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That's Luke 11:23.
In Nahum 2:1: "The one who scatters has come up against you. Man the fortress, watch the road; Strengthen your back, summon all your strength."
At 5 pm on February 22, 1943, Hans and Sophie Scholl, along with their friend Christoph Probst, were executed by Nazi guillotine after being found guilty of distributing leaflets opposing the Nazi regime. The trial had commenced earlier that day at 10 am.
The members of the White Rose were not pacifists. Sophie may have rejected war, but not violence: she demanded that the French defend Paris to the last shot because it was a matter of honor; she welcomed the violence of the SS in Amsterdam because it would clarify each party’s position, and she herself would have been ready to shoot Hitler.
She agreed with Hans and Alexander Schmorell, who argued in the leaflets that Hitler’s “brown horde” must be attacked and exterminated. In December 1942, Hans wrote that it was necessary to take up arms against the “wild beasts” that had been let loose, and he had a loaded army pistol with him during the nightly graffiti actions.
--Constantin von Hoffmeister
Rod Dreher asks, "I don’t understand why the government doesn’t deploy the army and shoot rioters until they stop. Philippe Lemoine, a Frenchman, says it’s not that simple."
Excerpt:
"We have let things rot for so long that, at this point, relying primarily on force to restore order would require a degree of violence far greater than what people realize and what is politically feasible.
It's possible to contain a riot using only moderate force when the number of police officers is high relative to the number of rioters, but when riots are so widespread and involve so many people because you have allowed this kind of things to happen for so long, that's just not possible and you have to use extreme violence to make up for the lack of manpower.
I know people on the Internet will say that it doesn't matter and that we should just do it, but the reality is that most of the people in charge are not prepared to use that kind of force and neither would most ordinary people if they saw ...
Even Marine Le Pen’s recent statements track this line: personal Islamic practice is compatible with the Republic; replacing French law with Sharia is not. French Muslims who are simply citizens practicing their "religious faith" “have no reason to worry” about a Le Pen election victory.
But can one be a practicing Muslim without demanding and practicing Sharia?
