Miguel Silva is apparently a convert to Islam. Where did he get the idea that his new religion required him to commit acts of violence against police? Is anyone investigating the question of where he learned about Islam? That might lead toward more people like him being apprehended. Why isn’t this being done?
“Self-proclaimed ISIS terrorist arrested in Milford, police say,” by Christine Dempsey, Hartford Courant, January 24, 2020:
Milford police said they have arrested a man who, implying he is from ISIS, threatened to kill police officers.
Miguel Silva, 31, of Stratford Avenue in Stratford was arrested Thursday on a warrant for act of terrorism, first-degree harassment, first-degree threatening and breach of peace, police said. He is in custody on $50,000 bail.
According to police, he left threatening messages in a common hallway of a River Street apartment complex on Jan. 19. The messages said, “ISIS we will kill cops!” and “Milford Police Stratford Police ISIS you got our guy in Shelton this is the beginning.”
Threatening messages also were left in other River Street buildings, police said. They were, “Declare war against police ha ha ha ha ha” and “ISIS will blow up the Milford police station run my prints pigs!! I’m smiling for the camera yes I am.”…
gravenimage says
Connecticut: Muslim leaves messages saying “ISIS we will kill cops,” “ISIS will blow up the Milford police station”
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Just practicing his new faith…
More:
Threatening messages also were left in other River Street buildings, police said. They were, “Declare war against police ha ha ha ha ha” and “ISIS will blow up the Milford police station run my prints pigs!! I’m smiling for the camera yes I am.”…
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Well, the police took him at his word and arrested his *ss. What a moron.
Wellington says
Seconded, gravenimage.
I know Connecticut rather well, having traveled through its main roads and back roads countless times, from northwest Litchfield county (its most beautiful part I believe) to southeast New London county, from southwest Fairfield county (a lot of money there, especially in the towns of Greenwich and New Canaan) to northeast Windam county. Much of it (though not all of it as is the case with every state) is quite picturesque. Historically, topographically, culturally, architecturally, etc., it really does often meet the ideal of Connecticut as conveyed in such old 1940’s films as “Holiday Inn” with Bing Crosby, Marjorie Reynolds and Fred Astaire, “Christmas in Connecticut” with Barbara Stanwyck and Dennis Morgan and “Mr. Blandings Build His Dream House” with Cary Grant and Myrna Loy.
Thus, I am saddened that Islam has made inroads into this state because Connecticut deserves so much better than believers in an extremely warped religious system that COULD HAVE NEVER created Connecticut in the first place, ditto for the other 49 states.
Sorry to go on so long but as I see my country infested (yes, this is the correct word) with Muslims, I know as you know that no good can come from this. Wherever Islam extends its putrid belief system, there violence, inequality, a dearth of freedom, any quaintness, good feelings and a live and let live attitude, etc., really have no chance at all.
I detest Islam, especially in the West where its mission is to destroy the West. Including Connecticut.
Huh!?! says
+1
gravenimage says
Yes–Connecticut is a great state, and has no need of these Muslim thugs.
Thanks for mentioning those wonderful movies–my husband and I rewatched “Christmas in Connecticut” over the holidays.
Marilyn says
Wellington,
You are so right; it is sad their tentacles are everywhere and NOTHING good has ever come from islam no matter how you cut it.
Sons of Liberty says
Wellington I agree 100% . This evil ideology is enticing to people who feel unfairly wronged by capitalism , free markets and civil society . This guy somehow got his hands on a Quran or attended a Mosque and was exposed in prison . They believe what Muhammad said that the dhimmis are inferior to Muslims and should be subjugated and terrorized . What better way to terrorize them than to threaten their protection ,…..the police. The US must defy this subversive invasion led by the Muslim brotherhood and organizations like CAIR and the Muslim Students Association. If we don’t defy Islam lawfully and peacefully it WON’T END WELL for our Constitutional Republic.
abad says
I know Connecticut very well, too. It’s a beautiful state rich with history.
Born and raised in a Hartford suburb that can be accurately described as Puritan Central. This particular suburb is home to the great-great-great-great-grandmother of Winston Churchill – Abigail Jerome.
