Yet another convert to Islam somehow gets the idea that Islam required him to wage war against unbelievers — an idea that the media and political elites would have us believe originates solely with greasy Islamophobes. How greasy Islamophobes came to be in charge of the instruction of converts to Islam, no one has bothered to explain.
“Michael Todd Wolfe man gets 82 months for attempt to aid terrorists,” Statesman, June 5, 2015:
Almost a year after his arrest at a Houston airport, a 24-year-old man was sentenced Friday in Austin to nearly seven years in prison on charges that he attempted to aid overseas terrorists.
Michael Todd Wolfe, a Houston native who authorities say lived in the Austin area, pleaded guilty last year to planning to travel to the Middle East to join the al-Qaida offshoot Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS. He will be placed on five years of supervisory release following his incarceration.
In a plea last year, he admitted that he obtained a passport, went through physical training and practiced military maneuvers to prepare to engage in violent jihad, investigators said.
Federal court records show Wolfe had been communicating with an undercover investigator who told Wolfe he had helped people wanting to travel for jihad in Somalia and Syria. From August 2013 until this month, Wolfe had worked on preparing for the trip.
He obtained birth certificates for himself, his wife and two children. He asked an undercover agent for a pair of durable glasses with a head strap that would hold up on the battlefield, and he was running, doing Cross-Fit exercises and practicing martial arts, investigators said.
In early August, his wife told an undercover agent that her husband had said his heart yearned to join his Muslim brothers, that he was ready to die for his religion, that “he was ready to die for someone; for something,” according to a criminal complaint.
His plan was for him and his family to travel under the false pretext of going to a concert in Europe, and he bought airline tickets so that he could meet an FBI employee, whom he thought would facilitate his trip to Syria through Turkey, the complaint states….
Rahatul Ashikim Khan, 23, of Round Rock is accused of recruiting jihadi fighters through an online chat room. A separate indictment out of a Miami federal court obtained by the American-Statesman seems to share ties to the complaint against Khan and alleges possible co-conspirators had been funding three groups, designated by the United States as terrorist organizations, that have operated in Iraq, Syria and Somalia.
Angemon says
“Michael Todd Wolfe”? Is that what he calls himself? I doubt it. Anyway, he’ll be a fine, upstanding citizen after he does his time, right?
Jayke says
I think his mohammadan name is Faruq.
Huck Folder says
I think a 24 year-old with an idiot beard like that will be Faruqed regularly in jail.
Huck Folder says
Outwardly, a domesticated ruminant animal with a thick woolly coat.
Mirren10 says
They should have just let him go, stripped him quietly of his citizenship, anulled his passport.
Then if he wasn’t killed, he couldn’t get back in, and the American tax payers wouldn’t have to pay for his subsistence. Sorted.
Stardusty Psyche says
Hi Mirren10,
Yes, I agree with you in spirit, but I don’t think there is a legal means to strip anybody of their citizenship, is there? If there is I would be interested to know how that is done.
I believe a person can renounce their citizenship, but if a person states they wish to remain a citizen I don’t think there is a legal way to strip that person of their citizenship, even for high crimes.
For legal residents and other non-citizens, yes, we would be better off without them.
Once they join IS we can give them their ticket to paradise…
Stardusty Psyche says
Hi Mirren10,
Ok, thanks for that info, I wasn’t aware that that a naturalized citizen can be stripped of citizenship within the first 5 years.
I am a natural born citizen of the USA, and I don’t think there is any process for stripping natural born citizens of their citizenship. If you know of any, I would, again, be interested.
Don McKellar says
There is only one way to strip a natural born citizen of the United States of their citizenship. Well, actually there are several ways: gas chamber, electric chair, firing squad, hanging, etc. None of which are appropriate in this case.
It is clear that a law must be passed so that it is possible for a citizen to be stripped of their citizenship. In the new world of the 21st Century, this is rapidly becoming a necessary option for any government. They need to be able to let Islamic maniacs walk out the door they’ve chosen, then shut and lock it behind them for good. Which keeps the citizens of the country safe and saves the taxpayers enormous amounts of money on the care and feeding of said baboons. The current state laws on the issue does not address the current state of affairs.
Stardusty Psyche says
Hi Don McKellar,
My first reaction is to agree with you…let ’em go, slam the door so they can’t come back, and give them the ticket to paradise they seem to want so much once they arrive in the caliphate.
