After the Biden regime’s catastrophically botched withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, regime wonks flooded the U.S. with thousands of Afghan refugees, without paying any particular attention to whether or not they were Islamic jihadis. Now those particular chickens have begun to come home to roost. To the surprise of absolutely no one in this world and any other inhabited planet out there, one of those grateful Afghan “refugees” has now pleaded guilty to plotting a jihad massacre inside the country that threw open its doors to welcome him. How many more such stories will there be?
There could be a great many. As far back as Sept. 2021, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas explained that most of the Afghans who had been brought over here were not actually holders of Special Immigrant Visas (SIV), which had been issued to people who helped the U.S. in Afghanistan. “Of the over 60,000 individuals who have been brought into the United States” at that time, Mayorkas said, “and I will give you approximate figures and I will verify them, approximately 7 percent have been United States citizens. Approximately 6 percent have been lawful permanent residents. Approximately 3 percent have been individuals who are in receipt of the Special Immigrant Visas.” Yes, just three percent.
Making matters even worse, the Afghan migrant who appeared in federal court on Friday and pleaded guilty to plotting an Election Day jihad massacre last year was one of those three percent. Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi was among the Afghans who aided U.S. troops in Afghanistan and was thus brought to this country with the reasonable assumption that he was not a jihad terrorist, and yet that’s exactly what he turned out to be.
The Justice Department announced Friday that Tawhedi, “a native and citizen of Afghanistan, pleaded guilty today in federal court in Oklahoma City to two terrorism-related offenses: conspiring and attempting to provide material support and resources to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization, and receiving, attempting to receive, and conspiring to receive firearms and ammunition in furtherance of a federal crime of terrorism.”
Attorney General Pam Bondi got straight to the heart of the matter, saying: “By pledging allegiance to ISIS and plotting an attack against innocent Americans on Election Day, this defendant endangered lives and gravely betrayed the nation that gave him refuge.” Now, in light of Tawhedi’s guilty plea, “he will be held accountable, stripped of his immigration status, and permanently removed from the United States.” Excellent. He is now looking at as many as 35 years in prison, to be followed by deportation.
All that is in Tawhedi’s future because “attempted to purchase semiautomatic firearms and ammunition in order to carry out the attack, and even had plans to resettle his family overseas ahead of the planned Nov. 5 attack.” Tawhedi’s guilty plea follows that of his accomplice, Abdullah Haji Zada, who is all of eighteen years old. The Justice Department announced on April 17, 2025 that Zada, “a native and citizen of Afghanistan and U.S. lawful permanent resident,” pleaded guilty to “knowingly receiving, attempting to receive, and conspiring to receive a firearm and ammunition to be used to commit a federal crime of terrorism.” He and Tawhedi “received two AK-47-style rifles and 500 rounds of ammunition, knowing that the firearms and ammunition would be used in connection with a terrorist attack on Election Day in November 2024 on behalf the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS).”
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That makes two permanent residents and grateful refugees from Afghanistan who were planning to show their gratitude to the country that took them out of a war zone and gave them a comfortable new home by murdering as many of its citizens as they possibly could. No one would have dared question Tawhedi or Zada regarding what they thought of Americans in light of the Qur’an’s teaching that non-Muslims are “the most vile of created beings” (98:6), or of the Islamic book’s call to wage war against and subjugate those non-Muslims under the hegemony of Islamic law (9:29). To have done so would have been “Islamophobic.”
How many more young men like Tawhedi and Zada must there be before there is an honest national discussion about how wise it is to open the nation’s doors to people who believe they have an obligation before the creator of the universe to subjugate and/or kill those who believe differently? Likely a great many.
