplished by other means.

Spreading Islam over the entire globe is an obligatory goal for Muslims. For that reason there is absolutely no doubt that Muslims are sometimes lying to us in furtherance of that goal.

I am indebted to Major Stephen Coughlin for the sources and analytical framework used in the following examination of lying and sacred misdirection under Islamic Law.

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We’ve rounded up all the ways terrorists finance their activities below, drawing on the report and other investigations, and ranked them based on how profitable each activity is estimated to be.

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Three professors at Malik’s university said they had been advised not to talk to the media, while men claiming to be from Pakistan’s security agencies told reporters to drop their investigations into her background on pain of arrest.

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Men claiming to be from security agencies, but who refused to provide identification, also sought to discourage Reuters from further reporting on Malik’s background, threatening journalists with arrest for unspecified offences.

 

As in the old Soviet Union, the Ministry of the Interior in Muslim Countries is in charge of the political police.

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Before sharing their places of worship, it is crucial that Westerners discover what Muslims are saying when they recite the Islamic mandatory prayers. A few days ago, an Ontario synagogue invited Muslim worshippers to lead the Friday prayer. This article explains what the Islamic daily prayers mean, with focus on the Friday prayer within the context of Islamic law or sharia. Being better informed will make Westerners think twice before opening the doors to Muslim for prayer.

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A deep hatred and rejection of Judaism and Christianity are hardwired into Islamic doctrine, including the Koran. Many of its chapters are incorporated into mandatory daily Islamic prayer. The very first Koranic chapter, considered the most exalted of all chapters, is a prayer directed to Allah asking him to keep Muslims away from the misguided path of Jews and Christians. This chapter is a necessary part of the five mandatory daily prayers, and is recited not once, but anywhere from 17 to 100 times a day by devout Muslims (or in a broader sense, 6,200 to 36,500 times a year).

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Reminder for the dimwitted: Islam is an oppressive totalitarian ideology with which no co-existence is possible.

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What gets lost in the media frenzy over recent Islamic terrorist attacks in Mali is why Islamic terrorists even bother with such an out-of-the way place. It’s all about money, which even Islamic terrorists need to survive. Mali is a key component of a smuggling route from central Africa to Europe. The 2012 Tuareg rebellion in northern Mali triggered an international peacekeeping response in 2013 that made moving the drugs north more difficult and, for a time, nearly impossible. The Islamic terrorists operating in northern Mali must maintain access so they can enter and move through Algeria, to the coast and thence to Europe. Doing this is a major source of income for Islamic terrorist groups who will also use this network to move weapons and Islamic terrorists. Normally bribes would work to safely get through but the Islamic terrorism angle in northern Mali and Algeria means that fewer military or police officials will accept the money and the smugglers have to rely on skill and luck or firepower to get through. That often isn’t enough, as can be seen by the constant clashes on the Algerian border and throughout northern Mali.

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And there you have it.

Lion of the Blogosphere is not afraid to ask the hard questions.

Trump said that Syrian refugees could be ISIS supporters.

Obama says no way, the refugees are subject to rigorous background checks.

Farook’s wife Tafsheen Malik came to the U.S. on a K-1 visa. K-1 visa’s are supposed to be subject to the same rigorous background checks. And of course, we now know that she was an ISIS supporter.

According to ABC News, the address in Pakistan that Malik used on the visa application “does not exist.”

Well, I guess it wasn’t really a hard question after all.

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ABC News has its nose rubbed in its own cluelessness.

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My, what a surprise! Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

And it’s in the New York Times, which means it MUST be true.

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For a little historical perspective on the events of the day, let us turn to Sam Borden’s New York Times story “Long-hidden details reveal cruelty of 1972 Munich attackers.” Borden reports suppressed details of the murder of Israeli Olympic athletes by PLO terrorists in Munich during the 1972 games. “Among the most jarring details are these,” Borden writes. “The Israeli Olympic team members were beaten and, in at least one case, castrated.”

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Borden omits to mention any current PLO officials connected to the Munich outrage, but he might have. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has nearly completed the eleventh year of his four-year term. Back in the day Abbas worked as a Black September operator in Europe. He has been cited as the paymaster of the Black September operation in Munich.

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What’s the inverse of ‘Islamophobia’, where Muslims act with irrational hatred toward non-Muslims?

Protesters from the Goldsmiths University’s Islamic Society (ISOC) are said to have “heckled and aggressively disrupted” a talk from ex-Muslim and feminist campaigner Maryam Namazie after a video, this week, surfaced on YouTube.

And the feminists say:

The university’s Feminist Society says it ‘stands in solidarity with Goldsmiths Islamic Society’

So obviously some females are more equal than others.

