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FBI speaks to New Jersey high school students about Islamic State recruitment

May 20, 2015 2:41 pm By Robert Spencer

Islamic State1“The FBI has targeted Bergen County, New Jersey to stop Islamic State militants from getting a stronghold there.” This is interesting — that the FBI considers it enough of a possibility that the Islamic State could get a stronghold in Bergen County that it does this. It seems from this article that the presentation was given to all students — were the non-Muslim students warned about efforts to convert them to Islam, as such efforts would be a prerequisite for their susceptibility to the Islamic State’s appeal? Or would that have been “Islamophobic”?

“FBI Speaks To Bergen County High School Students About ISIS Recruitment Threat,” CBSNewYork, May 19, 2015 (thanks to Jerk Chicken):

HACKENSACK, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — The FBI has targeted Bergen County, New Jersey to stop Islamic State militants from getting a stronghold there – and agents have been going to high school with a message.

Christine Sloan was there when agents visited a Bergen County school on Tuesday. An FBI intelligence analyst who did not wish to be identified spoke at the Bergen Arts and Science Charter School in Hackensack.

He warned students about a new threat – a sophisticated recruitment video trying to lure them into joining the terrorist group ISIS.

“There’s a role for everybody. Every person can contribute to the Islamic State,” a young Canadian man tells viewers in the recruitment video. “You can even come here and rebuild.”

“”It [sic] definitely was eye-opening,” said high school senior Zoey Zibor. “You know, you learn that it’s in your own backyard. It’s Americans citizens wanting to join these terrorist groups.”

The young Canadian who appears in the recruitment video ended up dying while fighting as a member of ISIS in Syria.

“It’s definitely a bad thing,” said senior Basik Gorkem.

The Bergen County school was one of many the FBI has come to with its alarming message – regular American kids could be vulnerable to this kind of propaganda.

“It was videos and all social media that no one is really that aware of what’s happening; how deep they go into Facebook and Twitter now,” said senior Aaron Brunert.

“I would say I am more interested than I am scared,” said senior Robert Harris. “I want to know how to find terrorists; how to stop them from doing things.”

The FBI said more than 150 Americans have traveled abroad to join ISIS – some of them teenagers.

“Our students; our young people have to understand that they have a part to play in counterterrorism operations here,” said Leo McGuire, security director at the Bergen Arts and Science Charter School.

The FBI is planning to take its message to other schools in the Tri-State Area to reach kids at critical adolescent ages. They hope to make sure they don’t fall prey to propaganda that ISIS is putting on the Internet….

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  1. duh_swami says

    May 20, 2015 at 2:54 pm

    “Our students; our young people have to understand that they have a part to play in counterterrorism operations here,”

    They discourage jihad operations while encouraging the children to be part of counterterrorism operations? What business does the FBI have invading schools, and recruiting children for any kind of an operation?…

    • Westman says

      May 20, 2015 at 3:24 pm

      I think the FBI is doing something right. Mr. Spencer gave the government insruction and educational materials until they went PC after “brotherhood” complaints. Then the soldiers came back and verified everything he gave them.

      The FBI has no hope of stopping ISIS recuitment without the help of the citizens; in this case, students in a most vulnerable group. I would definitely warn my kids about the likelyhood that there was a motive behind Islamic proselytizing and invite the FBI into the school to warn all of them.

      We all must be eyes and ears if the nation is to be safe. Waiting for the next 9/11 and then responding will not provide security for the nation.

      • miriamrove says

        May 20, 2015 at 3:31 pm

        Yes. I agree 100%. BTW the reason they chose NJ and Bergen county is, NJ is loaded with Muslims specially from Pakistan. I know this all too well as I live in NJ and not too far from Bergen County. M

        • EYESOPEN says

          May 20, 2015 at 8:50 pm

          Not to mention all of the so-called “refugees” being dumped into the communities of northern NJ. (See Ann Corcoran’s RefugeeResettlementWatch for more details. You know, the stuff that the enemedia will not report to the American people.)

      • Matthieu Baudin says

        May 20, 2015 at 10:14 pm

        Westman, that’s very true in the U.S. and other modern civil societies under attack; governments have to trust their own citizens and work alongside them at many levels. In fact some of the most effective initiatives have started independently of government, one of the very best of which has been Jihad Watch.

      • Lia Wissing says

        May 22, 2015 at 1:00 am

        Sounds good to me, too.

  2. pongidae rex says

    May 20, 2015 at 2:57 pm

    This whole Muslim immiigration thing is not working out. This country lacks the resources to assign a full time FBI agent to every Muslim immigrant. It is not worth it to let these people come here. That is not racisim or bigotry, it is common sense based on facts.

    • EYESOPEN says

      May 20, 2015 at 8:51 pm

      Unfortunately, pongidae rex, “common” sense isn’t all that common anymore – particularly when it comes to the security of this nation.

  3. sahani says

    May 20, 2015 at 3:00 pm

    FBI ,CIA when they will understand Hindus 500 million converts all over to ISLAM don’t love their own roots nor the nation they live, nor the anyone who is not muslim. Convert are worst kind of isalmic followers. USA will soon test of all local convert and immigrants .As per islamic follower. USA will not be able to bomb own street when a call of ALLAH o amber is heard from each street USA get ready .

  4. Prinz Eugen says

    May 20, 2015 at 3:01 pm

    Did any CAIR or moslem brotherhood agent/infiltrator in the FBI have anything to do with this “warning?”
    Seems the FBI and other regime agencies should cleanse their rosters before issuing warnings to others! Doctor, heal thyself!

    • swampbubbles says

      May 20, 2015 at 3:31 pm

      That was my first thought, too. CIA, FBI, DOJ, DOD : drain your own swamps first.

  5. gravenimage says

    May 20, 2015 at 3:25 pm

    “The FBI has targeted Bergen County, New Jersey to stop Islamic State militants from getting a stronghold there.”
    ……………………………….

    Well, *that’s* f*cking terrifying. Bergen County, home to Hackensack, Paramus, and Teaneck?

    If I had any particular fears for this part of New Jersey, it would be a slight fear of garden-variety crime, or—less likely—a possible resurgence of Mafia activity.

    That the FBI now considers this region a potential *stronghold* of Jihad is deeply disturbing.

    • Medina says

      May 20, 2015 at 5:57 pm

      You’ve obviously never been to NJ. Start at Paterson and work your way around. You can finish with the Moslem judge appointed by Gov Christie.

    • EYESOPEN says

      May 20, 2015 at 8:53 pm

      See my post to miriamrove above, graven. This crap is getting out of hand.

  6. The Doctor says

    May 20, 2015 at 3:49 pm

    Why are they not in Dearborn, Michigan?

    • Bezelel says

      May 20, 2015 at 9:44 pm

      @The Doctor, That’s a pointed question. Aren’t doctors supposed to give a warning, like this gonna hurt a little? I would like to hear the FBI’s answer to that.

    • mach37 says

      May 21, 2015 at 4:33 am

      If the FBI took their program to communities with a high percentage of Muslims, they would meet criticism from not just the Imams but from the Democrats/Leftists on the grounds that the FBI was “profiling.”

      • Bezelel says

        May 21, 2015 at 4:32 pm

        I guess they’re more comfortable wearing their underwear backwards.

  7. Cecilia Ellis says

    May 20, 2015 at 4:00 pm

    Take no consolation from the FBI concern demonstrated at the Bergen Arts and Science Charter School in Hackensack.on May 19, 2015.

