{"id":2386151,"date":"2025-01-03T13:36:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T18:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/by-watering-down-citizenship-democrats-invite-more-terrorists\/"},"modified":"2025-01-03T13:39:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T18:39:22","slug":"by-watering-down-citizenship-democrats-invite-more-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/by-watering-down-citizenship-democrats-invite-more-terrorists\/","title":{"rendered":"By Watering Down Citizenship, Democrats Invite More Terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fby-watering-down-citizenship-democrats-invite-more-terrorists%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2386151&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>On New Year\u2019s Day, American citizen and Army veteran Shamsud-Din Jabbar committed a\u200c violent attack, driving a rental \u2062truck into a crowd \u200bin New Orleans, resulting in 15 \u2063fatalities. This incident \u2062coincided with a bomb explosion at the Trump Hotel in \u200bLas Vegas, prompting ISIS to call for\u2064 more &#8220;lone\u2063 wolf&#8221; attacks\u2062 in the West. Jabbar, who had \u2063previously served over\u2062 a decade in the U.S. Army, was influenced by radical Islam, evidenced by his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liberal-candidates-social-media-looked-much-different-when-he-wasnt-pretending-to-be-a-moderate\/\" title=\"Liberal Candidate&#039;s Social Media Reveals Shift from Extreme to Moderate Stance\">alleged allegiance<\/a> to ISIS, demonstrated by\u200d flying its flag during his attack.\u2063 Federal investigators later discovered \u2062disturbing items at\u2064 his home, including a bomb-making station and a Quran open to passages about martyrdom.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200c article highlights \u200dthe ongoing\u200b threat of \u200cradical \u2062islamist attacks in the \u2063U.S., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sean-diddy-combs-reportedly-placed-on-suicide-watch-sparking-epstein-comparisons\/\" title=\"Sean &#039;Diddy&#039; Combs Reportedly Placed on Suicide Watch, Sparking Epstein Comparisons\">citing past incidents<\/a> such\u200c as the Fort Hood shooting and the Boston Marathon bombing. It raises concerns over \u2063the influx of ideologies that contradict the nation&#8217;s foundational principles, suggesting that such \u2064ideologies have contributed to turning citizens\u200d against\u200c their own country.\u2062 moreover,\u200c it <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">criticizes\u200c recent political stances<\/a> that\u200d have downplayed the dangers of radical Islam, citing various administrations&#8217; approaches to\u2063 immigration and security,\u2062 and \u2063argues for a more \u2062robust conception of American \u2062citizenship based on shared values and history.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>When American citizen and Army veteran Shamsud-Din Jabbar attacked his own country on New Year&rsquo;s Day, the tragedy served as a reminder that globalist politicians are flooding the country with ideologies hostile to the country&rsquo;s very existence.<\/p>\n<p>Jabbar <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/02\/an-fbi-that-targets-political-opponents-instead-of-terrorists-doesnt-deserve-to-lead-new-orleans-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">murdered 15 people<\/a> by driving a rental truck through a crowd in New Orleans the same day someone else <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/01\/01\/us-news\/tesla-cybertruck-explosion-at-trump-hotel-in-las-vegas-being-investigated-as-potential-act-of-terror-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">detonated a bomb<\/a> in front of the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas. Following this violence, ISIS called for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memri.org\/reports\/celebrating-new-years-attacks-new-orleans-and-las-vegas-islamic-state-isis-supporters-call\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lone wolf<\/a> attacks across the West.<\/p>\n<p>Jabbar was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khou.com\/article\/news\/crime\/bourbon-street-attack\/shamsud-din-jabbar-houston-personal-life-nola-terror-attack\/285-ec4e902f-e501-4b83-9158-2e97320fab96\">born and raised<\/a> in Texas, and his resume sported more than a decade in the U.S. Army. But he was turned against his country by <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/02\/flashback-10-years-before-new-orleans-terror-attack-fbi-agent-told-another-islamist-to-tear-up-texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">radical Islam<\/a>, and he allegedly expressed allegiance to ISIS by flying the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israel-warns-that-iranian-terrorists-are-planning-to-target-the-olympics-according-to-the-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Israel warns that Iranian terrorists are planning to target the Olympics, according to the Washington Examiner\">terrorist group&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s flag from the back of his truck as he murdered fellow citizens.