Yet more converts to Islam somehow get the crazy idea that their religion of peace calls upon them to do violence to unbelievers. Authorities worldwide remain resolutely incurious about this frequently recurring phenomenon.

“Thulsie twins convicted on terror charges following plea deal with state,” by Bernadette Wicks, The Citizen, February 7, 2022:

After years of protesting their innocence, the Thulsie twins have effected an eleventh hour about-turn – pleading guilty to a number of terror charges between them, including planning attacks on home soil, on the day their trial was finally expected to kick off.

On Monday morning, Tony-Lee Thulsie pleaded guilty to conspiring to carry out terrorist attacks in South Africa. The plea document revealed he “unlawfully and intentionally” conspired with an individual identified only by the alias ‘Abu Harb’ “to commit the crime of terrorism by agreeing to engage in terrorist activity in South Africa”.

This, the document further revealed, would have involved “the systematic, repeated or arbitrary use of violence by any means or method; endangering the life, or violating the physical integrity or physical freedom of, or causing serious bodily injury to or the death of, any person, or any number of persons; and causing the destruction of or substantial damage to any property, whether public or private”.

And, it went on, this would have been directed against Shia mosques; Jewish events and / or conferences; and foreign interests at airports.

“The purpose of the conspiracy was to intimidate the Shia and Jewish communities in South Africa and foreigners at South African airports and to cause or spread feelings of terror, fear or panic in the civilian population of South Africa and in particular the sections of the civilian population so targeted,” the plea document read.