Teen Converts to Islam, Murders 13-Year-Old Boy
Corey Johnson was 17 when he murdered a 13-year-old boy, Jovanni Sierra Brand, and stabbed two other people because they “idolized celebrities and disrespected his Muslim faith.”
Johnson is now 21. On Thursday, he got a life sentence for the murder, but no one seems to be pondering the larger implications of the case.
The most important aspect of this story, however, apart from the lives lost and ruined, is the fact that Johnson had only recently converted to Islam when he killed Brand and had already come to the attention of law enforcement before he committed murder.
At the time of his arrest for the killing of Jovanni in 2018, Johnson already had federal charges pending against him for threatening a Catholic school. He sent threats to McAuley Catholic High School. Authorities said the threats were so serious that up to 100 students withdrew from the school for fear of an attack.
One of the messages Johnson sent to the school said: “We have our sights set on you, and by Allah we will kill every infidel student at this school inshallah) #McAuleySchoolMassacre.”
His case was so serious that FBI agents met with administrators at his high school; Johnson had reached out to ISIS online saying that he wished to join.
Local10.com reported at the time of the attack that “in his statement, Johnson advised he stabbed the victims because of his Muslim faith,” and that “just before the attack, Johnson was reading the Quran from his phone ‘to give him courage to carry out his intentions.’”
Surely authorities have learned and have taken steps to make sure that nothing like Johnson’s jihad attack happens again, right?
Of course not.
In the years immediately following 9/11, counterterror agents were taught that one sign of a potential jihad killer was a sudden turn to devout observance of Islam. Devout Muslims weren’t all jihadis, but all jihadis, especially those who were converts to Islam, were devout.
During the Obama administration, however, all that was removed from counter-terror training: it was “Islamophobic” and “singled Muslims out”.
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