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Jihadi who wanted to kill Pamela Geller said he’d kill his family if they refused to live by Sharia

Jun 13, 2015 6:09 pm By Robert Spencer

Nuh al-Amriki“When asked about bail, Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephanie Siegmann told the judge that Rovinski posed a ‘significant threat to public safety.’ He was ordered held for a week and limped away in shackles.”

A week? A week? Will anyone be watching this jihadi savage next week?

“He also indicated he is prepared to fight anyone who is an enemy of ISIL, including Americans if necessary, to accomplish ISIL’s ultimate goal. That includes his family, who Rovinski said would be required to live within ISIL’s parameters and that ‘if they were to refuse, they must be killed,’ the affidavit stated.” The Islamic State’s “parameters” are, of course, Islamic law — Sharia. Nuh al-Amriki, as Rovinski styles himself since his conversion, is saying that his family must abide by Sharia or be killed — which is exactly the same principle upon which he set out to murder Pamela Geller. He was demanding that she abide by Sharia blasphemy laws prohibiting depictions of Muhammad, or be killed.

The question now before the U.S. and the free world in general is whether it will submit to this violent threat, and give those doing the threatening what they want, or stand for its principles of freedom. What the choice will be is anyone’s guess at this point.

“Warwick man accused of conspiring in terror plot,” by Amanda Milkovits, Providence Journal, June 12, 2015 (thanks to Thomas):

BOSTON — A Warwick, R.I., man, who stated he feels “at war” with those who oppose the Islamic State, is accused of conspiring with two Boston men to attack and behead a critic of Islam.

Nicholas Rovinski, 24, was ordered detained after appearing in a packed courtroom at U.S. District Court Friday afternoon. The thin young man with a long dark beard said little, except in response to the judge’s questions. His mother sat silently in the crowd.

When asked about bail, Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephanie Siegmann told the judge that Rovinski posed a “significant threat to public safety.” He was ordered held for a week and limped away in shackles.

Rovinski is the second person to be charged in the alleged terror plot involving a blogger who had hosted a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest. The plot collapsed after a third man allegedly decided instead to martyr himself by attacking police officers, who killed him in Boston on June 2.

Usaamah Abdullah Rahim, 26, drew a long-bladed fighting knife on Boston police officers and FBI agents as they approached him in a parking lot in the city’s Roslindale neighborhood. They told him to drop his weapon; he refused and moved toward the officers, who shot him to death, according to Boston Police Commissioner Williams Evans.

Rahim’s death led to the arrest that same day of his nephew David Wright, 25, of Everett, who remains held on a charge of obstructing justice, and to the presence of law enforcement at Rovinski’s home at 167 Aspinet Drive in Warwick for more than a week.

Rovinski was arrested by the FBI Thursday evening, on a charge of conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State, also known as ISIL. Wright now also faces the same charge.

U.S. District Court Judge Donald Cabell ordered Rovinski detained until a probable cause and bail hearing next Friday at 2 p.m., when Wright is also expected to appear at a detention hearing.

While some of Rovinski’s family members appeared in court, none spoke to the media. Neither did the two lawyers accompanying him, Providence federal public defender Olin Thompson and Boston federal public defender William W. Fick, who had also represented Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the Boston Marathon bombing trial.

However, an affidavit by an FBI special agent filed Friday in U.S. District Court provided more details about the men’s relationships and the alleged plot.

The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force investigation alleges that Rovinski was drawn to a radical life after converting to Islam two years ago.

In the 21-page affidavit, the FBI said that Rovinski submitted to an interview with law enforcement about his views.

“He told the agents that he fully supported the recently publicized acts of ISIL fighters in the Middle East such as beheadings and military attacks on forces who oppose ISIL,” the affidavit states. “Rovinski stated that the beheadings … were both warnings and a method of warfare. He stated that he feels he is ‘at war’ with those who oppose ISIL … He also indicated he is prepared to fight anyone who is an enemy of ISIL, including Americans if necessary, to accomplish ISIL’s ultimate goal.”

