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Utah: American flag destroyed, replaced with Islamic State flag at high school

Feb 16, 2018 9:55 am By Robert Spencer

“Images of the ISIS flag were then sent to the FBI for analysis.”

Considering that the FBI wouldn’t know jihad terrorism from a hole in the ground, that isn’t exactly reassuring.

“[B]ased on information we received from the FBI we do not believe this act was perpetrated by someone linked to the Islamic State,” Hurricane PD said in a statement.

Sure, it could well be some kids playing a prank. But the deeply corrupt and compromised FBI is bound as a matter of policy not to study Islam and jihad in connection with terrorism. It is extremely unlikely that it has anyone on this case who would be competent to distinguish a prank by some non-Muslim kids from a genuine ISIS threat. They’re more likely saying this to avoid alarming the public. But are there Muslims in Utah? Of course. Could there be Islamic State jihadis among them? Is there anything that would possibly prevent that?

“American flag destroyed, replaced with ‘ISIS flag’ at Utah high school,” Fox News, February 16, 2018:

Vandal tears down American flag at Hurricane High School in Utah and replaces it with ISIS flag.

An American flag at a high school in Southwest Utah was found destroyed and replaced with an ISIS flag Thursday, Fox 13 reported.

An unknown perpetrator had taken down the flag at Hurricane High School, which is in the Washington County School District, and replaced it with “what looked like a flag used by ISIS,” police said.

The American flag was left shredded at the scene. The words “ISIS is COMI” had been spray-painted on a wall on the school’s east side, KUTV reported….

Authorities released a statement saying school employees have replaced the “ISIS flag” with a new American flag, and removed the graffiti. Images of the ISIS flag were then sent to the FBI for analysis.

“[B]ased on information we received from the FBI we do not believe this act was perpetrated by someone linked to the Islamic State,” Hurricane PD said in a statement. “This investigation is ongoing and investigators will continue to follow-up on leads.”

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  1. Jaladhi says

    Feb 16, 2018 at 10:02 am

    >”the FBI we do not believe this act was perpetrated by someone linked to the Islamic State,”<

    Morons!! They are all linked to ISIS to fulfill their dream of Caliphate!

    • mortimer says

      Feb 16, 2018 at 10:07 am

      They are the OCTOPUS tentacles of the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD, dear jaladhi.

      • eagle says

        Feb 16, 2018 at 8:45 pm

        I think the Muslims call this a love crime??

  2. mortimer says

    Feb 16, 2018 at 10:05 am

    Hey all you American LEFTARDS! Howdy! GOT MUSLIMS? Then you got JIHAD-TERRORISM directed against the dirty, disbelieving KUFAAR ‘for the sake of Allah’.

    The meaning of Islam is to TAKE OVER THE WORLD. The motive of Islam is the HATRED DIRECTED AGAINST THE DIRTY KUFAAR. The method of Islam is JIHAD-TERRORISM, VERBAL JIHAD, LEGAL JIHAD and FINANCIAL JIHAD-SABOTAGE.

    Guess what, American LEFTARDS? Jihadists are also waging jihad against the LEFTARDS and you Leftards DON’T EVEN KNOW IT. That’s where your virtue-signalling is getting you. YOU’RE BEING HOOD-WINKED by the Muslims Brotherhood’s ‘GRAND SCHEME’.

    (Get the joke? ‘Hood-winked’ … y’know ‘Hi- jabbed’! Ha, ha.)

    • mummymovie says

      Feb 18, 2018 at 12:05 pm

      Great post! You hit the nail on the head.

      Civilization jihad and the hijra are in full effect, thanks to the enabling leftards and their virtue-signaling crap.

      They will be responsible for the deaths of many, many, many people and the endangerment of and demise of liberty for future generations of otherwise free people by drowning our countries with muslims.

      Goodbye Western Europe, and farewell to many free societies because of the left’s importation of this unholy, sickening, backward, barbaric, cursed religion into the civilized world.

      Shame!

  3. elee says

    Feb 16, 2018 at 10:06 am

    Harmless prank, it’s not like they ran up the Star of David which would be Islamophobic and all.

    • mortimer says

      Feb 16, 2018 at 10:09 am

      Yes, ‘harmless prank’ … as in MAKING DEATH THREATS of genocide, religious bigotry and extermination directed against Americans of all ‘other’ religions or against American agnostics and atheists.

      Threats of GENOCIDE have no humor in them WHATSOEVER. It is time for ALL AMERICANS to realize that the EXTERMINATION THREAT IS GENUINE and that it comes from the AUTHENTIC CORE of Islam.

      It’s the ideology, stupid.

    • Martin Smythe says

      Feb 16, 2018 at 10:31 am

      You’re a moron. The Star of David is not islamaphobic. You however are anti Semitic.

      • Jim Conch says

        Feb 16, 2018 at 12:34 pm

        Hopefully, you’re missing his point. Only the ultleft would consider the Star of David islamophobic.

      • Guy Forester says

        Feb 16, 2018 at 2:06 pm

        I think you missed the sarcasm here.

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 16, 2018 at 6:49 pm

        Martin, elee is being sarcastic.

    • Michael Warden says

      Feb 16, 2018 at 11:04 am

      Moron.

  4. rbla says

    Feb 16, 2018 at 10:29 am

    The FBI is too busy looking into collusion with Russia and trying to remove Trump than to bother with this, or to follow up on leads that would have prevented the maniac in FLA from carrying out mass murder.

    • laura ann says

      Feb 16, 2018 at 2:29 pm

      The FBI is incompetent to the max. They were forewarned about other shootings incl the Vegas one. I wouldn’t report any crime to them since they would ignore it.

    • Carolyne says

      Feb 17, 2018 at 12:30 pm

      The FBI is too busy covering for each other. They are corrupt. They had ample warning about the Florida shooter some time ago and ignored it. If we depend on the FBI to do anything to protect this country, we are in for a big disappointment. They attempted a coup against our government and I am not certain it will not succeed.

  5. Timothy says

    Feb 16, 2018 at 10:36 am

    This definitely needs to be looked into by the F.B.I. There have been many shootings at schools.

  6. R Russell says

    Feb 16, 2018 at 10:40 am

    Utah. The state of the Latter Day Saints.
    A comparison of the Latter Day Saints’ beliefs and the Islamic beliefs is very interesting.

    • Necrophage says

      Feb 16, 2018 at 1:17 pm

      I have noticed many similarities as well, although it’s not so much the specific beliefs that I found similar as it is the origins and methods of their respective prophets. At the very least they were both charismatic hucksters. I would encourage anyone to look into this further.

      • Garfield says

        Feb 16, 2018 at 3:52 pm

        Nope. Stop right there. The book of Mormon leads to people going to church and eating jello and casseroles and sitting at home playing scrabble. Let’s not be ridiculous. Islam is a mental plague, a prevented death cult.
        Focus on where jihadists are coming from, threats to free speech and creeping sharia, not prickly brittle nitpicking at religions that are not causing death all over the world.

        • Garfield says

          Feb 16, 2018 at 3:55 pm

          *perverted. Sorry for typo. It SHOULD be prevented from infecting peoples minds.

        • Necrophage says

          Feb 16, 2018 at 4:33 pm

          I appreciate your viewpoint, but I’ve studied Mormonism for decades and Islam for over ten years, and I’m not going to ignore the connections I’ve made on the off chance that I might offend a Mormon (or a Muslim, but who gives a shit about them). I also made no insinuation that Mormons are a threat of any kind, nor that Mormonism is in any way similar in practice to Islam. I only pointed out that their PROPHETS display some general similarities, which I have found interesting but not especially important.
          You need to read more carefully, and lighten up a bit.

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 16, 2018 at 7:10 pm

          Joseph Smith said, “I will be a second Mohammad”, and early on the church practiced both polygamy and murdered apostates.

          Luckily, the mainstream Mormon church has become much more civilized in the past century–but the faith does indeed have disturbing roots.

        • Westman says

          Feb 16, 2018 at 11:47 pm

          Graven, could you provide a link where Mormon apostates were murdered? I’ve done a bit of reading about that church and have not found anything like that except in breakoff polygamous sects.

          Also, everyone seems to be missing the central differentiator of Muslims and Mormons – the Mormons believe in a final gathering of Jews in Israel and support Israel as official doctrine. There are no “orthodox” Mormons supporting BDS.

      • CRUSADER says

        Feb 16, 2018 at 5:06 pm

        The Fight between Mormans and Muslims will be won in Utah
        on the side of the Mormans, certainly, as they prepare for matters
        and all sorts of coming disasters. They are not going to follow Allah.

        I began to read the Koran on a long flight.
        I also began to read the Book of Mormon on a similarly long flight.
        I came to the conclusion both seemed made up and cut and pasted
        so that frat boys could party the way they wanted and be looked up to.
        Both cater to a view of Jesus, and go from there….with angels, etc…
        All justifications.

        That being said, I’d side with Mormons anytime, given certain conditions.

        • StellaSaidSo says

          Feb 17, 2018 at 3:45 am

          ‘…both seemed made up and cut and pasted so that frat boys could party the way they wanted and be looked up to…’

          Exactly my conclusions on becoming acquainted with both ‘faiths’.

    • Marco says

      Feb 16, 2018 at 10:01 pm

      They were once referred to as the American muslims. They took Judaism, Christianity and a big dollop of Islam and my Zeid them together

    • Carolyne says

      Feb 17, 2018 at 12:34 pm

      You are right, R. Russell, except for the magic underwear Mormons are required to wear. Why do religions have talking animals and stones? Mormons have talking rocks which will warn against Jews, Christians have talking snakes which warn against apples, and Mormons have talking salamanders.
      I have never heard any of them utter a word.

      • R Russell says

        Feb 17, 2018 at 2:20 pm

        Belief in the supernatural aspect of life means things not normal in the natural world can happen supernaturally.
        I have never heard any animal speak either.
        The serpent in the Garden of Eden allowed itself to be used for the embodiment of satan. The donkey spoke to Balaam.
        I don’t have a problem with it. We can be aware of the supernatural – good or bad. When it is evil I hate it and have authority from Jesus to deal with it. Now when the shekinah of God is palpable that is something else and if I could I would remain in it 24/7.

  7. pfwag says

    Feb 16, 2018 at 12:41 pm

    Islam is not a religion but a total idealogy that encompasses religion. It’s more like the Nazis or KKK, who also sprinked some religion into their warped world view..

  8. Guy Forester says

    Feb 16, 2018 at 2:18 pm

    I would take this very seriously until proven very clearly to be a foolish prank. Hurricane is a small town that is on the main road into Zion National Park. This could easily be a “veiled” threat.

    At the same time, the incomplete word “comi” either means someone stopped in a hurry or could not figure out ahead of time how much room there was to write out “coming.”

    I would not take the FBI assurances as useful. Remember, this is the bureau that has the following record:

    1. Doing nothing about reports of Saudis wanting to “fly” commercial jet aircraft, but not take off or land.

    2. An FBI attorney blocking agents from opening up Moussaoui’s laptop because it might violate his rights. Try making that claim to an immigration officer when you reenter the country with a camera or a laptop. Good luck.

    3. Failing to investigate and identify Nick Cruz despite all of the local law enforcement interaction. Apparently no effort made to ID the IP address and user of the social media. That worked really well, didn’t it.

    4. The eye opening and revealing findings related to Paddock and his LV massacre. NOT.

    • Carolyne says

      Feb 17, 2018 at 12:39 pm

      Not to mention the former head of the FBI giving government information to a friend so he could get it into the NYT and start the present ridiculous investigation. That was illegal and he should be prosecuted.

      The FBI is a corrupt organization and should be abolished and started over again with fresh people and a fresh slate. People who are sworn to uphold the Constitution should be required to do so.

  9. CRUSADER says

    Feb 16, 2018 at 2:42 pm

    Hurricane Police said someone took down the school’s American flag,
    replaced it with “what looked like a flag used by ISIS” and spray-painted
    “ISIS IS COMI” on a school wall…

    Perhaps he misspelled COMEY ?

    FBI should ask Russians.

