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[Editor’s note: Make sure to read Daniel Greenfield’s masterpiece contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
Cole James Bridges went to a high school in Clarkesville, Tennessee and worked at a Papa Johns pizza place near Akron, Ohio before joining the United States Army. Mateo Ventura was a high school student in Wakefield, Massachusetts.
Within a week of each other in June 2023, Bridges pled guilty to plotting to help ISIS kill American soldiers, while Ventura was arrested for trying to provide aid to the Islamic State.
Bridges and Ventura, 20 and 18 years old, like Trevor Bickford, 19, of Maine, who was hit with federal charges this year for attacking NYPD police officers with a machete in Times Square, and Xavier Pelkey, 18, also of Maine, who pled guilty in April after trying to recruit two underage teens for a terrorist attack in Chicago, show the rate at which ordinary American teens are converting to Islam and plotting terrorist attacks.
While we made everyone take their shoes off at the airport and labored to win hearts and minds in Afghanistan and Iraq, Islamic terrorists won the hearts and minds of our children.
Our national security establishment feverishly imagined vast Al Qaeda attack plots while ignoring the real attack. An attack so deep and so wounding that it is far more devastating than September 11. It was an attack aided and abetted by the government, our cultural establishment and entertainment industries which urged Americans to learn about and embrace Islam.
Teenagers like Bridges, Ventura, Bickford, Pelkey and many others did. While Muslim immigrants still make up a significant percentage of Islamic terror plots, they increasingly come from American teenagers who converted to Islam. And, unlike past Muslim terror converts who followed a familiar path from drug dealing to prison to terrorism, these are our boys.
Except they’re not ours anymore.
Bridges lyrically spoke of the Islamic terrorists of ISIS as “brothers who have been fighting to establish a khilafah” or caliphate, and “have inspired me a lot, they’re (sic) love for Allah.”
Ventura wanted to fight a “war on kuffar” or non-Muslims.
Bickford carried an Islamic text and had underlined the words, “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.” He wrote in his journal that he wanted a traditional Muslim burial and did not want to be buried “in the land of the kuffar”. If he died while killing Americans, he did not want to be laid to rest in America.
Pelkey, who changed his name to Abdullah, wrote that he wanted to “burst thru the door of Jihad in america and strike fear in the hearts of these kafirun nothing pisses these american kuffar off and scares em more than a term they use ‘homegrown terrorist.’”
Their plans for Islamic mass murder, Bridges wanted to attack the 9/11 memorial, Pelkey was going to burst into a synagogue separate the adults from the children, and then kill the adults, have received what little attention a broken country has to spare for the kind of story that people don’t even pay attention to anymore. We are so busy fighting each other that we hardly even look up when the next generation converts to Islam and signs up with Al Qaeda or ISIS.
Americans used to associate Islamic converts with black nationalist groups, but this is no longer the case. Latinos, like Bridges (raised by a stepfather, his mother’s last name was Gonzalez), are the fastest growing population of converts, but a quarter of converts to Islam are white.
In the UK, young white Muslim converts like 19-year-old Matthew King, whose mother turned him in after an attack plot on British soldiers, or Lewis Ludlow, who changed his name to Ali Hussain and pled guilty to scouting out targets like St Paul’s Cathedral and Madame Tussauds, are also becoming more commonplace.
There are certain common denominators among Muslim converts as there are among school shooters. Bickford was being raised by a stepfather while Ventura had been bullied in school. Bickford’s father had died of a drug overdose, and Pelkey was living with his mother and an autistic younger brother.
Like most cults, the new mosque recruits are lost and looking for somewhere to belong. Missing fathers and a general sense of alienation are a common theme. America no longer provides a sense of identity and even institutions like the U.S. Army don’t offer any real purpose. Falling through the spreading cracks of an imploding culture, they join gangs, movements and Islam.
What too few Americans understood after the September 11 attacks was that this was a culture war. Foreign Muslim terrorists could kill us by the thousands and perhaps even one day the hundreds of thousands, but even at expanding immigration rates it would take generations for them to demographically conquer us. Unlike Europe, America has a more robust birth rate, in part because of migration from south of the border. We would have to conquer ourselves.
The Bush administration responded to 9/11 with an ambitious effort to democratize the Muslim world, unaware and uncaring of the Muslim world’s parallel effort to Islamize America. The withdrawal from Afghanistan, like the failure of the Arab Spring and the rise of ISIS, collapsed the project to democratize the Muslim world. But the Islamization of America is succeeding.
What does Islam offer that we don’t? Patriarchy for fatherless boys, the illusion of belonging to a global Islamic Ummah, the promise of a system of moral order with the creation of the Caliphate, and the escape from a culture that no longer stands for much except comic book movies and politics.
Pop culture and politics have become the religions of a declining nation. In the midst of the culture war, many Americans from both sides have developed hostility and contempt for their own country. Others retreat to imaginary pop culture universes to debate the ins and outs of their devotion to Marvel, Star Wars or Taylor Swift with the intensity once reserved for theology.
Americans are becoming less patriotic and religious and the falloff is most pronounced among the young. It is no coincidence that Islamic recruitment of American teens is booming in areas where traditional organized religion is declining. Is it surprising that Maine, the third least religious state where barely a quarter described themselves as Christians, produced two Islamic terror converts? A decade ago, only 34% of people in the state believed religion was very important. But just because people abandon traditional churches, doesn’t mean that teenagers and twenty-somethings will give up on religion. They will find people who really believe.
And the Jihad really believes.
We are not just losing the military and demographic wars, but the even more important cultural war. America’s political and cultural establishment embraced Islam. And this is the result.
