THEY'RE CANCELING NEW YEAR'S EVE: The Western World Surrenders to ISIS While FBI Plays Entrapment Games

Fourteen Americans were massacred on Bourbon Street. Fifteen Jews were murdered at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney. Paris is canceling its iconic Champs-Élysées concert. London locking down Primrose Hill. And the FBI? They're too busy running informants to manufacture domestic terror plots while real jihadists slaughter our citizens.

This is what surrender looks like.

On January 1, 2025, at 3:15 a.m., Shamsud-Din Jabbar drove a rented Ford F-150 into New Year's revelers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. He killed 14 innocent people. He had an ISIS flag in his vehicle. He planted two functional IEDs at Bourbon and Toulouse Streets. He wore body armor and fired an AR-10 rifle at police before they killed him. The FBI confirmed he posted videos "indicating that he was inspired by ISIS, expressing a desire to kill" just hours before the attack.

Fourteen days later, on December 14, Sajid Akram and his son Naveed opened fire on 1,000 Jewish families celebrating Hanukkah at Bondi Beach in Sydney. They killed 15 people, including a 10-year-old child. They brought six firearms, two homemade ISIS flags, and three IEDs. Australian Federal Police declared it an ISIS-linked terrorist attack. Police documents revealed the father-son duo had "meticulously planned this terrorist attack for many months," conducting firearms training and recording videos "condemning the acts of Zionists" while adhering to "religiously motivated ideology linked to Islamic State."

Two ISIS attacks. Twenty-nine dead. Dozens more wounded. Both on celebratory holidays designed to bring communities together.

And how did the West respond? By canceling New Year's Eve.

Paris scrapped its traditional Champs-Élysées concert that typically draws one million people. French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez warned that six terrorist plots had been thwarted in France in 2025 alone, with terrorist propaganda "continuing to encourage attacks on Christmas markets, law enforcement officers, Jewish places of worship and public institutions." But instead of deploying overwhelming force to protect their citizens' right to celebrate, Paris officials recorded a fake concert weeks in advance with a handpicked audience to broadcast on television. They're telling French citizens to celebrate the New Year from their living rooms like prisoners in their own capital.

London closed Primrose Hill, where 30,000 people gathered last year to watch fireworks. The excuse? The Metropolitan Police disbanded their Royal Parks unit to plug a $260 million funding gap. A 16-year-old boy, Harry Pitman, was stabbed to death at the same location on New Year's Eve 2023. Rather than flood the area with police and restore order, they locked the gates and told Londoners to "make alternative plans."

This is civilizational surrender disguised as public safety.

And into this security crisis steps Zohran Mamdani, who will be sworn in as New York City's 112th mayor at midnight on January 1, 2026. At 34 years old, Mamdani becomes the youngest mayor since 1892 and the city's first Muslim mayor. Attorney General Letitia James will administer the oath at a private ceremony in the abandoned City Hall subway station, followed by a public inauguration at 1 p.m. conducted by Senator Bernie Sanders.

The symbolism is remarkable. As Western capitals cancel New Year's celebrations due to ISIS threats, as 29 people lie dead from ISIS-inspired holiday attacks, as federal agencies scramble to prevent the next massacre, New York City inaugurates its first Muslim mayor at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve with a democratic socialist Senator presiding over the public ceremony.

Mamdani's election on November 4, 2025, came just six weeks before the Bourbon Street attack and seven weeks before the Bondi Beach massacre. He defeated former Governor Andrew Cuomo with a progressive platform promising universal childcare, rent freezes, and free city buses. His campaign was supported by the New Yorkers for Lower Costs super PAC, which received $100,000 from the Unity and Justice Fund. Cuomo accused him of accepting "dirty money," claiming the fund was tied to the Council on American-Islamic Relations. After winning the primary, Mamdani faced "racist, xenophobic, and Islamophobic" attacks referencing 9/11 and terrorism, according to multiple news reports.

Here's what New Yorkers deserve to know: What is Mamdani's plan for counterterrorism? How will he coordinate with HSTF NY, which was launched just three weeks before his inauguration? What's his relationship with federal agencies tasked with preventing the next Bourbon Street? Has he been briefed on specific threats to Times Square? Will he maintain NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, who announced HSTF NY alongside federal partners?

These aren't unfair questions. They're essential. Mamdani met with President Trump at the White House on November 21 to discuss "public safety, economic security, and affordability." But as one million people gather in Times Square under his watch, as NYPD deploys counterterrorism units, as ISIS propaganda encourages attacks on New Year's celebrations, the new mayor's first test isn't his affordable housing platform. It's whether New Yorkers live through midnight.

But here's where it gets truly outrageous. While ISIS-inspired terrorists are executing coordinated attacks on Western holidays, the FBI is manufacturing domestic terror plots with paid informants.

On December 12, FBI agents arrested four members of the "Turtle Island Liberation Front" in California's Mojave Desert, claiming they disrupted a New Year's Eve bombing plot. FBI Director Kash Patel held a press conference. Attorney General Pam Bondi declared they prevented "a massive and horrific terror plot." Fox News ran the story before court filings were even public.

Then the details emerged.

Court documents reveal an FBI informant who has been on the FBI payroll since 2021 had been embedded with this group since late November 2025. That's right. Just two months. The informant and at least one undercover FBI agent "were involved in nearly every stage of the case," according to The Intercept's investigation. They discussed operational security. They transported group members to the Mojave Desert test site. They were there when arrests were made.

The "Turtle Island Liberation Front" Instagram account cited in the FBI complaint had just over 1,000 followers after it was widely publicized. Their YouTube channel registered on July 17, 2025, had 18 subscribers and contained one video. The Signal chat the FBI called an "ultra-radical subset" appears to be a handful of activists who organized a self-defense workshop and a punk rock benefit show.

