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Texas: Two Muslims arrested on jihad terror charges

Jun 18, 2014 5:17 pm By Robert Spencer

rahatul-ashikim-khan-and-miRahatul Ashikim Khan wanted to join the jihad in Somalia. Michael Todd Wolfe wanted to join the jihad in Syria and apparently return to the U.S. to commit a jihad terror attack here. “He’s just ready to die for his deen [religion],” said his wife. Is anyone investigating where Wolfe learned his understanding of Islam? If not, why not? Is anyone investigating why there is not a single mosque in the U.S. with a program to teach converts that this understanding of Islam is wrong? If not, why not? Note also that the ABC News story uses only Wolfe’s pre-conversion name. Whenever a convert to Islam does something evil in service of his new religion, the media avoids using his Muslim name. Anything to cover for the deen.

“2 Texas Men Arrested on Terror Charges,” by Mike Levine, ABC News, June 18, 2014 (thanks to A.M.H.):

Two men have been arrested in Texas and separately charged with terror-related offenses after federal agents said they planned to travel halfway around the world to engage in violent jihad.

One of the men, a Bangladesh-born U.S. citizen named Rahatul Ashikim Khan, allegedly wanted to join al-Shabab, a Somalia-based terror group linked to al Qaeda. For the other, Michael Todd Wolfe from Houston, learning to fight in Syria was allegedly the goal.

According to charging documents, Wolfe’s wife met an undercover FBI agent in August 2013 and told the agent she and her husband wanted to “perform a violent form of jihad” outside of the United States. She said Wolfe “just wants to hop into Syria. He’s just ready to die for his deen [religion]. He’s ready to die for someone, for something,” court documents say.

Over several months, another undercover FBI agent met with Wolfe, and they discussed Wolfe’s plans for going overseas, according to the court documents. On Jan. 22, both undercover FBI agents met with Wolfe and his wife, and Wolfe “indicated that he had learned that al Qaeda in Syria was training brothers from other countries (foreign fighters) and then sending those fighters back from Syria to their home countries to conduct terror attacks,” the FBI says in court documents. A month later, one of the FBI agents allegedly watched a YouTube video about foreign fighters in Syria with Wolfe and his wife.

They were planning to use some of their estimated $5,000 tax refund to pay for their travel, prosecutors say.

In subsequent meetings with undercover agents, Wolfe allegedly expressed dismay over infighting among terrorist groups in Syria, and he “struggled” with whether to actually go. Then Tuesday, Wolfe and his family went to George Bush International Airport, attempting to board a flight to Toronto and then make their way to Syria. Instead, Wolfe was arrested, accused of attempting to provide “material support and resources to terrorists, including but not limited to personnel, including himself.”

Khan became a U.S. citizen in 2002 and is a full-time student at University of Texas-Austin, which is now on summer recess.

According to charging documents in his case, in early 2011, Khan began communicating with an informant in an online chat room, which he used “as a platform to spot and assess potential recruits for committing violent jihad overseas.”

Khan introduced the informant to an unidentified co-conspirator, possibly in Florida, who then attempted to recruit the informant to travel to Somalia to engage in jihad there, prosecutors say in court documents. The co-conspirator then introduced the informant to another person, also likely in Florida, who discussed how Khan could get to Somalia to join the terrorist group al-Shabab.

In June 2011, Khan told the informant that his brain “starts bleeding” when he sees weak “bengalis” who have “no love for jihad” and “no love to shed blood,” authorities allege.

The arrests come a month after the Justice Department asked a special prosecutor in its National Security Division to help lead U.S. efforts aimed at stemming the flow of American fighters to the civil war in Syria. Top law enforcement officials have said they’re concerned the young men and women could possibly return home, freshly trained in deadly operations, and unleash havoc on the homeland.

