The Left path to ISIS

Before he ended his short, pointless life with a short, pointless explosion on behalf of ISIS, Melbourne teenager Jake Bilardi shared his view of the world via a blog which did not long survive its author. Taken down almost immediately upon news of his suicide, its rapid trip into the memory hole did a disservice to those who seek to understand the nexus between jihadism and leftist orthodoxy — a topic Quadrant‘s Merv Bendle examines today.

Fortunately, a Quadrant reader screened-grabbed Bilardi’s blog before it was made to vanish. The excerpt below neatly illustrates Bendle’s point about leftism kneading the dough for jihadism to bake.

Who filled a gullible kid with this tosh? What teachers allowed his bizarre views to go uncorrected? Who planted this garden of noxious weeds in the empty space of a child’s head?

Why Bilardi became a jihadi in his own words:

… I continued to read; America’s land grab in Mexico as well as their brutality towards the Filipinos after the Spanish, who were themselves no better, signed over control of the archipelago to the Americans. The Portuguese soldiers who rampaged across East Timor, the British who seized control of many of the Pacific Islands, enslaving the populations on the pretext that non-Whites were created to serve the White race.

Continuing forward and the world bore witness to two World Wars, the second more brutal than the first. US, British, French and Australian forces imprisoned captured Axis soldiers in internment camps, torturing them and executing them as a source of entertainment.

When US forces entered Japan they proceeded on a systematic campaign of massacring civilians and raping the local women before delivering the infamous nuclear bombs to Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The crimes committed by all sides in these wars are far too many to innumerate (sic), so I’ll leave the rest of them for you to discover on your own.

Then as the American war machine was kicked back into action in the Cold War, the world again witnessed more of their brutality, particularly in Korea and Vietnam. Today, they hail as heroes their soldiers who fought in these wars, history will always record though that they were nothing but a gang of rapists, murderers and brutal cowards who loved to inflict pain on an already aching population. Then there was their trade embargo, economic sanctions and isolation of Cuba due to its Communist leadership, which left the people of this small Caribbean island in unimaginable poverty …

For the record, and to illustrate the pernicious influences that cost a young man his good name, his wits and, ultimately, his life, Bilardi’s blog is available as captured via the link below

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