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“Minnesota man” pleads guilty to aiding the Islamic State

Apr 26, 2016 10:01 am By Robert Spencer

A “Minnesota man,” eh?

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7, 1941: A group of Japanese men were accused today of bombing the U.S. Navy base here. President Roosevelt took to the airwaves to assure the nation that the attack had nothing whatsoever to do with the Japanese Empire, and to warn against a “backlash” against Japanese people living in America. Stay tuned for an update on Rita Hayworth.

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“Another Defendant in Terror-Recruiting Case Pleads Guilty,” by Dave Aeikens and Ellen Galles, KSTP.com, April 25, 2016 (thanks to WL):

A Minnesota man arrested in 2015 on charges he and several others were trying to assist the Islamic State terror group pleaded guilty Monday in federal court.

Hamza Ahmed pleaded guilty to conspiracy and student financial fraud. He could get up to 20 years in prison.

He told the judge today that he originally pleaded ‘not guilty’ to appease his mother. He said she wanted to see his case go to trial and “she was a big influence in that.”

Judge Michael Davis ordered a pre-sentence investigation report, and will schedule a sentencing hearing after it is complete.

Ahmed was stopped at a New York City airport in November as he and three others were attempting to travel to Syria. Ahmed has been indicted on charges of lying to the FBI during a terrorism investigation, conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State terror group, and attempting to provide material support, according to federal charges….

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  1. jihad3tracker says

    Apr 26, 2016 at 10:16 am

    By now, after several years of “Minnesota men” showing how much they love Allah “Minnesota residents” KNOW EXACTLY WHAT MOTIVATED THIS GUY TO THE DEVOTION HE EXEMPLIFIED.

    But, of course, multicultural privileged largely-white media persons have constant severe headaches trying to reconcile their fantasy of Islam with reality, so they produce the idiocy we read above in Robert’s post.

    • Rapparee Zero says

      Apr 26, 2016 at 10:38 am

      “multicultural privileged largely-white media persons have constant severe headaches trying to reconcile their fantasy of Islam with reality” Well said jihad3tracker. I’ve been deep down & dirty with Islam for over 30 years, 17 as a photojournalist the remainder as a humanitarian aid professional. It (Islam) is the most atrocious failure of social engineering in the history of humanity and as such is the biggest threat to humanity in the history of humanity.

  2. Jerry says

    Apr 26, 2016 at 10:52 am

    “MiniMecca” is going to be the first state to fully capitulate to islam, I’m quite sure. It sickens me to see my home state go down this dark tunnel of self-destruction. I do wish that MN CAIR would spend less time suing and defaming and more time fighting the crimes of the people they represent. They make the most of every drop of rain that touches their narcissistic head, but are mum when it comes to the murderous hatred and crimes of their own faith and people. This one-sided approach to “community cohesion” is in total alignment with muslims’ hateful intolerance for anything that contradicts their retarded faith. If I started a religion that worshiped a murdering/torturing god and prophet I’d be on every government hit list out there. But because this demented faith has such a huge following our weak leaders and media have decided that appeasement is the best policy. Forget good morals and right action, just keep calling that murdering beast a “religion of peace” and hope for the best. In the meantime our kids and women are getting mass-raped, our neighborhoods are being destroyed, terrorists walk our streets, and every aspect of our society is infiltrated with their subversive sharia and Nazi-like ideology.

    One of my truthful comments on CAIR MN You Tube has disappeared. On it I had 3 links about CAIR’s shady past and associations. Sharia enforcement? Probably. Muslims can’t bear the truth about their religion or jihad agenda. The only recourse that jihadists have in the face of truth is to delete, threaten, or worse. And don’t we know it.

    http://cnsnews.com/news/article/minnesota-sheriff-reports-congress-growing-somalia-gang-threat-hennepin-county

    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/rise-of-somali-gangs-plagues-minneapolis/

    http://newobserveronline.com/somalis-in-america-a-horror-story-of-crime-violence-and-now-terrorism/

    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/04/29-somali-muslim-gang-members-indicted-for-kidnapping-raping-and-selling-underage-girls/

  3. Angemon says

    Apr 26, 2016 at 11:24 am

    He told the judge today that he originally pleaded ‘not guilty’ to appease his mother.

