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California: Two Muslims convicted of trying to aid the Islamic State

Jun 22, 2016 8:33 pm By Robert Spencer

“Nader Elhuzayel and Muhanad Badawi were each convicted of conspiracy to aid a foreign terrorist organization, which carries a maximum sentence of 15 years in federal prison.” Very well, but neither will be sentenced to 15 years, and they will serve even less time than they’re sentenced to serve, and then what? Nothing whatsoever will be done in prison to disabuse them of the ideas that landed them there in the first place — that would be “Islamophobic.” So they will likely just return to the jihad after just a few years in prison.

Nader Elhuzayel and Muhanad Badawi

“Two California men convicted of trying to aid Islamic State,” Times of Israel, June 22, 2016:

SANTA ANA, Calif. — Two Southern California men were convicted Tuesday of trying to become fighters for the Islamic State terrorist group.

Nader Elhuzayel and Muhanad Badawi were each convicted of conspiracy to aid a foreign terrorist organization, which carries a maximum sentence of 15 years in federal prison.

The 25-year-old Anaheim men concocted a scheme last year for Elhuzayel to fly to the Middle East to fight for the Islamic State, federal officials said.

Badawi, a college engineering student, also was convicted of aiding and abetting an attempt to provide support for terrorists and financial aid fraud. Authorities say he used a federal college grant to support the cause.

In April 2015, he let Elhuzayel use his debit card to buy a one-way plane ticket to Israel with a six-hour layover in Turkey, according to an FBI court affidavit. He was arrested in May at a security gate at Los Angeles International Airport.

Badawi’s lawyer argued he did his friend a favor, letting him use his card to travel after Elhuzayel told him he wanted to get to Tel Aviv to marry a Palestinian woman he met online.

Elhuzayel also was convicted of 26 counts of bank fraud. Federal officials said he deposited stolen checks in his bank accounts and withdrew money at Orange County banks. Federal officials said he intended to use the cash to go to Syria to fight.

He is facing up to 30 years in federal prison on each bank fraud count.

The FBI affidavit said the men shared their support for the Islamic State in conversation and on social media, sharing photos of “unbelievers” being beheaded and expressing wishes to die as “martyrs.”

Elhuzayel had sworn allegiance to the leader of IS on a video and he used the Islamic State flag as the profile picture on a Facebook page, authorities said….

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Filed Under: American jihadis, Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh) Tagged With: Muhanad Badawi, Nader Elhuzayel


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  1. Jason Williams says

    Jun 22, 2016 at 9:13 pm

    Its so crazy that we settle for all this madness! These people hate us! They hate our way of life,they hate our Christianity! Islam is from satan! Plain and simple.

  2. biff says

    Jun 22, 2016 at 9:22 pm

    The fact that they are Muslim and also tied to ISIS is totally random occurrence.

    You need to get past your paranoid republican fantasy that there is a connection between Islam and the Islamic State.

    The sky is whatever color you are told it is.

    • Oliver says

      Jun 23, 2016 at 8:17 pm

      Biff- I hope that you are being sarcastic.

      otherwise, I think that you are taking substances that are or should be controlled.

      Just my view

  3. Angemon says

    Jun 22, 2016 at 9:53 pm

    Nader Elhuzayel and Muhanad Badawi were each convicted of conspiracy to aid a foreign terrorist organization, which carries a maximum sentence of 15 years in federal prison.

    An organization that declared war on the US and vowed to overthrow the US government. They’re described as “Southern California men” – if they’re foreigners they should be treated as enemy criminals, if they hold a US citizenship they should be treated as traitors.

  4. Bridgette says

    Jun 22, 2016 at 10:08 pm

    Death to people who would slaughter innocent people. They’ll get out and try to do it for allah again because their quran demands it from them all. They’re either moslem and believe in the quran or they’re apostates. Nothing in between.

  5. El Cid says

    Jun 23, 2016 at 8:27 am

    Guantanamo!

  6. linnte says

    Jun 23, 2016 at 4:28 pm

    It is beyond me why they just don’t let these Jihadis GO to ME, but just not let them RETURN! It’s nuts! Going to the ME to support IS is tantamount to renouncing ones citizenship. Don’t they get it?

  7. Oliver says

    Jun 23, 2016 at 8:23 pm

    linnte– I agree. But ( recently-within the last 10 or so days) I heard about some “American’ ” teen ager” (if age mentioned, I missed it) went to the ME to join ISIS. Saw some severed heads on spikes, decided to come back to the US.

    That’s the problem- is this creep (it was a he)- just ‘upset’ that ISIS is so- well crude/violent? (As opposed, to, say, a less violent groups of extremists)? Or really and truly renouncing jihad. Probably the former.

    But, as you ( and others, myself included) have said, let these pieces of animal excrement go, and stay there-hopefully dead.

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