Posted on 01/05/2025 5:08:14 AM PST by MtnClimber
The recent terrorist attack (14 dead, 35 injured) in New Orleans by a homegrown former soldier, Shamsud Din Jabbar, who had “become radicalized” by ISIS has called America’s attention to the threat of Islamic extremism in the USA. Has the enemy without become a serious enemy within? And if so, what can be done to protect ourselves from further atrocities?
We previously contended with the murderous events of 9/11 (2001), with downed planes and 3,000 dead; the Washington sniper and his pal (10 killed in 2002), who liked to pick off people at gas stations; the Fort Hood massacre (2009) of our soldiers (13 killed) by a radicalized army psychiatrist; the Tsarnaev brothers setting off explosions at the Boston marathon (3 killed, over 280 injured, and 12 amputations in 2013); the San Bernardino mass slaying (2015, 14 killed and 22 seriously injured) of Christmas partygoers who worked on behalf of the developmentally disabled; and the Chattanooga shooter (2015, 4 dead), who attacked an army recruiting center. In addition, there was the Islamic attempted hit in Texas on Pam Geller (2015), who had the audacity to have an art show with drawings of Mohammed, which for certain Islamics was worse than not being halal. But the murderers who intended to shoot up the entire gathering were themselves finished off by alert locals.
The above events were against the overseas backdrop of Islamic terrorist attacks on Americans at Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, killing 19 of our beloved servicemen, in 1996. In 1983, 241 U.S. soldiers were killed in suicide attacks in Beirut, Lebanon. And many other nations throughout the world suffered similarly.
Is there any question that Islamic terrorism is a threat to worldwide security? Is there any question that increasing the number of Islamic immigrants
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Bourbon Street terror attack suspect had family ties to Louisiana
BY CLAIRE TAYLOR | Staff writer Jan 2, 2025
The man who authorities say killed 14 people in a New Year’s Day early-morning attack on Bourbon Street has family ties to several Acadiana communities, including Lafayette, St. Martinville and Ville Platte.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, of the Houston area, sped a rented pickup truck down Bourbon Street, running down people still celebrating the New Year around 3:15 a.m. Wednesday, according to law enforcement. Police shot and killed him. The FBI said an Islamic State flag flew from the back of the white pickup truck and that he posted videos to social media pledging his support for ISIS.
Jabbar was born in October 1982 in Harris County, Texas, which is the Houston area, according to Texas birth records.
His father, Abdal Rahim Jabbar, was born in Beaumont, Texas. He was originally named Masterson Young but changed his name when he converted to the Islam religion.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s mother, Herma Everette, also was born in Jefferson County, Texas, which is the Beaumont area.
Those a generation before them, though, were part of a migration of residents, many of them Black, Creole and Cajun, who moved across the Texas border to the Beaumont area for work.
Public records show Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s paternal grandfather, Calvin Young Sr., was born in Louisiana, possibly in St. Landry Parish. U.S. Census records have him residing in the town of Evangeline in Acadia Parish in 1940.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s paternal grandmother was born Iola Bertrand in the Evangeline Parish community of Ville Platte. The couple moved to Beaumont after they married. That is where they raised their children.
Friends of Jabbar said in interviews that they grew up together in Beaumont, where he excelled in school.
A 1988 obituary for Calvin Young Jr., the brother of Abdal Rahim Jabbar, says he was a native of Lafayette and lists his stepmother being from Plaisance in rural St. Landry Parish. He also had a brother living in Kinder, a town in Allen Parish, and a daughter residing in Ville Platte.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s mother’s family also has ties to Acadiana.
Herma Everette’s mother, Mae Lena Malveaux, was born in Louisiana. Census records show her residing as a child and then as a young woman with her parents in St. Martinville in 1940 and 1950.
She married Herman George Everette in Jefferson County, Texas. It appears her husband was a native of Texas.
Biden and his dems allowed radical muslims to enter the USA by cancelling Trump’s Executive Order keeping them out.
Apparently democrats like it that way since they keep voting for those who invite terrorists into the country. No one in The Stupid Party calls out any particular dem by name and accuses him of treason. I want to see Ted Cruz go nose-to-nose with Schmuckie Schumer on the Senate floor, with cameras rolling, and call him out.
Read Bridgette Gabriel’s book “Because They Hate’’ about Islam and jihad.
It’s the stuff of nightmares.
And maybe the FIB should infiltrate mosques instead of Catholic churches.
The free exercise of Islam includes dominating, enslaving or killing those who reject it (Infidels- that's you & me, folks). Since we obviously can't have that, we must designate Islam as what it really is- a socio-political system masquerading as a religion. Thus no first amendment protection applies to Islam.
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