Le
Temps, Switzerland
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Islamic
State's Goal: 'European Civil War' (Le Monde, France)
"What
IS wants is to trigger a civil war. With his famous A Call to a Global Islamic Resistance , Abu Musab al-Suri has had his strategy in place since 2005: the
proliferation of indiscriminate attacks will lead to the lynching of Muslims,
attacks on mosques and assaults on veiled women creating enclaves of war which
will put Europe, which IS perceives as the soft underbelly of the West, to the
fire and sword. The attacks yesterday [Nov. 13] fit within this global
strategy. … National unity is the only adequate political response precisely
because the terrorists seek to destabilize the Republic."
An
interview with Gilles Kepel , professor of Islam and
the Contemporary Arab World at the Institute of Political Studies, Paris. His book:
Terror Over the Hexagon: Origins of the French Jihad 2005-2015; Terreur sur l'Hexagone
2005-2015, genèse du djihad
français , will be published in January by Gallimard .
Translated By Jill Naeem
November 20, 2015
France
– Le Monde – Original Article (French)
Le Monde:
Did the terrible massacres of November 13 come as a surprise to you?
Gilles Kepel : Unfortunately not. For over a year, the Islamic
State (IS) has been calling for strikes on the French. On September 22, 2014,
Abu Mohamed El Adnani, the group's spokesman, called for strikes on Westerners
wherever they are, and particularly the "filthy, nasty French." That
is a threat repeated regularly by French individuals in Syria. In a tweet in
early January sent to the editors of Le
Monde , Maxime Hauchard, the young man from Normandy who slit the throats of
Syrian aviators, announced that IS was about to strike ruthlessly in France.
After the attacks on Charlie Hebdo , Salim Ben Ghalem , the highest-ranking Frenchman in the IS hierarchy
who the French strikes have tried … apparently without success … to eliminate
these past few weeks, called for the indiscriminate killing of our - and his -
fellow citizens.
Le Monde:
Weren't things turned up a notch when compared to last January's attacks?
Gilles Kepel : Incontestably. With Charlie Hebdo
and the Hyper-Cacher (Kosher supermarket), targets
were identified and targeted because they were specifically accused: of
"Islamophobic" for the drafting of Charlie Hebdo ; as "apostates"
for Muslim police serving in French uniform; or for being Jewish. Today, as
Amedy Coulibaly explained during the Hyper-Cacher
hostage crisis: According to him, citizens who pays their taxes are responsible
for the actions of his government and is therefore a legitimate target for IS
or, according to the Quranic phrase, "his blood
is licit".
Le Monde:
With this new level of terror - what does the Islamic State hope to achieve?
Gilles Kepel :
What IS wants is to trigger a civil war. With his famous [1,600 page book] A Call to a
Global Islamic Resistance Abu Musab al-Suri [photo, right] has had his strategy in place since
2005: the proliferation of indiscriminate attacks will lead to the lynching of
Muslims, attacks on mosques and assaults on veiled women creating enclaves of
war which will put Europe, which IS perceives as the soft underbelly of the
West, to the fire and sword. The attacks yesterday [Nov. 13] fit within this
global strategy. But they were indiscriminately aimed at the young among whom
they must find fellow Muslims to enlist in their ranks. Here may lay a
strategic flaw: because the big challenge of terrorism is to win mass public
support for its actions. When this doesn't happen they fail politically, such
as happened in Algeria in 1997 or following the attacks of al-Qaeda, which
exhausted its mode of action by dint of its failure to find political
opportunities. Today, indiscriminate attacks seek to provoke pogroms, but they
are also designed for the very people they want to mobilize. Now, contrary to
what has been said by Emmanuel Todd and those who mocked the January 11
[unity] demonstrations, I believe that in spite of all the ambiguities it might
involve, national unity is the only adequate political response precisely because
the terrorists seek to destabilize the Republic.
Le Monde:
Is more intervention in Syria necessary?
Gilles Kepel : The real strength of third-generation jihad is
its Iraqi-Syrian base. Indeed - perhaps the terrorists have gone too far this time.
It should be remembered that September 11 has been interpreted by them as
excessiveness on the part of bin Laden, because he gave George W. Bush the
means to legitimately and militarily destroy al-Qaeda. Now if
we use military means to destroy Islamic State - that will be the end (IS will
have failed to live up to its promises).
ISIS
VIDEO: Threats to Attack U.S., France, Rome.
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Le Monde:
But in the heads of IS, can it be destroyed?
Gilles Kepel : It is the interaction between here [where we are
today] and there [the terrorist acknowledgement of Islamic State's destruction]
that is its trademark. Here, the terrorists are coming off of a successful
martyrdom operation that involved murdering "infidels" without being
caught or killed beforehand by police. The morale of their fighters is high
because the Syrian base is standing up to the Western powers.
Le Monde:
Are the locations and the day of this latest actions
symbolic?
