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DC National Guard terror suspect Rahmanullah Lakanwal was ‘radicalized’ after coming to US, Noem says
NY Post ^ | 11/30/25 | Ryan King

Posted on 11/30/2025 7:51:39 AM PST by Libloather

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To: DesertRhino

Radicalized is just the wrong word as his actions are actually pretty standard for Muslims. What I think she meant is he was not actively looking to kill until he started attending a mosque in the US. This is exactly why this idea of vetted or unvetted is a distraction, the question should be Muslim or not.


21 posted on 11/30/2025 9:09:02 AM PST by RightOnTheBorder
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To: Libloather

He couldn’t have been *radicalized* so recently if the seeds of weren’t planted years ago by islam.

Whatever happened to him here is simply the fruit of islam.


22 posted on 11/30/2025 9:15:43 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: Candor7
... THe word is that he was a member of a CIA “Zro” team. In other words he was a trained assassin....

I know. But at what point - and why - did he decide that his trainers and compadres were the the real enemy?

23 posted on 11/30/2025 9:17:24 AM PST by gloryblaze
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To: Libloather

He objects to the U.S. abandoning the effort that they used him in in Afghanistan - guilt and having done something all for nothing.


24 posted on 11/30/2025 9:23:28 AM PST by Wuli ( )
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To: Ditto

I think people are sick and tired of hearing from officials who may or may not be massaging facts to a narrative and we’ve heard this tune before. “Well, you see, it was really nothing done wrong by the CIA when they groomed him for color revolutions to undermine nations.” or “Well, you see, there is someone in the Deep State that has dirt on people and they wanted to point everyone’s attention away from the “always was a Jihadi” to someone suffering from SJS: Sudden Jihadi Syndrome and he was a lone wolf....


25 posted on 11/30/2025 9:35:53 AM PST by JewishRighter (LIBERALISM IS A DEADLY MENTAL DISORDER)
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To: Ditto

I thought Noem’s comment sounds stupid soon as I read it.

Most people don’t become radicalized in just a few years. This guy likely had some seeds of it planted over the early part of his life. He may have even played friend in order to learn some from the training and see what perks it brought, like getting to US etc.


26 posted on 11/30/2025 9:49:37 AM PST by b4me (Pray, and let God change you. He knows better than you or anyone else, who He made you to be.)
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To: gloryblaze

Worth a read about his situation:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/afghan-accused-shooting-2-national-guard-members-was-part-cia-backed-u-rcna246320


27 posted on 11/30/2025 9:52:27 AM PST by gloryblaze
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To: gloryblaze

Perspective from another related Afghan who served along with him for 10 years fighting against the Taliban.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/suspect-national-guard-shooting-served-us-troops-afghanistan-relative-rcna246170


28 posted on 11/30/2025 9:58:09 AM PST by gloryblaze
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To: Libloather

Recruited by Muslims?


29 posted on 11/30/2025 9:59:19 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: Libloather

Recruited by Muslims?


30 posted on 11/30/2025 9:59:48 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: Libloather

The only thing I want to know about this murderer is how much rope they’ll need to hang him.


31 posted on 11/30/2025 10:07:11 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: DesertRhino
Noem is showing her stupidity.

Noem is useless.

One of Trump's biggest faults is his penchant for hiring pretty, camera-friendly women in positions that should be filled by stern, serious men.

32 posted on 11/30/2025 10:13:26 AM PST by Drew68
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To: metmom

Not really.

We had Yemeni steelworkers here since Victorian times without issue.

And Lebanese Muslims as well for decades and decades.

The problems began right after the Iranian revolution and when we started taking in Palestinians after they flipped on the King of Jordan.


33 posted on 11/30/2025 10:50:11 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: b4me
Most people don’t become radicalized in just a few years.

Really. How about the shooter in Butler?

You can’t generalize like that. You don’t know diddly squat about the guy in DC and you’re in no position to do a psych analysis on him.

34 posted on 11/30/2025 10:51:45 AM PST by Ditto
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To: RightOnTheBorder

The guy is from Khost , a region that is ground zero for AQ in Afghanistan.


35 posted on 11/30/2025 10:52:16 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: JewishRighter
I think people are sick and tired of hearing from officials who may or may not be massaging facts to a narrative and we’ve heard this tune before.

Ya, I’m sick of it as well. But that does not mean I’m in favor of throwing the baby out with the bath water. These people saying that every Moslem is radicalized are full of shit. They don’t even know any Muslims. I have know plenty of Muslims who are not at all radicalized and condemn this crap as strongly as we do. Turning to blind hatred is not the answer.

36 posted on 11/30/2025 10:58:00 AM PST by Ditto
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To: Ditto

Yeah, probably. Noem is just a simpleminded Governor Trump appointed because she has that Fox News look.


37 posted on 11/30/2025 11:21:44 AM PST by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: DesertRhino

Maybe she is talking about CIA radicalization, Soros, etc. on our own turf. Doubt he was a good guy before he got here but maybe Slotkin and Company got him riled up and paid him to kill an Orange Man Bad worker.


38 posted on 11/30/2025 11:42:53 AM PST by vivenne (7Come to think of it. Fact)
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To: piasa

The guy came over from Afghanistan in 2021.

He has nothing to do with the groups you mentioned.

Their example is irrelevant for most of what we have to deal with today.


39 posted on 11/30/2025 1:19:11 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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