We see Muslims from the U.S. and all over the West joining the Islamic State. This is because of the appeal of the idea of the caliphate — but Washington analysts are not allowed, as a matter of Obama Administration policy, to examine such matters too closely, for that could lead to “Islamophobia.”
“Two Americans charged with supporting IS,” AFP, November 25, 2014 (thanks to Block Ness):
Washington (AFP) – Two young American men, one of whom is in the Middle East fighting, have been charged with supporting the Islamic State group, the Justice Department said Tuesday.
Somali Americans Abdi Nur, 20, and Abdullahi Yusuf, 18, have been charged with “conspiracy to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, namely, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL),” Assistant Attorney General John Carlin said.
Yusuf was to appear in court Tuesday in Minneapolis, where there is a large Somali American community.
Abdi Nur, who traveled May 29 to Turkey, through which many jihadists pass en route to fight with IS, was to have returned to the United States June 16 but did not, the statement added.
“More than 16,000 recruits from over 90 countries traveled to Syria to become foreign terrorist fighters with alarming consequences,” said Carlin.
“This is a global crisis and we will continue our efforts to prevent Americans from joining the fight and to hold accountable those who provide material support to foreign terrorist organizations,” he added. “With these two defendants, we have now charged more than 15 individuals with offenses related to the foreign fighter threat in Syria.”
Yusuf in Minneapolis sought an expedited US passport for his trip to Turkey, but could not give an itinerary or explain the source of his funds for his trip, as he was unemployed, authorities said.
The Islamic State organization emerged in Syria’s war in spring 2013.
The jihadists proclaimed a “caliphate” in June after seizing swathes of Iraq and Syria.
jewdog says
The solution here is revocation of citizenship of these guys and expulsion from the country. Israel is starting to use those methods, although there is a lot of moonbat opposition, as there would be here.
mortimer says
Such psychopathic killers should be put on a Devil’s Island with no chance of parole.
Jaladhi says
Yes, they should all be sent back to their Islamic hell holes!!
KrazyKafir says
They are not Americans, they’re invaders, period.
mortimer says
“Foreign terrorist organizations” … that’s the point.
It isn’t ‘foreign’ or ‘terrorist’ to these young men because their message is FROM GOD (‘God told me to kill you’).
Without examining and studying the source texts of classical Islam, the State Department officials will ALWAYS have the wrong policies.
Gary Fouse says
This is the price we pay for the geniuses in the State Department who brought some 80,000 Somalis to the US in the 90s. The biggest “beneficiary” of this plan was Minneapolis.
Jaladhi says
Don’t call them Americans – they are Somali Muslims!! Just because Muslims are given shelter in the West by us, it doesn’t mean that they have stopped following Islam and its pillars – jihad being one them. The same goes for Muslims coming here from any other part of the world. They will all take part in jihad terrorism – staying in the West does not change them or convert them into normal human beings.
Lesson – stop all Muslim immigration into this country and offer those already here a one way ticket to Saudi Arabia – their dreamland!
Carlos Danger says
We in the Resistance need to refer to “the Caliphate” as frequently as possible and reject the use of ISIL and/or ISIS. It is a state. It has a Caliph, an army, and a foreign policy. It is the modern equivalent of Nazi Germany or Stalin’s Soviet Union. Calling it anything but the Caliphate tends to soften and blur the true nature of our mortal enemy.
Champ says
These traitors are scum …in fact islam is evil scum, too!
dumbledoresarmy says
Word to all those who’ve pointed out that these creeps are not “Americans” nor even “Somali Americans”; they are Muslims, full stop, who happen to have inveigled their way into the possession of American passports.
One of those charged, is still wallowing gleefully in the jihad bloodbath in Syria. I hope, frankly, that he meets a sticky end; then he will not be a problem to the USA or any other non-Muslim land, ever again.
And from the article: “Yusuf was to appear in court Tuesday in Minneapolis, where there is a large Somali American community.”
Translation: “Yusuf was to appear in court Tuesday in Minneapolis, where there is a large colony of ethnically-Somali Muslims”.
ACT for America and other patriot groups need to be getting hold of every immigration-law and constitutional-law boffin that they can find, to try to nut out some way of cancelling or suspending the citizenship status of Muslims such as Yusuf.
And *every* time creeps like this are arrested, would be a good time for American jihadwatchers to write to their elected representatives, *demanding* that Muslim immigration be stopped, and that Muslims already resident in the USA, but not yet citizens, should NOT be granted citizenship. Residency only; strictly on probation; if the Muslim residents commit a crime (e.g. armed robbery, welfare fraud), and/ or engages in or incites to Jihad and/ or practises or is caught advocating/ praising the practice of any one of the multiple specifically sharia-commanded-and-approved practices that violate American non-Muslim law and morality (e.g. attacks on apostates from Islam or on critics of Islam, “honor” murder, polygyny, forced and/ or child “marriage”, FGM), then…residency status will be *cancelled* and said Muslims *turfed out*.
Jas says
This is a TheyWorkForYou transcript of speeches and questions raised in the UK Parliament, it is lengthy but useful.
Motion to Approve Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2014
Moved by Lord Taylor of Holbeach (June)That the draft order laid before the House on 16 June be approved.
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?id=2014-06
19a.1008.2&s=terrorist+returning+to+uk+injured+in+foreign+conflict#g1008.4
In the previous debate, both my noble friend Lady Royall and the noble Baroness, Lady Warsi, referred to vox pop radio interviews with young British Muslims. One of the things that was very clear from those interviews—I do not know if the Minister had the benefit of hearing them—is that those young British Muslims were saying that they wanted to go and fight for British Muslims, not recognising that in Syria and other places we are talking about Muslims fighting against Muslims; they thought it was a case of Muslims fighting against the United States. While their views are sincerely held, it was clear that the factual basis on which they were making their judgments was inaccurate.
I recall engaging, as a Minister in the previous Government, with different communities and groups across the country with other ministerial colleagues as part of the Prevent programme. Could the Minister update the House, either today or in writing, on how the Prevent agenda has been updated to address the challenges that we face today and the different nature of these groups that we are seeing? Government action to tackle terrorism and recruitment has to be evident across the whole of government; it cannot be seen in isolation in the Home Office.
Jas says
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?id=2014-06-19a.1008.2&s=terrorist+returning+to+uk+injured+in+foreign+conflict#g1008.4
Sorry broken link