The Silence of the Jihad Killing of Four Men in America is Deafening

A 19-year old from NJ, Brendan Tevlin, who had just finished his freshman year at the University of Richmond, like many young people his age, played sports and video games.  He liked to surf, and played the bagpipes.  He was a Eucharistic minister at his church.  But none of these things contributed to his tragic death.  What led to Brendan’s death is that he was an American.

 

Ali Muhammad Brown, 29, was charged with the murder of Brendan Tevlin on June 18th.  Brown also confessed to killing two people – Ahmed Said and Dwone Anderson-Young – in Seattle, WA on June 1st. And if that’s not enough, he was also charged with shooting another man, Leroy Henderson, in the Skyway area of Seattle, in April.  All four of the men were killed with a 9 mm handgun.

 

There is consistency in Brown’s statement to police in both King County (Seattle) and Essex County (NJ) – He told authorities that he was doing his small part as vengeance for U.S. actions in the Middle East.

 

Seattle’s Q13 FOX reported that Brown described the killing of Tevlin to authorities in NJ as a ‘just kill’ … which he defined as a targeted adult male (not a woman, child or elderly person).  Brown stated, “My mission is vengeance … for the lives … millions of lives lost every day,” he reportedly said.  “Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan: All these places where innocent lives are being taken every single day … All these lives are taken every single day by America, by this government.  So a life for a life.”

 

Todd Pettingill, radio host of The Todd Show in the Morning in New York, discussed this jihad killing on his radio show.  He said, “If there was ever a reason to riot in the streets in the name of humanity, it would be for this case.  But, has that happened?  No.  And I’m not suggesting that it should.  What did the friends of the family of Brendan Tevlin do?  They had a candlelight vigil.  What I am suggesting should happen is that this should be talked about and written about, and the American people should know.  Why is Eric Holder not visiting the Tevlin family?  Why is the President not going to mention Brendan Tevlin tonight?  He was a young boy who was killed … for being an American.”

 

In addition to calling out Holder and Obama for their failure to give any attention to these jihad killings that were done on American soil, Pettingill also said, “It was in fact an act of jihad, perpetrated by a fellow American who sympathized more with those who want to annihilate us than with his own country and its people.”

 

But, with ISIS on a bloody killing spree in the Middle East in their quest to establish a caliphate and their threats to take their attacks onto American soil, the only Brown the media wants to talk is Michael Brown (Ferguson, MO).  The mainstream media and Congress want to put more emphasis on the domestic abuse case surrounding Ray Rice than acts of jihad in America with men being killed simply for being an American.  And Barack Obama pays little attention to the killing of innocent Americans, in the name of Islam, right here in the United States.

 

Rev. Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.

Chaplain (Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army

Pastor, Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel