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Mississippi: Convert to Islam gets 12 years for plot to join the Islamic State

Aug 13, 2016 12:09 pm By Robert Spencer

“Court papers say Young announced her conversion in March 2015 and began wearing a burqa, a garment worn by some Muslim women to cover their face and body. ‘After her conversion, Young distanced herself from family and friends and felt spending time with non-Muslims would be a bad influence,’ prosecutors wrote.” Yet authorities remain resolutely uninterested in investigating the phenomenon of how conversion to Islam so often leads to treason and violence.

Jaelyn Young

“Mississippi ex-cheerleader sentenced to 12 years for plot to join Islamic State,” Associated Press, August 11, 2016:

OXFORD, Miss. — A Mississippi woman who once sought to disguise a planned journey to join the Islamic State group as her honeymoon was sentenced by a federal judge Thursday to 12 years in prison on a terrorism charge.

Vicksburg native Jaelyn Young broke down in heavy sobs during her sentencing by U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock. Young pleaded guilty in March to one count of conspiring to provide material support to a terrorist organization.

Young had faced up to 20 years in prison.

Her parents pleaded for leniency at Thursday’s hearing. Young, amid sobs, said she was ashamed of her actions.

Her fiance, Muhammad Dakhlalla, pleaded guilty March 11 to a similar charge and is set to be sentenced Aug. 24. Prosecutors have said Young, who converted to Islam while studying at Mississippi State University, had prodded Dakhlalla into the plan.

Both are charged with attempting and conspiring to provide material support to a terrorist group.

The two were arrested in 2015 before boarding a flight from Columbus, Mississippi, with tickets for Istanbul, Turkey.

“I found the contacts, made arrangements, planned the departure,” Young had written in a farewell letter to her family. “I am guilty of what you soon will find out.”

Young and Dakhlalla were among a number of people arrested around the country for Islamic State sympathies. Like many, authorities said, they had developed views supporting the Islamic State in part by watching online videos and were arrested after social media posts attracted the attention of the FBI.

The daughter of a school administrator and a police officer who served in the Navy reserve, Young is a former honor student, cheerleader and homecoming maid at Vicksburg’s Warren Central High School.

The two were arrested in August 2015 before they could board the flight from Mississippi with tickets for Istanbul purchased using her mother’s credit card without permission, according to court records. Authorities said the couple had contacted undercover federal agents in May, seeking online help in traveling to Syria. Both remained jailed in Oxford since their arrests.

Court papers say Young announced her conversion in March 2015 and began wearing a burqa, a garment worn by some Muslim women to cover their face and body. “After her conversion, Young distanced herself from family and friends and felt spending time with non-Muslims would be a bad influence,” prosecutors wrote.

A court statement said Young increasingly complained about the treatment of Muslims in the United States and United Kingdom. Prosecutors said that, after watching videos included pro-Islamic State messages from a British Muslim preacher who faces criminal charges of supporting the group — she began to view the fighters as liberators.

“Young continually asked Dakhlalla when they were going to join (the Islamic State group) and began to express hatred for the U.S. government and to express support for the implementation of Sharia law in the United States,” prosecutors wrote….

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  1. Jay Boo says

    Aug 13, 2016 at 12:15 pm

    Racism
    It is really nothing to do with worship.
    These young blacks are usually very racist against white people in general and are inspired when they watch beheadings.
    It has to be said.
    So be it.
    It is true.

    • shosh7154 says

      Aug 13, 2016 at 1:43 pm

      You are disgusting AND YOU ARE THE RACIST. SHAME ON YOU……may it be unto you according to your bias and hatred until you see the truth.

      • bytheway says

        Aug 13, 2016 at 2:30 pm

        Seriously shosh…such anger.
        You mean the truth which is supposedly islam, that expounds more hatred, kills more people, including your own kind, than any other group in the world.
        Challenging and speaking against islam is not racist, as islam has adherents from all racial groups.

        Islam will bring about its own demise, as the below illustrates.
        You can only marry your cousins for so long before mother nature takes care of the rest.

        https://islamqa.info/en/26118

        “So stop keeping company with Christians and replace them with Muslim friends, and try to make friends with righteous people. 

        You should note that it is not permissible for a man to keep company with females or with homosexuals, whether they are Muslims or Christians, because of the fitnah (temptation) involved in that, and because it also involves things that are forbidden in sharee’ah, such as being alone with them, shaking hands with them and things that are more serious than that. I ask Allaah to protect us all from fitnah.”

        • shosh7154 says

          Aug 13, 2016 at 2:41 pm

          My post was in regard to this:

          Jay Boo says

          August 13, 2016 at 12:15 pm

          Racism
          It is really nothing to do with worship.
          These young blacks are usually very racist against white people in general and are inspired when they watch beheadings.
          It has to be said.
          So be it.
          It is true.

