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Cartoon jihadis’ mosque previously spawned two other terrorists

May 9, 2015 3:55 pm By Robert Spencer

Islamic Community Center of PhoenixThe place should be investigated, and what is taught there should be closely scrutinized. Instead, the FBI is probably gearing up to hold an “outreach” program there.

“Phoenix Mosque Attended by Garland Jihadists Previously Spawned Two Other Terrorists,” by Patrick Poole, PJ Media, May 8, 2015:

Yesterday at PJ Media, I reported on conflicting stories offered by the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix (ICCP) regarding former mosque attendees Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi, who were killed this past Sunday in a gunfight outside a Dallas-area center where a “Draw Muhammad” cartoon contest was being held.

I noted the attempts by the mosque president, Usama Shami, to downplay the ties of the two would-be terrorists. This included Shami’s claim to the press that neither was a regular member. In fact, Elton “Ibrahim” Simpson had been featured in a mosque fundraising video posted on ICCP’s YouTube channel in 2012 identifying him as a member.

In fact, Simpson and Soofi were not the only two terrorists spawned from ICCP. Two other previous ICCP mosque attendees — Hassan Abu-Jihaad and Derrick Shareef — are currently in federal prison on terrorism-related charges….

Abu-Jihaad is currently serving a 10-year federal prison sentence for passing classified information to a UK-based al-Qaeda webmaster….

The FBI established a direct tie between Abu-Jihaad and Simpson according to court documents in the latter’s 2010 trial, as Simpson was first questioned by the FBI in 2006 when authorities believed he might be part of a terror cell:

In 2006, agents opened a criminal investigation of him based on his ties with an individual “whom the FBI believed was attempting to set up a terrorist cell in Arizona,” according to court documents.

Agents say Simpson knew Hassan Abu-Jihaad, an enlistee in the U.S. Navy later convicted of leaking classified information about upcoming movements of his battle group to an alleged terror cell in London. Simpson told agents he knew Abu-Jihaad, who was arrested in Phoenix in 2007, but did not tell them anything else about him.

Undoubtedly, what launched that 2006 investigation was the activity of Abu-Jihaad’s former roommate, Derrick Shareef.

Shareef was arrested in 2006 for his role in a plot to set off hand grenades at a Rockford, Illinois shopping mall during the holiday season. He later pled guilty on a charge of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, and was sentenced to 35 years in prison.

During his trial, the FBI provided video tapes of Shareef threatening Americans:

“You are the enemies of Islam, for the sake of Allah we are coming for you,” Shareef says in a tape that looks like it could have been shot somewhere in the Middle East. In fact, the camera was 90 miles from Chicago in a Rockford home where the 22-year-old and a friend each made several videos declaring their desire for destruction.

“We will target you in your homes. We will target you in your businesses. We will target you in your synagogues and your churches. We do not fear you Kafirs. I swear by Allah I am ready to give my life right now for the cause,” the tape says.

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  1. Paul says

    May 9, 2015 at 4:00 pm

    Shut this place down or stand outside after services and take pictures of everyone

    • Bartender says

      May 9, 2015 at 5:01 pm

      Exactly! And the libtards call AFDI a hate-group. WRONG they are non-violent freedom fighters, and this mosque is a hate-factory. And their playbook, the Koran is filled with hate speech and calls to violence against non-Muslims.

      We all hate Jihad and you should too. It perpetrates the most horrible atrocities everyday in the world but you prefer to call people who hate murder and rape, “haters”. Anything to deflect attention away from the real problem MUSLIM JIHAD.

    • Agent of Liberty says

      May 9, 2015 at 5:53 pm

      Stand outside with cartoons of Mohummy!
      Maybe John McCain will join you, ha! Stand outside the mosque with. “Islam is going to be illegal in the United States so you better start making plans to leave with your illegal fascist ideology”placards.

    • Jay Airahs says

      May 9, 2015 at 7:09 pm

      In fairness to peaceful mosques wherever they might exist, not all mosques are full of jihadis.
      However, if Muslim men at the local mosque in a neighborhood near you delight in wearing their favorite man-dress and Muhammad inspired clown hat, you can be absolutely certain that the mosque is teaching the true bloodbath infused Islam.

      • Yoshi says

        May 11, 2015 at 12:03 am

        Sure, not all mosques are full of jihadis, but all mosques teach that the Koran is Allah’s literal word and that Muhammad example (sunnah) is sacred and mandatory. That is the foundation for future jihadis.

