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Massachusetts convert to Islam indicted on jihad terror charges

Jul 24, 2015 5:36 pm By Robert Spencer

Alexander Ciccolo peace walkHow did Alexander Ciccolo, who now calls himself Abu Ali al-Amriki, get the idea that his new religion called upon him to wage war against unbelievers? John Kerry and Jeh Johnson and so many others assure us that such an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with Islam. How did Abu Ali al-Amriki get it? Does anyone care to investigate this, or would doing so be “Islamophobic”?

An update on this story. “Adams man indicted on terrorism charges,” WWLP.com, July 23, 2015:

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP/WWLP) — A Boston police captain’s son who authorities say plotted a terrorist attack in support of the Islamic State group has been indicted on weapons and assault charges in western Massachusetts.

Federal prosecutors said a grand jury in U.S. District Court in Springfield on Thursday indicted 23-year-old Alexander Ciccolo of Adams, Massachusetts. The indictments had been expected after Ciccolo’s arrest July 4.

Authorities said Ciccolo plotted to detonate pressure-cooker bombs at an unidentified university and was arrested after he received four guns he ordered from a government witness. Prosecutors said Ciccolo also stabbed a nurse with a pen at a jail after his arrest, resulting in the assault charge.…

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  1. abad says

    Jul 24, 2015 at 5:49 pm

    Ah those “dead eyes” again he looks like he is in a trance – or brainwashed by Islam.

    • dante says

      Jul 25, 2015 at 6:49 am

      I’ve noticed most muslims I see have dead, detached eyes. It’s like their souls have gone.

  2. jihad3tracker says

    Jul 24, 2015 at 5:51 pm

    I am a total cynic when it comes to the “educability” of dhimmi idiots like John Kerry and Jeh Johnson. Getting smarter about Islam is not happening PUBLICLY because their jobs hang by the thread of continuing to spew Imam-in-Chief Hussein Obama’s deception.

    BUT THESE RELENTLESS EVENTS — LIKE CICCOLO’S INDICTMENT — must be taking a heavy toll on their egos and expectations of any respect whatsoever after they leave the Cabinet. My hope is that such reality wears on them so gravely that they check in to a med facility for “exhaustion”.

    • jihad3tracker says

      Jul 24, 2015 at 9:20 pm

      As a weekend begins and many of us have a few precious moments of counter-jihad time free, I will also add a source for the best answer I’ve seen on the primary question clueless fellow citizens ask: — “IF ISLAM IS VIOLENT, WHY ARE THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF MUSLIMS PEACEFUL ???”

      The BRILLIANT David Wood — also a true expert like Robert and Pam — has made at least a dozen relatively short videos regarding Islam. He usually adds a touch of humor to his remarks, but is fully aware of the pathology he is explaining WITH CITED REFERENCES TO QUR’AN SURAS AND HADITH PASSAGES, and other unimpeachable texts and teachings.

      I have recommended this several times before, but eminently meriting a mention again : go to www-dot-answeringmuslims-dot-com and look for “The Jihad Triangle”. FIVE MINUTES OF ORIGINAL & LUCID ANALYSIS. Send a link on to Aunt Mabel, Uncle Festus, your clueless clergy, town mayor Dingus McDoofle, the Chief of Police in your state’s version of Mayberry, Etcetera.

      And, finally, David Wood is a very low key guy . . . So howzabout sending him a short note of appreciation in the comment section — for his multiple years of ALSO risking his life in the cause of awakening us ?

      • No Fear says

        Jul 25, 2015 at 2:29 am

        David Wood is a priceless gem. I love his videos.

        David, Robert, Pam, Bill Warner, Gavin Boby, Geert, etc etc are all heroes.

    • Rob says

      Jul 24, 2015 at 11:28 pm

      Kerry does have some insight as he admits puzzlement at Iran’s continued spew of hate against the US and Israel.

  3. Huck Folder says

    Jul 24, 2015 at 5:52 pm

    We need a really intense psychological analysis of this jihadi syndrome.
    Surely Nicolai Sennels isn’t the only one who is not so thoroughly brainwashed
    and in mortal fear of PC as to be scared to write the truth about this brain cancer?

    Are there no articles in ‘psych’ journals?
    This is an ‘interesting’ topic,
    a relatively new topic.
    What’s stopping you guys?

