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| Europe |
| French terror attacks are a stark warning to US voters |
| 2020-11-01 |
| [NYP] The savagery in France is a reminder of the choice facing American voters at the ballot box next week. Will we stick with a president who intuited that our elites were sleepwalking toward a deadly precipice — and taking the rest of us along for the plunge? Or do we choose to return to power those same pre-Trump elites, with their dreams of a borderless world? Europe made its choices. In 2015, right around the time then-candidate Donald Trump was shaking up the staid orthodoxies of the Republican Party, the Continent’s de facto leader, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, threw open the gates to more than a million newcomers from the Middle East and ÂAfrica. I was reporting from London at the time, and I joined the migrants on the trail of misery that brought them from the western shore of Turkey, through the Greek isles and the Balkans and into Western and Northern Europe. As an Iranian Âimmigrant myself, I wrote sympathetically about their plight. But even then, I wondered: Could a secular Europe so out of touch with its own religious and civilizational roots absorb this many newcomers who harbored no doubts about their identity and religious convictions? More mundanely: How come so many of them were young men, the prime demographic for jihadist radicalization? How could the Europeans be so sure they weren’t admitting terrorists, given that many of the migrants lacked papers? |
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