The murderer of at least fifteen people and who injured dozens more in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day in New Orleans “was an Army veteran.”

This from frontpagemag.com.

FBI Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge Alethea Duncan at a press conference on Wednesday afternoon, said:

We believe he was [an] honorable discharge. But we’re working through this process to figure out all this information.

So, what happened to Shamsud-Din Jabbar to turn him from a loyal soldier of the United States Army into a bloodthirsty jihad mass murderer?

While he may have received an honorable discharge, his attack on innocent New Year’s revelers would have been “a discordant end to what appears to have been a capable term of service.”

Fox News reported Wednesday:

Jabbar was also awarded a variety of distinguishments throughout his service, including a Global War on Terrorism Service Medal.

Ironic, yes?

Further:

His awards included the Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal, Army Good Conduct Medal, Army Reserve Components Achievement Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Afghanistan Campaign Medal with Campaign star, Noncommissioned Officer Professional Development Ribbon, Army Service Ribbon, Overseas Service Ribbon, Army Reserve Component Overseas Training Ribbon, NATO Medal, Meritorious Unit Commendation, Parachutist Badge, and the Driver and Mechanic Badge.

No doubt, the military seems to hand out participation medals “as if they were candy bars on Halloween.”

A mere glance at our soft, woke, combat-free generals “with their chests bedecked with more medals than a Soviet Premier ever sported” is enough to demonstrate that this is the age of the “Participation Trophy Army.” Nevertheless, Shamsud-Din Jabbar was believably a perfectly reasonable soldier, competent if not distinguished.

So, what went wrong [with Jabbar]?

The New York Times offered some clues toward an answer when it reported Wednesday:

Jabbar grew increasingly devout in his observance of Islam.

The paper stated Jabbar was a convert to the religion, and the jihadi’s brother, Abdur Jabbar claimed:

They had been brought up Christian but that his brother had long ago converted to Islam.

Yet apparently that conversion took place long ago, for Abdur Jabbar added:

As far as I know he was a Muslim for most of his life.

Brother Jabbar concluded with another difficult to understand claim:

What he did does not represent Islam. This is more some type of radicalization, not religion.

Christians believe brother Jabbar was correct on both accounts: His brother was radicalized and Islam is not a religion. Period.

NOTE: After the jihadi Jabbar was killed in a firefight with police, an Islamic State flag was found in his truck, and he was discovered to have made several videos in which he “pledged allegiance to ISIS.”

Dwayne Marsh, the husband of Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s ex-wife, said:

[The New Orleans killer] had been acting erratically in recent months, ‘being all crazy, cutting his hair’ after converting to Islam.

Does the jihadi’s brother believe, or would he have us believe, that Shamsud-Din Jabbar misunderstood the faith for which he gave his life? The answer is obviously yes, but only the most naïve and ill-informed could possibly fall for this.

The Left caricatures the Islamic State:

[A]s an outfit of nitwits who profess to follow Islam scrupulously but actually don’t follow it at all. Reality is quite different, and less compatible with woke sensibilities.

The Qur’an and Sunnah exhort moslems to wage war against and subjugate non-moslems in innumerable passages. Most Americans still do not know such passages exist and would not care if they did. Others believe such passages calling for violence are counterbalanced by numerous passages exhorting peace and tolerance (they are not) or that they are made to seem violent by an incorrect interpretative tradition that blunts their literal force (this theory is incorrect also).

The unpleasant and unwelcome fact is that Islam teaches love for killing (see Qur’an 2:191 and 4:89, cf. 9:5) and death (Qur’an 62:6).

Pointing out this fact will get you vilified, defamed, deplatformed, marginalized, and silenced, but none of that makes it any less a fact.

Quite [believably], Shamsud-Din Jabbar got deeply involved in a death cult, and that’s what turned him from a defender of Americans into a murderer of Americans.

Terribly sad and existentially frightening:

American government and law enforcement officials, like their counterparts all over the Western world, have been resolute in ignoring the aspects of Islam that make for what we saw in New Orleans on the morning of New Year’s Day.

NOTE:

Ignoring moslems will not make them disappear.

Final thoughts: The sooner Western nations—America in particular because for the USA the time is not too late to act without the extreme of a holy war—adopt a more realistic, a more survivable approach to Islam and what it can do to a human being, to a culture, and to an entire society the fewer people we will have who take the road that Shamsud-Din Jabbar traveled.