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Minnesota Muslim pleads guilty to trying to join the Islamic State

Feb 27, 2015 11:48 am By Robert Spencer

abdullahi-yusufIf only he had been able to join a Google Hangout with non-Muslim teens, this could have been avoided!

“Yusuf said he attended meetings in Minnesota last March and April in which participants discussed fighting.” Where were those meetings held? Who else attended? What are those people doing now? Is the FBI in Minnesota on this, or are agents too busy with outreach to Muslim communities to bother with such trifles?

“Minn. teen pleads guilty to trying to support terrorism,” Associated Press, February 26, 2015:

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota teenager who had been stopped at the airport as he was trying to travel to Syria pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.

Abdullahi Mohamud Yusuf, 18, admitted in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis that he had intended to go to Syria last May to join the Islamic State group. He faces a maximum of 15 years in prison. No sentencing date has been set.

Authorities say a handful of Minnesota residents have traveled to Syria to fight with militants in the last year. At least one Minnesotan has died there. In addition, at least 22 young Somali men have traveled from Minnesota to Somalia since 2007 to join the terrorist group al-Shabab.

Yusuf admitted in court that he learned about people who had traveled or wanted to travel to Syria to fight against the regime of President Bashar Assad. Yusuf said he attended meetings in Minnesota last March and April in which participants discussed fighting.

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Filed Under: American jihadis, Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh) Tagged With: Abdullahi Mohamud Yusuf, Minneapolis, minnesota


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  1. ConnectingDots says

    Feb 27, 2015 at 11:53 am

    President Obama,

    If you had a son, would he look like Abdullahi Mohamud Yusuf?

    If not, why not?

    Discuss.

    • Spot On says

      Feb 27, 2015 at 1:04 pm

      That is B.O.’s line. He is the only one allowed to say that.

      • Jay Boo says

        Feb 27, 2015 at 2:03 pm

        Thanks for that reminder about B.O. Spot On
        At first glance ConnectingDots comment might appear to be racist out of context except for Obama had said something very similar so I guess that means Obama must surely be a racist.

        • Spot On says

          Feb 27, 2015 at 2:12 pm

          Only Al Sharpton knows who is racist and who ain’t. He is B.O.’s close consultant on who is and who ain’t.

        • Jay Boo says

          Feb 27, 2015 at 2:29 pm

          @Spot On
          Good point.
          Having someone like Al Sharpton as a close consultant does say a lot about Obama.

  2. Jeff says

    Feb 27, 2015 at 12:17 pm

    DHS need to start sending a lot of these Somalis back to Somalia.

    • mortimer says

      Feb 27, 2015 at 3:10 pm

      Turn off the tap. Stop bringing the jihad problem in.

    • SpiritOf1683 says

      Feb 27, 2015 at 5:20 pm

      They’d rather send Polish Christian girls back to Poland, even when her parents are US citizens and she has been schooled in the US, than send Somali wannabe Jihadis back to Somalia.

  3. Jaladhi says

    Feb 27, 2015 at 12:27 pm

    Invite Muslims to your country at your own risk!!

    • mortimer says

      Feb 27, 2015 at 3:14 pm

      The risk of jihad is high, the incompatibility of cultures is unresolvable, and the increased cost of security is DAMNABLE.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Feb 27, 2015 at 3:31 pm

      In truth they are not invited: they are inflicted.

  4. Angemon says

    Feb 27, 2015 at 12:46 pm

    How long until Al Sharpton brges in and shouts “RACISM!!!”?

    Oh, wait, is there any money to be made in this case?

    • mariam rove says

      Feb 27, 2015 at 1:10 pm

      In this case, it will not be Al Sharpton rather Keith Ellison the beloved Muslim congressman. m

  5. Beagle says

    Feb 27, 2015 at 12:50 pm

    A Minnesota teenager plotted jihad against us?! Why does Minnesota hate us?

    • JMB says

      Feb 27, 2015 at 3:57 pm

      This now 18 year old was possibly one of hundreds of Somali babies adopted by well meaning but totally misguided Minnesota couples. They probably thought that if they could get this child away from his war torn Islamic hell hole and give him a good start in life he would turn out just like us. Perhaps he would grow to be a well adjusted, well educated Christian adult. Sorry, it does not work out that way. He was probably a cute little “talking pet” to begin with, but not for long.
      Yes, the people of Minnesota do have a lot to answer for with there Somali Adoption Schemes.

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Feb 27, 2015 at 4:12 pm

      Why does Minnesota hate us?

      Minnesota hates freedom is why. The Nordic tendency has always been for big centralized welfare gubmint, and with each dollar coming in a freedom must go out… to a bureaucrat and his salary, which is high. So Minnesotans love the socialism that conditioned them to embrace Moslems, who in turn hate America for not being Moslem like them. Complicated, but simple.

