Ted Cruz Compares New Orleans Islamic Terrorist To Another Notorious Terrorist

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) compared the Islamic man who committed a terrorist attack in New Orleans’ French Quarter this week to another Islamic terrorist who attacked a U.S. military base in 2009.

Cruz’s remarks came after 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who pledged allegiance to ISIS before the summer, used a rented truck to mow down dozens of people during the early morning hours on Wednesday before he opened fire on law enforcement and was subsequently killed.

“Well, the FBI has, in far too many instances, not kept their eye on the ball, and that is one of the reasons that Donald Trump is coming into office with an agenda of fundamentally reforming the Department of Justice and the FBI, getting it back focused on its core mission, ending the weaponization, ending the politicization,” Cruz said on his “Verdict” podcast this week. “And its core mission includes preventing acts of terrorism.”

Cruz noted that investigators do not know how Jabbar, a U.S. Army veteran who lived in Texas, became radicalized and joined ISIS.

Cruz said that the situation reminded him of Nidal Hasan, an Islamic psychiatrist in the U.S. Army who went on a shooting rampage in 2009 at then-Fort Hood, Texas, murdering more than a dozen and wounding dozens more.

“Nadal Hassan, you’ll recall, who murdered 14 innocent souls at Fort Hood,” Cruz said. “He was active duty military, and he became radicalized. And during the Obama administration that they knew that he was communicating with the radical Islamic cleric Anwar al Awlaki and asking about the permissibility of waging jihad on his fellow soldiers.”

“And infuriatingly enough, the Obama Pentagon, they had those communications with Anwar al Awlaki, and they did nothing to stop Nadal Hassan from committing that mass murder,” he continued. “They sat on that information. And we don’t know if there’s any of that. We have no indication that there’s any of that information now, but I will say we’re dealing with with another individual who is a soldier who apparently became radicalized and I think there’s a real need for transparency to figure out what happened.”

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President Trump is coming into office with an objective to fundamentally reform the FBI and the DOJ.

The terrorist who committed the New Years Day attacks in New Orleans was a member of the Army and eventually he was radicalized by ISIS.

This is eerily striking to the monster… pic.twitter.com/ZlmhUMuP2d

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) January 3, 2025