    Pffffttttt. Mama’s boy much?

  4. خَليفة says

    Apr 26, 2016 at 11:52 am

    He appears to have respect for his mother, but I bet he would beat his wife.

    His punishment: he should be flown to Syria, then forced to parachute dressed like a crusader with a big blue cross on his front and back.

  5. Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

    Apr 26, 2016 at 12:01 pm

    Now that Minnesota has lost is premier rock star, we need a replacement: an all-Somali boy band called “The Minnesota Men”.

    • jihad3tracker says

      Apr 26, 2016 at 12:46 pm

      Hello again Mark — I am no expert on this aspect of Islam, but isn’t music and the enjoyment thereof prohibited ?

      Well, maybe the group (you envision as a replacement for Prince and Company) could squeeze into acceptability by tapping on goats and camels in a percussion ensemble.

    • Angemon says

      Apr 27, 2016 at 7:05 am

      Music? That’s haram!!!

  6. mortimer says

    Apr 26, 2016 at 12:18 pm

    Politically correct news in 1941? Of course, they weren’t politically correct back then.

    However, one thing was all too similar: an authoritarian/fascist IDEOLOGY was at the root of the attacks against the US, China, Korea and the Phillipines and other countries in Asia.

    The great difference? Almost all Japanese Americans at the time were the most perfectly assimilated Americans of any ethnic group. They had practically nothing in common with and no sympathy towards Shinto-fascist Japan. Even German Americans turned on Hitlerism once they had a good look at it. Only half of US Muslims have turned from jihad, because jihad is clearly central to Islam.

    In the US today, 15% Muslims approve of terrorists groups, 51% agree that “Muslims in America should have the choice of being governed according to sharia’, 25% believe, “It is legitimate to use violence to punish those who give offense to Islam”, 20% believe ‘the use of violence in the United States is justified in order to make sharia the law of the land in this country’, 26% of younger Muslims in America believe suicide bombings are justified.

    Muslims are now a highly seditious group in America when compared with Japanese Americans during WWII. It is now proved that virtually no traitors were found in the Japanese American community during WWII, whereas approximately 300,000 Muslims in America approve of groups that use violence to impose Sharia law and Islamic supremacism and one Muslim in five in America believes in using violence to overthrow the US constitution.

    • Jerry says

      Apr 26, 2016 at 12:49 pm

      I can easily understand the outrage most muslim immigrants must feel in our free-speech society. Imagine you or your parents came from a society were islam’s barbaric stupidity and hate was the accepted “newspeak” (from “1984”). And then you are confronted here with people that can actually speak the truth freely and where your religious retardation is not above rational criticism or satire. OUCH! One can almost feel the outrage CAIR and their muslim constituency experience in our climate of open and critical debate. You just know they’re going to maintain that air of superiority and look down with contempt on all us “infidels.” (Sorry, it’s a despicable term but that’s what they call us.) Before 9/11 this may have been an easier task. But since then the world has really begun to focus on the hate and murder islam is causing. And I do believe it’s becoming extremely difficult for them to go on hiding behind that veneer of civil rights advocacy and constitutional protection as a religion. Islam may contain religious aspects, but it’s also political in the same way fascism is political, no less violent, bigoted, and destructive.

      So I don’t feel at all bad about speaking against islam or the people that live by it. I have an abundance of facts and intelligent voices to support my views. It’s the people that defend islam’s paradigm of jihad aggression that are on the wrong side of the issue, they are the ones that should feel bad. People who stand for human rights and freedom have had to bear for too long the filthy epithets of bigot, racist, and islamophobe. As Aldous Huxley said, “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” Humanity will be best served by respecting human rights and truth over any rights muslims might be able to secure for their dangerous ideology. Only then can we build a world of mutual respect and peace.