Back to the story, it should be a felony to convert to Islam, and risk of deportation to Syria.
underbed cat says
High education while devout to Islam and good at deceptive messaging and imagery in terms of knowledge of the Quran are almost descriptive of many young covered Islamic woman who when asked in the ME or in the West, what are you studing in the university, respond…Chemistry or Physics,. Sometimes Math, Nuclear maybe even Media. Yes they are intelligent and due to their skills and diversity in America or in the west we grow the potential of risk. They cannot, due to sharia law factually describe Islam and many will land jobs in professional high skilled jobs areas well until they decide if they want to contribute their individual jihad or just fund it since they are now seen as assets without a deceptive goal since they forbidden to speak or expose the goal. This can manifest in any job category. Try to sell that to a liberal highly educated relative and you get” I don’t beleive it “or “that is a ignorant conspiracy theory” or stop,”” I don’t want to hear this”..so I immediately respond I know by your reaction that you have never read a Quran.
With open borders and no policy on Islam or awareness of the goal, we are in huge trouble. The Islamic movement is very strategic, consistent and media savvy and they know their roles.
Norman says
The faith certainly attracts mentally ill people. Perhaps they are all mentally unstable.
toomanyhobbies says
O let them in and the liberals want to continue letting them in…
Ashley says
Doesn’t look like he’s smiling for the camera in that mugshot…..
Wellington says
Indeed, Ashley. Dead eyes and arrogance on display again. Islam is simply “superb” at both of these.
FYI says
And yet another convert to islam….another mugshot.
That false piety,the self-righteousness,the sense of islamic entitlement to be violent,to hate{see the koran},freedom to commit treason,the muslim beard..
A Doctrine of HATE al walaa wal baraa,an apartheid system{muslims vs non-muslims}that gives freedpm to NOT “love thy neighbor”{lev19:18}
“Commandments,what commandments”?
Who needs to obey those essential 2 chief laws of God and those awkward Exodus 20 ones them when al LAH the ARAB god[“The GREATEST of deceivers” k3:54} gives full PERMISSION to..
murder k2:191
Steal k48:20
abuse women k4:24
lie koran 3:28
be antisemitic/antichristian k9:30,k98 v 6
islam is not for intelligent people.
Wellington says
“islam is not for intelligent people.”
Not to be difficult, FYI, but intelligent people over the centuries have enthusiastically accepted (or created) all kinds of rot (e.g., Joseph Goebbels who had a PhD and that highly pernicious thinker, one Karl Marx).
I would argue that intelligence alone is no guarantee against accepting maladroit and silly belief systems. What is imperative are proper knowledge, character (i.e., moral intelligence as opposed to “standard intelligence”) and common sense. God knows I have come across a lot of intelligent, well-educated people with a bevy of degrees who nonetheless are dismal respecting any sapient understanding of the human condition.
In short, intelligence alone is not the problem. It’s a much “wider matter;” it’s a much more extensive “difficulty.”
FYI says
Yes I totally agree with you.
There is knowledge and there is wisdom:-
“Knowledge is proud he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble he knows no more”
William Cowper
{“The task”}
I really mean Wisdom and common sense and,as you correctly say character,MORAL intelligence.
I don’t just mean being educated:it is of course much more than that.
{You mention Joseph Goebbels:I recently read that 15 out of 25 leaders of those nazi Einsatzgruppen who were involved in liquidating the Jews had Ph.Ds.These were the same people who happily murdered innocent people and used an evil ideology to justify it and 15 of these leaders had Doctorates.Let’s not forget those monstrous medical Doctors like mengele}
Proper knowledge,moral character and common sense coupled with Wisdom and intellectual humility…
Sons of Liberty says
Wellington ….so eloquently stated ! Sorry, to say we have many of the people you describe in our Federal government especially the State Department .
James Lincoln says
FYI says,
“islam is not for intelligent people”
Unfortunately, a significant percent of people with above average IQs, i.e., “intelligent”, fail to analyze islam using factual, evidence-based logic.
Most of these people are leftist “islam apologists”…
Rufolino says
Your I.Q., whether high or low, is no indication whatever of your moral character or any other aspect of character. The most beautiful person I know is educationally sub-normal.
I happen to have a very high I.Q. (Mensa) but as for my powers of moral endurance I am often in despair.
It isn’t how intelligent you are, but what you do with what you are given.
FYI says
I agree Rufolino and James Lincoln.
Leftist apologists and some Saudi-funded western “academics” enable and promote islam
Definitely some people who convert to islam do so because it gives them carte blanche to do things that are condemned in the Judeo-Christian Commandment system:the automatic entitlement to be antisemitic or violent for example.That comes from the koran
There is a lot of knowledge in the World today but it seems there is very little Wisdom.
