Yet another convert to Islam misunderstands her new, peaceful religion. Yet no mosques of Islamic schools have any programs in place to teach converts to reject this understanding of Islam that they ostensibly oppose.
“Judge Hands Down 4 Year Sentence To ‘Jihad Shannon,’” CBSDenver, January 23, 2015:
DENVER (CBS4) – An Arvada teenager who wanted to wage jihad with ISIS and move to the Middle East has been sentenced to four years in federal prison.
FBI agents caught Shannon Conley, 19, at the Denver International Airport trying to board a flight to Turkey. The teen, who has been dubbed “Jihad Shannon,” wanted to marry a Syrian man and then help with the fight against infidels.
Conley had stated plans to work as a cook or nurse’s aide at an ISIS camp after marrying a man in Syria she met online.
The FBI says they took extraordinary measures to try to get Conley to rethink those plans. They visited her often, suggested other alternatives to express her beliefs, and even asked her parents to talk her out of it.
But when that didn’t work and they caught her instead trying to board a flight to the Middle East in April to reportedly join terrorists, Conley was arrested.
She later pled guilty to conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. Conley’s lawyer said the girl was misled while exploring her faith….
By whom?
Sam says
I’d prefer that she left for Syria to join other muslims. Instead, we have to pay her room and board for four years and she will convert more people to the religion of peace.
Oliver says
I agree; and had they let her go, hopefully she would have been killed.
I had a question-if ever answered-I missed it- when she was first arrested. Her school (I think high school, not sure) went to extraordinary lengths to accommodate her religious views. My question- then and now- although that is not mentioned here– why?
Shane says
Deport here and take away her citizenship after she serves her sentence. She is a radical and a terrorist and a traitor to the USA.
Kepha says
Shane, the way US law is, we can’t take away Jihad Shannon’s citizenship, since she was born a citizen and has neither served as a foreign head of state nor occupied a policy-level position in a foreign government.
As the law stands, if you are a penniless Communist riddled with some loathsome disease, the most we can do is pull your passport (especially if you had to be repatriated to the USA on the taxpayer’s dime and couldn’t pay it back). If you want back into the USofA, we have to take you (even if you get met at the Airport by some FBI folks who take you through customs and passport control and straight to jail). That, for better or worse, is American nationality law. Personally, I would’ve loved to have seen someone like Angela Davis stripped of citizenship and told to go live in North Korea (as the Soviets did to Solzhenitsyn). But, there’s probably a lot of legal cans of worms that such a thing would open up.
Still, it’s my prayer for Jihad Shannon that she gets to think about what her experiment with Islamic “spirituality” got her into, and might be called to faith in Christ–although I am painfully aware that prisons, far from being “penitentiaries”, are indeed universities of crime. I’m thankful for her family’s sake that she didn’t get her dream of going to the Middle East to fight for IS. I’m also thankful that her classmates are getting an object lesson in what can happen to them should they fall in with the wrong crowd. Perhaps as well there is, in this deluded girl’s school, a future leader who is recognizing that this is what America gets for its arrogant exorcizing of the Christian God from public life (including schools).
Perhaps Jihad Shannon is the sort of person who will learn only by experience, and that perhaps the best thing that might have happened to her would have been to have been raped by one of her fellow jihadis, or gotten a leg or arm shot off by some Kurdish militiaman or Israeli soldier–or even to fall into the hands of the HizbulEblis or Iranian forces and find a big international tiff over getting her released (much abuse later). But I don’t know that.
Sure, I’m well aware that there are incorrigible teens, and I can even understand a teen drawing the death penalty in certain crimes. But if there is hope for someone, I will embrace it.
Don McKellar says
WELL ISN’T THAT THE TRUTH!
Please, those who voice their opinions the loudest on these issues — and I’m talking to the informed, educated voicers of Jihad Watch who actually know what they’re talking about, based on facts — please, please make it clear that the smartest way to deal with such retarded moslems is to LET THEM GO! And then seal the border on them by doing what Sen, Cruz has put forward as law so that THE CRASY BITCH MAY NOT RETURN TO THE UNITED STATES.
