This stabbing incident was initially reported as an “interrupted theft,” with no indication that it was jihad. It took the perpetrator himself to explain that in stabbing these two non-Muslims, he was answering the “call for jihad by the Chief of Believer, Abu-bakr Al-baghdadi, may Allah protect him, and by the Mujahiden of the Islamic State.” He even says that his victims know this: “I understand that the two men I stabbed know and have explained the reason for my attack, and I am here reaffirming that it was indeed an act of Jihad in the way of Allah.”

The only people who don’t know it, or refuse to accept it and ponder its implications, are in Minnesota law enforcement and media.

“Court Records: Mall of America Stabbing Suspect Pleads Guilty, Calls it Act of Jihad,” KSTP, January 26, 2018: