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Chattanooga Leftist activist converts to Islam, marries Islamic State jihadi, cheers Chattanooga jihad massacre

Aug 2, 2015 8:23 am By Robert Spencer

Ariel Bradley“Gifted this morning not only with Eid but w/ the news of a brother puttin fear n the heart of kufar [non-believers] n the city of my birth. Alhamdullilah [thanks be to God].” Once again we see that a convert to Islam gets the idea that converting to this new religion also requires committing treason. No authorities, however, show any curiosity about this phenomenon.

“Chattanooga woman marries ISIS fighter, cheers for Marines shooter,” by Joy Lukachick Smith, Times Free Press, July 26, 2015:

After Ariel Bradley met a Muslim man online and moved to Sweden to marry him, most of her friends stopped hearing from her.

They weren’t surprised that she had flown so far away. Or that she had so wholeheartedly adopted her new Muslim faith. That was her style.

The Hixson-born 29-year-old had once been home-schooled and Pentecostal. She wrote Bible verses in black marker on the roof of her car. “I love JC,” it read.

Later, during her teenage years, she ran away from home and school and abandoned that identity. She moved into a socialist group home on Tremont Street where the floor was covered in mattresses and stale Panera bread left for anyone who was hungry. Those who knew her then said she was a full-fledged egalitarian, a feminist who refused to wear much more than a bra and a mini skirt, an atheist who called Christianity a delusion.

She was among the first activists working with Chattanooga Organized for Action in 2010, a group that pushes for racial equality, fair housing policy and empathy for the poor. During the same year, she became interested in The Twelve Tribes, a religious sect that owns and runs The Yellow Deli restaurant and lives communally. She started to dress more modestly, pulled cardigans over her bare shoulders and wore skirts past her knees.

Then she started wrapping a scarf around her head. She was working at the University Pizza and Deli, which was owned by a Palestinian man and was a gathering spot for local Muslims. Friends say she was infatuated with a young Muslim man. On her Tumbler account, she started writing about the teachings of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. At some point, she converted.

Friends thought it was just another phase. They laughed about her new obsession. They called her “vanilla ice cream” because she went with everything so easily. But her views became extreme very quickly. It seemed even the Muslim Americans she befriended weren’t truly following Allah. Online, she began to search for a husband.

“But her views became extreme very quickly. It seemed even the Muslim Americans she befriended weren’t truly following Allah.” It is likely that Joy Lukachick Smith’s source for this tidbit is the local mosque, anxious to distance itself from Bradley and her support for the Islamic State. The question of where Bradley got the idea that the local Muslims in Chattanooga were wrong is not broached. The question of how both Bradley and Mohammod Abdulazeez, the Chattanooga jihad murderer, could have misunderstood the benign Islam they were presumably being taught in Chattanooga mosques is not broached.

She argued with her non-Muslim friends, who questioned her abrupt ideological shift. Aria, a friend who didn’t want her last name used, said the once staunch feminist became judgmental of other women.

“The way women dress is like rags on a soulless hanger,” Aria said Bradley told her.

Not long after, she disappeared overseas. A few people from home saw her return to Chattanooga a handful of times over the next few years, once when she had her daughter, but almost no one, including her mother, knew much about her life abroad.

Then on the day after a 24-year-old Muslim man from her hometown attacked two military sites in Chattanooga, killing five servicemen, a tweet, found and confirmed by the online news site BuzzFeed, offered some terrifying insight.

“Gifted this morning not only with Eid but w/ the news of a brother puttin fear n the heart of kufar [non-believers] n the city of my birth. Alhamdullilah [thanks be to God],” Bradley wrote, before making her Twitter feed private.

Now many believe that Bradley, who changed her name to Umm Aminah on social media, is living in an ISIS-controlled territory with two children and her husband. On a YouTube account, also found by BuzzFeed, Bradley’s posts indicate that she was planning a trip to Syria in late 2013. BuzzFeed reported that she confirmed her husband was an ISIS fighter, but none of her friends or family at home have any direct knowledge of their link to ISIS….

In Chattanooga, Bassam Issa, president of the Islamic Society of Greater Chattanooga, has said how shocked he was to find out that a young man who went to his mosque harbored radical ideas. He doesn’t see how anything Abdulazeez learned locally could have led to such thinking or to such a tragic plan. Moving forward, though, he said they will be very conscious of the risk.

Yes, of course he was shocked. Shocked!

Is everyone just taking his word for it, or is any investigation being conducted of what this mosque actually teaches?

The imam and other spiritual leaders plan to pay close attention to the youth, especially since the attack on July 16, to make sure the young people understand what Islam actually teaches.

“[We are] trying to protect them from the information on the Internet and other sources that are not Islamic,” Issa said. “We’re offering more guidance from the imam for the true Islamic peaceful way of living.”

