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Glenn Beck: What Europe’s latest terror attacks reveal about the progressive left’s deadly blind spot

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Earlier this week, a 31-year-old man was arrested in Paris after stabbing three women, one of whom was pregnant, with kitchen knives. Even though video footage of his detainment captured him saying, “It is Allah who commanded me,” Interior Minister Laurent Nunez claimed the motive of the attack was unknown. “You rolled your eyes, didn’t you? ... I know you did,” says Glenn Beck. But France isn’t the only European country that has seen recent terror attacks. Just a few days before the Paris knife attack, 21-year-old Abdul Ballout drove a van into a Berlin Pride event, killing one woman and injuring dozens before attacking with a machete; police shot him dead the next day after he charged at officers with a sharp object. “He was already convicted of planning at least one terror attack, but then he was let out conditionally. … He was assigned to complete … anti-terrorism or anti-radical classes,” says Glenn’s head writer and researcher, Jason Buttrill. Glenn argues these attacks aren’t is