THE INSANE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN. On March 1, an immigrant from Senegal, apparently angry over the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran, donned a T-shirt that said “Property of Allah,” grabbed a Koran, a pistol, and a semi-automatic rifle, and headed toward a popular nightlife area in Austin, Texas. There, he shot and killed three people and wounded 14 others before police killed him.
On March 12, an immigrant from Sierra Leone who had served years in prison for providing material support to ISIS took a rifle and, yelling “Allahu Akbar,” started shooting as he walked into an Army ROTC classroom at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. He killed one person and critically wounded two others before students jumped him and killed him.
Also on March 12, just an hour or two later, an immigrant from Lebanon whose brother, a Hezbollah commander recently killed, along with other family members, by an Israeli airstrike, loaded his truck with a gun, heavy fireworks, and containers of gasoline and, hoping to set off a conflagration, rammed the vehicle into a synagogue and school with 140 schoolchildren inside in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan. The truck did not explode, and the man shot himself after exchanging fire with a security guard.
It’s a dangerous time, and given events around the globe and the degree to which the United States, through its immigration policy, has imported some ancient grievances and conflicts, Americans can probably expect further acts of terrorism in the U.S.
