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Florida: Two Muslims to plead guilty to NYC mass casualty jihad plot

Mar 12, 2015 7:51 am By Robert Spencer

qazi-bros“Raees Qazi made a living by selling bicycles on Craigslist, buying and selling goods at the Swap Shop flea market and doing maintenance work at a local mosque.” Watch for mosque leaders to say they hardly knew him, that he never attended prayers, that sometimes he would shout “extremist” statements and the brothers would gently remonstrate with him that he was behaving in an un-Islamic fashion, etc.

“Brothers from Oakland Park expected to plead guilty to NYC terror plot,” by Paula McMahon, Sun Sentinel, March 12, 2015:

Two brothers from Oakland Park are expected to plead guilty to federal terrorism charges today in a case that accuses them of plotting a terrorist attack on landmarks in New York City and assaulting two deputy U.S. Marshals while in custody.

Raees Alam Qazi, 22, and Sheheryar Alam Qazi, 32, are due to appear in federal court in Miami for the change-of-plea hearing.

The two were arrested in November 2012 after Raees Qazi returned after spending a few days bicycling around Manhattan scoping out potential targets that would result in mass casualties, according to the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Sheheryar Qazi knew what his brother planned to do and provided financial and practical support, authorities said.

The plot only made it to the planning stages, though investigators said they found bomb-making materials and components at the Qazi family’s apartment in Oakland Park. Investigators said the younger brother also consulted an al-Qaida article called “Make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom.”

The men, who have been locked up without bond since their arrests, were also charged with assaulting two federal marshals while they were being moved in April at the federal courthouse complex in downtown Miami.

Authorities said the brothers distracted the guards by simultaneously looking up and then punched and fought with the marshals while yelling out “God is Great” in Arabic….

Raees Qazi made a living by selling bicycles on Craigslist, buying and selling goods at the Swap Shop flea market and doing maintenance work at a local mosque….

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  1. Islam_Macht_Frei says

    Mar 12, 2015 at 10:13 am

    Hmm – should that read “selling **STOLEN** bicycles on Craigslist?” Otherwise that would not seem like a way to make a living…

    • JamminWarrior says

      Mar 12, 2015 at 10:41 am

      How do you know the bicycles were stolen?

      • jeremy snell says

        Mar 13, 2015 at 11:03 am

        The quran teaches that it is fine to lie, steal, rape and kill, ESPECIALLY if it is for jihad – mohammed was a pedophile, murdering rapist who got his quran from demons of satan, not Gabriel, angel of GOD –

