“Moore set sentencing for Jan. 23, saying he wanted time for Conley to undergo more complete psychiatric testing. ‘I desire more information’ on her mental state, he said, asking for both a psychological and personality evaluation.” Of course he wants information on her mental state, as everyone knows that the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam — so why would a convert to Islam who was growing increasingly devout want to join it? She must be crazy!
Halima Conley (the Muslim name she uses) is yet another indication of the massive failure of Muslims in the U.S. to prevent converts to Islam from subscribing to a view of Islam that they ostensibly reject. No one, however, appears troubled by the fact that there is not a single program in any mosque or Islamic school to teach converts why they should avoid the Islamic State’s perspective on Islam.
“Colorado woman pleads guilty to conspiring to aid Islamic State,” by Jenny Deam, Los Angeles Times, September 10, 2014:
The Colorado woman charged with conspiring to assist the militant group Islamic State pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court and agreed to cooperate and provide possible future testimony against other terrorism suspects.
Shannon Maureen Conley, dressed in baggy gray-and-white-striped prison pants and shirt with a brown scarf wrapped around her head and shoulders, spoke calmly and without hesitation as U.S. District Judge Raymond P. Moore asked her numerous times whether she fully understood the charge against her and what a guilty plea would mean.
“Are you in fact guilty?” the judge asked her a final time.
“Yes,” Conley, 19, replied in a clear, unemotional voice.
Moore set sentencing for Jan. 23, saying he wanted time for Conley to undergo more complete psychiatric testing. “I desire more information” on her mental state, he said, asking for both a psychological and personality evaluation.
Conley, who has been held without bond at an undisclosed Denver-area detention facility for five months, is charged with one count of conspiracy to provide and attempt to provide material support and resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization. She faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
But at Wednesday’s hearing, Assistant U.S. Atty. Greg Holloway confirmed to the judge that his office would recommend a reduced sentence because Conley had agreed to cooperate and provide information in identifying other suspects, including those who may have recruited her to fight alongside Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria.
The young woman, who lived with her parents in the northwest Denver suburb of Arvada and was considered very bright by her former high school principal, was arrested by federal agents on April 8 as she tried to board a flight at Denver International Airport to join the militants in Syria, according to court documents. She had said she would use her nursing training received in Colorado to help Islamist militants on the battlefield, the documents said.
As part of the conspiracy to assist the militants, the documents said, Conley also joined the U.S. Army Explorers, a group loosely affiliated with the Boy Scouts of America and the Army that allows young men and women to wear Army uniforms and get a taste of military life. In February, Conley traveled to Texas for a weekend training session, the documents said. She later told authorities she had hoped to learn U.S. military tactics to share with the militant group.
An Army spokesman told The Times in July that the U.S. Army Explorers do not undergo any combat training.
Conley’s parents, John and Ana Marie Conley, tipped off authorities in March that their daughter, who had converted to Islam about two years earlier, was becoming increasingly radical. She had met a 32-year-old Tunisian man online and he had asked her to join him in Syria, offering marriage, they said. On April 1, John Conley called federal agents after finding a one-way plane ticket to a Turkish city near the Syrian border, believed to have been bought by her suitor.
Both parents were at the hearing Wednesday, seated in the front row and showing no emotion as the judge accepted their daughter’s guilty plea. As Ana Marie Conley entered the courtroom she blew a kiss to her youngest child. As the hearing ended and authorities snapped handcuffs onto Conley’s wrists, the young woman strained to peek around the crowd to catch her mother’s eye and offer a quick smile.
Her parents had no comment as they left the courthouse.
Though the Denver U.S. Attorney’s office would not speak Wednesday to the larger implications of this case, the recruitment of young Westerners into radicalized groups is a growing concern. Last week, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel estimated that more than 100 Americans had joined Islamic State in Syria. Previously, British media have reported that more than 500 British Muslims have joined the group.
Late last month, in a case with striking similarities to Conley’s, a 16-year-old girl was stopped at an airport in Nice, France, as she tried to board a plane bound for Turkey. That girl, too, had planned to meet an older man and go with him to Syria.
Nader Hashemi, the director of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Denver who specializes in radical Islamic groups, said the recruitment of young women, especially with a promise of marriage, was a new twist.
Conley first came to the attention of authorities last fall when she began showing up alone in full Muslim attire at a Christian church near her home known for its support of Israel. She would wander into classes held by the church and into worship services. When asked what she was doing she would say, “Research.” Eventually she was asked not to return.
The FBI interviewed her eight times between November and April, first to determine who she was and then to try to talk her out of plans she never tried to hide. Court documents show that in one of her last interviews with federal agents before her arrest she admitted, “I know things can go terribly wrong.”
Jay Boo says
Two things that most cults have in common are
1 — Name change
2 — Forbidden to change religion and leave cult
‘The Cult Files’ in paperback.
Jay Boo says
Note ‘The Cult Files’ indirectly mentions Muslims in the Thuggee chapter
Beagle says
“Moore set sentencing for Jan. 23, saying he wanted time for Conley to undergo more complete psychiatric testing. “I desire more information” on her mental state, he said, asking for both a psychological and personality evaluation.”
— —
All pious Muslims who base their thinking in Quran and ahadith have a technical insanity defense in our legal system which totally undercuts the spirit of the law. One critical criterion for insanity is not knowing right from wrong, the McNaughton rule which comes to us from 1843.
But changing gears to another parallel and bizarre legal system, It’s black letter sharia law derived from the Quran in ayat 9.111 that those who “kill and are killed” while struggling in Allah’s cause undertake “the supreme attainment” or however that particular translation words it. One says “the greatest achievement” so we’re not talking about a change of meaning. Codified sharia never contradicts anything from the Quran and ahadith which make up the Sunnah.
