And sometimes they don’t even know it.
The two terror plots targeting state capitols and legislators in two different states took place less than three months apart and while these are the sorts of terror plots that might have been expected of Islamic terrorists, Bowie and Caldera were Americans, and yet their plots were Islam-inspired.
The Bowie and Caldera terror plots were not the first Islam-inspired attacks in America.
Last year, Elias Rodriguez, a Chicago radical leftist, murdered an engaged couple at the Capital Jewish Museum, while shouting, “Free Palestine”. A spectrum of Islamist and leftist groups ranging from the DSA Liberation Caucus to the Bronx Anti-War Coalition, to Unity of Fields, linked to Iran, endorsed the Islam-inspired terrorist attack in Washington D.C.
The Bowie and Caldera attacks show that the situation has only escalated from there.
Jessica Bowie’s terrorist attack was more directly inspired by Islamic terrorism. Bowie, a white woman living in Albany, New York, the location of the state capital, appeared to have converted to Islam at some point and posted messages such as “Praise be to Allah for September 11th” and denounced the legislators as “enemies” of Allah.
Benny Caldera Jr. had allegedly told a friend, “I am going to the Capitol and I am going to shoot it up. These people have to be exterminated.” He had supposedly said goodbye to his parents.
Like many Muslims and radical leftists, Caldera appeared to be obsessed with AIPAC, a pro-Israel group that has a limited presence in Texas, while Bowie did not specifically mention Israel, but focused on the opportunity of bringing “harm to the enemies of Allah.”
Bowie’s attack appeared to be better thought out than Caldera’s. Bowie lived near the New York State Capitol and had been conducting site surveillance, having made “it a point to have picnics by the capital to observe and [have] coffee in the observation hall” and had planned her attack for a time when state senators were holding meetings. Her plan was to detonate a nail bomb and harm as many officials as she could while pretending to be doing a food delivery run.
The common denominator between Bowie and Caldera however appeared to be that they had both accepted Islamic propaganda about America and it eventually turned them into terrorists and a threat to the centers of government in two very different parts of the country.
Despite ongoing efforts by the FBI, Islamic terrorist narratives circulate on social media like never before and have been adopted by fringe and not so fringe domestic political movements. Islamic terrorists and terror states find a range of social media defenders from the DSA to Tucker Carlson. Even Al Qaeda propaganda, like ‘Osama’s Letter to America’, actually written by Adam Gadahn, a California hippie turned Al Qaeda spokesman, has made its way across social media, boosted by enemy platforms from TikTok to Tucker.
The fundamental message that America is bad and that Muslim terrorists are righteously resisting us has even been embraced by DSA Democrats and their growing number of allies who have mainstreamed Hasan Piker, a Turkish Muslim influencer, who argued that Al Qaeda is better than America and that, “America deserved 9/11”.
Who needs ISIS beheading videos or Osama bin Laden video dumps to Al Jazeera when the New York Times and politicians like Zohran Mamdani and Abdul El-Sayed are boosting this kind of rhetoric that was once considered Al Qaeda propaganda?
In the years after the September 11 attacks, there was a focus on preventing Al Qaeda and other Jihadist groups from recruiting Muslims in America. Not only did those strategies fail, but Americans are increasingly being directly and indirectly recruited to commit terror acts for Islam.
The threat of Americans converting to Islam and turning to terrorism, including unlikely people like teens from Maine and Tennessee, is being accompanied by more Islamic-adjacent or Islamic-inspired attacks in which the perpetrators may not be aware that they are engaging in second degree Islamic terrorism.
The perpetrators don’t necessarily formally convert. For example there have been multiple ‘Free Palestine’ stabbings of innocent people, both Jewish and non-Jewish in New York City in which the perpetrators shouted the terrorist catchphrase. The most recent such attack took place over the summer when Raul Morales stabbed an Asian man and a Jewish man while shouting “Allahu Akbar” and “Justice for Palestine.” It’s not clear that Morales had ever formally converted, but investigators found copies of both Das Kapital and the Koran in his apartment.
Some of this may be due to unstable people being barraged by second-degree Islamic terrorist propaganda on Facebook, YouTube and TikTok which does not directly promote Islam, but instead promotes fake Gaza atrocities, and may not even be coming from Islamic sources, but from Chinese and Russian bot armies which use them as a way to undermine America.
That’s how the relatively crude crowdsourced solicitations by Al Qaeda, after the Bush administration destroyed its strongholds in Afghanistan, have evolved into a much more sophisticated multipoint crowdsourced network with buy-in from not only much of the Muslim world, but also non-Muslim enemy nations, as well as plenty of propagandists in America.
The combination of foreign social media bot armies, the influencer economy and the growing radicalization of what used to be mainstream Democrats has made ‘second degree’ Islamic terrorism into the wave of the future. Americans are joining Al Qaeda’s mission of infiltrating the country, attacking its every vulnerability and weak point and ultimately bringing it down.
And sometimes the perpetrators themselves don’t even know it.
somehistory says
According to those who know, at any given time, there are more than 100 serial killers in the U.S.
According to stats and those who know, in the prisons in the U.S., a very large number of prisoners are psychopaths. Many of these are murderers.
islime draws psychopaths. It draws those who want to murder others. islime gives them a *license* to do what they want to do.