  2. shabeer_hassan says

    Mar 12, 2015 at 10:16 am

    persevering against all difficulties and obstacles that may come up in
    the process. Indeed, the term Jihad has been used both in the Qur’an
    and the saying of the Prophet to mean the highest exertion in the
    cause of God. It never implied the attacks against non-Muslims.
    It is the duty of every Muslim to strive in the way of God. Look,
    for instance, at a verse of the Qur’an which exhorts to the way of
    incessant striving. “And strive in His cause as ye ought to strive,
    (with sincerity and under discipline). He has chosen you, and
    has imposed no difficulties on you in religion; it is the religion
    of your father Abraham. It is He who has named you Muslims,
    both before and in this(Revelation); that the messenger may
    be a witness for you, and ye be witness for mankind! So establish
    regular prayer, give Zakat and hold fast to Allah! He is your
    Protector – the Best to protect and the Best to Help?” (H.Q.
    22:78)
    It is especially relevant that in this verse, which explains the
    nature of Jihad and exhorts the believers to come forward for the
    same, the statement “that the messenger may be a witness for
    you, and ye be witness for mankind” has been mentioned explicitly.
    The Muslims are those who, after Muhammad (e), have been
    entrusted with the furtherance of the mission of all the earlier prophets.
    Therefore, Jihad is the struggle and sacrifice that becomes necessary
    in accomplishing the mission of witnessing to the true religion.
    A Muslim must firstly prepare himself for the mission of
    witnessing to the true religion. An individual carries out Jihad with his
    own self by subjecting, and controlling, all his likes and dislikes to the
    dictates of the divine commandments. Indeed, in accomplishing his
    mission a Muslim is duty-bound to subject his wealth, family, society
    and environment to a proper and apt preparedness. All these
    preparations come within the meaning of the term Jihad.
    A Muslim fulfills his mission of bearing witness to the true religion
    by living his life according to the divine religion and also by its
    propagation. It is also the duty of each Muslim to become part of the
    process of working for change in a situation wherein the freedom for
    carrying out both these objectives is curtailed. It is also his obligation
    to be an active member even of an armed campaign for the restoration
    of the freedom of religious practice in the event that such a situation
    comes up and, wherein, the Muslim society does decide that such a
    course of action is, indeed, imperative.
    Jihad is never the battle waged against non-Muslims in a simplistic
    and general sense. It is, in fact, the nature of life that is lived in accordance
    with Islam and the exertions, sacrifices and struggle that will be necessary
    to throw aside the forces that disallow one to live as a Muslim. Only in
    such circumstances, therefore, will Jihad be in the form of an armed
    campaign. All legal codes in the modern world recognize the right of
    every single person to live by, and to propagate, the tenets of the religion
    that he, or she, believes in. It is the duty of the Muslim community to
    make efforts to regain this fundamental right if it is denied to it. It is only
    when resort is made to the use of force in such efforts that italicize
    comes to imply armed opposition. The Qur’an does permit the Muslim
    community to employ force when it becomes quite inevitable in the context
    wherein the freedom to live one’s life in accordance with the religion of
    truth and to propagate it is denied.
    Even in the instances where armed struggle is waged against
    those who deny the right to live one’s life according to Islam and come
    forth to make war against the Muslim community, it is the recommendation
    of the Qur’an that limits be not crossed and that no further
    action be taken against them if they refrain from the opposition and
    antagonism which they had displayed earlier.
    “Fight in the cause of God those who fight you but do not transgress
    limits; for God loveth not transgressors.” (H.Q. 2:190)
    “But if they cease, God is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.” (H.Q.
    2:192)
    Where but in the Qur’an can we ever find such a humane recommendation
    that full justice must be meted out even in the field of
    battle!
    In all other situations it will remain only as the life that is lived
    according to Islam and as the struggle that goes with the propagation
    thereof.

    • Beagle says

      Mar 12, 2015 at 11:13 am

      If the “struggle in Allah’s cause” (jihad fi sabeel Allah) is nonviolent, why does the Quran mention killing and dying while doing it?

      See, Quran 9.111 (inter alia).

      Also, please explain 9.5 and 9.29 (Verses of the Sword) while you are at it.

      You are barking up the wrong tree here, Sparky, I mean Shabeer.

    • mortimer says

      Mar 12, 2015 at 2:03 pm

      Shabeer,

      Don’t take us for fools. We have read your books. We understand your taqiyya. Every time you try to trick us, we go back to your books and find you out. So your posting here is self-defeating. The facts reveal your deceit, thus causing you to lose face and credibility.

      http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Qur'an,_Hadith_and_Scholars:Jihad

      http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Misconceptions_about_Jihad

      http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Lesser_vs_Greater_Jihad

      http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Muslim_Statistics_-_Terrorism

      http://www.politicalislam.com/tears-of-jihad/

      http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Articles/Greater-Lesser-Jihad.htm

      http://cspipublishing.com/statistical/TrilogyStats/Hadith/Jihad_Hadith.pdf

      Shabeer,
      We have observed you.

    • mortimer says

      Mar 12, 2015 at 2:07 pm

      Shabeer, You take us for fools, but we’ve read your books. Every time you try to trick us, we go to your books and find you out. This means whenever you post here you lose face and you undermine the credibility of Islam. So keep posting!

      http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Qur'an,_Hadith_and_Scholars:Jihad

      http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Misconceptions_about_Jihad

      http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Lesser_vs_Greater_Jihad

      http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Muslim_Statistics_-_Terrorism

      http://www.politicalislam.com/tears-of-jihad/

      http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Articles/Greater-Lesser-Jihad.htm

      http://cspipublishing.com/statistical/TrilogyStats/Hadith/Jihad_Hadith.pdf

      Shabeer,
      Please read these websites and refute them.

    • mortimer says

      Mar 12, 2015 at 2:36 pm

      Shabeer wrote: “It never implied the attacks against non-Muslims.”

      Mainstream Muslim scholars disagree:

      http://www.answering-islam.org/Responses/Abualrub/jihad.htm

    • mortimer says

      Mar 12, 2015 at 2:55 pm

      Shabeer paints jihad as a kind of human right…’to throw aside the forces that disallow one to live as a Muslim’.

