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American Muslim pipe bomber gets 16 years of prison dawah

Mar 26, 2014 1:12 pm By Robert Spencer

Jose PimentelJose Pimentel’s Muslim name is Muhammad Yusuf. That is the name he uses since he converted to Islam. Why does the mainstream media persist in calling him by his slave name? The mainstream media would find it racist and disrespectful to call Muhammad Ali “Cassius Clay” or Kareem Abdul-Jabbar “Lew Alcindor,” right? Why isn’t it racist and disrespectful to continue to call Muhammad Yusuf “Jose Pimentel”? Is it because Muhammad Ali and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar are revered, beloved figures, while Muhammad Yusuf reflects poorly upon his adopted religion, having plotter to commit mass murder in its “defense”?

Muhammad Yusuf’s mother said: “My son was a normal American guy. He did what young people do. Then he became a Muslim and he changed.” AP, however, here gives no hint whatsoever of the motive for his terrorism plot; it is standard journalistic practice to minimize discussion of motive when writing about an Islamic jihad plot, but this story gives no hint that Muhammad Yusuf was a Muslim at all, let alone a would-be jihad mass murderer.

“American pipe bomber gets 16 years behind bars,” from Reuters, March 26 (thanks to Lookmann):

New York: An American Muslim who pleaded guilty to a New York state terrorism charge for attempting to make a pipe bomb was sentenced to 16 years in prison on Tuesday, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office said.

Jose Pimentel, a 29-year-old Dominican-born U.S. citizen, was arrested in 2011 after a police informant secretly recorded meetings with him as he bought bomb materials and read online instructions on how to assemble them, according to court documents.

Pimentel was accused of plotting to attack police stations, post offices and military personnel in and around New York City.

In a statement on Tuesday, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said Pimentel had a personal website that advocated violence against U.S. citizens and government agencies and that had links to bomb-making instructions.

The components seized by the New York police department were detailed in a step-by-step bomb-making guide published by Al Qaeda’s Inspire Magazine, Vance said.

“As Pimentel’s guilty plea confirms, the threat of terrorism is increasingly coming from radicalized local actors living in our communities,” Vance said in the statement.

Pimentel’s case was brought under a New York state anti-terror law passed after the attacks of September 11, 2001.

The New York City police conducted a year-long investigation leading to his arrest in November 2011.

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  1. Brian says

    Mar 26, 2014 at 1:19 pm

    because it doesn’t fit the meme. Muslims are supposed to be peaceful right?

  2. Henry says

    Mar 26, 2014 at 1:33 pm

    Here in Britain the BBC is a deft hand at whitewashing Islam, you will never hear Michael Adebolajo being called Mujaahid Abu Hamza.

  3. mortimer says

    Mar 26, 2014 at 1:56 pm

    How long before American politicians accept that Islam teaches warfare against the disbelievers?

    How long before they admit that people like Pimentel (Muhammad Yusuf) are motivated by classical jihad theory and are classical Muslims, rather than aberrant?

  4. Salah says

    Mar 26, 2014 at 2:19 pm

    “Why does the mainstream media persist in calling him by his slave name?”

    Because we are doing NOTHING about it.
    We don’t have enough courage to shut this compromised media down, we can do it, we don’t.
    All it takes is a massive media strike.

    http://ncrenegade.com/editorial/you-ready-to-get-serious-now-you-ready-to-listen-ann-barnhardt/

  5. mariam rove says

    Mar 26, 2014 at 2:30 pm

    Good. He now has 16 years in a 10×10 cell to connect and get acclimated with Allah. M

    • john spielman says

      Mar 26, 2014 at 5:28 pm

      also with his cell mate, and after ward he will be able to handle those extra large rectal explosives

  6. SKevin says

    Mar 26, 2014 at 3:24 pm

    Ali and Jabar went to court to legally change their names. I doubt this thug could be bothered doing so before a kuffar judge. Therefore, let his slave name stand.

