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Muslim ex-University of Texas student gets 10 years for recruiting jihadis

Sep 26, 2015 1:10 pm By Robert Spencer

When Rahatul Ashikim Khan was a student at the University of Texas, did anyone know or care that he was a jihadi? Did anyone ever raise concerns about his beliefs and activities? Of course not: that would have been “Islamophobic.”

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“Ex-UT student gets 10 years in prison for aiding terrorists,” Statesman, September 25, 2015:

More than a year after he pleaded guilty to a charge of aiding overseas terrorists, Rahatul Ashikim Khan, a former University of Texas student, was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison.

Khan, 24, became the second of two young men convicted in Austin of the rare federal offense after admitting he connected an undercover agent with co-conspirators recruiting jihadi fighters to Somalia. His plea in July followed that of Michael Todd Wolfe, a Houston native, who confessed he had plans to travel to Syria to engage in jihad himself.

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  1. somehistory says

    Sep 26, 2015 at 1:15 pm

    UT campuses all over the state attract moslems. It’s good he was caught and sentenced.

    And look how dead his eyes are. It’s the dead stare of islam’s beast.

    • Angemon says

      Sep 26, 2015 at 2:05 pm

      It’s the eyes of people who have nothing to live for and long for an end.

      • mortimer says

        Sep 28, 2015 at 12:23 am

        Don’t judge a book by its cover. If you know what questions to ask, a jihadist will reveal his commitment to murder infidels.

        One Muslim in six supports terrorism. Merely keep them talking, calmly asking about Israel, Jews, US foreign policy and Pope Benedict. The jihadist will reveal himself.

        Jihadists disguise themselves before infidels and pretend to be their friends.

  2. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Sep 26, 2015 at 2:54 pm

    It’s no big deal, except he has to do time in the Pokey, which could be painful, except for when he’s doing Dawa. The U of Texas Austin is the Berkeley of the southern prairie, which means anti-Americanism, and what (or who) could be more anti-American than a Moslem? Especially a Moslem activist.

    • خَليفة says

      Sep 26, 2015 at 3:55 pm

      Prisoners should NEVER be given accommodation for religious beliefs. Prisons are/should be, a secular department of the government. Prisoners can pray silently to their god when they go to bed. If a Muslim misses a pray time, they can make it up at any other pray time – this in fact is permitted in Islam! A prisoner does not have the same rights as a non prisoner – rights are lost when you “break the law”.

      I’m not saying there should be no religion, if prisoners want to study religion they can do so at prison appointed times for recreation, IF prisoner is well behaved and follow the prison rules – SAME rules for ALL prisoners. Same diet too, meat (what ever it is) or vegitarian – no halal, no kosher. This is all part of the “punishment” for having broken the law.

      US is too soft on those that break laws.

  3. Oliver says

    Sep 26, 2015 at 2:59 pm

    As I and others have said- why not just send him and the other piece of crap to Syria and Somalia?

    Oh, wait, he was recruiting to go to Somalia- did not say that he was planning to go there- and fight.

    Cowardly bastard. The other slime AT LEAST (supposedly) WANTED to go to Syria.

    • خَليفة says

      Sep 26, 2015 at 4:04 pm

      Good idea, get a plane full of them. Use a plane about to be decommissioned. Fly them towards Syria. Crash the remote controlled plane mid Atlantic. Cover story is they broke free and tried to hijack plane.

      • Katnis says

        Sep 27, 2015 at 11:58 am

        I bet you aren’t the only person who’s thought of this! Not saying I agree – I just find it frustrating that we resort to jail time again and again when it clearly does not work. I prefer deportation. It’s cheaper and cleaner for US citizens. You know, we the people…

      • mortimer says

        Sep 28, 2015 at 12:32 am

        Your ideas of punishing people you don’t like without trial went out of fashion at the Nuremburg Trials.

        You are a Nazi.

  4. Joan in Houston says

    Sep 26, 2015 at 3:03 pm

    I am so sad to read anything unfavourable about The University of Texas, from which I graduated in 1969. All of my professors loved our country, and were conservatives.

  5. Vicky says

    Sep 27, 2015 at 8:25 am

    Did he lose his citizenship? He should have if he didn’t. If Canada can revoke the citizenship of their homegrown terrorists, so can we.

  6. abad says

    Sep 27, 2015 at 12:57 pm

    And after he serves his time, deport his sorry butt back to Somalia.

    • Oliver says

      Sep 27, 2015 at 4:27 pm

      He doesn’t-to me-look like he came from Somalia. Looks like he just tried to send others there and/or raise money fro them. But too chicken shit to go there himself.

    • mortimer says

      Sep 28, 2015 at 12:36 am

      No country wants people like this.

  7. Rikki H says

    Sep 28, 2015 at 7:30 am

    Mandatory death sentence for recruiting muslims to become terrorists, that should make them think twice. Of course it’ll never happen, liberals would prefer convicted murderers should continue to waste oxygen. At least America HAS death sentences, we brits can’t even defend ourselves from the inevitable war on the streets that will begin once ISIS turn Bradford into an islamic sharia base camp on our own turf. It’s almost that already…

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