In a horrific act of anti-Muslim terrorism, a 48-year-old man drove a van into a group of Muslims near a mosque in Finsbury Park in London on Sunday. He shouted, I want to kill all Muslims. I did my bit. You deserve it. One man was killed, 10 others were wounded. According to the Daily Mail, quote, the unnamed man who was clean, shaven with curly hair, and wore a white t-shirt, suffered cuts to his face in hands, and was filmed repeatedly shouting,

kill me to the men who grabbed him.

After his arrest, the terror suspect continued to goad the crowds that witnessed the attack by smiling, waving, and even blowing kisses at them. The incident's horrific. The perpetrator should spend the rest of his life in prison, because the UK has no death penalty. The left isn't wrong to connect it with an upsurge in anti-Muslim crime. According to London mayor, Sadiq Khan, who has been far too permissive with regard to Islamic radicalism on his own soil, he released police figures that showed, according to news, we quote, Islamophobic attacks had risen fivefold since the ramming and knife assault a 40% increase in racist attacks. The numbers from London's metropolitan police show that

anti-Muslim motivated incidents had risen to a daily 2017 average of four to as many as 20.

But it is wrong to use the anti-Muslim attack as justification for the equivalency between the dangers

of the rise of radical Islam and the rise of anti-Muslim xenophobia.

That is absurd.

Yes, attacks on Muslims have risen, and that is unjustifiable and awful.

Major attacks on Muslims by anti-Muslim terrorists are far less common, however,

than major radical Muslim attacks on non-Muslims across Europe, and they are supported by no major terrorist group, let alone state actors.

Radical Muslims

run states. Anti-Muslim countries do not exist in the same way. Even the most extreme anti-Muslim

countries have Muslim populations, for example. This London attack marks the first major terror

attack in Great Britain against Muslims since 2013, when a Ukrainian student attempted to bomb a mosque

in Birmingham and stabbed a young

Muslim man to death. If I missed one, I apologize in advance. In the last four months, however,

we have seen the Westminster terror attack, the Manchester Arena bombing, and the London Bridge

attack. This is not to suggest that violent anti-Muslim terror attacks are somehow better or

less disgusting than violent radical Muslim terror attacks on others.

But they are far less statistically frequent, have nearly no global support, and earn the

round condemnation of the entire Western world. The left has attempted to broaden the conversation

to include individual hate crimes, for example, harassing a woman in a hijab. But if we do that,

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