I wonder why they might have been targeting gay bars. The media certainly won’t explain.
Two 20-year-old men who had acquired high-powered weapons and practiced at gun ranges were scouting LGBTQ+ bars in suburban Detroit in September for a possible Halloween attack, authorities said Monday in filing terrorism-related charges.
Mohmed Ali, Majed Mahmoud and co-conspirators were inspired by the Islamic State group’s extremism, according to a 72-page criminal complaint unsealed in federal court. Investigators say a minor, identified only as Person 1, was deeply involved in the discussions.
The FBI said the men repeatedly referred to “pumpkins” in their conversations, a reference to a Halloween attack. The court filing says Person 1, the minor, regularly consulted the father of a “local Islamic extremist ideologue” about when to commit a “good deed.”
The criminal complaint doesn’t specifically say why Ferndale was a target, though the man who attacked the LGBTQ+-friendly Pulse Nightclub, killing 49 people in Orlando, Florida, in 2016, had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group.
Ferndale, which is just north of Detroit, attracts tens of thousands of people to its annual Pride parade. Former Mayor Dave Coulter, who is gay, said it was “disturbing” to hear about the alleged plot.
The Pulse massacre Jihadist was unaware that it was a gay club, but a number of other Islamic terror plots did target LGBTQ locations.
Let’s take this one from last year.
Abdul-Rahman wanted make bombs for two jihad terror groups: Katibat al Tawhid wal Jihad (KTJ), which is an al-Qaeda affiliate, and Hay’at Tahrir al Sham (HTS). He did not, however, intend to use his bomb-making skills only in Syria. CBS News notes that he “was searching online for potential targets in the Philadelphia area, specifically the Philly Pride March and the Army-Navy game. He allegedly was also looking into targeting local power plants and domestic military bases.”
How far has the apple fallen from the tree? Muhyyee-Ud-din Abdul-Rahman is the son of Qawi Abdul-Rahman, a prominent Philadelphia criminal defense attorney who ran in May 2023 for a seat as a Philadelphia Common Pleas Court judge. In a “vote for ten” election, Abdul-Rahman finished fourteenth, with 3.88% of the vote.
There’s been a larger pattern for some time.
A few days before the second anniversary of the Pulse massacre in Orlando, Florida, two Muslim terrorists were arrested in a plot to attack gay targets in France.
A year later, Amer Alhaggagi was indicted for aiding ISIS and plotting murderous terror attacks.
‘I’m going to place a bomb in a gay club, Wallah or by Allah,’ he allegedly said. Other plans included selling cocaine laced with rat poison and planting backpack bombs in Berkeley dorms.
But the media ignores this, just as it ignores the calls by Imam Sirraj Wahhaj, the Imam embraced by Zohran Mamdani on the campaign trail, to kill gay people.
The progressive candidate openly embraced an imam who not only supported terrorism, but had called for the full application of Islamic Sharia law “If Allah says cut off their hand, you cut off their hand. If Allah says stone them to death” and the execution of gay people “kill them both” at a mosque whose spokesman had denounced women who wear perfume as “deviant”.
Just more things for progressive Islamophiles and the Queers for Palestine contingent to ignore.
