Similar to what had happened in San Bernardino

Submitted by Anon (Israel), Nov 4, 2020 at 08:37

You will recall that neighbours of the Jihadists who committed the massacre said that they were suspicious of the Jihadists and had wanted to alert the authorities but did not do so because they feared being branded racists.
I will even go further and say that there was one particular incident, which I would bet was on their minds and that is the "Mohammed clock" incident. This had happened several months earlier and was the subject of a frenzied media reaction, who made Mohammed out to be a an innocent victim of bigotry.

Of course, it's conceivable (though unlikely) that these neighbours somehow did not think of the Mohammed-clock boy, but what we know for sure is that they wanted to alert the authorities and have them check out the would-be Jihadist and that they reason they held back was because of the left-wing's practice of looking for excuses to label people as racists.

When it comes to Europe, not a continent with a history of letting in large (let alone vast) numbers of immigrants from other continents, it could be argued that pretty much each and every single victim of Jihad is a victim of "social justice" (the ideology which insisted on mass-immigration from other continents generally and of mass Muslim-immigration in particular) and of political-correctness (the left-wing rules governing speech); the fear of being branded as racists.

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