Posted on 01/05/2023 7:44:23 AM PST by SJackson
19-year-old Trevor Bickford stabbed two cops with a machete in Times Square on New Year’s Eve, and authorities are scratching their heads and wondering why. According to the UK’s Daily Mail, “an investigation was underway to pinpoint a motive for the attack.” That investigation, however, may be more the result of officials not wanting to recognize Bickford’s obvious motive, rather than a matter of his real intentions being unclear. Bickford himself left behind a “manifesto” in which he made his perspective and intentions quite clear. But since neither he nor his attack fit the establishment media/Biden regime narrative about the “white supremacist” terror threat, they’re unlikely to get much attention.
The New York Post reported Sunday that when he was arrested after the stabbings, Bickford had a handwritten note in his backpack, asking his family to “please repent to Allah and accept Islam.” The backpack also contained a “collection of religious material” that was unlikely to have been gospel tracts. Bickford wrote: “To my family — specifically, mother — I’m sorry for not having been a good enough son.” But then he gets down to brass tacks: “I fear greatly that you will not repent to Allah. And therefore I hold hope in my heart that a piece of you believes so that you may be taken out to [sic] the hellfire.”
Bickford addressed the same hope to his brother: “To Travis. Of anyone I’ve known who I have felt is closest to faith — it’s you. Of anyone I’ve ever wanted to accept Islam with me — it’s you. Please repent to Allah and accept Islam. I fear for you.” To his other brother, who is reportedly in the U.S. Marine Corps, Bickford wrote: “To Devon, there was a time when we were close, but that time has passed. You have joined the ranks of my enemy. And for that I can give you no kind words – return to Allah.”
The New York Post also noted that Bickford wanted to attack “a uniformed officer” or “someone with a gun,” as he believed such people to be an “enemy of the state.” Which state? The New York Post, as willfully ignorant as the rest of the establishment media, shows no curiosity about this question. But clearly, Trevor Bickford, after he converted to Islam, was no stalwart American patriot. He wanted to target a uniformed officer as an enemy of the Islamic state. He had no kind words for his brother Devon because Devon had joined “the ranks of my enemy,” that is, the U.S. military.
How did Trevor Bickford come to think this way? According to the Daily Mail, he “appeared to be a typical, all-American teenager” who “once made the school honor roll, won awards for his artwork, and was a member of the championship football team in his hometown of Wells, Maine.” Then, however, his father died of a drug overdose, which must certainly have been deeply traumatizing, and Bickford converted to Islam. If authorities really want to understand Bickford’s motive, they should study carefully what they are almost certainly ignoring, such as the questions of how and where this young man converted to Islam, and how he got the idea that his new religion, which non-Muslim authorities all over the Western world assure us is completely peaceful and tolerant, commanded him to consider non-Muslims enemies and violently attack them.
These questions are never asked, much less answered, despite the fact that converts to Islam turning to jihad violence is a distressingly common phenomenon. American intelligence and law enforcement officials don’t want to do anything to give the impression that they don’t accept the dogma that Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance that has nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism. The fact that converts to Islam such as Trevor Bickford, Allison Fluke-Ekren, Damon Joseph, Corey Johnson, and many, many others have somehow gotten exactly the opposite idea doesn’t ever make authorities pause and reflect upon their core assumptions.
All this willful ignorance accomplishes nothing other than to ensure that the story of Trevor Bickford will recur again and again. The Biden administration’s all-consuming focus on a fictional “white supremacist” terror threat only ensures that those who converted and taught Bickford and others like him will have a freer hand than ever to recruit and train new jihadis. In this case, as in so many others, Biden’s handlers’ willful ignorance and politicization of counterterror activity come at a high human cost.
Willful ignorance wins elections.
An investigation was underway to pinpoint a motive for the attack = willful ignorance.
It takes serious discipline to be this willfully ignorant.
I am no expert on these things, but Trevor Bickford certainly sounds like a white supremacist to me. Maybe even a KKK member. I expect the FBI (Stasi) to start knocking down doors of known militia and Klan members any day now in search of conspirators and co-conspirators.
The Chief will put one of their best persons on it.
“...and authorities are scratching their heads and wondering why.”
They’d have better luck scratching their heads and wondering why they vote Democrat.
This is exactly what public schools do. Now you know why the little lemmings believe in 57 genders, climate change, white supremacy, etc. etc.
Muslims move into an area and when enough Muslims are there, or enough people are converted, the terror starts. When the victims begin to retaliate en masse, the poor muzzies start yelling they are being victimized, and the Christians come to their aid. Bosnia was a prime example. After the west came to the muzzies aid, the muzzies began wiping out the Christian population or converting them. Now the country is a swamp. The majority of the population are Bosniaks, mostly Sunni Muslims.
They always work this way. You only have to read the Koran. It calls for killing non-believers as “corruptors of the land”. Innocent persons are those that faithfully follow the Quran. So no Christians or Jews are “innocent”.
Obviously he wanted to die a moslem martyr and get his 72 virgins. He failed.
Now he will have 72 convicts bending him over and seeing if he can squeal like a pig. “WEE! WEE! WEE!”
Spencer has it right
Only 19? What does any 19 year-old know for sure? How articulate of a 19 year-old was he? How well-written is this “manifesto” of his? I will read it and judge for myself.
“Manifesto”...Give me a break. Ever since Ted Kazcinski chimed in with his Unabomber literary work, any idiot who leaves behind some chicken scratch to try and explain what they were thinking prior to perpetrating some outrageous crime that somehow makes a “statement”, gets way too much credit for having a special talent for unusually deep thinking. A “manifesto” by a 19 year-old? How serious can it really be taken?
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I’m curious as to what led to his father’s drug overdose. The son’s biography is typically that of a person brought up in a stable household, not of someone living with a drug-addicted father. So, was the father living with the family, or was he on his own? Was the drug overdose a fluke, maybe from a one-time experiment, or a result of a persistent lifestyle.
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