New Orleans Jihadi Shamsud-Din Jabbar Was A Recent Convert To Islam

At least 15 people were killed and over two dozen injured after a recent convert to Islam drove a Ford pickup truck through a crowd on Bourbon Street at a high rate of speed early Wednesday and then opened fire on the crowd.

The vehicle was reportedly carrying an ISIS flag and a chest with explosives inside it.

Daniel Greenfield:

As I predicted, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, was a recent Muslim convert.

Muslim converts have taken a larger role in terrorism in the U.S.

Ending migration from Muslim countries is important, but we also need to deal with mosques and the Islamic presence already in this country.

And when will we deal with the larger questions.

Where did he get these ideas? Is his mosque under investigation? What is being done to stop jihad recruiting in U.S. mosques? And how did this so-called “misunderstanding” of Islam become so widespread? Why do hundreds of millions of Muslims understand Islam in this exact same way?

Some Muslims make limp-wrested condemnation of the Islamic State, where are they teaching against the ideology that gave rise to it?

ight now, nothing is being done to stop jihad recruiting in US mosques.

If the moderates really reject extremism why haven’t they instituted genuine programs to teach against these views of Islam.

Why are there no Muslim rallies against jihad and sharia? Why do they rally and march for Islamic Jew hatred?

It Was Jihad in New Orleans: Attacker Identified as Shamsud Din Jabbar

Robert Spencer | PJ Media

After initially denying that the attack in New Orleans in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day was a terror attack, and then belatedly admitting that obvious fact, the FBI is now confronted with the onerous task of investigating what was actually an Islamic jihad attack.

NBC News reported early Wednesday afternoon that “four senior law enforcement officials briefed on the matter say they have preliminarily identified the suspect in the vehicle ramming attack in New Orleans as Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42.” Din Jabbar is “accused of intentionally plowing a pickup truck into New Year’s revelers at about 3:15 a.m. on Bourbon Street, authorities said. The suspect is dead, the FBI said.” In his vehicular jihad attack, Din Jabbar murdered at least ten people and injured dozens of others.

The mysterious flag on the back of the truck Din Jabbar was driving seems to have been a flag of the Islamic State (ISIS). If that is definitively confirmed, it would not be surprising at all, for ISIS has called for vehicular jihad attacks as far back as 2014. In a long communiqué encouraging individual Muslims to carry out jihad attacks in Western countries, it quoted the Qur’an: “O you who believe, take your precautions, then advance the proven ones, or advance all together.” (4:71) Then it stated:

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. Do not lack. Do not be contemptible. Let your slogan be, “May I not be saved if the cross worshipper and taghūt (ruler ruling by manmade laws) patron survives.”

Such attacks have not been common in the U.S., at least up until now, but they have happened. Back in May 2024, according to the New York Post, “a maniac tried to mow down Orthodox students and a rabbi outside a Brooklyn Jewish school Wednesday while allegedly yelling ‘I’m gonna kill all the Jews’ in a shocking antisemitic attack.” The name of the “maniac” was Asghar Ali, and “video footage supplied by the Flatbush Shomrim Safety Patrol shows the crazed driver revving his engine and mounting the curb as he swerved toward Orthodox Jews milling around a Yeshiva in Canarsie at about 11:25 a.m.” Nevertheless, “cops do not believe the attack is terror-related and…did not have evidence he was tied to radical groups online.” Well, that settles that.

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