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Murder in Paris: The victims of the latest ISIS attack

French President Francois Hollande has promised to crush the Islamic State (ISIS) after the terror organization committed mass murder in his nation with a series of attacks on Friday (November 13). The attacks killed over 100 people and wounded several hundred more.

Here's what Hollande said: It is an act of war that was committed by a terrorist army, a jihadist army, Daesh (ISIS), against France. It is an act of war that was prepared, organized and planned from abroad, with complicity from the inside, which the investigation will help establish.

France is participating in the war against ISIS going on in Syria. Because of that, ISIS struck the European nation, just as it struck Russia on October 31 by blowing up a Russian passenger jet over Egypt, killing 224 people. ISIS has warned that every nation fighting against the Islamic State will be targeted for attacks.

In response to that threat, Hollande and even the sleepy Barack Obama promised to step up the military campaign in Syria against the Islamic State. That's a typical response to a much bigger problem that isn't confined to Syria and other Islamic enclaves in the Middle East, Asia and Northern Africa.

And that's a predictable response from pansified western leaders who are either too ignorant or unwilling--or both--to recognize that ISIS is merely one of many heads of the Islamic hydra. Getting rid of ISIS may calm things down in the short term. But the monster will just grow another head and start trouble somewhere else. 

Remember Osama Bin Laden? Al Qaeda was supposed to be toast after U.S. Navy Seals caught up to him in Pakistan four years ago and blew him away. Obama, ever the court-jester, even bragged at the time that al Qaeda was dead and General Motors the auto manufacturer (who Obama bailed out) was alive.

Like ISIS, al Qaeda's very much alive and is promising catastrophic attacks against the U.S. and other western targets. If either the Islamic State or al Qaeda successfully pulls that off in the U.S., it will make Obama look like the incompetent fool that he is to the entire world rather than just to his enemies. That's something he dreads worse than an attack on U.S. soil because he possesses a gargantuan ego. In Obama's mind, he's perfect in all of his ways and incapable of mistakes.

However, the western world continues to commit the mistake of believing that Islam is a religion of peace that's been hijacked by a small group of hardcore radicals. Islam isn't a religion of peace and it's never been since its inception in the 7th century. 

It's founding prophet Muhammad was a violent man who commanded his followers to spread his new religion by force, if necessary. Though most Muslims eschew violence because they're cultural Muslims who don't take the Quran literally, the nexus of their religion commands violence and bloodshed as essential proselytizing tools. 

If you doubt that, then here are some examples taken directly from Islam's holy book. Here's a verse that ISIS likely used to justify its attacks on France and Russia: Retaliation is prescribed for you in the matter of the slain. There is life for you in (the law of) retaliation, O men of understanding, that you may guard yourselves. (Sura 2:178-179)

Here's another example: Fight in the way of Allah with those who fight with you. And kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from whence they drove you out, and persecution is severer than slaughter, and do not fight with them at the Sacred Mosque until they fight with you in it, but if they do fight you, then slay them; such is the recompense of the unbelievers. (Sura 2:190-191)

Here are two more: Those who believe fight in the way of Allah, and those who disbelieve fight in the way of Satan. Fight therefore against the friends of Satan; surely the strategy of Satan is weak. (Sura 4:77) The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His apostle and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned. This shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement. (Sura 5:33)

And so, if President Hollande and other western leaders truly want to eliminate terrorism, then they can start by outlawing Islam and cutting out the politically-correct claptrap that Islam is a religion of peace. They can close down mosques, ban the Quran and outlaw all public expressions of that faith. And they can give Muslims the choice of either assimilating into their cultures or emigrating to Islamic nations. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin said it best two years ago when he spoke before the Russian Duma: We will not tolerate disrespect of our Russian culture. We had better learn from the suicides of America, England, Holland and France, if we are to survive as a nation. The Muslims are taking over those countries and they will not take over Russia. The Russian customs and traditions are not compatible with the lack of culture or the primitive ways of Sharia Law and Muslims. When this honorable legislative body thinks of creating new laws, it should have in mind the Russian national interest first, observing that the Muslim minorities are not Russians.  

Is it harsh to suggest that Islam must be outlawed and banned from the world? Then go ahead and stick your head back in the sand or wherever else the sun doesn't shine. Wherever Islam exists, there will be trouble. If you're okay with bloody corpses strewn about cafes and blown up buses and young girls brutally raped and child-brides and beheaded children, then you're okay with Islam.

And please don't blame Israel or occupied territories or western imperialism or Crusaders or something the Roman Catholic Church did 1,000 years ago. If you want to understand what the real problem is, then pick up a copy of the Quran and the Hadith and read them. They're available in English.  

And if you still don't see a problem after you've read them, then go stand in front of a mirror. Then you'll see the real problem.