The ISIS Plot in Kansas City You Heard Nothing About
Feb 25, 2020 5:00 pm By Robert Spencer 29 Comments
My latest in PJ Media:
A few years ago, Robert Lorenzo Hester, Jr. of Columbia, Missouri met “several young men who suggested that Islam was a religion that valued men like him.†That was when his troubles began: prosecutors announced Wednesday that they want Hester to serve twenty years in prison and be under supervision for the rest of his life for plotted a jihad massacre in Kansas City. His case shows yet again how politically correct willful ignorance regarding the motivating ideology and magnitude of the jihad threat renders us all vulnerable.
True to form, federal prosecutors are already busily ignoring the possibility that Hester was inspired to try to kill non-Muslims by Qur’anic exhortations such as “kill them wherever you find them†(2:191, 4:89; cf. 9:5). According to the Columbia Tribune, they claim that “mental health issues combined with a mockery of his race and intellect by fellow soldiers led him to extremists ideologies.†Federal public defender Troy Stabenow also notes that Hester suffered from an “abusive childhood†and engaged in “drug use at an early age.†He “wanted to feel accepted and do something to make others proud, so he joined the Armed Forces,†but he didn’t stick.
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/02/the-isis-plot-in-kansas-city-you-heard-nothing-about
