Islamic religious bigot attack on New Orleans
The white pickup truck with an ISIS flag attached to its trailer hitch that tore through Bourbon Street in New Orleans during the first few hours of New Year’s Day of 2025 symbolizes an inflection point for the American people and their leaders. Revelry, music and laughter gave way to terror as fifteen people lost their lives and dozens of others were left with crippling, life-altering injuries from yet another jihadist attack on U.S. soil. The suspected attacker, Samshud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old U.S. citizen and former member of the U.S. Army Reserve from Texas, died in a firefight with local police, but given reports of ISIS-affiliated terrorists crossing America’s southern border, the threat of more attacks did not die with him.
According to the FBI, the Bourbon Street massacre appears to be part of a larger coordinated attack involving accomplices. Hours after yet another example of “vehicular jihad” in New Orleans, a rented Tesla Cybertruck exploded outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas, killing one and injuring seven. Both vehicles reportedly were procured through the same app, Turo, indicating a common thread of planning and execution. Even if there is no connection between the two attacks, the Bourbon Street attack, by itself, serves as a stark reminder that Islamist terrorism is neither distant nor diminished. It is here, and it is lethal.
The Bourbon Street attack—similar to those motivated by Islamist hostility toward non-Muslim holidays and the people who celebrate them—highlights the Biden administration’s failure to prioritize the fight against jihadist extremism. The Biden administration, more concerned with optics than outcomes, has left the nation vulnerable with its failure to protect the country’s borders and tendency to mainstream, and even fund, Islamist organizations in the United States. But the problem didn’t begin with President Joe Biden. During his first administration, President Donald Trump provided substantial funding to Islamist organizations who stoked anti-Americanism. The moment demands a bipartisan acknowledgment of what is at stake and a willingness to act accordingly.
The strategy behind these attacks is not new, but its simplicity belies its power. A rented truck, a crowded celebration, and an ideology that thrives on destruction. ISIS, though territorially defeated by the Trump administration, remains ideologically potent, capable of inspiring followers through propaganda that preys on discontent and alienation. The result is a decentralized network of actors willing and able to execute plans that wreak havoc with minimal resources. The choice of targets—a festive gathering in New Orleans, a symbolic location in Las Vegas—appears deliberate, designed to inflict maximum psychological and societal damage.
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Islamic extremists continue to engage in mass murder attacks as if that is going to persuade non-Muslims to convert to Islam. If that is their goal it is not working. The heirs of bin Laden are still at it regardless of their failure to persuade non-Muslims to join their jihad. It is a strain of Islam at war with reality. The non-Muslim world needs to have more focus on the perpetrators of these attacks. The FBI needs to get a better focus on groups responsible for these attacks.
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NEWS: Law enforcement officials said the Cybertruck actually helped contain the explosion.
“The fact that this was a Cybertruck really limited the damage that occurred. It had most of the blast go up through the truck and out. The front glass doors at the Trump hotel were not even broken by the blast, which they were directly in front of.”
The Cybertruck has 1.8mm thick solid steel doors, and a 1.4mm thick steel body, which is twice as thick as normal car sheet metal.
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