Now We Know Why
A day that will live in infamy – November 13, 2015 is France’s equivalent to America’s 9/11. In a series of attacks, ISIS terrorists murdered over one hundred innocent civilians and wounded over two hundred. It was a well-planned attack in several different venues including a soccer stadium, a restaurant, and Bataclan, a theater and concert hall. Bataclan was the primary target. But why Bataclan?
For forty years, Bataclan was owned by two Jews – Pascal and Joel Laloux. How about that? They sold the theater to new owners on September 2015. The Jewish owners of Bataclan often held pro-Israel events at the theater including fundraising for the Israeli army. Now we know why it was targeted.
As far back as 2008, radical Islamists threatened to attack the theater. This was years before the current military action against ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
A video (www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk) has recently surfaced showing about ten young masked pro-Palestinian Paris radicals warning the owners to stop their pro-Israel events or they would be attacked.
In the video, the group of men is speaking to the doorman at the theater. They demand to speak to the owners and inform him that they are youth from several districts in the suburbs of Paris and that they support the Palestinian people. They tell the doorman that they are unhappy with the Bataclan’s owners for allowing the venue to be used every year for fundraising for the Israeli army, which they accuse of being racist.
The spokesman continues, “Many people in the neighborhoods are unhappy of this provocation. To raise funds for the Magav, a branch of the Israeli army which committed crimes in the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank, these people who eliminate Palestinian women. It is clearly shameful and an outrage to many people who are angered by the injustice in Palestine.”
Their message to the owners is that they will be held responsible for their actions as will the organization having the fundraising event, which it calls “Islamophobic, insulting all the time Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims.”
They further threaten the owners with these words, “You will pay for your actions. That’s very serious what you are doing. And this is a message for all those who are preoccupied by the implications of the provocations. You must know that things are moving in our neighborhoods. Today, it’s nice but firm. But you must know that, with all the people we have behind us, we won’t be able to contain them for a long time. We came here to pass along a small message. Be warned. The next time, we won’t be coming here to talk.”
In 2011, another group called the Army of Islam threatened the theater because its owners were Jews.
Of course we can expect more of these terrorist incidents in Europe, Britain and America. We are in a battle of civilizations – the West that has a Judeo-Christian worldview, or Islam which opposes everything Judeo-Christian.
Tragically, the West, including America, has turned away from its Judeo-Christian values. We are in a post-Judeo-Christian secular world. Perhaps Islam is God’s judgment on us for forsaking Him. While it certainly matters who leads our nations, unless we return to the God who made us great, a spiritual and moral awakening, the policies of our future national leaders will not save us from further decline and heartache.
