Idaho Muslim Convert Who Planned to “Slit Throats” of Churchgoers Pleads Guilty

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Muslim convert Alexander Scott Mercurio, from Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, pleaded guilty to planning a series of terror attacks on local churches.

He planned to incapacitate people by beating them with a metal pipe, “slit their throats with a knife or machete” and then start fires inside the church, according to court records.

Where did he get these ideas? Is his mosque under investigation? What is being done to stop jihad recruiting in US mosques? And how did this so-called “misunderstanding” of Islam become so widespread? Why do hundreds of millions of Muslims understand Islam in this exact same way?

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Right now, nothing is being done to stop jihad recruiting in US mosques.

If the ‘moderates’ really reject extremism why haven’t they instituted genuine programs to teach against these views of Islam.

Why are there no Muslim rallies against jihad and sharia? Why do they rally and march for Islamic Jew hatred?

Muslim Convert Who Planned to “Slit Throats” of Churchgoers in Idaho Pleads Guilty

“And then start fires inside the church”

By Daniel Greenfield, October 27, 2025:

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We keep talking about Islamic terrorism as if it were in the past tense. It’s not. Even assuming we don’t see a major organized 9/11 attack again any time soon (which considering some of the large scale ISIS attacks in Europe is far from a foregone conclusion), there’s a steady drumbeat of Muslim terror plots.

And increasing numbers of them are coming from converts to Islam. Here’s a particularly nasty one.

A man accused of planning to attack a local church on behalf of ISIS last year pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday, according to the U.S Attorney’s Office for the District of Idaho.

Authorities arrested Mercurio on April 6, 2024, the day before federal prosecutors said he planned to attack people attending a church near his home in Coeur d’Alene. He planned to incapacitate people by beating them with a metal pipe, “slit their throats with a knife or machete” and then start fires inside the church, according to court records.

He told a source he previously “drank the Kool-Aid of white supremacy” but felt ISIS had more purpose for him, according to court records.

This is what happens when the official narrative props up Islam and pushes it on teenagers in high school. Muslim converts plotting terrorist attacks used to be ex-cons who were conned into it in prison, but the new wave of Muslim terror converts are white teenagers in out-of-the-way places you don’t associate with Islamic terrorism who get into it and then start planning to stab or kill someone.

To what extent are they infected with it not just on the internet, but in school, is the question.

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