Three Muslims, Apparently All French Converts, Suicide Bombers In Iraq

All three identified themselves in those names converts just love to concot for themselves (what a thrill these names, this special language, provides these miserable wretches) as  “Abu” this or that, and then “Al-Faransi” — “the Frenchman” — but they died not “mort pour la France” but  fi sabil Allah, fighting in the path of Allah, that is in the Jihad to make sure that the True Islam dominates everywhere, and everywhere, True Muslims rule.

At least two of the three were suicide bombers who died in the recent fighting in Anbar Province in Iraq by the Islamic State. How did they convert? They were poor, had grown up in a housing project (a cité named after the mathematician Nicolas Bourbaki, the fabulous creation of, among others, Andre Weil) where, surrounded by Muslims, they had to fit in in order to protect themselves, and the only way to fit in, as white Frenchmen, was to convert to Islam. The French state did not foresee this, did not protect them from this, did not move them out. And then, having converted, they had an instant community of bruvvers, and  a Simple Explanation of the Universe, and a Reason For Being — to kill Infidels, which includes “hypocritical” Muslims who are not near,ly Muslim enough.

The socially and psychically marginal in the Western world naturally find Islam a solution to their desperate lives; it justifies rather than condemns their resentment of their condition, channels their aggression and, what’s more, justifies it. They feel good — right up to the moment that they blow themselves up. The prevention of such conversions should be part of the policy of the intellligent non-Muslim state. But that depends on recognizing that Islam, the ideology of Islam, is a permanent danger to non-Muslims. Can the French state, can those who presume in any non-Muslim country to protect and instruct the people over whom they rule, or whom they govern, admit this publicly, and formulate policies to limit the presence and power of Islam?