  7. duh_swami says

    Mar 26, 2014 at 3:46 pm

    I don’t care if his name is Jose, Bill, Harry, Ali , Abu or Ray. Lock him up and throw the key away.

  8. shabeer says

    Mar 27, 2014 at 5:17 am

    Prohibit killing with unjust:
    3:21. Verily! Those who disbelieve in the Ayât (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) of Allah and kill the Prophets without right, and kill those men who order just dealings, announce to them a painful torment.
    5: 32. Because of that We ordained for the Children of Israel that if anyone killed a person not in retaliation of murder, or (and) to spread mischief in the land – it would be as if he killed all mankind, and if anyone saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of all mankind. And indeed, there came to them Our Messengers with clear proofs, evidences, and signs, even then after that many of them continued to exceed the limits (e.g. by doing oppression unjustly and exceeding beyond the limits set by Allah by committing the major sins) in the land!.
    6: 151. Say (O Muhammad SAW): “Come, I will recite what your Lord has prohibited you from: Join not anything in worship with Him; be good and dutiful to your parents; kill not your children because of poverty – We provide sustenance for you and for them; come not near to Al-Fawâhish (shameful sins, illegal sexual intercourse, etc.) whether committed openly or secretly, and kill not anyone whom Allâh has forbidden, except for a just cause (according to Islâmic law). This He has commanded you that you may understand.
    Muslim :: Book 1 : Hadith 371
    Yazid al-Faqir said: This view of the Khwarij (i. e. those who commit major sins and would be eternally doomed to Hell)
    Muslim :: Book 1 : Hadith 159 ,160
    Ubaidullah b. Abu Bakr said: I heard Anas b. Malik saying: The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) talked about the major sins, or he was asked about the major sins. Upon this he observed: Associating anyone with Allah, killing of a person, disobedience to parents. He (the Holy Prophet further) said: Should I not inform you about the gravest of the major sins, and (in this connection) observed: False utterance or false testimony. Shu’ba said. It was most probably” false testimony”.
    17: 33. And do not kill anyone which Allah has forbidden, except for a just cause. And whoever is killed (intentionally with hostility and oppression and not by mistake), We have given his heir the authority [(to demand Qisâs, Law of Equality in punishment or to forgive, or to take Diya (blood money)]. But let him not exceed limits in the matter of taking life (i.e he should not kill except the killer only). Verily, he is helped (by the Islamic law).
    25: 68. And those who invoke not any other ilâh (god) along with Allah, nor kill such life as Allah has forbidden, except for just cause, nor commit illegal sexual intercourse and whoever does this shall receive the punishment.
    49: 6. O you who believe! If a rebellious evil person comes to you with news, verify it, lest you harm people in ignorance, and afterwards you become regretful to what you have done.
    Bukhari :: Book 9 :: Volume 89 :: Hadith 320
    Not to join anything in worship along with Allah, (2) Not to steal, (3) Not to commit illegal sexual intercourse, (4) Not to kill your children, (5) Not to accuse an innocent person (to spread such an accusation among people), (6) Not to be disobedient (when ordered) to do good deeds.
    Bukhari :: Book 5 :: Volume 58 :: Hadith 233
    Narrated ‘Ubada bin As Samit:
    I was one of the Naqibs who gave the (‘Aqaba) Pledge of Allegiance to Allah’s Apostle . We gave the pledge of allegiance to him that we would not worship anything other than Allah, would not steal, would not commit illegal sexual intercourse, would not kill a person whose killing Allah has made illegal except rightfully, would not rob each other, and we would not be promised Paradise if we did the above sins, then if we committed one of the above sins, Allah will give His Judgment concerning it.
    Muslim :: Book 7 : Hadith 3142
    Abu Huraira, (Allah be pleased with him) reported. When Allah, the Exalted and Majestic, granted Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) victory over Mecca, he stood before people and praised and extolled Allah and then said:…………it (this territory) was not violable to anyone before me and it was made violable to me for an hour of a day, and it shall not be violable to anyone after me. So neither molest the game, nor weed out thorns from it. And it is not lawful for anyone to pick up a thing dropped but one who makes public announcement of it. And it a relative of anyone is killed he is entitled to opt for one of two things. Either he should be paid blood-money or he can take life as (a just retribution).
    Muslim :: Book 17 : Hadith 4238
    Ubida b. as-Samit repnrted: I was one of those headmen who swore allegiance to Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) that we will not associate anything with Allah, and will not commit adultery, and will not steal, and will not kill any soul which Allah has forbidden, but with justice nor plunder, nor disobey (Allah and His Apostle), then Paradise (will be the reward) in case we do these (acts) ; and if we commit any outrage(bad, violence) (and that goes unpunished in the world), it is Allah Who would decide about it. Ibn Rumh said: Its judgment lies with Allah.
    Muslim :: Book 1 : Hadith 161
    It is reported on the authority of Abu Huraira that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) observed: Avoid the seven noxious things. It was said (by the hearers): What are they, Messenger of Allah? He (the Holy Prophet) replied: Associating anything with Allah, magic, killing of one whom God has declared inviolate without a just cause, consuming the property of an orphan, and consuming of usury(intrest), turning back when the army advances(cowardness), and slandering(lie) chaste women who are believers, but unwary.
    Bukhari :: Book 6 :: Volume 60 :: Hadith 134
    …………… “I do not know that killing a person is lawful in Islam except in three cases: a married person committing illegal sexual intercourse, >>>one who has murdered somebody unlawfully<<<>>>>>A person who killed somebody unjustly, was killed (in Qisas,) <<<<<<<<(2) a married person who committed illegal sexual intercourse and (3) a man who fought against Allah and His Apostle, and deserted Islam and became an apostate."

  9. shabeer says

    Mar 27, 2014 at 5:18 am

    KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE PROHIBITED
    Islam does not like war
    Bukhari :: Book 4 :: Volume 52 :: Hadith 269, 268
    Narrated Jabir bin ‘Abdullah:
    The Prophet said, “War is deceit.”
    Bukhari :: Book 4 :: Volume 52 :: Hadith 267
    Narrated Abu Huraira:
    The Prophet said, “Khosrau will be ruined, and there will be no Khosrau after him, and Caesar will surely be ruined and there will be no Caesar after him, and you will spend their treasures in Allah’s Cause.” He called, “War is deceit’.
    Prophet tries to stops killing innocent people:
    Muslim :: Book 19 : Hadith 4399
    It has been narrated on the authority of Abdullah b. Muti’ who heard from his father and said: I heard the Holy Prophet (may peace be upon him) say on the day of the Conquest of Mecca: No Quraishite will be killed hound hand and foot from this day until the Day of judgment.
    Muslim :: Book 7 : Hadith 3142
    Abu Huraira, (Allah be pleased with him) reported. When Allah, the Exalted and Majestic, granted Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) victory over Mecca, he stood before people and praised and extolled Allah and then said:…………it (this territory) was not violable to anyone before me and it was made violable to me for an hour of a day, and it shall not be violable to anyone after me. So neither molest the game, nor weed out thorns from it. And it is not lawful for anyone to pick up a thing dropped but one who makes public announcement of it. And it a relative of anyone is killed he is entitled to opt for one of two things. Either he should be paid blood-money or he can take life as (a just retribution).
    Muslim :: Book 9 : Hadith 3506
    God did not send me to be harsh, or cause harm, but He has sent me to teach and make things easy.
    Bukhari :: Book 1 :: Volume 3 :: Hadith 122
    Narrated Jarir:
    The Prophet said to me during Hajjat-al-Wida’: Let the people keep quiet and listen. Then he said (addressing the people), “Do not (become infidels) revert to disbelief after me by striking the necks (cutting the throats) of one another (killing each other).”
    Muslim :: Book 30 : Hadith 5689
    …………..I am not afraid that you would associate anything with Allah after me, but I am afraid that you may be (allured) by the world and (vie) with one another (in possessing material wealth) and begin killing one another, and you would be destroyed as were destroyed those who had gone before you. ‘Uqba said that that was the last occasion that he saw Allah’s Massenger on the pulpit.
    Bukhari :: Book 1 :: Volume 3 :: Hadith 112
    Bukhari :: Book 9 :: Volume 83 :: Hadith 19

