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Home Front: WoT

Jihad in America: The Michigan Attack

2026-03-15

[National Review] Two jihadist attacks were carried out on Thursday. That makes four since the start of March — that is, since U.S. and Israeli forces commenced the aerial invasion intended to finish the jihadist war the Iranian regime has been waging, mainly through proxies it controls and inspires, since 1979. (See our editorial regarding the four recent attacks, and our editorial regarding the March 1 attack in Austin.)

At this early stage, we don’t know if any of these attacks was triggered by the war. Thursday’s two are intriguing in that regard.

In this post, I’ll address the Michigan attack. In the next one, I’ll turn to the Virginia attack.

In West Bloomfield, shortly after noon, Ayman Mohamad Ghazali plowed an explosive-laden car into Temple Israel, a synagogue with a preschool on the premises. He was armed with a rifle and began firing. Security personnel — which, infuriatingly, synagogues must now retain in the United States of America due to the rising tide of Jew hatred — returned fire. Ghazali perished as the car burst into flames. One temple congregant was knocked unconscious, but the 140 preschool children and other attendees were unharmed.

Ghazali, who was 41, resided in Dearborn Heights, a municipality bordering on and deeply interconnected with Dearborn. The latter, with over 100,000 residents, is the first city in our nation with a majority Muslim population — about 55 percent. Dearborn Heights, with over 60,000 residents, is close to 40 percent Muslim.

In both places, the percentage of residents of Lebanese descent is high. Lebanon, of course, is the birthplace and stronghold of Hezbollah (the "Party of Allah"), Iran’s most ruthless jihadist militia, whose first acts included the murders of several U.S. officials, culminating in the 1983 bombings in Beirut of the U.S. embassy (killing 17 Americans and at least 43 others) and a U.S. Marine barracks (killing 241 American servicemen; a separate, nearly simultaneous bombing killed 58 French paratroopers in their barracks). Dearborn and its outskirts, perhaps not surprisingly, have long been notorious hotbeds of sharia supremacism.

The other three, for reference:
3/1/2026: naturalized Senegalese illegal immigrant Ndiaga Diagne, 53, killed 3 and wounded 14 at Buford’s Backyard Beer Garden near the University of Texas-Austin campus for the glory of Iran before police shot him dead a minute later.

3/7/2026: Emir Balat, 18, troubled child of a prosperous Turkish immigrant house painter, and Ibrahim Kayumi (Ibrahim Nikk Kayumi), 19, second son of wealthy Afghan immigrants, threw faulty TATP nail bombs at anti-Muslim protesters and police for ISIS in front of New York City’s mayoral residence, Gracie Mansion. The police arrested both as they fled down the street, and then the FBI got involved.

3/12/2026: Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, 36, naturalized citizen of Sierra Leone, killed one in his second try for the glory of ISIS in a ROTC classroom in Old Dominion before the students killed him with their bare hands (and a knife)

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