Comments on: Terrorist attacks in Virginia and Michigan

By: miguel cervantes

miguel cervantes — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:01:01 +0000

known wolves like aulaqi who still ‘inspires’ some 15 years after his droning, the list of those he was a muse to, are probably as large as qutb himself, it was said, he was allowed to read ‘milestones’ in the Sanaa prison, where he was a guest, I dubbed the place ‘the Palace of Fear’ in my book, as I deconstructed the cargo bomb plot, that arose out of Yemen, and how that might have been uncovered,(it has been wrappe in a wilderness of mirrors) and who might have burnt the asset, it was Al Quds Brennan who showed a high sympathy for Shia as well as Sunni militants his memoir deprived of security clearance tidbits was dry as dishwater,

The fellow from Dearborn, Ghazaleh,(sic) was naturalized in this country, in the tail end of the Obama era, when the likes of Brennan were at the top of the power pyramid in this country, he thought there was such a thing as Moderate Hezbollah, Dearborn as noted is a known enclave of Shia radicalism, some of whom were empowered by the Iraq intervention

By: CICERO

CICERO — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:24:23 +0000

I had a Jewish MD friend who took a hospital position in Dearborn 30 years ago. He was pretty Jewish, kept Kosher. He was pretty unhappy as a Doc in Dearborn–too many ardent Muslims– and eventually fled to Chicago. An outstanding physician.
The day cannot come too soon, that it is recognized Islam is an ideology, a false religion which strives to oppress the unbelievers. And what will happen then ?

By: huxley

huxley — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:17:36 +0000

These attacks were likely not centrally coordinated, but Muslim leaders like Al-Awlaki call for such freelance jihadist attacks. Or as Bin Laden put it in its famous fatwa:
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Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders
World Islamic Front Statement
23 February 1998

On that basis, and in compliance with Allah’s order, we issue the following fatwa to all Muslims:

The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies — civilians and military — is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it, in order to liberate the al-Aqsa Mosque and the holy mosque [Mecca] from their grip, and in order for their armies to move out of all the lands of Islam, defeated and unable to threaten any Muslim.

This is in accordance with the words of Almighty Allah, “and fight the pagans all together as they fight you all together,” and “fight them until there is no more tumult or oppression, and there prevail justice and faith in Allah.”

–Osama Bin laden, “Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders”
https://irp.fas.org/world/para/docs/980223-fatwa.htm

By: Telemachus

Telemachus — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:26:20 +0000

Cavendish wrote: “I wouldn’t rule out that they may be part of a larger whole …”

I would say that they definitely are part of a larger whole, and that whole is called Islam.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:23:34 +0000

Lee Also: I grew up in that area. There’s a large Chaldean (Catholic, Aramaic-speaking) community there. They seemed like good people. As you say, there wasn’t much of a Muslim presence, but that has obviously changed in the last 30-40 years.

By: Lee Also

Lee Also — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:30:03 +0000

I went to grad school at the University of Michigan, when Hamtramck was still Polish, and Dearborn’s Arab population was still mostly Christian (though at that point, barely; many families had moved out to Farmington Hills and other northern suburbs of Detroit.).

But I was at U of M during the time when the children and grandchildren of the Christian Arabs who fled to Dearborn forgot exactly why it was they fled: They welcomed the descendants of the people who had persecuted their parents and grandparents. I shook my head. I took a lot of classes in the Near Eastern Studies department. In classes with the woke Christian Arabs, they were antagonistic (at best) towards Jews and Israelis, and very palsy with the Moslem Arabs.

(My parents had lived in Detroit in the 1950’s and they knew some Syrians and Lebanese Christians from Dearborn — and it was pretty much ALL Christian back then — who told them what they had experienced in their former homelands that caused them to flee. My parents shared those stories with me. But apparently, the Syrian and Lebanese Christians didn’t share it with their children and grandchildren.)

I wonder how those now middle-aged Christians feel now.

By: Cavendish

Cavendish — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:28:15 +0000

These, so far, have been what look like “lone wolf” attacks: random disaffected individuals acting independently.

I wouldn’t rule out that they may be part of a larger whole, but even as just “disaffected individuals” they’re providing testing of the attack surface which may be useful to anyone who is planning some sort of action, whether that action is only other “random disaffected individuals” or some coordinated group effort.

By: Skip

Skip — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 08:58:35 +0000

This is 3 fairly recently with Allah Hoodie shooter.

By: huxley

huxley — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 01:33:45 +0000

@neo: [Jalloh] apparently was radicalized by listening to recorded sermons of al Qaeda’s Anwar al-Awlaki…

Who was such a bad Muslim actor that even Obama thought it best to drone him.
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Anwar al-‘Awlaqi … was an American-Yemeni Islamic cleric and lecturer. He was assassinated in Yemen in 2011 by a U.S. drone strike ordered by President Barack Obama. Al-Awlaki was the first U.S. citizen to be targeted and assassinated by a U.S. government drone strike. Al-Awlaki, a dual citizen of the U.S. and Yemen, was a key organizer for the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki
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His wiki page shows he was charismatic and connected to all sorts of bad, nasty people.

By: Richard Cook

Richard Cook — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 01:18:09 +0000

Thank you Kate. I don’t have a good sarcasm detector. I live in SW Michigan.