New Orleans attack could embolden ISIS to radicalize other Americans: experts [Video]

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Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s New Year’s massacre in New Orleans, carried out with a pickup truck flying an ISIS flag, could embolden the terrorist organization to radicalize more Americans, experts told Fox News Digital.

Jabbar’s younger brother told The New York Times he and his Army veteran brother were raised Christian in Beaumont, Texas, before the now-deceased attacker converted to Islam as an adult.

“What he did does not represent Islam,” the younger brother said. “This is more some type of radicalization, not religion.”

NEW ORLEANS TRUCK ATTACK SUSPECT INSPIRED BY ISLAMIC STATE TERRORIST GROUP

Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a suspect in the New Orleans attack, is seen in this picture obtained from social media released in November 2013 at Fort Johnson (formerly Fort Polk), Louisiana. (1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division via Facebook via Reuters)

He added that …

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