Recently in Milan, a vacationer from New York City discovered the harsh realities of the new Europe. He wasn’t the first to do so, and will by no means be the last.

Staten Island native Nick Pellegrino, according to a Saturday report in the New York Post, “was attacked on a train Tuesday by a pair of North African migrants, who stabbed him in the neck with a 5-inch knife before making off with his luggage and jewelry — leaving him to die in a pool of his own blood in his family’s homeland, which has experienced a surge in criminal migrants over the past four years.”

It is not an incidental detail that Pellegrino was stabbed in the neck. The Qur’an tells Muslims, “When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks” (47:4). Neither Italian authorities nor the New York Post have any interest in the fact, but it actually could illuminate a great deal not only about the motivations of those who attacked Pellegrino, but of Muslim migrants to Europe in general. Are European Union officials really wise to invite into the continent a large and ever-growing number of migrants among whom are many who see the natives as prey to be attacked?