[The Critic] When Europe Mirrors Nigeria

Why does nobody dare to state the connection between terror attacks and Muslim immigration?

As the city’s parishioners recited the day’s closing vesper towards 19h30 on Wednesday last week, a harrowing scene straight out of the Moors-and-Christians vignette took shape in Spain’s southernmost outpost of Algeciras, a mere 30-minute ferry ride from Tangiers (Morocco) across the Mediterranean’s narrowest strip of water. Djellaba-clad, armed with a machete on one hand and a Quran on the other, a 25-year-old Moroccan national left around that time the squalid apartment he had been squatting since first arriving in the Andalusian city in 2019. Yasine Kanjaa walked to the church-filled old town with a hell-bent aim in mind: avenging 530 years of Christian rule in Al-Andalus (the Arabic toponym for Spain never ceased to be used by Islamist radicals like Kanjaa after the expulsion of the country’s Muslim settlers by the Catholic kings in 1492).

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