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NC jihad plotter: “I started thinking about death and stuff so I became a Muslim”

Jun 22, 2015 4:18 pm By Robert Spencer

Justin Nojan Sullivan“He certainly talked big, telling the undercover he might want to kill as many as 1,000 people, set off a big vehicle bomb or use chemical weapons.” Who instructed him in Islam? Or was he “radicalized on the Internet,” and that’s the end of all law enforcement curiosity about this question?

“ISIS-Inspired Suspect Justin Nojan Sullivan Was Turned in By Dad,” by Pete Williams, NBC News, June 22, 2015 (thanks to Robert):

The FBI has arrested a 19-year-old North Carolina man for allegedly plotting an ISIS-inspired terrorist attack — after being tipped off to his disturbing behavior by his father.

Justin Nojan Sullivan was arrested Friday after the FBI found a silencer in the Morganton house where he lived with his parents.

Sullivan had asked another man to build a silencer for him — and that person turned out be an undercover FBI operative, who built the silencer for him, according to court papers.

It’s unclear how much of a threat Sullivan actually posed.

He certainly talked big, telling the undercover he might want to kill as many as 1,000 people, set off a big vehicle bomb or use chemical weapons, a criminal complaint says. He even talked about coating bullets with cyanide and robbing banks, the feds say.

But he apparently wasn’t on investigators’ radar until April, when his father called 911 to report that he was destroying Buddha figurines and had doused their religious objects with gasoline.

“We are scared to leave the house,” the father told the operator, according to the court documents.

Sullivan could he heard in the background asking, “Why are you trying to say I’m a terrorist?”

Weeks later, an undercover operative made contact with Sullivan, who allegedly told him, “I liked IS from the beginning, then I started thinking about death and stuff so I became a Muslim.”

The FBI says Sullivan talked about buying an assault rifle from a gun show in North Carolina and shoot people last weekend “because his parents would be out of town at the time.”

He did not buy a rifle before he was arrested Friday but allegedly planned to purchase one at the Hickory Gun Show last weekend.

The criminal complaint says Sullivan confessed to plotting an attack, telling authorities that he looked for possible targets in the online Yellow Pages and had asked the undercover agent to kill his parents.

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  1. Michael Copeland says

    Jun 22, 2015 at 4:33 pm

    Do we feel a “mental illness” excuse coming on?

  2. Angemon says

    Jun 22, 2015 at 4:57 pm

    Weeks later, an undercover operative made contact with Sullivan, who allegedly told him, “I liked IS from the beginning, then I started thinking about death and stuff so I became a Muslim.”

    Why wouldn’t he? Getting into the heavenly brothel that is the islamic paradise is very easy: just get kill and/or die while fighting for the sake of allah. Is it any wonder that all sorts of losers and wackos end up converting to islam? They get to be rewarded in the afterlife for being thugs and ruffians in this life. Win-win situation for them.

    • TheBuffster says

      Jun 23, 2015 at 2:54 am

      So the screwed up kid with violent urges identified with IS, and then he started thinking about “death and stuff” so he became a Muslim.

      If the kid became a Muslim because he likes the idea of getting to do violence and then getting to go to Paradise, and he wasn’t even raised Muslim, think what that means about his screwed-up thinking process. He believes that believing makes it so. He wants there to be a Paradise for violent, murderous thugs, so if he embraces Islam, there *will* be such a Paradise.

      Wishing makes it so. Reality bends to one’s choice of beliefs. Consciousness is the creator of one’s reality instead of being the tool for perceiving and understanding *the* reality. That’s where he’s coming from. That’s why he’s screwed.

  3. Champ says

    Jun 22, 2015 at 5:03 pm

    “I started thinking about death and stuff so I became a Muslim”

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    After all, islam is an evil death cult …

    • Fr. Basil says

      Jun 22, 2015 at 11:09 pm

      Why should that surprise us? God said through Solomon “All who hate Me love death.”

  4. cs says

    Jun 22, 2015 at 5:11 pm

    FBI found terrorist related literature on his flat.
    Yes the Quran and Sahih Bukari. That is all it takes.

