The Scandal Of Christmas Market Murderer Anis Amri's Unchecked Passage Across Europe
Some of Europe's most picturesque locations have become mass murder sites -- as in the recent case of the German Christmas market and the murders in Paris at cafes and Bataclan, to name a few.

Free societies weren't built with Islam's totalitarian murderous commands in mind -- to convert or kill the infidel as a way to impose Islam on all -- and this has turned Europe into an often-deadly place.

Nicholas Farrell writes at The Spectator:

That the Tunisian terrorist who slaughtered 12 people in Berlin on Monday was even in Europe, let alone able to move about Europe with ease, is a scandal. It shows that the policy of the European Union and its member nations on the migrant crisis is a complete and dangerous failure. The collective refusal of the European liberal elite to face up to this fact promises further disaster.

Anis Amri, 24, had no legal let alone moral right to be in Europe, and yet he had been here since 2011 when he arrived in a migrant boat on the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa. Shortly afterwards, he was jailed for four years after he set fire to a migrant welcome centre in Sicily. On his release in 2015, he was ordered by Italian authorities to return home. Instead, he was able somehow to move on to Germany.

Even this week, once Amri had become the most wanted man in Europe, he was able to travel back from Berlin - it is still unclear how, or by which route - to Chambery in France, according to police (despite France being a country supposedly in a state of emergency) and from there by train to Turin in Italy; and then to Sesto San Giovanni, on the outskirts of Milan. There, by chance, two policemen in a patrol car saw him walking down the street outside the station in the early hours of the morning, and stopped him to carry out a routine check. So he took a pistol out of his rucksack, shouted 'Allahu Akbah!' and opened fire, wounding one of the policeman in the shoulder. The other policeman then shot him dead. Forensic tests later identified him from his fingerprints.

...The failure by both the EU and successive Italian governments to stop the flood of boat people into Italy is causing Italians to become ever more hostile to all three. More and more Italian town councils, of whatever political persuasion, are now doing all they can to refuse to house the migrants the Italian government is foisting on them. In October, the inhabitants of a cockle-fishing village in the Po Delta on the Adriatic coast near Ferrara - a traditional stronghold of the Italian Communist Party - even barricaded the roads to stop a coach load of migrants. As Vittorio Feltri, editor of the Milan daily Libero put it in his editorial, published the day after the Berlin massacre:

'What are we supposed to do except hate those who hate us? We are exhausted. We want to liberate ourselves from those who threaten us and exterminate us. Coraggio, mandiamo questa gente fuori dai coglioni (courage, let's get these people out of our testicles)'

There is an excellent piece on how Islam became the violent, imperialistic religion that it is. It's by my friend Howard Bloom, at FrontPage: "What Drives The Lone Wolves -- Where do their ideas come from?"

Surprisingly, Muhammad did not chastise his men for this unnecessary slaughter. He praised it. He transformed killing innocent men into a holy and noble deed. How? The victims were kafirs, unbelievers. Thus was the virtue, the exaltation, and the godliness of killing those who do not believe in Islam established. The owners of the caravans just happened to be the leading folks back in Muhammad's hometown of Mecca. These town fathers decided to stop Muhammad's raids by eradicating the raiders. But a strange thing happened when the Meccans, highly experienced in war, rode to Yathrib and attacked. They were defeated. Utterly. Many were killed. To add insult to injury, Muhammad had the bodies of the Meccans thrown into a well.

So the Meccans planned a second assault, this time with their numbers strengthened by allies. Muhammad knew the Meccans were coming. He donned two coats of mail and a helmet held on with an iron-chain chin strap, strapped on his sword, his bow, and his bulging arrow case, then positioned his forces with their backs to a mountain. But there was a problem. The mountain of Uhud had a double hump. The Meccans could come through the pass between the two humps and attack Muhammed's men from the rear. So Muhammad positioned archers at the pass.

At first, Muhammad's troops drove the Meccans from the battlefield. Exultant with their victory, Muhammad's warriors stooped to strip the Meccan bodies of their expensive weapons and clothes, a "gift" Muhammad in the Qur'an called "Bounty from Allah." Plunder and its distribution would become so important to Islam that it is the subject of an entire chapter of the Qur'an, Chapter 8--Al Anfal, "The Spoils of War."

...The Prophet made killing a pleasure. He said, "I wish I could be killed in the Way of Allah, then live again so that I may be killed again, then live again so that again I may be killed, then live again so that again I may be killed." Why? Added Muhammad, killing unbelievers and using "great slaughter" to "thoroughly subdue the land" pleases God.

Holiness, righteousness, manners, and decency in Islam are based on the example set by Muhammad. According to one of Muhammad's many Islamic biographers, "Sincerely tread the footsteps of Allah's final Messenger [Muhammad]... observe his glorious actions and attitudes, and most important of all follow them."

Today, hundreds of millions of Muslims model their lives on the example the prophet set during his years of peace. They model themselves on the tolerance and pluralism Muhammad showed in the days before his move to Yathrib and the commencement of his military campaigns. But others model themselves on the period of the Prophet's life in which he became addicted to the systematic use of what he called "slaughter" and "terror."

No wonder ISIS is able to motivate Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik in San Bernardino, Omar Mateen in Orlando, Abdelhamid Abaaoud in Paris, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel in Nice, Abdul Razak Ali Artan at Ohio State, and the still-uncaught truck killer in Berlin to use trucks, knives, guns, and explosives to perform what Dabiq proudly calls "massacre." No wonder these young idealists value death more than you and I value life.

These warriors are following the example of Muhammad, "by whose sword Allah exalted the light of Islam."

Howard's excellent book, just published by Feral House, is The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Gave You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram--or How Muhammad Invented Jihad