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IPFS News Link • Spain

MORE FOREIGN-POLICY BLOWBACK IN SPAIN

• https://www.fff.org, by Jacob G. Hornberger

Here is an excerpt of from an article on the matter in the New York Times:

For more than a decade, Spain seemed immune to the steady eruptions of Islamic violence that rocked other European countries where radicalized young men, often from poor immigrant backgrounds, carried out devastating bomb, gun or vehicular attacks…. Now, the authorities are rushing to answer how a group that includes teenagers was able to carry out a well-planned and coordinated attack in a country that has parried danger for so long, despite being such a tempting and symbolic target for Islamists.

What's a reader to conclude on reading that type of thing? It seems to me that the logical import of such a statement is that Spain is facing a threat from Islamic terrorism — that Islam is a dangerous religion, at least in how it's interpreted by religious extremists — that Muslim extremists are coming to get us to establish a worldwide caliphate — that it's necessary to educate Islamic youth about Western civilization — and that it's necessary for U.S. troops to be over killing them before they come to kill us here.


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