NR Daily: The War during Christmas

So this is Christmas. The perpetrators of this week's violence against Swedish synagogues and New York's would-be pipe bomber say they were driven by a desire to punish the U.S. for recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. How throwing Molotov cocktails at a Swedish mosque or blowing up your own pelvis on the subway expresses this sentiment, I will never understand. It seems like an excuse. But the effect is just the same regardless. In important cities on both sides of the Atlantic and unimportant ones that happen to have a large disaffected population of Muslims, Islamist terrorism and a sense of danger to public spaces is being added as a new feature of the Christmas season ...

December 12 2017

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