He had served time for plotting to aid the Islamic State (ISIS), but Old Dominion could not, according to Virginia law, refuse even an ISIS jihadi.
This, like so many other leftist policies, means national suicide if it is not repudiated.
“Gunman at ODU — previously convicted of aiding terrorism — was an active student at the university,” by John Buzbee, Virginian-Pilot, March 13, 2026:
Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, the man suspected of opening fire into an Old Dominion University classroom Thursday and killing its instructor while wounding two others, was a student enrolled at the university at the time of attack.
University spokesman Jonah Grinkewitz said Jalloh studied geography at ODU. He was a student intermittently from fall 2007 to 2013, and reenrolled in the summer of 2025.
That was roughly six months after he was released from federal prison. In 2016, he pleaded guilty to offering material support to the terrorist group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and sentenced to 11 years in prison and five years supervised release.
Jalloh was 36 years old and lived in Sterling, Virginia, according to a 2017 Justice Department press release cited by Grinkewitz. Jalloh reportedly praised another terrorist attack and unknowingly told an investigator he aspired to conduct a terrorist attack. He was living in Northern Virginia at the time.
“Old Dominion University had no knowledge of any prior criminal history for Jalloh,” a university spokesperson said in a statement.
Per Virginia law, public colleges are barred from questioning prospective applicants on their criminal histories or denying them admission on the basis of criminal history. In 2017, Jalloh was sentenced for providing support to the foreign terrorist organization. He was a former Army National Guardsman….
Wellington says
Western Civilization has pioneered sundry ways to destroy itself, while at the same time accomplishing more than any other single civilization has ever come close to achieving.
It’s a civilizational death wish which goes back to the laudable capacity of both the ancient Greek world and the ancient Jewish world to allow for a good amount of self-criticism (and the Christian world continued this “trend”), but the taking of this to extremes, as exampled here by current Virginia law, is both stupid and immoral. But that’s where we’re at presently and the awful combination or Western Leftism + Islam + willful ignorance by neither Leftists nor Muslims is presently making for a perfect trinity to ensure the death of the West unless this nonsensical malevolence stops soon like. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like it will stop soon like and so the slow death of the West continues.
James Lincoln says
Apparently, Virginia law does not allow a university to refuse admission to even an ISIS jihadi.
Astonishing!
I was not aware of this.
Virginia law has to change – now.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Not likely to, since the Dems now control both the Governor’s mansion and the legislature
tgusa says
The Virginia law, public colleges are barred from questioning prospective applicants on their criminal histories or denying them admission on the basis of criminal history was enacted by Governor Ralph Northam in 2019. Democrats prefer hardened criminals to covertly mingle with College and University kids. The Colleges and Universities are run by leftists. Their students are majority leftist. Yes, the democrats are more than willing to put their own supporters in danger. The leftist sheeple pay for privilege of attending school there. If democrats are willing to do that to their supporters you can only imagine what they would do to those who dont support them. It just goes to show that democrats cannot be trusted among their own supporters. And yet the fools keep voting for them. I dont believer there are that many fools out there voting for them. I do believe vote fraud plays a huge role in electing democrats.