    • Goat Pimp says

      Jul 24, 2015 at 6:09 pm

      I totally agree. Instead we have Obama et al repeating that it doesn’t have anything to do with Islam which is not only a lie but it is anti-scientific and anti-intellectual. He treats us like we are illiterate brain-dead idiots.

      • mortimer says

        Jul 24, 2015 at 6:57 pm

        Agree. The ‘jihad syndrome’ should be studied by clinical psychologists.

        It certainly seems like the very similar ‘Nazi syndrome’ in which intelligent, well-educated people were seduced into an absurd ideation…i.e. that space beings created Hitler’s master race and gave them a duty to exterminate ‘lesser’ races.

        The Muslims have a similar ideation of the ‘master religion’ with a duty to murder all ‘lesser’ disbelievers as a form of vermin.

        Isn’t this ‘jihad syndrome’ similar to anorexia, for instance, in which a patient sees things skewed and out of proportion and without a reality check.

    • Christopher H says

      Jul 24, 2015 at 7:13 pm

      Indeed – I’m surprised they haven’t come up with a “12 step group” and celebrity ‘Rehab'” system yet! 😉 “Hi, my name is, unsurprisingly, Mohammed, and I’m a Jihadi addict”?

      • particolor says

        Jul 24, 2015 at 9:45 pm

        ” Well start you on a course of “Mohammadone !”
        And if there is no improvement We’ll Bloodywell Jail You !! 🙁

  4. Concerned Citizen says

    Jul 24, 2015 at 7:00 pm

    I’m just wondering…what kind of name is “Jeh”?

    • Cecilia Ellis says

      Jul 25, 2015 at 1:40 am

      Concerned Citizen, I had exactly the same question . . . so I took a stab at looking it up, thinking I would have no luck. I was wrong. I found the answer for both of us.

      “Johnson’s first name (pronounced “Jay”) is taken from a Liberian chief, who reportedly saved his grandfather’s life while Dr. Johnson was on a League of Nations mission to Liberia in 1930.”

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeh_Johnson

      • Concerned Citizen says

        Jul 25, 2015 at 1:45 am

        Thank you so much Cecilia! I guess I could of done some research, but I have been busy tonight. Is he a Muslim, I wonder?

        • Cecilia Ellis says

          Jul 25, 2015 at 3:42 am

          From what I read, no. He is a Christian, as is his wife.

        • Concerned Citizen says

          Jul 25, 2015 at 5:47 am

          Thanks again!!

      • Mirren10 says

        Jul 26, 2015 at 4:38 pm

        🙂

        And I thought it was short for Jehosophat …

  5. Angemon says

    Jul 24, 2015 at 8:01 pm

    As Jeffrey Tayler wrote:

    violence is an emergent property deriving from Islam’s inherently intolerant precepts and dogma. The rising number of ethnic Europeans mesmerized by Islam who set off to enroll in the ranks of ISIS attests to this

  6. Wellington says

    Jul 24, 2015 at 9:05 pm

    Ah yes, yet another Muslim (whether convert or born Muslim being a minor detail) who misunderstands the peaceful and tolerant religion which is Islam. How tiring and it would be comical if it weren’t so lethal to free Western societies whose leaders at present (e.g., Obama, Cameron and Merkel) keep insisting from whatever motive, all of which are erroneous ones, that Islam is not the problem. Memo to these rubes: Yes it is.

    Wake up, West. Islam is the problem of problems for the West in our time. The West has stupidly invited Muslims by the MILLIONS into Western countries. Might as well have invited Neo-Nazis or Marxists. Oh yeah, it’s this bad and here is a guarantee————the Obamas and the Bushes out there, the Camerons and Blairs out there, are of little to zero help to date in the preservation of Western rights, such as freedom of speech and equality under the law, as long as they continue to defend the spiritual fascism which is Islam.

    Right now, the West is led by a bunch of mediocrities or worse. For instance, so far no one in the Republican or Democratic field for the American Presidency in the 2016 election has addressed in any kind of intelligent and informed manner the mortal threat which Islam is to liberty. Stunning, no?

