LILLEY: Terror supporters get bolder even as terror strikes on NYE

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The globalized intifada is here, and it isn’t looking good for Western democracies.

Hours after an ISIS-inspired attack in New Orleans killed at least 14, a number that could still rise, there were marchers in the streets of Manhattan singing the praises of Hamas.

“Resistance is glorious — we will be victorious,” the crowds chanted.

It’s the type of chants we hear regularly on the streets of Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver in Canada. The same calls ring out on the streets of London, Paris, Melbourne and other major western cities.

We are being invaded by a radical ideology that seeks to destroy its host society.

I’m sure these words will bring out many apologists who will say Hamas and ISIS are not the same. They will seek to claim that Hamas is simply an extension of a Palestinian liberation movement steeped in self-determination.

Don’t believe it.

“The brutality of Hamas — this bloodthirstiness — brings to mind the worst — the worst rampages of ISIS,” President Joe Biden said just days after the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas terror attacks.

Hamas and ISIS share a deep belief in a fundamentalist vision of Islam that is antithetical to Western democratic values. They both believe in a vision of Islam that rejects the existence of Israel and rejects peaceful coexistence with Jews, Christians or even Muslims who do not share their twisted values.

And yet, we have supporters of both of them within our society.

Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the man behind the carnage in New Orleans, was able to carry out his attack. According to authorities, Jabbar pledged allegiance to ISIS in the first half of 2024 and reporting by the Wall Street Journal claims Jabbar’s radicalization after a career in the U.S. military may have come following a bitter divorce and a deteriorating financial condition.

As Warren Kinsella has written, we will likely find out that Jabbar was radicalized online somewhere as is so often the case.

That wasn’t the case with Ahmed Eldidi and his son Mostafa who were arrested north of Toronto last July in an ISIS-inspired plot. The senior Eldidi was involved with ISIS before coming to Canada via Egypt.

Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, a Pakistani national who came to Canada on a student visa and was arrested in September before he could carry out an ISIS-inspired attack on Brooklyn’s Jewish community, likely arrived with his hatred of Jews. He wasn’t in the country that long – he barely had time to meet Jews in Canada – before beginning his online plot to try and launch the biggest terror attack in NYC since 9/11.

CBC just reported that an 18 year-old from Toronto’s suburbs was arrested last month while trying to join ISIS.

ISIS supporters trying to carry out attacks in Canada and the United States. Hamas supporters marching in our streets declaring their support for a bloodthirsty terrorist organization.

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We’ve seen the calls to delegitimize Israel at the marches and rallies that most in the media will falsely describe as “pro-Palestinian” protests. They are pro-Hamas protests and have been since Oct. 7.

“We don’t want two states! Bring us back to ‘48!” they chanted in October while walking down Bloor St. in Toronto.

In November, Ahmad Jarrar Hajahmad, one of the key organizers of the regular marches in Toronto and of campus encampments at U of T, McGill and the University of Ottawa, made a bold statement.

“Teach your children the Zionist entity is the enemy. Teach your children that the resistance (Hamas) is an honour. Teach your children that there is no such country called Israel,” he called out.

Hajahmad was one of the leaders of the protest that took over Union Station on New Year’s Eve and disrupted New Year’s Eve celebrations at Harbourfront.

As Joe Warmington has reported, the Toronto Police Hate Crimes Unit is now investigating after a flag for Lions’ Den, a Palestinian terrorist group, was spotted at a downtown rally on Tuesday night.

Day by day, those that support terrorist groups, those who would destroy the Western democratic order, become bolder, more strident. They aren’t hiding their views, they are stating them openly, even hours after deadly terror attacks in this part of the world.

When will our leadership wake up?

blilley@postmedia.com