Twenty-six-year-old Usaama Rahim shot dead on Tuesday by an FBI agent and a Boston police officer.

His nephew, 25-year-old David Wright, has been arrested by federal agents in the case.

Apparently these men were inspired by ISIS to kill Americans.  One other suspect is being investigated in New England.

Enter anti-Muslim activist Pamela Geller, who allegedly was a target of Rahim and who has been criticized by the Southern Poverty Law Center for rabble-rousing.

June 3

ERIN BURNETT, CNN ANCHOR: “Are you stoking the flames?  Do you on some level relish being the target of these attacks?”

PAMELA GELLER, ON THE PHONE: “Relish being the target?  Who self-promotes to get killed?  That’s the first thing.  The second thing is, the Southern Poverty Law Center – really Erin?  Who designated them the arbiter of anything?  They’re an uber-Left group.  They don’t track jihadist groups.  They don’t track groups that target the slaughter.”

Ms. Geller is correct.  The Southern Poverty Law Center does not concern itself with terrorism, concentrating on protecting minorities like Muslim Americans.

There is no question that the ISIS threat is growing and the FBI knows it.

June 3

MICHAEL STEINBACH, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF FBI’S COUNTERTERRORISM DIVISION: “We closely analyze and assess the influence groups like ISIL have on individuals located in the United States who are inspired to commit acts of violence.  These threats remain among the highest priorities for the FBI and the Intelligence Community as a whole.”

Well, that's good because ISIS is a threat to every single American.

Somebody tell President Obama.

It is almost beyond belief that these militant jihadists have been allowed to accumulate power.

The group should have been confronted a long time ago, but America and NATO do not have the will to protect their populations.

It's a lot like al Qaeda before the 9/11 attack.

Back then, U.S. intelligence knew al Qaeda was growing in strength and training people in Afghanistan for terrorist missions.

We knew that.  We did little.

Now ISIS is growing in power, threatening a half dozen countries and encouraging violence all over the world on social media.

So it's just a matter of time before ISIS-driven violence happens here.

Good police work prevented that in Boston, a city very vigilant since the Boston Marathon terror attack.

But the cops can't stop everyone and believe me, ISIS fanatics are infiltrating into this country.  And troubled people already here, like the group in Boston, are heeding the call of the jihad.

Meantime, President Obama still does not have a strategy to defeat ISIS in Syria where it is based or in Iraq where it is causing an enormous amount of trouble.

This week the bogus 60-nation coalition met in France to discuss what to do.

As of this evening, those discussions have produced nothing.

Again, there is little will to do what is necessary -- confronting the ISIS fighters where they are and killing them.

Bombing is not going to do it.  We've tried that for nearly a year and ISIS continues to gain power.

So three cheers for the FBI and the Boston police, which put an end to a murderous plot.

But three jeers to the Western nations that continue to dither over the terror threat.

And a jeer to CNN for challenging Ms. Geller in a totally inappropriate way.

She was a target and that should have been the headline.

And that's the memo.