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Florida Muslim arrested in Islamic State WMD plot; wanted to “destroy America” and “cook American[s]…in cages”

Jul 28, 2015 5:31 pm By Robert Spencer

Harlem SuarezHarlem Suarez is presumably a convert to Islam. Like many other converts to Islam, he has the idea that his commitment to his new religion requires him to commit treason: “We will destroy America and divide it into two. We will raise our black flag on top of your White House and any president on duty.” This is, according to the FBI and the Obama Administration, a total misunderstanding of Islam that has nothing to do with the genuine article. Still, where did Harlem Suarez learn it? Are authorities simply going to take the local mosque’s word for it that they never knew him, or hardly knew him, or threw him out, or whatever they say this time? If no mosques in the U.S. are teaching things like this, where are people like Harlem Suarez and so many others getting it? If they were all “radicalized on the Internet,” why was what they learned at the local mosque not sufficient to withstand the appeal of that “radicalization”?

And here is another question — this one for the cowardly appeasers who insist that we should “respect” Muslims and not “provoke” them or “poke them in the eye” by doing things like standing up for the freedom of speech: what if Harlem Suarez had succeeded? What if he had cooked Americans in cages, as he had wanted to? Would you be casting about for some way in which the victims “provoked” the poor dear, and counseling further submission and surrender? Come to think of it, you probably would.

“Florida Man Arrested in ISIS-Inspired Plot to Bomb Florida Beach, Officials Say,” by Mike Levine, ABC News, July 28, 2015 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

The FBI has arrested a man who allegedly wanted to detonate a bomb at a Florida beach and attack police at their homes in what authorities describe as an ISIS-inspired terror attack, officials said.

Harlem Suarez, 23, of Key West, Florida, has been charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction in the United States….

Suarez first came onto the FBI’s radar in April, after he posted “extremist rhetoric” and pro-ISIS messages on Facebook, according to the Justice Department.

The FBI then sent in a “confidential source,” who for months allegedly talked with Suarez online and in person about plans to attack the United States.

In May, according to the FBI, Suarez recorded his own ISIS recruitment video, declaring: “We will destroy America and divide it into two. We will raise our black flag on top of your White House and any president on duty.”

The FBI said that in subsequent meetings with the FBI informant, Suarez discussed plans for an attack around the July 4 holiday and said he would “cook American[s] … in cages” — an apparent reference to a horrific propaganda video released by ISIS showing a captured Jordanian pilot being burned alive while in a cage.

Last week, Suarez allegedly gave the informant two boxes of nails, a cell phone, a backpack and $100 to build a bomb. In the most recent discussions, Suarez talked about bombing a public beach in Key West and placing explosive devices under police cars and at their homes, according to charging documents filed by the FBI….

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  1. RG says

    Jul 28, 2015 at 5:43 pm

    The terrorists only need to get it right ONE time, the DHS and the FBI have to get it right EVERY time! How many more chances do we get before guys like this succeed??? We all know it’s just a matter of time–ONE TIME!!!!

    • Gary says

      Jul 28, 2015 at 5:57 pm

      Yet the current administration refuses to curtail the influx of muslims to America.

      Is it Jews & Christians that are threatening the existence of America, and American lives?

      Is it Mormons & Hindu’s that are enslaving women as sexual slaves?

      Is it Jehovah’s Witness & New Ager’s that want to behead children?

      No! It’s muslims!

      Will America make attempts to expose the truth about Islam? THE DEATH CULT!!

      Don’t hold your breath.

      • Brian says

        Jul 28, 2015 at 7:29 pm

        Obama the closet Muslim is importing hundreds of thousands of Muslims in to the United States. This NO DOUBT will lead to a real violence problem in the coming years by Islamists.

  2. mortimer says

    Jul 28, 2015 at 5:45 pm

    Conducting jihad is the ‘original religion’ of Mohammed. Mohammed is the authority on Islam. Just as adherence to the U.S. constitution is the litmus test of American identity, so adherence to jihad is Mohammed’s test of loyalty to Islam.

