Only 1 in 4 American Muslims Will Turn in a Terrorist

There are loads of layers to the recent news that a Latino man, naturalized into an American, named Antonio Martinez, converted to Islam and tried to blow up an Army recruitment center in Baltimore before he was arrested by the FBI as part of a sting. His Muslim name was ‘Muhammad Hussain.’ He spurned his Christianity, was described as quiet and troubled by an ex girlfriend, and had considered joining the military prior to converting to Islam and becoming obsessed with jihad.

The AJC has a great article on it here, and what I found most shocking is that Martinez tried to recruit four other Muslims to his terror plot. The first two simply said no, the third tried to talk him out of it and the last actually turned him over to the FBI. This means that 3 of the 4 Muslims, in America, confronted with the dilema to turn in a known terrorist, will ignore the issue and let it happen.

The informant first contacted the FBI on Oct. 8 after communicating with Martinez through Facebook, where he had posted notes that alluded to jihad.

Martinez picked the military recruitment center because he considered enlisting before he converted to Islam and had been inside.

Martinez told the informant he didn’t know how to build a bomb, but investigators nonetheless believed he posed a genuine threat.

Martinez acted alone and that the idea to blow up the military recruitment center was his, not the FBI’s. Martinez approached four people about the plot. Two declined to help him, one actively tried to dissuade him and the fourth was the informant who turned him into the FBI.

Out of every four Muslims you meet, only one loves this country enough not to let some asshole blow it up. The rest don’t care if you die in the plot.