Connor Tomlinson
The New Year began in America with news that a Ford F-150 Lightning pick-up truck had been driven into crowds on Bourbon Street, in New Orleans’ French Quarter, killing 15 and injuring 35 more. The suspect then exited the vehicle and opened fire, wounding two police officers, before being shot dead. The assailant has been identified as 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a US army veteran born in Texas. While this had all the hallmarks of an Islamist attack, the FBI were quick to have a barely-literate confirm “it is not a terrorist event”. This was then recanted, when it was revealed that Jabbar was flying an ISIS flag from the trailer hitch of the truck, and that two improvised explosive devices were found near the scene. Now, the FBI suspects Jabbar did not work alone.
It is possible that Jabbar is linked to the explosion of a Tesla cyber-truck outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas, five hours after the attack in New Orleans. The driver was killed and seven people were injured when gas and fuel canisters, and over a dozen firework mortars, ignited in the truck bed. Given Elon Musk’s friendship with incumbent President Trump, the explosion had the makings of a political statement. More suspicions were aroused when it was found that both of the New Orleans and Las Vegas attack trucks were rented through peer-to-peer app Turo. The authorities have yet to establish any further link between the attacks.
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However, the FBI’s eagerness to rule out any link to Islamic terror, only to be proven wrong hours later, demonstrates a ruinous culture of political correctness within the institutions tasked with keeping Americans safe. Any appeasement of Islamism, under the rubric of anti-racist ideology, simply gives quarter to the terrorists who would do us harm. This same fear of being called racist and Islamophobic led to authorities ignoring the Manchester Arena bombing perpetrator in 2017. It also caused politicians to be willfully blind to the Muslim grooming gangs, abusing girls in fifty towns and cities across England and Wales. As discourse on X, concurrent to the New Orleans attack, made Americans aware: that cover-up still continues today.
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