The lesson to be learned: Islam (Sharia Law) and Constitutional Republicanism do not blend well.
As this story goes, an obviously mentally maladjusted neo-Nazi, became distraught with the whole goosestepping and Heil-Hitlering routine, and decided to take refuge in religion.
Consequently, he converted to Islam, which is culturally different enough from our western Judeo-Christian heritage to further pull apart anyone who is mentally ill and seeking an escape, seeking help outside the tried-and-true mental health opportunities that existed pre–Obama Regime.
Back to the story, this mentally maladjusted convert to the harsh realities if Islam then killed two of his roommates who had the questionable judgment to doubt the wisdom of his conversion. He shot them dead. On Monday, he pleaded guilty to double homicide.
This from frontpagemag.com.
The New York Post reported Monday that Devon Arthurs:
Now 24, agreed to a term of 45 years in prison in exchange for admitting his guilt for the 2017 shooting deaths of Jeremy Himmelman and Andrew Onseschuck inside a Tampa apartment.
Arthurs, Himmelman, and Onseschuck had been members of the Atomwaffen Division (“Atomic Weapons Division”), a group of pimply-faced losers cosplaying as Nazis that, at least according to Arthurs, had sinister plans.
Arthurs, according to the Tampa Bay Times Monday:
[T]old police that another one of his roomies, Brandon Russell, was the founder of Atomwaffen Division, and that ‘the group had plans to carry out terrorist acts, including launching explosives into a nuclear power plant.’
He also claimed that they planned to target synagogues. Instead of participating in their plotting, however, Arthurs left the group and ultimately converted to Islam. It was then that Himmelman and Onseschuck teased Arthurs ‘for his new faith,’ according to the Post, and according to the Associated Press, ‘the families of the victims alleged that the murders were in retaliation.’
Newsweek reported Monday:
Arthurs claimed that his murders had actually prevented these neo-Nazis’ plots from coming to fruition: ‘In a statement issued to police during interrogation, Arthurs argued that he was saving Americans from mass destruction after learning that one of his roommates, Brandon Russell, planned to bomb power plants and synagogues around Florida.’
Immediately after the murders, however, Arthurs contradicted his own claims by not behaving as if he actually opposed violence. He said that he also wanted the killings of his roommates to serve as a cautionary tale about the dangers of anti-moslem sentiment. Not the best way to communicate such a message, except for someone abiding by sharia law.
And that was not all. The Tampa Bay Times noted:
[O]n May 19, 2017, Arthurs walked into a leasing office at the Hamptons apartments in New Tampa and announced to several people that he had just killed his roommates. A property manager called 911 and watched as Arthurs walked to the nearby Green Planet Smoke Shop. He entered the store, brandished a handgun and held three people hostage.
Arthurs later told detectives:
I had to do it. This wouldn’t have had to happen if your country didn’t bomb my country.
My country? Devon Arthurs is an American, but it is not uncommon for converts to Islam to regard themselves as citizens of the umma, the global Islamic community, a loyalty that supersedes all attachment to any particular nation.
After his arrest, he was asked if he had been outside the country, and he answered:
They closed the door to jihad for me over there. So I figured I’d do it over here. But I wanted to do it within reason. Generally, like, speaking, the amount of bureaucracy in the United States is its biggest problem.
Well, Arthurs may have gotten one thing correct: Bureaucracy may seem to be a nightmare in America.
Now, however, Arthurs is singing a very different tune. As he pleaded guilty Monday, he said:
I feel I can be an advocate against extremism. I’d like to take this moment to tell the world to stay away from extremist groups….I’m very sorry for everyone that was involved. I’m very sorry for everything that has happened.
If I could go back and do something over, I would sign myself into a hospital and work on my anger issues and my rational thinking skills.
Improvement of one’s rational thinking skills—what a grand idea.
America is suffering from a pandemic of people who lack rational thinking skills.
Devon Arthurs murdered two people for mocking Islam in a nation where the overwhelming majority of We the People are non-moslems and don’t know the first thing about Islam. Improved rational thinking skills would have helped him to conceptualize this fact.
In Devon Arthurs defense—an item which apparently was not appropriate in the U.S. court system—Islam mandates death for non-Moslems who mention “something impermissible about Allah, the Prophet…or Islam.”
Final thought: Rational Thinking Skills training may be a value-added measure within America’s current public discourse. I suggest it begin in the Halls of Congress.