    Paul Sperry, in his book entitled, “Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penetrated Washington (Tennessee: Nelson Current, 2005), exposed the reaction of FBI Middle Eastern Arabic linguists, all with Top Secret clearances, one week after the 9/11 attacks:

    “… Arabic linguists were celebrating the terrorist attacks on America, as if they were some joyous
    event,” with one Arabic translator cheering, “It’s about time that they got a taste of what they have
    been giving to the Middle East.” (p. 166)

    By the way, I suspect that their celebration was held in classified spaces where agents without the same access (probably Top Secret – Special Compartmented Information (TS-SCI)) could not enter. As Sperry further relates, the celebration included an array of “cookies filled with dates from party bowls,” indicative of Middle East customs marking joyous occasions. One might equate that to that of mothers of HAMAS suicide bombers passing out candy.

    If such was the environment then, what must it now be?

    • EYESOPEN says

      May 20, 2015 at 9:03 pm

      Read that book. It was not only eye-opening, but infuriating. My review:

      Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives have Penetrated Washington
      by Paul Sperry (2005)

      This is an excellent book for anyone who wants to see just how deep the rabbit-hole goes; and this was published in 2005! We can only imagine how much worse it has gotten since then.

      The most sinister terrorists won’t be sneaking through our borders from the Middle East.

      They’re already here.

      This is the untold story about the silent, yet extremely dangerous threat from the Muslim establishment in America―an alarming exposé of how Muslims have for years been secretly infiltrating American society, government, and culture, pretending to be peace-loving and patriotic, while supporting violent jihad and working to turn America into an Islamic state.

      In this powder keg of a book, you’ll learn:

      How radical Muslims have penetrated the U.S. military, the FBI, the Homeland Security Department, and even the White House―where subversive Muslims and Arabs have received top-secret clearance.

      How Sephardic Jews and Arab Christians were passed over by the FBI (under Robert Mueller) to hire Arab Muslims for the FBI’s linguist section, in many cases before the FBI’s background checks were even complete; and even when numerous “red flags” were noticed by investigative agents. Worse yet, Robert Mueller sent out entreaties for linguists among the very worst of the Muslim organizations: the AMC (American Muslim Council) and CAIR (the Council on American-Islamic Relations), just to name two.

      Requests by actual agents to be allowed to conduct the interviews with prospective new employees, when the agents became very aware of the dangers of hiring (closet) Islamic fanatics and giving them top-secret clearances, was met with silence from the FBI hierarchy. Some of these people posed a real counter-terrorism threat. (A number of those resulted in actual, provable espionage cases, never revealed to the American public.) Some of those that were found were merely quietly told to resign. No investigations were ever done, let alone information released to the general public.

      Other Arab Muslim employees who have created problems, failed to translate required documents (passing them along to investigating agents with the notation: “Not pertinent”), or even Arab language desk supervisors encouraging their employees to let the document translation backlog get even worse to force more money from Congress to be spent on their section, are still there collecting fat paychecks and all the perks that the FBI offers (except for being able to carry a gun – I guess we can be happy with small miracles). Some who have threatened to sue the FBI for alleged “discrimination” have actually received pay raises and promotions!

      Chapters 17, 18 & 19 are truly eye-opening – and infuriating – revelations that the American public never hears about; such as Arab Muslims in the Linguistics/Translation department actually cheering when the U.S. was hit on 9/11/2001. How Islamists within the FBI have threatened the FBI with “anti-discrimination” lawsuits only to have the FBI cave in to their demands and intimidation for fear of being labeled as “racist”. (What “race” is Islam again? I keep forgetting. )

      “Political correctness” has literally crippled the nation’s leading investigative agency and no one but a handful of FBI investigative agents and a few Senators on the hill knows anything about it. The American public certainly is not being told any of this information.

      How they’ve infiltrated the chaplains program in the federal and state prison systems―a top recruiting ground for al-Qaida and the Muslim Brotherhood.

      How they’ve successfully run influence operations against our political system with the help of both Democrats and Republicans, badgering corporate boards into Islamizing the workplace.