          IN RESPONSE TO THE MAN Jay Boo WHO WROTE THE ABOVE:

          You are disgusting AND YOU ARE THE RACIST. SHAME ON YOU……may it be unto you according to your bias and hatred until you see the truth.

        • gravenimage says

          Aug 14, 2016 at 1:18 am

          Doesn’t shosh7154 have any Catholics to rant about? That’s his usual shtick here.

      • Carmel says

        Aug 13, 2016 at 7:25 pm

        I see things like JayBoo. It seems easy for you to see white racism easily . Are you able to see black racism , too?

        • Vrae says

          Aug 13, 2016 at 11:32 pm

          I can say for sure that it is true that many blacks don’t like whites. However, ISIL has beheaded black people in a video. This very idea that black people would enjoy watching beheading videos with white victims strikes me as nonsensical.

          Tell me, do you know of any black organization (bonus points if Black Lives Matter) that EXPLICITLY approved the fact that light-skinned people got beheaded? There are none, because it didn’t matter to left-wing black activists what skin color they were. I’m pretty sure that they would only care about the perpetrators being somehow disadvantaged or something.

          I want quotations and sources (they ought to be from that time period) as proof. Nothing else will suffice. Internet-accessible ones more likely to be considered.

        • gravenimage says

          Aug 14, 2016 at 1:20 am

          Um….Jay Boo was actually talking about black racism.

        • Vrae says

          Aug 14, 2016 at 1:56 pm

          GI, Carmel was replying to Shosh

        • Carolyne says

          Aug 14, 2016 at 6:24 pm

          I think Shosh is sloshed. If he needs proof of what Jay Boo said, turn on your TV and learn what happened in Milwaukee last night. I’ve never heard of a mob of Caucasians to riot and burn their own neighborhood.

    • STEVE says

      Aug 14, 2016 at 9:02 am

      Isis would use people like this black girl for cannon fodder. Why ARE so many blacks in America wanting to become
      Islamist and wanting to join isis?

  2. Angemon says

    Aug 13, 2016 at 12:15 pm

    Prosecutors have said Young, who converted to Islam while studying at Mississippi State University, had prodded Dakhlalla into the plan.

    Nothing like the zeal of new converts.

  3. Kumi Ho says

    Aug 13, 2016 at 12:49 pm

    This girl has no idea how close she can to becoming a sex slave in ISIS. It’s a pity that she won’t escape her racist hatred in prison, or learn the real lesson she needs to know.

  4. Berengaria says

    Aug 13, 2016 at 1:03 pm

    Sex Slave, my aunt fanny, this black racist, would be used as a Black Slave, by the Arab Muslims. Then she would kiss the earth of the US, that has Pampered & Pandered to Blacks since 1865. The Butt-ugly female was going to a slave owning world, in which she would be the lowest slave there. How Stupid She Is.

  5. bytheway says

    Aug 13, 2016 at 1:12 pm

    …the ball and chain that is islam –

    “There can be also no such thing as rape in a Muslim marriage, even if the husband has to hit the wife in order to bring about her submission.  Another recent fatwa reminds a woman, she “does not have the right to refuse her husband, rather she must respond to his request every time he calls her.”(Islam Q&A, Fatwa No. 33597).”

    HOW DO INTELLIGENT WOMEN BUY INTO THIS IDEOLOGY, HONESTLY.

    • marina says

      Aug 13, 2016 at 3:30 pm

      Islam should be tried for crimes against womankind.

    • Carolyne says

      Aug 14, 2016 at 6:26 pm

      Why do you assume they are intelligent women?

      • bytheway says

        Aug 25, 2016 at 3:54 pm

        The below are educated & intelligent women, but in my opinion misguided.

        Kristiane Backer, a London-based former MTV presenter converted to islam
        Camilla Leyland, converted to Islam in her mid-20s for ‘intellectual and feminist reasons’
        Lauren Booth, who is Cherie Blair’s half sister converted to islam

        “They are all bright and educated, and have thought long and hard before choosing to convert to Islam — and now feel passionately about their adopted religion. Good luck to them. And good luck to Lauren Booth. But it’s that word that sums up the difference between their experience and mine — choice.