If the iranian mullahs were wise men they would see how it was a good thing that the Persians had Cyrus but instead,relying on their koran with its hatreds,they miss the Golden Opportunity :all they want is war with Israel and endless terrorism.
Huh!?! says
Let me see. Not isis, not islam, but mental illness or some other term to distance this from islam. The fact that this is what islam is and what isis wants cannot possibly be the reason for someone who has converted to islam. Another idea is that he is just using the false narrative about the religion of peace to commit crimes directed at police. Yeah that is it! Except it is not a false narrative. Anything that puts islam under the harsh light of truth would be islamaphobia. Never mind all the police that would be killed and someone standing to close to one.
This is gone past being a police matter. This is a national security and defense matter.
Sadly as Wellington noted intelligence or lack of it is not the matter. This is more extensive.
islam ruins every culture it touches because the rubble of islam must be all that remains. The denying the truth on this matter will not allow for avoiding the consequences of that denial.
underbed cat says
I sensed from news reports long ago, that Connecticut, had already been a target and islam made inroads into the state. I viewed it as having possible connections or influence on a young man.
Jihadist killers are not motivated by money nor does education or family wealth deter this infection. it is a matter of influence and targets are often the young, someone who they meet or thru social contact on a computer or may be something new that is are taught, the Quran idea’s or commands stick in their miind as an obligation. And the mosques just keep getting bigger….and the information to prevent this is accessible is still not comprehended until someone reads the book jihadist read.
tgusa says
These guys are crawling out of the woodwork.
“Miguel Silva, 31, of Stratford Avenue in Stratford Miguel Silva, 31, of Stratford Avenue in Stratford was arrested Thursday on a warrant for act of terrorism, first-degree harassment, first-degree threatening and breach of peace, police said. He is in custody on
$50,000 bail.was arrested Thursday on a warrant for act of terrorism, first-degree harassment, first-degree threatening and breach of peace, police said. He is in custody on $50,000 bail.”
50 thousand dollar bail for all that? Is the judge a family member?
Miguel Silva, 31, of Stratford Avenue in Stratford, from the US media, certainly a white Hispanic, with no mention of his conversion of course.
Lydia Church says
On another site there is a ‘Florida Man Friday’ thing going where there seems to be a man guilty of something in Florida every Friday. (Not that this is surprising in today’s world.) But these guys seem to be competing for the ‘Ugly Terrorist Man daily’ award!
tgusa says
Florida Man Friday, love it. Although you are right Lydia Church, not surprising in today’s world, could be any state.
abad says
Ok I need to look up this “Florida Man Friday” – I’m a native CT person living in FL. Thanks!
barbaracvm1 says
The Koran states that every Muslim is required to wage war at least once a year.
underbed cat says
I think that when Islam moves in a country, after many years of population growth, and unidentified attacks and then periods of calm, when they decide to make a move on the countries government, they go after police depts, military bases.so that the chaos in a area and leave citizens hellpless, cannot be responded to or they create chaos to go after police.I think the police should be aware. and some are, .so they are more than prepared. It seems here we read about it in foreign countries and that is a sign of striking terror..Something tells me this guy seems crazy but he is a bad sign. Any mosques within 10 miles or more of this area?
gravenimage says
There is a Stratford Masjid in Stratford itself.
No Muzzies Here says
I often wonder how a reasonable, intelligent person living in a country that largely enforces personal freedom could convert to a value system that eliminates person freedom and forces the acceptance of completely unreasonable practices.
The answer is that this individual is not reasonable, or intelligent, as one glance at his face will reveal.
OLD GUY says
One answer is that Islam supports the low life’s like him with its hate and violent teachings. Why else is it becoming the religion of prisons, where it appeals to the evil and hate many of these hardened criminals feel towards society.
Not much good is coming from the immigration of muslims from these terrorist countries.
Mark says
Islam is peace…. he must have just “misunderstood” his “religion”
Islam’s founder Muhammad proclaimed “I have been victorious thru terror”
Quran teachings:
Quran 2:191 “kill them wherever you overtake them……such is the recompense of the disbelievers”
Quran 47:4 “when you meet disbelievers strike their necks”
Quran 4:89 “if they turn away (from islam) seize them & kill them”
Quran 5:51 ” take no Jew or Christian as an ally”
Quran 8:12 “cast TERROR into the hearts of those who disbelieve, so strike their necks”
Quran 8:60 “prepare whatever steeds of war you are able that you may TERRIFY the enemies of allah”
Quran 8:67 “it is not for a prophet to have captives of war until he inflicts a slaughter upon the land”
Quran 9:5 “when the sacred months have passed, then kill the polytheists”
Quran 8:39 “fight til all religion is for allah”
Hadith 6985 “the last hour will not come until muslims will fight against the Jews, and muslims will kill the Jews….”
