Months before he beheaded a co-worker at an Oklahoma food plant, a fired factory worker posted on Facebook a photo of a burning lower Manhattan during the 9/11 attacks.
“Dnt yall knw why the Eastern part of the world hates Amerika? Everything God says don’t do Amerika does,” Alton Nolen wrote in the photo caption.
“She (the Statue of Liberty) is going into flames. She and anybody who’s with her.”
The picture and sickening screed are among many chilling posts on the 30-year-old Islamic convert’s profile.
The most disturbing is a gruesome photo of a beheading.
“Thus do we find the clear precedent that explains the peculiar penchant of Islamic terrorists to behead their victims: it is merely another precedent bestowed by their Prophet,” reads a message written above the photo posted in October.
Next to a photo of Pope Benedict XVI posted in May, Nolen wrote: “SHARIA LAW IS COMING!!!!”
Nolen’s barbaric attack Thursday came hours after he lost his job at Vaughan Foods in Moore.
The knife-wielding suspect barged into the plant’s front office and decapitated co-worker Colleen Hufford, 54. Nolen then attacked a second female co-worker, Traci Johnson, 43, and stabbed her repeatedly.
Nolen’s rampage came to an end when the company’s chief operating officer Mark Vaughan shot his deranged former employee.
Nolen underwent surgery at a local hospital and is expected to survive. Johnson was hospitalized in critical condition but has been upgraded to stable, officials said.
A spokesman for the Oklahoma City Islamic group said Saturday that Nolen was seen as “a little weird” but didn’t raise any red flags.
Police have said there was no evidence that Nolen’s new faith motivated his barbaric crime.
But his online presence provides a portrait of a man who appeared to be obsessed with Islamic extremism.
His cover photo featured Taliban fighters — and he posted several uncaptioned pics of Osama Bin Laden.
Beside a photo showing an explosion, Nolen wrote: “WARNING TO MANKIND: ONE DAY THE EARTH WILL BE CHANGED TO A DIFFERENT EARTH, AND SO WILL BE THE HEAVENS.”
His online presence prior to 2011 was far more benign.
His Facebook page was filled with innocuous posts about his new job, Lil Wayne and a recent haircut.
His first photo — a 2009 selfie — shows a clean-shaven Nolen smirking in a sideways baseball cap and gold necklace.
Earlier this year, he commented on the 5-year-old photo: “Old pik. I dnt live that life nomore.”
