Is a rogue, Islamophobic FBI really badgering Muslims who would otherwise have been peaceful, law-abiding citizens until they finally snap and go jihad? Only in the Left’s most febrile fantasies. Katie Zavadski would have us believe that if this undercover FBI agent hadn’t told Ibrahim Simpson to “tear up Texas,” Simpson would have remained a peaceful, law-abiding member of the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix, and would never have dreamed of driving to Garland with his fellow jihadi, Nadir Soofi, and opening fire at our Muhammad cartoon event.
In reality, Ibrahim Simpson had been wanting to wage jihad for quite some time before the Muhammad cartoon event. Along with Soofi and Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, who supplied weapons to the pair and helped them train, he sought information about pipe bombs and plotted to attack the Super Bowl, and planned to go to Syria to join the Islamic State (ISIS), long before anyone told him to “tear up Texas.”
But you won’t hear that from the Daily Beast.
“FBI Agent Apparently Egged on ‘Draw Muhammad’ Shooter,” by Katie Zavadski, Daily Beast, August 4, 2016:
Days before an ISIS sympathizer attacked a cartoon contest in Garland, Texas, he received a text from an undercover FBI agent.
“Tear up Texas,” the agent messaged Elton Simpson days before he opened fire at the Draw Muhammad event, according to an affidavit (pdf) filed in federal court Thursday.
“U know what happened in Paris,” Simpson responded. “So that goes without saying… No need to be direct.”
That revelation comes amidst a national debate about the use of undercover officers and human sources in terrorism cases. Undercover sources are used in more than half of ISIS-related terror cases, according to statistics kept by the George Washington University Program on Extremism, and civil liberties advocates say some of those charged might not have escalated their behavior without those interventions.
“It would certainly be inappropriate for an FBI undercover agent or cooperating witness to provoke or inspire or urge a person to commit an act of violence,” Michael German, a former FBI agent now at the Brennan Center for Justice, told The Daily Beast. “I could imagine an undercover agent thinking it was just the hyperbolic rhetoric they are participating in, and it wasn’t an intent to go to Texas and do harm….
The texts were included in the indictment, released Thursday, of Erick Jamal Hendricks of Charlotte, North Carolina. He was charged with conspiring to provide material support to ISIS. The 35-year-old tried to recruit other Americans to form an ISIS cell on secret compounds and introduced an undercover agent to one of the Draw Muhammad attackers, according to the FBI.
But Hendricks did more than make a connection. According to the court papers, he asked the undercover officer about the Draw Muhammad event’s security, size, and police presence, during the event, according to an affidavit filed in court.
The affidavit does not specify what the undercover responded to questions about size and security.
“If you see that pig [Pamela Geller] make your ‘voice’ heard against her,” Hendricks allegedly told the undercover agent, referring to a notorious Islamophobe.
Notice that Katie Zavadski never characterizes the jihad killers using any negative terminology.
Press officers for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio, the Cleveland FBI Office, and the Department of Justice declined to comment beyond the affidavit. FBI spokeswoman Carol Cratty hung up on The Daily Beast after being asked about the “tear up Texas” text….
Deservedly.

Angemon says
At least until they mishear the lyrics to a music or something.
copakeman says
The fbi showed him the video that participated the Benghazi attack. That got him incensed toward western culture.
Sog says
Heaven forbid people should be deemed responsible for their own behavior.
berserker says
Isolated “Allahu Akbar” machete attack in Charleroi, Belgium: http://www.dhnet.be/actu/belgique/deux-policiers-blesses-a-la-machette-dans-le-centre-de-charleroi-57a5f8e435709a310558b503
Alvin Woods says
Mental illness? Brevik connection? Poverty? Racist police?
Kay says
There seems to be a pattern of Ms not taking responsibility for their own behavior (or for apologists to reassign it).
Alvin Woods says
Maybe the CIA are using chem trails over muslim areas?
Or HAARP?
Or some kind of a Manchurian Candidate project?
Or flouride in the water???
Anything BUT ISLAM!!!!!!
Alvin Woods says
Hang on a minute!
So the FBI knew this terrorist was going to attack the Garland event???
Was security doubled?
Were FBI and special ops waiting for them?
I know texas had SWAT on standby in the building but “what if” the terrorists had back up or had managed to get into the building or had used a car bomb?
jewdog says
He was a vicim, man. That Islamophobe Pamela Geller had already pushed him to the edge. He was all stressed out as it was, what with all those racists rampaging around Texas, claiming that Islam was violent. Then that Islamophobic FBI mole manipulated him, playing on his already vulnerable psche, and snap, he finally lost it. I think that his next of kin should be awarded mega-damages for pain and suffering, and CAIR and the SPLC should supervise a radical overhaul of the FBI. .
mortimer says
Is the FBI doing sting operations? No doubt, they are. And it is responsible, preventive work to do so! I WANT the FBI to sting potential jihadists before they can act out their PORNOGRAPHIC PARADISE FANTASIES!
Hunt them! Trick them! Smoke them! Jail them!
Alvin Woods says
Mortimer.
If I’m reading this article correctly the FBI were discussing an attack on the Garland event?
If so, were the FBI laying in wait for the jihadis to arrive at the event then ambush them??
From what transpired, the fbi knew the jihadis were attacking garland but did not set up an ambush nir warn the event organizers.
Am I missing something from this skewed article??
Felix Quigley says
Alvin Woods your question to Mortimer deserves to be fully answered and not defelcted. Thank you for asking the question.