There are 109 verses of persecution & murder against non-muslims (aka disbelievers)
islam is a cult of bullying, aggression, intolerance and yes murdering simply for being a disbeliever
……islam has no place in civilized society
Prison psychologist Nicholai Sennels wrote “mind numbing repetition of Islam’s exceedingly violent verses makes many muslims ticking time bombs wherever they live”
#WalkAwayFromIslam
#WalkAwayFromDemocrats (promoters & defenders of Islam)
Walter Sieruk says
That Muslim of the state of Connecticut: Muslim left the messages which are “ISIS we will kill cops,” “ISIS will blow up the Milford police station”
This statement be that jihad -minded Muslim ,who lives in that State of is further evidence that the jihadists who make up ISIS still have a strong and malice-filled “obsession” with the United States and when it comes to their Islamic scheming against America and Americans for future Islamic terror attack and they with their Quran based ideology. therefore they are not going to stop in their demon-like violent zeal against the USA.
So we need to ,not live in fear ,but still report to the police anything the seems not to look quite right. As in “What’s wrong with this picture?’ As it has been said “If you see something, say something.” The wise words of Thomas Jefferson may apply to this subject. For Mr. Jefferson declared “Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.”
This opens to door ,concerning the ISIS threat , to the very important, question “How to truly defeat ISIS once and for all ?” The answer to that question was provided in a speech by the ISIS spokesman, Abu Muhammad al Adnani, now dead, in this speech he had declared “True defeat is a loss of willpower and desire to fight…” he further explained “We would be defeated and you victorious only if you are able to remove the Quran from Muslim hearts.” All this leads to a very important question: “Is the Quran the Word of God or is it a fabrication of a man. Thus, is the Quran the truth or a fiction and a hoax ?” The jihadists, as those of ISIS use many verses from the Quran as the main source of justification for their violence, mayhem and murders. As found in For example, 2:191.. 4:47 5:33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4
The answer, to the above is clearly given on pages 145 through 157 in THE ISLAMIC INVASION by Robert Morey in which he wrote a section on the Quran with its self-contradictions. Just two of the many he cited are the following “The Quran differs on whether a day is a thousand years or fifty thousand years in God’s sight’ and “Who was first to believe? Abraham or Moses [Sura 6:14 versus 7:143]? The above is inconsistent and illogical. Further, Morey wrote about “The fact that Judaism and Christianity broke up into different sects was used in the Quran to prove that they are not of God [Suras 30:20-32. 42:13, 14]. Yet Islam has broken up into many warring sects and therefore cannot be true if the Quran is right.” Moreover, Morey in his book shows many more contradictions and absurdities in the Quran, there are and how Muhammad incorporated extra Biblical and Jewish folklore along with pre-Islamic Arabian myth and parts of Zoroastrian and Hindu stories into the Quran. Furthermore, the Muslims claim that “the Quran is the direct, literal word of God unmodified in any way by the Prophet who uttered them at the bidding of God.” Nevertheless, in the book UNVEILING ISLAM by Ergun Mehmet and Eethi Caner has shown that the Quran was modified in the following account on pages 45. “Muhammad felt the need to improve on the words of Allah, since he changed Allah’s wisdom for his own on several occasions. A hadith tells of the nonchalant emendations of Muhammad:’ On a number of occasions he [a scribe] had, with the Prophet’s consent changed the closing words of verses. For example, when the prophet had said ‘God is mighty and wise ‘ Adbollah b. Abi Sarh suggested writing down ‘Knowing and wise’ and the Prophet answered that there was no objection. Having observed a succession of changes of this type, Adbollah renounced Islam on the grounds that revelations, if from God could not be changed at the prompting of a scribe such as himself. After his apostasy he went to Mecca and joined the Qorayshites.’ Other writers reveal that later Muhammad and his people did go war with the Qorayshites and he personally killed Abdollah. Obviously Abdollah knew too much and Muhammad wanted Abdollah’s knowledge to die with him.”
In conclusion, the Quran , which is the entire for ISIS is not only a fiction, it’s also a hoax.