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Robert Spencer, PJ Media: Fooled Again: Why Do So Many American Converts to Islam Learn to Hate Their Home?

Apr 1, 2015 5:15 pm By Robert Spencer

edmonds-cousinsWhy indeed? My latest over at PJM:

Spc. Hasan Edmonds, a Muslim member of the U.S. Army National Guard, was arrested last Wednesday at Chicago’s Midway Airport. He had been planning to join the Islamic State. His cousin, Jonas “Yunus” Edmonds, was arrested as well. They had allegedly been plotting a jihad attack against a U.S. military facility – making Hasan Edmonds the latest in a long line of people who convert to Islam and then turn traitor.

Is it just a coincidence that so many converts to Islam come to regard the country in which they were born and raised, the land of the families and forefathers, as an enemy? Or is there some connection?

Hasan Edmonds clearly believed that his new religion required a shift of his allegiance. “I am already in the American kafir [infidel] army,” he told an informant in January, “and now I wish only to serve in the army of Allah alongside my true brothers.”

He also expressed the desire to carry out a jihad attack in the U.S. – something on the scale of January’s jihad murders in Paris at the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine and the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket: “Honestly,” said Edmonds, “we would love to do something like the brother in Paris did” – that is, commit mass murder among people he had once considered his countrymen, and whom he had, as a National Guard member, sworn to protect

Edmonds thus joins other American converts to Islam who have turned traitor, including Sgt. Hasan Akbar, an American engineer from the 101st Airborne Division, who murdered Captain Christopher Scott Seifert, Major Gregory Stone, and wounded fifteen others in a grenade and small-arms attack in northern Kuwait on March 22, 2003. As he committed his murders, he yelled:

You guys are coming into our countries, and you’re going to rape our women and kill our children.

Yet Akbar was not Iraqi or Kuwaiti. He was an American from Los Angeles. But when he became a Muslim, any allegiance he may have had to America was gone. Likewise al-Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn and the Marin County Mujahid, John Walker Lindh, both of whom converted to Islam and ended up waging war against the country of their birth, on behalf of its enemies.

It isn’t just converts, either. A Muslim woman named Aqsa Mahmood is suspected of recruiting young women to join her in the Islamic State as “jihadi brides.” The BBC identified her in a February report as a “Scottish woman,” which means that she made her way from the land of her birth to join up with a group that has declared war upon Great Britain and the rest of the non-Muslim world.

Despite the BBC’s ready identifier of her nationality, however, it is extremely unlikely that Aqsa Mahmood considers herself a Scot in any way other than geographically. She almost certainly grew up in a Muslim area and was taught Islamic values, including the idea that one’s allegiance to Islam transcends all other allegiances, and that one is a member of the international Muslim community, the umma, before being anything else. Those ideas go along with distaste that the “best of people” (Qur’an 3:110) should have for the jahiliyya, the society of the “most vile of created beings” (Qur’an 98:6) — unbelievers.

Simply by going to the Islamic State, Aqsa Mahmood showed that she clearly rejects a great deal of what most Scots would consider essential to what it means to be a Scot….

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Filed Under: converts to Islam, Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh) Tagged With: Aqsa Mahmood, Hasan Akbar, Hasan Edmonds, Yunus Edmonds


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  1. David says

    Apr 1, 2015 at 6:07 pm

    Why, indeed? Do any islamists love the country they are colonizing despite the seeming utopian difference from the hell holes they left? They are only part of a much larger scheme to destroy the civilized world.

    • Huck Folder says

      Apr 1, 2015 at 8:59 pm

      Could Nicolai Sennels offer any insight?

      The ‘why’ doesn’t really matter, except that it might lead to an elimination of that process.

  2. Nimrod says

    Apr 1, 2015 at 7:03 pm

    Regarding Americans who are culturally American, born in America, etc, who convert to Islam and become militants:

    Part of the reason is that the seeds of self-hatred have already been planted by the subcultural belief in Marxist zero-sum conflict theory (normally referred to using terms like “social justice”) which states that whatever ethnic/religious/etc socially/economically “dominates” is necessarily victimizing all other groups somehow. Therefore this “bougoise” is evil and the focus turns to fighting that group instead of pragmatic utilitarian self-improvement.

    Islam then provides the utopian militant ideology for this “proletariat” in their marxist “class struggle”. So jihad is not just seen as islamic jihad, but also some sort of marxist class jihad.