    • jihad3tracker says

      Apr 26, 2016 at 1:13 pm

      Hello to Mortimer and Jerry —-

      On the overarching subject of aggression against America that rises to the level of acts of war in strict definition, I strongly recommend a writer at http://www.nationalreviewonline.com —- Andrew C. McCarthy.

      In the last month or so he contributed two items related to those 28 pages of documents withheld ABOUT SAUDI COLLUSION WHICH ENABLED THE 9-11 ATTACKS.

      McCarthy is, you might recall, the former district attorney who successfully prosecuted the “Blind Sheik” for a 1993 bombing in New York.

      You both are resourceful enough to find the articles without me giving you a hotlink — they are searchable one way or another.

      And, in my ancient humble opinion, National Review Online has a great array of writers who cover both news and analysis — I check the website often, always finding something worthwhile.

      • jihad3tracker says

        Apr 26, 2016 at 1:15 pm

        OOOOPS ! ! ! I gave an incorrect hotlink: here is the right one — http://www.nationalreview.com

        • Jerry says

          Apr 26, 2016 at 2:22 pm

          Yeah thanks, that’s a great recommendation.

  7. Morton Doodslag says

    Apr 26, 2016 at 12:27 pm

    ‘Nice genocidal plan, Ahmed! Wanna bring it to the White House?” -Barrack Hussein Obama

  8. Shmooviyet says

    Apr 26, 2016 at 12:45 pm

    Over the weekend there was another gang rape in Uptown Mpls; four men and a teenager.

    It was amazing to see the word “Somali” make it into the Star-Tribune description of the ‘Minnesota men’. Hooper + Ellison were apoplectic, I hear.

  9. Mirren10 says

    Apr 26, 2016 at 1:20 pm

    ”He told the judge today that he originally pleaded ‘not guilty’ to appease his mother. He said she wanted to see his case go to trial and “she was a big influence in that.”

    Hmmm. Interesting. I wonder why mummy dearest wanted to see the case go to trial ?

    Perhaps she thought American courts are so desperately afraid of being thought ‘islamophobic’, that he’d automatically get off. Or maybe she thought because mohammedans don’t see the murder of non-mohammedans as anything to be guilty about, the courts would agree with her ?

    • Angemon says

      Apr 27, 2016 at 7:09 am

      Maybe CAIR initially had her back, or she thought they would.

      Also, am I seeing things or is there a “Likes” and “Dislikes” buttons on posts now? 😀 😀

      • Mirren10 says

        Apr 27, 2016 at 7:40 am

        ”Maybe CAIR initially had her back, or she thought they would.”

        More than likely, Angemon.

        ”Also, am I seeing things or is there a “Likes” and “Dislikes” buttons on posts now? ? ?”

        Yes, but they don’t seem to work – I clicked on ‘likes’ for your comment, ( 🙂 ), but nothing happened !

        • Angemon says

          Apr 27, 2016 at 8:43 am

          There goes my virtue-signalling – I can no longer show people I liked a post by saying “damn it, where’s he like button” 😀 😀 . On the other hand, I’m more likely to click a button than to say out loud I’d click a button if I had the chance, so it’s a win 🙂

  10. mccode says

    Apr 26, 2016 at 2:43 pm

    “If I had a son, he would look like Hamza Ahmed”

    Bracak Hussein Obama

  11. mortimer says

    Apr 26, 2016 at 2:58 pm

    Radical Islamic chic is prevalent among Muslim youth in the West, but teachers, social workers and police would lose their jobs if they reported it to their workmates or superiors.

    We are allowing the radicalization to go unchallenged and punishing everyone who reports it.

    Our Western elites know nothing about Islam’s very DISCRIMINATORY political, social and gender doctrines and are not curious to learn.

    Their slogan seems to be ‘Sugar and spice and everything nice…is what Islam is made of.’

    They are Pollyannas and ostriches.