The group claimed the ASH invited Namazie, whom they referred to as “a notorious islamophobe,” to speak at the event, “despite our polite request for them to reconsider.” The ISOC’s statement added: “The university should be a safe space for all our students. Islamophobic views like those propagated by Namazie create a climate of hatred and bigotry towards Muslim students.

Sounds as if it’s the Muslim students that are creating a climate of hatred and bigotry.

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Illegal immigrants based in the “Jungle” camp near Calais have become increasingly aggressive when attempting to climb into tractor-trailer trucks hauling freight on their way to the Channel Tunnel leading to the UK. Drivers and trucks have been threatened and even attacked when they attempt to stop “refugees” from entering the cargo area in the back of their trucks.

The following brief video shows the reaction of an unidentified German-speaking man when he discovers a series of pig parts attached to the back of a truck trailer, put there in an effort to discourage would-be boarders (most of whom are presumed to be Muslims).

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For years the Turkish coast guard and police had stopped most of the people-smuggling boats from crossing the narrow strip of the Aegean between Anatolia and the Greek Islands. As long as those boats were stopped, the flow of migrants into the EU from Turkey remained a trickle. Most Mediterranean trafficking used the more westerly route from Libya or Tunisia to Lampedusa, Pantelleria, Malta, Sicily, and the southern Italian mainland.

All that changed about five months ago, when Turkey abruptly stopped interdicting the people-smugglers, who were allowed to ply their trade without hindrance. The results are well-known: a million or so “refugees” have illegally entered the European Union by landing in Greece and then traveling overland to Austria and Germany.

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The evidence continues to accumulate that the Bonnie and Clyde massacre in San Bernardino yesterday was a case of jihad. We’ve got the home armory. We’ve got the pilgrimage to Mecca. We’ve got the contact with foreign terrorist subjects. Sherlock Holmes solved the case in the story “Silver Blaze” with the clue of the dog that didn’t bark. The San Bernardino dog won’t shut up.

A poster that you won’t see on a campus near you: Obama Lied and 14 People Died.

Lion of the Blogosphere pulls back the veil.

Since the term “jihadism” doesn’t exist in the liberal vocabulary (because it implies that there is something wrong with Islam and Allah forbid that anyone should imply that), which is also the vocabulary of Obama and the MSM (except maybe for Fox News), they have to classify it as terrorism (which is caused by lack of good job opportunities and not by Islam even though Farook was making a pretty good salary as a health inspector for the government) or something else.

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Those who weren’t paying attention need to listen up and get with the program

There WILL be a test later; those getting a failing grade will be beheaded, along with their families.

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I don’t think their dicks are big enough to get into a pissing contest with Russia.

Putin was being trained in the KGB while Obama was still smoking grass and figuring out which color he wanted to be.

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The existence of “no-go zones” in predominantly Muslim areas in Europe has been a major topic of conversation since the latest Paris massacre on November 13, primarily due to the assailants’ many connections to Molenbeek, a heavily Muslim district of Brussels. This discussion brings to mind my visit to a drug- and crime-infested slum of 7,000 inhabitants in Marseilles, France, on Jan. 29, to see the situation for myself.

I entered the housing complex in an unmarked but recognizable city-owned car driven by a city employee who had been tasked with showing me around. Unfortunately, being mostly a paper-pusher and not experienced in the field, he got spooked and abruptly turned around to leave, raising suspicions among the drug dealers around us, who proceeded to set off the alarm.

A motorcyclist and a truck then zipped ahead of us and boxed us in on a nearby highway. Sitting in the car’s front passenger seat, I was accosted and threatened by four young thugs. The city rep pleaded with them, telling them I was a visiting sociologist. They responded first with threatening comments and then by throwing a piece of concrete the size of a football through the back window. Luckily no on was injured, and they let us leave after the intimidating incident had concluded. I provided the mayor’s office with audio, video, and still photographs of the thugs and their license plates.

What a model of assimilation. Let’s let them all in. What could go wrong?

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I am not making this up.

Hundreds of refugees are thought to have signed an open letter calling for mass assisted suicide in the Australian immigration detention centre where they are being held.

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Australian immigration lawyer Julian Burnside posted a transcript of the letter on his blog on Monday.

An obvious stunt to put political pressure on the Australian government to open the floodgates. Note what they did NOT ask for: Assistance in going back where they came from.

Speaking to Vice Australia, a refugee living on Manus, who gave his name only as Mahmud, claimed to have written the letter.

Living with Islam.

He said: “Recently Immigration is telling us there is no country that will accept us on this planet.

Can’t say that I blame them. Unmentioned: Where they came from, which could probably be persuaded to take them back.

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The day after the jihad massacre in Paris, a German journalist visited a dive in a culturally-enriched banlieue of Paris. Striking up a conversation with the youthful clientele of the place, she learned the real explanation for the previous night’s horror: It was a hoax by the security services, and besides, the Jews did it.

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The consonants K-B-R form the Arabic stem for “greater”. Whenever you hear Muslims shout “Allahu Akhbar!”, they are using the comparative form of the adjective “great” to say “Allah is greater [than any other god]”.

The leader of a mob of jihadis will shout “Takbir!” to his followers, receiving an “Allahu Akhbar!” as the ritual response. The word “takbir” is formed by adding a T- to K-B-R. The prefix has the meaning of an imperative to “call” or “profess”, so that the jihad cheerleader is saying, in effect, “Shout ‘[Allah is] greater’!”

This chant is heard all over the world wherever the mujahideen gather to fire themselves up for holy war against the infidels.

That’s what’s happening in the following video, which was recorded during Pope Francis’ visit to the Central African Republic. The mujahideen in this case are veiled young ladies. Euronews conceals what they are doing by muting the sound and replacing their chant with a voice-over, to convey the impression that they are joyously greeting the pope. However, the raw footage from the scene tells a different story:

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The Islamic State claims it sent highly trained sleeper agents to Europe through Turkey posing as refugees as far back as 2012. A 99-page manifesto issued in January, “Black Flags from Rome,” also details the Islamic State (ISIS)’s desire to spark a Europe-wide Islamic insurgency using “Muslim No Go Zones” as bases of operations.

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Well, you know what professors are like.

You’d never see this in the New York Times or Washington Post, of course.

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Al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen has threatened the Saudi government over its plan to carry out a mass execution of prisoners, including al-Qaeda members, the militant group announced in a statement posted on social media.

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), one of the deadliest branches of the global militant network, said it was aware of Saudi intentions to execute its members in Saudi prisons and pledged to carry out attacks in response.

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Reminds me of the scene in Fellowship of the Ring where Merry and Pippin are bouncing the dragon firework back and forth. Hey, guys, eventually the firework goes off….

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A prominent Kurdish lawyer and rights activist, who faced criminal charges for defending Kurdish rebels as not terrorists, has been shot in the head and killed in Turkey.

Tahir Elci, 49, was caught in a gun battle between police and unidentified gunmen as he delivered a statement calling for an end to violence between the Turkish state and Kurdish rebel group the PKK.

Two policemen were also killed in the shoot-out in Turkey’s south eastern city of Diyarbakir, with another 11 people injured.

If the Russians want to smash Turkey, I have no objection.

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Welcome to the fifth century. Be careful not to step in the Diversity.

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Justin “Baby Doc” Trudeau is Canada’s newly-elected Liberal prime minister. Mr. Trudeau has vowed to bring 25,000 “Syrian” “refugees” into the country by the end of the year, and is exerting considerable political pressure in an effort to make sure his plan is implemented.

The new influx of migrants is not popular in all parts of Canada, especially out West.

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Irony – it’s not just for breakfast any more.

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An Indian woman has allegedly been divorced by her husband by text message after confessing to being gang raped.

The woman, who remains unnamed, said she received a message saying “talaq” three times after telling her husband about the incident, according to The Daily Mail.

Sharia law states men can divorce their wives instantly by repeating the word “talaq”, or “I divorce you”, to her three times.

And the feminists say: [chirp] … [chirp] … [chirp] ….

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Saadiq Long is one data point in the quest for narratives. In 2013, liberal journalists wove the facts of Saadiq Long into the greater narrative that the United States was still an oppressive regime under Barack Obama. The “no fly list” was but one example, and Saadiq Long was on the no fly list. The cause of Saadiq Long was championed by MSNBC, Glenn Greenwald, Mother Jones magazine, and more.

As Patrick Poole at PJ Media reported last week, back in 2013, Saadiq Long wanted to return to his native Oklahoma to visit his ailing mother. Long had moved to Qatar and could not get home because he was on the “no fly list.” The media pressure eventually led the Obama Administration to remove Long from the “no fly list,” but he was eventually added back. Last week, Long was arrested in Turkey as part of an ISIS cell.

Funny how that works.

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As successive European countries impose strict border controls, it’s like a series of watertight doors closing along the route that “Syrian” “refugees” take to get to Germany. When one state blocks the flow and slows it to a trickle, the migrants back up at that border, forcing the host country to follow the same strategy.

The following report shows the backup at the border between Greece and Macedonia. The latter has recently tightened up its border, so that crowds of migrants are now encamped at the crossing, angrily waiting to be allowed to proceed onwards towards their destination. This video is a skillful combination of drone and ground-level footage, with no voice-over or commentary.