      How we’ve been utterly duped about what the Quran does and doesn’t teach. Sadly, much of anti-Western terrorism is simply Islam in practice, the text of the Quran in action. But this is something you will not hear from most of the American media, and from perhaps 99% of the talking heads in academia (John Esposito at Georgetown University is an excellent example of a Saudi-financed Islamic apologist) – the very ones looked to by many in government to provide honest assessments of the Islamic threat.

      In a time when religious and political leaders are scrambling to smooth over differences in faith and beliefs, this book gives the terrifying truth about the very real, very deadly agenda of Islam and how it has already infiltrated key American institutions with agents, spies, and subversives. An excellent, eye-opening, and at times, infuriating read.

      • Cecilia Ellis says

        May 20, 2015 at 10:45 pm

        Superb review! Well done!

  8. Angemon says

    May 20, 2015 at 5:34 pm

    “”It [sic] definitely was eye-opening,” said high school senior Zoey Zibor. “You know, you learn that it’s in your own backyard. It’s Americans citizens wanting to join these terrorist groups.”

    No, they’re muslims who just happen to have American citizenship. They have nothing but hatred for the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands.

    ““It was videos and all social media that no one is really that aware of what’s happening; how deep they go into Facebook and Twitter now,” said senior Aaron Brunert.

    (…)

    The FBI is planning to take its message to other schools in the Tri-State Area to reach kids at critical adolescent ages. They hope to make sure they don’t fall prey to propaganda that ISIS is putting on the Internet”

    Oh, for God’s sake. The “radicalization through the internet” is a red herring. Independent inquiries into the mosques in the US report around 80% of them preach “radical”, anti-american rhetoric. Why fall prey to online propaganda if one can easily access such propaganda from the local mosque, if not from family and friends? And even if someone becomes “radicalized” online, why is it? Why can “extremists”, online or not, convince “moderate” muslims that they need to go and wage jihad, not in the sense of internal, spiritual struggle to improve oneself, but in the sense of striking the necks of the unbelievers, humiliate the, slaughter them and take their wives as wart booty? The answer is, obviously, because they can point to islamic texts, commentaries and history and make their case in a way “moderate” muslims can’t – “moderate” muslims can’t point to the sunnah, ahadith or islamic history and say “see, the message of islam is you have your religion and I have mine, let’s be friends”.

    If law enforcement agencies aren’t allowed to know their enemy, if they’re not allowed to learn about the connection between islam and terrorism, and why waging jihad is so appealing to muslims, then whatever they do to detect and neutralize individual muslims trying to wage jihad amounts, in the grand scheme of things, to poke fingers in holes to prevent water from entering a termite-ridden wooden ship while denying the existence of said termites.

  9. Sam says

    May 20, 2015 at 5:50 pm

    If FBI does not talk about Islam openly and honestly to students or anybody else, nothing will be accomplished. Have Robert talk to all high school students in the USA and then we may have some spark against ISLAM and its evil followers. Since such time, if ever, it is all for show purposes for FBI agents to keep their jobs.

  10. abad says

    May 20, 2015 at 6:57 pm

    WHY do Muslims come to the USA if they hate us so much?

    Shouldn’t they just stay at home in their third-world countries?

    • EYESOPEN says

      May 20, 2015 at 9:06 pm

      Al-hijra. In short, to spread the disease that is izlam, and to enlarge their power throughout what was once known as the “free” nations of the West.

      • EYESOPEN says

        May 20, 2015 at 9:08 pm

        Oh, I almost forgot. An added bonus is to get that “jizya” that they feel entitled to from the “infidels” through the overly-generous social welfare systems of the civilized nations.

  11. michelle says

    May 20, 2015 at 7:21 pm

    Maybe if we didn’t have COMMON CORE with its lessons to “understand” Islam by having students learn and recite prayers of conversion, learn about the pillars of islam…we wouldn’t NEED to this!!!!

    But in the meantime- I think it may be part of prevention. Wish they would do it here!!

    Je suis Charlie Martel

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