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NY gang boss resurfaced at Florida mosque, sending jihadists overseas

Mar 28, 2015 8:11 am By Robert Spencer

robertson abu taubahWhat happens to turn a former Marine into someone who wants to murder top generals? Why, conversion to Islam. We have seen this phenomenon many times with converts: they believe that their new religion requires them to turn traitor. No one, however, in this politically correct age seems interested in recognizing or studying this phenomenon.

“NY gang boss resurfaced at Florida mosque, sending radicalized jihadists overseas, say feds,” by Malia Zimmerman, Fox News, March 28, 2015:

Marcus Dwayne Robertson, 46, a former U.S. Marine known to his supporters at his Orlando-based Fundamental Islamic Knowledge Seminary as “Abu Taubah,” is suspected of sending young proteges abroad for terror training.

A Muslim extremist who once led a murderous New York gang dubbed “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves” and then resurfaced decades later as a radical imam at a Florida mosque is begging for help funding his legal defense against charges he committed tax fraud to, according to authorities, finance terror training for his followers.

Marcus Dwayne Robertson, 46, a former U.S. Marine known to his supporters at his Orlando-based Fundamental Islamic Knowledge Seminary as “Abu Taubah,” is currently being held in a local jail on a gun conviction. He faces sentencing on April 30 on a 2014 conviction of tax fraud, but more serious charges could be coming, given that prosecutors say he used the money to send his radicalized followers to Africa to learn how to kill Americans.

“The United States believes that the defendant is still an extremist, just as he was in the early 1990s,” prosecutors said in recent court filings. “The only differences are that the defendant is now focused on training others to commit violent acts as opposed to committing them himself and the violent acts are to occur overseas instead of inside the United States.”

Robertson, according to recent Facebook posts, will continue to proclaim his innocence to all remaining allegations against him.

“The Prosecution is attempting to characterize me as a ‘Teacher of Terrorists.’ … They are attempting to twist my statements to fit into a terrorist plot. …. In reality, they know I am not a terrorist teacher,” Robertson wrote on his web site.

In his younger life as the leader of the “Forty Thieves” gang, Robertson “murdered several individuals; participated in assassination attempts; used pipe bombs, C-4, grenades, other explosives, and automatic weapons; participated in a robbery resulting in a hostage situation; and attempted the murder of police officers,” according to federal prosecutors.

Court records and wiretap transcripts from 2011 to 2015 provide a gripping tale of Robertson’s life, and that of one student, Jonathan Paul Jimenez, who Robertson allegedly instructed to file false tax returns to obtain a tax refund to pay for travel to Mauritania, Northwest Africa, for study and violent jihadist training.

The tax fraud case led to the prosecution of Jimenez, who reportedly knew Robertson for 11 years and, by his own admission, trained with the imam for a year in preparation for his travel to Mauritania, where he would study and learn to kill U.S. military personnel.

Robertson denies sending Jimenez overseas “to commit violent jihad,” but prosecutors produced several wiretapped conversations from 2011 that they say prove Robertson trained Jimenez “in killing, suicide bombing, and identifying and murdering United States military personnel.”

According to court records:

• Jimenez stated he and Robertson discussed suicide bombings. Robertson told Jimenez if one could “go to a place where there’s seven top generals, it would be permissible to use a suicide bomb to kill them.”

• Jimenez said Robertson wanted him to “fight to kill” and taught him it is obligatory to kill military officers, specifically generals, because they “can lead an army.” He said Robertson had instructed him on how to kill people “in a good manner” and how to “do it with kindness.”

• Jimenez said he was “getting ready for that grave, baby,” and Robertson was preparing to make him a “killer” after he completed the religious aspects of his training.

FBI investigators said Robertson’s computers held documents from the U.S. Military Academy’s Combating Terrorism Center, such as “How to think like a terrorist” and the “Militant Ideology Atlas,” American military reports on interrogation, polygraphs, psychological operations; survival kits issued to Army aviators and a diagram of names connected to Global jihad.

Jimenez pleaded guilty August 28, 2012, to making a false statement to a federal agency in a matter involving international terrorism and conspiring to defraud the IRS, and was sentenced April 18, 2013, to 10 years in federal prison….

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  1. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Mar 28, 2015 at 8:52 am

    We have seen this phenomenon many times with converts: they believe that their new religion requires them to turn traitor.

    And thank goodness that at least some people in this world are still thinking clearly. In a free country conversion to Islam means treason, simple as that. Yes, things get all twisted and murky in the fevered minds of would be loyal Moslems like Zuhdi Jasser, Rep. Keith Ellision, and Huma Abedin, so they resort to sophistry. But the rule is clear: Islam trumps all governments and thereby all civilization.

    You can bet all reverts know this, including college professor reverts, state prison reverts, ghetto reverts and all the other reverts, know what’s best and who’s boss and the things that must be done.

