In my original writeup on the Times Square Muslim terrorist, I noted that, “Trevor Bickford, 19, had taken the train down from Wells, Maine: a town of less than 10,000 souls. Maine isn’t a big hub of Islamic terrorism so the local teens who convert to Islam have to go to more exciting places to kill infidels in the name of Allah and earn their fellow 72 virgins.”
Since then we’ve learned that Bickford appears to have converted to Islam after losing his father to a drug overdose. He warned his family members to convert to Islam, wanted to travel to Afghanistan to fight and finally decided to carry out an attack in Times Square.
The current federal complaint describes a few more details about the terrorist whom authorities assured us, “is not representing, you know, the Islamic religion but rather, you know, a very, very small percentage of people that get radicalized.”
Bickford started reciting verses from the Quran in his head to “hype himself up” for his attack. Bickford identified an NYPD officer who was isolated from civilians and other officers, took out the kukri from his backpack, declared “Allahu Akbar,” and attacked the officer.
The Koran is a terror manual.
A second bag that Bickford was carrying, also recovered by law enforcement near Times Square, contained a book espousing violent Islamic extremism, with certain portions highlighted, including the following: “Fight in the Name of Allah and in the Cause of Allah. Fight against those who do not believe in Allah. Wage a holy war.”
That’s a well-known Hadith. Again, these are traditional Islamic teachings that infected a Maine teen.
By November 2022, Bickford was interested in traveling to the Middle East to support the Taliban and took steps towards traveling to Afghanistan to ally himself with the Taliban and work with the Taliban to fight against governments that, in Bickford’s view, oppress Muslims. Bickford dedicated himself to the mission of waging jihad against officials of governments that he believes are anti-Muslim, including the U.S. Government. Bickford told a family member that he wanted to travel to the Middle East so that he could be a suicide bomber for his religion. Bickford ultimately decided that he would not travel overseas, and instead would wage jihad against the U.S. Government within the United States.
Or as the Biden administration called the Taliban, “our partners”.
In the summer of 2022, Bickford, a 19-year-old U.S. citizen and resident of Maine, began accessing and consuming materials espousing radical Islamic ideology, including materials promoting the Taliban and reflecting the teachings of Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, a prominent radical Islamic cleric who was a spiritual mentor of al Qaeda.
Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi is a “Palestinian” Jihadist writer who was inspired by the Muslim Brotherhood. Despite being considered one of the most dangerous Jihadi ideologues around, he was released by “our allies” in Jordan.
Maybe it’s time to consider the possibility that Islamic terrorists are motivated by Islam and all that follows.
Del Varner says
Islam causes “stochastic” terrorism.
Kasandra says
Is the NYPD still puzzled about his motive? Just askin’.
Daniel Greenfield says
They’re required by law to be very confused when a Muslim tries to kill people.
Una Salus says
They’re required by bipartisan standards. You still have learned entirely nothing.
Una Salus says
Even though prognostications are entirely abysmal you will still go on because to do otherwise would be otherwise.
Algorithmic Analyst says
lol, thanks Daniel! That is so simple and obvious and explains the actual behavior so clearly, yet I never saw it formulated that way before 🙂
Ugly Sid says
Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
Those aspiring students of suicide bombing would be serving themselves well by engaging in a regimen of rehearsal.
Algorithmic Analyst says
Some kind of weird cult behavior.
On a tangent, if they were a little more intellectually advanced, it might occur to them that they might get tired of those 72 virgins after awhile, and spending eternity in a state of arousal.
Kynarion Hellenis says
“The current federal complaint describes a few more details about the terrorist whom authorities assured us, ‘is not representing, you know, the Islamic religion but rather, you know, a very, very small percentage of people that get radicalized.’ ”
“Radicalized” is a leftist weasel word. The people who kill take the Koran seriously. They are not radical. They are DEVOUT.
What Bickford did was to act in conformity with the tenets of Islam. He was not radical. He was compliant and devout.
Daniel Greenfield says
or alternatively, Islam is a “radical religion”, much like Communism or Nazism were “radical” movements
it was measure radicalism in relation to other religions and movements, rather than a spectrum within it leading to absurdities like moderate Nazis or Jihadists
WJ says
The muslims fight holy wars for a god that has proclaimed himself to be unholy, figure that one out.
Spurwing Plover says
News if he had quoted the Bible or read a passages from a Conservative the Media would be on it all day long but sine it involves the Koran we just listen to the Crickets
TruthLaser says
There is an organized enemy of Western Civilization. Yet, it is not treated as an enemy. There are agents of the enemy who attack, yet they are not treated as enemy agents. They are seen as individuals not belonging to the enemy to continue the avoidance of identifying the enemy. If this particular one did not shout his “colors” and carry his instructions, he would be connected with other, of non-violent, groups for political reasons. He is likely to be treated as insane as a way to distance him from his instructor.
Jeff Bargholz says
That little punk terrorist looks half Filipino. That “machete” he used to attack the cops was actually a parang.
They’re used in Indonesia and the Philippines.
Our so called authorities are full of shit and extremely incompetent.