  3. RG says

    Apr 1, 2015 at 7:09 pm

    It’s unbelievable that these airheads actually think they can return to some kind of ancestral heritage, or something like that! Don’t they know that it was the muslim chieftains in 17th century Africa who sold their own black people to the European slave traders! These idiots should be so glad that they no longer live in a country that allows slavery – and the legislators who overturned it WERE WHITE MEN!!!

    To any blacks who read this blog – you need to know your true heritage, and who it is that really is your true friend! One thing is sure – ISLAM IS NOT YOUR FRIEND!!!

  4. Carlos Danger says

    Apr 1, 2015 at 7:39 pm

    Who cares why they hate their home? Lock them up and throw away the key.
    the West spends way too much time wondering why so many Muslims (both foreign and domestic) hate our culture. don’t like it? there are hundreds of flights every day of the year heading for sharia compliant lands. Hop on one, and then eff yourself.

  5. Kepha says

    Apr 1, 2015 at 8:43 pm

    African-American Islam often is a matter of declaring oneself to be something other than American. That’s the sense I get from both NoI material and also movements towards orthodox Islam traveled by people like Malcolm X. It’s what happens when the wounds of slavery and Jim Crow are allowed to fester, or get picked over, or get seen as still viable. On the other side of the coin, I think that things like the Aryan Nations and other Identity groups among whites are a declaration of war on an America that has worked hard to leave its racist heritage in the past.

  6. Peggy says

    Apr 1, 2015 at 9:03 pm

    “You guys are coming into our countries, and you’re going to rape our women and kill our children”
    ———————————–
    They are the ones killing their women and children. How many women and children have perished at the hands of ISIS?.
    Amazing, as soon as they convert they start killing and it still has nothing to do with Islam?

    • Anna says

      Apr 1, 2015 at 9:58 pm

      Well as long as they can kid the stupid left amongst us,it has nthing to do with “pure moral clean Islam, the true beautiful peaceful religion ” they can realise their goals.

      Most in the West will wake up when too late. Later I fear then they did in WW2.
      Some never will sadly. I know some who will likely never wake up. Simply because they ” know some nice Muslims” these nice Muslims feed them lies and taqyiiya and anti-Christian propaganda and they believe them, without even checking sources
      Neither the Bible nor Quran.
      They have known us for twenty years yet will not believe us ?!
      They are easily silenced though and can never refute what we say. So annoying , as they say…nothing ! Well ?I ask. Nothing. Rude really.

      But they learn nothing and will start again another time, on and on like a broken record ! I now try and limit their visits .
      All they want I discovered is an argument ( how very leftist !) and they are determined to “win ” but we will never allow them to as we know truth.

  7. Papa Whiskey says

    Apr 1, 2015 at 11:30 pm

    “… the latest in a long line of people who convert to Islam and then turn traitor.”

    Unhappily, you have it backwards. These creatures were traitors before they ever heard of Islam, because they had been indoctrinated in the resentful ideology of blackness: “All whites are racist,” “Whites benefit from a privilege to which you have no access,” etc., etc., ad nauseam. Their inculcated hatred could thus be easily channeled into the hateful ideology propounded in the Qur’an and ahadith.

  8. Moshe Akiva says

    Apr 2, 2015 at 12:18 am

    I don’t think there is a mystery here. Some rich Muslim countries send islamocrazy imams only to Europe and North America. They do the conversions.
    Besides, I have the humble feeling that just about all future converts of Islam already hate their own countries for some reason. See for example how many black criminals convert to this sick thing called Islam. I hardly believe they ever loved America.

    • Jerry says

      Apr 2, 2015 at 2:02 am

      The reason why many mainly Black criminals convert to Islam in prison is simple.

      Islam is not a true godly religion.

      It was invented by marauding desert warlord master criminal in order to recruit criminals to his marauding bands.

      Most people, even some criminals included have some inborn aversion against robbing, raping and murdering the innocent.

      Islam was invented in order to “criminalize” innocent non-Muslims so that even criminals with little conscience will feel justified in attacking them.

      Most civilised countries have effectively banned Hitler’s Mein Kampff.

      It is about time the civilised world bans Mohamed’s Mein Qur’an.

  9. Jerry says

    Apr 2, 2015 at 1:52 am

    Charge him with treason, convict and apply the most appropriate sentence.

  10. AmericaBeautiful says

    Apr 6, 2015 at 9:37 pm

    Why? Maybe because hate gives one a false sense of power, while love makes one vulnerable. Weak and ignorant people, fantasizing about themselves, who so easily relinquish the best things in life for a miserable, heinous fantasy.

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