Were the Islamic Terrorists Just Copying the French Revolution?


What? The case could be made that the extremists were only copying what the French revolutionaries did. Why should they be condemned? They were only following a long French tradition that is celebrated around the wold.

It’s no surprise, therefore, that Christiane Amanpour described the terrorists as “activists.”

In terms of what most young people learn, it was Greece that gave birth to Democracy. While this is a popular interpretation, Democratic elements can be found in the Hebrew republic (Ex. 18; 1 Sam. 8). In modern times, especially if we are to count the 18th century, it was the United States that gave birth to democracy, and France tried to emulate the birthing process but failed miserably and bloodily.


Contrary to John Kerry, the French Revolution is nothing to celebrate. It should be condemned with the strongest possible language. The world has lost its moral center and is unable to account for moral outrage at a time when moral relativism reigns.

Those on trial at Nuremberg pointed to our nation’s eugenics’ policies and Supreme Court decision in Buck. v Bell (1927) in their defense.


Prise de la Bastille by Jean-Pierre Houël



“Ordered by the king [Louis XVI] to surrender, more than 600 Swiss guards were savagely murdered. The mobs ripped them to shreds and mutilated their corpses. ‘Women, lost to all sense of shame,’ said one surviving witness, ‘were committing the most indecent mutilations on the dead bodies from which they tore pieces of flesh and carried them off in triumph.’ Children played kickball with the guards’ heads. Every living thing in the Tuileries [royal palace in Paris] was butchered or thrown from the windows by the hooligans. Women were raped before being hacked to death.


“This bestial attack, it was later decreed, would be celebrated every year as ‘the festival of the unity and indivisibility of the republic.’ It would be as if families across America delighted in the annual TV special ‘A Manson Family Christmas.’1


It was at this point that the people became disillusioned with the revolutionary ways of the radicals, but not before more atrocities were committed for the “salvation” of the people and the nation. As revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat declared, “Let the blood of the traitors flow! That is the only way to save the country.”

Defenders of the French Revolution tell us that it was these “just causes” that legitimized the actions of the French mobs.

The Paris Islamic terrorists were amateurs compared to the leaders of the French Revolution. If I had been leading the Islamic terrorists that murdered 12 people in Paris, I would have surrendered, demanded a trial, and used the French Revolution as my defense.

I would argue that the French Revolution is celebrated on July 14th as Bastille Day, a national holiday. It is often compared to America’s War for Independence. Festivities and official ceremonies are held all over France. It is also celebrated in Belgium, Hungary, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and in more than 50 cities across the United States.

I would bring in John Kerry as a witness for the defense.

If the French celebrate beheadings and other such atrocities, then why would it be wrong for we terrorists to follow their example? Bloody revolutions must be a good thing if they are celebrated with such fervor and delight.

The murdering mobs that attacked the nearly empty Bastille (at the time of the siege there were only seven non-political prisoners) believed their actions were for a better France, similar to what today’s political revolutionaries and Islamic terrorists have in mind. How is what the French revolutionaries did different from what the Islamic revolutionaries are doing? France and the West have a moral dilemma on their hands.

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