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In 2021, a Syrian Muslim gunman opened fire at a Boulder supermarket killing ten Americans. Ahmad Al-Issa, the gunman, had been convinced that Americans were ‘Islamophobic’ and his family had moved from what would become the ISIS capital in Syria. The Al-Issa family lived in Arvada, a refugee sanctuary city near Boulder that had also previously produced Shannon Conley, an American convert to Islam who tried to join ISIS and scouted a local church.
Boulder authorities blamed gun violence and mental illness.
Now, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, an Egyptian Muslim, set elderly Jews on fire at a march to free hostages held by the Hamas terrorists whom he supported, while shouting “Free Palestine”.
“We are not calling it a terror attack at this point,” Boulder Police Chief Steve Redfearn told the media. “It is way too early to speculate a motive.”
But Mohamed not only shouted his motive during the attack, he recorded a video explaining that he did it for Allah. “Allah is greater than the Zionists, Allah is greater than America and its weapons, Allah is greater than the F-35 planes,” he raved. “What about Allah, who says to us every day, dozens of times: ‘Allah Akbar.’ Do not forget: Allah Akbar.”
To an audience of non-Muslims, Mohamed shouted slogans about “Palestine” and “Zionism”, but to a Muslim audience he talked about what really motivated him. Islam and Jihad. This is what Muslim terrorists routinely do. They talk about politics to us and religion to themselves.
“I attest before Allah and before you that Allah, His Messenger, and Jihad for Allah’s sake are more beloved to me than you and the whole world are,” Mohamed told his family who are now set to be deported.
In his car, the authorities who are still searching for a motive, found gasoline, rags and a Koran.
Of these three incendiary elements, the Koran was by far the most explosive of them all.
When Al-Issa had murdered ten people at a supermarket around Passover, Obama and Biden had blamed gun violence, but Mohamed didn’t use a gun, he used gasoline for his 18 Molotov cocktails. What are liberals supposed to blame now for the terrorist attack? Fossil fuel violence?
Mohamed did his best to spell out his motive. Islam. But no one in power will talk about it.
Gov. Jared Polis and Attorney General Phil Weiser blamed antisemitism and while Mohamed clearly targeted Jews and his social media showed support for Hamas, he didn’t turn to Islamic terrorism because he hated Jews, he hated Jews because he believed the words of the Koran and the teachings of his religion which declare that Jews are the ultimate enemies of Islam.
President Trump correctly pointed out that Mohamed was an illegal alien who should not have been here, but only called him a “radical”. FBI Director Kash Patel and NSC Director Tulsi Gabbard correctly called it a “terror” attack, but also made no mention of Islam. And there is no way to understand the horror that happened in Boulder without understanding Islam.
On his Facebook page, Mohamed had urged his followers, “open your heart to the Koran.” In his video rant, he emphasized “Allahu Akbar”, the battle cry of countless Islamic terrorists, which proclaims the supremacy of Islam over America, and over all other peoples and religions. The way that Muslims show that supremacy is through acts of violence against non-Muslims.
The more horrific the violence, the better.
Where did Mohamed get the idea to set elderly Jews, including an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor, on fire? Apologists have taken to claiming that it has no basis in Islam, but ISIS famously used fire as a means of killing those it considered infidels. The Koran repeatedly promises that non-Muslims will burn in hellfire. Non-Muslims are described as “inmates of the fire”. And Jews are specifically condemned to burning in Koran 4:55 and 98:6 which describes Jews and Christians as “the worst of all beings” who will burn in hellfire forever.
Mohamed didn’t attack elderly Jews with a gun, but with fire, because he wanted them to suffer more. Like ISIS, he wanted the world to witness a horrifying spectacle in Allah’s name. That horror would show the infidels, Jews, Christians and all others, the greatness of Allah.
He wanted to show everyone the judgement of Allah executed on an 88-year-old woman.
“Shout, ‘Allahu Akbar,’ because this strikes fear in the hearts of the non-believers,” a document carried by a 9/11 hijacker urged. Mohamed set out to cast fear into the hearts of non-Muslims.
Did he succeed? The simple answer is that if we are too afraid to mention Islam, then he won.
In past times, President Trump clearly and forthrightly defined Islam as the problem. He spoke truths about Islam that no other politician was willing to say. But now Islamists and their allies are crawling into the administration the way that they did into the Bush administration. And their presence undermines our national security and President Trump’s mission to save America.
Ismail Royer, a former terrorist and member of the Virginia Jihad Network, and Sheikh Hamza a Yusuf who had declared that, “I reside in this country not by choice but by conviction in attempting to spread the message of Islam in this country” were appointed to the Religious Liberty Commission. And other Islamist figures have gotten access to the White House.
All the while ‘counterjihadists’, the dedicated men and women who have spent decades in the wilderness telling the truth about the Jihad against America, are still being kept outside.
That is why it is more urgent than ever to speak the truth about what happened in Boulder.
This was not just terrorism and it was not just antisemitism. It was Islamic terrorism. Mohamed Soliman was a devout Muslim who following the teachings of his religion tried to murder a group of elderly people in the most horrifying way possible. He was a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood, a group whose branches encompass ISIS, Al Qaeda, CAIR and most political Islamist groups in America, and which is long overdue to be banned in the United States.
Mohamed is only one man. If we have learned anything in the past decades, it’s that there is a never-ending supply of Mohameds who will go on running over Americans with cars, planting bombs, opening fire with guns, attacking with machetes and waging war on us in Allah’s name.
President Trump’s message was that we cannot solve problems until we tell the truth about them. We must tell the truth about what happened in Boulder. We must tell the truth about Islam.
Before it’s too late.