No matter what terrorists say, Islam and the West are not at war

‘Kill Angela Merkel. Kill Erdogan. Kill Sadiq Khan’ were the demands of the white supremacist terrorist who killed 49 innocent worshippers at a mosque in New Zealand. France’s President Macron, he wrote, was ‘an ex-banker’ who was a ‘globalist’ and ‘anti-white people’. Make no mistake: the Australian man who gunned down innocent worshippers had political objectives. He wanted to stop the West from being a home to Muslims and others who were not ‘European in blood and race’. Hitler’s Nazi grandchildren are in our midst again. 

Meanwhile, Islamist terrorists for decades have tried to assassinate Her Majesty, Tony Blair, and even plotted to bomb Downing Street and behead our prime minister. Such is the audacity of their evil imaginations. Western civilisation has a deep and growing existential challenge. Islamist terrorists and far-right fascists both seek to subvert our freedoms and force us to surrender to their religious caliphate or racially pure continent. To that end, they are prepared to kill and die while using social media to broadcast and recruit more terrorists for their cause.