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** France: Submission to Islamism Quickly Gaining Ground ([link removed])
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by Guy Millière • June 18, 2023 at 5:00 am
* Samuel Paty, a high school teacher [was] savagely beheaded on October 16, 2020 in... the suburbs of Paris where he taught...
* The list of 14 people [indicted] does not include the murderer, Abdullakh Anzorov: he was shot dead by police.
* [A]ll investigations show [that teachers] are afraid and practice self-censorship. For 10 years, teachers have not taught about the Holocaust. They have also given up on addressing the subjects that led to Paty's murder: secularism, tolerance and the right to criticize religions.
* Throughout France, Muslim students openly threaten teachers by telling them that they are "risking a Samuel Paty". Many topics can no longer be addressed.... In biology class, discussing evolution or Charles Darwin is... unsafe.
* Teachers have been resigning in increasing numbers, and recruiting new ones has become a problem.
* Recently, anthropologist Florence Bergeaud-Backler in a book called Le frérisme et ses Réseaux, l'Enquête ("The Brotherhood and its Networks: The Survey"), explained in detail the way the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist movements in France use social media networks and mosques to incite Muslim children and adolescents to challenge the education provided in high schools to push the French educational system to submit to their vision of Islam.
* The French authorities are aware of what is happening, but do nothing. Apparently, government officials are afraid, too, and do not want to take any risks. They know that more than 750 no-go zones exist in the country, and that riots frequently erupt... Most ended in violence by young people from no-go zones who burned cars and looted shops.
* Macron's proposed law, called the "Law confirming respect for the principles of the Republic", has since been rewritten. All references to Islam and Islamism have been removed from the text. Passed on August 24, 2021, it does currently not contain any measure likely to combat the Islamist danger. A paragraph speaks of the need to "protect teachers", but teachers are still not protected. The Islamist movements in French high schools continue to exist.
* About 400,000 legal immigrants arrive in France from the Muslim world every year, according to the latest informati0on available. These do not include the thousands who arrive illegally.
* A study in September 2020 showed that 74% of French Muslims under the age of 25 placed Sharia above the laws of the republic.... Another study published a year later showed that two-thirds of Muslim high school students also placed Sharia above the laws of the Republic. The same survey showed that 9% of young Muslims said they "share the motivations" of Paty's murderer.
* No teacher from the high school where Paty taught supported him: instead, they distanced themselves from him. Some accused him of putting them in danger. The Ministry of Education also blamed him, for having offended the sensibilities of Muslim students.
* The police took note of the threats but offered Paty no protection. Even though Anzorov's name was in a police database, and even though the police and Paty's colleagues knew he was threatened, Anzorov was able to spend hours in front of the high school where Paty taught. Anzorov spoke with students and asked them to point out Paty when the school day was over and the teachers were going home. Anzorov chased Paty through the streets, stabbed him, slit his throat, beheaded him, photographed himself next to the severed head, and posted the photos on social media networks around the world.
* "Sleepwalking leaders must wake up.... Otherwise, the French will have no choice but submission or civil war..." — Ivan Rioufol, columnist, Le Figaro, October22, 2020.

Samuel Paty, a high school teacher, was beheaded on October 16, 2020 in the Paris suburb where he taught. Throughout France, Muslim students openly threaten teachers by telling them that they are "risking a Samuel Paty". Many topics can no longer be addressed in a classroom. Saying that the earth is round has become dangerous: many Muslim students say that Islam teaches that the earth is flat. Discussing evolution or Charles Darwin is equally unsafe. Pictured: Bois-d'Aulne College in Conflans-Saint-Honorine, where Paty was murdered. (Photo by Bertrand Guay/AFP via Getty Images)

May 16, 2023. The French examining magistrates in charge of the case of the murder of Samuel Paty, a high school teacher savagely beheaded on October 16, 2020 in Conflans Sainte Honorine, a small city in the suburbs of Paris where he taught, reveal the list of those they have decided to indict.

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** The Two-Headed Russian Eagle at War ([link removed])
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by Amir Taheri • June 18, 2023 at 4:00 am
* [Politicians, pundits, and pranksters] were making the same mistake that many commentators on the Ukrainian conflict are making today: believing that the struggle was over a piece of land. British and French leaders made the same mistake in 1938, when they believed that all that Hitler wanted was the so-called Sudetenland, a chunk of Czechoslovakia where ethnic Germans formed a majority of the population. Even when Hitler wanted another chunk of territory, the Danzig Corridor in Poland, there were many advocates of realpolitik who demanded that the Führer be appeased.
* It is no accident that the Russian state emblem is a two-headed eagle wearing crowns. One head looks east, towards a vast sphere in which Mongol and Tatar cultures remain as sediments of a glorious past. Even today when Russia looks east it sees political and social systems that resemble its own ideal of statehood: the People's Republic of China, Mongolia, and North Korea.
* [Putin] quickly realized that only by reviving the autocratic system could he perpetuate his rule and keep the gravy train on the rails.
* The invasion of Georgia in 2008 and the annexation of Crimea in 2014 were designed to test the will of Western democracies and put a stop to the relentless advance of "the democratic disease" toward Russian borders.
* Putin fears that if Ukraine goes "Western", soon Belarus would also be "lost" for Moscow while the younger generation in Russia is also in danger of becoming Westernized. With more than two million Russians, mostly young people, leaving the country in the past two years that fear is not without foundation.
* Thus the extended war that Putin started over a year ago isn't about chunks of land or even the conquest of Ukraine as a whole. Knowing that he cannot make the rest of Europe like Russia, he hopes to create a cordon sanitaire to prevent Russia from becoming like the rest of Europe.
* The eagle looking west ought to see brighter horizons. Right now, however, it sees an endless war, while the eagle looking east sees Russia's increasing dependence on China.

(Image source: iStock)

Has the long-promised Ukrainian "spring offensive" already started? With summer just knocking on the doors, the question is making the rounds in political circles in Europe and the United States. By last Monday, French military analysts were still trying to equivocate on the subject. "The offensive may have begun in parts of southeast Ukraine," one retired general told a TV audience.

In the US, however, another retired general, David Petraeus, sounded more certain, telling The Washington Post that the offensive has already started and that he expects the Ukrainians to make significant gains.

Whistling a different tune, the maverick mandarin of realpolitik, John Mearsheimer, also mused about "large chunks of territory changing hands", predicting that Russia will seize a big chunk of Ukraine and end the war.

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** Happy Founding Fathers' Day ([link removed])
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by Lawrence Kadish • June 18, 2023 at 3:00 am
Pictured: Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States, oil on canvas, by Howard Chandler Christy, 1940. (Photo by MPI/Getty Images)

Across the country one hopes that Father's Day will be observed in good cheer, with family gathered 'round, sharing memories, honoring generations, and reflecting on lives well lived.

But our nation has had "Fathers" as well. (With no intention to slight our nation's "Mothers"). Historians have labeled these pioneering patriots "Fathers of our country," who risked lives and fortune to create a nation founded in liberty and forged in the struggle for independence.

Since then, America has faced any number of existential challenges, from economic depression to global war. Today, we face a political schism that is unprecedented and our enemies are hoping that we fail the test of greatness once exemplified by our Founding Fathers.

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