The terrorist murder and maiming of people at a Berlin Pride festival on Saturday should not be seen as separate from New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani‘s empty condemnation of a man who stabbed two people in Manhattan shortly before that while shouting “Allahu akbar” and “Justice for Islam.” It is also inextricably connected to Mamdani’s threats to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on trumped-up war crimes charges when he attends the U.N. General Assembly this autumn.
Each of these incidents is a thread in a broader tapestry of anti-American, anti-Israeli, and anti-Western terrorism. Its individual patterns may appear complex, but its overall design, revealed over the past 25 years, is clear: the overthrow of our civilization.