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  1. boakai ngombu says

    Jun 18, 2014 at 5:40 pm

    ” …The arrests come a month after the Justice Department asked a special prosecutor in its National Security Division to help lead U.S. efforts aimed at stemming the flow of American fighters to the civil war in Syria. Top law enforcement officials have said they’re concerned the young men and women could possibly return home, freshly trained in deadly operations, and unleash havoc on the homeland.”

    does this mean that the AG has had an epiphany?

    naw … the socialist regime needs the troubles these youngbloods would bring to the homeland

  2. Tahmineh says

    Jun 18, 2014 at 6:24 pm

    I say let them go… but revoke their citizenship permanently and not let them back in.

    • Shane says

      Jun 19, 2014 at 9:29 am

      This is another example of why allowing Muslims to immigrate into the USA is suicidal. Young Muslim men find the idea of fighting in a jihad very attractive and they may just decide that the USA is the Great Satan that they should aim their jihad towards. At least stop all Muslim immigration from Muslim countries where the idea of holy war is popular, like Somalia, SA, Iraq, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.

  3. dumbledoresarmy says

    Jun 18, 2014 at 7:19 pm

    Wolfe’s wife is also a Muslim and, from the sound of it, an eager-beaver devotee, fully-jihad-minded. Why are we not told her name?

    Questions for journalists to consider.

    Is Wolfe’s wife the daughter of Muslim parents, i.e. someone who was raised Muslim, or is she a convert to Islam?

    And: when did she meet Wolfe? – i.e had he already converted to Islam *before* he met her, or did he convert *after* meeting her?…because, as we know, a Muslim female cannot marry a non-Muslim male.

    There is “marriage jihad” in which Muslim males marry non-Muslim females (who are not required to convert, though many do; but all children – whether the children want this to be so or not – are automatically deemed, by the Mohammedan Mob, to be the possessions of the Mob , ie Muslim, and if said children, no matter what age, reject Islam, they are deemed to be apostates, worthy of death); but there is also “marriage jihad” whereby foolish Infidel males convert to Islam in order to be able to marry an alluring muslimah. And then, once they have joined the Mob the rest follows, all too often.

    If Wolfe’s wife was a Muslim (born-and-raised, OR convert) before he met her, and he was a non-Muslim when he met her, then he may have converted in order to be able to marry her.

    That is a variation of “marriage jihad” that should give all non-Muslim parents pause. Do not only worry about your daughters meeting a falsely-smiling mohammedan; worry also about your *sons* meeting some doe-eyed hijabette and Marrying the Mob.

    • Ashley says

      Jun 18, 2014 at 7:36 pm

      Good questions!

      “According to charging documents, Wolfe’s wife met an undercover FBI agent in August 2013 and told the agent she and her husband wanted to “perform a violent form of jihad” outside of the United States.”

      Why wasn’t this woman arrested? Why isn’t her mug and identity plastered on this post?

      • Islamisdeath says

        Jun 18, 2014 at 7:53 pm

        My exact thoughts.

    • Gardener says

      Jun 19, 2014 at 2:30 am

      I don’t know what the case is here, but I’m aware of several white Muslim converts in the US marrying Somali women. The marriages were basically arranged within the Muslim community as in many active Muslim communities they make an effort to get single men married and don’t leave it at the mercy of the individuals’ own initiative.

  4. Islamisdeath says

    Jun 18, 2014 at 7:51 pm

    People who convert tend to be psychopaths looking for a way to justify their need for violence and women who either cannot get a man to look their way or women who have been in bad relationships or grew up in troubled homes. People with issues.

    I think they purposely seek out these types so they can use them for human bombs. I say let em go and dont let em back in. Kaboom one less psycho!

    • Reality Check says

      Jun 19, 2014 at 2:04 am

      Well said, Islamisdeath. I especially agree with your appraisal of the women who marry Muslims. You have to be really dysfunctional, ignorant, foolish or naive to marry a Muslim.

      As a matter of fact, some time ago I read an article about several American women who married Saudis. One of them was 16 when she met a 27-year-old Saudi who was studying English at the University of Pittsburgh. He offered her stability and religion. They married two years later, first in a mosque and then before a justice of the peace. She said she hasn’t spoken to her husband’s family in six years. If that doesn’t spell “dysfunctional”, I don’t know what does.

