But surely they won’t be able to get knives past the TSA, right? Sure.
“ISIS Group Warns of Knife-Wielding Terrorists on Commercial Flights,” by Bridget Johnson, PJ Media, April 29, 2018:
The pro-ISIS group that in January depicted the invasion of Washington and in February declared “Paris before Rome,” depicting a terrorist invasion that began with cells in the countryside outside Paris before attacking the city, circulated a warning online to commercial aviation.
The Al-Abd al-Faqir Media release comes on the heels of a March video depicting a global caliphate, showing a Facebook-style profile of “John Stephen,” a white man with a closely trimmed beard and an image of the White House exploding in flames as his banner photo.
In the new poster, a clean-shaven dark-haired white man sits in the aisle seat during a commercial flight, a knife blade jutting out from his hand.
“You will be an easy prey,” the poster warned in English, French and Arabic.
While ISIS still distributes propaganda including video, audio, stories and photos through the group’s official propaganda channels, ISIS-supporting media groups have taken up the task of whipping up the grass-roots with suggested attack methods and targets.
A Modesto, Calif., tow-truck driver arrested and charged in December with hatching a holiday plot to attack San Francisco’s Pier 39 apparently paid attention to ISIS supporters’ propaganda posters. Everitt Aaron Jameson loved with a heart, said the criminal complaint, a poster from ISIS supporters showing Santa overlooking Times Square with a box of dynamite at his side.
The Al-Faqir aviation warning was distributed on Telegram and other online forums.
The only knives the Transportation Security Administration allows in carry-on bags are plastic or round-bladed butter knives. All other knives must be in checked baggage….
Berengaria says
Since Muslims, in great numbers, are employed at our Airports, I am always wary of the TSA Agents. Muslims desire Government Positions & a TSA Agent would be a plumb position,in which to aid
a Fellow Jihadist. Also, I have been reading of all the Converts to Islam from the USA, so Please stay safe & be aware of your surroundings. Islam is now entrenched in our own Country, & it’s no longer the America, we once knew & loved.
IslamIsNotAReligion says
The United States of America received a mortal wound on September 11th, 2001. It didn’t die off immediately. The wound festered, became gangrenous, and poisoned America. A slow death over 15 years occurred, and brought us to the world we live in now:
* Muslims declared war on the west, yet we say they are “the people of the religion of peace”
* Muslims swarm into our country by the tens of thousands and refuse to obey our laws. To decry this is “racist”
* Muslims break our laws, threaten us. We defend and protect them over our own people.
* Muslims rise to positions of power – politics, law enforcement – and kill us. We blame the victims and protect the muslims.
They destroyed the United States of America. It no longer exists.
J D S says
When will our government learn that Muslims are using what they call racism, islamaphobia, profiling and many other falsehoods to keep their agenda out in front..That agenda being to place Sharia Law above our Constitution and they have been working at this for many, many years while our government just turned their heads and one tactic that they have used for centuries is FEAR. FEAR has held Muslims hostage all this time and now they want us to be afraid to enjoy our daily activities. Our government must act soon or end up like Europe. They use many of our freedoms against us and that is just unacceptable…
WHAT’S BETTER ….A LIFE OF FEAR OR A LIFE OF FREEDOM??
If one feels that pushing elected officials does no good…then do nothing and die as a supposedly free nation who did nothing…Start writing, calling emailing and camping out on the doorsteps of our officials let them know….WE LOVE OUR COUNTRY and hate to see it following what’s happening in Europe
Stephanie Chalmers says
This also applies to the UK, where so many airport workers are Muslim. There was a recent case at LHR in which a bad guy was in fact employed. Checks were made only AFTER he’d started work.
BC says
As any incarcerated person will tell you it is very easy to make a lethal weapon even inside a maximum security prison. I am sure the jihadis are well acquainted with the methods.
Thinker1 says
TSA finds about 10% of guns, etc in their own tests. What could go wrong?
somehistory says
Some butter knives have a sharp, serrated edge.
And if a fellow terrorist is working the line for passengers, he/she can allow the sharper knife to go right on the plane along with the terrorist who plans to use it.
More people will have to learn how they can protect themselves against someone with a knife. It can, and has, been done.
alex smythe says
It’s good to study Krav Maga (an Israeli martial art), and also Arnis and/or Escrima (Filipino martial arts) which specialize in defense against knives and other weapons….the more popular fighting/defensive styles such as Kung Fu and Karate are also highly useful though.
somehistory says
Target Focus Training.
J D S says
There is no problem when one brings a knife to a gunfight..but of course one can not bring a gun on a plane.
Savvy Kafir says
Train in Krav Maga, if it’s available in your area. Or Muay Thai, karate, jiu-jitsu, etc. You have to train seriously, if it’s going to be effective. But Krav Maga is probably the most efficient for self-defense, and requires less time to get proficient than most other martial arts.
Everyone traveling by airline should carry some sort of flashlight (on their person) that can be used as an impact weapon. A kubotan flashlight, a Maglite, a small tactical light, etc. It’s one of the few items allowed on planes that can be used as a weapon.
A really bright light, like the little Olight pocket light, is amazingly effective for temporarily blinding an attacker, especially in the strobe mode — even the tiny S1 or S10R Olights.