The fortunes that will be saved are considerable, in case after cae, by NOT letting them slink back to collect welfare, launch homemade terror and murder plots in the name of Islam, et al, et al.
THINK ABOUT IT. TAKE ACTION.
Alissa says
Yes agreed but still she is very young and irrational. It makes me sad but she has to be dealt with. We need massive educaction programs targeted at our youth. There are millions of lost and aimless youth out there bouncing around from one idiotic social trend to another who are easy prey for muslims. As well, many schools have included islamic proselytizing in their curriculums. We need to counter the muslim brotherhood mandate by taking action EVERY DAY…talking about this to everyone we know in our networks, wearing loged t-shirts, holding casual gatherings with friends and family, writing letters to newspapers, etc. We all have to do our part every day to further the cause. The best demographic to make the biggest organized effort are the retired men and women in North America and Europe because they aren’t working and don’t have jobs to jeopardize, however, everyone who knows the truth must get out there and take this on as a project.
We need a social revolution.
Jay Boo says
Justin says
“both (Catholics & Protestants) God is confined in a tiny rational secular box and Christianity is limited to attending churches on Sundays”
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For Justin to paint all Catholics & Protestants with such a broad brush leads me to believe that his motive here is that of a troll, especially considering many of his other divisive comments such as LGBT nonsense. Proverbs says that one of the things that God hates is those who sow division amongst the brethren.
Justin is begging to sound like a polished version of the foul mouthed troll Ismail.
Jay Boo says
@Justin
Nice try at attempting to stick those shallow attributes my way.
Very clever of you to avoid mentioning your divisive mischief about (Catholics & Protestants)
Of course the real problem with Islam is not Catholics & Protestants or even materialistic Westerners or LGBT that you repeatedly bring up time and again. The REAL problem with Islam is that it is an excuse to commit shameful behavior by using the example of Muhammad as a guide to rationalize the most beastly of behavior.
Muslims and converts fall into Muhammad’s stinky cesspit and then wish to entice other weak minded people to share in their misery.
Jen says
I understand what you’re saying Justin and I agree that religion plays a greater role in many non-western societies in general terms, but I would also include the Catholics within all these countries as well. Many are Catholic rites and churches, with a different name.
“There are three major groupings of Rites based on this initial transmission of the faith, the Roman, the Antiochian (Syria) and the Alexandrian (Egypt). Later on the Byzantine derived as a major Rite from the Antiochian, under the influence of St. Basil and St. John Chrysostom. From these four derive the over 20 liturgical Rites present in the Church today.”
A sample includes: “Maronites (3 million Maronites are found in Lebanon [origin], Cyprus, Egypt, Syria, Israel, Canada, US, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Australia), Syriac Catholics (The 110,000 Syriac Catholics are found in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt, Canada and the US), Chaldeans (310,000 Chaldean Catholics are found in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Turkey and the US), Melkites (over 1 million Melkite Catholics can be found in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Canada, US, Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina and Australia). Coptic – Egyptian Catholics who returned to communion with Rome in 1741. The Patriarch of Alexandria leads the 200,000 faithful of this ritual Church spread throughout Egypt and the Near East. Ethiopian Coptic Christians who returned to Rome in 1846. The liturgical language is Geez. The 200,000 faithful are found in Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, and Jerusalem.”
https://www.ewtn.com/expert/answers/catholic_rites_and_churches.htm
Jen says
Religion with tradition intertwined, is what I’m emphasising Justin, which Orthodox also shares. Tradition is not seen as a bad thing as many may say in western societies, and where people say that Catholics (or Orthodox) are “caught up” in tradition. More recent missionaries, especially from western societies spread the idea that it was a bad thing and that’s why in certain branches of my non-western family there was a small departing from Christianity with tradition, but I don’t find that they themselves are as critical as Protestanism is of these aspects (the version found in the west). It’s an exporting of values from Protestanism which makes people think tradition shouldn’t be appreciated and celebrated and that you must follow a stripped back version to worship. Nope. We do it the OLD(er) fashioned way, and we like it!
Jen says
Yes, I knew you were only generalising, Justin; to make a point. Just wanted to give a sample of other Catholics which many aren’t aware are Catholics, but are simply referred to as Christians; which of course they are. But yes, I agree that more Catholics should take their faith more seriously and read the history/teachings behind it before deciding to cast it aside so easily.
