Authorities Name Suspect in Colorado Incident

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Mohamed Sabry Soliman, a man who overstayed his welcome by about a year and a half and waltzed right through the cracks of our paper-thin immigration system, has now been charged with a laundry list of felonies after attacking a peaceful, pro-Israel group in Boulder, Colorado.

Let’s pause for a moment and acknowledge the grotesque irony: a group calling for the release of hostages—innocent people being held by Hamas, a recognized terrorist organization—is assaulted by someone reportedly yelling “Free Palestine” while allegedly setting people on fire. That’s not activism, folks. That’s terrorism, plain and simple. And the fact that this guy was walking around the streets of Boulder after his visa expired like it’s no big deal? That’s the cherry on top of this flaming dumpster fire of immigration negligence.

Now, the FBI is labeling it a “targeted terror attack.” About time. But the fact that this has to be explicitly stated shows just how numb we’ve become to ideological violence when it doesn’t fit the preferred narrative. Had the roles been reversed—say, someone yelling pro-Israel slogans and attacking a Palestinian solidarity group—every newsroom from CNN to MSNBC would be on fire with the words “right-wing extremism” and “domestic terrorism.” But when the perpetrator fits a different mold? We tiptoe, we “investigate,” we call it “hate crime charges pending review.”

Soliman is being held on a $10 million bond—which, let’s be honest, is a nice headline, but doesn’t fix the fact that a dozen government agencies slept on this guy for nearly two years. He landed at LAX in August 2022 on a temporary visa, supposed to leave by February 2023. He didn’t. Instead, he filed some paperwork in September 2022, and got work authorization in March 2023, good through this past March. So while the average American is drowning in bureaucracy trying to renew a driver’s license, this guy breezed through the system and was able to get a job here.

No one caught him overstaying. No one tracked him down. Instead, he was out roaming free in Colorado until he allegedly decided to light elderly citizens on fire during a Sunday protest. But sure, tell us again how our immigration policies are “humane” and how the border crisis is just a figment of conservative imagination.

And let’s not ignore the victims—eight people, all over the age of 50, one in critical condition. These weren’t soldiers. These were Americans exercising their right to assemble peacefully. They were standing up against terrorism, and they got burned—literally—for it.

Meanwhile, politicians will offer “thoughts and prayers,” activists will find a way to blame Israel, and the rest of us are left to wonder how many more Solimans are walking around unchecked. Maybe, just maybe, if we enforced the laws we already have on the books, this tragedy never would have happened.

So here’s the bottom line: this wasn’t random. It wasn’t mental illness. It wasn’t a misunderstanding. It was a premeditated, ideologically driven attack by someone who shouldn’t have been in this country at all. And until we start treating our borders and laws like they matter, don’t be surprised when the next act of “ideological violence” ends up being worse.

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