How did this young convert to Islam get the idea that his new religion, which all authorities in the West assure us teaches peace and tolerance, commanded him to become violently anti-Semitic and anti-American? True to form, no authorities seem to have the slightest degree of curiosity about that question.
“DA: Times Square Machete Suspect Wanted ‘Jihad’ on Police,” Associated Press, January 4, 2023:
NEW YORK—A man accused of attacking police with a machete near New York’s Times Square on New Year’s Eve was intent on committing a jihad against government officials and shouted “Allahu akbar” before striking one officer in the head and attempting to grab another officer’s gun, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Trevor Bickford, who was shot by police during the confrontation, was arraigned by video from a Manhattan hospital and ordered to be held without bail. He did not enter a plea and has another court appearance scheduled for Friday.
Bickford, 19, of Wells, Maine, is charged with attempting to murder police officers, assault, and attempted assault. If convicted, he faces a mandatory life sentence. The attack, at the edge of the high-security zone where throngs of revelers gathered, left three officers injured.
Assistant Manhattan District Attorney Lucy Nicholas said Bickford “specifically traveled to New York from Maine in order to begin carrying out his crimes of murder of government officials,” arriving in the city a few days before the attack.
Bickford had an Amtrak ticket to Miami and wanted to travel abroad, “but then decided to come to New York first in order to kill people and carry out jihad,” Nicholas said. He had no known ties to the city or state, she said.
Nicholas said Bickford told investigators that “all government officials” were a target for him because of the United States’ support of Israel, including police officers, but that he purposely spared civilians from harm. Authorities have been investigating whether Bickford was motivated by Islamic extremism….
Bickford’s mother contacted the Wells, Maine, Police Department on Dec. 10 to express concerns about her son, and the department notified the FBI, Wells Police Capt. Jerry Congdon said Tuesday. He could not discuss the interaction further, but said Bickford was not a concern to local police.
The Times Square attack “was as much of a surprise to us as it was anyone else,” Congdon said. “He was certainly flying under the radar.”
FBI agents were seen Sunday entering Bickford’s family home in Wells, a popular beach destination close to the New Hampshire border. Bickford competed in sports in high school, was part of Maine’s state champion wrestling team in 2020 and made the honor roll for his studies at least one year.
In Bickford’s criminal complaint, a detective with the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force said he told her: “I wanted to kill an officer in uniform.”
According to the detective, Bickford said he waited until he saw an officer alone, said “Allahu akbar,” walked up to him and hit him over the head with the machete, which he said was a kukri—a machete-like blade with South Asian origins. In Arabic, “Allahu akbar” means “God is great.”
No, it doesn’t. It means “Allah is greater,” i.e., greater than your god.
According to the detective, Bickford said he then charged another officer, dropped the knife and attempted to grab that officer’s gun. Nicholas said Bickford told investigators he wanted to kill the officers with the gun, but couldn’t get it out of the holster.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Except that this US government actively opposes Israel. Israel is not even an excuse: Bickford was just engaging in good ole jihad
Incidentally, doesn’t he have a muslim name as a result of his conversion? Like Mohammed Abdul Hussein Ali or something?
James Lincoln says
Yes, Infidel.
The Biden regime is definitely anti-Israel – being against the only true democracy in the Middle East.
And converts to islam generally pick names that are nearly impossible to spell or pronounce.
wpm says
What was he worry about Israel “invading the state of Maine” or the repression of the Moslems by the small populations of “Jews” living in Maine!! His family reported him as saying he wanted to kill people in “uniform” he travel to NYC for New tear eve and the FBI said he was on a “watch list” I guess because he was not on the “super duper” Biden hating Trump loving watch list he had a free pass to go hachey sackey with an Asian war blade on NYC police officers!
wpm says
Being that he was a honor roll student at one time in school and he like dogs from pictures of him on the internet he could not be a Jihadist!
Michael Copeland says
A small crack in the edifice of wilful ignorance.
The prosecutor spoke of the accused’s wish to “carry out jihad”.
Is this the first instance of the mention of jihad in a prosecution?
Let this new understanding spread, and spread swiftly.
The Learning Curve seems to have begun.
https://gatesofvienna.net/2019/10/islam-the-learning-curve/
Walter Sieruk says
If he is a “lone wolf “ jihadist stabber of shooter and or jihadists ,as in a group of an Islamic terror entity, as in the history of those horrendous murderous and destructive jihad terror affront attacks which occurred of 9/11 , it’s based on Qu’ran based Islam.
For what is assumed by many people view “Radical Islamic Terrorism” to be a “warped” or “hijacked” form of Islam. Yet the terrible harsh reality is that the actual religion of Islam is the entire foundation of Islamic terrorism or otherwise accurately, but seldom called what is really is, which is “Muslim terrorism.”
For Islam’s “holy book” the Qur ‘an [the Koran] instructs on the use of violence and killing for the advancement of Islam.
As found in ,for example 2:191. 4:89. 5:33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4. Furthermore, it may be illustrated that if Islam is represented as a tree then the fruits then the fruits of that tree are the many brutal, violent and deadly jihad terror entities. Such as ISIS, Al Qaeda, Boko Haram, al Shabaab , Hamas, Hezbollah, P.I.J. etc.
With this statement, the Wisdom of the teachings of Jesus may, very much, apply to this subject. For Jesus taught “Ye do know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.” After saying this Jesus told them what He told them when He said “By their fruit ye shall know them.” Matthew 7:16, 17, 18,.20. [K.J.V.]
In conclusion, Islam is a corrupt tree and also a false religion, Proverbs 14:12. John 14:6. First John 2:22,23. 4:14,15. 5:12,13,20.
somehistory says
there are no “lone wolves” in islam. It’s an evil pack and all follow the same evil, unholy book of filth. All are in it for the same reasons and all murder for the same reasons.
the “fruits” are all rotten acts, all rotten behaviors, all rotten to the core produced by the different “branches”….that label themselves names they believe will “honor” their false god, the demon snake, satan the devil.
Valhella says
Amen Walter
Scotsman48 says
This wee soy boy looks very Gay and so perhaps he wanted to act out by converting to pisslam so that he can deny his own homosexual feelings and prove to everybody just how un Gay he actually is.
Denial is a very powerful emotion inside the mind of a wee lost soy boys mind.
Valhella says
Typical sadsack pervert – grist to the mill of islam