Muslim Migrant Murders Migration Advocate, but It’s Really the Left’s Fault

Anyone could have seen this coming, but no one dared.

Daniel Greenfield, always among the most keen-eyed and forthright of analysts, got straight to the point when he covered this story, asking the one simple question for which there is no answer, and likely never will be any answer: “When will people learn?”

After all, everyone within several miles of Elisabeth-Jane Ross should have seen this coming. According to a Sunday report in The Sun, Ross, a 38-year-old Scottish woman, “was found stuffed inside the travel bag and then dumped in an abandoned building” in Greece. “Greek police said a 26-year-old man from Afghanistan is in custody on charges of intentional homicide, robbery and violating weapons law.” The Greek police “had previously probed whether Elisabeth – a ‘good Samaritan’ and committed Christian – was murdered by someone she was trying to help. She was a regular traveller to Greece and volunteered for One Heart – a charity which provides medical help for refugees from Afghanistan and Iran.”

The Sun added in a Monday report that “the suspect allegedly told his wife that he killed the victim because she kept talking about her beliefs on Christianity.” So, as Christine Douglass-Williams points out, “Suicidal sympathy did in Elisabeth-Jane Ross, and there are countless others like her.”

What was Elisabeth-Jane Ross thinking? That’s where this story becomes less about her own negligence and carelessness, and more about the failures of British society as a whole — and Britain is by no means alone in this. For Elisabeth-Jane Ross did not spring forth from the sea foam full of suicidal empathy, and ready to allow herself to be done in by, ironically enough, the very people she had dedicated her life to helping. No, Elisabeth-Jane Ross is the product of Britain’s educational system and contemporary culture, and she is as fine an example as anyone could have of the sort of people that system turns out.

Elisabeth-Jane Ross knew, for example, that the Muslim migrants pouring into Europe were harmless refugees in need of help and a welcoming hand from Europeans. She knew that her Christian faith called upon her to welcome the stranger and the sojourner. She knew that those who cast aspersions upon the mass migration enterprise were racist, bigoted “Islamophobes” whose paranoid, unjustifiable suspicion of the migrants must be rejected at all costs.

Elisabeth-Jane Ross also knew that Islam is a religion of peace, superior to Christianity in many of the values and priorities it inculcates. She knew that Islam had a noble history of tolerance, in al-Andalus and elsewhere, while Europeans were still burning heretics at the stake. She knew that Islam led the world in scientific exploration and technological innovation at a time when Europeans were still blowing their noses into their hands and seeking protection from the gods of gardens and rivers.

Elisabeth-Jane Ross likewise knew that Islam respects women, that the hijab is a choice, and that Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, said that “paradise lies under the feet of the mother.” So when she undertook to aid Afghan migrants, and to clear away obstacles to their settling in Europe, she knew that they would be grateful, and would treat her with kindness and respect. She also knew that when she spoke to them about the Christian faith that moved her to want to help them in the first place, they would extend that respect to her beliefs, for Islam respects those to whom the Qur’an refers as “the people of the book.”

No would spoke to Elisabeth-Jane Ross about the dangers that the Afghan migrants posed, or about their misogyny, much less about the fact that this misogyny was rooted in the texts and teachings of the Qur’an. No one breathed a word to her about the Qur’an’s contempt for unbelievers, whom it calls “the most vile of created beings” (98:6), or about Islam’s death penalty for non-Muslims who dare to try to convert Muslims to another religion. No one spoke to her about 1,400 years of jihad, or about how Sharia systematically denies women’s rights.

To have raised any of that with Elisabeth-Jane Ross would have been “Islamophobia.” And she knew very well that “Islamophobia” was to be avoided and rejected in all circumstances.

And now she is dead. Will any of her colleagues in One Heart absorb the lessons of her murder? Not a chance.