5 Things to Learn from the

Latest 3 Jihadist Attacks in

Germany
It is okay to wonder when the madness will end, but it is not
okay to do nothing about it.
BY Immanuel Al-Manteeqi @Al_Manteeqi | July 28, 2016

The past few days have been pretty rough for Germans, who
witnessed a spate of three violent terrorist attacks over a short span
of three days.
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On July 22nd, David Ali Sonboly, a 18-year-old holding dual

nationalities in both Germany and Iran, opened gunfire and killed
nine people at a McDonalds mall location in Munich, leaving nine
dead and more than fifteen injured. Two days later, on July 23rd, a
21-year-old bearded Syrian refugee, who was known to authorities
for previous acts of violence, stabbed and killed a pregnant Polish
woman with a machete and injured two others in the southwestern
German city of Reutlingen (and the human baby in her womb also
died). That same night, a 27-year-old Syrian who was denied asylum
by German authorities blew himself up outside of a music festival in
Ansbach, injuring fifteen people. And these attacks only come about
a week after a 17-year-old Afghani refugee, Muhammad Riyadwho
we now know was incontrovertibly inspired by ISISwent on a
bloody knife rampage that left eighteen people injured on a train in
Wrzburg.

The following are some points to bear in mind regarding these

recent events:
There is a trend of Muslims of foreign descent committing highprofile crimes in Germany. At least two of the above attacks (the
Wurzburg and Ansbach attacks) were indisputably Islamist attacks
that were inspired by ISIS. It is not yet clear whether the Syrian
refugee responsible for the machete attack was an Islamist, nor is it
is clear that the Iranian-German Munich shooter was; though it is not
implausible that these two attackers also turn out to be Islamists.

1. There is a trend of false or misleading

information being disseminated about recent highprofile Islamist-perpetrated attacks.
One is reminded of, for example, the Omar Mateen Orlando
nightclub shootings, which left forty-nine people dead and about
fifty people injured. Reports that Mateen was a closet homosexual
were widely circulated; indeed, the mainstream (liberal) media
flirted with the idea that he may have perpetrated the attack
because he was a self-loathing closet homosexual. But the story
later turned out to be false, with the FBI stating that, contrary to all
the reports, there was no good evidence that he was a homosexual.
[1]
Regarding the Munich shooting, it was initially reported on the
authority of the German police that David Ali Sonboly did not have a
connection with Islamist militants and may have been inspired by
Anders Brevik (the far-right terrorist who, in 2011, killed 77 people
and injured more than 300 others in Oslo, Norway). However,
recent reports specify that on Monday, Bavarian officials announced
that the 18-year-old gunman had been in touch with the Afghan
knife attacker over the smartphone application, WhatsApp. Also,
the BBC apparently scrubbed Ali out of the name of the Munich
attacker in its reporting.
Perhaps the relevant BBC authority behind this scrubbing believed
that disclosing his name would precipitate unnecessary animus
towards Muslim refugees.[2] Furthermore, in regards to the Ansbach
bombing, the BBC published a headline that read Syrian migrant
killed in German Blast. Although the headline is technically true,
it seems to insufficiently credit the Syrian migrant with the attack.

One would think a more apt title would have been something like
Syrian migrant injures fifteen (or many) people in German Blast,
with the active voice being used, not the passive.

2. European authorities may be suppressing some

evidence of Islamist ties or motivations in these
recent (and even future) attacks.
They have a motivation for doing so, and it is to reduce the amount
of violent (and perhaps non-violent) backlash against Muslim
refugees in Germany. Furthermore, we also have proof that German
authorities did suppress evidence vis-a-vis the actions of Muslim
refugees; leaks revealed that German police had greatly
underreported the sexual harassment that took place in Cologne,
Germany during the last New Years celebrations. So it is not
implausible that they would choose to suppress the amount of
evidence that they release to the public if such evidence points to
Islamist motivations.
As three of the above mentioned attacks prove, some of the Muslim
refugees seeking asylum are either Islamists or homicidal maniacs.
If, for example, the machete attacker with a previous history of
violence turns out to have been a homicidal maniac and not an
Islamist, this would be more evidence that the refugee vetting
process is faulty, and cannot adequately screen people with
nefarious motives. After all, one would think that homicidal maniacs
should be screened off. But in any case, we know that there are
more Islamist refugees in Europe operating at the moment. Indeed,
Angelika Merkel admitted that Islamist terrorists had been
smuggled in with the massive influx of refugees. Europe has been
infiltrated by Islamists.