    “It is only those who believe not in Allah and the Last Day and whose hearts are in doubt that ask your leave (to be exempted from jihad).” – K. 9.45
    “But when a decisive surah (explaining and ordering things) is sent down, and fighting (holy fighting in Allah’s Cause) is mentioned (i.e. ordained) therein, you will see those in whose hearts is a disease (of hypocrisy) looking at you with a look of one fainting to death…” – K. 47:20

    “O you who believe! What is the matter with you that when you are asked to go forth in the cause of Allah (jihad) you cling heavily to the earth? Do you prefer the life of this world to the hereafter? But little is the comfort of this life as compared with the hereafter. Unless you go forth He will punish you with a grievous penalty and put others in your place; but Him you would not harm in the least. For Allah has power over all things.” – K. 9:38-9

    “We are those who have given a pledge of allegiance to Muhammad that we will carry on Jihad as long as we live.” – Bukhari 4,52,87

    “As for one who disbelieves, we will fight him forever in the Cause of Allah. Killing him is a small matter to us.” – Tabari IX: 69

    “‘Men, do you know what you are pledging yourselves to in swearing allegiance to this man?’ ‘Yes. In swearing allegiance to him we are pledging to wage war against all mankind.'” – Ishaq: 204

    Harlem Suarez has read up on what Mohammed actually said, rather than guessing about it, like Obama or Cameron or Clinton or Kerry.

    • Gary says

      Jul 28, 2015 at 6:13 pm

      “O you who believe! What is the matter with you that when you are asked to go forth in the cause of Allah (jihad) you cling heavily to the earth? Do you prefer the life of this world to the hereafter? But little is the comfort of this life as compared with the hereafter. Unless you go forth He will punish you with a grievous penalty and put others in your place; but Him you would not harm in the least. For Allah has power over all things.” – K. 9:38-9

      Isn’t that sick, (And just like Satan),….. A god that forces one to hate this life, and do as he states, or face grievous penalty.

      Sounds like the “author of confusion” if you ask me!

      Sounds like the father of ALL lies if you ask me!

      “Hath God truly said?”

      Satan, shows his true lack of character: Questioning EVERYTHING God ALMIGHTY has proclaimed.

      If one desires truth, “in this world to the hereafter”, he or she need look no father than the Bible.

      Many have been deceived: Muslims in particular. Islam is a tool of the devil…..

      “Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time.” (Revelation 12:12)

      • somehistory says

        Jul 28, 2015 at 6:39 pm

        The devil deceives many into worship of him and all who do forfeit any rewards of any kind. All anyone receives for worship of satan is death. The devil lied about our Creator and inspires lying in all who follow him to the bottomless pit of death. Thankfully, as the verse you quoted assures us, he has “a short period of time.”

      • RG says

        Jul 28, 2015 at 7:14 pm

        There’s something about the koran that has really piqued my attention–namely, starting with Sura (Chapter) 2.23 and on and on, ad infinitum, allah (mohammed’s false god) refers to himself in the PLURAL form! Go on line and read it for yourself–just Google the word ‘koran’ (it may not be the Arabic phonetic spelling, but it works).

        I mean, doesn’t islam vehemently claim that allah has no ‘equals’ and ‘no son’ whatsoever? Yes, absolutely, it does make that claim!!! So exactly who is this elusive OTHER form of deity that is implied by the usage of the pronouns “We” and “Us” and “Our”. Yeah, no kidding, so if these were not clear references to the allah-god(s) (who is actually no god, or at best is Satan incarnate), then why would the writers have capitalized these pronouns??? See for yourself, I lie not!

        • Ian H says

          Jul 28, 2015 at 10:23 pm

          I wouldn’t read too much into this as it could be just the “Royal We”. Rulers are allowed to refer to themselves in the plural. When Queen Victoria was quoted as saying “We are not amused” she wasn’t referring to anyone else. Allah, being ruler of the world, presumably gets to use the honorary plural as well.

        • mortimer says

          Jul 28, 2015 at 10:46 pm

          Good point. In other words, if Allah is ‘Us’ or ‘We’, how can he be an absolute SINGULAR? He obviously can’t.

          Practically everything in Islam is contradicted and abrogated and superseded and modified and excepted by something else. Islam is a contradictory morass. Mohammed even made an exception to monotheism by writing the Satanic verses. Allah made an exception to absolute monotheism.

          Muslims lie to themselves about these absurdities, then lie to us. The mullahs no longer believe it themselves, but stay in it, because they need the job.

          Allah is plural and has a partner, Mohammed.

        • ECAW says

          Jul 29, 2015 at 2:03 am

          Excellent point! This has been staring me in the face all this time and I never noticed it. I thought maybe it’s a translation thing but there it is in the literal word for word version:

          http://www.islamawakened.com/quran/2/23/default.htm

          Also, I would have thought omnipotent, omniscient beings should be above the affectations of earthly rulers like Queen Victoria. If Allah says “We” he should be taken at his word (apart from the “greatest deceiver” thing of course).