Jay Boo says
Justin is merely trying to foster division
Jen so sorry to see that you have been taken in by Justin’s bait.
Notice how cleverly Justin takes a back step and tries to focus on one group when
he says, that he (“was generalizing, trying to target Western Roman Catholics”)
He also said above that he “has nothing but great respect for all those traditional Eastern Rate Catholics” and — elsewhere — that he was an Eastern Rate Catholic yet that is not supported by this supposedly pious Christian’s vindictive sick trash about saying that young Colorado girl who tried become a Muslim “should be raped to death”
Justin is a sick minded troll.
Jay Boo says
Here is the link to Justin’s sick mindset
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/01/colorado-muslima-jailed-for-plot-to-join-islamic-state-says-she-is-servant-of-allah-jihad-must-be-waged-to-protect-muslim-nations/comment-page-1#comment-1186024
Jen says
I can look after myself thanks, Jay Boo.
Keith Lehman says
Good point. She should lose citizenship and be sent to Arabian Peninsula. Better to pay for her airfare then support her for four years.
Angemon says
And what happens after she does her time? Does she goes back being a typical american? Is there any plan to explain her, while she’s in prison, how she was “misled” and that islam does teach peace and equality of all before God and the law?
Oliver says
Angemon- of course not.
That would be interfering with her religious beliefs and ISLAM-PHOBIC.
Keith Lehman says
Yes, stupid idea of the feds … many Islamic Jihad converts are occuring in prisons. Best to take away her US citizenship and give her a one-way ticket to Syria. On the other hand, she will just propagate more Islamic maniacs. The feds (and the Progressives who operate our government and political correctness police) no longer have a clue just what treason is. Most are afraid to even mention the word.
Oliver says
Keith L– many years ago, when I was a teen, there was (at least amongst conservatives in New York, where I lived then: ‘ NONE DARE CALL IT TREASON- WHAT IS THE REASON”.
i don’t recall the author. it was about the liberal/progressives of the day, and their appeasement to the USSR.
but (cannot find my 40+ year old copy) same applies to Islam and the same mindset intellectual assholes/liberals/progressives.
Mirren10 says
” … many years ago, when I was a teen, there was (at least amongst conservatives in New York, where I lived then: ‘ NONE DARE CALL IT TREASON- WHAT IS THE REASON”.
i don’t recall the author. it was about the liberal/progressives of the day, and their appeasement to the USSR.”
I think you’re referring to the epigram coined by Sir John Harington. godson to Queen Elizabeth the 1st.
”Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.” Epigrams, Book iv, Epistle 5.
Harington, by the way, also invented the first flushing loo, *not* Thomas Crapper ! 🙂
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cs says
Let her go, and never come back.
Peggy says
Isn’t this proof that these Jihadists are not Muslims who feel like they don’t fit in because we are Islamophobic?
she grew up white and in a Christian family. She wasn’t shunned. So what made her become a radical Muslim?
Rhonda says
Loneliness and the feeling that she was going to do something important. She probably has no self esteem. She has no idea what she was getting into. I agree, though, that if people sit her down and tell her the truth, and she still wants to go, let her go and don’t let her back in.
Savant says
Girls with low self esteem are generally the spawn of emasculated men; otherwise known as paternal spiritual abandonment.
That is the problem the world over, emasculated men, or socio-sexually-subverted men/ spiritually un-emancipated men.
This world can only offer VAGINAL birth and DEATH. Obviously ISIS has the power of death in their hands. They must be the real men.
What more could an ignorant un-affirmed waif ask for than to be dominated by a mighty man of war.
