How many innocent civilians have to be senselessly murdered before Western powers admit that mass importation of Third-World migrants was a mistake? Apparently, the answer is: many more.
By now, most Americans have heard of the horrific terrorist attack that occurred at Bondi Beach in Australia over the weekend, in which two Islamists opened fire on a crowd of Jewish festivalgoers. The suspects — who allegedly murdered at least 15 people and injured many more — have since been identified as father and son, Sajid and Naveed Akram.
According to Sky News, Sajid came to Australia from India on a student visa in 1998 before later becoming a permanent resident, while Naveed was born in Australia. Law enforcement previously investigated the latter “on the basis of being associated with” alleged terrorists, but officials ultimately assessed “that there was no indication of any ongoing threat or threat of him engaging in violence,” according to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
The prime minister all but admitted the attack was “driven by” radical Islamic ideology.
Rest assured, Australian authorities are prepared to take action in the wake of this terrible tragedy — just not the kind that would actually prevent barbarity like this from happening again in the future.
Rather than focus on shutting off the immigration pipeline responsible for the Akrams’ presence in the Land Down Under, the nation’s leading officials are preparing to implement more extreme gun control policies throughout the country. Put another way, the Australian government is going to further inhibit the native Aussie population’s ability to defend itself from the radical Islamists their elected officials are willfully importing.
But it’s not solely Australia that’s facing these types of problems. Other Western nations — including the United States — are grappling with the consequences of mass importation of Third-World (specifically Islamic) migrants.
In France, Paris officials recently announced plans to cancel an upcoming New Year’s Eve celebration event. While police pinned the move on “unpredictable crowd movements,” skeptics of the narrative quickly put the blame on “France’s open-door immigration policies” and the looming threat of migrant violence, according to the New York Post.
Meanwhile, the United Kingdom continues to prioritize targeting its own citizens for disfavored speech over fixing the problems caused by its embrace of mass migration. As The Federalist’s John Daniel Davidson has regularly reported in these pages, Great Britain is employing the same playbook now being used by Australia — “introduc[ing] and favor[ing] foreign cultural practices, extend[ing] the power of the state over the traditional rights and liberties of the people, and persecut[ing] the native British population for dissenting from the forced transformation of their country.”
Much like their European counterparts, American leftists have adopted the practice of attempting to silence voices warning about the dangers of such destructive immigration policies. Dare to point out the proven disasters stemming from the importation of the Third World with no assimilation, and you’re immediately hit with smears of “racism” and “xenophobia.”
That’s what happened earlier this week when Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., accused Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., of “Islamophobia.” Tuberville’s crime? Having the audacity to call for Islamists who “aren’t here to assimilate” into American culture to be sent back to their home countries.
Contrary to the New York senator’s temper tantrum, there is nothing “Islamophobic” about highlighting the incompatibility of Islam and Western civilization. Nor is it wrong for Americans and other Westerners to demand that non-Westerners assimilate into the culture they fostered and created.
If a native-born American or European were to immigrate to a Middle Eastern country, he or she would be expected to adopt that nation’s cultural norms and practices. Yet when it comes to Third-Worlders immigrating to the West, that standard is thrown out the window.
“Diversity is our strength,” advocates of the latter repeatedly told us. Now, that obsession with “diversity” is getting people killed.
None of this is to say that every individual of Middle Eastern descent deserves blame for the actions of others. But the fact remains that the West’s mass importation of Muslim migrants with no emphasis on assimilation has been, is, and will continue to be a complete and utter failure.
Western powers have a choice. They can either reverse course and ensure the people they’re admitting into their nation will adopt their cultural norms; or they can continue to embrace the self-destructive immigration policies facilitating their civilizational collapse.
Given what we’ve seen from them thus far, it appears they’re intent on finding things out the hard way.
Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He previously served as a state content writer for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClearHealth, and Conservative Review. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood
