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Utah: Teen researches how to join ISIS, leaves homemade bomb in his high school cafeteria

Apr 26, 2019 8:00 am By Robert Spencer

It’s impossible to tell from this article whether Martin Farnsworth actually converted to Islam and frequented a mosque in Utah; authorities should investigate this possibility, and also try to determine whether his allegiance to ISIS came from that mosque, but they almost certainly will not do so. In any case, his behavior is being ascribed to his autism and to the claim that he was bullied. But plenty of people are autistic and plenty of people are bullied, and they don’t try to join ISIS. What’s the difference here?

“High school bomb case: Teen gets probation for homemade incendiary device,” by Emily Havens, St. George Spectrum & Daily News, April 24, 2019 (thanks to Rick):

A Southern Utah teenager who brought a homemade incendiary device to his high school with the intent to “cause some fear” was sentenced in adult court Wednesday afternoon.

Martin Ryan Farnsworth, 17, was sentenced to 48 months of probation — with additional restrictions — on one count of possession of an incendiary device with intent to injure persons or property.

Farnsworth took a plea deal in March, which led the state to drop the two first-degree felonies he was charged with in adult court: attempted murder and possession or use of a weapon of mass destruction.

After an investigation was completed by multiple agencies, Farnsworth was found to be responsible for bringing a homemade incendiary device inside his backpack and attempting to light the fuse inside the crowded Pine View High School cafeteria on March 5, 2018.

Authorities believe the device was a failed attempt to detonate an explosive at the school, according to court records and testimony.

“I don’t see death as anything bad, I see it as a new way of life,” Farnsworth said during a recorded interview with police. “I expected the thing to go off.”…

Farnsworth has been diagnosed on the high-functioning autistic scale, and he also experienced severe depression due to bullying, defense attorney Edward Flint said.

“A lot of this started with bullying in school that wasn’t addressed,” Flint said. “That’s when he turned to criminal acts… Because he snapped and reacted this way, that’s why he’s here today.”

Westfall disagreed with Flint’s statement.

“This took some planning,” Westfall said. “It took some thought, and that’s troubling to me. You didn’t just ‘snap'”…

Multiple agencies responded to PVHS on March 5, 2018, on reports of a backpack near the cafeteria that appeared to be smoking. The report came in around 12:20 p.m., as students were gathering and dispersing for the lunch hour.

Students noticed the abandoned, smoking backpack on the ground and notified the school resource officer, who then notified the principal. Members of the Washington County Bomb Squad investigated the backpack and device inside and determined, had it detonated, it would have the potential to cause significant injury or death.

According to a recorded police interview with Farnsworth, he told detectives he “would have been fine with it” if his bomb had detonated and killed or injured his classmates….

“I’ve been looking at ISIS stuff, so I wanted to see what would happen and what people would think,” the juvenile told the officers.

An FBI agent who testified in Farnsworth’s preliminary hearing in juvenile court said the computer user had viewed videos of pro-ISIS propaganda and ISIS recruitment videos. He also said the user was searching various search terms like “bomb,” “fuse,” “Hurricane,” “ISIS,” “How do westerners become recruited to ISIS,” “ISIS phone number,” and “ways to contact ISIS.”

Farnsworth was also charged in juvenile court with graffiti and abuse of a flag at the time of his arrest in connection to the PVHS incident. During the recorded interview with police, Farnsworth told detectives he damaged the school’s American flag and tagged one of the school’s exterior walls with the words “ISIS is comi–.”

Farnsworth pleaded guilty to the graffiti charge, while the abuse of a flag charge was dismissed via a plea deal in September in juvenile court.

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  1. FYI says

    Apr 26, 2019 at 10:57 am

    Bored with life?
    suicidal,homicidal and depressive?
    Having Sociopathic or psychopathic tendencies?
    Unable to think for oneself?

    Are you..?

    A silly western woman enamored by those shiny colorful hijabs and the prospect of multicult islamic love?
    A black guy bored with Christianity,that white man’s religion who sees islam as the black man’s creed?
    A lazy white kid who won’t make any effort in life and finds a cult that facilitates his hatred?
    A leftard academic of religion who amazingly,cannot see that Al ilah is in fact a pagan Arab god.
    A “catholic” Dhimmi clergyman such as pope francis who thinks the pagan Arab god=the Christian God?

    islam may well be for YOU…..

    islam : the religion for those who cannot think for themselves.

  2. mortimer says

    Apr 26, 2019 at 11:04 am

    Another Anglo-Celtic death cult adherent. Utah is the home of the now-much-reformed Mormon movement which before the death of Joseph Smith had its own army, the Nauvoo Legion which was disbanded in 1887.

    The similarities between early Mormonism and the early Islamic movement have been noted by a number of authors.

    The morbid heavy metal ideation of North American suburbia fits well with the sadistic, gleeful, sophomoric and pornographic Death Cult ideation of Islam.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 26, 2019 at 10:36 pm

      Actually, Mortimer, your idea that most North American suburbanites are waging violent Jihad is quite mistaken.

  3. gravenimage says

    Apr 26, 2019 at 10:35 pm

    Utah: Teen researches how to join ISIS, leaves homemade bomb in his high school cafeteria
    ………………..

    He understands enough about Islam to know that its purpose is to “cause some fear” in Infidels.

  4. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Apr 27, 2019 at 4:23 am

    Any and all already criminally-minded people who come into contact with islam will want to join up with it immediately,because they instinctively love the main part where islam is nothing more than another typical criminals’ “inevitable force” alibi to excuse their own criminal desires and actions; i.e: “The Allah Made Me Do It!” Like Muhammad, they insist that, if they get away with what would otherwise be defined as a crime (attacking thereby innocent other people first) then, since “allah” obviously meant for them to get away with it, it really can’t have been a crime at all! Whee! This is also why so many prisoners in jail “revert” to islam!

  5. Brenda says

    Apr 27, 2019 at 1:13 pm

    There is not now, nor has there ever been any excuse for terrorism. People who engage in this type of activity should be considered rabid and as with any rabid animal (people are animals – mammals) they should be put down without a second thought.
    “Do unto others as they would do unto you.”

  6. Gail Griffin says

    Apr 28, 2019 at 1:39 am

    If you want evil. Satan possesses you then Islam is your ticket to be as evil as you want.

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