Those people who might have refrained from murder, or the planning of such, feel emboldened by what the muzzies in every State and profession are doing and saying so freely.
muzzies freely say how they hate, and what they intend to do to those they hate. This encourages the new muzzie to carry out their thoughts.
gravenimage says
‘Second Degree’ Islamic Propaganda is Turning Americans to Terror
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How many of these would-be Jihadists are converts to Islam–few legally change their names in an Infidel court of law–and how many are just rando violent thugs who think vioence is cool?
Beans🫘 says
Gravenimage
They don’t need to convert. They’re simply so Islamized by the Palestine propaganda, anything can happen. I can absolutely see Tucker going haywire for Palestine and doing an act, along with his followers and the leftists.
I just spoke with a friend who will be voting Democrat now and abandoning us. When I asked why, he said because of Palestine. When questioned him deeper, he didn’t have many answers. It’s all the repetitive Islamist Palestine propaganda he can recycle and Jew hatred. Yes, Jew hatred is my opinion what’s driving him. He will accept fake news, propaganda even though I disapprove it. He watches Tucker every day. Please tell me this is not an Islamic brainwashing op on our country. It is.
gravenimage says
I think in many cases you are right, Beans. Utterly chilling.
Beans🫘 says
Idk at what point we need the government to step in to stop foreign interference and radicalization with Palestine propaganda. A question I hear nobody asking.
It’s destroying our country, the new hitlerianism but nobody sees what’s coming.
gravenimage says
Beans, I think many Democrats–and even a few Republicans–would grimly approve of this pro-Jihad propaganda.
Beans🫘 says
So do you think we should attack this crisis and curb free speech? It’s a double edge sword.
Think about if Nazi Germany had German Americans passing out pro Hitler flyers and speeches. We would have to stop it somehow.
This is the same because I see Palestine support rotting our country in front of my eyes. Me and u know foreign countries are capitalizing on this to draw people into pro Palestine and turn it against their own country.
Islam is on the march, just look at Michigan. Abdul is using Palestine to pull in support from conservatives and independents and present himself as a just man(ipulator).
I’ve seen enough. This rot will continue to gather support and build a strong political foundation to weaken our global standing and pull us out of the global stage.
gravenimage says
Beans, preaching violence *is not* protected speech. The idea that opposing Jihad terror plots is “Nazi Germany” is mistaken.
We should not be importing Jihad terrorists here.
tgusa says
We have always had these kind of nuts but thanks to Washington DC we have more of them now.
Spencer Pratt, a true American, tells it like it is.
https://youtu.be/OEPL9AgnFSA?si=pY8W_QPJINs3CJfC
He is right if you dont like America get out!
James Lincoln says
tgusa,
Yes, Spencer Pratt is 100% spot on.
And yet Californians still chose to support loser Karen Bass.
OLD GUY says
Islam legitimizes violence, rape and murder.
Heloise says
Worse than legitimizing these crimes, Islam makes them “sacred.”
gravenimage says
Yes, Heloise–Islam *sacralizes* evil.
somehistory says
She apologized to keep her job….but what she said was true.
“CBS News’ Jan Crawford apologizes for post on Abdul El-Sayed”
“CBS News veteran Jan Crawford usually has the delicate task of covering the U.S. Supreme Court and the ways in which its decisions affect American lives and policies. On Sunday, however, Crawford was the one being judged.
Crawford, who joined CBS News in 2009, posted a note following a town hall meeting held Saturday night in Michigan during which Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed parried with a young man named Tommy who asked him if he would “disavow the Muslim brotherhood.” The politician won approval from liberals on social media by discussing the right to religious freedom held by Americans under the U.S. Constitution.
Crawford saw something different. In her post, she said El-Sayed spent just a “nanosecond” with a disavowal, the went into a “subsequent uninterrupted three-minute diatribe” that proved the questioner’s “exact point.” She called the exchange “the kind of spectacular self own most ppl only dream about triggering,” and offered a “congrats.”
By Sunday afternoon, Crawford had deleted the post. “Earlier, I tweeted a video from an Abdul El-Sayed town hall,” she said. “I deleted that tweet because it was a violation of CBS News standards. I apologize.”
CBS News declined to make executives available for comment.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/cbs-news-jan-crawford-apologizes-for-post-on-abdul-el-sayed/ar-AA2eugfs?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6ad538f1c2c74774a98f7c2eb46143f6&ei=38
Troybeam says
New converts to Islam are used to prove their devotion so these newbies are used for terrorist attacks so that the leaders remain safe and are able to plan more attacks.
Brainwashing to commit death upon other and thinking the 72 virgins are waiting, but hey what about female bombers, what is their reward? One way ticket to heaven to serving the men in the clouds.
gravenimage says
Often the only “perk” for Muslimahs is not being sent to hell…
somehistory says
OT
“Blue state schools forced Christians to keep Bibles in envelopes so other students wouldn’t be exposed to them”
“A Washington school district that required elementary students to keep Bibles and worksheets from an off-campus Bible program in sealed envelopes has agreed to apologize, send board members to religious liberty training, change its policies, and pay $275,000 in attorney’s fees.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/blue-state-schools-forced-christians-to-keep-bibles-in-envelopes-so-other-students-wouldn-t-be-exposed-to-them/ar-AA2fA8Kt?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6ad6c6d22b5646f6b9139c96dec858e4&ei=17