A “tactical” pen, designed to be used as a stabbing/impact weapon, is another option. Presumably the TSA isn’t going to deprive you of your ink pen. (Just get one of the more discreet ones that doesn’t LOOK so “tactical”.)
Amazon sells all of these.
Westman says
This should help:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/MIRROR-TIGER-EYE-HELMET-MOUNT-SIMPLIFY/157218881
boakai ngombu says
situational awareness might be more helpful
constant surveillance, constant suspicion
dsinc says
What about ceramic knives? I don’t think the metal detectors will pick them up.
mikhael says
i was told they have metal filings in them to aid detection. some companies make a hairbrush with a secret blade attached to the handle inside the brush part.
all reinforced plastic and able to do damage.
simple solution..dont let muslims fly
Sarah says
Just what kind of numbers does ISIS have, these days? Has anyone been able to confirm the status of the group since the fall of Raqqa?
I was operating under the impression that there was a mere handful at best – aside from all the millions of Muslims out there who quietly are quite devoted to the idea of ISIS, of course. Perhaps I’m wrong?
Debi Brand says
Hey, Sarah.
You asked, ” Just what kind of numbers does ISIS have, these days?”
Answer: Any, thus every, “Allah”-obeying Muslim is a potential “IS” patron and/or affiliate.
Therefrom, do the numbers…
mortimer says
Remember that Caliph Abu Bakr al Baghdadi also suggest using STONES.
NO STONES ALLOWED IN CARRYON LUGGAGE.
james collins says
ceramic, bone, wood, even paper or glass or stone would not be detected by metal detectors!
Salah says
If we’re unable to disarm ALL passengers then let’s allow ALL passengers to carry weapons.
Rarely says
“The Boy from Brooklyn.com” had an interesting solution to this after 9/11. “Bat Day”. Give everyone boarding a plane a baseball bat. Pull a knife? You won’t get off that plane alive. Quite a funny post actually. Worth digging up.
FYI says
the TSA?
Someone told me their motto..
“to Molest and Perve”
It’s probably wrong….
dumbledoresarmy says
OFFTOPIC, but worth knowing about.
Tommy Robinson and many many other lovers of freedom in the UK are not giving up the fight.
They are planning a March for Freedom on Sunday 6th May (which is, by the way, the sixth Sunday of the season of Easter).
Details here:
http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm?blog_id=67347
I strongly encourage all UK-based jihadwatchers – and perhaps others who live in neighbouring countries but might be able to travel to Britain in time – to get to London, if they possibly can, and join the rally and march. It might be the eleventh and eleventh minute: but there is yet time.
They are upping the ante, and gathering in *Whitehall*.
“Tommy Robinson Day for Freedom March, Sunday 6th May will not start from Speakers’ Corner. Meeting point is now Whitehall at 3pm. Speeches will also be at Whitehall from 3pm.”
Please, all UK jihadwatchers, and you who are ‘near neighbours’ in continental Europe – go along and swell the throng. The more of you there are, the better. As for the rest of us, who live too far away to be able to be there… let all of us who are praying people, pray like blazes for Victory.
As G K Chesterton wrote, in a poem that is included in his eerily-prophetic book “The Flying Inn”, which speaks of a stealth-Islamised England and the battle to liberate it …
“Men that are men again – Who goes home?
Tocsin and trumpeter! Who goes home?
For there’s blood on the field and blood on the foam
and blood on the body when Man goes home.
And a voice valedictory… Who is for Victory?
Who is for Liberty? Who goes home?”
Ashley says
I wish I could attend but I’m in the States.
I hope it is a robust event!
Billy Chickens says
THE WILLIAMSBURG FOLK ART MUSEUM has – as the FIRST THING ONE SEES – a bust of Elijah Muhammad.
http://emuseum.history.org/view/objects/asitem/classification@39/4/title-asc?t:state:flow=a1b78b1f-fa8f-49be-ae39-9e98bd6b5987
What does Islam have to do with Folk art? There were no busts of Christians, Jews, Buddhists or Hindus.
But there he was – with a star and crescent on his hat. When I saw it I was shocked. Literally stunned.
This is the same Elijah Muhammad, converted to Islam in prison, who said, “Convert, convert, convert. Brothers, soon we will have to convert the white devils too. Conversion will be an absolute necessity because only by liberating the United States can we liberate Europe, meaning THE ENTIRE WEST.”
He was the leader of the Nation of Islam, mentor to Malcolm X, Louis Farrakhan and the vicious anti-white Muhammad Ali. He had 21 children by various wives and mistresses.
Billy Chickens says
What my above comment has to do with the storyline is that with Muslims killing everyone on planes, Colonial Williamsburg won’t have many visitors anymore and will have to shut down.
Yet they celebrate Islam with a bust of Elijah Muhammad. The artist has other pieces which could have been displayed, but the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum chose ISLAM with a bust of Elijah Muhammad….as the FIRST PIECE OF ARTWORK ONE SEES UPON ENTERING EXHIBITS.
Ashley says
The TSA is a joke.
My concern is all the people that have access to the aircrafts…mechanics, cleaners, food/drink stockers, etc.
It doesn’t take much ingenuity to slip a weapon into a toilet tank…
gravenimage says
Islamic State threatens knife-wielding jihadis on commercial flights
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More calls for death and destruction from the most Islamic of Musims…
gravenimage says
Muslims