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When Trevor Bickford was 19 years old, on Dec. 31, 2022, he ventured down from his home in Wells, Maine, to Times Square. But he was not planning to join with multitudes of New Year’s Eve revelers. Instead, he attacked three NYPD officers with a machete. Last week, he was sentenced to 27 years in prison, and so even if he is on his very best behavior for the next few years, we likely won’t be hearing about him for a while. But his case reveals a massive problem that the whole world seems determined to ignore.
NBC New York reported Thursday that Bickford was sentenced “after pleading guilty to several terror-related charges.” The report noted that Bickford also “previously told the judge he was under psychiatric treatment for schizoaffective disorder.” So did he attack the cops because he was nuts? Not necessarily: Bickford “said he carried out the attack to wage jihad, with the goal of killing military-aged men so he could become a martyr.” U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said that Bickford was “inspired by radical Islamic extremism.”
In Jan. 2024, the Associated Press stated that Bickford “shouted ‘Allahu akbar’ — the Arabic phrase for God is great — before striking the officers in the head with the machete and trying to grab an officer’s gun.” This explanation was inaccurate and misleading. “Allahu akbar” doesn’t mean “God is great”; it actually means “Allah is greater.” 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 infidel.
That wasn’t all. When Bickford was arrested, he had a handwritten note in his backpack, asking his family to “please repent to Allah and accept Islam.” To his mother, Bickford wrote: “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.” To his brother, he likewise wrote: “Please repent to Allah and accept Islam. I fear for you.” To another brother in the Marines, he added: “You have joined the ranks of my enemy. And for that I can give you no kind words – return to Allah.”
Faced with all this evidence, authorities had to admit that this was a jihad attack, something they were extremely reluctant to do. Thomas Galati, the NYPD’s chief of intelligence and counterterrorism, epitomized that reluctance in a Jan. 2023 statement that he could barely get out amid all his discomfort with what he had to admit: “Um, y’know, during the attack he did yell out ‘Allah akbar,’ um, you know, and, um, you know, I – I believe he thought that this would be, um, you know, k–, suicide by cop, uh, basically, at the end of this attack. This is a distorted, uh, you know, um, uh, uh, version of him being radicalized and thinking that what he’s doing is right, um, you know, just, uh, want to make sure that that’s clear, he’s not representing, you know, uh, the Islamic religion, but rather, you know, a very, very small percentage of people that get radicalized.”
It’s good that Galati was finally able to stammer all that out, but it only shines a brighter spotlight on the elephant in the room that no one dares to acknowledge. All right, we get it, Galati: Bickford doesn’t represent Islam, and is only one of “a very, very small percentage of people that get radicalized.” But how did he get “radicalized”? What could have been done to prevent that from happening?
While the NYPD’s chief of intelligence and counterterrorism and the U.S. attorney admit that Bickford was “inspired by radical Islamic extremism,” neither they nor anyone else display even the smallest glimmer of curiosity regarding why exactly so many converts to Islam come to be “inspired by radical Islamic extremism,” or about what could possibly be done in the future to prevent this sort of thing from happening again. They neither know nor care about what causes young Muslims to be “radicalized.” They have no idea what the Qur’an teaches, and they don’t want to get anywhere close to that topic.
The authorities, of course, do not want to appear “Islamophobic.” And so they ensure that we will be seeing many more young men like Trevor Bickford.
Rob A says
Prison guards don’t take kindly to cop killers and will see to it that cupcake (this so-called “kid”) gets the prison justice he deserves. He’s going to be “polishing” a lot of knobs (if he hasn’t already) and get schlonged in the rear night and day until he seeks the protection of a prison pimp.
Jack Offalot says
Knob polishing and backdoor surprises are part and parcel of islamic behavior.
Unless goats…
Benyamin X says
This is only true in state lockups. We don’t like cops here in Federal.
TruthLaser says
Do the police discuss every crime by saying the perpetrator does not represent anyone with a like identity? Or is this a privilege reserved for police demonstrations of Stockholm Syndrome along with their shame at testifying against those they regard as their betters?
SPURWING PLOVER says
Back a few teats ago in Australia a Islamic Youth stabbed wo Police Officers and was planning to behead them but one Officer shot and Killed him
Rob A says
Now that was a public service! That officer deserves a medal and a pay raise!
MuggsSpongedice says
Further evidence of the demonic act of removing the 10 Commandments from the public classroom in 1962 has wrought demonic activity in youth today. Not all youth. Fortunately only the minority of youth who get all the media attention. This is the commie agenda to take control of the children and parent have no rights to their own children how they will be taught and influenced from racial disparity lies to gender confusion dysphoria all drilled into the student’s brains by equally demonically influenced teacher raised under this commie agenda plans!!!!!!
foxhound says
There are four contributing causes to this situation. The first is drugs. The child has been exposed to mommy’s neuroses habit in the womb. Then when the kid reaches puberty he gets his own prescription which adds to what he is exposed to from mommy and her daily dose. Now we add a phone that is grafted to the kids hand. Being ridiculed or shamed by thousands is tough on pubescent kids on drugs as they are weak to begin with. That makes them fertile ground for muslim and leftist recruiters. Lastly the cops’ bosses are paid off to try and ignore the muslim criminals. He has a choice to either go along or find a new job.
Spirit of San Jacinto says
This Muslim was not radicalized. He just represents what Islam IS. Violent dominance masquerading as a religion. THAT is the elephant in the room. Michigan will be GAZA. Minnesota will be GAZA. Before long we will live Israel’s existence here in the former USA.
Robert says
Last month four muslim third grade girls at Hidden Valley Elementary School in Hidden Valley Minnesota beat a third grade girl on the playground because she was not a Muslim.
Robert says
I tried to use lower case on my last word but the auto spell did not allow it.
Robert says
She was a christian. No problem with the auto spell here.
Rob A says
If and when it happens it will be because Americans have become so tolerant and accepting that we tolerate the ongoing invasion of our country by known enemies who intend to destroy our country while we passively, for the sake of tolerance, accept their presence amongst us knowing what they intend to do to us.
Our enemies know this and it’s why they’re coming. They’ve figured out that Americans will tolerate their own destruction and in many ways, do it themselves if you’re clever enough to use their own political, educational and legal systems against them. The Chinese have been doing it for years and now the Muslims have finally figured it out too.
Mike Sparks says
When out in public CARRY A HAMMER for anti-stabbing defense and car/truck fire escape.
Jojo says
Allah u akbar literally means “God is greater”. As in “My daddy is bigger than YOUR daddy.” Moon God bayers believe their harvest god is greater than anyone else’s.