All the episodes of ‘24’ envisioning complicated plots of mass murder were off the mark. What happened instead was that the plotters got on planes, landed and moved here. They set up mosques and schools, they became reporters, executives and members of congress. Like their leftist allies, they fought the war from the inside and we did not so much lose as surrender.
A generation of young men, born after 9/11 and the end of the War on Terror, were urged to learn about Islam, the way they’re encouraged to learn about sex changes. Some castrated themselves and pretended to be women, others joined ISIS instead.
When life looks senseless and meaningless, each day filled with mechanical routines and hollow entertainments, the human soul needs to reach for something that promises more.
America is not becoming irreligious, it is losing its religions and finding new gods. Some of those gods tell their followers to kill the infidels, attack the 9/11 memorial and kill until America is Islamic.
As we take off our shoes at the airport, a new generation is losing its soul.
American prisons have been islamic recruiting centers for years, with a never ending bunch of low I.Q., violent, angry men.
Malcolm X, may the al-mighty avenge his blood,vconverted in prison, and he was not a stupid man
Remember those nutty white supremacists who said Barack Obama was the son of Malcolm X? I posted a comment, on Yahoo!, saying that I would feel a lot better about Barack Obama being President if I though Malcolm X was his father.
Yes he was a low IQ moron. Anybody who follows the genocidal pedophile from Arabia should have a few lose screws in their heads to do so.
Malcolm X broke away from the Nation of Islam-and was murdered for doing so.
I should note that the Nation of Islam was a nutty racist cult that had little to do with Islam. Malcolm X converted to Sunni Islam and became even more of an enemy.
okay, one smart convert – nowhere did I claim that all who become moslems are dumb, but many are – and don’t get started on the female converts, most of whom are homely and too fat to wear anything other than islamic tents.
Yet he even recognized the Nation of Islam was not all it was cracked up to be and left. One of the reasons he was killed.
The young are more susceptible to being brainwashed and converted to cults.
True. They’re also dangerously susceptible to being convinced they are transgemder, submitting to mutilating surgery, becoming cash cows for the pharmaceutical companies, snd then saying “Opps. I wad really a boy, all along.”
Xabier Pelkey changed his name to Abdullah. Remember all those “deadnaming” lawsuits by transgenders? It’s deadnaming to call Michael “Michael” aftet he has decided that his name is Mary. What about calling Xavier “Xavier” after he has decided his name is Abdullah? When people change their religions, or move to a foreign country, they often change their names
In many cases the islamic terrorists just pay some thugs to commit acts of terrorism.
They bribe many politicians too.
Not to mention the imports like illhan omar who’s mission is to infiltrate the US government and destroy America from within.
Critics of islam and the koran are told, ‘You can’t read the original the language, so you can’t really understand the religion. Seems like these young men understood the message, all too well.
New converts to a religion tend to be its most zealous members. Where Islam is concerned, with its jihad imperative, the consequences for the rest of us are often deadly.
Is it fair to say that the violence is most appealing to young men? And so is a romantic vision of the subservience of women?
And feeling like a man in a brotherhood of primal men?
Raw physicality and intense sense of purpose? Not GI Joe; but Jihadi Joe.
9/11 is the birthday of Islam’s arrival in America. Next morning, all the terrorists pictures were on the front page. That just seemed too quick to me. Hard to believe but the shock nationally wore off pretty quickly, unless one of the incinerated-to-dust or one of the people who jumped out of a 102nd floor window – such a haunting picture also on the front page and I’ll never forget it; the man was in a suit and tie – was your loved one. Mission accomplished – get the spotlight in America. Get noticed in a big way. Mass death was the sure way to initiate the plan. America will simply absorb the hit and move on. After all, it’s America! Islam got full citizenship papers seven years later when Obama- laugh-ISIS-is-the-JV-laugh stepped into his cover role as president of the United States. Since then, Islam has been successfully marketed as a fantasy American version of itself. Our most gullible and vulnerable are our children, lured by these fantasies on the internet and social media.
But what about the rest of us mature adults who should know better?
In the Schools where Christ is not allowed but Allah is
Our approach couldn’t be any more wrong. We’re looking for tools the terrorists use. Instead of targeting the root cause of all evil: Islam itself.
Depraved psychopathic islmic pigs prostrate themselves and bang their heads on the ground while sticking their
arseholes up in the air to Aaallaahhh and Mmmooo–Hhhammm–Mmmuddd.
Go ahead, bring more of them into Europe and the USA.
We need more psychopaths to do the work that American and European psychopaths will not do.
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France has already been long gone to
Mmmooo– Ssslummm and Mmmooo–Hhhammm–Mmmuddd depraved psychopathy.
Macron continues to bring them in by the boatload.
I guess the French and American citizen taxpayers love it.
Gifting the taliban $80+ B worth of sophisticated military equipment etc is not treason?
This is the result of one failure in parenting and one failure in education.
The failure in parenting is that of parents, often themselves deficient in Vitamin G (for (G0d, obviously) do not fortify their children with it. Even children from conventional families, the few that are left, that do not actively practice their own religious traditions, are quite vulnerable to any sort of proselytization, be it Islam or transgenderism or the Star Wars universe.
The failure in education is obvious. By withholding the splendid accomplishments of American history and civics, children cannot begin to comprehend, much less love, this wonderful, blessed country. Yet so-called educators fall back on teaching easy nonsense like “A People’s History” and the 1619 Project, both of which are complete fiction that require no thought or real teacher preparation or student understanding.
So we have a generation, perhaps the second or third one, that knows nothing about either the true religion of his ancestors, or the country that he was lucky enough to be born in. And the result is the sort of feral, ignorant creature that Greenfield describes in this very important article.
Renaldus Magnus (as Rush called him) warned that freedom can be lost in a generation.