#MyJihad in Texas: Two Muslims arrested for misunderstanding Islam, shipping $12 million worth of computers to Iran

Aiding a nation whose president has predicted more than once that America's end is nigh. "2 men arrested for exporting computers to Iran," from the Associated Press, March 8 (thanks to Kenneth):

Federal authorities say two North Texas men have been arrested for illegally exporting about $12 million worth of computers to Iran.

They say the computers were shipped over seven years through the city-state of Dubai to Iran, in violation of U.S. government sanctions against the Mideast country.

Borna Faizy of Frisco and Touraj Ghavidel of Plano, owners of Signal Microsystems in Addison, were arrested Thursday. They entered pleas of not guilty in federal court and were released on bond.

Investigators say the 42-year-old Faizy and 44-year-old Ghavidel conspired to ship computers and various parts through Dubai to hide the final destination....

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Federal authorities say two North Texas men have been arrested for illegally exporting about $12 million worth of computers to Iran.
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Two "North Texas men", huh? Luke, or Tex, or Bobby Ray? Or how about Jose or Manuel? Heck no. Funny, I've never thought of "Borno" and Touraj" as Texas names.

But, of course, they are not. These are no more "Texas men" than Jihadists in LA are "California men", or Jihadists in Canada are "Ontario men", or Jihadists in England are "Yorkshire men".

They are just Muslims who have set up base somewhere in Dar-al-Harb, with the intention of using it as a base from which to wage Jihad.

Misunderstanding?

What part of 'embargo' did he misunderstand?

And they were 'MUSLIM', weren't they? They were Shi'ite MUSLIMS.

Yes, that always gets me too! Mrs Cat may have her kittens in the stable, but that doesn't make them horses.

One that I really dislike is 'Briton', which used to mean a native of these islands, and brought to mind a guy of about six foot, with blond or sandy hair, light complexion, etc. It has now been completely devalued and is applied to anyone with a UK passport.

I think this is partly PC stupidity, and partly media laziness. Both are execrable.

Robert,

FYI - If I preview a comment, and then try to submit it, I get a time-out error. But if I log in (I'm using Typepad), enter my message and hit submit without a preview, the comment goes through.

Hope this help you to fix the problem!

been reading jihadwatch for 6 or 7 years now and "misunderstanding Islam" still makes me laugh

The issue extends beyond citizenship. The MSM is prone to describing as "British" or "UK man" anyone who is, or who has in the past been, resident in Britain having been granted refugee status or "leave to remain" pending a decision on an asylum claim, notwithstanding their having since departed to a conflict zone "to work for an Islamic charity" or "to study Islam and Arabic".

It only took seven years of successful transactions for the Feds to catch up to these guys...and then released on bond...How much? Did they use ill gotten money to post those bonds?

Excuse me, the above post was meant generically...It got addressed to you by accident...

Yeah, Aardvark. . .I don't use the preview button either, and apart from the occasional time-out, it normally goes through first time.

You have strong support from me. I refuse to be "politically correct". That's why I use my real name here...though well understanding why others for a variety of reasons may prefer anonymity.

This "locality-linkage-attribution" seems to be a convention now in the media; elsewhere I've posted that after working at Kai Tak airport in Hong Kong years ago, I learned that the passport or travel identity papers one is currently holding may have very little to do with the holders' true national sentiments. Pragmatism, politics, physical safety, and economics will always prevail...in varying sequences. Papers are merely...papers.

However...practicing Muslims in America and wherever they've penetrated and settled are, as long as they are practicing Muslims, sleeper cells here waiting for the "activate" signal from their handlers, and they should be recognized as such openly.

This, of course, will induce instant wails and shouts of "racism", "bigotry", "pre-judgment" or "prejudice", and the legal teams paid by local Mosques will stand up and wave various papers in the air as "lawfare". Civil "rights"...pop-ups everywhere.

We know this, this is nothing revelatory here; but what apparently is not publicly recognized is that "lawfare" can be practiced both ways. We need to be aggressive against our Muslim enemy here at home. [Has everyone forgotten the Nazi submarine-landed terrorists on Long Island?....yes.]

Why is this not done?....in my humble opinion it's because these Muslims have been quite successful in their fear-inducing propaganda-strategy....we indeed seem to have a fear of having our throats slit...who wouldn't under the present circumstances?...the Brits and the French will perhaps have other rationales for their own particular brand of dhimmitude......but where is our American spirit of 1942?

Think about it dear Readers....where is our spirit of 1942?....that rage against those Japanese who so successfully applied their own imaginative and precedent setting aerial attack upon Hawaii the preceding December of 1941?

Briefly we had some shock and rage for a few days after 11 September, 2001. It's dissipated. What's happened to us a Nation?...are we so infected with the current trendy multicultural B.S. that we've castrated ourselves?

Same here.
I also use Typepad, but ignore the automatic near instant time-out of "Preview".
Try to proof-read slowly before clicking "Submit".

Aardvark and Charlie Griffith, good posts.

Try.

Convict.

Sentence served, DEPORT.

Send *them* back to Islamic Iran. Circulate their descriptions and all identifying particulars - including DNA sample - to *all* majority-non-Muslim countries, strongly advising that anyone answering those descriptions should not be allowed in through the gates (or, if detected after having somehow sneaked through, should be instantly booted right back to their proper place - Islamic Iran).

Do they have American citizenship? - if so, it's quite clear they took their oath of citizenship under false pretences, so, strip them of it before packing them off to the dar al Islam.

Dumbledore's Army wrote:

Send *them* back to Islamic Iran. Circulate their descriptions and all identifying particulars - including DNA sample - to *all* majority-non-Muslim countries, strongly advising that anyone answering those descriptions should not be allowed in through the gates (or, if detected after having somehow sneaked through, should be instantly booted right back to their proper place - Islamic Iran).
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Excellent idea, DDA. We don't just want to prevent these Jihadists from returning to the United States if deported, but from worming their way into any part of the West.

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