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Jihadi who attacked AFDI/JW Muhammad cartoon contest had attempted to go to Syria to join the Islamic State

May 9, 2015 9:19 am By Robert Spencer

Ibrahim Simpson ICCP member74It bears repeating: nary a mosque nor Islamic school in the United States has a single program to teach young Muslims or converts to Islam why they should reject the understanding of Islam presented by the Islamic State. They claim to reject it, but they do nothing to stop its recruitment of Muslims in the U.S. And that means there is going to be more jihad bloodshed in the U.S., cartoons or no cartoons.

“Texas Shooting Suspect Elton Simpson’s Private Messages: ‘The Noose Is Tightening,'” by Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz, Randy Kreider and James Gordon Meek, ABC News, May 5, 2015:

Private Twitter messages written by one of the suspects in the weeks before the Garland, Texas shooting Sunday reveal a man who had turned against his country.

“Soon you won’t be able to live in America as a Muslim. The noose is tightening,” Elton Simpson wrote in a March 14 message seen by the FBI and obtained by ABC News.

On April 10 he wrote, “Time is short.”

Less than two weeks later he referenced the Mohammad drawing contest — the site of Sunday’s attack — saying, “When will they ever learn?”

The messages show that Simpson had planned to travel to Syria to join ISIS last month and attempted to recruit others to join him.

“Bring your passport. If you have $4,000, that’s enough to travel with,” he wrote on April 10.

But his plans were disrupted when the FBI in San Diego and Minneapolis arrested some people he wanted to go with him, he said.

Both Simpson and his purported accomplice in the Garland shooting, Nadir Soofi, were killed shortly after they opened fire outside an event that was displaying cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad. Though armed with assault weapons and some kind of body armor, the pair was killed by a traffic policeman using a service pistol before they could take any lives, local police said.

The families of both shooting suspects said they were shocked and dismayed by what Simpson and Soofi had done.

“My son made a bad choice,” Simpson’s father, Dunston, told ABC News Monday. “We are Americans and we believe in America. What my son did reflects very badly on my family.”…

Well, possibly. Simpson is a convert. Unless the rest of his family converted to Islam as well, and encouraged him to murder “blasphemers,” it doesn’t reflect badly on his family at all.

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Filed Under: American Freedom Defense Initiative, American jihadis, converts to Islam, Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Muhammad cartoons Tagged With: Elton Simpson, Ibrahim Simpson


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  1. KrazyKafir says

    May 9, 2015 at 9:57 am

    Here is a teachable moment, for those who are not morons. If the dhimmi government would just let the 5th column leave for Jihad and then burn their citizenship they wouldn’t be able to carry out their Jihad attacks in America.

    • spot on says

      May 9, 2015 at 10:41 am

      If the dhimmi government would just let the 5th column leave for Jihad

      If they leave permanently, Obama would lose votes and he couldn’t have that.

      • KrazyKafir says

        May 9, 2015 at 11:22 am

        True.

    • Don McKellar says

      May 9, 2015 at 12:21 pm

      Well, this is 100% logical deduction and crystalline reasoning with a sane view on the world. That’s not the way governments work when warped by political correctness and a deluded vision of human nature.

      • mortimer says

        May 9, 2015 at 2:37 pm

        No other country wants the riff raff to stay. They’ll want to ship them back to America.

        There’s no way to get rid of them. No one can be stateless. You just can’t ship all your criminals to China, for instance.

        • Don McKellar says

          May 9, 2015 at 2:53 pm

          “No one can be stateless.”

          Thousands upon thousands of Islamic “refugees” are flooding into Italy right now. They are, for all purposes, “stateless” as there is not the political will to do the right thing and ship them back from where they came from. Their “state” is back in Libya or wherever, but instead the fools consider them “stateless” are allowing them to become Islamic parasites where they land.

          This proposal is no different. The Islamic supremacists run to somewhere called the Islamic State to become citizens — FORSAKING their state. And therefore should be stripped of their citizenship. Now they cannot return and must make the best of the Islamic paradise they have fled to. And if that collapses, then they are the responsibility of whatever country retakes the territory they are in. END OF STORY.

          It’s all very simple. They result may be horrific for the Islamic supremacists when their whole shithouse goes up in flames and they’re caught in a hostile country with no way to leave. But that’s just the way it goes. Then they’ll be Syria or Iraq’s problem.

  2. Don McKellar says

    May 9, 2015 at 9:57 am

    Of course they don’t have a program that rejects the teachings of the Islamic State! That would mean teaching against Islam and what it commands in the Koran and the example of Muhammad as laid out in the hadiths — all of which the Islamic State simply follows as closely as possible. It would be impossible for them to set up a program to teach against that — it’s the basis of their religion.

  3. USMAN says

    May 9, 2015 at 10:44 am

    We should always remember every Muslim is a potential terrorist. If only non-Muslims will know this, the world would be a very peaceful place to live in. I think it serves the west right for suppressing harmless black African nations and Christianity.

    • gravenimage says

      May 9, 2015 at 8:41 pm

      What “harmless black African nations” is the West suppressing? And how is the West suppressing Christianity? You can practice Christianity freely in every nation in the West. And the United States? Not only do we have legally guaranteed freedom of religion here, but the populace is 83% Christian.