Carolyne says
Is the FBI even serious about stopping terrorists? They had information on the Boston Marathon bombers, even info given them by Russia, and did nothing. They had information about the San Bernardino murderers, and again, did nothing. They had information given them by Disney World and others about the Orlando shooter, and once again, did nothing.
They have proof of Hillary Clinton’s violation of our security by passing along “Classified” material on an unsecured server, but did nothing. Hilary Clinton and others of Muslim Obama’s minions, lied about Benghazi, the FBI knows it, and does nothing.
Why do we even have an FBI?
Felix Quigley says
Carolyne another very good question. I am opposed to conspiracy operators, very much so, because they do not ask the most basic questions and make up their own agenda OUT OF THEIR OWN HEADS. These questions you ask are the opposite. We must go into this and answer these questions and CUT THE GROUND FROM UNDER THE CONSPIRACY THEORISTS WHO ARE ALL ANTISEMITIC.
More Ham Ed says
Leftists and Jihadis are the same in the sense that they both believe that someone else is to blame for their own behavior.
Leftists and Jihadis also conduct their own variety of daily taqiyya (justified lying for their cause).
Felix Quigley says
More Ham Ed I know very well what you mean by the Word “Jihadis” but I have no idea what you mean by the Word “leftists”. I would apreciate some guidance.
Very often when people who are “Fascist Becoming” (my own term just made up!) they use the Word leftist to mean Marxist and Communist/Leninist/Trotskyist. That is why I ask. To understand you more precisely.
Peter says
Federal Bureau of Islamization (FBI)
خَليفة says
Sounds like someone is a bit paranoid, stupid and, did I already say “stupid?”.
When feeble minded Muslims try to solve simple problems their brain starts hurting and logic escapes them – “it’s always some one else’s fault”
and why not blame the FBI, the notorious “Federal Bureau of Infidels”
Richard says
Katie Zavadski – “Pamela Geller Notorious Islamophobe” (And as everyone knows to be wary or scared of Islam is a horrible, horrible hate crime.)
Katie Zavadski – Elton Simpson and Nadir Hamid Soofi, (wearing body armour and equipped with three assault rifles, three handguns, and 1,500 rounds of ammunition, tweeting with the hashtag #texasattack: “May Allah accept us as mujahideen.”. their accomplice, Junaid Hussain tweeted: “Allahu Akbar!!!! 2 of our brothers just opened fire.”), Poor innocent victims, sent to their death by the evil FBI.
How much better the world would have been if they were still with us, and hopefully have been my boyfriends, instead of enjoying their 72 virgins in paradise. How sad.
Alvin Woods says
Could someone please answer my question? If the FBI knew that an attack was going to take place in Garland why were they not lying in wait???
Could the organizers not sue the FBI???
gravenimage says
Daily Beast claims FBI goaded jihadis into attacking Garland free speech event
…………………
Just grotesque. It is no the FBI that prohibits any criticism of the “Prophet”…
Felix Quigley says
This is one aspect of the Islamic Jihad. There is no argument on this. Consider the Pew Research Findings and a statistic i remember and use concerning France is that 42% of Muslims in the age from 18 to 29 are supportive of suicide attacks, as was the Nice attack with a lorry.
There are the two sides to the Jihad. There is the immigration and the deep roots of that in society and nt just Muslim society (for example Ann Coulter has often spoken about how US employers use illegal immigrants on the quiet). The BBC is deeply rooted in illegal immigration and they are heavily invested also in this, as they set up their “parlour” stations around the world, and in Muslim lands also.
There is a defintie process of deflection taking place here and I thank Alvin Woods for sticking to his guns.
It is necessary to investigate without delay and without the examples of deflection above what the FBI knew and did in relation to these Jihadist killers in Garland.
If it is not investigated here I will try to do it myself and publish it on my Facebook page.
Felix Quigley says
Of course I know about the Garland attack and offered then my support and sympathy to all involved, such as Robert Spencer, Pamela Geller and Geert Wilders. Also I am aware and I defend all those who are under threat from Islam and I have been for what is now decades, ever since the copies of Salman Rushdie were burned in Bradford. I was very exercised by that then, raised it in my trade unión, and got a response of zero interest (no response)
But I can also see when deflection is taking place in places where you should not expect it.
There is a record of this method in my own historical movement which is the historical movement of Trotskyism. In the 1930s Rudolf Klement was murdered in Paris. There were many other murders by the GPU and indeed the son of Trotsky Leon Sedov was also murdered in Paris. Under the chairmanship of John Dewey Trotsky sought to examine every aspect of these murders and particularly of the murders carried out in what became known as the Moscow Trials. When Trotsky was struck down by Mercader in Agust 1940, Mexico, his almost dying call was to keep the assasin alive so that knpwledge could be won. If I can generalise only knowledge is the winner in all such extreme situations and Garland was certainly extreme.
I see it as part of the struggle to defeat Islam that every aspect of Garland is made known and I myself I admit have much to learn. But those who deflect from this learning go against our struggle to defeat Islam.
There is another aspect to this that I think is most important and here I quote from the Daily Beast (sadly also I do not know too much about the Daily Beast) They write:
QUOTE…”“If you see that pig [Pamela Geller] make your ‘voice’ heard against her,” Hendricks allegedly told the undercover agent, referring to a notorious Islamophobe.”
This is exactly making my point. When Daily Beast refers to Pamela Geller who is a libertarian who has assisted Muslim girls in this manner as a “notorious” as an “Islamophobe”…
Then they show that they are not at all interested in getting to the truth about this Garland issue. They are on a hate mission against people like Pamela Geller.
So the Daily Beast is not into finding the truth about Garland. But the truth and all the truth must be found out urgently.