One thing is certain: if left unchecked the creep of radical Islam could destroy us
I am not a suspicious kind of guy.I like to give people the benefit of the doubt.But what is the appropriate response as we watch Democratic politicians appeasing, excusing and deflecting in the face of one of the greatest threats of our age: radical Islam?You will remember in the aftermath of 9/11 how many “progressives” insisted that these iniquities were caused by American foreign policy, or western colonialism, or the one Jewish state.
Anything, in fact, to avoid taking these men at their word, who made videos explicitly stating that they were murdering to “bring glory to Allah.”And yet what is amazing 25 years later — despite the Mumbai atrocities, the Charlie Hebdo massacre, the 7/7 London bombings, and what security analysts tell us would have been dozens, perhaps hundreds more attacks on American soil had it not been for the diligence of the security services — is that many liberals are still singing the same grotesque song.You have seen it.I have seen it.In the hours following the murder, rape and mutilation of hundreds of Israelis on Oct.
7, 2023 — many of them young people doing nothing more than dancing as the sun rose — Michigan Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib managed to say: “suffocating, dehumanizing conditions . . .can lead to resistance.”In other words, the responsibility for the October 7 massacre lies not with Hamas but Israel.Zohran Mamdani — now mayor of a city with almost a million Jews — engaged in the same moral subterfuge.
“The path toward a just and lasting peace can only begin by ending the occupation and dismantling apartheid,” he said.This isn’t just a pattern; it’s a pathology.I could give you dozens of further examples, but let me offer just one.
In March this year, after a man drove an explosives-laden vehicle into a synagogue in Michigan, hoping to massacre 140 people, mostly children, Abdul El-Sayed reached for perhaps the most sinister phrase in the modern political idiom: “Hurt people hurt p...