3. These recent attacks show the crucial value of

profiling.
It can no longer be denied that young and single male-Muslim
refugees are at the greatest risk of committing such crimes than
other members of the refugee population. Because of this, greater
scrutiny should be applied to such refugees. This is a
commonsensical position that one can only hope that European

authorities are implementing. It is simply silly to give the same level

of scrutiny to an elderly Jewish, Christian or Yazidi female refugee as
to a young and single Muslim male refugee. Profiling needs to be
done. Israel, e.g., profiles and its security forces are the most skilled
at dealing with Islamic terrorism in the world. Profiling for high-risk
groups would definitely decrease the probability of Islamist terrorist
attacks on European soil.
German authorities are not very efficient at containing refugee
violence. Why did German authorities not deport or keep under
heavy scrutiny the Syrian Muslim migrant who perpetrated the
machete attack? After all, he not only fits the profile outlined in the
above point, but he has a history of known violence. This should
have been a red flag for the German authorities. Commonsense
legislation needs to be enacted here, if it is not already enacted
refugees who have been recently given asylum and who perform
well-evidenced acts of violence should be quickly deported from
Germany. This should be a rule all across Europe.

4. Guns, machetes, trucks, or knives are not the

problemit is the individuals who use them for
nefarious purposes.
After all, Germany has one of the strictest gun laws in the world. But
that did not stop some in the German legislature from proposing
even stricter gun control legislation after the Munich shooting. Just
like some American officials after the Orlando shooting, some
German officials do not want to face the realities of the situation
and one of those realitiesthe primary realityconsists of radical
Islam, a destructive ideology which disproportionately affects young
Muslim males and which teaches the forceful subjugation of nonMuslims.

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5. Although Merkel and her fellow multiculturalists

in power are not personally responsible for these
savage attacks, they do hold responsibility for
opening the refugee floodgates.
Germany is clearly feeling the effects of its open-door policy,
which has turned out to be a national security disaster. The refugee
populations contain a significant amount of latent Islamist
sentiment, sentiment that is fueling the anti-assimilation and
violence that we are now witnessing across Germany and Europe.

The multicultural enterprise has failed, and the evidence of this

failure is all across Europe, in plain sight for all who have eyes to see
and ears to hear. But a sizable amount of Europeans have yet to
acquire eyes to see and ears to hear, as they still want to continue
the refugee flow, even if it is marginally stemmed. Such is the
insanity of those who would welcome the very people in their homes
who would, if given the power, be the first to exterminate their
caretakers. It is a frustrating and melancholic form of navet.
Germans are rightly getting tired of all the Islamic terrorist attacks
on their soil. The spate of recent attacks has caused many to come
out with the slogan Merkel Must Go. Regardless of whether she
must go or not, as I mentioned in my article on the Islamist
infiltration of Europe, there are some practical steps that Germany
and other European countries can take in counteracting the jihadist
threat. They bear repeating.
Europeans should severely limit the number of refugees to whom
they grant asylum. They should aggressively pressure the refugee
populations already residing in their territories to assimilate to their
native Western cultures.
In addition, Europeans, especially European lawmakers, need to
realize that not all cultures are created equal, and that the German
culture is superior to an Islamic culture like that of Saudi Arabia.
Furthermore, as suggested above, profiling of asylum seekers should
be actively implemented. Non-Muslim refugees from places like Iraq
and Syria should be given priority over Muslim refugees from these
regionsthis is for the simple probabilistic reason that a Muslim is
more likely to pose a terrorist threat than a non-Muslim. In addition,
refugees who are approved for European citizenship should first be
granted probationary European citizenship for a certain period of
time; if during that period of time they commit crimes, then their
application for permanent citizenship should be revoked.
As I write this today images of an 86-year-old French Catholic priest
in Normandy are plastered all over the newshe had just been
brutally beheaded and filmed by two ISIS supporters, both of whom
were known to authorities and who had previously tried to travel to
Syria to join ISIS.
It is okay to wonder when the madness will end, but it is not okay to
do nothing about it.

The very least one can do is to educate oneself about the threat of
radical Islam and how Islamic law, the Sharia, is not compatiblewith
Western Civilization. Remember that as the late great Dietrich
Bonhoeffer, the Christian pastor who was executed by the Nazis for
refusing to bow to their ideology and actively working to bring about
their fall, once said: Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will
not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.
So let us not remain silent, let us speak, and let us act.

[1] The narrative never made much sense from the beginning, as
Mateen had been married to women twice.
[2] Note that Sonboly still gives information about the attackers
background, since Sonbol is a city in the Iranian province of
Khurusan; but this would be lost on most of BBCs readership.