Any psychiatrist with no grounding in Islam upon hearing “I need to kill and be killed as it’s the supreme attainment” I would say is more likely than not to think that subject is hearing voices or in some way has a mental defect or disease of the mind. Which is not untrue, it’s just learned from a book and has nothing to do with any clinical pathology. It’s a type of ‘insanity’ which is voluntarily undertaken and anyone can choose to have it at any time.
This is yet another example of the many ways Islam seems designed and destined to destroy everything good about modern civilization. It would require a little book learning for our culture to survive, and that’s asking too much from every important institution we have.
yohanan says
The Univ of Denver Middle Eastern studies professor calls Islamic jihadi recruitment of women a “new twist”. However, this is not new. See: Lori A. Allen. “Jihad”. In: Joseph Suad, editor, Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures: Family, Law and Politics. pp. 319-321. Leiden : Brill, 2003-2007. http://goo.gl/XMFXP4
More recent witting and unwitting female suicide bombers used by Arab terror against civilians include:
* 29 March 2002 , Ayat al-Akhras, pregnant, unwed, 17-year old blew herself up when stopped at the entrance of a supermarket in Kiryat Yoval, Jerusalem, in the 2nd Intifada. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayat_al-Akhras
* 17 April 1986, Marie Murphy, 5 month pregnant, sent ahead by her fiance Nezar Hindawi, attempted to board an El Al 747 at Heathrow with 1.5kg Semtex… http://www.shabak.gov.il/english/history/affairs/pages/anne-mariemurphycase.aspx
yohanan says
also: “Jihad Janes are new generation of Anne-Marie Murphys”. 14/03/2010. https://autonomousmind.wordpress.com/tag/law-and-order/page/2/
Beagle says
Using pregnant women as human bombs shows real commitment and can-do spirit.
Ugh.
dumbledoresarmy says
That, together with the fact that the torture and murder of pregnant non-Muslim women – often involving the ripping open of the pregnant belly – by jihadis has been very common throughout the history of jihad (as has also the cutting off of the breasts of women) tells me that at the core of Islam is nothing but a Will to Murder, Thanatos, the worship of Death, Death and more Death, an assault upon the very House of Life.
Wafa Sultan put her finger on a very important truth, when she said, in her book “A God Who Hates”, that “allah hates women”.
mariam rove says
there is no need for mental evaluation here. Anyone who converts to Islam is mentally ill. M
DP111 says
With Islami mental illness, the only workable treatement is a lobotomy.
dumbledoresarmy says
Or exorcism.
TaterSalad says
Wow! Iraq War #3 with Barack Obama as President! He told all of us that he was getting out of Iraq, Iraq was over with and won and now he is starting another war. I hear he as 2000 American combat troops in Syria & Iraq to fight these Islamic terrorists and they are all Muslims and Muslim converts! Mr. President call it what it is…………….a Muslim terrorist organization that is rich and has 20,000 fighters you let fester for over a year and did absolutely nothing but play golf!
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/09/11/Obama-Refuses-To-Use-Word-War-To-Describe-Fight-Against-Terror-Overseas
jl says
Boy, she cleaned up good.
Oliver says
(Sarcasm)- she probably converted ( 2 years ago–so somewhere around 17) becasue she could nto get a date; and was going to Turkey to go to Syria with this Tunisian guy-as he promised to mayy her– and her (in her view) one chance at snagging a guy.
The pictures of her-she is not (my view) attractive.
But, i think she should have been allwoed to go, not come back.
——————————————————————————————————
In the original JW article, it mentioned that the school (high school) she went to was willing to make ” religious” accodations for her. (She was pissing off the other girls by hogging a ladies room to pray-as I recall).
(sorry for the wording above-could nto resist).
I asked- then, never saw an answer-
WHY WAS THE SCHOOL WILLING TO MAKE SPECIAL ACCOMODATIONS?
Would they do it for Catholics? Jews ? American Indians aka Native Americans? etc?
If someone knows, answer please.
dumbledoresarmy says
I’m assuming the first photo (no hijab) is a school photo taken *before* she joined the Cult of Blood and War.
Speaking as a mother of daughters, the first photo is really not that bad (few school photos do much for the subject). And she looks a whole lot better in the first photo, than in the second – be-hijabbed – shot.
Other girls who are where she was *before* she converted, need to be warned, loud and often.
The best thing that American jihadwatchers could do for the school she went to, is to send it a set of books – to wit, Rosemary Sookhdeo’s “Stepping into the Shadows: Why Western Women Convert to Islam” (a copy should also go to the parents), and “Secrets Behind the Burqa” (a ruthlessly-truthful account of all the ways in which Islam suppresses and oppresses women and girls), together with Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s “Infidel”, Hannah Shah’s “The Imam’s Daughter” and Phyllis Chesler’s “An American Bride in Kabul”. Wafa Sultan’s “A God Who Hates” and Ibn Warraq’s two books “Why I Am Not a Muslim” and “Leaving Islam” might also be useful additions to the school library.
Here’s hoping that this foolish – and ultimately evil – young woman’s parents, family and schoolmates may happen across Jihadwatch and get a good solid dose of Reality and Awful Realization.
Wellington says
Just another loser. Well, losers and Islam are a natural for each other.
brenda says
Five years???? with a recommendation to reduce sentence? Are you kidding? She like any other person who represent a thread for my country, deserve to rot
in jail… why all those women are so desperate insane to marry killers?