As a Jewish man, our tradition is that my job is to teach my children how to swim and a profession. We can explore what that means on a deeper rabbinic level, but simply to give my children the skills that they will be able to protect themselves from danger, and live and be productive, self-sufficient members of society.

Reading reports of the father-son duo, Sajid Akram, 50, and Naveed Akram, 24, who perpetrated the antisemitic murder in Sydney, Australia, on the first day of Chanukah, I was shocked to think that either the father had the evil idea and invited his son, or his son was so indoctrinated that he invited his father to join his shooting orgy. Either way, the father failed, and his son was raised in the rot of this failure.

Thankfully, Sajid, the father, has arrived in hell. Hopefully, Australia has a death penalty, so Naveed, the son, will be swiftly reunited with his dad. People will rush to cite permissive gun laws as the cause of the massacre, but the truth is it's the permissiveness of the pervasiveness of radical Islam. This, more than guns, must be outlawed and eliminated.

Unfortunately, we see such father-son evil more and more as a consequence of widespread radical Islam. We see it in the Sydney rampage. We see it with Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Iranian Islamic Republic all spreading their tentacles of evil with Israel and Jews in their crosshairs. We also see it throughout Africa and around the world, where Christians are persecuted as part of a multi-generational family tradition.

And we see it among Muslims themselves, with fathers and sons murdering their daughters and sisters in what are perversely called "honor........

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