After Jihad Attack, New Zealand Prime Minister Warns of Anti-Muslim ‘Backlash’

On Friday, a Muslim migrant named Ahamed Aathil Mohamed Samsudeen, screaming “Allahu akbar,” stabbed six people at random in a supermarket in Auckland, New Zealand. As is true in virtually all such cases, there are a great many lessons to be learned from this incident, but all of them are being ignored. Instead, New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has made it clear that her primary concern is that Muslims not be victimized in vigilante “backlash” attacks. Such attacks are never justified, but in reality, rarely materialize. Ardern didn’t say anything, meanwhile, about protecting New Zealanders from future jihad attacks. Shouldn’t that be her highest priority?

The case of Ahamed Aathil Mohamed Samsudeen is practically a textbook example of how not to deal with Islamic jihadis. Associated Press reported Saturday that Samsudeen, a migrant from Sri Lanka, was imprisoned in New Zealand for three years after being caught with a hunting knife and jihadi videos. Nevertheless, he was released from prison “despite grave fears he would attack others,” because authorities believed that “they could do nothing more to keep him behind bars.”

Instead, “for 53 days from July, police tracked the man’s every move, an operation that involved some 30 officers working around the clock.” This was apparently a real Keystone Kops operation, for even with all this surveillance, on Friday Samsudeen “walked into an Auckland supermarket, grabbed a kitchen knife from a store shelf and stabbed five people, critically injuring three. Two more shoppers were injured in the melee.”

Samsudeen came to New Zealand in 2011 and was granted refugee status in 2013. Then in 2016, he “was first noticed by police in 2016 when he started posting support for terror attacks and violent extremism on Facebook. Police twice confronted him but he kept on posting.”

What a surprise! You mean, strongly worded warnings from New Zealand’s finest didn’t dissuade young Samsudeen from his jihad? Why, how could this be?

In any case, Samsudeen went from bad to worse: “In 2017, they arrested him at Auckland Airport. He was headed for Syria, authorities say, presumably to join the Islamic State insurgency. Police searches found he had a hunting knife and some banned propaganda material, and he was...

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