Posted on 10/22/2026 3:38:27 AM PDT by DFG
The FBI has arrested and charged a 17-year-old boy from McKinney for planning to assassinate U.S. Representative Keith Self at an event last Saturday.
Federal investigators said the juvenile was also planning to carry out a terrorist attack in North Texas on behalf of ISIS.
The suspect was arrested on October 5 after acquiring a firearm, according to federal law enforcement sources.
Sources tell WFAA that the 17-year-old had been radicalized recently and was being monitored by federal agents.
The suspect remains in federal custody, and his name has not been publicly released.
“Protecting our Constitutional Republic from radical Islam is getting messy," Rep. Self told WFAA in a statement. "I served in the military for 25 years with the mindset that defending freedom was worth the sacrifice. Our elected leaders should govern with that same mindset.”
Members of Congress are given a security stipend they can use for personal protection.
Self said he is confident in his security team.
Last month, the McKinney Republican introduced a non-binding resolution in Congress that denounces Sharia law and opposes its implementation within the United States. Prior to that, Self has also led legislation against Islamic extremism and Sharia law.
Last December, he co-founded the “Sharia-Free America Caucus” along with U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Austin.
Its stated mission is “to oppose the influence of Sharia law in the United States and assert its incompatibility with the U.S. Constitution and Western values.”
Self’s district is at the center of a high-profile debate over a new mosque that was just approved.
In August, over protests of some citizens, the McKinney City Council approved the McKinney Islamic Association’s plans for a new mosque saying it was fully compliant with local laws.
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Will be interesting to see if this 17 year old is more trans than ISIS:
About that Texas congressman who called the transgender member of Congress ‘Mister’ …
American Thinker ^ | March 16, 2025 | Amil Imani
Posted on 3/16/2025, 12:56:01 PM by fwdude
On March 11, 2025, Rep. Keith Self (R-Texas) sparked outrage during a House Foreign Affairs Europe Subcommittee hearing by referring to Sarah McBride, the Delaware poster child of the progressive elite and self-proclaimed “first transgender member of Congress,” as “Mr. McBride.”
The response was predictable — a truth bomb that sent the sanctimonious left into a frenzy.
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Any information on the would be assassin’s name?
This is why we should raise the voting age back to 21. Twenty-five would be better but my expectations are realistic.
That’s a very good guess. I had forgotten about that event, but many members of that “community” consider it their kamikaze level mission to destroy any evidence of disagreement.
Conservatives simply don’t behave like this. It’s ALWAYS a wacked out lib.
Of course there’s no demographics on this “teen”....
The suspect was arrested on October 5 after acquiring a firearm, according to federal law enforcement sources.
Sources tell WFAA that the 17-year-old had been radicalized recently and was being monitored by federal agents.
When I read this stuff I always think that the arrestee may have been lead down the terrorist path by the very FBI agents that arrested him/her.
It' the FBI's MO.
“It’ the FBI’s MO.”
I truly doubt this
It’s a different FBI than it was under Biden
This person a 17 purchased a firearm, a violation
Put them on the radar
The FBI followed up
North Texas is trying hard to become the next France.
Where is Epps these days??
“This is why we should raise the voting age back to 21...”
States are free to lower the age to anything they want and, of course, there’s talk on the left of lowering it to 16.
Mohammed something or the other I imagine.
Two pieces of information kept out of the title, Islamic and Republican. It took awhile for the author to mention the target’s party affiliation.
It is a different FBI that is still part of the Judice Department that has not fired anyone that prosecuted the Jan 6 people.
Did the 17 year old purchase the firearm with money supplied to him from a FBI informant from a FBI informant at the direction of a undercover FBI Special Agent?
That has been the FBI's SOP for decades. I doubt that it has changed.
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