          It just goes to show what a confused, mixed up sort of deity he is. He made stars as projectiles to throw at demons and he thinks the Christian trinity consists of God, Jesus and Mary, now he’s obviously in the throes of some sort of teenage identity crisis. Poor boy.

  3. Chabuco says

    Jul 28, 2015 at 5:55 pm

    Don’t you mean WMD?

    • Robert Spencer says

      Jul 28, 2015 at 6:11 pm

      Yes, fixed, thanks.

  4. mortimer says

    Jul 28, 2015 at 6:04 pm

    Suarez understood that ISLAM includes a PLEDGE TO KILLING IN JIHAD!

    Narrated Mujashi: My brother and I came to the Prophet and I requested him to take the pledge of allegiance from us for migration. He said, “Migration has passed away with its people.” I asked, “For what will you take the pledge of allegiance from us then?” He (Mohammed) said, “I will take (the pledge) for Islam and JIHAD.” – Bukhari 4,52,208

    In the above quote, Mohammed says that allegiance to Islam includes a commitment to the political action of jihad.

    Mohammed says a real Muslim must kill. Suarez UNDERSTANDS Islam correctly.

  5. Champ says

    Jul 28, 2015 at 6:23 pm

    Suarez first came onto the FBI’s radar in April, after he posted “extremist rhetoric” and pro-ISIS messages on Facebook, according to the Justice Department.

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

    File this under dumb things criminals do …it’s like they want to get caught, which is fine by me. And he knew that he wasn’t converting to a “religion of peace” …no way, islam attracts a lot of criminals, and these creeps want in on the action.

    • mortimer says

      Jul 28, 2015 at 10:49 pm

      The Religion of CRIMINALS AND CONMEN.

  6. abad says

    Jul 28, 2015 at 6:44 pm

    Sometimes I am ashamed to live in Florida. We attract all the weirdos. Lest I mention those 9-11 hijackers took up their flight training right here in Venice, Florida.

    Or is it FloriDuh.

  7. citycat says

    Jul 28, 2015 at 7:23 pm

    Perhaps he was a victim of some sort anyway and was targeted while the natal Muslims confidently breed and creep under the umbrella of being relatively moderate.

  8. Angemon says

    Jul 28, 2015 at 9:04 pm

    Suarez first came onto the FBI’s radar in April, after he posted “extremist rhetoric” and pro-ISIS messages on Facebook, according to the Justice Department.

    I wonder if I’m on any alphabet soup organization’s radar for posting that kind of rhetoric, despite my unambiguously disapproving fashion?

    • Linde Barrera says

      Jul 28, 2015 at 10:57 pm

      Very funny Angemon! Your written intentions are sterling masterpieces.

  9. gary fouse says

    Jul 28, 2015 at 9:42 pm

    The daily blotter. Yet another Muslim arrested trying to carry out terrorism against us.

  10. gary fouse says

    Jul 28, 2015 at 9:45 pm

    Send this to Hussam Ayloush at SoCal CAIR. He swears only a dozen or so American Muslims have tried to join ISIS.

  11. ECAW says

    Jul 29, 2015 at 3:13 am

    Off topic.It surprises me never to see anything here about the most important thing going on in the counterjihad world in Britain at the moment.

    Yesterday the ultra-creepy Hope not Hate produced a scurrilous report calling for the banning of the proposed Mohammed cartoon exhibition in London (HnH like getting things banned as RS knows to his cost). They also made the absurd claim that the British counterjihad movement’s intention was to provoke a violent reaction from Muslims which would kick off a civil war:

    http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk//launch.aspx?eid=c943edb2-0d73-4d9c-98c1-8e27e5e89fee

    Today the principal organiser, Ann Marie-Waters of Sharia Watch, responded:

    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/07/28/hard-left-campaigners-lied-about-islam-vs-west-civil-war-claim/

  12. Marty says

    Jul 29, 2015 at 5:52 am

    Anyone who voluntarily converts to islam does it for one reason only.
    They have violent and criminal tendencies and want to joint the largest
    criminal organisation that the World has even known.

  13. duh_swami says

    Jul 29, 2015 at 10:29 am

    Jeb? Is he a stealth jihadist too? The list just keeps growing. Rush, Marl Levin, everyone at FOX except Alan Colmes, all 16 of the R candidates, except Ben, Carly and Don. And I’m not too sure about Don…We live in strange and mysterious times…Mostly strange and mysterious.

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