On the other hand, letting them go to enslave, maim, and murder innocent people elsewhere seems kinda dangerous too.
Irrespective, considering the rulings on the 14th amendment I don’t think stripping natural born citizens of citizenship is going to be any kind of legal option
Christopher Hudson says
The best we can hope for legally is to simply brand them a traitor. Granted, they retain their right to due process.
RonaldB says
“American tax payers wouldn’t have to pay for his subsistence. Sorted.”
What about the Christians and non-combatants he kills while he’s on his “concert” trip? Does the United States have the right to knowingly allow one of its citizens to go off and murder in another country?
He has 7 years of hard time and 5 years supervised probation. For a hard-core Muslim, he’s not going to change, so the probation should be hard time. Double the 12 years, and you might have a pretty good deterrent for overeager Muslims here.
Don McKellar says
How much money are paying to keep this baboon in jail, RonaldB? I guess you really don’t care what it costs taxpayers as long as Christians on the other side of the world are theoretically kept safe from something he may or may not do.
Mirren10 says
To RonaldB;
I think governments have a responsibility to protect, as far as is commensurate with common sense, their *own* citizens, before worrying about what a deported criminal may do in another country.
To suggest any government has a responsibility to prevent whatever mayhem a convicted criminal and deportee may choose to do out of its jurisdiction, to my mind stretches responsibility beyond what is reasonable or credible.
I don’t believe, either, that prison, hard labour or no, is at all a deterrent for creatures like this.
He will simply use it as an opportunity for dawah, whilst forcing your fellow taxpayers for his subsistence, and probably that of his family, as well.
I agree with Don. The laws, in every Western country, need to be changed, so that detritus like this creature and his ilk, can be got rid of. The rights of decent and law abiding citizens are immeasurably more important.
Angemon says
Mirren10 posted:
“I don’t believe, either, that prison, hard labour or no, is at all a deterrent for creatures like this.”
He should have stood trial for crime he committed – treason. What else to call someone who willingly tries to join a group at war with his nation if not a traitor?
Joseph says
@ Angemon
Being convicted of treason is one way to strip citizenship. See my post above.
Mirren10 says
”He should have stood trial for crime he committed – treason. What else to call someone who willingly tries to join a group at war with his nation if not a traitor”
Agreed, Angemon. And then deport him.
Jack Diamond says
Australia wants to strip the citizenship of the Australian-born children of immigrants if they leave to fight for the Islamic State. The problem is, like America, the only grounds for losing citizenship is joining the armed forces of a hostile foreign country. The Islamic State is not recognized as a state. Recognizing it as a state would give them grounds for stripping citizenships and passports, at least for immigrants, children of immigrants and dual citizens–because people cannot be left stateless (though anyone taking up arms for the Islamic State would now…have a state).
You can lose your citizenship if convicted of treason but the bar is set high by the Constitution. Adam Gadahn was charged with treason for aiding an enemy of the United States but you have to be convicted to lose your citizenship (he was killed). Yasir Esam Hamdi was a U.S. citizen captured fighting for the Taliban in 2001. The U.S. tried revoking his citizenship and the courts overturned it. In the end they got him to voluntarily renounce his citizenship so they could deport him to Saudi Arabia, prohibited from ever returning. He had to promise not to sue the U.S. government over his 3 year captivity being denied due process. John Walker Lindh was never charged with treason, but with conspiring to kill Americans in Afghanistan. Proving treason required a higher burden of proof than his case could provide. The Constitution defines it as actually levying war against the United States with the testimony of two eye witnesses. Aaron Burr was acquitted of treason because he only conspired to wage war. That wasn’t enough.
Mirren10 says
To the mouth of Sauron, (nice one, Angemon 🙂 )
” I don’t think there is a legal means to strip anybody of their citizenship, is there? ”
”Membership in Subversive Groups: Your citizenship may be revoked if the U.S. government can prove that you joined a subversive organization within five years of becoming a naturalized citizen. Membership in such organizations is considered a violation of the oath of U.S. allegiance. Examples include the Nazi Party and Al Qaeda – See more at: http://immigration.findlaw.com/citizenship/can-your-u-s-citizenship-be-revoked-.html#sthash.faIn9KyW.dpuf”
That took me two minutes to find.
jorge says
Those are only for naturalized citizens. For US born citizens, stardusty’s right. The citizenship of a US born citizen cannot be revoked against his or her will.
