None of the 128 Needed to Die

Editorial Commentary

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According to the latest BBC news (at this point of writing), the present Paris attack has claimed 128 lives with 180 others injured. The attack took place in a night of gun and bomb attacks at a concert hall including restaurants and bars at five other sites with one just outside the Stade de France stadium where France was playing World Cup champions Germany. All of these were in and around the centre of Paris.

It might be politically incorrect to say this but there will be more of the same attacks to come. At any rate, this wasn’t the first time for Paris. If our memory isn’t too short, you might remember Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher, the Jewish supermarket. And they were hardly ten months ago.

The godless continue not to recognise that these are not only the End Times but that, appeasing evil merely brings more unmitigated evil. Similarly a stubborn refusal by liberal socialist politicians to call it what it is – purely unadulterated Islamic terrorism – leaves plenty of doors open for more of the same to come. And they will surely come before the year is up. It might not be Paris but it will surely be somewhere where the same blasé attitude prevails.

Much of Europe is embroiled in the most incompetent assessment of what terrorism is about and how poorly they have been managing the situation; no less mired by a complete lack of due diligence. When you bring in tens of thousands of Syrian refugees without any checks and balances, it tells you everything about utter European ignorance and political indifference. But when 128 people died because of government stupidity and a refusal to acknowledge and then act against Islamic terrorism, the fault must lie equally between I.S. and, in this case, the French government.

Looking at where we’re at in the scheme of things, Ephesians 6:10-20 might come at a humbling but right time. Maybe we can now see these verses for what they’re worth. Maybe we can now wake up from our slumber and take things a little more seriously.

Editor