It's time to identify Jihadist attacks as Jihadist attacks

 As I’ve often written here at American Thinker and at my home blog, thanks to the wide- open borders of Biden’s Handlers, thousands, even tens of thousands, of Islamist terrorists are currently in America. Unidentified and unvetted, many were given phones, money and free bus or jet transportation to cities of their choice.  They join terrorists who have long lived in America, and in many cases, demonstrated their terroristic intentions, yet have been allowed to mostly roam freely.

The danger of Iran activating terrorist cells armed with Kalashnikovs, grenades and other explosives is great, yet there is an allied danger: self-radicalized individuals not actively run or funded by terrorist nation states. Two attacks on March 12 illustrate that danger.

A Temple Israel, apparently the largest reform Jewish Synagogue and pre-school in America in West Bloomfield, Michigan, one Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, a 41-year-old naturalized Lebanese, drove around ineffective vehicle barriers, smashed his truck into the building and drove down a hallway, striking and injuring a security guard. All other children and staff escaped uninjured.

Details are sketchy about the kind of vehicle he drove, but the vehicle, which may have been loaded with explosives or other accelerants, caught fire.  Ghazali exchanged gunfire with security personnel, who apparently killed him, and his body was apparently significantly burned, perhaps a prelude to his ultimate destination which will surely not include virgins.  According to The New York Post, mortar rounds were found in his vehicle.

Mortar rounds?! Motive?

Ghazli, a restaurant worker who lived in Dearborn Heights, carried out the twisted attack after at least four family members, including a sibling, were killed in Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon days earlier, sources close to the investigation told The Detroit News.

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Sheriff Mike Bouchard said it’s too early to say the attack was “terror-related.” The FBI said it was “a targeted act of violence against the Jewish community.” Yuh think?

Also on March 12, at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. One Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, 36, a former National Guard soldier, also committed an apparently motiveless murder:  

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Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, 36, stormed into a classroom inside ODU’s Constant Hall and asked if it was an ROTC class. When someone confirmed that it was, he launched the suspected terror attack, shooting the professor several times, law enforcement sources said.

A heroic ROTC cadet at the Virginia school jumped into action to prevent more carnage, stabbing Jalloh to death after the crazed suspect gunned down the class instructor, the sources said.

Amazingly, FBI Director Kash Patel said the FBI is investigating the attack as “an act of terrorism.”

Jalloh was sentenced to 11 years in prison in 2017 for aiding ISIS, but was released early. Prosecutors asked for 20 years, but Jalloh drew a sympathetic judge. Jalloh was apparently on probation, but it was obviously ineffective.

Two others were wounded but are expected to recover.

Two attacks on the same day were committed by jihadists long in the United States, both naturalized citizens, both named Mohamed, both attacking common jihadist targets—A synagogue and pre-school and an ROTC instructor—our military.

To date, as is their usual practice, the media can’t identify any motive for these attacks. One must be careful lest anti-Islamist/jihadist sentiment be stirred up among xenophobic Deplorables all too ready to lynch helpless members of the “Religion of Peace,” who have an alarming tendency to peacefully kill infidels.

At Powerline,  Scott Johnson notes The Minnesota Star Tribune couldn't spare space for either attack, but wrote a story alleging a local college professor urinated on a student’s backpack. Priorities.

The initial law enforcement response is at least somewhat encouraging. One need not be Sherlockian to piece together the clues: a synagogue, Mohamed, mortar shells, driving a truck into the building and setting it on fire. These aren’t terror-related, you know, but might be “a targeted act of violence against the Jewish community.” At Old Dominion an attack on an ROTC class, the murder of the instructor by a Mohamed convicted of giving material support to ISIS, also renders authorities and the media unable to discern a motive.

Oh well. Déjà vu.

One wonders why anyone convicted of terrorism is ever again allowed out of prison? Like pedophiles, terrorists aren’t reformable. One also wonders why, at long last, authorities don’t by default brand such attacks as acts of Islamist terror, and should they be later discovered to be otherwise, run a page 203 correction that no one will see. At least that would be consistent.

In the meantime, pray for Lt. Col. Shah and his family. Pray for a man who served us and survived combat only to succumb to a motiveless murder in a university classroom

Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained musician, Japanese and European fencer, life-long athlete, firearm instructor, retired police officer and high school and college English teacher. He is a published author and blogger. His home blog is Stately McDaniel Manor. 

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