Mirren10 says
Then, as I said, the law needs to be changed. Any citizen who voluntarily goes, or attempts to go, to fight with and for his/her country’s enemies, should be stripped of citizenship, and summarily deported. Citizenship should be a privilege, not a get out of jail free card, carrying no responsibilities.
dumbledoresarmy says
Alternatively, countries all over the West could dust off two other very ancient options – Exile and/ or Outlawry.
Exile For The Term of Your Natural Life is a punishment that Britain was using as late as the mid-19th century, for persons deemed seditious and dangerous.
Imagine if Samantha Lewthwaite was formally and publicly sentenced to Lifelong Exile and, to boot, declared Outlaw.
Theodoric says
Recently reported theolinguistic evidence indicates that the so-called “Prophet” Muhammad was actually a dinosaur. Doesn’t it seem rather likely that Islam and ISIS will lose a great deal of their ability to attract converts when this becomes common knowledge?
Muhammasaurus Rasulex:
* Last of the Prophets among the Dinosaurs
* Last of the Dinosaurs among the Prophets
https://drawthevileprophet.wordpress.com/2015/05/09/scholars-are-asking-was-the-prophet-muhammad-actually-a-dinosaur/
mortimer says
WHERE DID Michael Todd Wolfe get the idea he should KILL FOR ISLAM?
Lessee…
-“So, wherever you find them, kill them, for whoever kills them shall have reward on the Day of Resurrection” (Bukhari, Volume 9, Book 84, Number 64)
-“So, fight them till all opposition ends and the only religion is Islam.” (Koran 8:39)
-“Allah wished to confirm the truth by His words: ‘Wipe the infidels out to the last.’” (Koran 8:7)
-‘The battle cry of the Companions of the Messenger of Allah that night was: ‘Kill! Kill! Kill!” (Tabari VIII:141)
He must have taken those verses out of context.
ich says
As much as I love these emails , man oh man I get angry. I also feel hopeless. The world seems
really really stupid. There are so many double standards I cant keep up. It seems like we are
all so afraid we are afraid to kick the pit bull even when its biting your leg.
But as a Canadian I realize the one thing USA has is extreme might !
But your efforts are always reduced but , and I hate using the word…LIBERALS?
As soon as you say Liberal or Conservative , democrat or republican all brain activity
turns off and the “left” attacks their own with the same old nonsense year after year.
Im going to look for a concrete bunker somewhere !!!
Keep up the good work all.
duh_swami says
If they put him in jail for trying to join jihad, what are they doing with the ones who did join and then returned?
nacazo says
The president just identified the number 1 security threat to the nation safety: global warming. Some Egyptians react: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXodRLLkth4
sahani says
Arab system of destroying your nations is so perfect working well since 1400yrs. $ 1 manual in each hand specially poor and fools who are made sure they don’t read any other books are their foot soldiers in your nations. All bow to them 30 times a day.West have no program to deprogram these fools who should be declared traitors or anti nationals.
Sam says
Great! It is excellent use of my tax dollars to put in jail Jihadis to be fed and sheltered and hate America more thanks to the visiting “Imams”. When he comes out he will be on welfare for years to plot to kill infidels here. If they want to go to Syria let them and don’t let them back in. How more stupid are we going to be against this religion of peace? We are really losing the war against Islam. Don’t care what JW readers comment here.
Walter Sieruk says
As for this Muslim man who wanted to join ISIS. He may have in his own wicked, warped, sick and deluded Islamic way of thinking might of had “good intentions” So the point is this shows that it the old saying might be true. Which is that “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”
Mark says
So many demons…
AND SO MANY WILLING MUSLIM HOSTS FOR THEM!
underbed cat says
While scrolling up this article, the picture was a little shocking to me as my first instinct was that he had the same dead looking eyes and features of Mohammed Atta, but younger.. I wonder is he Egyptian?. People who come to this site know what drives the emotions of jihadists. They believe they are doing Allah’s will…and they can kill without guilt..such a inverted calling repeated over and over. What does it take to change the mind to “thou shall not kill” to follow the light and not the darkness of hate.?