    • Brian says

      Mar 27, 2014 at 11:33 am

      Nice wall of useless text interspersed with “but it’s OK if allah wills”. How about printing up all those parts that allah says it’s OK to kill people?

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 28, 2014 at 8:40 pm

      I countered shabeer’s spam here:

      http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/03/pakistan-islamic-jihadists-kidnap-murder-polio-worker/comment-page-1#comment-1028729

      He has shown up here periodically over the years with similar Taqiyya.

      What he will never tell you, of course, is how Muhammad Yusuf and all the other thousands of violent Jihadists wound up getting their “peaceful” faith so very, very wrong…

  10. dumbledoresarmy says

    Mar 27, 2014 at 7:31 am

    The Mohammedan, shabeer, above, posting reams and reams of stuff from the Horrible Hadiths, forgets that all the “regulars” here at this forum are well aware that in Islamspeak (which resembles the “newspeak” of George Orwell’s 1984) words like “just”, “unjust”, and “innocent” do not mean what they mean in normal non-Muslim parlance.

    To get just a hint of how Islamspeak works, see here:

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2006/07/islamic-dictionary-for-infidels.html
    Islamic Dictionary for Infidels

    Justice in Islamspeak = “something in accord with the sharia”.

    Injustice = “anything not in accord with the sharia”.

    Innocent = a sufficiently-sharia-compliant Muslim of the right sect (e.g. a Shiite, if the Muslim yattering about “innocence” is a Shiite; a Sunni, if the Muslim speaker is Sunni). Infidels are guilty by definition, and must be *punished*, because they are not complying with the sharia and are not submitting to the infernal allah nor adulating mohammed as “prophet”.

    To get an idea of just how perverse Islamspeak is, here’s a really egregious example.

    In Islamspeak a woman who is “naked” is, basically, an unislamically dressed woman; and this may mean simply a woman who (depending on the handy sliding scale used by the sharia pusher i.e. self-appointed vigilante Abuser who has made it his business to judge her and terrorise her into line) has either got her hair and face, ears and neck uncovered, or else has just her face uncovered, and is perhaps showing a tiny bit more of the rest of herself than her hands and feet (the Taliban were wont to chop off a woman’s hand in the marketplace if her sleeve fell back and indecently exposed her wrist and part of her forearm). In the eyes of some Sharia pushers, a woman of whom only her *face* is visible, with everything else blotted out by a black sack, is just as naked and obscene as a woman baring her all for a playboy centrefold; because these screwed-up sex-obsessed bizarro control freak perverts and IDJUTS refuse to perceive any difference between a/ c**t and b/ eyes, nose and mouth.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 28, 2014 at 8:51 pm

      All salient stuff, DDA. Muslims *do not* use language the way the rest of us do.

  11. tesa says

    Mar 27, 2014 at 7:30 pm

    send every politician a copy of prophet of doom,or the website, then they will be without excuse.

  12. gravenimage says

    Mar 28, 2014 at 8:03 pm

    American Muslim pipe bomber gets 16 years of prison dawah

    Jose Pimentel’s Muslim name is Muhammad Yusuf. That is the name he uses since he converted to Islam. Why does the mainstream media persist in calling him by his slave name?
    …………………………….

    The courts may just claim they are using his legal name (few pious Mohammedans bother to have their names legally changed in some “filthy Infidel” court. But the media? How can this *not* be a major part of the story?

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