The group used encrypted apps to share extremist materials, carefully plotting a massacre echoing the 2015 Paris attacks. Each member had a different role to play. One of the alleged terrorists bridged the New Jersey-Michigan cells, while another helped arm the operation. These weren’t loners; they were recruits in a global jihadist network, radicalized not in Damascus, but in Montclair’s quiet streets and Dearborn’s enclaves.
This is the new face of terror: not just infiltrators crossing porous borders or imported jihadists abusing our immigration system, but American-raised kids twisted by online poison and local echo chambers.
Radical Islam isn’t a distant threat—it’s a cancer within, fed by social media black holes, unvetted migrant networks, and “inclusivity” policies that shield extremism. The left’s refusal to confront jihadist ideology allows this to fester. The recruitment of these young men, most still in their teens, proves anyone can fall when radicalization goes unchecked.
The cost of complacency is blood. This plot had the potential to rival the 2013 Boston Marathon massacre, slaughtering innocents for their lifestyle or faith. We dodged a bullet—barely—thanks to vigilant law enforcement. But how many more cells lurk in our suburbs, cities, and campuses?
This is our wake-up call. Radical Islam is here, infecting our youth, plotting in our backyards. ACT for America has been ringing this alarm bell for years. Join our efforts as we mobilize in support of stronger national security. For our children, our communities, and the God who blesses this land—rise now, because it’s not a question of if it will happen again, but when.
