Boulder Terrorist: I Love Terrorism More Than My Family. USA Today: Guess Who the Victim Is?

Well, Mohamed Soliman is in luck. He won’t ever get to see his family again, at least if Pam Bondi and Colorado prosecutors have anything to say about it. 

The Boulder firebombing terrorist likely talked himself into life sentences in his interrogation with police and FBI agents, at least according to the indictment against Soliman. He also ensured the deportation of his family nearly overnight as national-security risks, unless a federal judge intervenes — and even then, he’s sentenced them to detention until their inevitable ejection. Does he care about any of that? Not according to a video Soliman posted just before the attack, captured and translated by MEMRI:

TERROR: Palestinian terrorist Mohamed Sabry Soliman videoed himself right before setting a dozen Jews on fire in Boulder, “Jihad is more beloved to me than my mother, wife, and children. Allah is greater than the Zionists and America.” pic.twitter.com/1glYhX7zgE

— @amuse (@amuse) June 4, 2025

This reminds me of a scene toward the end of The Wolf of Wall Street, when federal prosecutors sit down with Jordan Belfort and declare him a “Grenada.” It’s a reference to the US military action in the 1980s that removed a Castro-ite junta after a coup, in which the US and regional allies scored a walk-over victory that put an end to the Soviet-Cuba expansion on the island. A “Grenada,” the prosecutor explains in colorful language, is a case so solid that even the most incompetent and careless prosecution will result in convictions. “You, sir,” the prosecutor concludes, “are a Grenada.”

Mohamed Soliman is a Grenada. Not only will the court have video of the incident — in which Soliman helpfully burned himself to prevent any claim of mistaken identity — but he can’t keep his mouth shut, either before or after his terrorist attack. Prosecutors can just play Soliman’s own words to the jury and the videos of the attack and rest their case. They should send him some nice flowers for his cell at the Florence Supermax.

That’s not the end of things for the Solimans, however. As mentioned before and reported yesterday, Soliman’s family had their visas revoked as a result of the national security threat around this self-proclaimed jihadist. Soliman’s wife and five children got sent to a detention center in south Texas and may be ejected from the US as early as today. They would not have been given visas in the first place had it been known that the husband/father was a jihadist, and now their status will be resolved accordingly. 

Guess how that makes USA Today’s Michael Loria feel? Teh sadz:

Her life had been headed in a positive direction before the attack on the weekly demonstration in support of Israeli hostages held in Gaza, which came three days after her high school graduation. A federal affidavit says the elder Soliman told investigators he planned the attack for a year and waited for his daughter to graduate before carrying out the plot.

Prior to the attack, Habiba Soliman had written about her hope of accomplishing great things in the U.S.

“Coming to the USA has fundamentally changed me,” she wrote in an application for a Colorado Springs Gazette “Best and Brightest” scholarship. “I learned to adapt to new things even if it was hard. I learned to work under pressure and improve rapidly in a very short amount of time. Most importantly, I came to appreciate that family is the unchanging support.”

I guess Habiba has a bone to pick with Daddy. But why is USA Today focused on Habiba Soliman as a victim, rather than the 16 elderly Jewish victims her father tried to kill? This article goes on for thousands of words, framing Habiba as the victim of her father’s blood lust for murder. Absent from this story: any mention of the actual victims of Soliman’s terror attack.

Where is USA Today’s deep dive into the life of the 88-year-old Holocaust survivor that Soliman tried to burn to death in a peaceful demonstration for a peace deal to release Hamas hostages? Her story must be fascinating, and yet Loria never even references it while obsessing over a teenager’s ambitions in a country her father detests. 

I’d bet every single actual victim of Soliman’s terror attack has a more compelling story than the bland, paint-by-number “girl with dreams” feature USA Today chose to run. She got a scholarship! She had an interest in medicine! Her English skills improved! Is this really of any interest, or is USA Today so obsessed with Donald Trump that they think this callow portrait of a generic teenager actually means anything next to the destruction created by Soliman while he and his family asked for asylum in the US?

The answer to that question is why we can never trust the Protection Racket Media. Their credibility collapse and the reasons for it are also a Grenada. And like Mohamed Soliman, they keep proving that case every time they open their mouths. 

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