• Maybe there’s a reason they don’t call it the Straights of Hormuz.
• Since the beginning of the war in Iran, we’ve had four separate Islamist terrorist attacks or attempted attacks against Americans on U.S. soil. First, in downtown Austin, Texas, Ndiaga Diagne killed four people and injured 15 more while wearing a shirt that said “Property of Allah.” Then in New York City, Emir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi hurled two explosive devices (which failed to ignite) during a protest near Gracie Mansion. A few days later, a gunman yelled “Allahu akbar” before opening fire in a classroom at Old Dominion University in Virginia, killing one and wounding two; students in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps subdued and killed him. The same day, Ayman Mohamad Ghazali rammed his car into a synagogue near Detroit and drove through a hallway before security officers fatally shot him. The perpetrators in all these attacks have no observable ties to the Iranian regime. But Balat and Diagne claimed that ISIS was their inspiration. While the Islamic State no longer controls countries, its ideology still appeals to some angry young men who are looking for a cause. When Iran is in a fight with the U.S. and Israel, most of the world’s Muslim nations won’t lift a finger for it. But self-identified terrorists come running.
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