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What’s the deal with converts to Islam?
Last April, a teenager in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, named Alexander Scott Mercurio was caught plotting jihad massacres in local churches, “using weapons, including knives, firearms, and fire.” On New Year’s Eve in 2022, a 19-year-old named Trevor Bickford traveled from his home in Wells, Maine, to Times Square, where he attacked three NYPD officers with a machete. In April 2021, a Zion, Illinois, man named Edward Schimenti got thirteen and a half years in prison for aiding the Islamic State (ISIS).
These are just three men who are on a long and ever-lengthening list of converts to Islam who turn to terrorism, even in the United States, and are largely ignored by the establishment media. As everyone knows or should know by now, the media is interested only in shoring up its narrative, not in reporting actual facts. Now another young man has joined their ranks.
Las Vegas’ KLAS reported Thursday that Joshua Robles, 16, has been “accused of plotting an ISIS-inspired terror attack.” After Robles was arrested last November, prosecutors considered him to be so dangerous that they asked that his bail be set at a million dollars; Las Vegas Justice Court Pro Temp Judge Lauren Diefenbach, however, instead decided to set it at $10,000, “adding should Robles post bail, he would be placed on house arrest with electronic monitoring.” Oh. That’ll fix everything.
LAS VEGAS SHERIFF BLOCKS RELEASE OF TEEN TERROR SUSPECT
Clark County Sheriff intervened to prevent the release of Joshua Robles, a teen accused of plotting terror attacks and providing support to ISIS.
Judge initially set bail at $10,000, but after further review, pic.twitter.com/afsHE4XJPc
— Trumpusa1 (@Trumpusa1A1) August 29, 2024
Ultimately, Robles was deemed to be so dangerous that bail was set at $1 million after all. That’s good, as he doesn’t appear to be a choirboy: “On Aug. 23, staff at the Clark County Detention Center found a handwritten note in Robles’ cell, which included an ISIS flag and phrases such as, ‘Welcome with death.’”
This was after a sheet of notebook paper was found in his bedroom at the time of his arrest; Robles had completed a faithful recreation of the Islamic State (ISIS) flag, which features in Arabic the Islamic profession of faith: “There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet.” Underneath that, the earnest young convert wrote in all caps: “DEATH TO JEWS.”
Around that time, Robles was proudly posting online about his enthusiasm for his newfound faith: “Peace by [sic] upon all brothers who see this,” he wrote. “I am here to announce that I will be starting lone wolf operations in Las Vegas against the enemies of Allah.” When police raided his home, they found “components they said could be used to make an explosive device.”
Authorities think that Robles was “building explosive devices similar to the ones that killed three and injured hundreds in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.” There is some indication that he planned to carry out an arson jihad attack on New Year’s Day 2024. He was also doing online searches for “information and floorplans for Chaparral High School in the east valley.” If he had managed to carry out a jihad attack there, police would still be saying that they didn’t know his motives.
Prosecutors explained that Robles’ “radicalization to violent extremist has developed over several years and continues despite his detention status.” That’s no surprise, since America’s prison system, like every other institution in the country, is committed to the proposition that Islam is entirely peaceful and benign. Nothing whatsoever is done to disabuse young men like Robles of their jihadist sentiments; instead, such inmates are given Qur’ans and allowed to pray regularly with other Muslim inmates. Authorities think this will help them discover the true, peaceful Islam. Instead, it all too often breeds more hardened jihadis.
Robles has been a bad actor for quite a while: “In 2020, while in junior high, defendant was threatened to shoot up the school. In March of 2023, defendant was created a list of ISIS leader and pledged allegiance to ISIS. He also announced the creation of a local terrorist cell. By May of 2023, Defendant was advising an unknown individual on how to obtain news on ISIS through email and was giving instructions on how to travel in the Middle East.” Yet while authorities know all about all this, none of them seem to care about where or how he converted to Islam, or about how he came to believe that his new religion required him to do violence to non-Muslims.
Until such issued are addressed, and addressed realistically, we will see many more young men like Joshua Robles.
Eli Truax says
Unfortunately it appears that Islam is the most virile of major social groups, Israel would be competitive if it weren’t for the mass of Leftists dragging it down to estrogen gardens forever.
Semaphore says
The irony here is that if this kid had purchased a bible with his credit card, he’d be on an FBI terrorist watch list. Go figure.
sumsrent says
And yet… people still think that violent gaming isn’t conditioning these youngsters?!?!?!?
How could people ever be attracted to satanic islam?