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/01\/02\/us-news\/new-orleans-isis-terrorist-shamsud-din-jabbar-had-bomb-making-station-and-quran-open-to-chilling-passage-new-photos-reveal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">accessed<\/a> Jabbar&rsquo;s home, which the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rush-to-judgement-three-crucial-questions-remain-unanswered-about-capitol-siege\/\" title=\"Rush to judgement? Three crucial questions remain unanswered about Capitol siege\">federal investigators<\/a> apparently left vacant. Reporters found evidence like a Quran opened to pages about martyrdom and an alleged bomb-making station.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Radical Islamists have repeatedly attacked Americans since the devastating attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. In 2009, an Army major radicalized by Islam <a href=\"https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs5746\/files\/Nidal%20Hasan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">killed 13<\/a> and injured 32 at Fort Hood, Texas. In 2013, two radical Muslim brothers detonated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/event\/Boston-Marathon-bombing-of-2013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bombs<\/a> at the Boston Marathon, killing three and wounding 260. In 2016, ISIS recruited <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/02\/flashback-10-years-before-new-orleans-terror-attack-fbi-agent-told-another-islamist-to-tear-up-texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">terrorists<\/a> to attack an art exhibit in the Dallas suburb of Garland &mdash; but local police thwarted the attempt.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Customs and Border Protection have encountered 76 individuals on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/stats\/cbp-enforcement-statistics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">terror watchlist<\/a> at ports of entry and three in between ports of entry so far in fiscal year 2025. In fiscal year 2024, the agency encountered 410 potential terrorists at ports of entry and 106 in between ports of entry.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the clear and present danger of radical Islam, which turned Jabbar &mdash; an Army veteran and lifelong citizen &mdash; to violence against his country, globalist politicians have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.govinfo.gov\/content\/pkg\/BILLS-117hres474ih\/html\/BILLS-117hres474ih.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">welcoming<\/a> this ideology for years under a watered-down idea of citizenship.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Former President Barack Obama <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2016\/06\/15\/by-rejecting-radical-islam-obama-substitutes-political-correctness-for-reality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">refused<\/a> to even use the term &ldquo;radical Islam.&rdquo; When former President Donald Trump placed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nafsa.org\/professional-resources\/browse-by-interest\/executive-order-travel-ban-nafsa-resources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">travel restrictions<\/a> on Islamic extremist countries likely to export terrorists and their ideology, former Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein and other legislators tried to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.judiciary.senate.gov\/press\/dem\/releases\/senators-introduce-bill-to-repeal-muslim-travel-ban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">end<\/a> the so-called &ldquo;Muslim Travel Ban&rdquo; &mdash; and President Joe Biden later revoked the bans as &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/presidential-actions\/2021\/01\/20\/proclamation-ending-discriminatory-bans-on-entry-to-the-united-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">discriminatory<\/a>.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Subverting Citizenship<\/h2>\n<p>Citizenship, either &ldquo;by birth or choice,&rdquo; means a &ldquo;country has a right to concentrate your affections&rdquo; and &ldquo;exalt the just pride of patriotism,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/quotes-us-presidents-american-citizenship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> George Washington in his Farewell Address. And Abraham Lincoln, in his first Inaugural Address, said citizens are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/quotes-us-presidents-american-citizenship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">united<\/a> under &ldquo;bonds of affection&rdquo; and &ldquo;the mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land &hellip;&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Vice President-elect J.D. Vance summarized the traditional view of America as being both an idea and a people: &ldquo;America is not just an idea. It is a group of people with a shared history and a common future. It is, in short, a nation.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JDVance?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JDVance<\/a> said it best: <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;One of the things you hear people say sometimes is that America is an idea. America is not just an idea. It is a group of people with a shared history and a common future. It is, in short, a nation.&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b8Nxwpf4N5\">pic.twitter.com\/b8Nxwpf4N5<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CortesSteve\/status\/1872702377192792563?