      • USMAN says

        May 11, 2015 at 8:08 am

        World bank and IMF policies are remote controlled by the west purposely to depopulate and cause misery to the peasants in Africa but not targeting the African elites who divert public funds into their foreign bank account. Prior to 9/11 what were the visa policies of the west towards Black Africans? Black Africans needed over $10,000 in their bank accounts before they could acquire visas to the west. This is where the Arab Muslims took advantage since they and their terrorist-backed organizations could easily afford that. Currently, the UK is trying to reintroduce that policy. You see, Materialism, if not checked, is what will eventually destroy the west. This is a fact terrorists know very well.
        As for how Christians are being suppressed in the west, check out how atheist teachers are made to brainwash Christian kids at the primary school level all in the name of secularism.

  4. spot on says

    May 9, 2015 at 10:49 am

    I condemn all Muslims for either their action or inaction. MSM has made every excuse possible for them and still we hear crickets from so called non violent Muslims. If they are all afraid of the Jihadis, then there are ways they can conceal their identity and speak out, but no…all we hear are crickets.

    Their silence shows me that they support the killers.

    • john spielman says

      May 9, 2015 at 11:11 am

      these moderate muslims are in a difficult position because Satan /allah is commanding them to murder enslave /terrorize all nonmuslims while their consciences tell that is wrong. So they keep quiet and approve in their hearts what the jihadists are doing for Satan/allah.

      • spot on says

        May 9, 2015 at 12:07 pm

        True. Nurturing hatred and desiring the murder of Jews and Christians should be the same as committing the act, wouldn’t you say. To me that would seem equivalent to a young single Christian man surrounded by the most beautiful women in the world while claiming faithfulness to Jesus’ words in Matthew 5:28.

      • Jay Airahs says

        May 9, 2015 at 1:19 pm

        I disagree,
        Allah (Satan) is not actually commanding them to murder enslave /terrorize all nonmuslims while their consciences tell that is wrong.
        Allah is just an excuse to give Muslims a feeling of superiority and authority over non-Muslims.
        Give a hoodlum a security uniform and a title of guard and you still have a hoodlum.

        Once a Muslim convert gets a new name (‘honorific’ title) and starts wearing the standard issue Muslim clown suit it is only a matter of time until the carpet kisser starts shooting.

        • spot on says

          May 9, 2015 at 4:34 pm

          It is very understandable that only a minority of Muslims are cut out for harsh fighting in Jihad. I also understand how thugs would be drawn to Islam considering that Mohammed was a warrior and thug himself.

          My question is about the majority of Muslims wanting to belong to a religion that is known for thuggery. During the Refomation of the Christian Church there were various new Christian religions formed due to corruption in the ranks and differences of opinion.

          Are the majority of Muslims slaves controlled by the thugs? Are they unable to talk and express their dissatisfaction with the minority? My opinion is that the majority of Muslims must approve of all the thuggery and killing and enjoy the feeling of supremacy over other people that is part of Islam.

  5. Papa Whiskey says

    May 9, 2015 at 12:05 pm

    Would that the noose would tighten around these creatures. Of course, no such thing is taking place. <Au contraire, our federal, state, and local governments bend over backwards to pamper and defer to them, abetted by a plethora of bleeding-heart NGOs. This is just more of the nauseating narrative of victimhood that Muslims constantly bleat and repeat.

    • spot on says

      May 9, 2015 at 12:14 pm

      I agree with every syllable. Muslims are smart in certain ways and they play the MSM like a Stradivarius. In addition to that the MSM likes being played by them. The power of the MSM cannot be underestimated.

  6. Westman says

    May 9, 2015 at 12:32 pm

    I doubt Simpson thought of, “Soon you won’t be able to live in America as a Muslim. The noose is tightening,”, all by himself.

    It sounds more like propaganda; unsupported by any thoughtful observation of the Brooklyn College Muslim students. Someone is selling this mantra, at a mosque or online, as victimhood with the intent to incite action.

    • Jay Airahs says

      May 9, 2015 at 1:09 pm

      Muslims have no shame.
      They have Islam.

  7. Jay Airahs says

    May 9, 2015 at 2:36 pm

    Let’s not offend Muslims and respect the dead.
    Osama Bin Laden was given an Islamic burial so as not to offend Muslims.
    Yet the Qu’ran’s filth endorses beheadings.

    How is that respectful?
    How shameless and duplicitous is Islam to have its supposed holy book endorse such things.
    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2004/07/the-quran-mentions-beheading-why-does-the-us-press-claim-otherwise

  8. abad says

    May 9, 2015 at 2:55 pm

    I wish ALL Muslims in the United States would leave for Syria or Iraq. Better for them to be over there than here!

  9. gravenimage says

    May 9, 2015 at 10:41 pm

    Jihadi who attacked AFDI/JW Muhammad cartoon contest had attempted to go to Syria to join the Islamic State
    ……………………………….

    This comes as no surprise—those pious Muslims who can’t go and wage violent Jihad overseas are urged to do so here.

    More:

    “Soon you won’t be able to live in America as a Muslim. The noose is tightening”
    ……………………………….

    What crap. Muslims have freedom of religion here as do members of every other faith. What they mean is that they cannot impose Shari’ah here, and that some—like the brave Pamela Geller and AFDI—are resisting its imposition and trying to warn others.

    More:

    Less than two weeks later he referenced the Mohammad drawing contest — the site of Sunday’s attack — saying, “When will they ever learn?”
    ……………………………….

    In other words, when will we learn to kowtow to violent, oppressive Muslims? Sorry, never.

    More:

    The families of both shooting suspects said they were shocked and dismayed by what Simpson and Soofi had done.
    ……………………………….

    Not all of them—Soofi’s step-mother said she wouldn’t say whether his actions were good or bad, and then she slammed the organizers of the art show. *Ugh*.

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