The photograph of a Muslim wearing a sweatshirt emblazoned “DIVERSITY” as he is arrested for a jihad plot by heavily armed police is a candent summation of the predicament of the West today.

Anyway, one detainee’s roommate said that the arrested man “has never shown terrorist attitudes.” “He does not even pray.”

The roommate clearly knows what the mainstream counterterror analysts deny, that there is a connection between devoutness in Islam and involvement in jihad terror. Not all devout Muslims are jihad terrorists, but all jihad terrorists are devout Muslims. In this case, it is likely to come out that the jihadist who didn’t even pray did actually pray, but was following the Islamic State’s instructions to appear secular in the West, avoiding mosques, not carrying at Qur’an, etc. Or else he had a recent return to his religion, deciding to try to compensate for his sins by doing the deed that Muhammad said was the greatest of all: jihad.

“Fourteen arrested in the anti-jihadist operation in Barcelona and Igualada,” translated from “Catorce detenidos en la operación antiyihadista en Barcelona e Igualada,” by Cèlia Forment and Alba Solé, El Nacional, January 15, 2019: