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Ben Shapiro in The Daily Wire:

“Isn’t radical Islam just as horrifying as white supremacism? And isn’t white supremacism just as statistically nonrepresentative of Confederate flag-owners throughout the South as radical Islam is of observant Muslims across the country?”

Mr. Shapiro criticizes those in the news media who are quick to separate an Islamic terrorist from the entire religion, while equating all white supremacists with those who choose to fly the Confederate flag. He writes, “If we’re going to start attributing terrorist ideologies to broader movements, we’re going to have to abide by that rule across the board.” Read more »

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Editorial board of The New York Post:

“In the end, though, let’s face it: Attacks like Tuesday’s are extremely hard to stop.”

Members of The New York Post’s editorial board concede that it is difficult to stop the type of lone-wolf terrorist attacks that occurred on Tuesday. However, they write that it is worth re-examining the visa lottery, which began as a “patch on a dysfunctional system” and which Democrats had agreed to scrap in 2013. Read more »

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Megan G. Oprea in The Federalist:

“[ …] while it’s reasonable to want to restrict travel from countries that can’t provide sufficient information about their citizens who seek entry to America, the ban doesn’t address the way in which the Islamic State’s ideology spreads, nor its noncentralized network of adherents, many of whom are unknown even to ISIS leaders.”

For Ms. Oprea, the attack on Tuesday in New York illustrates the ways in which Mr. Trump’s travel ban falls short. Though she acknowledges that “the travel ban never claimed to be able to prevent all terror attacks,” she reminds her readers that the United States must develop a system for combating self-radicalized terrorists, or those who are inspired by the Islamic State from afar. Read more »

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From the Left