When it comes to comes to radicalized Islamists in the United Kingdom (UK), every guy is the same guy: no sooner had Jihad al-Shamie been identified as the murderous thug who cut down Jews worshipping on Yom Kippur when we learnt that he was out on bail for suspected rape.

He was also the son of a Syrian doctor who celebrated Hamas barbarism on Facebook following the events of 7 October 2023. Despite being literally named for :“struggle” or what we now plainly see as: “war”, he wasn’t on the radar of the UK’s security services, who overlooked a clear case of nominative determinism perhaps because most have been DEId and rainbow-ed and: “decolonized” beyond acceptable recognition and competence.

Every response is also the same response: the Prime Minister convenes an emergency meeting, following which he addresses the media. “We will not be divided by people who hate our values” is the generic statement here, followed by: “thoughts and prayers”. On the British Broadcasting Corporation commentators deflect by talking about the: “far right” and: “neo-Nazis”.

Ministers do the establishment media rounds, hint at: ”lone wolves” or mental illness, and before long a spokesperson for the religion on whose side the savage found himself makes the inevitable statement to the effect of: ”we-are-worried-this-will-spark-more-islamophobia” – to which the media anchor, ordinarily a blonde woman of a certain age with a Politics, Philosophy, and Economics degree from Oxbridge frowns in sympathy: “you poor thing, terrible people they are”.

This attack could not have happened at a worse moment. Undeniable weakness in the face of Jew hatred defines incumbent administrations in countries like the UK, Canada, France, and Australia – suspicions and realities not exclusive to Jewish citizens.

Leaders like Keir Starmer, Mark Carney, and Emmanuel Macron simply do not possess the requisite strength or willingness to address groups agitating for harm, but so as to maintain the illusion of being serious, have primed their inquiries of terror to this mythical: ‘far-right’ grouping – despite all evidence to the contrary.

Seriously

UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, who was born in the UK to Pakistani immigrant parents, tried to assure British Jews that her government takes antisemitism seriously and that it will increase security for the Jewish community. One might be forgiven for treating her assurances with extreme skepticism – because Mahmood herself has led Boycott, Divest, and Sanction (BDS) efforts in the UK, including shutting down a Sainsbury's supermarket because it had the temerity to stock Israeli goods.

On X she posted a photo of herself at a pro-Palestine march holding a Free Palestine sign. We all know that: "Free Palestine" does not seek a Palestine free of Hamas, the murderous death cult that has ruled it since 2007, but free of Jews: "from the river to the sea". Claiming to care about protecting Jews while participating in marches – ultimately succour to hatred – is possibly the most counter-intuitive position of the many confusing Labour positions.

The great anger that can be felt in the aftermath from all quarters of the country doesn’t just involve the lives ended and the others ruined by this psychopath, but by the predictability of it all. This terrible sense of knowing has not just been present in the marches, but by antisemitic incidents across UK schools and universities, by the attitudes of the institutions and the ineptitude of law enforcement. Since October 2023 Jews have expected to be harmed. It was coming.

Misconception

The great misconception in recent years, particularly as the movement of people in Europe is concerned, is that immigration alone threatens sovereignty’s equilibrium rooted in culture and tradition. But unaccompanied without the mandatory obligation of assimilation, it is weak and easy to dismiss.

Assimilation, or failure of, is the root cause of Thursday’s atrocity. Al-Shamie moved from Syria aged six, who was issued UK citizenship a decade later, who must have witnessed from afar the dreadful events his country was subjected to following 2011’s Arab Spring – yet clearly made no effort toward gratitude.

He wasn’t estranged from his Hamas-loving father, who himself was clearly ungrateful; a responsible assumption is that the two would have discussed activities related to violence against Jews.

This failure has revealed itself in now exhaustive national shame. Muslim men of Pakistani origin raping white working-class girls up and down the spine of England and a response cautioned by its own appearance of racism. The entrenchment of parallel societies. Sporadic eruptions of secular violence. A noticeable decline to a low trust society. The capturing and subsequent repurposing of authorities tasked with addressing radicalism to point elsewhere. The caricature of the “Yookay” – a land of takeaway scooter drivers, barbers and vape shops.

The National Health Service (NHS), despite its many profound flaws, is celebrated as a great British institution – to the point that it was a central feature of the 2012 London Olympic Games opening ceremony. Yet the NHS recently emerged in defence of cousin marriage – even though the genetic disorders arising from consanguinity are profound.

This stance, along with Keir Starmer's opposition to a new bill in Parliament that would outlaw cousin marriage is nothing more than a sop to the Muslim immigrant community that practices it widely, against British norms.

Scared

Why are the authorities so scared of enforcing assimilation? It's likely that reluctance to do so forms part of the same grubby Labour toolkit introduced in 1997 to, in the words of Tony Blair’s former advisor Andrew Neather :“rub the right’s nose in diversity and take the argument from them”.

But there’s also a wicked lie, beloved by supporters of Jeremy Corbyn, that because the Jews have prospered in England in the last half century, they are not entitled to the same grievance reparative archaeology of other groups. In other words, Jews are not fashionable.

In making them unfashionable, they’ve made them fair game for those – not just Islamists – seeking crutches for their existence and apertures for their contempt. Last Thursday night various hate marches were sparked across the UK. A professional from London, Ms. Fiona Young, declared to The Daily Telegraph at another Hamas hate march that she: “didn’t give a f*** about the Jews”. The courts, who like putting people into jail for social media posts, mysteriously dropped the ball in prosecuting an Irish hate band for glorifying Hezbollah. At Glastonbury, the National Broadcaster live filmed a hate rapper screaming “death to the IDF”.

So what to expect next? From Charlie Hebdo in 2015, the Paris attacks of the same year to the Manchester Arena bombing and the death of two social justice warriors on London Bridge in 2019 (who were trying to rehabilitate a Jihadi), the mistake is to think nothing happens.

Things do happen: politicians break away from Labour to ostensibly represent Gaza in Parliament, Islamist groups are beneficiaries of more grants and more charity, more voices from that community are included as establishment media seeks to broaden its appeal and new grievances are located as uniparty profiles seek to define then redefine: “islamophobia” by incorporating as much scope for offense as possible. Things do happen – just not the kind that should.

Which will ultimately conclude the era of the failure of assimilation as such: the brutality that erupted in Manchester and events like it will no longer be seen in isolation; feeble, submissive leadership, and the cowardice it promoted will now accompany every memory of every atrocity.

Simon Lincoln Reader is director of wealth at Audley Capital in London and Richard Tren is director of the Yorktown Foundation for Freedom based in Washington.