[ May 9, 2024 ]
While the Biden regime hunts for “white supremacist terrorists,” the jihad continues. Portland, Maine’s WMTW reported Thursday that “the Wells man accused of attacking police in New York City near Times Square with a machete on New Year’s Eve is now scheduled to stand trial on federal charges in March 2024.” The “Wells man” is Trevor Bickford, who was nineteen years old at the time of his attack, and a fervent convert to the religion of Islam. He is “charged with four counts of attempted murder of officers and employees of the U.S. Government” and “has pleaded not guilty.” He is also yet another reminder that when Biden regime officials tell us that white supremacists are the biggest threat the nation faces today, they’re lying.
“According to the state indictment,” says WMTW, “Bickford studied radical Islamic ideology, intended to carry out ‘jihad,’ and aimed to attack U.S. officials he thought to be ‘anti-Muslim.’” This is unusually forthright reporting for an establishment media outlet, even a minor one. When Bickford stabbed the cops with a machete back on New Year’s Eve, the reaction from authorities was more in line with what we have come to expect these days: they scratched their heads and wondered why, oh why, a young convert to Islam could even dream of doing such a thing. According to the UK’s Daily Mail, “an investigation was underway to pinpoint a motive for the attack.”
That investigation, however, was more the result of officials not wanting to recognize Bickford’s obvious motive, rather than a matter of his real intentions being unclear. Bickford himself left behind a “manifesto” in which he made his perspective and intentions quite clear. But since neither he nor his attack fit the establishment media/Biden regime narrative about the “white supremacist” terror threat, they got virtually no attention.
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The New York Post reported that when he was arrested after the stabbings, Bickford had a handwritten note in his backpack, asking his family to “please repent to Allah and accept Islam.” The backpack also contained a “collection of religious material” that was unlikely to have been gospel tracts. Bickford wrote: “To my family — specifically, mother — I’m sorry for not having been a good enough son.” But then he gets down to brass tacks: “I fear greatly that you will not repent to Allah. And therefore I hold hope in my heart that a piece of you believes so that you may be taken out to [sic] the hellfire.”
Bickford addressed the same hope to his brother: “To Travis. Of anyone I’ve known who I have felt is closest to faith — it’s you. Of anyone I’ve ever wanted to accept Islam with me — it’s you. Please repent to Allah and accept Islam. I fear for you.” To his other brother, who is reportedly in the U.S. Marine Corps, Bickford wrote: “To Devon, there was a time when we were close, but that time has passed. You have joined the ranks of my enemy. And for that I can give you no kind words – return to Allah.”
The New York Post also noted that Bickford wanted to attack “a uniformed officer” or “someone with a gun,” as he believed such people to be an “enemy of the state.” Which state? The New York Post, as willfully ignorant as the rest of the establishment media, showed no curiosity about this question. But clearly, Trevor Bickford, after he converted to Islam, was no stalwart American patriot. He wanted to target a uniformed officer as an enemy of the Islamic state. He had no kind words for his brother Devon because Devon had joined “the ranks of my enemy,” that is, the U.S. military.
How did Trevor Bickford come to think this way? According to the Daily Mail, he “appeared to be a typical, all-American teenager” who “once made the school honor roll, won awards for his artwork, and was a member of the championship football team in his hometown of Wells, Maine.” Then, however, his father died of a drug overdose, which must certainly have been deeply traumatizing, and Bickford converted to Islam.
If authorities really want to understand Bickford’s motive, they should study carefully what they are almost certainly ignoring even to this day, such as the questions of how and where this young man converted to Islam, and how he got the idea that his new religion, which non-Muslim authorities all over the Western world assure us is completely peaceful and tolerant, commanded him to consider non-Muslims enemies and violently attack them.
These questions are never asked, much less answered, despite the fact that converts to Islam turning to jihad violence is a distressingly common phenomenon. American intelligence and law enforcement officials don’t want to do anything to give the impression that they don’t accept the dogma that Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance that has nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism. The fact that converts to Islam such as Trevor Bickford, Allison Fluke-Ekren, Damon Joseph, Corey Johnson, and many, many others have somehow gotten exactly the opposite idea doesn’t ever make authorities pause and reflect upon their core assumptions.
All this willful ignorance accomplishes nothing other than to ensure that the story of Trevor Bickford will recur again and again. The Biden regime’s all-consuming focus on a fictional “white supremacist” terror threat only ensures that those who converted and taught Bickford and others like him will have a freer hand than ever to recruit and train new jihadis. In this case, as in so many others, the Biden regime’s willful ignorance and politicization of counterterror activity come at a high human cost.
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21 Comments
7 months ago
You know it, and I know it, But again, the Biden regime classifying all white people as “supremacist terrorists” is all about creating a pretext for criminalizing any and all opposition and resistance to their toxic, destructive, openly racialist, anti-white agenda. They of course see no problem with black supremacism, brown supremacism, LGBTQ (and especially transgender) supremacism – and of course, as here, Muslim supremacism.
7 months ago
They should have just shot the dirty muslime to death.
D
7 months ago
Only morons without a functioning brain cell convert to islam the doctrine of hate!!!!!
D
7 months ago
Do you want to know WHY this muslem “convert” tried to murder Police? READ THE koran, hadith, sunna books. They call for the MURDER of all not believers! This is DIRECTLY STATED in these three books!
7 months ago
Reply to
Laddyboy
The desire to resort to violence and killing is so clearly stated in Islamic literature that to try to maintain that it is anything but a vicious murder cult is simply wilful and deliberate ignorance.
7 months ago
Reply to
Laddyboy
And yet the Left basically passes off Islam as viz these “converts” as “mental illness” – which frankly it is anything but, but rather a malignant ideology as you’ve noted and for all the reasons you cited.
It is precisely because of this background that I have characterized “transgender” as an ideology that is deliberately meant to supersede and overturn the realities of biological sex. That is NOT, as some (especially those in the conservative community) would insist on putting it, a “mental illness.”
7 months ago
Damn shame, he’s a nice looking young bloke. This is what the study of “radical islamic texts” can do. The trouble is the law and the government, such as it is, will not realise that all “islamic texts” ARE radical. What beats me is how any sane person could read the offensive gibberish and then become a convert. The obvious choice would be to despise “the religion” of islam for evermore and spread the word.
7 months ago
Reminds me of the Muslim shooter who murdered 10 people in the grocery store in Boulder, Co.
Even our local news barely reports on it…
D
7 months ago
young people w/mental problems eg the girls of the Manson family & this boy—I truly feel sorry for—must B punished—not b’cuz we R vindictive—but an example must B made…We see in Europe where they R “coddled” it just encourages more “acting out…”
7 months ago
“Strike them in the neck” The islamic message of the day.
D
7 months ago
Reply to
jerry
When they get caught trying to do that. We should without hesitation practice our own directive of “Strike Them In The Balls.” That might help to curb their willingness to attack people.
7 months ago
4 senior Jews attacked in Raleigh NC by Muslim and not a peep
7 months ago
What do expect from a nutcase (Biden) who calls concerned parents at PTA meetings, “domestic terrorists”?!!!
7 months ago
They are always lying. We know they are always lying. They know that we know, but they just continue lying. I don’t know how much closer to 1984 we can possibly get.
7 months ago
Execute. FORTHWITH
