I keep hearing people talk about how if we don't do such & such then ISIS will come here...
Or how we've got to prevent the U.S. from becoming like France & other places that have repeated terror attacks...
Or how, if we're not careful, we'll find Islamic Terrorism on our doorstep; "
if we don't fight 'em there, we'll have to fight 'em here," etc.
I'm not writing this to frighten people, but simply to state the reality that it's a little late to keep worrying about the Jihad "
coming here" because ISIS and Islamic Terrorism is already here and has been for a while.
(Yes, we should still heed warnings & be cautious, and not do stupid things like invite thousands of Muslims from a radical fundamentalist Islamic country into ours, because things could always get worse.)
An example of what I'm saying - in the last 24 hours, since the murder (throat slashing & near beheading) of the priest in France, I've heard people say that if ISIS "gets here" then that kind of thing
could happen here.
It's amazing how people forget - we've
already had beheadings of American citizens & others by Islamic radicals happen right here on our shores!
In
2014, ISIS inspired, Alton Alexander Nolen,
beheaded a woman in Moore,
Oklahoma in 2014.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/28/us/oklahoma-beheading.
But this wasn't the only instance of such an attack...
In
1973, Nation of Islam terrorists kidnapped a couple and
nearly decapitated the man, while raping and leaving the woman for dead in
Oakland, CA. That same year, on Christmas eve, another man is kidnapped, tortured and
decapitated by Nation of Islam terrorists in the same city.
In
1990 a Sunni cleric was assassinated
in front of a Tuscon mosque after declaring that two verses of the Qur'an were invalid.
In
2003, after undergoing a 'religious revival', a Saudi college student
slashes the throat of a Jewish student with a 4" butterfly knife, nearly decapitating the young man in
Houston, TX.
In
2006 a Muslim-American uses a young girl as hostage to enter a local
Jewish center in
Seattle, Washington where he shoots six women, one of whom dies.
In
2009 a Muslim man
beheaded his wife in
Buffalo, NY because she broke with Sharia law and sought a divorce.
In
2011 an Islamic terrorist
slit the throats of 3 Jewish men in
Waltham, MA.
In
2013 a Muslim man
beheaded 2 Coptic Christians in
Buena Vista, NJ.
These are listed because they bear similarities to the murder of the priest in a church in France (where either a throat was slashed or a full beheading was committed, or a place of worship was attacked) but they all happened on American shores (not counting many stabbings & hackings with bladed weapons, or of course the many attacks with guns, bombs, vehicles & airplanes).
The list of attacks on U.S. soil alone by Islamic terrorists is extensive, but these are just a few that bear similarities to the latest attack in France.
So it's not a question of "if" Islamic terrorism comes here because it's already here.
Now it's a question of how much more do we want here.