    Oh yeah, welcome to the Age of Nonsense. And much more rot is to come because knowledge is power and a dearth of knowledge can do terrible things at times. Right now Islam is doing terrible things (with many more terrible things in mind) to the West and this is due PRECISELY to an inaccurate knowledge of the worst religion (easily so) ever created by mankind. And the Western elites in the political realm, the media and academia are in our age and almost without exception betraying Western Civilization while the Islamic world is licking its parasitic chops with great relish.

    Can’t make this stuff up. I certainly didn’t.

    • Goat Pimp says

      Jul 25, 2015 at 3:27 am

      “For instance, so far no one in the Republican or Democratic field for the American Presidency in the 2016 election has addressed in any kind of intelligent and informed manner the mortal threat which Islam is to liberty. Stunning, no? ”

      Yes it is stunning especially in light of a recent poll I read (if I recall correctly) in which the first word a majority of Americans think of when the “Muslim” is mentioned is “terrorist”. It would seem like an honest position on Islamic threat would not be unpopular.

      There is huge pressure to to offer a scrubbed version of Islam out there for any politician, or anyone for that matter.

      Possible factors include:

      1. Fear of being labeled an Islamophobe, racist, bigot.
      2. Fear of actual physical violence from devout Muslims (the “Mafia” effect).
      3. Fear of breaking the rules of political correctness and criticizing a religion.
      4. Fear of civil unrest.

      There is an info war going on between the truth (Islam is a totalitarian supremacist Ideology like Naziism) and the lie (Islam is just like Christianity and Buddhism). And it is appalling that the POTUS is at the front-lines spreading the lie — for all intents and purposes, he is aiding and abetting the ideology and by extension, the enemy.

      To fight this lie, we need to keep stating the obvious in as many creative and intellectually honest ways that we can, and especially attack the lie that criticizing Islam is bigoted. Are we bigoted if we criticize the ideology of Naziism?

      • Michael Copeland says

        Jul 25, 2015 at 4:23 am

        Useful memo:

        Allah is the ENEMY of the unbelievers. 2:98
        Allah does NOT LOVE the unbelievers. 30:45
        KILL the unbelievers wherever you find them. 9:5
        Between us and you animosity and hatred forever 60:4

        The Koran is part of Islamic law.
        Its teachings are “universal and trans-time”.
        One who denies any verse has to be killed.
        The killing can be done penalty-free by anyone.

  7. Jack Holan says

    Jul 24, 2015 at 9:32 pm

    Where are the terrorism charge and the charge for WMD (used to be possession of a bomb)? I guess it still pays to have clout as a Captain on the PD and Jeh Johnson at the head of DHS.

  8. More Ham Ed says

    Jul 24, 2015 at 10:22 pm

    John Klueless and Duh Johnson.

  9. Milt W says

    Jul 25, 2015 at 4:44 am

    Where do these born again jihad’s wanna Be’s come up with their idiot sounding names? Is there a bureau of silly names AKA Monty Python somewhere buried in is lame mosques or Isis?

    As for kerry and Barry S. his imam in the white mosque clueless and worse would be appropriate names for them when they convert and come out of the toi;et and into public awareness as truely converted moderate mooslums.

  10. Philip says

    Jul 25, 2015 at 6:20 am

    The zeal of the converted. The way to ‘prove himself’. Etc. Etc.

  11. duh_swami says

    Jul 25, 2015 at 6:24 am

    ‘Wherever one or more gather in my name, I will be there’…

    An invocation to Allah leads to an evocation of Allah…That brings with it death and destruction, because that’s what he does, that’s who he is…When a magician conjures a malevolent spirit, he protects himself from attack with symbols, magical tools and weapons, to control the beast. There are no such controls provided by Islam because it would have to come from Allah who has no desire to be controlled.
    Bismillah is the call, it’s like a dog whistle, blow it and the dog will show up. If you’re not wearing shin guards, your going to get bit…

  12. Stefan says

    Jul 25, 2015 at 7:08 am

    Hi Robert Spencer,

    Could you please refute this “article”, written by an Islamist apologetic?

    Thank you

  13. Davegreybeard says

    Jul 26, 2015 at 12:42 am

    @jihad3tracker
    “go to www-dot-answeringmuslims-dot-com and look for “The Jihad Triangle”. FIVE MINUTES OF ORIGINAL & LUCID ANALYSIS”

    Excellent video, thanks j.t.

    For those looking for a simple “vest pocket guide” to explain Jihadism, this is it.

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