By Arnold Ahlert ——Bio and Archives--October 29, 2014
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If you're looking for "perfect" muslims who never make any mistakes in their Jihad, then you will be looking in vain! If the Zionists and the Crusaders had never invaded and colonized the Islamic lands after WW1, then there would be no need for Jihad! Which is better, to sit around and do nothing, or to Jihad fisabeelallah (for allah's sake)!There were additional comments on his Facebook page, one that that featured a man dressed as a Muslim warrior taken from the cover of a book entitled "Golden Age of the Moor," and contained Arabic writing from the Quran that spoke to following "the straight path" through Allah. They were equally incendiary. "The solution is to fight. Armed struggle. Simple," he wrote, before advocating all-out guerrilla warfare on the streets of America. "America's military is strong abroad, but they have never faced an internal mass revolt.... They are weaker at home. We are scattered and decentralized, we can use this as an advantage. They will not be able to defeat our people if we use guerilla warfare. Attack their weak flanks... If you get wounded who cares. If you die who cares. Eventually they will surrender and then the war will be over." After Thompson was identified as the attacker last Friday, the page was taken down. If Thompson's rant sounds familiar, perhaps it's because it is a virtual echo of two Islamic extremist statements published on September 16 and 21. The first statement, entitled "To 2.6M Muslims in USA: A Call to Arms to Defend Islam and Avenge the Slaughter of Muslims" called for the killing of law enforcement officials. "Knocking off a police, military or any other law-enforcement officer sends a chilling message to the so-called 'civilians' and fills their hearts with consternation," it declares. The second statement is by ISIS spokesman Aub Mohammad al-Adnani. "Strike their police, security and intelligence members, as well as their treacherous agents," he urges. "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." Police have been searching back as far as five years to determine if anyone Thompson communicated with was a threat. A law enforcement source explained why. "This guy spent every waking moment on the Internet," the source stated. Subsequent reports revealed much of that Internet time was spent watching ISIS beheading videos, along with propaganda and recruitment videos from terrorist groups ISIS, al Qaeda and al-Shabaab. Thompson had no criminal record in New York, but was arrested six times in the city of Oxnard, CA, and pleaded guilty for leaving the scene of an accident in 2003. That was the same year Thompson was involuntarily discharged after serving two years in the Navy, possibly because of drug use, according to investigation leader Chief Robert K. Boyce. He spent the last decade "adrift" according to the New York Times, and after he was evicted from his East New York, Brooklyn apartment in January, he alternated crashing with his mother and father, who lived a short distance from each other in Queens. Unsurprisingly, his attack was supported by head of the local New Black Panther Party (NBPP) where Thompson attended meetings. Queens chapter leader Frank Sha Francois referred to Thompson as "a crusader seeking justice," and he warned of additional attacks that are likely to arise. "It probably won't be the last [attack on police] because you have a lot of frustrated people out here," he told the Post. He revealed that Thompson wasn't an official member of the group, but nonetheless attended meetings where they talked about "police brutality" cases that have yet to be officially designated as police brutality cases. "I don't condone violence, but something needs to be done," Francois said. "We need to have some type of deterrent and real oversight to deter the police from violating the laws and to know they are not above the laws." He added that he didn't agree with Thompson's methods. "I tell people that to go up against law enforcement in this country is suicide," Francois explained. "Our main way to deal with it is to rally and boycotting." Not exactly. When racial animosity was fomented by the usual suspects after Trayvon Martin was killed, the NBPP put a $10,000 bounty on the head of George Zimmerman, with NBPP party leader Mikhail Muhammad warning that he should be "fearful for his life."
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Arnold Ahlert was an op-ed columist with the NY Post for eight years.