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As Florida Man stories go, this one is darker than the one about the bearded septuagenarian who won a women’s poker tournament, but it’s just about as odd. A neo-Nazi, you see, got tired of the whole goosestepping and Heil-Hitlering routine, and decided to take refuge in religion. He converted to Islam, but then two of his roommates had the poor judgment to question the wisdom of his decision. He shot them dead. On Monday, he pleaded guilty to double homicide.
The New York Post reported Monday that Devon Arthurs, “now 24, agreed to a term of 45 years in prison in exchange for admitting his guilt for the 2017 shooting deaths of Jeremy Himmelman and Andrew Onseschuck inside a Tampa apartment.” Arthurs, Himmelman and Onseschuck had been members of the Atomwaffen Division (“Atomic Weapons Division”), a group of pimply-faced losers cosplaying as Nazis that, at least according to Arthurs, had sinister plans.
Arthurs, according to the Tampa Bay Times Monday, told police that another one of his roomies, Brandon Russell, was the founder of Atomwaffen Division, and that “the group had plans to carry out terrorist acts, including launching explosives into a nuclear power plant.” He also claimed that they planned to target synagogues. Instead of participating in their plotting, however, Arthurs left the group and ultimately converted to Islam. It was then that Himmelman and Onseschuck teased Arthurs “for his new faith,” according to the Post, and according to the Associated Press, “the families of the victims alleged that the murders were in retaliation.”
Newsweek reported Monday that Arthurs claimed that his murders had actually prevented these neo-Nazis’ plots from coming to fruition: “In a statement issued to police during interrogation, Arthurs argued that he was saving Americans from mass destruction after learning that one of his roommates, Brandon Russell, planned to bomb power plants and synagogues around Florida.”
Immediately after the murders, however, Arthurs had belied his own claims by not exactly behaving as if he actually opposed violence. He said that he also wanted the killings of his roommates to serve as a cautionary tale about the dangers of anti-Muslim sentiment. Not the best way to communicate such a message, but it is what it is.
And that wasn’t all. The Tampa Bay Times notes that “on May 19, 2017, Arthurs walked into a leasing office at the Hamptons apartments in New Tampa and announced to several people that he had just killed his roommates. A property manager called 911 and watched as Arthurs walked to the nearby Green Planet Smoke Shop. He entered the store, brandished a handgun and held three people hostage.” He later told detectives: “I had to do it. This wouldn’t have had to happen if your country didn’t bomb my country.”
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Bexarkat says
it seems a very short leap from one to the other…
alexreid says
Islamism & Nazism are cut from the same cloth. Hitler thoroughly endorsed Mohammedanism. North African & Middle Eastern Muslims supported the Nazis before, during & after WW2. The Grand Mufti of Palestine spent the vast bulk of the War in Berlin & raised divisions for the Waffen SS out of Muslims in the Balkans. MSM have bought into the idea that opposing Islam is Extreme Right Wing. One ought to go to Youtube & view this post, it’s only several minutes duration: ISLAM = NAZISM WITH A GOD. Explains it all, really.
Kesselman says
You nailed it: “ISLAM = NAZISM WITH A GOD.”
Phil Copson says
Yet another “ginger jihadi”….how long before another professional victim, the talentless ginger dim-wit Prince Harry – (the “Count of Montecito”) – goes postal with a halberd, one has to wonder?
Meantime, I’m keeping a close eye on my cat….
OLD GUY says
Small leap between Nazism, Islam and mental illness.
Hindu American says
By extension, Communism (one national leader, who comes and goes) = Nazism (one national supreme leader, till his death) = Islamism (ONLY one supreme leader who is immortal).
Huapakechi says
The difference is measured in angstroms.
Kesselman says
Socialists have for a long time made the distinction that socialism is the opposite of fascism. Now they make again the false claim that socialism stands outside the fascist scheme. Not so! Nazism, communism, and Islamism are civilizations’ three plagues and are on the same fascist continuum: Nationalist socialism, international socialism, and Islamist socialism.