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 27, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>But globalists have watered down this deep meaning and its consequent civic duty. Obama <a href=\"https:\/\/obamawhitehouse.archives.gov\/blog\/2014\/09\/23\/most-important-title-citizen-president-obama-importance-civil-society\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">defined<\/a> citizenship as &ldquo;ordinary men and women, determined to forge their own future&rdquo; who &ldquo;work together across borders.&rdquo; This echoes the United Nations&rsquo; twisted idea of &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/academic-impact\/global-citizenship#:~:text=Global%20citizenship%20is%20the%20umbrella,communities%20on%20a%20worldwide%20scale.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">global citizenship<\/a>&rdquo; &mdash; that &ldquo;individuals are members of multiple, diverse, local and non-local networks rather than single actors affecting isolated societies.&rdquo; It renders citizenship nothing more than an empty platitude.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Apparently operating on this idea, Biden has been taking steps to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/president-joe-biden-immigration-border-citizenship-spouses-69b9212c382d9bb265369b29b62622d7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">expand<\/a> citizenship, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/06\/18\/bidens-executive-actions-on-the-border-are-making-the-crisis-even-worse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ushering<\/a> illegals across America&rsquo;s borders who often commit <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/10\/the-left-misrepresents-stats-to-deceptively-claim-illegals-are-less-likely-to-commit-crimes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">heinous crimes<\/a>. Corporations have also been flooding towns like <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/10\/flood-of-more-than-20000-haitian-migrants-wreaks-havoc-in-ohio-town\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Springfield, Ohio<\/a> and Charleroi, Pennsylvania, with <a href=\"https:\/\/christopherrufo.com\/p\/a-troubled-place\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">noncitizens<\/a> for cheap labor &mdash; displacing and overwhelming citizens who are part of the American cultural fabric.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This approach treats America as nothing more than an &ldquo;office park,&rdquo; letting individuals come and go on a simple economic basis without any loyalty to the nation, its culture, or its principles.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sean Davis, CEO of The Federalist, explained citizenship is not simply an economic proposition. &ldquo;Either citizenship means something, or it doesn&rsquo;t. Either it obligates, or it doesn&rsquo;t. And if it doesn&rsquo;t, then we need to have a much broader discussion about the effects of not just illegal immigration, but legal immigration as well,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If citizenship is little more than a job permit to be employed in a particular global economic zone and has no greater meaning, creates no permanent obligations, and engenders no reverence for a nation&rsquo;s culture, history, language, and people, then it is meaningless and should be&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sean Davis (@seanmdav) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seanmdav\/status\/1874842184781824071?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>When citizenship is weak, so are the people&rsquo;s natural bonds of affection for their nation and neighbors. As seen in the attack on New Orleans, it enables radical ideologies to even corrupt veterans and lifelong citizens. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Logan Washburn is a staff writer covering election integrity. He is a spring 2025 fellow of The College Fix. He graduated from Hillsdale College, served as Christopher Rufo&#8217;s editorial assistant, and has bylines in The Wall Street Journal, The Tennessean, and The Daily Caller. Logan is from Central Oregon but now lives in rural Michigan.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On New Year\u2019s Day, Army vet Shamsud-Din Jabbar attacked, killing 15<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":507,"featured_media":2386152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-02-at-4.02.58%E2%80%AFPM-1024x556.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7161,3685,3813,5894,6039],"class_list":["post-2386151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-citizenship","tag-democrats","tag-immigration","tag-politics","tag-terrorism"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-02-at-4.02.58%E2%80%AFPM-1024x556.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/507"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2386151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2386155,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386151\/revisions\/2386155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2386152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2386151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2386151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2386151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}