New in PJ Media:
At first glance the story looks like a Leftist propagandist’s dream: a rookie NYPD cop who just graduated from the police academy on Friday was at work in Time Square on New Year’s Eve when he and another police officer were suddenly and savagely attacked by a machete-wielding white man. Surely the perpetrator is one of those white supremacist terrorists that Old Joe Biden and his handlers keep telling us constitute the biggest terror threat the nation faces today, right? He must have been wearing a MAGA hat and screaming “This is MAGA country” as he attacked the cops, right? Well, not quite.
To be sure, the photos that have become available of the suspect, a 19-year-old Trevor Bickford, do buttress the impression that this is some denizen of Middle-Class America (Bickford is from Wells, Maine) who snapped after two years of lies, authoritarianism, and misrule from the Biden team. In photos taken from his mother’s Facebook page, Bickford is fresh-faced, smiling, clean-cut, and to all appearances seems to be a normal, well-adjusted American. In some, however, Bickford is pictured sporting a kufi, and according to the New York Post, “police are probing whether the suspect is a recently radicalized Islamic extremist.”
Bickford doesn’t seem to have any criminal record, but according to the UK’s Daily Mail, “the FBI in Boston do have an open case on him,” and “he is on a ‘guardian list’ because of his radicalization.” So he was on a “guardian list,” but no one seems to have been doing any guarding: Bickford was free to travel to New York City with an 18-inch machete and attack two cops without anyone noticing or lifting a finger to stop him. Was the FBI too busy hunting for actual “white supremacists” to take any significant notice of Bickford? Were FBI agents too busy coordinating “election crimes” to bother with an earnest young convert to Islam with a machete? According to the New York Post, “Bickford’s aunt notified authorities because he apparently made statements to her indicating a desire to go fight in Afghanistan, police sources said,” but hey, let’s get this new gender chart up in all the FBI offices!
The Daily Mail noted that “the attack happened just outside of the high-security zone where thousands of revelers were screened for weapons as they prepared to ring in 2023.” A police source said wryly: “No backpacks or umbrellas in Times Square. They forgot to mention machetes.” The Daily Mail added that “both officers were slashed in their heads, including the rookie cop who suffered a skull fracture along with an 8-year veteran who had a head laceration.” Bickford may have been aiming to stab both officers in the neck, as per the Qur’an’s dictum, “When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks” (47:4).
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ME Infidel says
Since @ 2010 when I became a chapter leader of Act for America in Portland, ME, many of us have been warning anyone who would listen about Sharia law, i.e. “Creeping Sharia”/“Stealth Jihad”. We’ve had meetings, written the requisite letters-to-the-editor, met with the Chief of Staff of one governor and another governor himself, tried to pass 3 anti-Sharia & 2 anti-FGM bills all of which failed. The “Red-Green Axis” is alive and well in Maine.
Just as agenda driven Leftist lunatics can’t differentiate between pollution (which no one wants) and Climate Change (which is cyclical and controlled by the sun and moon), they can’t distinguish between the “religious” and “political” components of Islamic doctrine.
I don’t give a hoot about the Five Pillars of Islam (the Shahada, praying 5x/day, Zakat, fasting during Ramadan, the pilgrimage to Mecca) all to increase a believer’s chances of getting into heaven. Whatever!
What I do care about are the lesser known Five Responsibilities of Islam (to assemble, to listen, to obey, to emigrate to perform either violent or stealth jihad) that directly impact me as a Kafir.
I fully expect today’s Democrats to be either dimwits or they’re deliberately trying to undermine our Judeo-Christian values and destroy our sovereignty and Constitution (mostly the latter). What I don’t expect is for the State GOP to open welcoming centers in Portland and Lewiston to pander to refugees and asylees to “expand the tent”.
Welcoming legitimate refugees/asylees is one thing, to pander to them for votes is another. How is it I could have a direct conversation with a Republican county chairman who could not understand that this is a deliberate invasion (Hijra) in this day and age?