The Islamic State long ago promised to infiltrate the refugee stream. As far back as November 2015, the Islamic State claimed to have smuggled thousands of jihadists into Europe. It was also recently reported that the Islamic State “planned to infect refugee flows to the West with mass killers, and it has had some violent successes.” The CIA warned that the Islamic State’s “official strategy is to hide its operatives among refugees entering Europe and the United States via human flows out of the Middle East and North Africa.”

Western leaders opted not to take these warnings seriously. Leftists have equated responsible measures to protect homeland security with unkindness and racism. The “Islamophobia” narrative has been a useful and effective tool that now allows virtually any misdeed committed by Muslim migrants to go unnoticed or be excused, no matter how tragic the cost.

“Smuggling Migrants to Europe Now a Major Funding Source for Islamic State”, by Virginia Hale, Breitbart, February 1, 2017: