Category: moslems & jihadis

Flight 93 crash in Shanksville on 9/11: ‘The first Americans to fight back against terrorists happened here.’

On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Robin Duppstadt was working in the family general store with her sister-in-law Stacy. Suddenly she started receiving a flurry of calls telling her two planes had hit the World Trade Center.

“We called our other sister-in-law and asked her to bring us a television so we could watch the news while we were working. Before she got there we heard this whoosh sound followed shortly by a very loud thud,” she said.

Off in the distance there was smoke. “I knew in my gut what happened in New York and Washington also had just happened here,” Duppstadt said.

Local first responders, including Stacy’s brother, rushed to the scene. That whoosh and thud turned out to be United Airlines Flight 93, which had slammed into the earth at the speed of 575 miles per hour, landing in a grassy area used for both farming and strip mining. It was the only hijacked plane on Sept. 11 that didn’t hit its intended, symbolic target.

In the days, months and years that followed, it was discovered that the passengers and crew of Flight 93 believed the plane was heading toward the White House or the Capitol and, to stop that tragedy, they revolted against the four hijackers in midair. All 40 of them died along with their captors.

Duppstadt and her sister-in-law closed the store early that day and went straight to the local school to collect her three children. She went home and held them close.

“You never think something would happen in a place like here. You hope if it does the community comes together.”

Officials examine the crater 11 September 2001 at the crash site of United Airlines Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Officials examine the crater on Sept. 11, 2001, at the crash site of United Airlines Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa.AFP via Getty Images
Officials oversee the scene at the crash site of United Airlines Flight 93 in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, 11
Officials oversee the scene at the crash site of United Airlines Flight 93 in a field near Shanksville on Sept. 11, 2001.AFP via Getty Images 
The upper level of the 9/11 memorial in Shanksville called “Crescent of Embrace” designed by Paul and Milena Murdoch.
The upper level of the 9/11 memorial in Shanksville called “Crescent of Embrace.” Stephen Yang
“You never think something would happen in a place like here,” Duppstadt said. 
The upper level of the 9/11 memorial in Shanksville called “Crescent of Embrace” designed by Paul and Milena Murdoch.
“Crescent of Embrace” was designed by Paul and Milena Murdoch.Stephen Yang 

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On the morning of September 11, 2001, just 15 minutes after hearing the alarm, the FDNY’s elite Rescue Company 2—Lieutenant Peter Martin and firefighters William Lake, Daniel Libretti, John Napolitano, Lincoln Quappe, Kevin O’Rourke, and Edward Rall—arrived at the unfolding World Trade Center tragedy.

All seven were killed when the building collapsed. In all, 2,977 lives were lost that day and hundreds have died from illnesses related to the attack’s aftermath.

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Every legal system rests on an answer to one question: who has final authority? Our Constitution answers it clearly and succinctly: Sovereignty rests in the people, exercised through written law, amendable by us, binding on everyone equally.

Classical Islamic jurisprudence answers that question differently. Sharia is not merely private devotion. It is a comprehensive legal order covering contract, family, inheritance, criminal punishment, and the terms on which one may leave the faith. In its traditional formulation, that law is divine, and therefore not subject to amendment by any legislature, including ours.

Where those systems meet, the friction is real. Our First Amendment protects the right to blaspheme, to convert, to ridicule any doctrine. Traditional Islamic law treats apostasy and blasphemy as offenses. Our Fourteenth Amendment demands equal protection. Traditional rules of inheritance and testimony assign different weight to men and women. These are not caricatures. They are positions found in the standard schools of jurisprudence.

American law has always accommodated religious practice. What it cannot accommodate is a parallel legal authority that claims precedence over it. A faith may ask for space within the constitutional order. It cannot be granted a place above it.

The question before us is not whether Muslims may worship freely. They may, and must. The question is whether we will be honest that some doctrines make claims our founding documents cannot honor, and that we owe every American, including Muslim Americans, the clarity of saying so.

DFW Airport Dumps Islamic Foot-Washing Station Plan After Abbott Pushback

The Dallas-Fort Worth Airport has reportedly scrapped plans to install Islamic footwashing stations, Fox News reported.

The news follows Texas Gov. Greg Abbott directing a review of state grants that operate airports in Texas after Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport reportedly planned to build ablution facilities for Islamic washing rituals.

Abbott posted on X.

“Government-owned airports cannot favor one religion over all others.

DFW plans to install Islamic wudu washing facilities are illegal. I’ve directed a review of all state grants to both airports for possible revocation, and referred DFW & IAH to USDOT for investigation.”

Abbott said he referred DFW and the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston to the Department of Transportation for investigation.

“That is illegal. Both airports are government-owned facilities.3 Both the federal and state constitutions prohibit government from facilitating this sort of discrimination. Just as the government cannot favor the secular over the sacred, it also cannot favor one religious view of the sacred over all others in our “pluralistic society.”

 DFW Airport Authority Letter FINAL  by  scott.mcclallen 

“DFW was in the process of evaluating an internal proposal to add a set of ablution washing stations on the pre-security side of Terminal D, the international terminal. Like all proposed projects, the airport ultimately considers the operational benefits, customer service impacts, operational risks and costs before approving them,” the airport told Fox News.

What a Coincidence: Another ‘Mentally Ill’ Muslim Goes on a Stabbing Spree in France

This time it was in Clermont-Ferrand, a pleasant, or formerly pleasant, city of around 150,000 people in central France. But it is a story that has played out many, many times before, and likely will many more times before people, after who knows what calamities, finally cast off the ridiculous fantasies of this Age of Absurdity.

Breitbart reported Sunday that “a Sudanese migrant was shot and then arrested by police after allegedly going on a stabbing spree in the French city of Clermont-Ferrand on Sunday, leaving at least three people wounded.”

It seems that this grateful refugee, who is 34 years old, “is alleged to have stabbed a neighbour at around 2:30 pm local time, before going on to attack other pedestrians. When police arrived on the scene, the man reportedly ‘charged at a police officer with his knife.’”

The charge, however, was not successful: “After seeing his colleague come under attack, a fellow officer on the scene shot the alleged knifeman, first in the arm, and then in the abdomen and side as the attacker continued to come towards him.”

This Sudanese migrant’s behavior is entirely in accord with the repeated calls from the Islamic State and al-Qaeda for individual Muslims to mount “lone wolf” attacks against innocent civilians in the West. The Islamic State issued this call back in Sept. 2014:

So O muwahhid, do not let this battle pass you by wherever you may be. You must strike the soldiers, patrons, and troops of the tawaghit. Strike their police, security, and intelligence members, as well as their treacherous agents. Destroy their beds. Embitter their lives for them and busy them with themselves. If you can kill a disbelieving American or European — especially the spiteful and filthy French — or an Australian, or a Canadian, or any other disbeliever from the disbelievers waging war, including the citizens of the countries that entered into a coalition against the Islamic State, then rely upon Allah, and kill him in any manner or way however it may be….If you are not able to find an IED or a bullet, then single out the disbelieving American, Frenchman, or any of their allies. Smash his head with a rock, or slaughter him with a knife, or run him over with your car, or throw him down from a high place, or choke him, or poison him….

So this fellow attacked several of the “spiteful and filthy French” with a knife. He didn’t manage to “slaughter” any of them, but that was not for want of trying.

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DeSantis Officially Calls Antifa and CAIR What They Really Are.

It’s a sign of what Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the rest of us are up against that the Miami area’s PBS station, WLRN, headlined its story about Florida’s new designation of Antifa and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as terrorist groups this way: “DeSantis: Florida set to label Muslim civil rights nonprofit a terrorist group under new law.”

The obvious intent of that headline is to give WLRN’s remaining handful of readers, who are no doubt all already hardcore leftists, the impression that DeSantis, drunk on “Islamophobia” and right-wing “hate,” is gratuitously naming an innocent, and indeed, noble, civil rights organization a terrorist group just because it’s non-Christian and presumably full of “brown” people.

In reality, however, CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case — so named by the Justice Department. CAIR officials have repeatedly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups. Several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror. CAIR’s cofounder and longtime Board chairman (Omar Ahmad), as well as its chief spokesman (Ibrahim Hooper), have made Islamic supremacist statements about how Islamic law should be imposed in the U.S. (Ahmad denies this, but the original reporter stands by her story.)

CAIR has opposed virtually every anti-terror measure that has been proposed or implemented, and the United Arab Emirates has declared it a terror organization. CAIR’s Hussam Ayloush in 2017 called for the overthrow of the U.S. government. CAIR’s national outreach manager in 2019 was an open supporter of Hamas. CAIR top dog Nihad Awad said the October 7 jihad massacre of 1,200 Israelis made him “happy.”

Awad and Omar Ahmad, two officials of the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), founded this Hamas-linked Muslim Brotherhood group in 1994. The federal government shut down the IAP in 2005 as a Hamas front. Over the years, several CAIR officials have been convicted of participating in violent jihad activities.

Meanwhile, CAIR has exhorted Muslims in the U.S. to refuse to cooperate with law enforcement. In Jan. 2011, it came to light that a CAIR chapter in California had circulated a poster reading “Build a Wall of Resistance” and “Don’t Talk to the FBI.” Cyrus McGoldrick, a former official of CAIR’s New York chapter, even threatened informants, tweeting with brutal succinctness: “Snitches get stitches.” Zahra Billoo of CAIR-San Francisco has declared that Muslims have no obligation to talk to the FBI and should contact CAIR if the FBI asks to talk to them.

Yet despite its connections to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, the terror convictions of several of its former officials, and its virtually unanimous opposition to counter-terror laws, investigations, and other initiatives, CAIR remains widely respected. Nearly everyone (particularly in Washington) assumes that it is exactly what it says it is: a Muslim civil rights organization, working for the rights of Muslims in the U.S. and deeply loyal to Constitutional principles and freedoms. The organization’s website features testimonials from congressmen and senators of both parties, as well as security and military officials, testifying to how the organization has perfected the art of deception.

So great is CAIR’s influence, and presumably Antifa’s as well, that WLRN’s report warned darkly that DeSantis’ move could blow up on the Republicans. Former Florida Panhandle state House Republican Joel Rudman said: “I think that when you give that much authority to an elected, or, in the case of this bill, sometimes non-elected officials, I think that’s very dangerous.”

Related: Arizona School Board Member in Hot Water for… Criticizing Islam

Rudman explained: “Now, my colleagues on the Republican side of the aisle, I’m sure they’re looking at this bill, saying, ‘These statutes. They can’t be warped. They can’t be abused. We have no intention of abusing them.’ But you have to understand that every bill you pass into law, there’s going to have some unintended consequences, and you have to be prepared for how those statutes are going to be interpreted when you’re not the majority party.… I think any constitutional conservative Republicans should have a problem with that bill.”

No one should ever allow himself to be intimidated into refraining from doing something right for fear that someone else will do something wrong in response. Nevertheless, Rudman was essentially predicting that Florida Democrats will, if they gain power, start declaring groups they dislike to be terrorist organizations, and indeed, the left is so morally bankrupt and power-mad at this point that this is a very real possibility.

Nevertheless, regarding CAIR and Antifa, DeSantis is absolutely correct and should stand his ground.

