
A Somali man who was ruled too mentally insane to stand trial for stabbing a military service member has just been granted court permission to fly to Mecca to meet a potential bride. Read that sentence again. We’ll wait.
The court literally said: “You’re too unhinged to sit in a courtroom, but here’s your boarding pass and have a lovely trip.” Unbelievable. Somewhere a TSA agent is going to pat this guy down and wave him through while grandma from Iowa gets her knitting needles confiscated.
We need to walk through this one slowly because the sheer absurdity of it might cause your brain to short-circuit.
This man — a Somali national living in the United States — allegedly stabbed an American military member. The kind of person who volunteered to serve this country and put on the uniform so the rest of us could sleep at night. The case went to court. And the court’s big decision? This man is too mentally incompetent to stand trial. His brain, according to the legal system, does not function well enough to understand courtroom proceedings.
Fine. We’ve all seen cases like this. The insanity defense is a thing. Sometimes it’s legitimate and sometimes it’s a convenient escape hatch, but whatever — the court made its ruling.
But THEN — and this is where your coffee should come out of your nose — the same court system turned around and said, “Sure, you can hop on an international flight to Saudi Arabia to go bride-shopping in Mecca.”
Pop quiz: What requires more mental competence — sitting quietly in a courtroom while a lawyer talks, or navigating international airports, clearing customs in multiple countries, conducting marriage negotiations in a foreign city, and presumably not stabbing anyone along the way?
If you answered “the second one,” congratulations, you have more common sense than the entire American judicial system.
This is what happens when we let the asylum — and we mean that in every sense of the word — run itself. A man who attacked one of our service members gets to dodge accountability because a court says his brain doesn’t work right, and then that same brain is apparently functioning well enough to plan international travel and a wedding.
Pick one. Either he’s mentally incompetent and needs to be in a facility where he can’t hurt anyone else, or he’s competent enough to function in society and needs to face trial for what he did. You don’t get to be too crazy for consequences but perfectly sane for vacation.
(But hey, at least he’s putting himself out there. Dating is hard, folks.)
The victim in this case — the military member who got stabbed — doesn’t get to fly anywhere to forget about it. That person has to live with the physical and psychological scars of being attacked by someone who the government then decided to treat like a child who didn’t know any better. And now that “child” is jetting off to Mecca on a court-approved holiday.
This is the American justice system in 2026. We have prosecutors in blue cities who won’t charge actual criminals. We have judges who release violent offenders because the jails are “too crowded.” And now we have courts granting international travel privileges to people they’ve already declared too insane to face justice.
You want to know why Americans are furious? It’s not complicated. It’s THIS. It’s watching a system that bends over backwards to accommodate everyone except the victims and the taxpayers. A system that treats a stabbing suspect with more care and consideration than it treats the person who got stabbed.
The military member who was attacked swore an oath to defend this country. The Somali man who allegedly attacked him can’t even be bothered to face a judge. And the court’s response was to hand him a permission slip for an overseas trip.
Welcome to clown world, where the only people who face consequences are the ones who follow the rules. The rest get boarding passes.
Bon voyage.


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