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Las Vegas Teen Converts to Islam. Guess What He Did Next
Frontpagemagazine ^ | September 6, 2024 | Robert Spencer

Posted on 09/06/2024 7:15:46 AM PDT by SJackson

What’s the deal with converts to Islam?

Last April, a teenager in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, named Alexander Scott Mercurio was caught plotting jihad massacres in local churches, “using weapons, including knives, firearms, and fire.” On New Year’s Eve in 2022, a 19-year-old named Trevor Bickford traveled from his home in Wells, Maine, to Times Square, where he attacked three NYPD officers with a machete. In April 2021, a Zion, Illinois, man named Edward Schimenti got thirteen and a half years in prison for aiding the Islamic State (ISIS).

These are just three men who are on a long and ever-lengthening list of converts to Islam who turn to terrorism, even in the United States, and are largely ignored by the establishment media. As everyone knows or should know by now, the media is interested only in shoring up its narrative, not in reporting actual facts. Now another young man has joined their ranks.

Las Vegas’ KLAS reported Thursday that Joshua Robles, 16, has been “accused of plotting an ISIS-inspired terror attack.” After Robles was arrested last November, prosecutors considered him to be so dangerous that they asked that his bail be set at a million dollars; Las Vegas Justice Court Pro Temp Judge Lauren Diefenbach, however, instead decided to set it at $10,000, “adding should Robles post bail, he would be placed on house arrest with electronic monitoring.” Oh. That’ll fix everything.

LAS VEGAS SHERIFF BLOCKS RELEASE OF TEEN TERROR SUSPECT

Clark County Sheriff intervened to prevent the release of Joshua Robles, a teen accused of plotting terror attacks and providing support to ISIS.

Judge initially set bail at $10,000, but after further review, pic.twitter.com/afsHE4XJPc

— Trumpusa1 (@Trumpusa1A1) August 29, 2024

Ultimately, Robles was deemed to be so dangerous that bail was set at $1 million after all. That’s good, as he doesn’t appear to be a choirboy: “On Aug. 23, staff at the Clark County Detention Center found a handwritten note in Robles’ cell, which included an ISIS flag and phrases such as, ‘Welcome with death.’”

This was after a sheet of notebook paper was found in his bedroom at the time of his arrest; Robles had completed a faithful recreation of the Islamic State (ISIS) flag, which features in Arabic the Islamic profession of faith: “There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet.” Underneath that, the earnest young convert wrote in all caps: “DEATH TO JEWS.”

Around that time, Robles was proudly posting online about his enthusiasm for his newfound faith: “Peace by [sic] upon all brothers who see this,” he wrote. “I am here to announce that I will be starting lone wolf operations in Las Vegas against the enemies of Allah.” When police raided his home, they found “components they said could be used to make an explosive device.”

Authorities think that Robles was “building explosive devices similar to the ones that killed three and injured hundreds in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.” There is some indication that he planned to carry out an arson jihad attack on New Year’s Day 2024. He was also doing online searches for “information and floorplans for Chaparral High School in the east valley.” If he had managed to carry out a jihad attack there, police would still be saying that they didn’t know his motives.

Prosecutors explained that Robles’ “radicalization to violent extremist has developed over several years and continues despite his detention status.” That’s no surprise, since America’s prison system, like every other institution in the country, is committed to the proposition that Islam is entirely peaceful and benign. Nothing whatsoever is done to disabuse young men like Robles of their jihadist sentiments; instead, such inmates are given Qur’ans and allowed to pray regularly with other Muslim inmates. Authorities think this will help them discover the true, peaceful Islam. Instead, it all too often breeds more hardened jihadis.

Robles has been a bad actor for quite a while: “In 2020, while in junior high, defendant was threatened to shoot up the school. In March of 2023, defendant was created a list of ISIS leader and pledged allegiance to ISIS. He also announced the creation of a local terrorist cell. By May of 2023, Defendant was advising an unknown individual on how to obtain news on ISIS through email and was giving instructions on how to travel in the Middle East.” Yet while authorities know all about all this, none of them seem to care about where or how he converted to Islam, or about how he came to believe that his new religion required him to do violence to non-Muslims.

Until such issued are addressed, and addressed realistically, we will see many more young men like Joshua Robles.


TOPICS: Editorial; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: suddenjihad

1 posted on 09/06/2024 7:15:46 AM PDT by SJackson
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To: SJackson

Jihad?


2 posted on 09/06/2024 7:17:59 AM PDT by BuchananBrigadeTrumpFan (If in doubt, it's probably sarcasm)
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To: SJackson

They took up the religion of pieces.


3 posted on 09/06/2024 7:19:57 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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4 posted on 09/06/2024 7:24:30 AM PDT by SJackson (Lot of people put my grandpa through hell, and he’s still standing, Kai Trump)
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To: SJackson

FWIW, “Robles” is a Hispanic surname.

To this day, Spain still has vast areas with names associated with its Islamic history.


5 posted on 09/06/2024 7:27:38 AM PDT by Does so (Why is our PRINT-media being crafted by foreigners? 🇺🇦.....)
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To: SJackson
Las Vegas Teen Converts to Islam. Guess What He Did Next

Went on a prayer retreat?

Opened a soup kitchen for the homeless?

No?

6 posted on 09/06/2024 7:30:36 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: SJackson

Getting tired of us trying to apply our justice system to these barbarians. We give them 3 hots a cot for years only to release them and they go right back to it. They should be put down or minimally deported.


7 posted on 09/06/2024 7:43:12 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: SJackson

“Las Vegas Teen Converts to Islam. Guess What He Did Next?”

He suddenly became more peaceful most of the time???


8 posted on 09/06/2024 7:45:35 AM PDT by Tom Tetroxide
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To: Does so
Those who clicked on the link, it was obvious, I would think, that people realized that he was Hispanic by looking at his picture:

Image

But thanks for communicating that to those that will not click on the link. 🙂👍

9 posted on 09/06/2024 7:53:05 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: SJackson

Contributed 100 dollars to the Trump campaign?


10 posted on 09/06/2024 7:57:18 AM PDT by steelwheels
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To: Robert DeLong

Thanks for the pic, Dead eyes, no conscience, no compassion. Many terrorists have those facial characteristics. Face-words-deeds.


11 posted on 09/06/2024 8:23:49 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: BuchananBrigadeTrumpFan

He merely plotted attacks.


12 posted on 09/06/2024 8:28:19 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: MtnClimber

Only folks who are mentally unstable to begin with would convert to the death cult of the fake moon deity allah and his pedophile prophet Mad Mo.


13 posted on 09/06/2024 8:29:29 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: SJackson

No bail; Gitmo. Let’s get serious about this.


14 posted on 09/06/2024 8:32:39 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (What is the cost of lies?)
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To: SJackson

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15 posted on 09/06/2024 10:49:35 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: SJackson
...help them discover the true, peaceful Islam.

Has anyone accomplished that yet?

16 posted on 09/06/2024 3:50:56 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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