The Second Amendment separates us from Britain

If you have been on X lately, you may have seen a horrific video of an attempted murder out of Belfast, Northern Ireland, from earlier this week. The suspect, Hadi Alodid, 30, who is now in police custody, attempted to behead Stephen Ogilvy, an Irishman in his 40s, with a knife. Oglivy suffered severe lacerations on his face and neck and the loss of his left eye. Alodid is a Sudanese migrant who entered the United Kingdom illegally in 2023, requested asylum, and was immediately granted leave to remain until 2028.
This comes after a string of high-profile murders and other crimes across the United Kingdom at the hands of largely Muslim migrants from the third world. Thousands of young girls were raped by grooming gangs across at least 50 cities and towns across Britain, mostly by Pakistani Muslims. British authorities looked the other way to avoid accusations of racism by Muslims until Elon Musk and others blew the lid off the scandal on social media. When Sikh man Vickrum Digwa killed 18-year-old Brit Henry Nowak last December, Digwa cried racism to the police, who proceeded to handcuff Nowak for absolutely no reason as he bled to death.
After the brutal attempted murder of Ogilvy on June 8, Prime Minister Keir Starmer called for “calm,” and Northern Ireland’s Justice Minister Naomi Long continued to placate Muslims instead of pointing out the obvious issue at hand. “I also know that there are many people in our community from ethnic minority backgrounds who are terrified today about any kind of retaliation or backlash against them, which we have seen in the past,” she told the BBC.
Clearly, the British government has no interest in protecting its citizens. Thankfully, an Irish bystander came to Ogilvy’s aid, beating his attempted murderer with a shovel to end the attack. This highlights the difference between America and Britain. In some circumstances, a man with a shovel can beat a man with a knife, but a couple of well-placed hollow points, even at a modest 1,000 feet per second, would have ended the conflict in a far quicker, cleaner, more decisive manner.
We are citizens of the United States; the British are subjects of the crown. Sure, our founding documents lay out the distinctions, but the true difference lies with our half-billion privately owned guns. In the U.K., guns are heavily regulated, and only half a million Brits own roughly 2 million guns, the lion’s share being shotguns used for grouse and pheasant hunting.
In Federalist 46, James Madison references Americans’ “advantage of being armed,” which he contrasts with European nations. In modernity, this advantage means the ability to defend yourself and your family without waiting for the police, which, in Henry Nowak’s case, sided with his killer anyway.
Our guns don’t prevent all violent crime. Of course, there is plenty of violence in most large American cities, but the bloodbath predicted by gun-control activists never came to pass. The murder rate is falling dramatically as the rate of concealed carry sits at an all-time high. Citizens of 29 states, over half of the U.S. population, can now carry a pistol without a permission slip from the government. Fourteen additional states are legally obligated to issue carry permits to qualified applicants. Only citizens of seven states and D.C. have any real trouble obtaining a firearm. Another advantage that Americans enjoy, and I think Madison would agree, is the ease with which we can move across state lines.
The Second Amendment did not prevent unconstitutional surveillance or deranged COVID-19 lockdowns. It did not prevent the government from importing millions of migrants who do not care to learn American values, and it did not prevent governmental atrocities such as Waco. However, we have not seen the type of crackdown on free speech, jailing of citizens en masse for “racism,” or the replacement-level importation of migrants from the third world that has occurred in Britain.
Most importantly, our guns give us a fighting chance. A Pakistani rape gang or a Sudanese beheading-enthusiast would have a rough go of it in most jurisdictions in the U.S. of A.
Brady Leonard (@bradyleonard) is a writer, musician, and host of The No Gimmicks Podcast.

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There will be no peace in Gaza or Israel until Hamas is no longer a factor.

This Is the Face of Evil: Sickening New October 7 Report Leaves No Doubt

Most people can’t really understand evil.

Evil is a word too many people toss around far too casually. Too many people use it to describe political opinions they disagree with, for instance, especially in today’s toxic political environment. But once in a while, we have real evil thrust into our faces, and we are required to look at it, to comprehend it, and to deal with it. One such event happened right here in the United States, on September 11th, 2001. And another took place in Israel, on October 7th, 2023.

Now, a new report has been released detailing the atrocities Hamas committed on October 7th, 2023, and we are once more forced to look at it, to understand what happened, to look into the face of evil, and to understand what must be done about it.

Warning: This report presents those atrocities in disturbing detail.

Among the mutilated and butchered bodies of young women slaughtered on October 7, it was their colourful, polished nails that many of the morgue staff remember.

Bright, beautiful, shiny, pink manicures glistening amid the pervasive ‘grey and green’ of death were often the only reminder of who these girls had been just hours earlier.

Because Hamas-led terrorists had not just executed these women. They had ‘deliberately and systematically’ defiled them, as the most comprehensive account of the atrocity released by The Civil Commission today shows.

The terrorists shot their eyes, their faces and their breasts, and even targeted their most intimate parts, to destroy their beauty and rob their loved ones of a final goodbye.

Women were stripped, bound, stabbed, shot and burned. They were executed both during and after rape amid an orgy of violence in which 1,200 people were killed and 250 taken hostage.

Heads were decapitated. Pelvic bones shattered. Even after death, sexual assault continued.

There’s a great deal more in the Daily Mail’s coverage. While I will not reproduce the worst of it here, it’s important reading nonetheless. Have some antacid on hand before reading the entire piece; you’ll need it.