      Here is the link to the article. It is a good article:

      http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-wives14jan14-story.html#page=2

  5. jewdog says

    Jun 18, 2014 at 9:11 pm

    If people want to go abroad to wage jihad in a Muslim country, then let them go, but just don’t let them come back. That way we can get rid of them.

  6. Wellington says

    Jun 18, 2014 at 9:49 pm

    The more devout the Muslim the more likely that the death cult aspect of Islam, which is considerable as well as unique among the major religions of the world, will produce an attempt to be implemented, either by way of support of such or actual participation.

  7. Patriot says

    Jun 18, 2014 at 11:27 pm

    Isnt time to seal our boarders and keep out these “peacefull” Muslims. http://redmillennial.com/2014/06/18/political-delusions-and-invasion-of-america/

  8. Uri says

    Jun 18, 2014 at 11:38 pm

    “He’s ready to die for someone, for something,”

    Well, young man, step right up, you’ve come to the right place.

    When you’re a jihadi
    You’re a jihadi all the way
    From your first Shahada
    To your last dying day.”

  9. John Wilkinson says

    Jun 19, 2014 at 6:40 pm

    Why is it I know hundreds of ISLAMIC PERSONS and not a one of them is the least like the story here?? I’ve live in Malaysia for a year, never seen this. Yes I know that it exists. I am devout Christian myself. But, many Muslim persons in USA & elsewhere are AGAINST SUCH. Fame boxer Muhammad Ali (he converted I believe of deception of history & ideals..) talks against such. Pretty clearly.

    • Mirren10 says

      Jun 20, 2014 at 3:34 pm

      ”Why is it I know hundreds of ISLAMIC PERSONS and not a one of them is the least like the story here??”

      I take it by ”Islamic persons” you mean muslims.

      Because, obviously, not every muslim is prepared, or perhaps even wants to, commit violent jihad.

      But before you get carried away with the idea of all the ”nice” muslims you may know, read, if you haven’t already done so, the koran, and the hadith.

      You will find in there many injunctions for muslims to hate all infidels, and never take them for friends. The koran states it is the duty of **every** muslim to spread islam until all the world **submits to islam**, or lives as a barely tolerated dhimmi, paying the jizya to muslims, or is killed.

      **Violent** jihad is ultimately the **means to the end**, which, as I said above, is to make all the world for ‘allah’.

      This doesn’t preclude **stealth jihad**, by which muslims seek to erode the laws, mores and customs of the host country, and gradually insert more and more sharia, as much as they can get away with.

      Equally, when you say not one of the muslims you know is a terrorist, fair enough, but bear in mind the number of muslims who have been involved in jihad murder plots, and everyone has said, when these have been uncovered; ”Oh, I can’t believe it ! Muhammed, or Walid, (or whoever) was just a nice, friendly, family person, etc etc.”

      Remember what people said about the Tsarnaev murderers who created the carnage at the Boston Marathon ? No-one could believe that such ‘nice young men’ could have plotted and carried out such a thing.

      I’m from the UK. The 7/7 murderers came from Leeds, about six miles away from where I live. Everyone who knew them was dumbfounded ( or said they were) because these murdering bastards were apparently completely Westernised; played footie, went to the gym, worked with non-muslims as teachers, accountants etc, had non-muslim friends.

      But they strapped on murder vests, went to London, blew up the tube, and murdered and maimed innocent people.

      Have you heard the term ”taqqiya” ? This is an Islamic concept that allows muslims to lie and deceive non-muslims, if it furthers the cause of islam. There is also ”kitman”, which is the technique whereby muslims deliberately tell half-truths in order to whitewash islam.

      As when they quote the koranic sira which says anyone who kills an innocent person it as if they’ve killed all mankind. What they don’t tell you, and hope you won’t read for yourself, is this verse applies to **the Children of Israel**, ie: the Jews; **not** muslims.

      If you are new to Jihad Watch, and want to learn what islam is **really** about, you couldn’t do better, as a start, than to click on ‘islam 101’, read, and inwardly digest.

      I think you’ll find it very illuminating.

      All the best.

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