Import the Third World, Become the Third World | The American Spectator

In Lacey, Washington, the pines stretch high and the politics stretch left, where lawn signs proclaim “Love is Love” and “Hate Has No Home Here.” But last October, hate found a home in the form of a father’s hands around his teenage daughter’s throat — while the mother stood by and watched. This wasn’t a bar brawl or an unhinged rage. It was a methodical execution attempt — an alleged honor killing — foiled only because the victim’s high school classmates had the courage to intervene when her family did not.

The 17-year-old girl had fled home to escape a forced marriage overseas. Her crime? Seeking a life of her own. For that, her father, Ihsan Ali, reportedly warned her there would be consequences — the kind imported from societies where female autonomy is a death sentence. He choked her unconscious outside her school, in front of classmates. Her mother, Zahraa Ali, helped corner her. Police were called. Charges were filed. And then, in July, a jury in blue-state Washington said: not guilty of attempted murder.

Not guilty, despite video evidence, eyewitness testimony, and a trail of threats. Instead, Ihsan Ali was convicted only of second-degree assault and unlawful imprisonment. Zahraa Ali? Guilty merely of violating a protective order. (RELATED: Western Nations Are Ceding Sovereignty to Sharia Councils)

Let’s be clear: this wasn’t a “family misunderstanding.” It was imported extremism — ideology tucked into carry-ons and waved through customs under the banner of multiculturalism. A daughter’s life was nearly extinguished because she preferred a prom dress to a burqa, because she wanted to choose a boyfriend rather than be allegedly trafficked into a marriage contract inked with fear and sealed in coercion.

And the system blinked.

We are no longer just importing people. We are importing pathologies — rituals of repression masquerading as tradition. Forced marriage, child marriage, cousin marriage, female genital mutilation: these are not “differences” to be celebrated. They are brutalities cloaked in religious or cultural justifications that clash violently with every Western principle.

According to the CDC, an estimated 513,000 women and girls in the U.S. are at risk of or have undergone FGM, about one-third under 18. (RELATED: Radical Chic Continues at Georgetown)

Across the Atlantic, British authorities learned the same lesson. South Asian-heritage grooming gangs “thrived in a culture of ignorance” as officials tiptoed around ethnicity while an estimated 1,400 girls were abused in Rotherham alone. The same cultural contempt for women that fuels honor killings abroad has enabled industrial-scale abuse in the U.K. — and now finds protection in Western courtrooms.

Because what happened in Lacey was not an aberration — it was a warning.

In Texas, sisters Amina and Sarah Said were gunned down by their father for dating outside their faith. In Arizona, Noor Almaleki was run over by her father for resisting a forced marriage. She died; he was sentenced to 34 years. Those cases ended in death. Lacey made headlines because the girl lived — and the justice system still didn’t flinch.

This isn’t about race. It’s about imported ideology. Just as extremists once smuggled sermons into Parisian banlieues, today’s radical norms ride in on visas, NGOs, and asylum loopholes. We are witnessing moral inversion — as if the Constitution were optional for some communities. (RELATED: Unseen, Unchecked, Unsafe — America’s Visa Overstay Problem)

This is how civilization erodes — not with fire or fury, but with silence, sympathy, and fear of offending. Import the Third World, become the Third World — that’s not a slur, it’s a warning label. The West cannot protect its freedoms if it does not enforce them.

We are not moral weaklings for demanding that all who come here leave barbarism behind. We are defenders — of women, of liberty, of Western values. If Washington State can’t protect a teenage girl from her own family, then who will?

Until we find the courage to answer that, more girls will end up not just choked — but silenced for good.

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