OPINION:
Authorities took five days to track down the identity of the Brown University shooter. On Dec. 13, a masked man burst into a classroom study session and ended the lives of two young students. Two days later, the alleged assassin gunned down an MIT physics professor he appeared to know from his country of birth, Portugal.
For better or worse, we live in a surveillance society with cameras on every corner, so it was curious that the perpetrator was able to get away with the first crime and still had time to commit the second. Officials insist that the “old” part of the Brown building had no cameras, even though modern spy equipment has become cheap and easy to use.
A more plausible explanation is that university administrators implicitly agreed with Muslim activists and left-wing groups that, in August, urged colleges nationwide to unplug electronic sentinels on campus because, otherwise, the administration of President Trump might use evidence from them to enforce federal law.
Throughout Western society, liberals are reluctant to do anything that might offend certain protected demographic groups. This has tragic consequences.
On Dec. 14, a father and son team methodically slaughtered 15 people at a Hanukkah event on Australia’s Bondi Beach. The perpetrators were recent arrivals from overseas who brought centuries-old blood feuds with them, as denoted by the Islamic State group flag discovered in their cars.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese initially blamed the “far right” for what happened, refusing to acknowledge the triggermen’s motivations. He was called out for the oversight by his predecessor.
“There’s been a colossal failure to crush the Jew hatred that’s festered in Australia over the past two years and to stamp out the radical Islamist ideology that’s allowed it to spread,” former Prime Minister Tony Abbott wrote on X. “We must stop importing these ideologies and the people who live by them into Australia.”
Not all Muslims are troublemakers. Ahmed al Ahmed, a bystander, ran toward peril and disarmed one of the gunmen, demonstrating greater fortitude than the police officers who reportedly cowered as the massacre dragged on.
The problem is the injudicious way the global establishment has flooded Western nations with people who despise everything for which the West stands. The same is true in Germany, where three Moroccans, an Egyptian and a Syrian are accused of plotting to drive a car into a crowd of Christians attending a Christmas market in Bavaria. Police asserted that there was an “Islamist motive” for the fatal scheme.
One year ago, a similar assault in Magdeburg killed six and injured hundreds, and Taleb al-Abdulmohsen is on trial now for the barbaric act that shocked the country.
Christmas festivals are a local tradition stretching back to the Middle Ages, but they can no longer be held without extensive and expensive security fortifications. Such measures weren’t needed for 600 years, but that changed because of Europe’s immigration imperatives.
The West needs to wake up and realize it is under attack from within. Like his fellow liberals, Mr. Albanese offers distractions such as new gun control policies, even though Australia already outlaws most private ownership.
Even if every firearm were to disappear overnight, that wouldn’t stop SUVs from careening through Christmas markets. It wouldn’t stop the knifings that have become an epidemic in England. What would make a difference is stopping the importation of the people willing to pull the trigger of those weapons and drive those vehicles.
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