Muslims are providing the West with a master class on what Islam is and it isn't. Forget the academic lectures and the media op-eds. This is an extensive study of the real subject. It's easy to grasp. Anyone can do it.
The message is as subtle as a blade or a bullet. It's as subtle as Islam.
Two knife-wielding attackers who had pledged allegiance to ISIS, shouting "Allahu Akbar," slit the throat of an 84-year-old priest and critically wounded at least one other person during a Tuesday morning terror attack on a Catholic church near the Normandy city of Rouen, officials said.
The terrorists were later shot and killed by police. ISIS' Amaq news agency said the France attack was carried out by two Islamic State "soldiers," Reuters reported.
"[ISIS] has declared war on us," French President Francois Hollande said Tuesday. "We must fight this war by all means, while respecting the rule of law -- what makes us a democracy."
The first rule of law is that it is mutual. It does not apply to those seeking to replace it with their own laws.
The church was reportedly on a "hit list" discovered at the residence of a would-be ISIS attacker in April 2015, The Sun reported. Sid Ghlam was believed to be planning "imminent attacks" in France when investigators arrested him. Officials allegedly uncovered an arsenal of weapons and found that Ghlam was talking with someone in Syria who had ordered him to strike specific churches -- including the one in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray.
Islam targets churches and synagogues because it is striving to follow the Islamic dictate to make Islam supreme over all religions.