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Chicago: Muslim who tried to join Islamic State told parents he had to because caliphate had been established

Oct 6, 2014 8:42 pm By Robert Spencer

mohammed-hamzah-khanMohammed Hamza Khan “allegedly wrote he feels an obligation to migrate to the region now that the Islamic State has ‘been established,’ referring to the terrorist group’s self-declared caliphate.” As I have said many times here lately, the idea of the caliphate looms large in the consciousness of many Muslims. It is what makes the Islamic State so attractive, and is why so many Muslims from the West have gone to join it.

The photo of Mohammed Hamzah Khan, according to the New York Daily News, is from his Facebook page. But I couldn’t find the page at Facebook. It is very likely that authorities, as always trying to downplay and deny the Islamic aspects of jihad terror activity, don’t want another embarrassing challenge to their narrative — as they just suffered with Oklahoma beheader Jah’Keem Yisrael, whose Facebook page made a mockery of their “workplace violence” claim.

An update on this story. “Illinois man busted trying to join ISIS left letter behind for parents: FBI,” by Michael Walsh, New York Daily News, October 6, 2014 (thanks to Jerk Chicken):

A suburban Chicago man was charged Monday with attempting to travel overseas to join the Islamic State.

Mohammed Hamzah Khan, 19, of Bolingbrook, was arrested without incident at O’Hare International Airport after being questioned by FBI agents Saturday.

The alleged wannabe terrorist left behind a three-page letter for his parents explaining his actions, according to the criminal affidavit.

“My dear parents, there are a number of reasons I will be going to the blessed land of Shaam (another name for Syria) and leaving my home,” the letter reads.

He allegedly wrote he feels an obligation to migrate to the region now that the Islamic State has “been established,” referring to the terrorist group’s self-declared caliphate.

Khan also raged against what he considered the decline of western societies, the affidavit said.

“We are all witness that the western societies are getting more immoral day by day. I do not want my kids being exposed to filth like this,” he wrote, according to the FBI.

The letter was signed “Your loving son, Hamza (Khan’s middle name.)”…

Here is a photo of Hamza’s parents. How shocked and saddened do you think they are that he tried to join the Islamic State? Do you think he might have learned his understanding of Islam, or much of it, at home? Do you think the apple has fallen far from the tree?

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  1. Wolfgang says

    Oct 6, 2014 at 9:03 pm

    nope the apple has not fallen far from the tree…….seems to me the apple tree is rotten to begin with……..like any rotten tree I find it needs to be cut down and burned in a hot fire ( Jesus say’s that that also…….funny that )

    Matthew 7:19

    18″A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit. 19″Every tree that does not bear GOOD fruit is CUT DOWN and THROWN INTO THE FIRE . 20″So then, you will know them by their fruits.…

    • Jerry says

      Oct 7, 2014 at 4:36 am

      In this case it is more likely that the …. does not fall far from the pig’s behind.

  2. Beagle says

    Oct 6, 2014 at 9:05 pm

    The media always uses “self-declared” caliphate as if somehow there should have been an election.

    Newsflash: caliphs are always established through dynastic succession, combat, or some sort of loya jirga. Maybe the Ottomans had an orderly transition, not sure.

    The original Abu Bakr, the first “Rightly-Guided Caliph” accepted by Sunnis, favored by the modern Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi of IS, took power after Muhammad and began waging war against disobedient Muslims who refused to pay him zakat. Along the way he slaughtered and enslaved many non-Muslims. Sound familiar?

    • Beagle says

      Oct 6, 2014 at 9:14 pm

      Shura is the Arab version of the loya jirga.

  3. Jen says

    Oct 6, 2014 at 9:10 pm

    Muslims are a joke. Talking about immorality in our western societies, meanwhile cutting heads off, and raping and enslaving people daily all across the globe. None of that is immoral so long as Muslims are doing it to non-Muslims right?

  4. pumbar says

    Oct 6, 2014 at 10:57 pm

    Which one is the father?

  5. Wtf? says

    Oct 7, 2014 at 2:32 am

    Have a look at them! Let him go prepare a home and get Mum, Dad and the whole Clampett clan over there (Apologies to Jed , Granny , Jethro and Ellie- May). Then find his first cousin,marry her,and have a string of genetically disabled children. Please let them go.

  6. DiMu says

    Oct 7, 2014 at 9:57 am

    And our taxes have to support b. st…ds like him through his schooling and health and a million other ways!

    And our morality is declining because it doesn’t include hating, beheading, enslaving and raping people.

    A bullet through such a psychotic brain is the only answer. There is no other remedy. The mad prophet is infecting them all his followers with a mental ebola.

  7. gravenimage says

    Oct 7, 2014 at 10:40 pm

    Chicago: Muslim who tried to join Islamic State told parents he had to because caliphate had been established
    …………………….

    Amazing how many pious Muslims recognize the sanguinary horror of the Islamic State as the Caliphate—it is exactly as a Shari’ah state should be.

    And yes—mom and dad look plenty Islamic themselves—how long would it have been before they’d be off to Mosul to join sonny boy?

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