      But what is ‘living as a Muslim’? Much of ‘living as a Muslim’ means committing human rights violations:

      1 No Golden Rule 2 No free speech 3 No democracy 4 Jihad – holy war of supremacism 5 Honour killings 6 Taqiyya – sacred lying 7 Taqlid – group think 8 Misogyny – repression of women 9 Rape of kafirs as jihad prizes 10 Genocide 11 Ethnic cleansing 12 Al-Walaa wal-Baraa – Islamic apartheid 13 Torture 14 Plundering 15 Cruel and unusual punishments 16 Backwardness – stagnation 17 Violence against women 18 Slavery 19 discriminatory Sharia law

      • Auckland says

        Mar 12, 2015 at 3:07 pm

        Sums it up rather well!

    • Auckland says

      Mar 12, 2015 at 3:05 pm

      shabeer_hassan – did you actually read what you cut and paste? That someone could actually believe such twaddle and still be a functioning human being is, to my mind, questionable.

    • brenrod says

      Mar 13, 2015 at 10:19 am

      woudn’t that have more “positive” effect if you wrote it on muslim sites

  3. wallace says

    Mar 12, 2015 at 10:43 am

    Shabby, do yourself a favour nobody reads your shit. Go back to sleep repeat to yourself, camels, goats and donkeys until you drop off , there’s a good little man , nite nite.

    • Oliver says

      Mar 12, 2015 at 4:09 pm

      Wallace,

      I think it would be better is shabby and his fellow jerks would leave- preferably the planet, but if not, western civilization and go to Pakistan, and wage war there against whatever group of Mussies is out of favor this week.

  4. pongidae rex says

    Mar 12, 2015 at 12:16 pm

    The transition of Western democracies into humanistic, secular, inclusive societies has resulted in policies that have encouraged the mass migration into those societies of people who cling to belief systems that are racist, fanatical and exclusionary. The West has yet to come up with any coherent response to this phenomena other than to debase the host culture in response to demands made by newcomers who share none of its values. This can only go so far; where is the line going to be drawn?

    • Joe Shmo says

      Mar 12, 2015 at 2:26 pm

      I keep waiting, I just hope it isn’t too late when it is finally drawn.

  5. Loretta Pienaar says

    Mar 12, 2015 at 2:13 pm

    WELL SAID< MACV68 and Beagle and Wallace! Thank you! Well said!!!

  6. nothosaur says

    Mar 12, 2015 at 3:14 pm

    “…yelling out “God is Great” in Arabic….”

    Where do all these reports get a source that translates “Allah akbar” as “God is great”?

    Every source that I found tranlates it as “Allah/God is greater/greatest”. It is either the comparative “great” or the “superlative” greatest, but it is not translated as “great”.

    Can anybody find a credible source that says “great” instead of “greater”or “greatest”?

  7. Oliver says

    Mar 12, 2015 at 4:15 pm

    Question.

    It is now march 2015. They were arrested in Nov. 2012.

    2 years and several months ( article dated march 12, 2015- no date given for arrest other then Nov. 2012).

    Why the delay?

    Also, why not just deport them, and their entire families-including aunts, uncles and cousins, up to 25 times removed . (Although they seem to marry siblings and first cousins, might not have that many distant relatives–but deport them all, anyhow).

    Pakistan is a good drop off point. (Preferably, my view- from a plane at the altitude of a few miles-without benefit of a parachute).

    Let them contaminate that shithole.

  8. PRCS says

    Mar 12, 2015 at 4:57 pm

    “Brothers from Oakland Park”

    Surely the Sun Sentinel means ‘brothers’ as siblings, eh?

  9. johnp says

    Mar 12, 2015 at 9:42 pm

    Where are these guys from? Were they born in the USA or are they immigrants? If immigrants, where are they from and what kind of visas do they have? Or did they come across the border without inspection?

  10. duh_swami says

    Mar 13, 2015 at 4:50 am

    Shabeer is a Mahoundian troll with 25 miles of copy paste at the ready…He’s not worth reading or seriously responding to…

  11. Lioness says

    Mar 13, 2015 at 12:30 pm

    I am always struck by the fact of how ugly looking those jihadis are. Look at any picture of fanatic Muslims, and you can’t help but notice that they are all hideous looking. God must have punished them by giving them the looks of trolls.

    • Oliver says

      Mar 13, 2015 at 5:35 pm

      Lioness, why do you insult trolls?

      They never ( that i know of) bother anyone; threaten to kill hundreds or even more people that they don’t know, rape little children, etc.

      They are just, well just trolls.

      Muslims, however, are human and pig fecal matter mixed with garbage.

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