  12. Fessitude says

    Apr 26, 2016 at 6:14 pm

    The editorial remark by Robert Spencer wryly harks back to the previous world war:

    “Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7, 1941: A group of Japanese men were accused today of bombing the U.S. Navy base here. President Roosevelt took to the airwaves to assure the nation that the attack had nothing whatsoever to do with the Japanese Empire, and to warn against a “backlash” against Japanese living in America…”

    Well, the problem is, according to the Politically Correct Multi-Culturalist worldview which is now dominant and mainstream throughout the West, America did engage in backlash against Japanese living in America: We (President Roosevelt, with approval from Congress and the Supreme Court and the majority of the American people — with the exception of a tiny minority of Leftists) decided the reasonable thing to do was to round up Japanese-Americans and put them in internment camps. In the intervening decades, as I say, the Politically Correct Multi-Culturalist worldview became dominant and mainstream, and now that tiny minority of Leftists who were against internment has mushroomed in a vast majority demographic of people anxiously worried about being “bigoted” and “racist” against any “Other” that comes along — particularly and paradoxically an Other (the Mother of all Others, Islam) whose followers are giving us good reason — yea, even a much, much better reason than we had with the Japanese at the time — to tar them with a broad brush for the good of the safety of our society.

    Indeed, the success of PC MC in overtaking the hearts and minds of the majority of Westerners may be seen in how many even in the Counter-Jihad would shrink back like violets at Japanese-American internment then — or total deportation of Muslims today.

    • billybob says

      Apr 26, 2016 at 6:50 pm

      I wonder if the internment camps themselves saved many American Japanese from violent retaliation by vigilantes? The treatment of prisoners of war by the Japanese was brutal. Many Americans were tortured and starved by them. When returning home on leave one might think it might be hard to prevent some soldier who experienced the Japanese brutality first hand from flying into a violent rage at the sight of some innocent Japanese American and murdering them on the spot. I once knew a man who was a prisoner of war under the Japanese for two years, and he could still can barely control himself at the sight of a Japanese person at the time I knew him 60 years after the war was over.

    • Angemon says

      Apr 27, 2016 at 7:26 am

      Fessitude posted:

      “Well, the problem is, according to the Politically Correct Multi-Culturalist worldview which is now dominant and mainstream throughout the West, America did engage in backlash against Japanese living in America: We (President Roosevelt, with approval from Congress and the Supreme Court and the majority of the American people — with the exception of a tiny minority of Leftists) decided the reasonable thing to do was to round up Japanese-Americans and put them in internment camps.”

      I was wondering how long it would take you to come here and whitewash history to serve your agenda. *Some* Japanese-Americans were placed into internment camps. Others *fought* for the US army *against* the Japanese Imperial Army, including the 442nd Infantry Regiment , a unit composed almost entirely of Americans of Japanese ancestry. And many of them actually had families in the aforementioned internment camps.

      The most plausible explanation nowadays is that the American navy broke the Japanese transmission codes and was aware of fifth-columnists in American soil, so they were faced with a pressing question: how could they neutralize them without making the Japanese suspect their codes were broken? The answer was “arrest a lot of them and make them think the spies and collaborators just happened to be caught in the flood”. Heck, Reagan apologized for the internment camps and acknowledged innocent citizens were unfairly arrested.

      I know you’re aware of this because I told you this before. Of course, facts don’t matter to you: you have a narrative to push, and pointing out that “not ALL Japanese-Americans” were interned throws a big. fat, heavy wrench into the comparison you’re trying to make, which is:

      “<iIndeed, the success of PC MC in overtaking the hearts and minds of the majority of Westerners may be seen in how many even in the Counter-Jihad would shrink back like violets at Japanese-American internment then — or total deportation of Muslims today.

      That’s right, arresting Japanese on the grounds of their *ancestry*, manifested in their *physical features* is just the same as arresting muslims on the grounds of their *ideology*, which manifests itself in… well, certainly not physical features – ancestry and ethnicity are irrelevant when deciding who is a muslim and who isn’t, and you have yet to explain how you would identify muslims if you were able to put your seditious nonsense into practice. After all, muslims are allowed to deny their religion – do you truly expect muslims face with such a scenario would continue to grow their beards, wear a prayer cap or pray in mosques?

      Your comparison is, at best, fallacious, so much so that you need to cut out important details to make it work. Cheap sophistry at its cheapest.

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