By now we've all seen the grainy security camera footage of a person suspected of being the suicide bomber behind the recent attack that killed five Israelis at an airport in Bulgaria. Here's the image:
In addition, there is his fake Michigan Drivers License.
If this bomber does indeed turn out to be a Western Caucasian, presumably a convert to Islam, then this would be a very significant development in the history of Islamic and anti-Israel terror.
There have been previous non-Arabs and even non-Muslims involved in carrying out in anti-Israel terror, for instance the Japaneses Red Army Faction-led attack at Israel's Lod Airport in 1972. Also it has been documented that Germans helped the Munich Olympics terrorists in 1972 and the hijackers of the Air France plane in Entebbe in 1976. Also, there are infamous cases of Caucasian Americans joining the Al Qaeda network, such as Adam Gadahn and John Walker.
However, in the cases mentioned above, the perpetrators were either aligned with a supposedly secular, leftist cause (as in the case of the anti-Israel incidents in the 70s), or joined Islamists to fight on the battlefields of Afghanistan, Somalia, or Yemen. In all cases, these perpetrators were not involved in suicide operations. There have been other, non-Caucasian, converts to Islam who have been involved in suicide operations, such as shoe-bomber Richard Reid and Guantanamo inmate Jose Padilla, but these, in addition to not being Caucasian, were also not primarily targeting Israel, but rather the West from which they felt alienated.
If the Bulgarian bomber indeed turns out to be a white American or European convert to Islam, it will mark a watershed moment in terrorism and Islamist violence. It will mean that Islamists have begun to successfully recruit white Westerners to their diabolical evil cause, not just to play soldier but as actual suicide bombers. And it will mean that those converts are especially motivated by the the antisemitic - and not just the anti-Western - manifestation of their hate-filled ideology. Such a thing would probably throw current counterterrorism strategy in the US, Europe, and even Israel for a huge loop, as they have focused traditionally on Arab and South Asian men, or black converts to Islam.
And I would not discount the possibility that the Bulgarian bomber could turn out to be not a convert to Islam, but a white American or European secular far-leftist or Paulbot, who has been recruited to the anti-Israel and antisemitic cause as so many have been. This too would be a watershed, for it would signal the first time that a secular Westerner would have been pushed by their Israel hate and antisemitism to the level of suicide terrorism. I have written before about the unholy alliance between Islamists, secular far-leftists, and isolationists, so perhaps such a thing, if it did not happen in this instance, is only a matter of time.
The sad reality is that there are more than 6 billion people in the world and among those will inescapably be a fraction prone to mentally unstable behavior manifesting in extremist ideologies and violence. There is no reason to think that such plagues will not infest a number of White westerners to the point where they will be willing suicide pawns in service of extremist evil. Counterterrorism strategies will have to be updated to recognize that the threat may come from all ethnicities, backgrounds, and even genders. And those of us who abhor such hateful ideologies will have to redouble our efforts to reach out to our family and acquaintances to arrest, to the extent we can, the descent into madness. Evil is coming to your community, most likely.
A sad, but accurate, analysis, fizziks. How much of our blood needs to be shed before the world's thirst for it will be quenched? How much Jewish blood? Have we not already paid a great enough price just because we dare to exist? Why is it that so many, be they on the left or on the right, deny us, alone among the peoples of the world, the right to reside in our ancestral homeland?
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