That includes his family, who Rovinski said would be required to live within ISIL’s parameters and that “if they were to refuse, they must be killed,” the affidavit stated.

The Pilgrim High School graduate walks with a limp from cerebral palsy and lives with his mother and younger brother in Warwick’s Governor Francis Farms, near the beach at Gaspee Point.

Neighbors and residents who know the family said they noticed some changes in Rovinski. He began wearing a head scarf and would stop to pray outside. Some teenagers said he sometimes visited their hangout deep in the woods off a dead-end. Some of the adults said Rovinski talked about converting and said he loved his new religion.

Rovinski changed his name to Nuh Amriki and uploaded videos to his YouTube channels of radical Islamic clerics accused of promoting terrorism, according to the affidavit.

His YouTube channels show a progression.

First, the radical Islamists, including Abu Haleema, the preacher in London who was banned last month from using social media after being arrested on suspicion of encouraging terrorism, and Sheik Omar Bakri Muhammad, a Syrian-born Islamist preacher banned from Britain, who is blamed for radicalizing British jihadists.

Rovinski also signed up for “Halalmates,” a dating and marriage advice site for Islamists, according to a view of his YouTube channels. He also uploaded jihadi “nasheeds,” or chants, including one calling for people to sacrifice themselves to ISIL, according to the FBI.

Then came the videos of survivalists and “doomsday preppers” showing how to live off the grid. Most recently, videos of a bladesmith who showed how to make knives. Rovinski “liked” one video about making a machete without power tools.

During this time, according to law enforcement, Rovinski was also connecting with two Boston men, who were interested in jihad.

Rovinski later told FBI agents that he met Wright on Facebook about a year ago. Wright also goes by Dawud Sharif Abdul Khaliq. Wright’s uncle is Rahim.

All three men came under surveillance by the Joint Terrorism Task force, which learned in May of their plans to behead blogger Pamela Geller, who hosted the Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Garland, Texas, in early May, according to a complaint filed in U.S. District Court.

Two armed men opened fire outside the contest in Garland, but were killed by law enforcement. ISIL soon called for Geller’s “slaughter.”

The FBI alleges that Rovinski, Wright and Rahim decided to answer ISIL’s call to action. Some of their text messages and recorded phone conversations are included in the affidavit.

Rahim bought three large fighting knives from Amazon.com, and then drove with Wright to Rhode Island on May 31 to meet Rovinski and discuss their plans, according to the court affidavit.

The three men stood on a Warwick beach for about two hours, talking in the rain. Rovinski later told the FBI that they talked about various aspects of Islam and plans to attack its enemies, the affidavit stated. They were going to track and behead a woman — believed to be Geller — in New York, though Rovinski was unsure what specifically each of them would do, the affidavit stated….

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Filed Under: American jihadis, converts to Islam, Featured, free speech, Muhammad cartoons Tagged With: David Wright, Dawud Abdul Khaliq, Nicholas Rovinski, Nuh al-Amriki, Pamela Geller, Usaama Rahim


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  1. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Jun 13, 2015 at 6:31 pm

    Rovinski talked about converting and said he loved his new religion… stated that the beheadings … were both warnings and a method of warfare… Some teenagers said he sometimes visited their hangout deep in the woods off a dead-end… signed up for “Halalmates,” a dating and marriage advice site for Islamists… Rahim bought three large fighting knives from Amazon.com, and then drove with Wright to Rhode Island on May 31 to meet Rovinski and discuss their plans… The three men stood on a Warwick beach for about two hours, talking in the rain… walks with a limp from cerebral palsy and lives with his mother and younger brother in Warwick’s Governor Francis Farms, near the beach at Gaspee Point.

    Is it just me, or does this read like a morose romance novel? This reads kind of a John Irving piece with the urge to stab wrongdoers in the heart thrown in to give the piece some juice. A tear trickled down my cheek when I read the line about his hits on the Halal Mates website. From love to hate, so travels this star crossed anti-American ingrate, but his luck turned, the cops rolled in, and now it’s too late.

