“Allahu akbar!” — an often misinterpreted exclamation meaning “Allah is the Greatest!” — has been heard quite a bit recently. It was shouted by an American teen convert to Islam who rang in the New Year by stabbing three police officers near Times Square. It was screamed by a Tunisian man in France when he threatened cops with a gun during a Saturday arrest for allegedly having killed his wife. It was also exclaimed Saturday by a Muslim man who fired a pellet gun into the air in a Jewish NYC neighborhood, by a Libyan national who stabbed five people in Paris Wednesday, and during New Year’s Eve violence in Vienna, Austria.
Whether it was uttered when an American locality’s Muslim city council recently voted to legalize animal sacrifice was not reported.
But, of course, our strength lies in our diversity — and Joe Biden is thus strengthening us continually. Why, he has released more illegals into our interior in the last 100 days than the whole population of Montana. Perhaps he has his reasons, too: Biden equivocated when asked recently if entering the U.S. was a “right.” Where any such right might be in the Constitution also was not reported.
Going from rights to wrongs, “white supremacy” is the greatest domestic threat we face, our authorities tell us. Tell that to 19-year-old Trevor Thomas Bickford. He’s very white and from a town, Wells, Maine, that’s almost 100-percent white. But he decided Islamic jihad was for him.
Bickford is the kid who stabbed (and struck) the three police officers New Year’s Eve while shouting “Allahu akbar.” He “has been charged with federal crimes in connection with the alleged incident that happened around 10 p.m. near a security screening zone on West 52nd Street and 8th Avenue,” reports People.
He began studying Islamic theology last summer, and later “allegedly told a family member that he wanted to travel to the Middle East so that he could be a suicide bomber for his religion,” according to a federal complaint, People also informs.
“Bickford ultimately decided that he would not travel overseas, and instead carry out his ‘jihadist mission’ in the U.S.,” the site continued. As Jihad Watch proprietor Robert Spencer often puts it, he was just another Muslim convert who somehow got the strange idea that his new religion required him to commit violence.
What follows are headlines (with hyperlinks) relating to the other aforementioned stories and some additional ones as well:
- “France: Muslim migrant suspected of killing his wife threatens cops with a gun while screaming ‘Allahu akbar.’”
- “NYC: Muslim screaming ‘Allahu akbar’ brandishes BB gun, fires it into the air in Jewish neighborhood” — the man, Sheifa Rahim, 24, was charged with various crimes.
- “France: Muslim migrant screaming ‘Allahu akbar’ stabs … [five] … people at Paris train station.”
- “Austria: Gunshots and screams of ‘Allahu akbar’ mark New Year’s Eve in Vienna.”
- “Michigan’s Muslim … city council approves animal sacrifice for religious purposes” — the locality is Hamtramck.
- “Germany: Accused jihad massacre plotter claimed to be a Christian when he entered the country.”
- “Canada: Parents shocked after Toronto elementary school principal sends out Islamic State flag in email” — the Islamic State is the brutal group that would drown people in cages, burn them alive, and reportedly murdered 250 children in 2016 by feeding them into an industrial dough kneader.
- “Car Jihadist Who Ran Over New Yorkers Pleads Guilty to Serving Allah” — he yelled “Allahu akbar,” too.
- “Sweden: Court revokes deportation of Muslim migrant who assaulted woman, saying he’d get killed in Syria” — nothing new. In 2016, a Swedish woman raped by an Iraqi migrant initially refused to report the crime to police because she felt sorry for him.
Then there’s this: “Have the French Gone Mad?” It’s the story of an Afghan immigrant in France “who managed to go from crime to crime and was allowed to roam free, until finally his ‘aggravated rape’ of a 14-year-old French boy proved too much even for the French authorities, and now he is being held for trial,” reported Jihad Watch.
Note that bachi bazi (“boy play”), which often involves pedophilia/pederasty, is institutionalized in Afghanistan. Many grown Afghan men were its victims and thus arrive in the West damaged goods — and may do to Western boys what was done to them.
As far as the jihadist violence goes, many will say the relevant examples above are mere anecdotes and not germane to the larger picture. But then there’s this:
A very interesting German study, released in 2010 and involving 45,000 young people, found that while increasing religiosity made Christian youth less violent, it made Muslim youth more violent.
Explanation? A nominal Muslim may have a passing acquaintance with the Koran, nine percent of which is devoted to political violence. But the Koran makes up only 16 percent of the Islamic canon. A more pious one may delve into the remaining 84 percent, the Hadiths and Sira, 21 percent and 67 percent of which are, respectively, devoted to political violence.
Yet because virtues (and vices) are caught more than taught, example matters most. Thus, just as Christians ask “What would Jesus do?” Muslims call their role model, Muhammad, “The Perfect Man.” The difference is that Muhammad was a warlord and slave owner and trader who used mass murder and torture to achieve his ends.
Of course, none of this means, the immigrationists may aver, that importing any of this to our shores can be called a problem. Some call it diversity.
