The murderous, premeditated attack at Bondi Beach in Australia forces us to look at two undeniable patterns.

The first is the pattern of anti-Semitic violence.

The second is the larger pattern of terror tied to immigration and Islam.

This was not just a targeted terrorist attack on Jewish Australians, it was also a dagger thrust in the heart of Western civilization. Freedom of assembly means nothing if citizens are too afraid to assemble.

Some people recoil at the suggestion that immigration and Islamic terrorism had anything to do with this and other recent attacks, but the facts are plain to see. Western civilization now faces a direct threat to both liberty and civilizational survival.

Simply put: The vast majority of Muslims around the world do not want to join the civilizational project of the West, including the national project of the United States—we know it because they say it out loud.

Folks, we need an honest conversation—and we need it now.