UPDATE: The headline of this post has been revised to reflect the sentence Amin received.
“Amin made ISIL propaganda accessible to western supporters and provided justification for violent acts, including the beheading of journalists.” How many others like him are in the U.S. and still operating on Twitter?
“Virginia Teen to Be Sentenced for Helping ISIS,” NBC News, August 28, 2015:
A Virginia teenager is set to be sentenced for helping another teen travel to Syria to join the Islamic State and providing other aid to the militant group.
Seventeen-year-old Ali Shukri Amin of Manassas faces up to 15 years in prison when he’s sentenced Friday in federal court in Alexandria. Prosecutors, however, could recommend he serve less time.
Amin pleaded guilty in June to conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. He would have otherwise been graduating from high school with honors around the time of his plea. Juveniles rarely face charges in the federal system.
Authorities say Amin admitted to helping 18-year-old Reza Niknejad of Prince William County travel to Syria to join the group in January. FBI Assistant Director Andrew McCabe said that after taking Niknejad to the airport, Amin delivered a letter and thumb drive to Niknejad’s family informing them that they would likely never see him again.
Amin and Niknejad sometimes used code words to communicate, Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reported. “Syracuse” meant “Syria,” “basketball” meant “jihad” and “basketball team” meant “jihadist organization.”…
“He gained over 4,000 followers on Twitter and sent over 7,000 tweets as part of his campaign to help ISIL,” U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Dana Boente said….
Amin also admitted to using Twitter to provide advice and encouragement to the Islamic State and its supporters, according to a statement of facts filed with the plea agreement. Through his Twitter handle Amreekiwitness — Amreeki translates to “American” – Amin provided instruction on how to use Bitcoin, a virtual currency, to mask funds going to the group and helped supporters seeking to travel to Syria to fight with the group, court documents said.”Amin made ISIL propaganda accessible to western supporters and provided justification for violent acts, including the beheading of journalists,” McCabe said.
Before his arrest, Amin was an honor student [at] Osbourn Park High School in Manassas, where Niknejad also was a student….
An honor student? But…but…poverty and ignorance cause terrorism!
Jay Boo says
The Koran is nothing but ego pornography to sooth the vanity of selfish people.
Muslim prayer is nothing but a form of ego masturbation.
mortimer says
RADICAL ISLAMIC JIHAD CHIC is very popular among Muslim youth everywhere! But our authorities aren’t allowed to notice it. They would be called ‘racist’…(what race is Islam?)
Police officers, school teachers and social workers see the radical Islamic chic and are unable to report it, let alone DEPROGRAM the Muslim youth from jihad and Islam.
Since there is no Islam without jihad, we must deprogram all Muslims from Islam to stop the jihad.
ECAW says
Still waving the D word around Mortimer? We know by now that there’s nothing behind it – no programme of doing it, no track record of successes and no reason to suppose it would work, or you would have given details.
You deprogram computerised gadgets not people. They are a little more complicated, especially ones who have been indoctrinated with nonsense all their lives and been told by their god not to question it.
Jack says
There are two kinds of Muslim Jihadists the violent kind and the stealth kind all work toward the same goal to force their Fascist Ideology on the whole world, there is no such person as a Moderate Muslim.
gravenimage says
Mortimer wrote:
Police officers, school teachers and social workers see the radical Islamic chic and are unable to report it, let alone DEPROGRAM the Muslim youth from jihad and Islam.
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Mortimer, I know you claimed yesterday that many Muslims had been successfully deprogrammed, and that you had testimonials. Do you have links?
Jihad Watch has shown these programs to be abject failures–when they are not outright cynical scams. If you have evidence to the contrary, I’m sure many here would love to see it. I know I would.
Sam Hawkins says
Over the years, a large number of ex-Muslims at Ali Sina’s Faithfreedom website have given testimonials how they left Islam. It’s very hard to do and they often feel shaky about it. FF is there to provide them support. So, apparently the decision to quit Islam is a personal one, not due to “deprogramming”, but it takes a support network to keep them from backsliding.
gordon miller says
Well stated. Your last sentence is spot on.
jihad3tracker says
******* Off topic but important *******
SARAH PALIN HAS COME TO CURT SCHILLING’S DEFENSE. It should be easy to find a link — just about every cowardly PC media bullcrap slinger is covering this.
cheryl s. says
So what if he is an honor student??? Big deal. He’s a junior terrorist promoting Jihad in the
United States.
With a certainty, Twitter and Facebook could immediately turn over information to the FBI about these people if they were serious about their loyalty to our country.
Twitter and Facebook indeed, are a big part of the problem.
Any jihad friendly individual, muslim student organization, CAIR, ISNA, protestor, immam or mosque in the U.S. that are even remotely sympathetic toward enemy nations of the United States must be dealt with severely. By severely I mean, immediate and permanent deportation for them and their families to Afghanistan, Syria, Pakistan, even if they are U.S. citizens or minors.
As the President, Jarrett, Kerry et al, are promoting, aiding and abetting jihad in the U.S. and globally, they are,in effect, traitors.
So what can anyone REALLY do?
Lookmann says
IS seems to be getting steady stream of aspirants from the most unlikely place of all, the US.
Instead of sending troops abroad , US should deport these jihadis immediately.
And stop importing future jihadis.
gravenimage says
Alas, this is no longer unlikely–since we have allowed so many of these pious Muslims to enter our own civilized countries.
KrazyKafir says
I take it that the authorities have identified most or all the American twitter followers.
gravenimage says
Virginia Muslim teen to be sentenced for aiding the Islamic State
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And the story right before this one is “Arizona Muslim charged with supporting the Islamic State”. When asking “how many others like him are in the U.S?”, the answer is profoundly disturbing.
More:
Amin and Niknejad sometimes used code words to communicate, Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reported. “Syracuse” meant “Syria,” “basketball” meant “jihad” and “basketball team” meant “jihadist organization.”…
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This should not surprise–“wedding” is a frequent euphemism for “violent Jihad terrorist attack”, so why not “basketball game” for a Jihadist teen?
God, I hate Islam.
Angemon says
Gee, I wonder where he got the idea of referring to the islamic state as a basketball team – a “JV team”, let’s say…?
Carlos Danger says
Wonder if prison will wipe that smirk off his mug?
He may be too pretty for Jail.