BIN LADEN THREATENS FRANCE – AT 10:44 A.M. ET:  We are constantly being told by the leftists and the Islamist apologists that it's our "policies" that drive terrorism and the fanatacism of Al Qaeda.  The problem is, it seems to be everyone else's policies as well. 

No nation in Europe has been more supportive of legitimate Muslim causes than France, and the growing Muslim population of the country is increasingly influential.  And yet, France was a major terrorist target as early as the 1980s, and is now being targeted again:

In a purported audio tape aired on Al Jazeera television on Friday, al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden warned French President Nicolas Sarkozy that his refusal to withdraw troops from Afghanistan was a "green light" to kill French hostages.

In a message specifically targeting France, al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden warned that Paris would pay a “high price” for its policies and that the fate of French hostages would depend on the pullout of French troops from “Muslim lands”, in a purported audiotape broadcast on Arabic news network Al Jazeera on Friday.

“We repeat the same message to you: The release of your prisoners in the hands of our brothers is linked to the withdrawal of your soldiers from our country," bin Laden said. "The refusal of your president [Nicolas Sarkozy] to withdraw from Afghanistan is the result of his obedience of America and this refusal is a green light to kill your prisoners,” he added.

French officials have not yet confirmed the authenticity of the tape. But in a statement released shortly after the broadcast the French foreign ministry said France was "determined" to keep troops in Afghanistan despite a threat from al Qaeda.

COMMENT:  Add to France a list that includes Danish cartoonists and just about everything British, and you get the picture.  We are fighting a rigid ideology, similar to Nazism.  But, like Nazism, it has its sympathizers in the West, especially among "intellectual" elites, who endlessly try to "understand" the enemy...without asking any important questions.

January 22, 2011