Rich New Jersey Teen Plotted ISIS-Inspired Terror While Living Large

Two privileged young men from Montclair, New Jersey, one the child of a United Nations diplomat and one the child of a professor at Queens College, now stand at the center of a hate-fueled terror plot that shattered the illusion of safety in suburban New Jersey.

Nineteen-year-old Milo Sedarat, whose father, Roger, is a poet and professor at Queens College, dubbed himself “the biggest antisemite in America.” His home — a million-dollar Victorian on a tree-lined street — became the backdrop for his vicious selfies: clad in black, sword and knife in hand, dreaming of killing Jews. Court filings allege that Sedarat glorified genocide in online messages, while saying, “Line up like 500 Jews and execute them in front of their wives and family. Then take all their wives [as] slaves. Imma have like 10 yahood (Jewish) slave girls inshallah.”

Prosecutors say he even told his mother her Jewish friends “deserve to die” before she confiscated his swords.

The second suspect, Tomas Kaan Jimenez-Guzel, also 19, is the son of a United Nations diplomat focused on women’s entrepreneurship. He, too, reveled in violence, boasting about wanting to stage a Boston Marathon–style bombing that would make him infamous enough for a Wikipedia page. Jimenez-Guzel allegedly offered to lead beheadings for propaganda videos, declaring, “I’ll do it, bro.”

According to federal agents, he was arrested at Newark Airport en route to Turkey, trying to join ISIS forces in Syria.

⚡@nypost covered the two young men from a wealthy NYC suburb who planned to join ISIS and commit terror attacks on American soil.

Tomas Kaan Jimenez-Guzal and Milo Sedarat plotted violent, antisemitic attacks and accumulated an arsenal of weapons and ammo. The two were arrested… https://t.co/DqDmCWgv8I pic.twitter.com/kWdkOAshuj

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Investigators say their online chats tied them to a wider ISIS-linked network; five others have been detained across New Jersey, Michigan, and Washington in connection with plans to massacre Jews and LGBT clubgoers. Rabbi Yaacov Leaf of Chabad of Montclair voiced the community’s disbelief: “It’s so shocking to see how such a radical ideology can be living in your backyard. It’s frightening to realize this type of hate has seeped into our suburban liberal community … It’s a diverse community where we are open to every type of human being and every type of belief system. To see that hate has found its way into the community is very frightening.”

Acting U.S. Attorney Alina Habba echoed the alarm, saying that radicalization now spares no zip code. “We can never believe this can’t touch us,” she warned. “We run down every lead, no matter where it starts.”