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Daily Signal Podcast: Victor Davis Hanson: Why Western Leaders Won’t Acknowledge ‘Radical Islam’

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News, Politics

4.4651 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

The disastrous way in which public officials handled the Bondi Beach massacre begs the question: Why are authorities hesitant to call out radical Islamist violence when it occurs? From a mass shooting in Australia to canceled Christmas celebrations in Paris, Victor Davis Hanson argues these incidents are not isolated. Instead, they reveal deeper pathologies facing […]

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Hello, this is Victor Davis-Hansson for the Daily Signal.

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We've had a lot of incidents worldwide of Islamic terrorism or threats of Islamic terrorism.

0:57.5

The most egregious is in Bondi Beach, Australia, where two gunmen, a father and son,

1:04.3

killed 16 people and wounded 40.

1:06.9

How that happens in front of police who reacted very quickly, I don't know. They were only stopped

1:12.7

by a heroic Syrian immigrant who tackled one of the shooters and disarmed him. The problem

1:21.0

with all of this is that there was no needed reaction from the Prime Minister of Australia. We didn't hear, we have to be very

1:30.0

careful about radical Islam. These two people got two guns legally that they should not have

1:36.3

had since they were on a watch list with terrorist activity. There was no reason that this

1:41.9

one shooter, the father, had six guns, among them semi-automatic weapons,

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in one of the most gun-controlled societies in the world.

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