A far cry from her pussy whipped wimp of a father.
cs says
Unfortunately you are right. Low self esteem, abusive paternal relationship, finding a copy of that on a male or on a State. Reproducing the system she found at home.
boakai ngombu says
Savant (as in ISIL, perhaps?)
due to the fact you follow Muhammad (lately contrived; full of lusts) you show forth your manhood readily, but a man is far more the example of manhood you follow (pedophile, adulterer. rapist, murderer, thief).
and woman is affirmed by much more than pregnancy and childrearing.
the Creator has intended, as well, that there be something new in the world which you do not know; your knowledge is limited. the “noble” Koran (the shepherd of the umma) has mislead you, being a false guide, unable to save your soul.
citycat says
Action now
The cannons of truth must blast open the vault of tortured souls, ie, Allah
Matthieu Baudin says
Well said everyone. Time to show clarity and resolve. If she has been conspiring with Isis then she should have been charged at the beginning when she took steps to support a banned terrorist group. If she leaves the country to join or help Isis or any other registered terrorist organisation then her passport should be cancelled with the intention that she doesn’t return. If she had been born overseas then her citizenship or residency should be annulled. Looking ahead, it may be necessary to consider cancelling the citizenship of first generation nationals who join or support Jihadi terrorist groups if this option is constitutionally viable.
No Fear says
“Conley’s lawyer said the girl was misled while exploring her faith….”
She read the manifesto of gangster Mohammed. That is where the problem began.
Rhazes says
This woman thinks its ok to rape and behead women and children. If she made it to ISIS they would have her managing 100s of sex slaves every day. 4 years is nothing, especially in a prison full of Muslims that will treat her like a hero.
Life in prison or execute her for being a traitor.
Salah says
“An Arvada teenager who wanted to wage jihad with ISIS and…”
She didn’t want to wage jihad, she wanted to wage “Sex jihad.”
True Muslims are willing to give up everything, even their lives, for SEX.
Without the perverted SEX (polygamy, 72 virgins, boys of everlasting youth, sex-slaves, pleasure marriage, paedophilia, necrophilia, bestiality, incest, adult breastfeeding, etc.) Islam has NOTHING to offer to his gullible perverted followers.
Not here, not in the hereafter.
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/03/necrophilia-in-islam-necrophilie-en.html
katnis says
She looks terrified and she should be.
IMHO, four years is nothing. Prison won’t reform her. What a waste of time and money. Also, I agree with the other commenters. The FBI should have let her go, revoked her passport, and forbid her to return to the US.
Cate says
The thing the article does NOT tell, is the open letter that her parents wrote — to the President and the American people. Here’s the letter http://www.shannonmaureenconley.info/
What is it with parents that cannot fathom their own children might actually be capable of evil? I know the area of town and the church VERY well that Shannon set her sights on. It wasn’t like her Jihad-Jane attitude just came on all of a sudden. I guess her parents have very short memories because she was hanging around the church for months, making people very uncomfortable. And maybe her parents thought it was a-okay when Shannon told an FBI agent that she hated the people at the church because of their support for Israel, and said “if they think I’m a terrorist, I’ll give them something to think I am.” She shouldn’t have gotten 4 years, she should have gotten 10.
Mirren10 says
‘What is it with parents that cannot fathom their own children might actually be capable of evil? ”
It’s a sad letter, chock full of denial, from parents who cannot bear to accept what their daughter has done.
I don’t know if you’re a parent, but speaking as one, I, personally, would find it horrendously difficult to unilaterally condemn my daughter, if she suddenly went insane and converted to islam.
Love for a child is generally unconditional. That said, I can honestly say if *my* child ever did anything so insane and wicked, I would wholly condemn her actions and behaviour, whilst continuing to love her.
jay says
So does being a muslim lower your magic defense stats and you have a 80% weakness to jihadi enchantment spells? These poor people, someone should help them get a jihad blocking accessory since they are so helpless and targeted by this evil sorcery.
The renegade says
Letting her go and kill herself will not prevent the problem from occurring again. Please understand this person was a normal person like you and me who tasted the poison of Islam and wants to keep drinking it until it ultimately kills her soul and mind.
Killing a person won’t kill an idea and as Sam Harris pointed out, Islam is the mother load of bad ideas. Propaganda and information war will destroy Islam, war on terror and killing Muslims isn’t going to destroy Islam it is only going to strengthen it.
That being said we must defend our way of life the best way we can.
We need to fight the ideology, you can reason with a person and change the person but you can reason with a bad idea. The only way an idea / ideology can be destroyed is by challenging it and proving how destructive / counter productive it is to a person’s well being and that it is false and there are better ideas out their.
