This is not even the first New Year’s Eve teen terror attack plot by a teen Muslim convert in America.
Trevor Bickford, a teen Muslim convert tried to ring in the New Year for 2023 with a machete attack in Times Square. Now Christian Sturdivant, an apparent teen convert to Islam, decided he wanted to carry out a New Year’s Eve attack in North Carolina.
According to the arrest affidavit, the FBI received tips about Sturdivant’s social media posts supporting ISIS on Dec. 18.
One post included an image of miniature figurines of Jesus with text proclaiming a curse on “cross worshipers,” consistent with ISIS rhetoric that advocates violence against non-believers.
After agents became aware of his potential actions, they said law enforcement used a warrant on Dec. 29 to search Sturdivant’s home and found handwritten papers, one labeled “New Years Attack 2026,” which listed a vest, mask, tactical gloves and knives. The plan, according to the FBI, described him wanting to stab as many people as possible, up to 20 to 21, before dying a martyr.
On Dec. 19, Sturdivant sent the undercover employee a voice recording pledging “Bayat,” a loyalty oath to ISIS.
Sturdivant also told the undercover employee about his plans to purchase a firearm to use along with the knives during the attack.
He stated, “I will do jihad soon” and claimed to be “a soldier of the state,” indicating his allegiance to ISIS, the feds said.
An additional handwritten note was found among the trash, and it outlined plans for two separate attacks. Sturdivant allegedly planned to attack a Burger King restaurant in Mint Hill, and he wrote that he had a goal of at least eight victims. The second attack was planned at a grocery store, where Sturdivant allegedly wanted to attack at least 11 people.
Another note found by the FBI says that Sturdivant allegedly planned to target “non-Muslims,” “LGBTQ,” “Capitalist,” “Democracy, Republicanism,” “Law-enforcement officials,” and “military personnel.”
Now what’s interesting in this case is that Sturdivant had a history.
Sturdivant also had a history of online radicalization and was previously referred for psychological care, according to the FBI.
Sturdivant had been on the FBI’s radar since 2022, when he was a 14-year-old teenager. At that time, Sturdivant came into contact with a real ISIS member, who advised him on a plan to knock on people’s doors to attack them with a hammer.
I assume he’s a convert simply because a Muslim family probably wouldn’t have named their kid ‘Christian’, but he clearly got into this at least as far back as 2021 and stuck with it. The FBI had him on their radar and stepped in before things escalated the way they did in some previous cases like the Pulse massacre. Apologists for Islamic terrorists will claim that he was set up except that he’s been at this for 4 years and we’re better off with him not figuring out how to shoot a bunch of people at a Burger King.
We’re also better off keeping Islamic propaganda out of our school and our culture. There’s been a trend of terror plots involving American teen converts lately and while the establishment can blame ‘Jihadist propaganda on Discord’, there’s a gateway for all this and the gateway is the depiction of Islam in our culture as a noble persecuted minority fighting to survive.
That’s how you end up with this.
