Academic and author Gad Saad calls it “suicidal empathy.” Think of the term the next time some media hack lionizes New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a midwit influencer praises Hasan Piker, or another church is converted to a mosque that is a viper’s nest of anti-American Islamic fundamentalism if not also repository for weapons. Obviously we failed to learn the lesson that our enemies so savagely wrote on the World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania a quarter century ago.
America’s response to Sept. 11, 2001, was first the proliferation of those asinine “Coexist” bumper stickers and later a welcome mat to fanatics who won’t assimilate because their goal is overthrow the U.S., and the West, for Islam. The virtue-signalers who proudly put the Coexist stickers on their Subarus and Volvo station wagons missed a crucial point: One of the religions represented by symbols doesn’t want to coexist with the others. It aims to conquer.
This should be clear. But some are blinded by their suicidal empathy, their desperate desire to demonstrate their moral superiority. They’ve created a growing headache:
- Hamtramck, Michigan, has an all-Muslim city council and a Muslim mayor, the first in the U.S. to have a Muslim-American government. Seven in 10 residents are Muslim. Holbrook Avenue, one of city’s main streets, has been renamed Palestine Avenue, as have other cities where Muslims have acquired political power. Investigative reporter Paul Sperry says former Police Chief Jamiel Altaheri seems to have had a peculiar relationship with American law, telling officers that domestic violence should be “handled through mosques following the tenets of Sharia law, which does not proscribe wife-beating as a crime.”...
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