Why Are Europe and the United States Committing Suicide?

THE LONDON TERRORIST ATTACK. I watched BBC and Sky News all afternoon and for much of the evening on Wednesday. I was humbled by the British calm and determination to get on with the aftermath of the attack. It was a remarkable display of British national character and a lesson for all of us. But, as I watched, I returned again and again to the spectacle of innocent people being mowed down by a beserk islamic terrorist in the heart of the Palace of Westminster -- the home of democratic parliaments for a thousand years. I could only think how sad this new world is. We now know that the killer was a 52-year-old British man born in Britain and radicalized after converting to Islam, although we do not yet know, and may never know, how or why he was possessed by such evil thoughts that he ended his life killing four innocents who neither knew nor had any opinion of him or his beliefs, however twisted they had become, whatever they finally may have been. He taught English. He was a bodybuilder. He had a wife described by neighbors as a young Asian woman. He had a young school-age child. He had a criminal record, but his slate was clean from 2003 until Wednesday. That slate no longer matters. What matters is the random terrorism that is haunting Europe and America. The speculation is that he chose Wednesday because it was the first anniversary of the horrific Brussels attack that left 32 dead and 270 injured. ISIS claimed he was their “soldier.” His weapons, a knife and an SUV, have become the weapons of choice for these attacks in Europe. Prime Minister Theresa May, who was in Parliament at the time, was rushed to safety after the attack. Later, in a TV address to the nation, Mrs. May praised the "exceptional bravery" of police, and thanked them and other emergency services "on behalf of the whole country." She said it was "no accident" the attacker chose Parliament, which stands for democracy, freedom and rule of law. It serves no purpose to repeat the killer's name. His name is Evil. • • • WHY IS THE WEST DETERMINED TO SLAUGHTER ITSELF? We have been debating, arguing, shouting, marching, boycotting, accusing, voting, and most of all hiding from the existential threat that islamic terrorism poses to the West since September 11, 2001. We have watched President Obama open the US borders so that illegal immigrants -- among them are the mentally unsound, hardened criminals, and islamic terrorists -- could enter the United States with little to fear from its laws as that hardened core of them rob, murder and rape Americans. We have witnessed the shootings and bombings of avowed islamic terrorists increase in number and violence while the same President refused to even call them by their name. We have stood by while Progressive Democrat politicians and university students treat as racist and xenophobic any effort to have a dialogue about what to do as this scourge advances. • America is not alone in this horror. Europe has made a place for more than a million refugees and economic migrants, with islamic terrorists imbedded in their masses, calling it the human thing to do, even as some of the same refugees and migrants murder, rob and rape European citizens. • Especially in Europe, and increasingly in the US, the immigrants, whether refugees or migrants, want to live in enclaves where they reject integration, preferring to speak their mother tongues, follow only their country-of-origin culture, and cling to their non-Western social mores that include degrading women, applying sharia, and attacking the West's Christian faith that they see as heresy. • The West's behavior in this matter is suicidal. There is no other word for inviting in and tolerating the misdeeds of such misfits. • • • START WITH ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. Sean Hannity of Fox News on Tuesday raised an issue that has fallen by the wayside because of the Democrat congressional theatre of the absurd dancing around the legitimate President of the United States, seeking to destroy him and the majority of Americans whom he represents. Hannity reminded us that : "From the very beginning of Donald Trump’s historic run for the presidency, he said combatting violent crime carried out by illegal immigrants would be one of his top concerns. His law and order stance and vow to secure the border was one of the reasons the American people elected him with 306 electoral votes. And his words from back in 2015 carry a prophetic poignancy in light of the horrific rape of a 14-year-old Maryland girl in a high school bathroom, allegedly by two much older immigrants. One suspect is here illegally, and the other’s immigration status is not yet clear." • As a presidential candidate, Trump said : “The US has become a dumping ground for everybody else's problems. When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with [them]. They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people....It's coming from more than Mexico. It's coming from all over South and Latin America.” Trump was ridiculed mercilessly by the Progressive propaganda media machine and excoriated by Hispanic activists following those comments. Univision anchor Jorge Ramos asked : “When you say that immigrants from Mexico are criminals and rapists, isn't that spreading hate?” • Now he is "President Trump," but, says Hannity : "violent crimes carried out by illegal immigrants continue to take place, including last week’s brutal rape by suspects aged 17 and 18. Despite their age, the alleged rapists were attending high school as 9th graders. This terrible crime is just the latest in a long list of Americans who are victims because of illegal immigration. During the presidential election, the murder of Kate Steinle became national news. She was gunned down in the summer of 2015 in front of her parents in the sanctuary city of San Francisco. The killer was an illegal immigrant who had been deported five times. These high-profile incidences are just the tip of the iceberg. Last year, Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” held a town hall with then-candidate Trump, and we had mothers whose children were killed at the hands of illegal immigrants. It was a sobering moment. Their heart-breaking stories unfolded, underscoring their personal tragedies as well as twisted local government policies that seem to place people who sneak into the US above innocent Americans." • Hannity reminded us that for years, he has been "raising real concerns about illegal immigration. Back in 2014, Texas Governor Rick Perry and I sat in on a border security briefing. I learned that in the previous seven years in Texas alone, illegal immigrants had been responsible for about 642,000 criminal offenses. Between 2011 and February 2017, illegal immigrants were responsible for 1,162 homicide charges, 68,151 assault charges and 6,098 sexual assault charges in the Lone Star State." • Those are sobering statistics that represent real Americans suffering from Obama's open border. But, Hannity continued : "Texas is not the only state impacted by criminal illegal immigrants. In 2015, 36.6% of all federal sentences were given to illegal immigrants, including convictions for drug trafficking, kidnapping, and murder. Between 2013 and 2015, despite the dangers listed above, the Obama administration released 86,288 criminal illegal immigrants right back into the general US population. You won’t hear about that in the alt-left media. Thankfully, we have a new President, and he has a new attitude." • • • DEAR READERS, why talk today about illegal immigrants? Because it is the most visible evidence that the West is committing "immigrant" suicide. Hannity mentioned that President Trump recently commented about illegal immigrants : “I met with many American families whose loved ones -- sons and daughters, husbands and wives -- were viciously killed by illegal immigrants. These American victims and their families were ignored by the media. The media doesn't want to talk about it. But these Americans were not ignored by me. They were not ignored by you. You showed that on November 8. There were not ignored by you, and they will never be ignored by any of us.” • President Trump is right. We need and should demand a secure border and an end to illegal "sanctuary" policies that allow illegal immigrant criminals to prey on innocent Americans. • It is a starting point for stopping the 'suicide' that admits anybody to Western democracies -- all they have to do is show up -- that is suicidal and its halt should be our next demand. Then, stop legal mass immigration and apply extreme vetting to every candidate for entry into the US or any European country. Our third demand should be that "homegrown" terrorists must be stopped -- shut down radical mosques, deport radical imams, insist that the children of all immigrants go to public schools and learn English or the host country language, study civics and history, and refuse re-entry to any person who goes to an ISIS or other islamic terrorist training site or serves as an ISIS foot soldier and then tries to re-enter the US or Europe. • There are other things to be done. But, the importnat thing is to get started while we still have time on our side, at least in the US. There is no excuse for doing nothing in the wake of the Wednesday attack on the British parliament.