Ingraham: Frequent Terror the Price ‘to Pay for Multiculturalism’

LifeZette Editor-in-Chief Laura Ingraham insisted that the price the West has “to pay for multiculturalism” is the risk of having a radical Islamic terrorist “mow you down” in a van or “put a knife to your throat and slit it,” during an interview Tuesday on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends.”

Ingraham noted that the United Kingdom has paid a heavy price for embracing unchecked multiculturalism and mass immigration, having suffered three terror attacks in the span of three months. Ingraham blasted those who say, “This is what we’re going to have to start living with.”

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“This is happening right now in Britain and everyone’s like, ‘Well, this is what we’re going to have to start living with … This is the cost of living in an open society,'” Ingraham said.

“Innocent Brits and people traveling to London and all over Western Europe — now the price they have to pay for multiculturalism is the risk that you’re walking on the sidewalk and a man or a woman will purposefully mow you down,” Ingraham continued. “And then, while you’re maybe finishing your cappuccino in a cafe or having a drink, someone will put a knife to your throat and slit it with the attempt perhaps to behead you.”

“That’s what we all have to live with for the free and open society that [London Mayor] Sadiq Khan and all these other multiculturalists want Britain to become,” Ingraham added. “They want — this is the Nirvana they wanted to create, and this is what we have.”

LifeZette’s editor-in-chief said a substantial part of the problem the U.K. and the West must tackle is the “staggering” number of individuals under surveillance that have known or unknown ties to radical Islamic groups.

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“We’re not talking about a couple hundred. We’re talking about thousands and thousands,” Ingraham said. “We saw the same problem happen, remember, in Belgium before the Paris attacks. We’ve seen this problem happen time and again throughout Europe, where individuals are on watch lists. They’re persons of interest for intelligence authorities. But I think they’re overwhelmed.”

This is why it’s so important that the U.S. and Europe take extreme vetting and tighter immigration control seriously, Ingraham argued.

“That’s why it’s so important that before you allow people to come into your country, you have a very good sense that they are interested in being part of the British experience, they’re not interested in undermining the culture or carrying out horrific attacks,” Ingraham said. “How you really do that type of extreme vetting is proving very, very difficult, especially with a mass migration into Western Europe.”

Ingraham also touched on the national security threat as the U.S. government — and President Donald Trump — faces an onslaught of leaks. The Justice Department announced Monday it was pressing charges against Reality Leigh Winner, a federal contractor with top-secret security clearance, for allegedly leaking classified information to The Intercept.

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“Why did it take so long to find out that this woman was leaking? I’m glad we found out, but this is just the tip of the iceberg, guys,” Ingraham warned. “There are people burrowed into the federal contracting world and into the federal government who have an anti-Trump bias, an anti-Trump agenda, and they will use every tool at their disposal to try to embarrass the administration and hurt what they’re trying to accomplish, both on an international level and the domestic level.”

Noting that this situation “is rotting from within … just like the rot in a tree,” Ingraham urged the administration to “cut it out and try to regrow the plant.”

“This is a deep rot within our government and within the contracting world,” Ingraham said. “This is not new, but the ferocity of the leaks and the intention behind them is much more politically based versus just, ‘Oh, everybody should know this information.’ This is geared toward one thing: getting Trump out of office.”

When the “Fox & Friends” hosts brought up Trump’s Tuesday tweet in which he said, “The FAKE MSM is working so hard trying to get me not to use Social Media. They hate that I can get the honest and unfiltered message out,” Ingraham said Trump’s tweets can serve a “salient” and effective purpose.

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“I think he has an enormous following, and when he has a point to make that is salient and which kind of pulls us away from the verbiage of the day, cuts right through, he can be very effective,” Ingraham said. “[The mainstream media] don’t like that, that’s for sure.”

Later in the morning, Trump added, “Sorry folks, but if I would have relied on the Fake News of CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, washpost or nytimes, I would have had ZERO chance winning WH.”

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Ingraham did offer Trump and his administration a warning, however, over tweeting about the Russia probe and former FBI Director James Comey’s upcoming Thursday testimony.

“The only caveat I would throw to that is, tweeting out anything about the investigation that’s ongoing, I do not think that will help Donald Trump,” Ingraham said. “You’re not going to win the investigation regarding James Comey in the press. You’re not going to win it. You’re going to win it with really great lawyering, really sober lawyering, but you’re not going to win that through tweeting.”