Former State Department senior adviser Christian Wheaton warned Friday of the terrorist threat that U.S. sanctuary cities could face.
Monaka exterior In Laura Ingraham’s “The Ingraham Angle,” Wheaton discussed a driver who plowed into a crowd at a German Christmas market. Mr. Wheaton criticized the German government’s handling of immigration, suggesting that assimilation efforts had failed.
“It’s a terrorist attack, you know. This happened just about a week after Muslims walked through another Christmas market in Germany,” Whitton told Ingraham. “These are jihadists brought into Germany by the open-door immigration policies of both the center-right and the current left-wing governments, and here we have Saudi nationals who have been in Germany for some 20 years. Case assimilation is not working.”
Shifting his focus to the United States, Wheaton said he was concerned about the safety of America’s sanctuary cities. He said that, like Germany, the United States faces challenges in immigration policy, particularly when it comes to vetting refugees and immigrants.
“I don’t know if the German government actually wants it, but you can say this is jihad on the march, and Germany has an immigration problem. But we, all the sanctuaries of the United States Cities may also face this threat. Thankfully, so far they have not, but this is not just a German problem.
Ingraham brought up the influx of refugees from Afghanistan, criticizing the lack of thorough vetting and questioning the supposed role of these people as former interpreters for the U.S. military. In discussing the broader impact of unscrutinized immigration, Whitton said he was concerned about immigrants’ adherence to political Islam and their potential aspirations for a caliphate.
“Obviously, when it comes to illegal aliens and road gods, we don’t know anything about them. But we don’t even really ask people who move here about backrooms. Terrorism. We ask if they were part of a group, if they were part of al-Qaeda. But what we’re really trying to dig into is whether they believe in the unity of the mosque and the state, whether they believe in political Islam. , whether they want a caliphate or not,” Whitton said.
“There was just a huge protest in Hannover, Germany, calling for a caliphate. I have no doubt that many here want that too. And we will find these people and remove them from the United States.” The stakes are high. We’re lucky and thankfully we have Donald Trump.” (Related: More than 1,000 anti-Semitic attacks have occurred in one European country since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, interior minister says)
Early Friday morning, a 50-year-old Saudi man who had worked as a doctor in Germany since 2006 drove his car into a crowd at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, injuring multiple people and killing at least two people. Authorities arrested the alleged attacker. German state premier Rainer Haserof said at a press conference that the video showed the vehicle speeding through a celebratory gathering.
German authorities said the suspect rented a car and then drove about 40 meters through a crowded Christmas market, according to German news agency WELT. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz expressed his condolences to the victims and their families and warned in a statement that “something bad is about to happen.”
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