Failures in the Church? <<< Sure…
Failures in government? <<< Sure…
Failures in the home? <<< Sure…
How about… how these islamic loving Luciferian governments and the islamic controlled media promote satanic islam? <<< an astounding… Yes.
Folks… get prepared… it's only gonna get worse… America and the West will be turned into satanic islamic nations… that have open borders…
SPURWING PLOVER says
People like this need to lose t heir American Citizenships and should be banished to the Himyahs or French or Swiss Alps with just their clothes on their backs we don’t want violent Bloodthirsty Islamic Converts living in America Period and pull America out of the Useless Nations
David Ray says
It’d be cheaper & more entertaining to catapult them to Cuba. (Yes, they’ll land short, but they can swim the rest of the way.)
Jeff Bargholz says
Sharks need to eat, too, right?
LC says
Those converts to Islam could be the next generation of policemen/policewoman.
Learn from history. About 30 years ago, Israel signed the “Oslo” deal. One of the things it did was to legitimize the plo arab terrorists, then led by Yassir Arafat and put police uniforms on his plo terrorists. Arafat’s plo terrorists gained control of parts of Judea and Samaria, voluntarily surrendered by Israel and sold it as it will make piece happen.. Today arab terrorist attacks on Jews come from those areas placed under plo control. Been that way for a long time new. The fake news media only reports when Jews defend themselves and calls the Jews the terrorists. Fake news media just proving they passed the dingy harry school of terrorist identification. HamASS arab terrorists are rapidly replacing the plo in terms of influence and could well be the next generation of the police.
Blackdog says
This never happened 50 years ago. These school murderers of all types did not exist. What changed? Drugs of course!!! Prescription drugs for mommy depression which gradually entered their children’s lives as well with trips with mommy to the psychiatrist. The drug companies have ruined society.
Intrepid says
A Leftist enabled domestic Islamic disaster is coming. They are already here via the Biden open border policy and the idiotic Obama policy of letting Muslims in from Somalia. Weapons have been smuggled in and are cached in the mosques. God knows what is going in Dearbornistan MI as most of the area is a Jihadi no go zone.
Everyone should read Townhall contributor Kurt Schlichter’s book called “The Attack”. In this book he details a possible coordinated jihad attack in the U.S. over three days by small groups of armed Muslims and cosplaying white wannabe terrorists, first against businesses, second against Americans in their homes, and finally against infrastructure. The attacks take place mostly in the unarmed blue state cities and suburbs. The jihadis do not want to be confronted by armed Americans
Kurt Schlichter said it best in his TownHall articles:
townhall com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2024/03/25/america-is-going-to-be-targeted-for-a-massive-terrorist-attack-will-you-be-ready-n2636901
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2024/06/17/joe-biden-reminds-us-to-buy-guns-and-ammunition-n2640535
Bottom line, buy guns and ammo in the areas of the country where you still can. You guys who live in blue cities and blue states, MOVE NOW! You are sitting ducks. Democrats want you unarmed.
Semaphore says
Some 25 years ago (mid-1990’s), the PBS program Frontline featured an episode entitled “American Jihad,” which revealed the radical teachings of some imams and the growing threat of domestic Islamic terrorism. This was before 9/11. I’ve searched for it for years but it seems to have been memoryholed. 9/11 showed just how vulnerable we are and drove home that certain Islamic belief systems pose a major threat. No other religion in the USA comes close. So why is Islam immune? Call me paranoid but again I suspect an engineered chaos whose only cure is totalitarianism.
David Ray says
New converts are usually entitled & childish. Anyone remember that dumb bitch in Florida that insisted she wear the full burka potato-sack for driver’s license picture?
All too often, however, they murder for Allah, such as that new German convert that purposely crashed an airliner. (The press, predictably, rushed in to deny any islam involved. That’s how I knew it certainly did involve islam.)
Jeff Bargholz says
I remember that dumb bitch. I don’t hit women but for her I think I’d make an exception. And burkas, hijabs and all that crap aren’t mentioned in the Korean, Hadith or sura so when dumb bitches like her say it’s a religious right or duty, they’re either lying or ignorant of their own cult.
I didn’t hear about the German convert traitor who deliberately crashed an airliner, which is odd. That should be major news. No wonder I don’t like to fly.
And yes, whenever the fake news media claim they don’t know the murderer’s motive or claim it wasn’t islam, you know damned well that’s exactly what it was. Just like when they conceal the image and name of a murderer you know he was black or a Moslem.
David Ray says
I don’t fly because I know what I’d do when some leftist prick or islamist tried to give me the 3rd degree.
