Chicago: Qur'an translator intended to become jihad/martyrdom suicide bomber

How did this man who had immersed himself in the peaceful teachings of the generous Qur'an misunderstand Islam so spectacularly as to want to kill and be killed for Allah (as per Qur'an 9:111)? Why does the proliferation of stories like this one never shake the mainstream narrative about Islam being a Religion of Peace that has been Hijacked by a Tiny Minority of Extremists?

More on this story. "Plea deal for U.S. man accused of aiding Somalia's al Shabaab," from Reuters, July 12 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

(Reuters) - A U.S. citizen accused of providing material support to Somalia's al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab militants by intending to become a suicide bomber has reached a tentative plea deal with prosecutors, his lawyer and prosecutors said on Thursday.

A judge scheduled a July 20 change-of-plea hearing in U.S. District Court in Chicago for Shaker Masri, who formerly worked for a company that translated the Islamic holy book, the Koran, into English, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office said.

Masri's lawyer, Thomas Durkin, and prosecutors told a judge they had worked out a plea agreement in principle, and that Masri was likely to change his not guilty plea to guilty. He did not say what charges Masri would plead guilty to.

Masri was not in court. He has been in custody since his August 2010 arrest, which occurred a few hours before he was scheduled to fly to California with an ultimate destination of Somalia, according to court documents.

Masri was recorded in telephone calls with a paid FBI informant explaining how he planned to undergo weapons training in Mexico and then become a suicide bomber to participate in a "jihad," or holy war, to kill people he termed infidels, the court documents said....

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Of course, the true Koran in all its beneficent illumating radiance in vouchsafed to the scrupulous keeping of our illustrious Great Leader.

In all its beneficent illuminating radiance, that is.

Is vouchsafed, that is.

He was enlighted by the Quran to commit peaceful acts, like the ones described above.

Bukhari Book 52, #72 "...Whoever amongst us ("Mujahid", "...be martyred ten times") is killed will go to Paradise"

Islamic martyrdom wherein those who “slay and are slain” in Allah’s cause are promised paradise Qur’an 9:111 which fulfills verse 9:5 + 9:29

Dear John
Their is know kneed to korect yaself.
As atrocus as ya speling was ........ we new what ya tring ta say.
It just terns out ta b pedattic overkill.

Hope this helps

OT

The rise of Pakistan's televangelists

Yeah, TV turns your brain to mush. Next stop, the invaded 'Dar-al-harb' West?

"....planned to undergo weapons training in Mexico..."
With weapons gunwalked by Eric Holder's ATF no doubt.

@Battle_of_Tours

Notice how the BBC labels imams and muftis ""tele-evangelists", comparing them with christian preachers and how they label "left" those pakistanies who are supposedly against them. If you're against those intolerant, bigoted muftis and you're a westerner, then you're a "radical ultra right wing islamophobe".

We don't know if Masri is a naturalized citizen, or if his parents came from Somalia.

This is one of the problems in allowing totally unqualified and low-intelligence immigrants into the country. They totally can't cope with a modern, technological society, find a marginal living at a make-work job like translating the Koran into English (as if we didn't have enough translations already), and have to develop a sense of self-worth by immersing themselves in the make-believe world of Islamic supremacy and jihad.

Unfortunately, as long as Muslims continue marrying their first cousins, their offspring will continue to degrade intellectually and physically, and it will be ever-harder for them to climb out of the morass of Islam.

Nevertheless, given the present situation, actually the best thing we can do for these people is to leave them where they are, in their own Muslim countries and communities, where the semi-literate mullahs are the local intellectuals.

They have their own ways of dealing with the population problems created by their total aversion to new technologies. Unfortunately, the solution is Darwinian and not very pretty when viewed through a BBC documentary. But, draining Western resources to prop up a dysfunctional system like an Islamic government leads to great harm, both in the donor country and the receiving community.

If Islamic countries are left to their own devices, they might, just might, experience enough Darwinian pressures to modernize marginally. This is what we saw with the dictators in Egypt, Tunisia, Iraq, and even Libya. But, no Muslim should ever be admitted to the US as a response to political persecution or economic disaster. Immigration for Muslims should be limited to Muslims who genuinely renounce Islam prior to applying for immigration.

Masri was recorded in telephone calls with a paid FBI informant explaining how he planned to undergo weapons training in Mexico .....

Ee-aw, ee-aw, ee-aw! Another donkey!

But 'well done' for catching him lads! Bravo!