This is the FBI's playbook. Find angry activists online. Send in paid informants to exploit their "righteous anger." Walk them step-by-step toward illegal conspiracy. Make arrests. Issue press releases. Justify the budget.

Michael German, a former FBI agent who studies terrorism, told The Intercept the FBI has been running this game for two decades, disproportionately targeting left-wing activists and Muslims. "The informant gets paid, the FBI gets a good headline that justifies their anti-terrorism budget, and the defendants are left to face the consequences, often without ever posing a real threat to public safety."

First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli admitted the LA case "stems from" President Trump's executive order designating antifa as a domestic terrorism organization. The timing is perfect. Trump creates the designation in September. FBI informant embeds in November. Arrests happen in December. Headlines in time for New Year's Eve.

Meanwhile, real ISIS terrorists are killing Americans and nobody's doing anything about it.

Where was the FBI informant in New Orleans monitoring Shamsud-Din Jabbar's online radicalization? Where was the undercover agent tracking the Akram family's months of meticulous planning in Sydney?

The answer is simple: there's no budget justification in preventing real terror. The FBI needs manufactured plots with controlled outcomes to justify their existence. Real jihadists are unpredictable. They don't follow the script. They can't be walked into perfect arrests.

But there is one federal initiative that appears to be delivering actual results: Homeland Security Task Force New York.

Launched December 10, 2025, HSTF NY represents a unified federal-state-local operation co-led by Homeland Security Investigations and the FBI. U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton, U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella Jr., FBI Assistant Director Christopher Raia, HSI Special Agent in Charge Ricky Patel, and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch announced the formation of what they called a "first-of-its-kind task force" targeting transnational criminal organizations, foreign terrorists, and cartels with ties to New York City.

The numbers are staggering. Between August 25 and October 7, 2025, Homeland Security Task Forces nationwide conducted 400+ operations resulting in 3,266 arrests: 1,041 Sinaloa cartel members, 856 CJNG members, 641 MS-13 members, 456 Tren de Aragua members. They seized 91 metric tons of narcotics, 1,067 weapons, and over $3.25 million in currency.

These aren't manufactured plots. These are actual cartel members, gang members, and drug traffickers taken off American streets. This is what competent law enforcement looks like when it's focused on real threats instead of political theater.

FBI Assistant Director Raia stated HSTF NY's mission is to "defend the homeland" through "unified partnership." HSI Special Agent in Charge Patel said they're working to "outpace criminal networks." These task forces differ from Joint Terrorism Task Forces by focusing on multijurisdictional cartels and international gangs "operating across national borders with the ultimate goal to disrupt and dismantle these organizations through prosecution."

This is the model that works. Real intelligence. Real targets. Real arrests.

But you won't see Kash Patel holding press conferences about HSTF's cartel takedowns. There's no political capital in arresting MS-13 members. The headlines go to manufactured domestic terror plots that fit the narrative.

Here's what we know for certain: ISIS is emboldened. They executed two major attacks within 14 days targeting Western holidays. They're inspiring lone wolves across the United States and Europe. And instead of responding with overwhelming force, Western capitals are canceling public celebrations and telling citizens to stay home.

Paris can deploy 45,000 police for the Olympics but can't secure the Champs-Élysées for New Year's Eve? London can't manage a hill with a view? This isn't about capability. This is about will.

The fundamental question is who benefits from this surrender. Islamic extremists benefit when Western societies restrict public life. They win when Christmas markets close, when concerts are canceled, when citizens are told to celebrate from their homes. The terror succeeds when we change our behavior.

Federal agencies benefit when threat levels remain elevated. More funding. Expanded authorities. Less oversight. The FBI manufactures domestic plots to justify budgets while real terrorists plan attacks undetected.

Politicians benefit from fear. Scared citizens don't ask hard questions about why intelligence agencies failed to prevent attacks. They accept security theater as protection.

The only people who don't benefit are the citizens who just want to celebrate New Year's Eve without being murdered by jihadists or locked in their homes by their own governments.

We need answers. Why wasn't Shamsud-Din Jabbar on an FBI watchlist after posting ISIS recruitment videos? How did the Akram family in Sydney conduct months of firearms training and IED construction without detection? Why is the FBI spending resources on informant operations against punk rock activists while ISIS operates freely?

Most importantly, why are Western governments responding to Islamic terrorism by restricting their own citizens' freedoms instead of destroying the terrorists?

Fourteen dead in New Orleans. Fifteen dead in Sydney. Paris canceled. London closed. And the FBI is playing entrapment games with activists who have 1,000 Instagram followers.

This isn't counterterrorism. This is a surrender with extra steps.

The American people deserve federal law enforcement that prevents real attacks, not one that manufactures fake plots for press conferences. We deserve cities that protect our right to gather in public spaces, not governments that tell us to celebrate alone at home. We deserve leaders who confront Islamic extremism with force, not politicians who accommodate it with cancellations.

New Year's Eve 2025 should have been a celebration. Instead, it became a symbol of Western collapse. ISIS wins when we cancel our lives. The FBI wins when it manufactures threats. Politicians win when we're too scared to ask questions.

The only people who lose are the citizens who died on Bourbon Street and Bondi Beach, and the millions more told their own governments can't protect them anymore.

Demand better. Demand accountability. Demand that your elected officials answer for why Islamic terrorism succeeds while federal resources are wasted on informant-driven operations.

Or watch as every holiday, every celebration, every public gathering becomes too dangerous for the Western world to permit.

The choice is ours. Surrender or fight back. The city that never sleeps is about to find out if its youngest mayor in 133 years can keep it safe.