Regrettably, as long as Western societies continue to placate, mollify, and coddle such pressures, this trajectory will only intensify
The recent tragic and bestial Muslim terrorist attack against Australian Jews celebrating the Jewish festival of Hanukkah on December 14 in the Bondi Beach area of Sydney, as dramatic and heart-rending as it was, cannot and should not be viewed as an isolated event.
Rather, it follows a growing pattern of systematic Islamist-inspired violence and intimidation deliberately directed against innocent civilians celebrating their traditional religious festivals and civic holidays in Western societies.
This phenomenon is not new. One of the earlier examples was the December 2016 terrorist attack on a Christmas market in Berlin, which left 12 people murdered and dozens wounded. In 2018, a similar Islamist attack at a Christmas market killed five people in Strasbourg, France. More recently, on December 21, 2024, five people – including a nine-year-old child – were killed when a vehicle rammed into a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, injuring more than 200 others. The market was closed for the remainder of the season. A Saudi national who had lived in Germany since 2006 was arrested.