Joshua Ryne Goldberg turns out not to be a convert to Islam at all, but a kid playing around on the computer who got in over his head. It’s not at all uncommon for people to pretend to be other people on the Internet. For Joshua Ryne Goldberg it all probably started out as a game: could he fool Muslims and non-Muslims alike into believing him to be a serious, knowledgeable, committed jihadist? He could. But it proved to be a dangerous game, in which he colluded with and encouraged jihad mass murderers. And when he posted photos of a supposed pressure cooker bomb he was claiming to build, the question becomes, was he going to follow through? Was he going to keep up his jihad act even to the extent of setting off a bomb? Or had his little game just gotten terribly, terribly out of hand?
An update on this story. “FBI says ‘Australian IS jihadist’ is actually a Jewish American troll named Joshua Ryne Goldberg,” by Elise Potaka and Luke McMahon, The Age, September 11, 2015 (thanks to Michael):
A 20-year-old whose online identity was ‘Australi Witness’ – an ISIS agent apparently living in Perth – has been arrested at his parents’ place in Florida over plotting a bomb attack at a 9/11 memorial event.
A young Jewish American man has been charged with pretending to be an Australian-based Islamic State jihadist after a FBI joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police based on information provided by Fairfax Media.
Joshua Ryne Goldberg, a 20-year old living at his parents’ house in US state of Florida, is accused of posing online as “Australi Witness,” an IS supporter who publicly called for a series of attacks against individuals and events in western countries.
In recent days Australi Witness has claimed online that he is working with other jihadists to plan attacks in Australia and the United States. He distributed pictures of a bomb that he was working on with “2 lbs of explosives inside”.
The device appears to resemble a “pressure cooker bomb”, similar to the type of explosive used in the Boston Marathon attack.
Early on Friday, Australian time, Goldberg, who is non-Muslim and has no real-world links with extremism, was arrested at his home by Florida police for “distribution of information relating to explosives, destructive devices, and weapons of mass destruction”.
Australian national security and citizenship laws were strengthened last year to create a new offence of advocating terrorism, partly to stop online recruitment of jihadists, and Prime Minister Tony Abbott earlier this year allocated significant funding to security agencies because “too many Australians are being brainwashed online by this death cult”.
However, one of those apparent representatives of Islamic State has now been revealed as an America-based, non-Muslim online hoaxer.
The Australian Federal Police do not intend to apply for Goldberg’s extradition, but said in a statement that he faced a 20-year prison term if convicted.
“Investigations by the AFP in June 2015 established no initial threat to the Australian community. When investigations determined it was likely the person responsible for these threats was based in the United States, the investigation became the jurisdiction of the FBI, with the AFP in a support role.”
AFP Acting Deputy Commissioner National Security Neil Gaughan alleged Goldberg had “relied on the internet providing a cloak of anonymity”.
“This operation again highlights how law enforcement can investigate people in the online space and use our long-established partnerships to work with overseas agencies to bring people to account for their actions”.
An affidavit sworn at the time of the arrest says that, between August 19 and August 28, Mr Goldberg “distributed information pertaining to the manufacturing of explosives, destructive devices, or weapons of mass destruction in furtherance of an activity that constitutes a Federal crime of violence”.
US Attorney Lee Bentley III, said Goldberg instructed a confidential source how to make a bomb similar to two used in the Boston Marathon bombings two years ago that killed three people and injured more than 260 others.
He allegedly instructed someone how to fill the bomb with nails, metal and other items dipped in rat poison.
Police base the charge on his communication of five web links to sites that provided instructions that could be used to make explosives as part of a plot to explode a bomb on September 13 at a memorial ceremony in Kansas City, commemorating the 9/11 the terrorist attacks.
The affidavit, released by Special agent William Berry of US Customs and Border Protection, says that Goldberg had initially denied to officers that he had any involvement with distributing information on how to make a bomb, but then later admitted it.
“Goldberg further admitted that he believed the information would create a genuine bomb,” Agent Berry alleged.
However, Goldberg also claimed that he meant for the person he was communicating with to either kill himself creating the bomb or, that Goldberg intended to warn police in time so that he would receive “credit for stopping the attack”.
In conversations with Fairfax Media, which were also cited in the affidavit, Mr Goldberg had said he did not expect any jihadist to actually carry out an attack because: “These guys are pussy keyboard warriors”.
Fairfax media can also reveal that Goldberg, as Australi Witness, is suspected of a number of other online hoaxes, including posing online as prominent Australian lawyer, Josh Bornstein.
Australi Witness’s online actions might have had fatal real-world consequences in May.
In the leadup to an exhibition in Garland, Texas, at which pictures of the Prophet Mohammed were to be displayed, “Australi Witness” tweeted the event’s address and reposted a tweet urging people to go there with “weapons, bombs or with knifes”.
Two Muslim men attempted an attack at the exhibition, and were killed by police. Australi Witness then praised them online as martyrs.

The device appears to resemble a “pressure cooker bomb”, similar to the type of explosive used in the Boston Marathon attack.
nacazo says
What an a-hole. 20 years is too little.
Bamaguje says
Muslim taqiyya propagandists now have conclusive proof that Israel is behind ISIS.
Jon Sobieski says
Stupid. Who in the world goes around posting instructions for pressure cooker bombs? Incredibly stupid.
Shane says
I doubt that he is a religious Jew, probably his religion is Liberalism, and liberals just love Muslims!
RickMT says
Bad parenting? Him, him, fuck him. It’s ok; it’s an expression I picked up in the US Army. Really, mom thought it was ok.
Lioness says
Not what I woild call hoax. The guy is a real jihadi pretending that it’s a hoax after he was caught. Just because he is Jewish, doesn’t mitigate the case. Even Jews can be scum of the earth when it comes to Jihad, and this one certainly fits that description. I hope they throw the book at him.
Celtic Sword says
Yes, no-one shows a REAL wannabe terrorist how to make a bomb and make it so deadly as to inflict the most harm as a “joke” or “hoax”… Unfortunately there has never been a shortage of self-hating individuals who happen to be Jewish…Sad, but he must now face the consequences…
Lee says
Well said Lioness – in fact there are thousands of NON-Muslims around the world who have joined the Muslim Jihad against civilization, without converting to Islam.
Journalists regularly seek to groom more potential Jihadis by confecting “Islamophobia” incidents, by screaming about a “backlash” every time Jihadis strike, through concealing Muslim crimes like their rape-gangs, by pretending Muslim invaders are “migrants” who then become “refugees”, plus a range of other propaganda which enrages Muslims.
Politicians have also joined the Jihad, promote the idea of “Islamophobia”, criticize Western civilization, promote increased Muslim immigration, speak in favor of building more mosques, and join terrorist mass-murder groups in declaring “The future must not belong to those who insult the prophet of Islam”.
And teachers and lecturers have also joined the Jihad, again promoting the same false view of history as Jihadis (e.g. concealing the 1,400 history of Muslim imperialism and colonialism, slave-trading, aggressive wars etc), by promoting the victim-narrative that enrages potential Jihadis, and by actively promoting Islam to vulnerable students – as Robert Spencer demonstrates regularly happens in schools.
Muslims have no power over civilization other than what non-Muslim Jihadis have given them, and our fight for our lives must be against the non-Muslim Jihadis as much as the Muslims.
TheBuffster says
Non-Muslim jihadis are better known as “nihilists”.
MTRickM says
Leo, wonderful post; especially the last sentence. Senator Jon Tester from Montana is one of these who would fill our state with Muslim immigrants who have never been checked out by our worthless State Department (nobody other than liberals want them). Others in Missoula love Muslim kids filling the coffers of the University of Montana. Excellent post.
Shane says
Most likely he is infected with the mental disease of liberalism which causes Whites, Christians, and Jews to work against their own race, religion, and country.
underbed cat says
I am surprised that this video or picture is allowed to be shown, but they have and hopefully “had” a book in the library on it( curiously in the religious section).. that was about extreme islam.it is totally foolish, stupid and dangerous. In our free society the magazine that I hear quoted (I don’t read it) about Inspire and Anarchist cookbook, how do they get published and get out to future jihadists? This picture freaks me out.
TheBuffster says
What an idiot. He may not be a Muslim, but he did a criminal act that could have spurred someone else to do murder. I find it hard to believe that he didn’t know his “game” could lead to a real terror act. Who plays with stuff like this? How detached from reality and ethics and consequences does a mind have to be to think this is something to have fun with?
A psychopath, I think.
It’s not hard for me to believe he’s not a believer in Islam, not a believer – in *anything*. Just a nihilist looking for something to make him feel some excitement, since his soul is empty of values.
rawan says
[Who plays with stuff like this? ]
Someone who hates Muslims so much that he wants the world to know Muslims are nothing but terrorists. That is exactly what happened after 9-11.
gravenimage says
rawan wrote:
[Who plays with stuff like this? ]
Someone who hates Muslims so much that he wants the world to know Muslims are nothing but terrorists. That is exactly what happened after 9-11.
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What crap. What happened after 9/11 was that rawan’s violent coreligionists have gone on to perpetrate 26,855 more Jihad terror attacks (as of this writing)–and that doesn’t count the ones that have been foiled.
Moreover, rawan’s fellow Muslims *crow* over murdering Infidels.
The idea that all these Jihad terror attacks were pulled off by “Islamophobes” such as the ludicrous Joshua Goldberg strains credulity, to put it mildly.
TheBuffster says
Rawan – September 11, 2001 was not the beginning of our awareness of Islamic terrorism. There was already a long list of terrorist acts by Muslim groups on both military and civilian targets before that date.
Here’s an INCOMPLETE list of Islamic terrorist attacks, beginning in the 1980s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Islamist_terrorist_attacks
Not on the list, therefore, is the September 5, 1972 murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany.
Given the HUGE number of terror attacks by Muslims BEFORE 9/11, why should anyone – this Jewish kid or anybody else – need to fake an Islamist attack to make people view Islam as a religion of terror, when all one needs to do is show people this horrible list?
Look here, Rawan, if you’re a peaceful person who rejects violence in the name of Islam, I don’t hate you. But I’ve read the Koran, and it sure does come across as a manual for war against the unbelievers, demanding a blind belief and obedience that my reasoning mind just can’t give to anybody. If you’re a Muslim, I ask you to please read that book with a critical, questioning mind.
Here’s one of my favorite quotes by Thomas Jefferson that applies here: “Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.”
I’ve read the Koran, and most of it doesn’t stand up to reason’s tribunal. But it does offer a lot of irrational fuel to believers who want to conquer those who agree with me.
Jay Boo says
Never underestimate a lying troll.
1400 years ago a troll in Mecca, Saudi Arabia claimed an angel named Gabriel gave him revelations.
Celtic Sword says
Indeed. And the world has paid the price of this in oceans of blood ever since.
voegelinian says
Unless he were 5 years old, he should be treated as a terrorist. 1) taqiyya. 2) see #1.
Oliver says
Vogel–I semi agree with you.
however, i think that he should be executed. (I should not be considered an Anti_Semite- anti-Jewish–I am Jewish).
but he is a disgrace.
Diana says
Of course he is a terrorist.
He is not a MUSLIM terrorist. At least, I seriously doubt that this is a case of taqiya. I find the Nihilist theory far more convincing. I think he turned to terror, not because he supported any particular ideology, but because he had no ideology at all. He wanted to create dramas and he just didn’t grasp the moral difference between a blow-them-up online scam and a blow-them-up video game.
Why is anyone surprised? 8% of the world’s terrorism is committed by non-Muslims. This is one example. The lack of ideology supporting this individual’s terrorism does not make him any less a terrorist.
Oliver says
Diana– 2 points to your post.
1. The Tucson Arizona shooting is a good point– the shooter had (has) no ideology-although the liberal media made it seem that Governor Palin and her ads were responsible.
2. With 8% of terrorists acts committed by non-Muslims, that leaves the Muslims with 92%– 11+ times the number of all others-combined.
TheBuffster says
Spot on, Diana.
rawan says
On the anniversary of 9-11, time to reflect on who did 9-11? 9-11 was a highly sophisticated scheme to bring the Arab world down! And mission accomplished!
Mirren10 says
Oh, fuck off, you stupid idiot.
You’re 9/11 ‘ truther’ bullshit won’t get you any traction here.
Go and wallow in your sick fantasies somewhere else. I suggest HuffPo, or ‘loonwatch’. They love islamic apologists there.
Oliver says
Mirren–A few years ago, some Iranian piece of excrement said that Jews/Zionists/Mossad/Israel were the ones who did 911.
One of the TOP PEOPLE (I THINK THAT THIS WAS JUST BEFORE BIN LADIN WAS SENT TO HIS 72 PIGS)) IN AL-QUEIDA SAID THAT THE IRANIANS WERE ASSHOLES. IT WAS AL-QUEIDA ALL OF THE WAY.
This Al-Queida mouthpiece was FURIOUS THAT ANYONE WOULD GIVE CREDIT FOR 911 TO ANYONE BUT MUSLIMS.
The link most likely expired- and i am not sure if (assuming i find the article-I know I printed a few copies) if I could scan and attach to the site
Maria says
So you’re saying Arabs & Muslims are too stupid to do something like 9/11?
Rebecca says
Can muslims EVER take respnsibility for their own actions??????????
gravenimage says
More from rawan:
On the anniversary of 9-11, time to reflect on who did 9-11? 9-11 was a highly sophisticated scheme to bring the Arab world down! And mission accomplished!
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Really? And yet, how does one explain the Madrid Train bombings? The London Tube bombings? The Ft. Hood massacre? The Boston Marathon bombing? The beheading of Lee Rigby? The Charlie Hebdo massacre? The shootings in Tennessee?
I could go on…and on…
And this is just in the West–what about the Mumbai attacks? The kidnapping of girls by Boko Haram? The assault on the Westgate Mall in Kenya? The bombing at the Shrine in Thailand? All of the bombings and other murders all over the world by pious Muslims?
What about the Islamic State, with its enslavement of Christians and Yazidis and beheading of journalists and aid workers?
The idea that this was all carried out by Infidels to ‘make Islam look bad’ becomes less plausible by the day…
TheBuffster says
Not to mention all the terrorist acts by al Qaeda and other Muslim groups *before* 9/11.
The Arab world doesn’t need anyone’s help to bring it down. The Islamic zealots who have wanted to resurrect the Caliphate since it fell could manage to destroy the ME even if the West had completely withdrawn from there and had left it on its own. No, ESPECIALLY if the West had completely withdrawn and had left it on its own.
And if the Arabs had finally fought it out among themselves and had finally managed to establish one Caliphate, it would have turned toward the kaffir nations and waved the scimitar of jihad. And we’d be where we are today. Because of Islam and the example of Mohammad.
But the Arab states would be so much weaker if we’d shunned them and had gotten our oil elsewhere. They’d be helpless to put an effective jihad into practice if it weren’t for the wealth they get from trading with the kaffir world.
Mirren10 says
What a wicked, wicked, malevolent piece of *crap*.
I hope he gets the maximum penalty. Isn’i enough we have to deal with evil islamic supremacists, but we also have to deal with evil morons, like *this* ?
gravenimage says
FBI: Australian Islamic State online jihadist actually a Jewish American troll
Joshua Ryne Goldberg turns out not to be a convert to Islam at all, but a kid playing around on the computer who got in over his head…
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And here I had been wondering what Goldberg’s Muslim name was…
More:
For Joshua Ryne Goldberg it all probably started out as a game: could he fool Muslims and non-Muslims alike into believing him to be a serious, knowledgeable, committed jihadist? He could. But it proved to be a dangerous game, in which he colluded with and encouraged jihad mass murderers. And when he posted photos of a supposed pressure cooker bomb he was claiming to build, the question becomes, was he going to follow through? Was he going to keep up his jihad act even to the extent of setting off a bomb? Or had his little game just gotten terribly, terribly out of hand?
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Well, that’s the question, isn’t it? How far did the “pretending” go?
It’s fairly clear that Goldberg had a fair understanding of what Jihad was all about from his writings–its not as though he was some clueless but gentle naif who believed Islam is a “religion of peace”.
More:
Joshua Ryne Goldberg, a 20-year old living at his parents’ house in US state of Florida, is accused of posing online as “Australi Witness,” an IS supporter who publicly called for a series of attacks against individuals and events in western countries.
In recent days Australi Witness has claimed online that he is working with other jihadists to plan attacks in Australia and the United States. He distributed pictures of a bomb that he was working on with “2 lbs of explosives inside”.
A device which appears to resemble a ‘pressure cooker bomb’, similar to the type of explosive used in the Boston Marathon Bombings.The device appears to resemble a “pressure cooker bomb”, similar to the type of explosive used in the Boston Marathon attack…
He allegedly instructed someone how to fill the bomb with nails, metal and other items dipped in rat poison.
Police base the charge on his communication of five web links to sites that provided instructions that could be used to make explosives as part of a plot to explode a bomb on September 13 at a memorial ceremony in Kansas City, commemorating the 9/11 the terrorist attacks.
The affidavit, released by Special agent William Berry of US Customs and Border Protection, says that Goldberg had initially denied to officers that he had any involvement with distributing information on how to make a bomb, but then later admitted it.
“Goldberg further admitted that he believed the information would create a genuine bomb,” Agent Berry alleged.
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Does it even matter beyond a point whether Goldberg is an ideological Jihadist himself or not? He wasn’t just “running with Jihadists”–he was specifically urging them to wage violent Jihad against innocent targets, and was providing them with specifics with which to do so.
Whatever his initial goal–curiosity, a frisson of danger, being “transgressive”–ultimately he was urging violent Jihad just as much as if he had been a devout Muslim himself.
More:
However, Goldberg also claimed that he meant for the person he was communicating with to either kill himself creating the bomb or, that Goldberg intended to warn police in time so that he would receive “credit for stopping the attack”.
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This last *is* possible–then it would be related to the “Munchausen syndrome” phenomenon–but the possibility of something going terribly wrong would be enormously high–playing with fire at best.
More:
In conversations with Fairfax Media, which were also cited in the affidavit, Mr Goldberg had said he did not expect any jihadist to actually carry out an attack because: “These guys are pussy keyboard warriors”.
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Goldberg is having it both ways here–the danger, and yet no real danger of anything dangerous happening…
More:
Australi Witness’s online actions might have had fatal real-world consequences in May.
In the leadup to an exhibition in Garland, Texas, at which pictures of the Prophet Mohammed were to be displayed, “Australi Witness” tweeted the event’s address and reposted a tweet urging people to go there with “weapons, bombs or with knifes”.
Two Muslim men attempted an attack at the exhibition, and were killed by police. Australi Witness then praised them online as martyrs.
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In this case, Goldberg’s claim that he considered everyone he might have inspired to be “pussies” and “keyboard warriors” falls flat–these Jihadists had clearly planned mass-murder, and were in the process of carrying it out when taken down.
Now, it is unlikely that they Garland Jihadists were inspired solely by Goldberg–in fact, they may never have seen his urging an attack on the show.
But not only is there the case that the death of these two Jihadists might be laid in part on Goldberg’s rash actions, but that he easily could have had responsibility for the deaths of those at the exhibition–or the police protecting them–if the Jihadists had been less inept, or security less prepared.
This case, I believe, illustrates something else, as well–in years past, some wanna-be badass like Goldberg–the quintessential ‘nerd living in his parent’s basement’–might have been attracted by neo-Nazis or biker gangs or narco-terrorists.
But now, clearly the “big bad” is violent Jihadists, as pious Muslims prove themselves more vicious than any other existing groups.
So–this has turned out not to be about Jihad–and yet, it still is.
God, I hate Islam.
Mirren10 says
Your excellent, calm, well reasoned analysis, graven, puts me to shame.
Sometimes I ‘lose the heid’. 🙂
gravenimage says
Thanks, Mirren. Please don’t think that this evil and stupidity fails to anger me, though.
I’m really inspired by Robert Spencer, who not only keeps his cool but frequently a sense of humor in the face of this vicious insanity.
Karen says
Concerning the Garland attacks; you are right, we’ll never know all the cause-and-effect details. He may find out in the next world that two people were killed because of him (albeit thankfully.) And thank you for remembering all the attendees who were seriously endangered by this irresponsible (at the very least) idiocy. Perhaps there are followers of his Twitter feed waiting in the wings….who can say? It will be interesting to see how he explains all of that at the trial.
gravenimage says
Yes–now we have Muslims everywhere urging violent Jihad–as well as this tool. At this point, few Jihadists are “radicalized” by just one source.
sickofleftists says
Wait….a Jew who wants to advance Islam and bring down Western Civilization?
Hmmm. Another name for “A Jew who votes Democrat”.
Note to Debbie Schultz: may want to look at this young lad, as an apprentice.
Salome says
How dare he try to pass himself off as Australian!
Judi says
SHMUCK!!
Angemon says
If he wanted the person who was building the bomb to die then he would have given them faulty instructions, not instructions that would enable them to build a genuine bomb (he would also face charges of murder). As for the excuse that he was trying to gain credit for stopping the attack, really? First of all, he’s 20 – he’s old enough to reason that law enforcement wouldn’t just thank him for his cooperation and pin a medal on his chest, they’d conduct a thorough investigation to learn if the bomber was acting alone and where he’d got the instructions. Second, what would he do if the person building the bomb had died in the process? Would he go to the police and say “look, I gave someone instructions on how to build a bomb, they wanted to detonate it on a crowded marketplace but it blew on their faces”? Did he really think he’d get any credit for it? It seems to me that options 1) and 2) are essentially diametrically opposed in nature.
Now, regardless of whether he’s a closet muslim or not, if he is a loser who wants to spread havoc for the sake of spreading havoc, a scumbag without morals who does things just because he can, a sociopath in waiting trying to see what he can get away with, and how far he can get away with, then his lame, diametrically opposed in nature excuses do add up.
Which way is it? Was he expecting that the person building the bomb was killed in the process, despite not giving faulty info? Was he expecting the person building the bomb would build the bomb so he could tip the police off and play the Big Damn Hero? Or was he expecting that they wouldn’t actually go through with it?
Ah, so he knew for a fact that the “pussy keyboard warriors” could and would go through with it.
I don’t care if he’s a muslim or a self-entitled loser living in his parents’ basement and giving a great middle finger to the world. Charge him with everything you can and go medieval on his ass on the court – make an example out of him.
(on second thought, if he was a muslim then at least there would be some reason behind what he did)
Oliver says
at 20 he is pre- adolescence, he is in trouble
Oliver says
the above should read– was truncated– IF at 20, he is pre– adolescence, he is in trouble
Myxlplik says
Every generation just has to try and outdo the generation prior. From this nearly 50 year old x-Gen guy, I must say this current generation is really out doing themselves in the good for nothing, lazy, worthless slacker department.
No Fear says
He sounds like a dickhead. If he really pretended to be a jihadist then treat him like one. Charge him with appropriate criminal charges.
Drew Webb says
”Australi Witness’s online actions might have had fatal real-world consequences in May.
In the leadup to an exhibition in Garland, Texas, at which pictures of the Prophet Mohammed were to be displayed, “Australi Witness” tweeted the event’s address and reposted a tweet urging people to go there with “weapons, bombs or with knifes”.
Two Muslim men attempted an attack at the exhibition, and were killed by police. Australi Witness then praised them online as martyrs.”
A NON Muslim? Sure!! And Pigs might fly
gravenimage says
It is also possible that Goldberg *did* convert to Islam, and is just pretending to be a wanna-be.
TheBuffster says
Sure, he could be a non-Muslim – a person who doesn’t believe in Allah (or any god) or Mohammed as his prophet, or in paradise or hell, and who’s happy to eat pork and drink alcohol, etc., but who’s just a nihilist whose idea of excitement is to muck around with the bad boys. The jihadists are the most prominent evil on earth at present, hence the most dangerous and exciting for a psychopath to play with.
Just because someone is helping jihadists doesn’t mean he believes in their cause.
duh_swa,mi says
When the ‘boy’ goes to prison he will be in the company of mean men…
who like 20 year old boys a lot…
Sam says
Lots of sick people on this earth and Muslims and liberals. It will get worse. God help us.
Baucent says
If he is a fantasist then indulge him, charge him with terrorism and toss him in jail. He’ll soon turn into a real muslim.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
As confused as all rabbis are about Islam, it’s easy to understand Joshua Goldberg’s embrace of mass murder of Infidels. Famed news entertainer Jonah Goldberg himself often gets mixed up, which makes me wonder if Josh was his son. I also wonder what Joshua’s rabbi had to say about Moslems.
gravenimage says
Much as I respect your comments, APF, I have to disagree with you here.
Yes–all too many Rabbis–just like Christian clerics and all stripe of clueless Liberals–desperately want to believe that Islam is the “religion of peace”. But I very much doubt that this would lead them–or their children–to actually embrace violent Jihad themselves.
They are far more likely to pretend violent Jihad doesn’t exist than they are to propagate it themselves.
They are willfully clueless–but not actively evil.Still dangerous, though–but not in the same moral category.
Oliver says
He lives in CLAY COUNTY, FL. There are many Jews in Fl, (I have lived here for some 30+ years and am Jewish) and
(1) never heard opf Clay County, and
(2) doubt that there are many Jews there.
What I have heard and seen, Jews are concentrated in 3 major areas- Miami-Dade/Broward (Ft Lauderdale and vicinity) and Palm Beach Counties; Greater Orlando area; and the West Coast From Tampa and around there, down to Naples/Sarasota/Ft Myers areas.
Lesser/smaller concentrations-maybe but probably not enough to support more then 1 or at most 2 synagogues, so I doubt that he heard anything from a Rabbi– and he probably never went to a synagogue, anyhow.