    …Heck, they’d probably blame Gen. Flynn, as if he is the boogeyman for all our pains and ills….

    (God Bless Michael Flynn)

    • CogitoErgoSum says

      Feb 16, 2018 at 3:04 pm

      They my have run out of paint before they could add the N and the G or maybe they were scared away before they could finish …….. or maybe they just couldn’t remember how to spell the word ….. after all this was obviously done by morons.

  10. CRUSADER says

    Feb 16, 2018 at 5:07 pm

    Brigitte Gabriel reads the Muslim Brotherhood Plan for America…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgKfL6M6CpU

    http://www.ACTforAmerica.org

  11. CRUSADER says

    Feb 16, 2018 at 5:19 pm

    The Star-Spangled Banner (in 4 full verses)

    O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
    What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming,
    Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
    O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly streaming?
    And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
    Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there,
    O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
    O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

    On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep
    Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
    What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
    As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
    Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
    In full glory reflected now shines in the stream,
    ’Tis the star-spangled banner – O long may it wave
    O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

    And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,
    That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
    A home and a Country should leave us no more?
    Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution.
    No refuge could save the hireling and slave
    From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
    And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
    O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

    O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand
    Between their lov’d home and the war’s desolation!
    Blest with vict’ry and peace may the heav’n rescued land
    Praise the power that hath made and preserv’d us a nation!
    Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
    And this be our motto – “In God is our trust,”
    And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
    O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

    God Bless America & National Anthem

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ped_37q00fE

    National Anthem (Salute to our flag)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrlClNaWiGE

    ( Epic orchestral rendition )

    • Carolyne says

      Feb 17, 2018 at 12:40 pm

      Thank you–I already know the words to the National anthem–all four verses.

  12. gravenimage says

    Feb 16, 2018 at 5:48 pm

    Utah: American flag destroyed, replaced with Islamic State flag at high school
    …………………….

    Deeply disturbing.

  13. Voytek Gagalka says

    Feb 16, 2018 at 6:02 pm

    According to the brass from FBI, one must be a card carrying member of the Islamic State (signed by Caliph Al Baghdadi, no less) for them to recognize it (perhaps) as sufficient proof of “linked connection” to that terror group, otherwise they will never believe. Vandalism caused by Islamic doctrines? Pah!

  14. Ashley says

    Feb 16, 2018 at 6:06 pm

    “[B]ased on information we received from the FBI we do not believe this act was perpetrated by someone linked to the Islamic State,” Hurricane PD said in a statement.
    ______________

    In other words this was indeed an Islamic terror threat likely sanctioned/condoned by ISIS.

    Desecrating the American flag, erecting the Islamic State flag and defacing a public educational building do not constitute “pranks.” Pranks are mischievous acts…this shit doesn’t fit the bill.

    It is now surfacing that the FBI “missed” signs that Nikolas Cruz was a viable threat. Now there are seventeen dead for this “oversight.”

    Sorry. I’m just fucking pissed off…

    • Guy Forester says

      Feb 16, 2018 at 11:24 pm

      When the so called authorities and experts declare something like this to be a prank, non-threat, or not terror, I tend to believe the way you do. This needs to be taken seriously until evidence and facts, not opinions, demonstrate this was a prank. Let us see some social media or security clips that clarify this.

  15. Champ says

    Feb 16, 2018 at 6:39 pm

    FBI = Federal Bureau of Incompetents

  16. Eric jones says

    Feb 16, 2018 at 9:07 pm

    Robert Spencer correctly described the FBI as” deeply corrupt”. It is also a fractured and schizophrenic organization. Some FBI offices are good , some are bad, some are apathetic. John Guandolo’s warnings should be heeded.

    Some of the political leadership of Utah look the other way when it comes to illegal immigrants. They prefer them as low wage labor. Are there ISIS persons in Utah. U bet your Utah fry sauce there are! We need to be more alert as a country.

    Eric

  17. Dr. Strangelove says

    Feb 17, 2018 at 5:21 am

    After hearing that the FBI dropped the ball on the Florida shooter, I’m beginning to believe that they are incompetent and maybe corrupt.

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