This image alone, this image of young people, mostly young women, fleeing a music festival, speaks volumes; the look of terror on the faces of young people who, moments before, were enjoying sunshine, music, the company of friends, young people who had nothing to do with Gaza, who had never raised a finger in anger against anyone in Gaza or anywhere else.

This is the result of evil. The atrocities committed on the day were evil. The people who committed them are evil, and in the acts described, they show that they have utterly abandoned their humanity. They attacked the innocent: Men, women, children, infants, the elderly, the unarmed and defenseless. They did this, they planned and conducted this attack targeting the innocent, because they are not only evil but cowards.

In the weeks following this attack, we saw the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) counterattacking in Gaza. It’s difficult for us to imagine the rage that must have filled the hearts of the young men of Israel who went into Gaza to hunt down the monsters of 10/7. It’s even more difficult to understand how the IDF showed the restraint they did, carefully evacuating non-combatants, using “roof knocker” explosives to warn anyone in a building that was about to be dropped. But Israel did this because they are not evil, protestations from useful idiots on the American left notwithstanding. Israel did this because they are a civilized people, and even when dealing with savages, they showed restraint.

Evil is real. It’s out there, every day. To fight it, we have to first strip away all of our illusions; we have to look at evil, bare, shocking, unmitigated, real, and see it for what it is. In Gaza, it’s called Hamas. This full report illustrates that evil with sickening clarity.

As I said at the time and still say today: There will be no peace in Gaza or Israel until Hamas is no longer a factor.

Looks like he is one of those ‘refugees’ imported from Somalia.

Minneapolis man sentenced to 8.5 years in prison over support for ISIS.

MINNEAPOLIS — A Minnesota man was sentenced in federal district court to more than eight years in prison Wednesday for supporting the efforts of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated terrorist organization rooted in the Middle East.

A statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota said 23-year-old Abdisatar Ahmed Hassan, of Minneapolis, was handed eight-and-a-half years in prison, followed by 15 years of supervised release, after he pleaded guilty in September to attempting to provide material support and resources to ISIS.

Court documents show that in 2024, Hassan began collecting and redistributing ISIS propaganda, while obtaining various manuals about sniper-training skills and how to make “highly explosive” materials and ammunition. Officials said Hassan also researched articles online related to gun ranges, weapons and “ISIS-inspired attacks and terroristic acts.”

Prosecutors found Hassan engaged with ISIS media wings and recruiters in Somalia for months before he decided to quit his job and liquidate his savings, cashing in on a one-way ticket from Minneapolis to Somalia in early December 2024. Hassan was actually turned away from that flight after airport officials discovered he lacked the proper travel documents, but just a few weeks later, he was granted the same one-way ticket with the proper documentation.

According to the district attorney’s office, Hassan made his first flight to Chicago, but was stopped and questioned by Customs and Border Control agents, missing his flight to Somalia and later admitting to his ties to the terrorist organization.

Hassan returned to Minnesota and continued to praise ISIS through his social media accounts until being arrested by the FBI in February 2025. A grand jury then indicted Hassan on one count of attempting to provide material support and resources to ISIS.

“The sentence handed down today takes a would-be terrorist off the streets and sends a clear message that the FBI and our partners will unremittingly pursue anyone seeking to join or support a foreign terrorist organization,” said FBI Minneapolis Division Special Agent in Charge Christopher D. Dotson.

Trump orders Navy to destroy any boats laying mines in Strait of Hormuz

President Trump on Thursday said he ordered the U.S. military to “shoot and kill” any boat caught putting mines in the Strait of Hormuz, as his administration ramps up mine-clearing efforts in the critical waterway.

“I have ordered the United States Navy to shoot and kill any boat, small boats though they may be (Their naval ships are ALL, 159 of them, at the bottom of the sea!), that is putting mines in the waters of the Strait of Hormuz. There is to be no hesitation,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.

“Additionally, our mine ‘sweepers’ are clearing the Strait right now. I am hereby ordering that activity to continue, but at a tripled up level!” he added.

Trump’s post comes amid uncertainty over how long the strait will be unusable as Trump on Tuesday extended the ceasefire with Iran indefinitely and has kept the blockade in place.

The Washington Post reported Wednesday that the Pentagon told Congress that clearing the mines out of the strait could take six months.

The vital waterway typically sees the passage of about a fifth of the world’s oil and gas, but oil-tanker traffic has been less than normal since the start of the war, leaving oil prices high.

