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Wisconsin Muslim arrested at airport for trying to join the Islamic State

Apr 9, 2015 11:13 am By Robert Spencer

van-haften-1Joshua Van Haften is a convicted sex offender and apparently another convert to Islam who misunderstands his new, peaceful religion. Yet nary a mosque in the U.S. has any program to keep converts and other Muslims from getting the idea that Islam commands its adherents to wage war against unbelievers. Now, why is that? “Madison man who allegedly wanted to join Islamic State terrorist group arrested at O’Hare,” by Bill Novak, Madison.com, April 9, 2015 (thanks to Robert):

A Madison man was arrested Wednesday night on charges that he went overseas to join the Islamic State terrorist group, also known as ISIS or ISIL, authorities reported.

Joshua Van Haften, 34, was taken into custody by the FBI when he arrived at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago on a flight from Turkey.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office said Van Haften will make an initial appearance in federal court in Madison Thursday morning.

Van Haften will be charged with attempting to provide material support and resources, namely himself, to a foreign terrorist organization, according to a news release from the attorney’s office.

If convicted, he faces a maximum 15 years in federal prison.

The complaint alleges Van Haften intended to travel into Iraq or Syria to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

Van Haften allegedly left the U.S. on Aug. 26, 2014, and traveled to Istanbul, Turkey. Turkey shares a border with Syria and is an entry point into Syria for those wanting to join ISIL….

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  1. Papa Whiskey says

    Apr 9, 2015 at 11:30 am

    Probably peeved ’cause Duke won.

    • Jaladhi says

      Apr 9, 2015 at 12:29 pm

      Ha, ha, ha,… you must be right – what else can tick off this Muslim!!! LOL..

  2. cat says

    Apr 9, 2015 at 11:36 am

    Oh my gosh….well Chicago hot bed of Hamas….Madison very liberal, sex offender trying to join the ranks and Turkey sent him back? What is the plan…we will be flooded with these kinda of guys maybe give him another ticket back….this is creepy.

  3. Jay Airahs says

    Apr 9, 2015 at 12:14 pm

    UMMAH Zombies

    The ‘ummah’ of Islam is doomed to cannibalize itself.
    Muslims must continually find (someone else) to despise
    in order for Islam just to survive.
    The ummah is not truly about the core of Muslim believers.
    That is merely a false image. Islam is more about the OTHERs who are not Muslim.
    The ‘ummah’ is built from insatiable Islamic vanity disguised as humility.
    But, vanity and false humility can never coexist for long, Inevitably.
    Raw vanity rips apart Islam’s false humility like a pack of ravenous wild dogs
    to end this dichotomy.
    Whenever a Muslim says (we)
    it is just another way of saying (I)

    Sharia puppet zombies always seek Satan‘s approval.

  4. Mirren10 says

    Apr 9, 2015 at 12:18 pm

    That is one **insane** looking bloke.

    islam is, of course, tailor made for such as he. Bleh.

  5. pumbar says

    Apr 9, 2015 at 12:21 pm

    Staggering, dying, supine, dhimmi, lost, punchdrunk, incontinent, pathetic, lowly, crap music creating, race war on the streets and lunatics carrying it on (black lives matter), 19Trillion in debt, open Southern borders, 12 million new “Americans next year”. Lurch, on his bike, is a pop hero (as is a curly headed tw@t from Rolling stone). When will the evil guy that created the film that caused the Benghazi fiasco get out? Or, at this point, why would it matter?

    ‘Murica.

  6. Jay Airahs says

    Apr 9, 2015 at 12:23 pm

    Muslims need to ‘let loose’ of Islam’s noose whenever they feel the jagged edges of Muhammad’s misery they need to stop their desolation dance of Islamic blasphemy, shake it off.

    Shake it off
    just Shake it off

  7. lacey says

    Apr 9, 2015 at 12:44 pm

    NOW, WERE THE AIRPORT POLICE TO USE THIS PHOTO THEY COULD STOP MANY MORE ISIS,THIS IS YOUR TYPICAL ISIS MEMBER,

  8. Jay Airahs says

    Apr 9, 2015 at 12:49 pm

    NPR in North Carolina had just aired a piece very critical on — Evangelicals proselytizing.

    They followed this up with a reverential proselytizing feel good piece about the Muslim call to prayer.

    NPR = no shame

  9. mariam rove says

    Apr 9, 2015 at 1:19 pm

    Sex offender? Where else to and commit sex crimes and have a good time with it and walk Scott free?

    Muslim countries!!! M

    • Jerry says

      Apr 9, 2015 at 5:23 pm

      If he were, at least, a paedophile, he would be much closer to the “Prophet”.

  10. Ashley says

    Apr 9, 2015 at 5:27 pm

    http://offender.doc.state.wi.us/public/offenderdetails?id=13680

    • Ashley says

      Apr 9, 2015 at 5:32 pm

      If you run Van Haften’s name on the above site, you’ll find that he’s a real piece of work…

  11. traci94 says

    Apr 9, 2015 at 6:22 pm

    Please let the people who want to fight for ISIS go and make it understood that they can never return. And, speaking of returning, Jeh Johnson of DOJ said recently that about 40 people have returned to the States from fighting ISIS; how stupid and weak can this country be??

  12. Champ says

    Apr 9, 2015 at 10:50 pm

    A convicted sex offender? …well, he’s a good fit for islam and company.

  13. Babs says

    Apr 10, 2015 at 10:03 am

    He and ISIS deserve each other.
    Little wonder he was attracted to Islam.

  14. BigRob says

    Apr 10, 2015 at 7:29 pm

    I’d also like to point out he signed the Recall Scott Walker petition, so he is a committed leftist from one of the most left-wing cities in the US. As someone who watched the process from inside the state, I know the type of people who would sign the petition.

    Not sure why left wingers feel some attachment to islam, other than they must still see them as some aggrieved and repressed minority in need of coddling?

    In this case, I think the pedophilia may have had something to do with it as well.

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