Baxam converted to Islam while in the Army and ended up trying to join a jihad terror group. Here again, the mainstream media would ignore this. Yet if even a half, or a third, or a tenth as many converts to Christianity ended up trying to join violent terror groups in accordance with what they believed to be the dictates of their faith, the New York Times and NBC News and Christiane Amanpour would be running banner-headline, prime time, breathless investigations of what it was about Christianity that caused converts to go mad. But for this? Nothing. "Former U.S. Army Soldier Charged With Trying to Provide Material Support to Terror Group Al-Shabaab," from Fox News, January 9 (thanks to Anne Crockett):
GREENBELT, Md. – A former U.S. Army soldier has been charged with attempting to provide material support to terror group al Shabaab, the Department of Justice announced Monday.Craig Benedict Baxam was arrested Friday upon return to his home state of Maryland after he was captured in Africa during an alleged attempt to reach Somalia, where the terror group is based.
Baxam, 24, joined the Army in 2007 and served in Baghdad and Korea. During his enlistment, he completed eight months of advanced intelligence and cryptology training, the Justice Department said in a press release.
According to court papers, Baxam secretly converted to Islam days before leaving the Army, one month ahead of completing his deployment in Korea. He returned to Maryland in July 2011 and reportedly sought to move to Somalia to join al Shabaab.
Baxam allegedly flew to Kenya using money from his retirement savings account, and carried several hundred dollars in cash to give al Shabaab as an offering after crossing the border into Somalia, the Justice Department said.
"The complaint alleges that Craig Baxam intended to travel to Somalia and join the terrorist organization Al-Shabaab," U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein said in a statement. "Mr. Baxam was caught in Kenya before he reached Somalia, and there is no allegation that anyone assisted him."
He was arrested by Kenyan police for attempting to travel to Somalia to join the terror group as he was traveling on a bus near Mombasa. He was held at the Kenyan Anti-Terrorism Police Unit and questioned by the FBI, officials said....
But Obama told us that Islam was not the enemy.................
Robert, what you write is of course true. "[I]f even a half, or a third, or a tenth as many converts to Christianity ended up trying to join violent terror groups in accordance with what they believed to be the dictates of their faith, the New York Times and NBC News and Christiane Amanpour would be running banner-headline, prime time, breathless investigations of what it was about Christianity that caused converts to go mad."
Take heart, JWers. Yes, the leftist MSM utterly ignores the truth about islam. Despite those purposeful efforts to put lipstick on the islamic pig, the ugly truth about this vile religious political system is getting out there. More and more are making the common sense connections between muslims and violence. We are seeing firsthand who are the intolerant. The raw realities simply cannot be papered over.
Obama is a moron or, Obama is a liar.
If you read the texts of Islam or if you read the trend of people who are fighting against us and for what they are fighting, you'd realize the result is unlike that which Obama has spoken of.
Fret not, smredneck5. I was making a joke.
"Baxam secretly converted to Islam days before leaving the Army,"
coward...
Take heart?
We'd all love to think so. However, The Toronto Sun, National Post, Globe and Mail all for years hasn't had a day without a reported suicide bombing and all the other terror-related idiocy bestowed upon innocents world-wide yet narry a sensible connection to the truthful root cause - Islam.
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This 'arrest': More potential 'workplace violence'?
WE ARE AT WAR!
The mainstream media didn't ignore this. It's one of the top stories on the BBC News website. What's with the persecution complex? Writing like that just puts people off your message about the dangers of Islam.
Barryhjr:
Actually, I was referring to the fact that so many converts to Islam end up involved in jihad terror. That is what I was saying that the mainstream media would ignore, and they're doing so.
Cordially
Robert Spencer
Yet another entry for the e-clippings file I have entitled 'the dangerous convert', which features converts to Islam who have subsequently engaged in - or plotted to engage in - violent jihad.
Muslims working at our airports. Muslims in our military (advanced intelligence and cryptology training?). Muslims in our administration. Muslims lobbying our legislators and lying to our schoolchildren.
Muslims all over our media, telling us how "peaceful" they are. Muslims taking over whole cities (Dearborn). And so much more...
And all this societal infiltration AFTER 19 muslims attacked our country and killed 3000 of us a decade ago. Warning: There'll be a big price to pay for this--no smaller for those of us who never bought into it. And the meter is running every day...
It makes one wonder what motivated him to convert.
The current PC/MC climate certainly was not a discouragement.
Members of CAIR and ISNA and MSA should be required to show cause why they shouldn't be deported. Jihadism is unconscionable and that is why human rights don't properly apply to muslim terrorists and terror accessories.
Oh, the fruits of giving asylum to Muslims from Kosovo, Albania, Somalia... bringing jihad to good old US of A!!! Our moronic leaders from Dems to Repubs have no idea how they are working fast and furious to kill our nation!!!
Spencer wrote: "Here again, the mainstream media would ignore this."
Here is another article, from BBC News, hardly right-wing:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16478853
Note how BBC News quoted Mr. Jihad's reaction to al-Shabab's beating people who were seen in the street during prayer time: "that is awesome."
Spencer later wrote: "so many converts to Islam end up involved in jihad terror"
I don't think it is restricted to converts to Islam. People raised in it also appear to be rather violent. All the people killing Christians in Egypt, Turkey, and other Islamic countries were almost certainly born Muslim.
No one can esteem and be devoted to the US military and at the same time be a devout Muslim. And no one can produce any evidence to contradict this claim.
And not only the US military.
There is just one serving politician in Australia (in a State legislature) who has had the guts to come right out and state the obvious.
He's an ex-soldier, by the way.
Here's what he said, in public, after the Fort Hood jihad razzia by that Mohammedan Fifth Columnist.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-11-09/muslims-in-ranks-a-recipe-for-disaster-nile/1135314
'Muslims in ranks a recipe for disaster: Nile'
'Christian Democrat MP Fred Nile has warned of the risks of allowing Muslims to serve in Australia's armed forces.
"Reverend Nile says last week's killing spree in the United States in which an army officer [that is, a practising MUSLIM army officer - dda] shot dead 13 people should cause "all associated with the free world's military forces to feel serious concern".
The NSW MP and former army officer said the Australian Defence Force could already harbour Muslim personnel who may be a threat to their comrades in arms...".
Ah, the dreaded convert.
Such a drag for (former) friends and family.
Gee!
Almost sounds like the first tell-tale behavior of a cultist.
Those Moonies and Hare Krishnas are such a bummer.
Craig BENEDICT Baxam, what a fitting name.
But wait, there must be some mistake, we've been told that jihadist are only defending their native countries from the American aggressor.
Besides we all know Islam is, "the religion of peace".
A little info can be dangerous.
Craig Benedict Baxam was arrested Friday upon return to his home state of Maryland after he was captured in Africa during an alleged attempt to reach Somalia, where the terror group is based...
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"Craig Benedict Baxam"—I wonder what his Muslim name is?
It may seem a minor point, but I believe this is very much in line with the media ignoring or downplaying Islamic ideology.
"Craig Benedict Baxam" sounds like a misguided idiot or a common criminal—"Muhammed Ahmed Shaheed" (or whatever he goes by) sounds like what he is—a vile Jihadist.