      In case you need more info, there are several Somali leaders on the public payroll paid to fret in the local newspaper about how they can’t understand why Somali boys keep going to the Horn and the Levant to kill Infidels. One of the MN mujahidin bragged publicly that he had sired 19 children before he left to Syria. Those 19 are on the public dole, of course, which reinforces the Nordic sensibility for big central wealth transfer gubmint, and their love for highly paid obdurate bureaucrats. Complicated, but simple.

  6. The Doctor says

    Feb 27, 2015 at 1:01 pm

    I find it interesting that the article does not mention if he is an immigrant or if he was born in the USA. If he’s an immigrant and not a citizen, then the answer is simple: deport him and bar him from ever returning to the USA.

    If he’s a citizen, then 15 years in jail (the maximum sentence) should be invoked without chance of parole. We should take an Austria approach and prohibit Islamic preaching in any language other than English in our prisons.

    And look at that photo – his eyes are soulless. If I didn’t know that undead do not exist, I’d swear he was undead. The more devout the Muslim, the more like undead they look, especially the eyes. Has anyone else noticed that?

    • Jay Boo says

      Feb 27, 2015 at 2:24 pm

      Flush.
      Let’s clean the sandy shores from the dogma scum with a riptide of truth and flush Islam’s rat rage scourge out to sea.

  7. PRCS says

    Feb 27, 2015 at 1:11 pm

    “in which participants discussed fighting”

    The most important follow up question to that is: if specific passages from Qur’an were cited by those who ‘radicalized’ him, and if so, which ones?

    If that is the case (can there be any doubt) and he publicly states which passages were used, will ‘news’ outlets report what he says–or will they refuse to do so?

    And what did dear ol’ mom and dad teach him about Islam? And will they claim that Islam ‘is a religion of peace’, that he got it all wrong, that he is perverting Islam and call him ‘a disgrace to the family’?

    Have Somalis in Minnesota already expressed fears of ‘backlash’, and if they do will ‘news’ folks report the VERY unlikely possibility of such?

    Etc.

  8. Bezelel says

    Feb 27, 2015 at 1:25 pm

    Why not charge him with treason? He is a traitor. 15yrs of prison will not rehabilitate him. It will keep him from attacking civilization for as long as he is confined and not one minute longer.

  9. Jay Boo says

    Feb 27, 2015 at 2:08 pm

    Another example of Islam psychopath 101

    His example, Muhammad could never care about you or me.
    Why don’t Muslims see MO’s psychopathy?
    The self-righteous psychopath can’t feel as others bleed.
    A psychopath has neither heart nor soul.
    The psychopath shamelessly ingratiates with tainted bait by seeking empathy and then cuts your throat while pleading “pity poor me.”

    Muhammad came to seduce, kill, and steal. A psychopath can’t feel.
    This beast came only to feed.
    He came to make us all his meal.

  10. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Feb 27, 2015 at 4:05 pm

    Is the FBI in Minnesota on this, or are agents too busy with outreach to Muslim communities to bother with such trifles?

    Fraud, Minnesota style is too busy.

    Too busy. Just like they were too busy to check into the shocking finding that only 20% of Moslems allowed into the country as a relative of a legal Moslem were actually that, the rest weren’t relatives, except maybe as a member of the same tribe. Many of these fake relative “refugees,” who number in the hundreds of thousands, are Somali, and have been allowed to pursue the U.S. citizenship track even though their presence here was based on a fraud.

    Too busy to investigate fraud. Solid globo-socialist (aka Democratic) voters. Multicultural diverse. Fox RINO and the other channels were, and still are, too busy to even report this fraud, which might prompt the somnolent FBI to investigate and prosecute the fraud, cuz that would entail many deportations of solid Democratic voters multicultural diverse “refugees.”

  11. RG says

    Feb 27, 2015 at 5:14 pm

    Can anyone deny that these jihadi wannabees always look lifeless and hopeless — tells me all I want to know about useless islam!!!

  12. cs says

    Feb 27, 2015 at 8:35 pm

    I have a question:
    Does some or most American black people who converted to Islam, did so in order to acquire an ideology who would take revenge for the hardship they had in the past? Is there any study about this? Thanks.

  13. Ed says

    Feb 27, 2015 at 11:44 pm

    Let their people go!!! Make sure scumbag he doesn’t come back

  14. Ephesian says

    Feb 28, 2015 at 11:48 am

    Great! Why not let him go,but don’t let him back,it’s really that simple.All security needs to be on it’s toes 24hrs a day,do their jobs properly.What the hell is wrong with this inbred’s eyes? They say the eyes are the window to the soul,and can’t you just see who his saviour is? Satan.

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