Issa added that he has always been open to working with law enforcement, both local and national. Their mindset has been that threats to America must be reported to authorities. Had they known of Abdulazeez’s intentions, they would have done something about it.

Other experts on terrorism and radicalization believe it’s the responsibility of the community — parents, churches, friends, local leaders — not the government to monitor their children to guard them against radical doctrine….

Churches? Churches have to monitor their children to guard them against radical doctrine and make sure they don’t become one of those hordes of Christians who blow themselves in crowds of non-Christians while screaming, “Jesus is Lord”? Notice that there is no mention of mosques having any responsibility to monitor their children to guard them against radical doctrine.

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  1. Paul says

    Aug 2, 2015 at 8:47 am

    Unfortunately, this isn’t at all surprising. There’s so much more that
    unites than divides certain types of ‘liberal’ leftists and Islam. In
    spite of Islam’s supposed piety and conservatism it’s actually very
    ‘liberal’ towards sexual perversion and immorality – child marriage,
    bestiality, ‘anal’ jihad, ‘temporary’ marriage licences etc. Both
    schools of thought are extremely intolerant of divergent opinions
    despite constant talk of ‘diversity’, ‘tolerance’, ‘respect, etc. They’re
    just hollow words to disguise the totalitarian mindset of both groups
    and which they wish to enforce upon others. Essentially, a very depraved
    mindset that seeks to tear down all that is decent and moral. That’s why
    they despise Jews and Christians so much.

    • Paul says

      Aug 2, 2015 at 8:50 am

      Again, I must stress “certain types of ‘liberal’ leftists”. There
      are those who actually are what they claim to be.

      • Oliver says

        Aug 2, 2015 at 11:17 am

        Paul, In my view, ALL THESE LEFTISTS ARE TRAITORS. NONE BELIEVE IN EQUALITY, all feel that ( to use Vogelman’s phrase, quoting Kipling- ‘ the white man’s burden’–all are inferior to them 9 the leftists, the elitists).

        They believe in socialism- BUT NOT SHARING OF THEIR WEALTH.

        Socialism has created more poverty and distress, misery s and killings then possibly any other system (my view-and i am equating socialism with Marxism-as in China, the old USSR and Cuba).

        These people are traitors.

        • Paul says

          Aug 2, 2015 at 2:23 pm

          I can see where you’re coming from, but I hope you’re wrong!
          Here’s an encouraging video about a good brave man who once
          may have been described as a proper liberal leftist, but who made
          a 180 degree turn :

        • Oliver says

          Aug 2, 2015 at 3:06 pm

          Paul,

          The ” TRUE LIBERALS”-like the late, great Sen. Scoop Jackson (D- Washington), are dead and buried. The “liberals” nowadays are the George McGovern crowd who hate the US and what it stands for,.

          Old time liberals like Scoop Jackson, LBJ, etc MIGHT make it in a Republican party, but there they would have to bow to a pro-checking into your bedroom movement, or be called a RINO. (Barry Goldwater would probably not be considered a true conservative–he was a general; saw combat; and felt that gays in the military should be allowed-20+ years before anyone else–saying, just be sure that they can shoot straight. He believed that abortion is not the government’s business. And similar heretical views for the religious right (?).

          Reagan, as having been divorced might also not make the cut.

          I have written this before, NAT HENTOFF who was ( might still be-i don’t know if he is alive or has passed away) a writer for THE VILLAGE VOICE, (a New York City -decades ago–alternative newspaper) wrote a book– ‘ FREE SPEECH FOR ME BUT NOT FOR THEE’ whose title says it all.

        • Paul says

          Aug 2, 2015 at 3:39 pm

          @Oliver
          I see what you mean. I think it was the WND website that
          said something on the lines of inside every ‘liberal’ is a
          totalitarian trying to burst out.
          Funnily enough, I’ve found that people who I couldn’t stand
          years ago, whom I regarded as obnoxious, bigoted and
          ‘right-wing’ (but were they really?) seem to be the only ones
          now with the goodness and the courage to stand up for
          genuinely liberal and Western values. You live and learn.

      • bill walker says

        Aug 3, 2015 at 12:24 am

        I am proud to be a’ liberal leftist’ There was a time when I was proud to be a conservative Republican, but I have renounced that affiliation. I doubt that I’ll ever forgive the GOP for inflicting George Bush on America.

        • Paul says

          Aug 3, 2015 at 2:43 am

          You obviously felt let down by the Republicans’ intervention
          in Iraq, which basically opened up the country to Al-Qaeda and
          decimated its Christian population – just as I did over here with
          the ‘left-wing’ Labour Party’s involvement in all that and Blair’s
          blatant and stubborn deception. The biggest demonstration
          against the invasion was in London, but that’s just the will of the
          people, of what importance is that?

        • Oliver says

          Aug 4, 2015 at 6:07 pm

          Are you aware that BARACK OBAMA; HILLARY CLINTON; JOHN KERRY ( BEFORE HE CHANGED HIS MIND) TO NAME JUST THREE LIBERALS, WERE ALL FOR THE WAR IN IRAQ?