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Because the people who are talking most about Islam are not honest talkers.

Steve Sailer looks things over.

Syria was basically ruled by a Coalition of the Minority Fringes (Alawite on top, Shiite, Christian, Yezidi, Kurd, etc.) over the Core (the Sunni majority). That’s not very democratic in the old-fashioned Andrew Jackson sense of the Democratic Party that emphasized majority rule. But it’s rather like the new-fangled Barack Obama sense of the Democratic Party that emphasizes minority rights.

The happy ending would have been if the majority Sunnis had matured into a well-educated, reasonable, pragmatic people ready for the responsibilities of self-rule.

That actually has happened a few times in history. To take a local example, my very vague impression is that the Kurds have been maturing politically and have been acting in this century with restraint and intelligent purpose in a neighborhood where those commodities have been unfortunately rare. (Warning: Optimism about any aspect of the Middle East usually turns out to be unwarranted.)

Unfortunately, judging by the rise of ISIS there’s not much evidence that the Sunnis are on a similar trajectory. And that’s what has made disastrous Obama’s call for the overthrow of the internationally recognized Syrian government and its replacement by Moderate Islam, an outdated delusion of the Obama-Dunham-Soetoro clan.

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According to Udo Ulfkotte, the waves of “Syrian” “refugees” now flooding into Austria and Germany are being used as cover for the organized importation of weapons, underage sex slaves, and other criminal activities.

Steve Sailer notes a European wake-up.

In other words, the government of Sweden didn’t have a clue how many poor people there are in the world who’d like to move to Sweden and collect welfare. But you can’t blame Sweden’s leaders for their ignorance. How could the government of Sweden possibly have known that many poor foreign countries have large populations? Those are HateStats!

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There are many reasons why Belgium has become a hotbed of radical Islamism. Some of the answers may lie in the implanting of Saudi Salafist preachers in the country from the 1960s.

Keen to secure oil contracts, Belgium’s King Baudouin made an offer to Saudi King Faisal, who had visited Brussels in 1967: Belgium would set up a mosque in the capital, and hire Gulf-trained clerics.

Not a good idea. But money often blinds those to whom religion is merely a hobby that others take it more seriously.

Although the mosque was treated as the official voice of Muslims in Belgium, its radical Salafist teachings came from a very different tradition to the Islam of the new immigrants. Today, there are around 600,000 people of Moroccan and Turkish origin in Belgium, a country of 11 million.

And, I suspect, they are now regretting it. But maybe not — Europe is not what it was.

Still, perhaps there is hope that people there are starting to wake up, as this article in a British newspaper suggests might be happening.

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A self-correcting problem. I love it.

Now if we can only get journalist and politicians to pick it up….

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Several years ago we featured a four-part Israeli documentary about Islam in Europe. Immediately after the November 13 massacre in Paris, the same outfit put out another documentary about the hijra — the migration of mujahideen from Europe to Syria, and then back again to Europe.

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A Syrian jihadess (jihadette?) used a fake passport and bribed customs officials at the airport in Bogota in order to be able to catch a flight to France just before the massacre in Paris. According to the following news report from Colombia, the case of Seham Al Salkhadi is just one of many instances in which Syrian mujahideen have used fake or stolen documents to travel from Latin America to destinations in the United States or Europe.

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What do they know that Obama doesn’t. (Whoa, there’s a hole with no bottom….)

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Last Saturday in Paris, at the Boulevard Voltaire near the Bataclan club, I found myself staring at a pool of blood. I wondered what was happening with the world, and refocused my camera on the aftermath of the terror. When it became clear the attacks were planned in Molenbeek, I was not surprised. The real surprise? That Belgium expressed shock at the connection.

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I was part of a new wave of young urban professionals, mostly white and college-educated — what the Belgians called bobo, (“bourgeois bohémiens”) — who settled in the area out of pragmatism. We had good intentions. Our contractor’s name was Hassan. He was Moroccan, and we thought that was very cool. We imagined that our kids would one day play happily with his on the street. We hoped for less garbage on the streets, less petty crime. We were confident our block would slowly improve, and that our lofts would increase in value. (We even dared to hope for a hip art gallery or a trendy bar.) We felt like pioneers of the Far West, like we were living in the trenches of the fight for a multicultural society.

Slowly, we woke up to reality. Hassan turned out to be a crook and disappeared with €95,000, the entire budget the tenants had pooled together for our building’s renovation. The neighborhood was hardly multicultural. Rather, with roughly 80 percent of the population of Moroccan origin, it was tragically conformist and homogenous. There may be a vibrant alternative culture in Casablanca and Marrakech, but certainly not in Molenbeek.

‘Diversity’ is not a Muslim value.