Authorities remain resolutely indifferent to this recurring phenomenon.
Jonathan Hunter Kramer reminds me of Jessica Bowie. That is, Hamza Al Rashid reminds me of Aisha Saif.
The Department of Justice revealed Tuesday that “Kramer, 21, a resident of Valencia, Pennsylvania, has been charged by federal criminal complaint with receiving a firearm and ammunition knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the firearm and ammunition would be used to commit a felony or a federal crime of terrorism, including providing, attempting to provide, and conspiring to provide material support or resources to a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO).”
The designated Foreign Terrorist Organization in question was the Islamic State (ISIS). The Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Eisenberg, explained that Kramer, who called himself Hamza Al Rashid after converting to Islam, “was taken into custody just as he appeared to be preparing for a mass shooting that could have taken many lives, having already secured a rifle and approximately 190 rounds of ammunition for what he called his ‘mission.’ His apparent ISIS inspiration and escalation toward violence show how close this country came to a devastating attack. This arrest prevented what could have been a horrific tragedy.”
This comes three weeks after Jessica Bowie came to the world’s attention. NBC News reported on August 20, 2026 that Bowie, like Kramer, was a supporter of the Islamic State. She “allegedly told a confidential source that she supported ISIS and asked for help learning to make explosives.” Her support for the Islamic State was also clear from “multiple audio recordings in English and Arabic.” Bowie, who called herself Aisha Saif after her own conversion to Islam, once wrote: “Praise be to Allah for September 11.” NBC adds that she “converted to Islam five years ago, was radicalized online and created several social media accounts using an honorific Islamic name. She appeared to have created multiple accounts because they were ‘frequently suspended by providers for violating their terms of use.’”
That’s two converts to Islam, and two people who plotted the mass murder of non-Muslims for the sake of Allah. NBC says Bowie/Saif was “radicalized online.” We don’t have any information about how Kramer/Al Rashid decided to turn to jihad, but it’s likely that if they were asked about this, authorities would say the same thing: he was “radicalized on the Internet.”
This is said so often of jihad terrorists that it warrants careful scrutiny. The phrase is intended in the first place to exonerate whatever mosque a terrorist or terror plotter may have been attending of any responsibility for his or her actions or intentions. Mosques already do a good job of this themselves, claiming invariably, whenever a terrorist is linked to any local Islamic house of worship, that no one actually knew him there, as he never really attended. If evidence of his regular attendance is public and undeniable, then mosque leaders claim that they argued with the hotheaded young jihadi in the making, and tried to explain to him how he was misunderstanding Islam, but to no avail.
But why to no avail? Why is what mosques preach apparently so weak and unconvincing that it cannot persuade young jihadis to turn from what non-Muslim authorities blandly assume is the error of their ways? The same question can be asked of those who were supposedly “radicalized on the internet.” The idea here is that the local mosque is preaching peace, love, and brotherhood, but then the unsuspecting young Muslim goes online and finds Muslims preaching bloody jihad, and chooses to follow them instead of the local imam.
But if Islam really is all peace, tolerance, and moonbeams, why can’t the local imam persuade the young hotheads that the understanding of Islam they’re getting from these online preachers is all wrong? And if someone converts to Islam, like Jonathan Kramer and Jessica Bowie, and is a complete blank slate regarding what Islam is all about, why do they not see, in their own Qur’an study, the rightness of the alleged peaceful form of Islam they’re supposedly being taught? Why do so many converts to Islam end up becoming jihadis?
No one ever answers these questions or deals with them in any way. And so we can be sure that there will be more converts to Islam who end up wanting to murder infidels, like Jonathan Kramer and Jessica Bowie, and more non-Muslim authorities waving away the question of where they’re getting their understanding of Islam by claiming they were “radicalized on the internet.” No one seems to have noticed, or to care, that the local, allegedly peaceful mosques have never come up with any way to blunt the appeal of this supposedly twisted, hijacked internet Islam. The willful ignorance, in other words, continues.
Tony says
Yes. Islam and its Muslims are a Criminal-Terrorist-Gang Enterprise against all Non-Muslims using Muslim deceit, discrimination, segregation, violence, and terrorism as taught in Islamic Law and in Islam’s Qur’an(Qur’an 9:5, 29, 41, 111; 49:15, etc.). Allah in Qur’an 8:39 commands, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…” Ultimately, Allah desires to fill hell with Non-Muslims(Qur’an 7:18; 11:119; 32:13; 98:6, etc.).
Basically, Islam is the deceitful, daily practice of Islamic Law by Muslims, and Allah rewards his Muslim believers, Criminal-Genocidal-Terrorists of Allah, with a Garden Paradise when they kill and are killed in Jihad for Allah as war against the enemies of Allah, the Non-Muslims, using MUSLIM MONEY and MUSLIM LIVES to make Islam, Islamic Law, supreme(Qur’an 2:191; 4:89, 91, 95; 9:5, 29, 41, 111; 48:29; 49:15, etc.). Hence, Public Funding is a privilege that should not be granted to organizations like Islam and its Muslim Organizations which are fundamentally against the US Constitution and Western Constitutions. Allah in Qur’an 49:15 teaches, “Surely the believers[Muslims] are only those who believed in Allah and his messenger. They do not doubt, and they performed JIHAD with their MONEY and their LIVES for the sake of Allah. Those are the truthful.” See also Qur’an 2:191; 4:89, 91; 8:60; 9:5, 29, 111; 47:4; 48:29, etc. Ultimately, Allah desires to fill hell with Non-Muslims(Qur’an 7:18; 11:119; 32:13; 98:6, etc.).
OLD GUY says
You are 100% correct. All followers of islam are jihadist, either through terrorism, contributing financially or through their silence of what islam is doing. America must ban islam or it will not survive.
ceres says
When you convert to islam you convert to evil –sura 113 say “I seek refuge with allah the lord of the daybreak from the EVIL of what he has created.(Saudi hafsa koran) allah blows your evil into you when he makes you out of a 40 day old bloodclot in mums womb. things only occur if allah wills them so clearly allah is the author of evil in the world…he wills the evil. Read the koran, hadith , sira, as Alexis de Tocqueville noted having studied the koran …”there have been few religions in the world as deadly to man as that of mohammad”. Others note the barbarity, blood lust, sadism, perversion, fanaticism, misogyny, death obsession. All they need to do is read the text, follow the instructions. No compassion, no tolerance, no conscience, no humanity just death.