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California Muslim accused of trying to join the Islamic State: “Je suie Al-Qaeda”

Mar 22, 2015 7:13 pm By Robert Spencer

Adam DandachHe meant “je suis al-Qaeda,” of course, but you can surely pardon him for falling behind a bit on his French while studying jihad mass murder and vers libre. Note that he doesn’t seem to be aware of the great schism between al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, which the mainstream analysts assure us is going to collapse the jihad movement from within any day now.

“California Man Facing Terrorism Charge Writes to Newspaper,” Associated Press, March 22, 2015:

A 21-year-old Southern California man accused of trying to join the Islamic State group vowed revenge and identified with the Charlie Hebdo massacre in France in a series of writings to a newspaper.

Adam Dandach, who pleaded not guilty last week to attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist group and other charges, sent four letters and two poems from jail to the Orange County Register ( http://bit.ly/1Ony7es ).

A poem titled “The Price of Freedom of Speech” ends, “Rot in a grave of fire, right where you belong. / Je suie Al-Qaeda, leaving another scar.” The faulty French is a play on the slogan, “I Am Charlie,” adopted by supporters of the French newspaper that was attacked in January, resulting in 12 deaths.

Dandach wrote the poem — told from the perspective of two brothers in the attack — three days after the killings. He said he felt no sympathy for the dead and wouldn’t condemn the assailants, though he added that his comments didn’t mean he would carry out the attack himself and that the poem didn’t necessarily reflect his personal opinion.

A poem that runs more than two typed pages reads, “Oh, you hateful fiends! / Know that revenge will come / You’re standing in front of the One (God) / A punishment in a fiery sea / Of carnage and blazing agony”

He continues, “I live my life alone; nobody sees my tears. / I’m a stranger here; my pleas fall on deaf ears.”

Dandach first wrote the Register in October after a reporter contacted him and his mother. In January, he sent an untitled poem that he described as an “explanation of my unfortunate situation, a message to my oppressors, a prayer and a call to the Muslim nation.”

The graduate of El Modena High School in Orange wrote that he hoped to reach out to “those who still carry a conscience in a society where having a conscience is seen as weak and naive.”

Dandach’s attorney Pal Lengyel-Leahu declined to discuss the content of the poems and questioned their authenticity. He said publishing them is akin to trying Dandach in the newspaper.

“He’s just a kid. He’s in way over his head,” Lengyel-Leahu said. “He’s actually a decent person.”

I’m sure he’s a decent fellow.

The community college student was detained in July as he prepared to board a plane bound for Turkey. Authorities say he wanted to slip into Syria to join the Islamic State. A trial is scheduled for June….

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  1. Michael Copeland says

    Mar 22, 2015 at 7:59 pm

    The Charlie Hebdo attack had nothing to do with Islam: Francois Hollande said so. He had not looked at Islamic law.
    “To revile Allah or His messenger”, says the Manual of Islamic Law, “Reliance of the Traveller”, is an act that calls for death (o8.7(4), o8.0). Anyone is entitled to perform the killing, free of penalty, “since it is killing someone who deserves to die” (o8.4).
    The Manual is available as a free download.
    http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/news-libertygb/6721-charlie-hebdo-massacre-france-s-pearl-harbor

  2. Jay Boo says

    Mar 22, 2015 at 8:11 pm

    Another “Come to Muhammad moment” gone haywire.

    Down by the Cross Roads
    walking side by side with the Devil
    another follower took a sharia path straight to hell.

    Down by the Cross Roads
    MO sold his tainted soul and fell.

  3. PJG says

    Mar 22, 2015 at 8:19 pm

    The good old days of the Prophet appear to be back again. Why, it’s as if he were here agaiin in person, sucking blokes in with his appeal to the worst in men’s nature.
    Fighting, sex and booty.
    The odd thing is that girls are joining in…but I guess that with Western education, girls are forgetting they are girls anyway; they can do what men can, can’t they?

  4. Westman says

    Mar 22, 2015 at 9:07 pm

    “Je Suie” translates to “I soot”. A Freudian Slip from the darkside?

    Another confluence of a youth looking for a cause and a sinister cause looking for a youth. “Come to the Web Hotel”, said the spider, “You will belong here. You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave.”

  5. Linde Barrera says

    Mar 22, 2015 at 10:29 pm

    Jay Boo and Westman,I love your poetic imageries. Too bad the subject matter is anything but romantic.

  6. Joseph says

    Mar 22, 2015 at 10:31 pm

    “He’s just a kid. He’s in way over his head,” Lengyel-Leahu said. “He’s actually a decent person.”

    OK then all is forgiven…..BULLSHIT
    He is an adult with murder on his mind. Not only murder but torture pillage and rape…ALLEGEDLY.
    He was also(allegedly) caught trying to provide material support.

    Throw the book at him, let him rot.

    The Alaskan coast has many small uninhabited islands that would be perfect for the likes of him and his kind. Build some houses there, then drop off ALL of these goat pokers there. This might save the American tax payers some money. How about having an international island where we could send ALL of these lovers of peace. Airdrop food and medical supplies. The world does not need his kind walking among us.

  7. ECAW says

    Mar 23, 2015 at 3:02 am

    “He said he felt no sympathy for the dead and wouldn’t condemn the assailants, though he added that his comments didn’t mean he would carry out the attack himself”

    OK, so a moderate Muslim then.

  8. duh_swami says

    Mar 23, 2015 at 3:53 am

    “He’s just a kid. He’s in way over his head,” Lengyel-Leahu said. “He’s actually a decent person.”

    They always say that no matter how depraved the little savage is…

  9. VictorMc says

    Mar 23, 2015 at 4:52 am

    Once a half-wit always a half-wit. Kick him out for treason.

  10. Joe Shmo says

    Mar 23, 2015 at 9:28 am

    “I live my life alone; nobody sees my tears. / I’m a stranger here; my pleas fall on deaf ears.”

    Always the same question, is it possible to separate the art from the artist?

  11. Jack Gordon says

    Mar 23, 2015 at 10:15 am

    I think the little punk meant to write “Je sue”, I sweat. Because that’s what jihadism is, in fact, a product of the glands rather than of the brain. Or perhaps in some cases it’s a product of the bladder rather than the brains, or even the bowels. At any rate, it’s never a real brain that comes up with this crap.

  12. PRCS says

    Mar 23, 2015 at 4:45 pm

    Where the problem begins:

    His dear Mom, Sawsan Ghannoum, stated that, ” her son is innocent and that he’s being detained because he’s Muslim.”

    Yet, she hid his passport and money to keep him from traveling overseas. But, did she alert appropriate authorities about her concerns?

    What did Mom teach her little skull full of mush about Qur’an and Islam?

    Betcha the Imam down at the ‘ol masjid doesn’t know him and never saw him there, either.

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