  2. Mega Kovalan says

    Mar 28, 2015 at 9:31 am

    (OT)
    Just now I got a warning from Youtube, that one of my video is “offensive” here is the warning.( Proves Truth is the new hate speech) If you check the link it says “This video has been removed as a violation of YouTube’s policy prohibiting content designed to harass, bully or threaten” How Robert Spencer’s answering to an incoherent Muslim is a harassment!!
    ———–
    The YouTube Community has flagged one or more of your videos as inappropriate. Once a video is flagged, it is reviewed by the YouTube Team against our Community Guidelines. Upon review, we have determined that the following video(s) contain content in violation of these guidelines, and have been disabled:
    “Pathetic Looking Muslim gets OWNED by Robert Spencer” (https://youtu.be/ENlZZJkoaV0)
    YouTube is all about sharing, and it can feel great to get positive feedback and attention from the community. But when users receive comments or videos that attack and bully them, their experience is no longer fun or safe. YouTube is not a venue for things like predatory behavior, stalking, threats, harassment, intimidation, invading privacy, revealing other people’s personal information, and inciting others to commit violent acts or to violate the Terms of Use. If you continue to post such content, you may have your account permanently suspended.
    Your account has received one Community Guidelines warning strike, which will expire in six months. Additional violations may result in the temporary disabling of your ability to post content to YouTube and/or the permanent termination of your account.
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    • AJ Liberphile says

      Mar 28, 2015 at 12:50 pm

      Try Vimeo; it gives off the impression of being a higher-class video-sharing site. It’s hard to censor truth on the internet – but facebook and YouTube give it a damn good shot!

  3. mortimer says

    Mar 28, 2015 at 9:58 am

    Interesting that Robertson calls him ‘Taubah’. The ‘jihad chapter’ of the Koran is called ‘at-TAWBA’.

    The verse that justifies killing generals would be :

    K.9.12 “Fight against the LEADERS of the unbelievers if they violate their established peace treaty with you and revile your faith, to force them to stop their aggression against you. You do not have to bind yourselves to such a treaty.”

    This verse specifically allows him to become a traitor.

    • mortimer says

      Mar 28, 2015 at 10:04 am

      Interesting that Robertson calls himself ‘Taubah’ and orders his student “FIGHT TO KILL”.

      The verse 9.12 uses the word q-t-l which means both fight and kill. Some translations of q-t-l use the expression ‘fight to kill’.

      Robertson sees jihad as ‘killing’.

  4. Westman says

    Mar 28, 2015 at 10:44 am

    Islam teaches that it is superior to all man-made governments and is destined to rule the world. It calls for an Islamic Kingdom (Kaliphate) to be established in this life; making it a shadow government until it has the power to rule over the Kafirs. It further commands Muslims to take an active part in spreading the ideology by all means.

    How could that lead to sedition? Or dole-financed sedition?

    Islam is the fox in the henhouse.

  5. Bezelel says

    Mar 28, 2015 at 11:31 am

    Of course his primary motivation is hate and it is also his main attraction and justified by ingratitude. Under the guise of religion and shielded by tolerance fed by lies of the envious who refuse to accept life on life’s terms. He may or may not have been born an a–hole but he has been diligently pursuing the title. This article exposes only a thin cross section of the problem. The problem that we are told to tolerate or be shunned as bigoted.

  6. Marty says

    Mar 28, 2015 at 12:30 pm

    In the UK virtually all muslim converts are small time criminals who failed to make the big time.
    This guy fits the description we know too well.
    In UK prisons more muslims leave than go in, because muslim gangs control them, and joining them gives protection, plus an excuse for criminality on release.
    Put in Christian, Jewish, Sikh, Buddhist prison visitors, and we can reasonably expect that religious conversion results in better behaviour.
    Put in Mohammedans and criminals are converted to religious terrorists

  7. duh_swami says

    Mar 28, 2015 at 4:56 pm

    In his younger life as the leader of the “Forty Thieves” gang, Robertson “murdered several individuals; participated in assassination attempts; used pipe bombs, C-4, grenades, other explosives, and automatic weapons; participated in a robbery resulting in a hostage situation; and attempted the murder of police officers,” according to federal prosecutors.

    How long has this guy been running around loose? He should have seen the gallows a long time ago…If they don’t have gallows life at hard labor would do…

    • Bill says

      Mar 29, 2015 at 11:54 pm

      …in Siberia.

  8. Arthur says

    Mar 28, 2015 at 7:25 pm

    “The United States believes that the defendant is still an extremist, just as he was in the early 1990s,” prosecutors said in recent court filings.

    ———————————

    Does it bother anyone else here that prosecutors consider classification as ‘extremist’ to be important, rather than simply recounting the crimes of his actions? Will we soon accept all ‘extremists’ as criminal without questioning what makes someone an ‘extremist’? Confusing criminal actions with an undefined, government-issued label could become a quick way to silence people.

    As in the fiction, “Robert Spencer was recently held without bail on the basis that his website supported anti-jihad extremists. Police are investigating the identities of the extremists who used the site for communications and anticipate further arrests.”

    Or, “Police recently arrested a cult of 8 elderly female quilting extremists who were armed with sophisticated automatic equiment and who were part of a broader network of extremists functioning across state lines. Some of the members also had financial ties to a knitting extremist group that was shut down last week and found to be in possession of very large spike-like weapons.”

  9. Bucefalo says

    Mar 29, 2015 at 8:57 am

    Resurfaced? Well, we know where all these people have been before doing their come-back! The White House is now a taxpayer-funded luxury residence for all the scum of humankind, do we have a problem with muslim terrorists? NO problem, let’s keep them in the White House for a while, and then liberate them again so that they can destroy America directly from its core!

  10. Mirren10 says

    Mar 29, 2015 at 1:15 pm

    ”What happens to turn a former Marine into someone who wants to murder top generals? Why, conversion to Islam.”

    What I would like to know, is what makes a former **Marine** convert to islam.

    Was he dishonourably discharged ?

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