August 24, 2015, - 3:13 pm
More “Workplace Violence”: How Will US Military Treat Heroes Who Foiled Muslim Terrorist v. The French Cowards
Spencer Stone, Anthony Sadler & Alek Skarlatos: They Should Get the Bronze Star for Staving Off Islamic Terrorist While French Crew Cowered
While you’ve probably heard lots about the three heroic Americans who foiled the Islamic terrorist on Paris-bound train from Amsterdam on Friday, there are a couple of outrageous and sadly hilarious things you probably haven’t heard about French cowards on the train and about how the two military members of the trio of heroes will be treated.
What’s gotten the least media attention in the story is that while Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos, and Anthony Sadler–the three Americans who foiled Ayoub Al-Khazzani (also spelled, Ayoub El-Qahzzani, which has a completely different pronunciation in Arabic) were completely unarmed, the French train staff barricaded themselves behind locked doors and refused to help passengers. The whole situation is a stark contrast between what American used to be and should be (brave and fearless) versus what France has always been (frog-eating, surrendering fraidy cats).
While I’m generally down on millennials, these three American men are shining examples of the courage and heroism that seems to be missing from their generation. They give me some hope for our country’s future. They’ve got the masculinity, guts, and decency I wish many in their generation had even a smidgen of. Despite not having any weapons and facing a Muslim with a whole cadre of weapons (multiple guns, rounds, a box cutter knife), they instantly risked their lives to pounce on the terrorist and save the lives of European passengers (hey, just like World War II). As you probably know, Airman Spencer Stone’s limitless bravery continued as he held down the Muslim would-be mass murderer and also attended to injured passengers. And he did this, despite having no thumb (which the terrorist sliced off with the box cutter, but which has now been re-attached in surgery) and despite a bloody gash on his head and neck area.
It was also the observant Stone who spotted the terrorist in the first place, just in time to foil his plot:
US airman Spencer Stone, who on board the train during the attack, spotted the 26-year-old Moroccan acting suspiciously and heard him trying to load his weapon in the toilet.
Contrast these great Americans’ courage with the typical cowardice of the French, cowardice most of Europe exhibited as Nazis ran over their continent and cowardice still exhibited as Muslims–the new Nazis (and the old ones reconstituted; see the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin El-Husseini, and the two Muslim branches of the SS)–now run over their continent with a much more lasting and bright future than their Third Reich predecessors.
Train staff on board the high speed train which was the scene of a suspected Islamic extremist attack yesterday have been accused of barricading themselves in their staffroom and locking the door, leaving passengers to fend for themselves. . . . French actor Jean-Hugues Anglade, who was on board the Thalys train during the attack has slammed train staff who he claims locked themselves in an office away from the attacker and refused to help the trapped passengers.
The actor told Paris Match: ‘We heard screaming passengers in English, ‘He shoots! He shoots! He has a Kalashnikov!” The actor, who was travelling with his two children and his girlfriend, said: ‘Suddenly, members of the crew ran into the hallway and their faces were pale.’ He said the staff hurried towards their own car on the train and opened it ‘with a special key’ before they locked themselves inside. Mr Anglade claims he and other passengers banged on the door and shouted at staff to open up, but their cries for help were ignored. He said: ‘Nobody replied, there was radio silence. It was terrible and unbearable, it was inhumane.
Then, there is how the Americans who foiled the terrorist will be treated. Specifically, how the two of the three Americans who serve in the U.S. military will be treated. Spencer Stone is in the U.S. Air Force, and Alek Skarlatos is in the Oregon National Guard. Will they be subject to yet another round of chants from the Obama Administration that, “It’s only workplace violence.” Or will they receive Bronze Stars for their heroic acts in a combat zone? It should be the latter, but we know it will only be the former.
While it is true that the American heroes were on vacation, the battlefield of Islam is everywhere. Jihadists perpetrate their wars 24-7-365. And that train was a battlefield. If anything, the attack was a reminder (we shouldn’t need to have) that Islam is always at war with us and at war with us everywhere. Spencer Stone should get a Purple Heart for his injuries. And both Stone and Skarlatos deserve those Bronze Stars.
But they won’t get these medals. And they won’t get them because they will be treated like the Fort Hood victims and heroes. We can’t insult Muslims by acknowledging their war against us, against the unarmed at any time, any place. We’re not allowed.
This is just workplace, or, rather, vacation-place violence. Right?
In fact, if we went Barack Obama’s way, he’d be handing out medals to the cowardly French crew for saving themselves behind locked doors. He’s made it very clear that he has little desire for heroes like these three men. His American foreign and domestic policy towards Islam and Islamic terrorism resembles those French wimps and sissies behind the locked doors, throwing passengers at the mercy of killers.
Ask yourself what kind of America we live in, in which an Air Force chaplain far away from the battlefield is awarded a Bronze Star for his Islamo-pandering, sensitivity-training Powerpoint presentation on how to “respectfully” and “properly” dispose of the koran; and in which this guy who nearly lost his thumb saving lives from an Islamic terrorist probably won’t get one.
Tags: Alek Skarlatos, Anthony Sadler, Ayoub Al-Khazzani, Ayoub El-Khazzani, Ayoub El-Qahzzani, cowardly French, French cowards, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Spencer Stone, Thalys, workplace violence
It was not always this way.
When terrorists hijacked an Air France airplane in 1976 and took it to Entebee the French crew chose on their own to stay with the Israeli passengers when the terrorists released all of the non Israelis.
Of course Air France Management wound up severely punishing the crew for doing this.
I_AM_ME on August 24, 2015 at 3:32 pm