You cannot destroy a Computer virus by destroying the hardware as this virus may have infected other machines, you attack the software with an anti virus and cure it so that you can use the computer again.
Refer Egyptian president El Sisi’s speech, there are many like him, but they are afraid to stand up and challenge this ideology.
Europe broke free from the clutches of the church by standing up against them and saying no we won’t follow you and taking away their power.
Spartacus fought against roman rule to free the slaves and ultimately led it to its demise. He challenged an idea and then fought for it.
Islam is enslavement and is a virus in the otherwise normal human mind that is free. People follow Islam because they believe it to be word of god, we must prove that it is not word of god but it is the LIE of a power hungry and attention grabbing war lord named Muhammad.
Will to live a life that is free is stronger than will to be subdued by Islam, this ‘human will’ that is embedded within each of us needs go be woken and set free.
VictorMc says
Only 4 lousy years the b*tch will be out in 2 living in some decent hotel that most of us would die for. Fed and watered at taxpayer’s expense.
Ross says
I agree completely. Out in two years or less.
Let them go and close the door behind them. They can pay the price in Syria or wherever they choose to go, be it gang-rape, injury, death, or whatever the “peace-lovers” choose to do to her.
I don’t want to feed her.
Oliver says
Out in two. I am not sure about now, but in the past ( 1980’s or so) Federal time was 70-80% before out, unless agreed to be deported. (That was, anyhow, in Federal prisons for drug importing and major dealings). I would think probably the same now.
roger says
Conley’s lawyer said the girl was “misled while exploring her faith”….
Whilst exploring her faith she was misled by the Koran.
duh_swami says
Believing Allah is God effects the deepest levels of those who have no shields up. Allah running rampant and unrestrained in the human mind, destroys intelligence by reducing it to low level clever. It removes the barriers to the ‘monsters of the Id’ that rise to the top and express themselves by violence.
Only the self enlightenment of apostasy can fix that. I’m not so sure this girl is up to that task, so long term confinement with no Islamic perks is what is left…She should go to a mental hospital because there is no sentence to serve, as long as she continues to present a danger to herself, others, or the public, she would get to stay.
Angry says
Another lefty convert to jihad, what a surprise!
I do hope she’s beaten severely on a daily basis while stuck inside her hell hole; and then expelled from the USA to a middle eastern shithole; if she makes it out alive from her incarceration.
Jay Boo says
She looks very depressed in the photo.
She must have thought that she would find elusive happiness in Syria or at least be able to escape the depressive effects of Islam’s emptiness through a jihad death over there.
It is surprising that more Muslims don’t seek to escape Islam’s misery this way.
Islam is about duty not happiness.
No wonder that Muhammad had such temper tantrum fits and was so suicidal.
Angry says
All muslima’s look miserable and depressed. Maybe it’s due to their arranged husbands, uncles and fathers beating them and raping them on a regular basis when they were prepubescent (thighing).
We don’t know what goes on behind closed doors in muslim families; and only portray a smile now and again in public so not to arose suspicion.
I’m not defending muslima’s while ever they remain silent about the abuse they have faced, and still face in marriage. They need to speak out, reject islam and those brothers who have treated them like shite in the name of islam, and their false prophet; aka The Great Pretender.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
She do maybe a couple of years, and then, as a convicted felon, will fall into poverty and become a ward of the welfare state.
It would make more sense to order her to go on a speaking tour throughout the state wherein she renounces specified facts in the Holy Ko-Ran, the Hah-Deaths and the Sharia. If she obeyed, she could stay in her apartment wearing an ankle bracelet and making secret calls on her tapped phones.
True, there would be protests against her forced speaking tour, and the usual rash of stabbings and exploding bombs on the Infidels with the courage to show up to hear her, but this punishment would be cost effective and highly profitable. A society profits by the truth; we’re pretty much broke now.
Ken Wortman says
It is amazing that she was not tried for treason. She got off easy with 4 years at taxpayers expense. She should have been convicted and hung by the neck til dead. We need to make examples of these traitors. I truly do not understand their stupidity of these people. May she enjoy her time in prison.
Vatandas says
This is stupid. Let her go but don’t let her come back. Four years in prison won’t change her ideology.