Why our State dept. keeps giving asylum to these Muslim terrorists from all over the world. First these idiots want to come to USA running from the terrorists in their country and once they are here they support the same terrorists who were killing them when they were there. Our State dept. must be brain dead to fall for this trick Muslims again and again hoping for different result. a Muslim is like a dog's tail which can never be straightened out no matter how much you try it!!!

re: Masri's Attorney Thomas Durkin:
"On May 21, 2012, President Obama nominated Durkin to be a United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, to the seat vacated by Judge Wayne R. Andersen who retired in 2010.[3][4] His nomination is currently pending before the Senate Judiciary Committee."---from wikipedia

Durkin has represented Islamic Charities whose assets have been frozen,among them Global Relief Foundation(GRF),several GITMO TERRORIST detainees, Chicago Street Gang members,etc.
And Obama nominated him for the Federal Bench!

"Why does the proliferation of stories like this one never shake the mainstream narrative about Islam being a Religion of Peace that has been Hijacked by a Tiny Minority of Extremists?"

An excellent rhetorical question.

Another good one may be slightly reworded:

Why does the proliferation of stories like this one never shake the narrative that seems rather common even within the anti-jihad movement, about most Muslims being nice and harmless and therefore "welcome in America" (a narrative whose injury is compounded by the insult of accusations of "bigotry" and "hate" against any who dare to balk at this narrative)...?

and Obama wants to stop the intelligence gathering on Muslims....

You said, "But 'well done' for catching him lads! Bravo!"

Methinks even better done would, in cases like this, to *let* the would-be jihad murder-'martyr' go to Somalia, or Yemen, or Afghanistan, and when you're quite sure they are safely there, **cancel their US (or, as it might be, UK, or Australian, or Canadian [insert name of non-Muslim country here] citizenship papers**. Or, if they were born in the West, bring down that good old-fashioned sentence: Exile For The Term of Your Natural Life.

Send 'em back to dar al Islam...hey, they're even prepared to do it at their own expense!...and then slam the door shut behind them., and pull up the drawbridge.

Stopping importing them in the first place is the other thing that has to happen.

But I wouldn't care two hoots if they were scarpering back to Somalia, say, by the thousand; **so long as they were not being let back in, ever, once they were known to have departed thence**. Hey, I'd be happy to pay for their - one-way - tickets.

RonaldB,
I totally agree with you on keeping Muslims out of America, unless they first renounce Islam (in which case they would no longer be Muslims). However, our Constitution precludes any kind of religious test for admittance.
'Tis a quandary that vexes my mind.

"our Constitution precludes any kind of religious test for admittance."

If a religion foments deadly sedition, then there's nothing in the Constitution to prevent the USA from taking necessary action to defend its society against that religion's adherents.

"If a religion foments deadly sedition, then there's nothing in the Constitution to prevent the USA from taking necessary action to defend its society against that religion's adherents."


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Agree. Or to de-classify it from religion to cult.

Islam strikes me as a combination between Organised Crime 'Family' (like the Mafia or the Triads or the Yakuza) on the one hand, and a Death Cult/ Human Sacrifice Cult (like the Thuggees or the Aztec religion) on the other.

Thoroughly creepy and nasty.

Brandon,

No need to de-classify or re-define Islam as a non-religion.

If a religion were mandating its followers to rape little girls, and if its adherents had been murdering blacks and gay men all over the USA, and were continuing to do so, and were planning to do so in the future -- would the USA be powerless to stop them, without first de-classifying their religion as a "religion"?

Sorry, my last comment got mangled by hitting Publish too quickly.

Anyway, you get the picture. If a religion is mandating criminal activity, and its followers are rampantly committing crimes, the government has no need to de-classify that religion's "religion" status in order to stop those criminals.

The only difference between my analogy and Islam is that the danger to society -- the physical danger of lives wounded, ruined and mass-murdered -- Islam is far worse.

But I guess I'll have to keep repeating this unremarkable fact for decades before even anti-jihadists get it through their strangely thick skulls.

I made another typo. I'm too weary, frustrated and angry to maintain my usual typographical standards.

I.e., why are we still talking about this? Shouldn't wondering about these issues be the job of those who still don't know there's a mortal problem with Muslims?

Article:

"Masri was recorded in telephone calls with a paid FBI informant explaining how he planned to undergo weapons training in Mexico and then become a suicide bomber to participate in a 'jihad', or holy war..."
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Mexico again? WTF?

Those Arab clowns would stand out like a sore thumb and get their asses waxed in my neighborhood; and somehow, I don't think Chapo's crew or Beltran's boys would be putting up with any Mohammedists trying to learn how to shoot and shoot straight for a few extra pesos.

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