          ARE YOU AWARE THAT IT WAS BILL CLINTON’S ADMINISTRATION THAT STATED THAT THERE WERE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION IRAQ? (weapons, incidentally, found-a few months ago- in a desert region that-for whatever reason- US troops either did not go into, or if they did- and saw the weapons of m.d.-it was hushed up. The good part- they all were no longer usable.

          But the media left that out.

          And, Bush HAD TO DEAL -FOR A GOOD PORTION OF HIS ADMINISTRATION- A DEMOCRATIC CONTROLLED CONGRESS. AND, HE DID NOT BLAME ANYONE FOR HIS ERRORS. UNLIKE OBAMA; SHILLERY; ETC.

        • Paul says

          Aug 4, 2015 at 9:17 pm

          @Oliver
          I really like this guy. If I was American I’d hope and pray he got
          into the White House next year. I personally wish him the best.
          He’s a realist, I think you’d agree :

    • Shane says

      Aug 2, 2015 at 10:02 am

      Liberalism has morphed into Liberal Fascism now, which makes it likely that there will be more liberals converting to Islamic Fascism and participating in the global jihad. Yes, this woman is a traitor.

      • Paul says

        Aug 2, 2015 at 10:15 am

        Sadly, I can indeed imagine that scenario.

  2. DP111 says

    Aug 2, 2015 at 8:57 am

    “[We are] trying to protect them from the information on the Internet and other sources that are not Islamic,” Issa said. “We’re offering more guidance from the imam for the true Islamic peaceful way of living.”

    Its not the internet but the koran and Hadiths.

  3. Matthieu Baudin says

    Aug 2, 2015 at 9:03 am

    Ariel Bradley is obviously an opinion leader of sorts; and seems quite content to shed other peoples blood to keep her ever changing show on the road.

  4. RuleOfLove says

    Aug 2, 2015 at 9:13 am

    “Churches? Churches have to monitor their children to guard them against radical doctrine and make sure they don’t become one of those hordes of Christians who blow themselves in crowds of non-Christians while screaming, “Jesus is Lord”? Notice that there is no mention of mosques having any responsibility to monitor their children to guard them against radical doctrine.”

    Robert, you are THE BEST in what you are doing! I don’t know where do you get your persistence on fighting this spiritual garbage named Islam (notice: I’m not talking about fighting Muslims…). But man, the world needs more and more people like you.

  5. KrazyKafir says

    Aug 2, 2015 at 9:54 am

    A woman who fell in love with totalitarianism and tyranny, then found the zenith of both……..Islam.

    • Mo says

      Aug 2, 2015 at 6:24 pm

      @ KrazyKafir

      “A woman who fell in love with totalitarianism and tyranny, then found the zenith of both……..Islam.”

      Perfectly stated!

  6. john spielman says

    Aug 2, 2015 at 12:31 pm

    there has always been, and always will be people who chose the darkness (islam) over the light (Christ), / death over life. In ww2 there was Ilse Koch, the “Bitch of Buchenwald” who served the “god of this world” Satan/allah rather than God. Sadly Ariel Bradley is also one of them- who will reap what she has sown and unless she repents and turn from death to life, she will shut out from the presence of God forever

  7. Angemon says

    Aug 2, 2015 at 2:04 pm

    They called her “vanilla ice cream” because she went with everything so easily.

    Phrasing…

  8. Mo says

    Aug 2, 2015 at 5:40 pm

    Typical leftist! They loathe Christ but revere Mohammad.

    I wish all of them would go all the way and convert. At least then they’d be being honest. They loathe Christians and anyone who won’t bow to them anyway. Might as well go follow Islam and tell yourself that God’s commanding you to make us bow to them!

  9. somehistory says

    Aug 2, 2015 at 8:01 pm

    Not vanilla ice cream…which has much to recommend it. More like a rat…ever notice how a rat can go under a closed door or into a crack in a wall? Its body just squishes any old way in order tor the rat to maneuver, to get places and escape. Its bones move and its body flattens.

    This woman…have to feel pity for her child and her family…is like a rat…squishes and changes in order to get what she wants.
    She is glad that people in the town in which she was born…and evidently where her family still lives…are dead. She is glad that some are afraid because of what the murderer did.
    She went from one pretense to another. Death will knock at her door and at that time, the rat will not be able to escape. islam is death to all it contacts. islam is the enemy of Jesus Christ and His Father.

  10. Kathy Brown, Esq. says

    Aug 2, 2015 at 10:31 pm

    I wouldn’t be very worried about this flake. She has as much staying power as Bruce Jenner…

    However any time she spends as a muslim is bound to be violent. All the other ism’s she embraced (temporarily) were harmless, so to say. Islam’s the sick dead-end, unfortunately not for her, but for any innocents around her..

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