        Perhaps if I’d felt in control rather than controlled, if I’d felt empowered rather than stifled, I would still be practising the religion I was born into, and would not carry the burden of guilt that I do about rejecting my father’s faith.”
        Eve Ahmed

        “Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because Allah has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them.” (Qur’an 4:34)

        Muhammad “struck me on the chest which caused me pain, and then said: Did you think that Allah and His Apostle would deal unjustly with you?” — Aisha (Sahih Muslim 2127)

        This is exactly what I don’t get, when intelligent and educated women join islam…

  6. Kiel says

    Aug 13, 2016 at 2:27 pm

    The bad spirit hovering over the world due to the Muhammedan ideology has an influence on bewildered teens. For young blacks the aggressiveness of Islam fascism is tempting. In this setting, they can outlive their racism and suppress their rightly felt inferior-complex.

    • Peter Ahlskog says

      Aug 14, 2016 at 10:11 am

      Yes Islam is an fascistic ideology. So many, from Voltaire to Winston Churhill have said that. Until 1970, the only Western leaders who admired Islam were Hitler, Mussolini and Franco.

      Black people should know that the main slave traders have been and still are Arabs. Who took black slaves out to the African cost and sold them to Europeans? Who took black slaves to Babylon, Assur, Persepolis, Athens, Rome and Istanbul? Yes, Arabs. Why do they think that the black in South Sudan wanted their own country, free from the Arab slave keepers in north Sudan?

      If people just know their own history…

  7. PRCS says

    Aug 13, 2016 at 4:19 pm

    Well, golly, I’ll bet’cha she was radicalized via the Internet!

    • Carolyne says

      Aug 15, 2016 at 1:32 pm

      Hillary Clinton says that Trump is a recruiting tool for ISIS. Of course that’s ridiculous. She, however, is not a “Recruiting tool,” she is a downright recruiter who accepts millions for the Clinton Foundation from those who support ISIS.

  8. Seabird says

    Aug 13, 2016 at 4:52 pm

    So she gets 12 years in prison for supplying “material support to terrorists” while our own (US) Govt. continues to supply weapons, cash and training to Syrian “rebels” who throw gays and Syrian postal workers off rooftops and in one case, cannibalized a Syrian soldier- all with the apparent blessings of the CIA, State Dept. and John McCain?
    Where is their punishment for supporting Islamic dictatorships like Turkey,SArabia and Qatar which support these Jihadists as proxies?
    I have no sympathy for her but if she gets 12 years for unauthorized use of her mom’s credit card and trying to fly to Turkey, what penalty do members of our own Govt. get for outright treason?
    Send them both to Turkey, revoke their citizenship and be done with them.

    • Carmel says

      Aug 13, 2016 at 7:27 pm

      In fact , she wanted to live Islam in its purest form . So she tought jail was the best place.

      • Peter Ahlskog says

        Aug 14, 2016 at 9:55 am

        If she wanted to be pure and spiritual she could focus on Sufism or convert to Bahá’í faith. She maybe chose Islam because she wants to scare her “enemies” in US. Or revenge.

        It may also be the mental trouble like abused women often choose a brutal man again if she has got help to leave the first one.

  9. Ed Lee says

    Aug 13, 2016 at 6:31 pm

    I take issue with anyone who uses the terminology “conversion to Islam”. I have just finished reading the Qu’ran and am going through it a second time. There are dozens of verses where unbelievers are encouraged to “submit” to Islam or Allah, and one instance where the word used is “surrender”. But I have not found a single passage that contains “convert” or “conversion”. One may not convert to Islam, one may only submit.

  10. abad says

    Aug 13, 2016 at 10:28 pm

    Instead of imprisoning them, just deport them to Syria and let them stay there never to return to the USA.

    That should be the punishment or any American who converts to this evil known as Islam.

  11. gravenimage says

    Aug 14, 2016 at 1:27 am

    This is what happens when a “revert” discovers Islam.

  12. f c king says

    Aug 14, 2016 at 2:37 am

    Send her to ISIS or Nigeria. Let her be a true muslima.

  13. Peter Ahlskog says

    Aug 14, 2016 at 9:43 am

    Every time I meet a woman with burqa, I think there is the manifestation of Islam walking on my hometown’s pavements. Burqa is not religion. There is an escalation of the ideological terror.

    Only 15 years ago I could Muslim girls in Summer dresses in Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen, Amsterdam and Hamburg. These days are over now.

    The suicide rates and deadly accident rates among Muslim teenage girls are extremely high. Is it normal that over 100 girls a year die from “falling” from the balconies in Muslim areas every year in a country with 4,5 million citizens like Norway?? And that 210 girls in Muslim zones in Sweden succeed with hanging themselves every year despite the apartments are full of Muslim men “watching TV”?

  14. Carolyne says

    Aug 14, 2016 at 6:34 pm

    What kind of men require women to walk around in black garbage bags? If we could stop this misogyny in Islam, we could defeat it with brave Muslimas standing up for themselves in defiance of those dirty old men.

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