How political correctness aided the San Bernardino terrorists.

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Shortly after Islamic extremists Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik committed their Dec. 2, 2015, act of terror in San Bernardino, Calif., killing 14 and injuring 21 unarmed victims, Los Angeles TV station KTLA and the Daily Caller, among other media outlets, reported that a neighbor had observed suspicious activity at the couple's residence in Redlands, Calif., for weeks preceding the terrorist event. Mindful of political correctness, the neighbor did not call police because she thought doing so would cause her to be brandished Islamophobic or anti-Muslim.

"Consequently, we may ascribe part of the blame for the loss of 14 lives on the pervasive culture of political correctness that surrounds us," maintains attorney Jonathan W. Emord, the principal of Emord and Associates, Clifton, Va., and the author of several books, including Restore the Republic--How the American People Can Once Again Be Free and Prosperous.

"If we are to save the lives of innocents, we are going to have to report suspicious activity by Muslim extremists, and there will necessarily be moments of inconvenience experienced by those of the Muslim faith wrongly suspected of illegal activity. That is the price we must pay for the safety of our citizens. No one should be wrongly accused, but anyone who appears engaged in activity suggestive of a conspiracy to commit crime should be questioned and, upon probable cause, made the subject of a warrant and a search."

"A call to the police in a circumstance such as this is nothing more than a reasonable precaution. When neighbors play loud music, appear to be intoxicated, or look to be engaged in nefarious activity of one kind or another, police inquiry is commonplace. It is not a justification for arrest in and of itself, nor is it a justification for harassment, but it justifies inquiry and if inquiry yields further suspicion, surveillance, and if surveillance reveals the elements of a criminal conspiracy, an arrest."

Emord asserts that, had police surveilled the residence of Farook and Malik...