The Islamic State that is expanding and winning new victories is actually losing. The Islamic State that has nothing to do with Islam and is not a state keeps on attracting Muslims from the West to join it on the basis of its Islamic claims. And in Obama’s America, to notice all this cognitive dissonance is “bigotry.”
“Two California men arrested by FBI after ‘trying to join ISIS,'” Reuters, May 22, 2015:
Two men accused of attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State militant group have been arrested, the U.S. Justice Department said on Friday.
Federal prosecutors alleged that both men intended to travel overseas to join the group.
Muhanad Budawi, 24, and Nader Elhuzayel, 24, both of Anaheim, California, were arrested on Thursday, prosecutors said.
Elhuzayel was detained at Los Angeles International Airport and Budawi in Orange County.
The men were expected to be charged Friday in federal court in Santa Ana in the probe conducted by a joint terrorism task force made up of federal and local authorities.
The FBI declined to give further details about the incident.
According to an FBI affidavit seen by The LA Times, the agency was aware of the young men’s social media activity about ISIS and several phone conversations.
But their commitment to the terrorist cause hardened earlier this month when the pair together bought a one-way ticket for Elhuzayel to fly to Turkey and on to Tel Aviv.
Elhuzayel mentioned visiting Palestinian relatives then making his way to the battlefield by crossing into Egypt.
Badawi had not travel plans but was arrested because he also paid for Elhuzayel’s airfare.
The affidavit also revealed that Elhuzayel had made plans over social media to marry an ISIS supporter while in Palestine and the pair professed love for each other.
According to the court documents: ‘Early in their communications, the woman told Elhuzayel that she is pro-ISIL, and that she had tried to travel to the Islamic State but was detained and returned to her home in Palestine.
‘Elhuzayel responded by telling the woman that he too is pro-ISIL and that he has the same beliefs and goals as the woman.’
However the parents of one of the young men told KTLA that he had been wrongly accused.
Nader Elhuzayel’s father, Salem, said that his son was going to visit relatives in Palestine and had no involvement with the terrorist group.
The father told KTLA: ‘No way that he kept that from us. Nader is just an innocent human being who was traveling to go home to see his family and enjoy a stay of one, two months and then come back.’
He added: ‘I think they’re looking for a victim.’
The young man’s mother, Fakar, said the family were being targeted because they were Muslim and from the Middle East….
Looks as if Fakar is aptly named.
sahani says
ISLam has full proof system to destroy your nation .Convert locals to islam and make them hate own culture and nation.
Today we have 500 millions hindus convert to islam living in afganistan Pakistan and Bangladesh all are local converts. Europe and west will fall in this trap too.
watch out for muslims as a muslim scholar said when local will rise up were you will drop your bombs on own streets
Jim Horn says
500 million Afghani Moslems who converted from being Hindu. Give me a break.
When Islam went into the sub-continent they slaughtered over 50-million innocent people and forced the others to convert. But, they didn’t succeed because India is a Hindu majority nation. There were no , as in zero, willing converts to Mohammedism.
A Moslem fool proof system to destroy our nation?
The Moslem colonization of America will fail. It is even starting to backfire in Europe.
JamesonRocks says
A note to the mother, Fakar: You’re only as good a parent as your worst child.
Angemon says
A “palestinian”, eh? Gee, why am I not surprised? Must have something to do with seeing “palestinians” handing out candy on the street to celebrate the killings of innocent civilians.
Someone should tell Richard Brennan of this…
Gee, what a surprise!!!
Of course. Deny, deny, deny.
No. They were looking for a criminal. And they found two.
Well then, mother Fakar, no one is forcing you to live in the US. You’re free to leave to some place where you’re not “targeted” because of your religion or ethnicity (except the islamic state, of course).
John Alexander says
In some ways these whiney creeps are not far wrong in blaming America. After all the endless drip drip drip propaganda from our education system to the effect that America is the real villain does have an effect.
Over in Britain there’s a Muslim diversity officer who caused outrage by Tweeting the hashtag #killallwhitemen. Seriously, you couldn’t make it up.
In response to the outrage the divisive officer whines on about suffering “trauma” daily as an “ethnic minority woman”. There’s only one minority that suffers daily oppression at her university: white males. There’s a witty piece on her here: http://john-moloney.blogspot.com/2015/05/oppressed-minority.html
Karen says
“The young man’s mother, Fakar, said the family were being targeted because they were Muslim and from the Middle East…”
Probability that Fakar’s talking-point came direct from CAIR? 100%
jed says
> He added: ‘I think they’re looking for a victim.’
Yea, those poor boys. All they wanted to do was go to iraq, kill people, and kidnap children for sex slaves. Its so unfair they cant do any of this now.
I read a while back that Russia had passed a law holding families responsible for acts of terrorism from that family. We need a similar such law. Support for terrorism, attempted terrorism, or real terrorism should result in that entire family being deported – regardless if it makes then stateless or not. Someone who wants to die for islam doesnt care about themselves, so maybe they will care about there family.
Cartimandua says
I agree with Jed. Get the families too. Apples don’t fall far from trees. Their families know and their mosqus know. Get them all the hell , every one away from civilized people. When so many of them hate us, why do we keep importing them, by which I mean moslems. Why? All my church ladies in Canada, so happy to welcome Somalis, then, are now horrified at what has happened. No thanks, no integration, Somali enclaves in Toronto. Gangs, brutality, hatred toward all whites who saved them and brought them here. What we did not know then and we now know to our sorrow, Canada, under church auspices, imported thousands of Christian hating moslims. Who have wreaked havoc in Toronto etc .I was an original save the Vietnamese Boat People, we studied and worked with them, they were Catholic, we had Christianity together, which is kind. It has worked fantastically well in every way. But my church people with Somali Muslims are not so lucky. Anyone reading this should just think.
Oliver says
I agree- it is the fault of the US. Look at the picture of one of them.
The poor bastard went to a barber shop (could not afford a hairdresser) and the barber told him, with the high wage rates in cal., and the amount of his hair, a plain haircut would be $125.00 plus tax. That was discrimination- because the same barber charged someone with a normal amount of hair only $15.
So, he was discriminated against, so was wanting to become a jihadist.
(sarc)