U.S. Central Command posted on X overnight that U.S. forces 31 directed vessels to “turn around or return to port as part of the U.S. blockade against Iran.”

In a subsequent post on Thursday, the president said Iran was having a “very hard time figuring out who their leader is.”

“They just don’t know! The infighting is between the ‘Hardliners,’ who have been losing BADLY on the battlefield, and the ‘Moderates,’ who are not very moderate at all (but gaining respect!), is CRAZY!” he wrote. “We have total control over the Strait of Hormuz. No ship can enter or leave without the approval of the United States Navy. It is ‘Sealed up Tight,’ until such time as Iran is able to make a DEAL!!!”

The White House has said the president is not putting a deadline on when Iran has to provide a new peace proposal to the U.S.

Chicago Man Gets 25 Years for Serving as a ‘Press Person’ for the ISIS Terrorist Organization

A federal judge on Thursday handed a 25-year prison sentence to a former Chicago software developer who the feds say functioned as a “press person for the Islamic State” terrorist organization and held a sincere, “radical urge for bloodshed.”

Ashraf Al Safoo, 41, already has served more than seven years behind bars since prosecutors filed charges against him in 2018. His attorney sought a sentence of time-served, arguing he’s caused no trouble in jail and basically amounted to a “keyboard warrior.”

But U.S. District Judge John Blakey said Al Safoo’s crimes went beyond words — “it was material support for the murder and destruction of other human beings.”

“While you did not pull a trigger or detonate a bomb or behead someone with your own hand, by your own knife, you engaged in a course of conduct that facilitated and rooted them on,” Blakey told Al Safoo while handing down the sentence.

In a bench trial last year, Blakey convicted Al Safoo of conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, among other crimes.

Before learning his fate, Al Safoo told the judge he’d fled Iraq with his family as a teenager before he could be enlisted in Saddam Hussein’s military. He said he’s betrayed the United States, the country that gave him a home, and cries when he receives photos of his children.

“I reap what I sow,” Al Safoo repeatedly told Blakey.

The sentence is among the stiffest in recent memory to be handed down in a terrorism case at Chicago’s Dirksen Federal Courthouse.

Ashraf Al Safoo, 41, already has served more than seven years behind bars since prosecutors filed charges against him in 2018. He received a 25-year sentence Thursday.

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Honest discussion requires acknowledging the data on who commits these attacks rather than filtering it through political narratives about which threats are acceptable to discuss.
If policymakers and the public want effective prevention, they must start with a clear-eyed assessment of the risks rather than with wishful thinking.

The Terror Threat Americans Aren’t Supposed To Discuss

John R. Lott Jr. is president of the Crime Prevention Research Center

Many commentators claim that Islam does not pose a threat of violence in the United States. Influencers such as Tucker Carlson often repeat this argument. Others, including then-President Joe Biden and FBI Director Christopher Wray, have argued that white supremacists represent the primary domestic threat.

Yet March alone saw multiple terrorist attacks carried out by Muslims. In Austin, a terrorist wore a sweatshirt reading “Property of Allah” during an attack. In New York City, bomb throwers shouted “Allahu Akbar” while throwing a homemade shrapnel bomb. At Old Dominion University, a shooter also yelled “Allahu Akbar” and had previously been convicted of supporting ISIS. Another attacker, whose brother was a Hezbollah terrorist commander, targeted Temple Israel in Michigan, and yet another attack, involving three men of Iraqi origin, targeted the U.S. embassy in Norway. The Austin, Old Dominion, and New York City bombers and the Michigan synagogue attackers were also all foreign-born individuals who were naturalized U.S. citizens.

Terrorist attacks take many forms. For example, the January 2025 truck attack in New Orleans, with an ISIS flag on the truck, left 14 people dead and 47 injured. But let’s focus the discussion on one type of attack that has been extensively studied: mass public shootings. Researchers define a mass public shooting as an attack in which a perpetrator kills four or more people at one time in a public place, excluding crimes such as gang fights or robberies.

Looking at all mass public shootings from 1998 through 2025 reveals several patterns. Muslims commit these crimes at a disproportionate rate. White males commit them at a rate below their share of the population. And most shooters express no clear political ideology.

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