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The terrorist attack at Bondi Beach should end any illusion that Western democracies can afford to remain willfully blind and vague about the nature of the threat we face.  

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A father and son radicalized together, driven by hatred for Jews, murdered at least 15 people, including a 10-year-old girl, and hospitalized 27. This was not an inexplicable eruption of rage. It was the predictable outcome of radicalization left unaddressed until it turned lethal.  

Canada would be reckless to treat this as someone else’s problem.  

Over the past two years, Canadian authorities have disrupted — or narrowly missed — a disturbing number of terrorism cases rooted in violent Islamist ideology. Individually, each incident is often described as isolated or ambiguous. Collectively, they reveal a sustained threat driven by jihadist movements, their online propagandists and the broader ideological currents that normalize........

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