The beheading of an Oklahoma woman by an Islamic ex-convict is a perfect example of a terrorist act despite the government's reluctance to call it that, says Brigitte Gabriel, president of ACT for America, the largest national security movement in the nation.
"If there was ever a case where we need to identify this threat as Islamic terrorism . . . it is this case," Gabriel said Tuesday on "The Steve Malzberg Show" on
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"This guy was posting on his website Koranic verses starting last March and February. He was quoting Koran Sura 47-4, when you lead the unbelievers, strike their necks. How more Islamic can you get?
"He posted beheading pictures and Islamic verses, support of ISIS, pictures of him showing the signal of ISIS with his hands . . . You cannot deny the link to Islamic doctrine and Islamic ideology in this case."
Thus far, the government has refused to call the murderous act in Oklahoma "terrorism," even though suspect Alton Nolen, 30, had converted to Islam in prison and was reportedly trying to convert others.
Nolen, who has been charged with first-degree murder, spoke in Arabic while he decapitated his victim with a "large kitchen knife," Cleveland County District Attorney Greg Mashburn said, adding that the suspect appeared to hate white people.
The incident happened last Thursday at a food processing plant in the city of Moore, Oklahoma, where Nolen had just been suspended from his job.
Gabriel fears there could be similar acts in the future in the United States.
"This is just the beginning. Right now, ISIS is capitalizing on youth being converted in the United States, whether through the prison system or via the use of the Internet," she said.
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