{"id":99310,"date":"2024-01-15T14:24:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T20:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=99310"},"modified":"2024-01-15T14:24:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T20:24:19","slug":"99310","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=99310","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

As Times Square Machete Attacker Pleads Guilty, Authorities Still Refuse to Face His Motive<\/a><\/p>\n

When Trevor Bickford was 19 years old, on Dec. 31, 2022, he ventured to Times Square along with multitudes of New Year\u2019s Eve revelers, but he was not interested in joining the festivities. Instead, he attacked three NYPD officers with a machete. On Thursday, he pleaded guilty to three charges of attempted murder, and while his motive is abundantly clear, authorities appear to be completely indifferent about what its implications are for the future.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The\u00a0Associated Press<\/a>\u00a0reported Thursday that Bickford, who came down to Times Square from his home in Wells, Maine, said this as he entered his guilty plea: \u201cOn Dec. 31, 2022, I attempted to kill three NYPD officers with a knife while they were working in Manhattan. I know what I did was wrong and I\u2019m sorry.\u201d That\u2019s swell, but it would have been more helpful if young Bickford had explained why exactly he was sorry now for an act that he carried out in accord with his newfound beliefs and ideology.<\/p>\n

AP added that Bickford \u201cshouted \u2018Allahu akbar\u2019 \u2014 the Arabic phrase for God is great \u2014 before striking the officers in the head with the machete and trying to grab an officer\u2019s gun, authorities said. One officer suffered a fractured skull.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

AP\u2019s explanation was inaccurate: While most media outlets routinely translate \u201cAllahu akbar\u201d as \u201cGod is great,\u201d it actually means \u201cAllah is greater.\u201d That is, the god of Islam is superior to anything that non-Muslims worship or hold dear. This declaration of superiority frequently accompanies acts that are designed to enforce the subjugation and submission of the non-believer or \u201cinfidel,\u201d amounting to a kind of explanation of why a particular act of violence is being perpetrated<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It was unusually forthright of this far-left news service to bother to mention the politically incorrect fact that Bickford shouted this at all. AP even went so far as to add that \u201cauthorities say he had studied radical Islamic ideology and decided to wage jihad against U.S. officials.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet while AP was unusually forthright about Bickford\u2019s motive, Bickford himself may have been trying to obscure it: \u201cAt the outset of the hearing,\u201d AP tells us, \u201cBickford said he was taking three medications for treatment of schizoaffective disorder.\u201d In Europe, it is extremely common for clear cases of jihad violence to be dismissed as mental illness, with the perpetrators hospitalized rather than imprisoned.<\/p>\n

There was no doubt, however, when Bickford was arrested. He had a\u00a0handwritten note<\/a>\u00a0in his backpack, asking his family to \u201cplease repent to Allah and accept Islam.\u201d To his mother, Bickford wrote: \u201cI 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.\u201d To his brother, he likewise wrote: \u201cPlease repent to Allah and accept Islam. I fear for you.\u201d To another brother in the Marines, he added: \u201cYou have joined the ranks of my enemy. And for that I can give you no kind words \u2013 return to Allah.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Bickford pleaded guilty, Assistant U.S. Attorney Sarah Kushner said that there was \u201c\u2018no doubt’ that he attacked the officers because they were military-age men\u2026.She said Bickford had intended to kill \u2018as many as possible\u2019 of the men in uniform that he came across.\u201d She added that he had \u201coriginally intended to go overseas and fight alongside terrorists there but eventually decided to carry out an attack in the United States instead. She said he told investigators that he had walked around Times Square before the attack, \u2018trying to figure out the right time to kill.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The big question that remains is where Trevor Bickford, who converted to Islam not long before his machete attack, learned all this. Was it at a mosque? Was it from Muslims in his area? Authorities should study carefully what they are almost certainly ignoring, 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.<\/p>\n

These questions are never asked, much less answered, despite the fact that converts to Islam turning to jihad violence is a distressingly\u00a0common phenomenon<\/a>. American intelligence and law enforcement officials don\u2019t want to do anything to give the impression that they don\u2019t 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 have somehow gotten exactly the opposite idea doesn\u2019t ever make authorities pause and reflect upon their core assumptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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