Why Western Leaders Won’t Acknowledge ‘Radical Islam’
23rd December 2025
We’ve had a lot of incidents worldwide of Islamic terrorism or threats of Islamic terrorism. The most egregious is in Bondi Beach, Australia, where two gunmen, a father and son, killed 16 people and wounded 40.
How that happens in front of police who reacted very quickly I don’t know. They were only stopped by a heroic Syrian immigrant who tackled one of the shooters and disarmed him.
The problem with all of this is that there was no needed reaction from the prime minister of Australia. We didn’t hear: We have to be very careful about radical Islam. These two people got two guns legally that they should not have had since they were on a watch lists with terrorist activity, and there was no reason that he, this one shooter, the father, had six guns, among them semi-automatic weapons.
One of the most gun-controlled societies in the world. We didn’t hear that.
Instead, we heard that they condone all extremism. This is not who we are. In the utmost—you know, the whole boilerplate. And then they said, we oppose all extremism. And it was a nanosecond before they said white extremism that had nothing to do with this.
Some ‘phobias’ are rational and justified. I disagee with Dr. Hanson’s use of the term ‘radical Islam’, as I would disagree with someone using the term ‘radical National Socialism’. Sorry, no. It’s turtles all the way down.