From 2018 to 2020, while I was working on a big project in New Jersey, my wife and I maintained a second residence in the small town of Raritan. While neither of us could live in New Jersey – the state government is just too wackadoodle and it’s way too crowded – we did become kind of fond of Raritan. It’s a friendly little town, hometown to WW2 hero Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone and home to lots of great diners and Italian restaurants. We still have friends there.
You can imagine my consternation, then, to see a jihadi nut was arrested in New Jersey for plotting violent jihad against the country that only recently welcomed him in.
A New Jersey man motivated by the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel “devoted himself to waging violent jihad against America and its allies” and sought to join a foreign terror group, federal prosecutors in New York said Friday.
Karrem Nasr, 23, was arrested…
