Muslim Migrant With Journals Vowing ‘Jihad’ Admits to Stealing New Jersey School Bus

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What can one do with a stolen school bus? The mind reels, but in one recent case in New Jersey, we’re lucky we never found out.

The Justice Department announced Thursday that a young man named Bader Alzahrani, who came all the way from Saudi Arabia to pursue the American Dream, has pled guilty to “one count of an indictment charging him with interstate transportation of a stolen vehicle.” It seems that back on Jan. 17, 2023, “the Livingston, New Jersey Board of Education reported that a school bus was stolen from a parking lot.” As it happened, the bus theft took place across the street from an unoccupied house that had been broken into two days earlier.

The crimes were connected: as it turned out, Alzahrani broke into the house and then stole the bus two days later. According to a criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, a backpack was found in the broken-into house, containing Alzahrani’s Saudi passport and a number of “other items that appeared to belong to Alzahrani.” Among these items were journals that contained entries in both English and Arabic.

The entries were nothing short of hair-raising. Alzahrani wrote: “Why didn’t you slaughter the police officer who threw the Quran?” It’s unclear to whom or what Alzahrani was referring. Back in 2005, a Muslim in Britain claimed that a police officer threw his Qur’an in the trash while arresting him. Was Alzahrani still seething about that incident, which took place when he was five years old, almost two decades later? Or did he have in mind some other police officer who allegedly threw a Qur’an? Either way, the young man wanted the cop slaughtered, which might have thrilled, or at least titillated, the “Defund the Police” crowd but didn’t suggest that Alzahrani was prepared to become a loyal, stable, productive member of American society.

In fact, Alzahrani’s other journal entries ruled that out clearly. He wrote: “This is a war, and there will be losses, and collateral losses. … It is a war and y’all started, feel the rage.” The war he had in mind would be extremely bloody: “Destruction of the new world and the earth will be destroyed from all sides.” It was a religious war: “God I am ready for your orders. I want to live the rest of my life to serve you and the religion.” Alzahrani added: “Blood, blood, destruction, destruction. Allah.”

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