His name is Nicholas Teausant so he’s almost certainly a convert to the Religion of Peace™.

Via NBC News:

A National Guard private from California was arrested trying to cross the U.S. border into Canada on Sunday and charged with attempting to travel to Syria to join al Qaeda and fight for “Allah’s Army.”

The criminal complaint against Nicholas Teausant also alleges he discussed a potential strike against the Los Angeles subway system with a confidential source.

Teausant, 20, was arrested without incident on a bus in Blaine, Wash., according to the U.S. Attorney’s office in Sacramento, Calif. Prosecutors charge that Teausant, a student at San Joaquin Delta Community College in Stockton, Calif., headed north “with the intent of continuing to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, a foreign terrorist organization more widely known as al Qaeda in Iraq.”

Authorities first learned of Teausant 10 months ago when he was a member of the Army National Guard’s 118th Maintenance Company in Stockton, the complaint said. At the time of his arrest, he was in the process of being released from the service, but was still officially classified as “Trainee Unassigned” with the rank of private.

According to authorities, he began posting messages on iPhonegram/Instagram indicating that he wanted to conduct violent jihad and be part of America’s downfall. Posting under the name “Assad Teausant bigolsmurf,” he allegedly wrote, “I would love to join Allah’s army but I don’t even know how to start.”

The complaint also alleges that during a December phone call Teausant told a confidential law enforcement source that he had been on a camping trip with seven people over the weekend after Thanksgiving, “who discussed ‘hitting’ Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day, specifically targeting the subway.”