Today, President Obama had this to say about the horrific church massacre in Charleston, South Carolina:
“At some point we have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries. It doesn\’t happen in other places with this kind of frequency.”
Does this man ever miss an opportunity to dump on the USA?
For Mr. Obama\’s edification, I thought I would draw from Maria Khan\’s January 7th article for the International Business Times, and post this list of terrorist attacks – not any other type of killing, just terrorism – in France over just a six month period in France alone:
January 7, 2015 – Charlie Hebdo magazine attack: Black-clad gunmen armed with automatic weapons stormed the headquarters of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris and later escaped aboard a getaway car.
Two police officers and 10 journalists were amongst the dead. French President Francois Hollande condemned the attack as “barbaric” and announced a national day of mourning.
“No barbaric act will ever extinguish press freedom. We are a united country that will be able to react and stand together,” tweeted French President François Hollande.
December 23, 2014 – Gunman arrested in Cannes: As the French government deployed soldiers in city centres, a man armed with two loaded pump-action shotguns and a knife was held in the city centre of Cannes.
December 22, 2014 – Nantes market lone wolf attack: Ten people were left injured and one dead after a 37-year-old man drove into crowds at a Christmas shopping market in Nantes.
Eyewitnesses told local newspaper Quest France that the driver of the white van yelled: “Allahu Akbar” (meaning “God is great” in Arabic), and then stabbed himself with a knife.
December 21, 2014 – Dijon lone wolf attack: A 40-year-old man shouting “Allahu Akbar” slammed a black Renault Clio into pedestrians at several different locations in the eastern France city of Dijon on Sunday.
Eyewitnesses told local media that the man was heard shouting that he was “acting for the children of Palestine”.
Eleven people were reported injured and police sources said “the man is apparently unbalanced and had been in a psychiatric hospital.”
December 20, 2014 – Joue-les-Tourslone wolf attack: A 20-year-old, Burundi-born, man was shot down by police after he stabbed three officers shouting “Allahu Akbar” at a police station in Joue-les-Tours, the largest suburb of Tours in central France. French police later said that the man named Bertrand Nzohabonayo might have IS links.
September 17, 2014 – Lyon Isis-related arrests: Six people were arrested in Lyon on suspicion of recruiting potential jihadists for the Islamic State (Isis).
June 26, 2014 – \’Isis Jihadist\’ Mehdi Nemmouche to be extradited:
French jihadist Mehdi Nemmouche, who was arrested in May during a customs inspection in the French city of Marseille, was announced to be extradited to Belgium.
Nemmouche allegedly killed four people at the Brussels Jewish Museum after returning from Syria where he fought for IS.
June 2, 2014 – Jihadist recruiters arrested after Belgium Jewish Museum Shooting: French police arrested four people allegedly involved in a jihadist recruitment network following the deadly shooting at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels.
Interesting information? I\’d say so. But it doesn\’t begin to tell the whole story.
Since the United States population is about 4.5 times as great as that of France, multiply the above by roughly 4 1/2 times to get the equivalent number of attacks. Then remember that the list is of terrorist incidents only, not race crimes which, I assure you, take place in France as well.
And keep in mind that this information is about just one country. Do not doubt events such as these occur in plenty of others as well.
This should be an education for Barack Obama…or would be if his ego allows him to accept reality instead of just blowing out rhetoric which deprecates the United States, that is.
Then again, maybe his blind spot is due to the fact that a number of these attacks were committed by people who hate Israel.
I hope not.
