The topic of my article is a foiled bomb plot at a 9/11 memorial. The title is “Florida Man Accused of Bomb Plot at 9/11 Memorial, FBI Says”. I found the article on cnn.com. A Muslim man from Florida is accused of instructing who he thought was a potential jihadist on how to create a pipe bomb. The person the suspect was actually communicating with, however, was actually an FBI agent. Agents raided his home and took him into custody. He claims that he planned to notify authorities before the bomb went off so that he could be hailed as a hero.
This event is even more proof that Islamic terrorism is one of the biggest threats to Americans today, and that they are already here and among us. This event does not surprise me because there are stories of Muslims beheading, shooting, or blowing up more people in the news almost every week. Recently, a cartoon festival in Dallas was attacked by jihadists, a newspaper headquarters in France was assaulted, and another terrorist was stopped in a train by several U.S. Marines who heard a rifle being loaded in the restroom. The movement of jihad grows as more and more Muslims become radicalized, falling victim to the propaganda of ISIS and similar terror groups. This event affects me because these terrorists are out to kill people like me. However, the chances of me actually being killed by an Islamic terrorist are very small. The main way that this event and ones like it will affect me is more laws being passed that take away freedoms of American citizens. If Muslims continue to create bombs out of plumbing materials, then soon metal pipes will be banned, just as the fertilizer ammonium nitrate, a popular ingredient among terrorists for IEDs, is now next to impossible to acquire. I believe that politicians need to realize that banning things at random after they are used to hurt people will do no good, and that real changes are needed if these kinds of attacks are going to be prevented. This impacts impacts the world because jihad is set to be one of the major problems of this century, with ISIS burning the Middle East and terror attacks on the west occurring more and more frequently. Their movement is growing, and more and more people are being brainwashed into attacking innocents. However, it is good that this terrorist has been stopped in his tracks and will no longer be coordinating attacks around the world.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/10/us/9-11-memorial-bomb-plot-kansas-city-missouri/index.html