Security professionals cannot do their jobs if they cannot speak the truth.
In Rotherham, England, three men have been facing trial for leading an Islamic cell that arranged the rape of children for sixteen years. Police are finally out in force in Rotherham, after having ignored the cell for those sixteen years in spite of repeated reports from citizens. They are out in force now to resist “Islamophobia.” How big a problem is Islamophobia in Rotherham? Police reports say that relevant complaints fell in frequency last year in spite of the trial.
In the city of Paris, where two major attacks by Islamic terrorists last year killed dozens and led to worldwide condemnation, police are under fire for having targeted Muslims visiting radical Imams. Police say the man leading the protests against them not only visited a known radical but “recently traveled to a part of Brussels where several of the attackers in the Nov. 13 Paris assaults had lived, and that he had five cellphones and four USB memory sticks in his possession.” Muslims say this is an abuse of the emergency powers, and that police were “mean” and “scornful” in conducting the raid.
Now social media provides a new way for Muslims in Europe to shame the police into giving way.
Muslims in Europe are striking back on social media. They are publicly shaming police officers who allegedly use racial profiling techniques for stops and searches, posting detailed exchanges with said officers, and sharing photographic evidence of the damage done after what they describe as wrongful raids.
French journalist Driss Abdi took to Twitter to denounce what he called racial profiling at Munich Airport. “Racial profiling in Germany? Only one stopped exiting the plane, I guess I’m a bit too brown #racism #police,” he tweeted, alongside a photograph of a female police officer who appeared to be checking his data at the airport.
This tactic is likely to work. The Muslim Brotherhood’s influence on Western governments mean that the French like the British are taking advice on how to deal with Muslim populations that presses the police to turn a blind eye. Even in America, the Boston police commissioner went to a mosque that has produced a dozen terrorists and proclaimed that “We’re all Muslims deep down.” ISIS disagrees: they just published a kill list of Minnesota cops.
Even in Israel and India, two nations that have suffered intense Islamic terrorism, there is pressure from on high to increase Muslim representation within the police forces. There is pressure to reduce surveillance, not to speak critically, and to regard the local population as the real threat — a threat against Muslims.
It is as if the terrorist attacks never happened, when in fact they have happened over and over worldwide. Security cannot be improved if we cannot think and speak the truth.