  5. Jaladhi says

    Jun 22, 2015 at 5:14 pm

    Islam appeals only to criminal minds!! That is called meeting of the minds!!

  6. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Jun 22, 2015 at 5:40 pm

    I started thinking about death and stuff so I became a Muslim.

    Classic. Couldn’t have said it better myself.

    He certainly talked big, telling the undercover he might want to kill as many as 1,000 people, set off a big vehicle bomb or use chemical weapons.

    And he’s ambitious in addition to being articulate.

  7. Mirren10 says

    Jun 22, 2015 at 5:41 pm

    “I liked IS from the beginning, then I started thinking about death and stuff so I became a Muslim.”

    Very instructive as to the sort of people attracted to this foul religion of blood, death, and murder. It’s tailor made for all the scum of the earth.

    • Joseph says

      Jun 22, 2015 at 6:38 pm

      @ Mirren10
      Doesn’t it sound like it works both ways?

      1st you think about death….become a Muzlim
      Become a Muzlim 1st….then you start to think about death

      • Annak says

        Jun 22, 2015 at 9:35 pm

        And 72 ever- virgins ?
        Only the most primitive of minds could believe this absurd superstition
        And nowhere near clever enough to even be a psychopath

  8. Wellington says

    Jun 22, 2015 at 6:56 pm

    Death and Islam. Perfect together.

  9. abad says

    Jun 22, 2015 at 7:23 pm

    Islam is the Religion of Death

  10. Elizabeth McDonald says

    Jun 22, 2015 at 10:25 pm

    “Those who hate me love death” – Proverbs 8:36. What can be more clear? Islam is NOT just another way to God. Allah is the antithesis of the God of the Bible, the one, true living God.

  11. Joe Shmo says

    Jun 23, 2015 at 8:39 am

    Even though this “man” seems to have his adolescent mental faculties well intact, he’s still smart enough to know that Islam is the religion of “death and stuff”. He’s still smarter than most of the mainstream media.

  12. Uncle Vladdi says

    Jun 23, 2015 at 6:24 pm

    Here’s the “psychology” of “radicalization:”

    The bottom line of sharia is that Islam’s Qur’an only lists and sums up all the bad criminal acts everyone might become tempted into committing in the course of their lives anyway, and gives them the endorsement of “God” himself! So everyone already prone, in at least some situational circumstances in their lives, to indulge their criminal desires and turn them into criminal actions, will eventually embrace islam (in prison, if not before)!

    Beyond this, “muslims” are also trained from birth to lie to all others, and to personally kill small animals in their Eid rituals, while being taught they are the best of people, and all infidel others are only worthy of being murdered and sent to hell – by them, personally, not by “god.”

    And in Judeo-Christianity, when one is depressed and considers suicide, (much less considering suicide after or by committing mass murder) one is told one is destined for HELL.

    While in islam, on the contrary, when one is depressed and considering suicide, one is told that all one has to do to guarantee one’s instant ascent to HEAVEN itself, (while also guaranteeing a choice spot there for 72 of one’s chosen family members and closest friends) is to at least TRY to murder as many (even random) infidels as one can, “for allah!”

  13. Roger Paltry says

    Jun 23, 2015 at 8:55 pm

    From other sources the silencer found in his home was delivered by the USPS to a postal box, picked up by his mom and brought home to him. It was concocted in an FBI office and provided to Justin by an FBI agent acting undercover. That agent had contacted Justin and befriended him online and (perhaps) acted in an encouraging manner.

    The boy did not have a weapon that anyone knows about and it would appear none was found. If it hadn’t been for the aiding and abetting by the FBI he wouldn’t have had the silencer.

    Sounds a whole lot like something very close to, if not, entrapment. I would think soliciting the murder of his parents would be a better charge but then the government wants to look like its fighting terrorism/terrorists even as it denies izlam is a terrorist organization and sets up its own citizens to take the fall in their place.

    But I could be wrong.

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