Gilles Kepel : Through their actions, the jihadists showed that
they can strike the same locations as they did last January 7 and 9. Let's
remember that police officer Ahmed Merabet was killed
by the Kouachi brothers a few hundred meters from the
Bataclan … on Boulevard Richard Lenoir. To do it on Friday the 13th, a Sabbath
day [a rest day for Jews], is perhaps a sign of cutting-and-pasting gore
culture onto the indisputable Salafism of these young
soldiers of jihad. The events at the Stade de France
are reminiscent of the Boston Marathon as they sought the panic of crowds. But
note that President Hollande was also, to an extent, directly targeted by this
action.
Le Monde:
Why is France the largest supplier of jihadists?
Posted By
Worldmeets.US
Gilles Kepel : Because of a "retro-colonial" history
that is far from over, which I refer to in my book Terror Over the Hexagon: Origins of the French Jihad 2005-2015 ,
let's remember that Mohamed
Merah killed the students of the Ozar Hatorah School in Toulouse
on March 19, 2012, 50 years to the day after the
ceasefire was implemented in the Algerian Civil War. This small-time suburban
gangster, trained through social media in the ways of the Salafist milieu of
the Midi-Pyrenees and born into a family that hated France, was handled with
appalling carelessness by the French secret services, which failed to grasp the
mutation of jihadism from al-Qaeda to
third-generation terrorism. Today we are paying the price of the blindness of
our political elites.
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on Western Identity Crisis La Stampa, Italy: Ukraine: Putin Capitalizes
on Western Identity Crisis de Volkskrant,
Netherlands: Putin's Letter to
Americans a Guilty Pleasure for the World Huanqiu, China: Letter By Vladimir Putin
Exposes 'Exceptional' American Inequality Diario De Noticias,
Portugal: Russia
and America: United in Flouting International Law Carta Maior, Brazil: Venezuela and Ukraine:
Upending Washington's Best Laid Plans Le Quotidien d'Oran,
Algeria: Crimea: The Latest
Front for French Rambos Reforma, Mexico: Crimea and Texas: Russia's
Version of Manifest Destiny Al Wehda, Syria: America's 'Destiny' of
Invasion and Expansionism FAZ, Germany: America and
Germany: The 'Axis of Pragmatism' BelTA, Belarus: Lukashenko Warns: Crimea Sets
'Dangerous Precedent' Al-Madina, Saudi
Arabia: Ukraine
and Syria: May Allah Make Russia's Pain Severe! tp24 Rubriche, Italy: America 'Too Young to
Understand' Crisis in Crimea Die Zeit, Germany: The Paler the West, the More
Luminous Vladimir Putin Huanqiu, China: Crisis Over Ukraine
Could Spell 'Disaster' for China Asia Times, Hong Kong: Beijing to Kiev to Taipei: Why China Worries
About Ukraine Neatkariga Rita Avize,
Latvia: Putin Clears
Western Minds of Intelligence, Media 'Delusions' Sueddeutsche Zeitung,
Germany: Germans
Must Now Back Sanctions - Even if they Hurt Us Diena, Latvia: President Tells Lithuanians:
Show Russia No Fear and be 'Ready to Shoot' de Volkskrant, The
Netherlands: Recognize Russia's
Legitimate Interests or Ukraine is Doomed de Volkskrant, The
Netherlands: Most Crimeans Don't want
Ukraine Split Frankfurter Rundschau,
Germany: Finding the
Win-Win Scenario With Vladimir Putin Sol, Portugal: Ukraine May Awaken 'Ghosts of
the Great War' de Morgan, Belgium: Putin Knows: No One in West
is Willing to Die for Sebastopol Komsomolskaya Pravda,
Russia: Crimea:
the Next Puerto Rico? Russia Today, Russia: VIDEOS: Roundup of Russian Reaction from
Russia Today European Press
Agencies: European
Reaction to Developments in Ukraine Moskovskii Komsomolets,
Russia: Report: U.S. to
Help 'Oust' Black Sea Fleet from Crimea Novosti, Russia: Looking Toward the West,
Ukraine 'Lies' to the East Yezhednevniy Zhurnal,
Russia: Ossified Kremlin
Misreads Biden Visit to Georgia, Ukraine Rceczpospolita, Poland: Banish All 'Magical
Thinking' Regarding the Russian Bear Kommersant, Russia: The Kremlin Offers 'an
Ultimatum' to America Gazeta Wyborcza,
Poland: 'Enormous
Error' of Bush's 'Georgian Protege' Georgia Can 'Kiss NATO
Goodbye' Financial Times Deutschland, Germany: Before
Georgia - It is Europe that Needs Mediation Rue 89, France: East Europe Best Not Depend on
'Obsolete' NATO Liberation, France: Russian President 'Dictates
His Peace' to Hapless Europe Le Figaro, France: Between America and Russia,
the E.U. is On the Front Line Le Figaro, France: War in the Caucasus: Georgia
'Doesn? Stand a Chance' Le Figaro, France: A Way Out of the Georgia
Crisis for Russia and the West Le Figaro, France: Did Russia 'Win' the Georgia
Crisis? Not By a Long Shot Frankfurter Rundschau, Germany: Did Russia 'Win'
the Georgia Crisis? Not By a Long Shot
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