    Too bad he’s gonna go to a pokey here in the States. If he got time in Gitmo he’d soon be on his way to Dar al-Islam to fight for the glory of the Cause that is the Holy Ko-Ran. Bad luck about the cerebral palsy; bad luck about his bust. It’s so sad, I hope he got lucky on Halal Mates cuz apparently he never made it to an Honest to God mass murder. Meh.

    • mortimer says

      Jun 13, 2015 at 9:08 pm

      Radical Islamic Jihadist Chic is rampant among Muslim youth. It’s similar to the hippy movement only no ‘peace and love’. The radicalized youth believe in BARBARIC CRUELTY AND HATRED directed towards what they call ‘The Crusaders’.

      This jihadist glamor culture is radicalizing the youth.

      • mortimer says

        Jun 13, 2015 at 9:13 pm

        This hatred of the host cultures of Western countries is what we continue to import to our shores. Unchecked, this growing subculture of hate will continue to boil over.

        Intelligence agencies should deal with the Jihadist Chic culture before it deals with us. They should deprogram Muslims.

        • BC says

          Jun 14, 2015 at 5:17 am

          We keep getting these tear jerker stories in the media about the poor asylum seekers but we know very well after about 2 – 5 years in the country they will be demanding more ‘rights’ for Muslims, bigger mosques and sharia for every body

      • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

        Jun 13, 2015 at 10:06 pm

        Jihadist Chic, I like it. As opined in Greg Gutfeld’s book Not Cool, since the 60s whether or not something is cool has eclipsed whether or not it is good or bad, because cool in and of itself is good. Politics had melded with culture on all fronts, but the melding of cool with the Holy Islam is very uncool, as in nuclear dangerous.

        The only upside to people joining the Jihad because it’s the cool thing to do is that those who join are either soon dead or caged on their hands and knees in the pokey.

        That’s cool, but Moslems are uncool. In fact, they’re a buzz kill. I can imagine that masked British Jihadist who does PR for the New Caliphate one day decapitating a Western journalist or maybe a Coptic Christian with a beefed up hedge trimmer, buzzing as he kills the dude. Buzzkill, get it?

        • PE says

          Jun 14, 2015 at 7:33 am

          Buzz kill? Really? (groan).

  2. Angemon says

    Jun 13, 2015 at 6:57 pm

    That includes his family, who Rovinski said would be required to live within ISIL’s parameters and that “if they were to refuse, they must be killed,” the affidavit stated.

    This reminds me of a passage in the sira. After muhammad ordered his companions to kill any Jews they could get his hands on, one went and killed a Jewish merchant. The brother of the killer was not a muslim and after learning of it he went and start beating him while saying “Why did you do that for? He was our business associate, and much of the fat in your belly came from our dealings with him”. To which the killer replied “if muhammad had ordered to kill you then I would kill you”. The brother replied “a religion that can bring someone to this is marvelous”, and converted to islam.

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Jun 13, 2015 at 7:24 pm

      … “if muhammad had ordered to kill you then I would kill you”. The brother replied “a religion that can bring someone to this is marvelous”, and converted to islam.

      Jesus. H. Christ. After all these years, I read this passage and finally I get it, finally I understand the magic of Islam. It’s all about commitment. And, unfortunately, the commitment I’m talking about is not admittance into a mental institution specializing in life terms for the criminally insane.

      The world has gone insane, and the Moslems are leading the way, they are leading all of us down the way to the rock bottom, the nadir, which all Infidels should have realized after what they did at Nadir. What Allah called the straight path in Holy Ko-Ran 1:6.

      Karl Marx was a piker compared to the Holy Prophet Mohammed. The former tapped into the limitless appeal of getting other people’s money; the latter tapped into the most basic and primordial of human instincts, the one that prefers killing to being killed.

      Say, I just thought of something. Bill O’Reilly, the great news entertainer on Fox RINO, he’s always doing these Killing books, or should I say his ghost writer crew is always doing them, but anyway, Bill should do a new book called Killing Islam. It would be a hit, if you know what I mean.

      But Bill won’t do the book. Nobody wants to die.

