December ended with a hostage-taking and the subsequent jihad slaughter of two people in a popular chocolate shop in Sydney. And the New Year has begun in horror. Islamic jihadists have struck again in France, killing cartoonists for the crime of drawing cartoons of Muhammad, and four Jewish hostages in a kosher supermarket for the crime of being Jews.

The devout Muslims who committed these murders were born in Paris. They spoke fluent French, their native language. They were born in France; they trained in Yemen. They followed and were inspired and financed by the American imam Anwar al-Awlaki. This illustrates again that we are facing a global jihad.

Let me repeat myself yet again: The media and government always focus on the nationality and race of the perpetrators (never on their religion, unless they’re non-Muslim). But nationality, race, color, geography etc. have nothing to do with this war on freedom. It is a war in the cause of Islam. Period. It is suicidal and asinine to suggest, as all of the political and media elites do, that these attacks are not Islamic. The killers screamed “Allahu akbar” as they shot the cartoonists.

If they are not Islamic, what are they?

One of these savage jihadists had been convicted for terror-related crimes in 2008. Chérif Kouachi was convicted in 2008 of terrorism charges for helping funnel fighters to the jihad in Iraq and was sentenced to 18 months in prison. He should have served 18 years. How was he being monitored? Was he under surveillance at all?

The same question should be posed to our own law-enforcement authorities. Terror groups like the Hamas-tied Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, and the Muslim American Society, or MAS, have been successful in dismantling counter-terror programs, leaving us vulnerable and exposed.

The consequences of this were on abundant display in Paris. The New York Times said questions are being raised about “how Chérif Kouachi, so well-known to the police for so many years, and his brother had managed to conceal their intentions. Part of the answer may be that they appear to have moved smoothly between normal immigrant society and an extremist Islamist underground.”

Sounds like there is little difference between “normal” Muslim society versus the “extreme Islamist underground.” Did no one in “normal” Muslim society speak, see or hear anything wrong? If not, why not?

This was a military strike in the heart of Paris. This was a well-orchestrated, well-coordinated attack by paramilitary jihadists. Who trained them? Where? Where did they pray? Who was their imam? Who else was in on the plot? I can tell you one thing for certain: There were many more people involved than just the three who have been identified. How many Chérif Kouachis are walking around the U.S., Europe, Canada, Australia, Israel, Russia, China, etc.? Millions. When will they blow? It’s just a matter of time.

Meanwhile, will the French respond to this savagery by calling upon journalists and writers to stop offending Muslims the way Charlie Hebdo did? Probably. Every mainstream media outlet should run them in order to defang the threat and stand up for freedom. Needless to say, that is not happening. The media continues to self-enforce the sharia. The New York Daily News pixelated a Muhammad cartoon in a story about the Charlie Hebdo jihad massacre. The Washington Post – of all places – criticized Fox News for not running the cartoons, saying it was wrong to “to attempt an explanation of what may have prompted these killings without showing what may have prompted these killings.” Yet, the Washington Post hasn’t run them, and neither have any of the mainstream media outlets.

The enemedia are consistent. They have always aligned with the jihad force. I was harshly criticized for pointing that out, but every day’s coverage proves me right again. It is because of submission and surrender like this that jihadists are winning. How dare these quislings relinquish the very freedoms our nation was founded upon?

In the wake of the unspeakable slaughter in Paris, jihadists are crowing and promoting more such military strikes and executions. Despite the fact that the media are a prime target of these savages, the mainstream media are wringing their hands over the possibility of a surge of “Islamophobia.” Their submission is beyond cowardly: It’s detestable.

It’s especially detestable in light of the reaction from the Muslim world. A rational human being would expect Muslims to respond swiftly to the mass bloodshed and slaughter in Sydney and Paris. A rational human being would expect the Muslim world and their leftist lapdogs to respond swiftly and decisively.

They have. But not how you might imagine. Instead of purging the Quranic texts and teachings the command jihad, they are demanding submission. Respect. #RespectForMuslims. How about #RespectForHumanLife or #RespectForFreedom or #RespectForUnalienableRights or #RespectForEqualityForAll?

Why isn’t Muslim leadership instituting programs to counter and denounce this pure practice of Islam? Why aren’t Muslim leaders addressing why it has become so widespread? And while Muslims in the U.S. condemn the Paris attacks, where are they teaching against the ideology that gave rise to them?

Right now, nothing is being done to stop jihad recruiting in U.S. mosques, even as hundreds of young Muslims from the U.S. have gone to wage jihad for the Islamic State. If the moderates really reject extremism, let them show it by instituting genuine programs to teach against this view of Islam.