  2. cs says

    May 9, 2015 at 4:29 pm

    What a surprise!!!! Blimey.

  3. Brian says

    May 9, 2015 at 4:33 pm

    EVERY mosque is a military outpost as admitted by the Islamic Turkish prime minister…

    “The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers…”
    ―Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  4. Pork-Lover says

    May 9, 2015 at 5:04 pm

    Shut these murder-and-rape-factories down.

  5. weavo2 says

    May 9, 2015 at 5:09 pm

    If that is actually a picture of the mosque in Arizona, it kind of looks like a sewage treatment plant. 🙂

  6. Pork Rind Addict says

    May 9, 2015 at 5:12 pm

    The shooter in this video (posted by Robert above) says “the Mosque provides weaponry to go out in the real world and use” (paraphrasing). Where is the media coverage of this??

  7. Ricky Black says

    May 9, 2015 at 5:26 pm

    I cannot believe the FBI is that stupid, they must be watching these people, four jihadists in one place? WOW Turn on the lights and watch the rats run.

  8. Papa Whiskey says

    May 9, 2015 at 5:38 pm

    Be it noted that today is the 70th anniversary of V-E Day. In 1945, the Nazi enemy had been completely overrun — a mere three years and five months after he had declared war on us following his Jap ally’s attack at Pearl Harbor. It has now been thirteen years and eight months since the jihadist enemy attacked us in our homeland from his base in Afghanistan, and he is still doing so — now from his base in the homeland itself, a base cultivated and protected by the diversity ideologues of the American left. So far have we fallen, and so dire is our current peril.

    And do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year unless by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigour, we arise again and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time.

    — Winston S. Churchill, whose bust in the Oval Office was removed by Barack Hussein Obama

  9. Angemon says

    May 9, 2015 at 5:43 pm

    The place should be investigated, and what is taught there should be closely scrutinized.

    Yes, but that would be common sense and, you know, Obama…

  10. Don McKellar says

    May 9, 2015 at 6:43 pm

    It should be investigated?

    No. It should be burned down and the ground sowed with salt.

  11. Jay Airahs says

    May 9, 2015 at 7:14 pm

    Wake up call
    Leftist teacher indoctrination at:

    Islamic Education Center of Dar Al Islam — in Arizona
    http://daralislam.org/

  12. Donovan Nuera says

    May 9, 2015 at 7:18 pm

    Note to self:… “Do not let people with the name “Jihad” (or its permutations) into the Navy….Duh!”
    -Chief of Staff, USN.

  13. Fred Rawls says

    May 9, 2015 at 9:04 pm

    How about this: every mosque that produces a terrorist gets shut down.

  14. Scott says

    May 9, 2015 at 9:39 pm

    Who would have guessed?

  15. charles martel says

    May 9, 2015 at 9:50 pm

    All mosques spurn Terrorists.

    Qur’an 7:3 “Little do you remember My warning. How many civilizations have We destroyed.

    Ishaq:588 “When muhammad descends on your land none of your people will be left.

    • Yoshi says

      May 11, 2015 at 12:05 am

      The mosques do not spurn terrorists. They spawn them.

  16. Belle says

    May 10, 2015 at 10:34 am

    I believe I read Obama’s administration has given muslims special tax advantages, privacy rights and made it against the law for any sheriff, FBI, police to go into a mosque. Someone please research this and get this to the U.S. citizens. Why is America not storming the White House? Why is American not writing the White House, and all Senate, Congress!!??

  17. revereridesagain says

    May 10, 2015 at 10:43 am

    Not unexpectedly, muslims are whining that it is unfair for them to be asked to condemn violent retaliation against their critics. “And besides, nobody listens when we do!!!”

    And gee whiz, we all know how sincere that C.A.I.R. talking head is when denouncing violence aimed at “bigoted speech”.

    http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-muslims-ask-why-their-religions-condemnation-of-violence-often-goes-unheard/ar-BBjvsiT

    Decry violence while calling Pam Geller a “bigot”? The dhimmedia has demonstrated how well it can do that on its own. No need to call in backup.

  18. Jeff says

    May 10, 2015 at 12:18 pm

    Turn it into a live stock auction house.

  19. FredvanH says

    May 11, 2015 at 12:46 pm

    I wonder how much tax payer money they in the meantime decided to throw at the mosque.

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