‘Years of not wanting to offend anyone nurtured Islamic extremism in the West’
RT
May 13, 2018
Constantly prioritizing liberal values over national security in Europe has ultimately given a free hand to Islamic radicals, who sneak into the continent unhindered with little scrutiny, extremism expert Jennifer Breedon told RT.
Breedon, an international criminal law attorney and expert in extremism studies, spoke to RT in the wake of the attack in PARIS on Saturday night, when a knife-wielding man randomly stabbed people near the Opera House, killing one of them. The assailant reportedly shouted “Allahu Akbar” as he charged at passersby. The Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) claimed responsibility for the carnage, calling it retribution for France’s role in the anti-terrorist campaign in the Middle East.
Pointing out that Europe, and in particular France, is among the hardest hit by ISIS sympathizer attacks, Breedon argued that the root of the problem lies not in its fight against ISIS, but in the decades of its commitment to liberal values at the expense of national security.
“In terms of motivation to do these attacks, they always say and it’s kind of been a public outcry that attacking ISIS in Syria or Iraq is going to be a part of this. Of course, France has been one of these coalition forces, but that’s no different from the things that Russia has done or some of the other nations have done against ISIS or terrorist forces in Syria,” she said.
The reason the West, especially Europe, has become a “very easy target” for ISIS is that European leaders “use those liberal values, freedoms, equality and thing like that and put those over safety for people,” she argued.
“And that begs a very important question: When is this too much?” the lawyer added.
Posted in Analysis & Review, ISIS, Middle East, Prison Planet Articles, Syria, War on terror.
– May 13, 2018
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