Instead, predictably, the lapdog media have mounted a disinformation campaign to further disarm the kuffar. The New York Times implied in all of its pieces that Charlie Hebdo had it coming for being so “politically provocative” and standing in defense of freedom of the press. And I expect conversion to Islam will be but an employment requirement to get a job over at MSNBC, where commentators in the wake of the attack said, “We have to respect Islam,” and that Jerry Falwell suing Hustler was the same as the Charlie Hebdo jihad massacre.

If the media had published the Danish cartoons when Muslims across the world were rioting, murdering and setting embassies on fire, this would not have happened. But the mainstream media would not publish the cartoons. They adhered to the brutal and savage blasphemy laws under the Shariah.

Ezra Levant published them. The Canadian government should be providing him and his family with 24-hour police protection.

Who will protect freedom?

Not Barack Obama. He once again went to extraordinary lengths to make sure not to associate Islam with the Charlie Hebdo attack. Obama’s post-Paris policy is to teach the American people the “the tenets of Islam.” We already know them, Hussein, in spades.

This is, of course, consistent with his Shariah-adherent policies. Obama has a long history of whitewashing and scrubbing jihad – from Fort Hood, the Islamic State, the Oklahoma beheading, Benghazi and on and on. Why? Why did he warn us that “The future does not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam“?

Where is his allegiance? Either Obama is not so secretly a jihad sympathizer, or he’s a believer. It’s one and the same. No one in his right mind can justify the unjustifiable. But Obama does just that.

In any case, he is a perfidious president, putting all Americans in grave danger. He is sanctioning evil. Evil is made possible by the sanction you give it. Obama’s sanction and support for the brutal speech restrictions under Islamic law (blasphemy under the Shariah) has emboldened and empowered these savages.

The Obama administration had previously criticized Charlie Hebdo for publishing cartoons mocking Muhammad. Sanction.

The Obama administration has partnered with terror-linked groups like Hamas-CAIR, ISNA, MAS, etc. Sanction.

Obama has attacked free speech in the wake of the Benghazi jihad slaughter. Sanction.

Obama warned the world at the U.N., not one week after the Benghazi murders, “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.” Sanction.

Obama has made the U.S. and the world a much more dangerous place.

Can you imagine FDR admonishing Americans not to link Germany with Nazi ideology in the wake of Third Reich slaughter? Can you see FDR making this the cornerstone of his foreign policy during World War II?

Charlie Hebdo Editor Stephane Charbonnier had more courage in his pinky toe than Obama has in his whole body. He said in 2012: “Our job is not to defend freedom of speech, but without it we’re dead. We can’t live in a country without freedom of speech. I prefer to die than to live like a rat. … I’d rather die standing than live on my knees.”

After the massacre at Charlie Hebdo, the jihadists took hostages in a Jewish grocery and murdered at least four of them. Now for the first time since the Nazi occupation, the synagogues of France will be closed. And police asked all stores on the Rue des Rosiers, a historically Jewish street, to shut up shop.

A French Jew said: “In the past year, 7,000 Jews have already left France, and after this there will be many thousands more. We are not safe in France anymore. There is no future for Jews here in France. We are finished in France.”

The French don’t need a Drancy; they have the Muslims. There will be a mass exodus of Jews from France. And the French will be left to deal with the hostile colonizers.

Will Jewish lay leadership in the U.S. and Europe continue to bury their heads in the sand? It is long past time for the Jewish people to identify the religious underpinnings of the jihad against the Jews. Instead of partnering with terror-tied mosques and Muslim Brotherhood leaders, it’s time to educate. Jewish day schools must arm our children with knowledge. The UJA and other Jewish organizations must stop taking their orders from CAIR when cancelling speakers like me. It’s time to stand up.

Islamic Jew-hatred. It’s in the Quran. This is the very reason why our Islamic Jew-hatred ads are currently running on San Francisco buses. On the same day that jihadis stormed a Paris kosher market, took Jewish hostages and killed four, our Islamic Jew-hatred ads went up in San Francisco after a delay of nine months. We took legal action on free speech grounds, and we won.

We run our ads to educate and warn freedom-loving people about the threat of Islamic jihad and its hateful annihilationist exhortations. It is up to each of us a stand against jihad and Shariah. The war to defend freedom must be fought. Our leaders aren’t doing it. So we must.

Pamela Geller’s commitment to freedom from jihad and Shariah shines forth in her books