TSA is so grossly incompetent that a little boy couldn’t get off their “No fly” list and couldn’t board.
The underwear bomber was also on the list but was allowed on the plane. (Sheer luck that the SOB didn’t destroy the plane – only his balls.)
jcr says
Islam is not a religion. It is a political cancer.. Can one country be named where Islam improved freedom and worked out well?
Kasandra says
I suspect that a lot of these people were homicidal to begin with and found in Islam a way to justify their murderous hatred. But what do I know?
Alkflaeda says
Toxic masculinity plus Islamic jihadism is a marriage made in the other place.
Jeff Bargholz says
They obviously have or had (the dead ones) severe mental issues. Islam only appeals to people who hate their society. The ones who are born into it are brainwashed from childhood so you don’t know if they were born evil or not but the converts are all hate mongers misfits. That’s why imams troll prisons. Plenty of society hating scumbags in those.
Islamopithecines are all scum, though, whether born to it and especially the converts. Islam is a gutter cult. And it is a cult rather than a religion. The Koran, mentions Mohammad far more often than the mythical moon deity “Allah,” and the Hadith and sura are completely about him.
It should be outlawed in America and every mosque should be leveled because like Intrepid wrote, they’re all weapons caches.
Intrepid says
Hey Bro, thanks for the acknowledgement.
The admin has been letting in these wannabe jihadis for the last three and a half years. Before that it was the Obama admin.
They are here and they constitute an army. CAIR says they want to build an army of 50,000, and get at least 40-50 elected to Congress. And the Islamo/Democrats will encourage it. They have been accumulating arms as well and hiding them in the mosques. It’s what they do in Europe….why wouldn’t they do the same here.
So as I always say: Every Muslim a jihadi…..every mosque a weapons cache. Feel free to use this phrase as often as you like.
And get Kurt Schlichter’s book ‘The Attack’. Everything is explained. Only costs about $18 bucks at Amazon.
Jeff Bargholz says
I’ll look into Schlichter’s book.
And I’m with you, man. I don’t trust the average asshole farther than I can throw him.
Gabrielle says
Islamic Jihad is formed in the bedrock of Islamic belief which is adorned by Mohammad with justified violence and baseless hatred. Any disgruntled human being can use this barbarous religion as a means of violent actions against others. That we have so many availing themselves of this cover for baseless hatred shows us just how far freedom has been debased into the cauldron of escalating violence against anyone with whom you have a difference.
Islam, by its holy writings is violent, barbaric, and psychopathic. It is the Islamic lens; intolerant, hateful, bigoted, women-hating, subjugating and feral. Is it any wonder that many becoming affiliated with it are as illiterate as their “prophet”?
Ron Kelmell says
Now that Christianity, Christians, and the Bible are under such negative ‘atmospheres’ in the West, I expect we Christians to grow in our comprehension of Christ’s presence in our lives. The half repentant will wash out and the faithful will deepen. So to the skeptics, militant actors, and fellow haters I say, “Bring it!”
Strike a camp fire with a shovel and watch the embers spread…………
Solange Silverman says
They obviously convert in order to justify acting out what’s been bottled up inside and ready to explode, possibly for years.. Once they convert, they can let it all loose. It has nothing to do with any ideology, except the parts that give them permission to do what it is they really want to do, i.e., violence.
Andrew Blackadder says
In the 1930s young German boys and men converted to Nazism and suddenly started hated their Jewish School buddies whom they previously played Soccer with.
This is similar to what is happening with young boys and men who convert to this Fascist Religious Cult of Death.
islamism is the new nazism.
Jojo says
Islam is a lot like Communism: it’s a collective of resentful, covetous people who believe:
1) they’re superior to all non-believers,
2) all non-believers are non-persons,
3) they are owed things by non-persons,
4) All ends are justified in obtaining what they’re owed.
There’s a concept in Islam that’s very similar to one under Communism. There are two houses – dar al Harb (the house of war – symbolizing all countries not governed by Sharia law) and dar al Islam
(the house of peace, aka, all nations governed by Sharia law). Only when Islam destroys the house of war (everyone but them) can there be peace on earth. Of course, if that happened they would just continue to war among themselves, as they always have, until everyone is dead. Then I guess the cockroaches win.
Jeff Bargholz says
I’ll look into Schlichter’s book.
And I’m with you, man. I don’t trust the average asshole farther than I can throw him.
Angel Jacob says
Islam is terrorism. It’s a world somination violent war ideology.
The main goal of islam is to recruit everybody into terrorism.
The sooner non-muslims learn this fact the safer the world will be.