      • No Fear says

        Jun 13, 2015 at 9:12 pm

        “the latter tapped into the most basic and primordial of human instincts, the one that prefers killing to being killed”

        Exactly. Prof Joseph Campbell wrote a lot about that sort of thing.

    • Neil Jennison says

      Jun 13, 2015 at 7:25 pm

      “”The brother replied “a religion that can bring someone to this is marvelous”, and converted to Islam.””

      FFS! What a wanker!

      This is USA site and I believe you do not understand the word “wanker”!

      Self abuser……onanist!

      • No Fear says

        Jun 13, 2015 at 9:06 pm

        The passage is from the biography of Mohammed by Ibn Ishaq.

        The apostle said, “Kill any Jew that falls into your power.” Thereupon Muhayyisa leapt upon Ibn Sunayna, a Jewish merchant with whom they had social and business relations, and killed him. Huwayyisa was not a Muslim at the time, though he was the elder brother. When Muhayyisa killed [the Jew] Huwayyisa began to beat him, saying, “You enemy of God, did you kill him when much of the fat on your belly comes from his wealth?” Muhayyisa answered, “Had the one who ordered me to kill him ordered me to kill you I would have cut your head off.” This was the beginning of Huwayyisa’s acceptance of Islam… [Huwayyisa] replied exclaimed, “By God, a religion which can bring you to this is marvelous!” and he became a Muslim. (Ibn Ishaq/Hisham 554)

        • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

          Jun 13, 2015 at 10:13 pm

          That’s a great story. It is made even greater by the fact that it was told without a grain or irony. I don’t think irony exists in Islam. We are stuck on Earth with a billion hairy Moslems who are incapable of irony because they are so intent in their belief and their Cause, which unfortunately for us involves world takeover.

        • ECAW says

          Jun 14, 2015 at 2:00 am

          Here is the story in context, the context of the casual cruelty that pervades the hadiths and the sira:

          https://ecawblog.wordpress.com/2014/03/12/a-short-story/

      • particolor says

        Jun 14, 2015 at 5:04 am

        Neil ..We are well aware of that term in Aussie ! One only has to look at our Parliamentary Line up, Both sides, and it springs Immediately to mind ! 🙂

  3. David, Thailand says

    Jun 13, 2015 at 8:17 pm

    “Jihadi who wanted to kill Pamela Geller said he’d kill his family if they refused to live by Sharia”

    We should be grateful this has nothing to do with Islam.

    Some may chuckle, but it gets serious when our own elected leaders unashamedly promote such an absurd and fraudulent notion.

  4. Dan says

    Jun 13, 2015 at 8:29 pm

    The only people nuttier than these guys are those who keep insisting these guys have nothing to do with Islam.

  5. Amada says

    Jun 13, 2015 at 8:52 pm

    Does his family have anything to say about their imminent demise at the hands of their son?

    • Angemon says

      Jun 13, 2015 at 9:15 pm

      Amada posted:

      “Does his family have anything to say about their imminent demise at the hands of their son?”

      I suspect that if they do, it might be something along the lines of “He’s a good kid who got involved with the wrong crowd”.

      • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

        Jun 13, 2015 at 10:16 pm

        Or they could blame it on video games.

  6. dodo says

    Jun 14, 2015 at 5:47 am

    Sharia law is the law of ISIS

  7. PE says

    Jun 14, 2015 at 7:39 am

    There are some elements of tragicomedy in this tale. I feel an intense sadness for these young people who have become so alienated and socially discouraged that they find the idea of mass murder for their cause, somehow appealing.
    They are poor pathetic figures, trying to become something in their fantasies that they cannot achieve in their lives.
    And now , their lives are ruined. You begin to wonder where the adults were as they drifted into nihilism and a fanatic identification with such a brutal movement.

  8. b.c.terry says

    Jun 14, 2015 at 9:50 am

    KILL DEATH HATE KILL KILL BEHEAD RAPE STONE HATE DEATH SLAUGHTER HATE RAPE BEHEAD STONE DEATH DEATH DEATH

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