Melanie Phillips
JNS, Jan. 5, 2025
“This myopia derives from a refusal by the Western establishment to acknowledge that Islamic radicalism is rooted in Islamic theology.”
How many wake-up calls does a society need before it takes notice?
On New Year’s Day, a terrorist rammed a truck bearing an Islamic State flag into revelers on a New Orleans street and then started shooting, leaving at least 15 dead and others injured. Pipe bombs wired for remote detonation were found inside the truck, and two other bombs were found in the area.
Hours later, a Tesla Cybertruck exploded outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas, killing one person and injuring others. At the time of writing, it was unknown if the two attacks were connected.
The New Orleans terrorist, Shamshud-din Jabbar, was a U.S. Army veteran from Houston, Texas. He worked in IT at Deloitte. Having initially suspected he had accomplices, the police later said they believed he had acted alone.
On Truth Social, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump repeated his previous claim that “the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we have in our country.”
It’s undeniable that there’s a terrorism threat from the collapse of U.S. border controls. There have been several reported instances of ISIS-affiliated terrorists crossing America’s southern border. But Jabbar was born in Texas.
For years now, America has told itself that Islamic terrorism is a European problem, in particular when it comes to home-grown Islamists. Now Americans have been brought up hard against the evidence that this is their problem as well. ….SOURCE