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Muslim angry at being accused of joining ISIS hacks US military personnel data, sends it to ISIS

Sep 23, 2016 6:27 pm By Robert Spencer

It’s a Leftist/Islamic supremacist talking point these days that if we talk about how jihadis use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence, or discuss ways to stop jihad activity, we will alienate peaceful Muslims and drive them into the arms of ISIS. The poor dears will feel alienated, you see, and will lash out by joining the jihad they would otherwise reject.

This idea is absurd, but now it has its very own poster child: Ardit Ferizi. “Ardit Ferizi was angry that he had been falsely accused of joining the Islamic State. The hacker’s response: stealing the personal information of U.S. service members and handing it over to the terrorist group.”

The false accusations that supposedly drove him to this apparently were not so false as all that: he clearly sympathized with the group or never would have taken this step.

Ardit Ferizi

“Hacker who sent ‘kill list’ of U.S. military personnel to ISIS: ‘I feel so bad,’” by Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, September 23, 2016 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Ardit Ferizi was angry that he had been falsely accused of joining the Islamic State. The hacker’s response: stealing the personal information of U.S. service members and handing it over to the terrorist group….

U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema on Friday showed little sympathy for a justification that even Ferizi’s defense attorney called “nonsensical.” While acknowledging that Ferizi was young and suffers from mental health issues, she sentenced him to 20 years in prison for his crime….

As the result of Ferizi’s hack of a retail company server, names, email addresses, passwords and other data of 1,351 military members and other government employees were published on an Islamic State “kill list” last year. In court Friday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Brandon Van Grack said one woman named on the list has begun fearing all Muslims might attack her….

Ferizi was extradited last fall from Malaysia, where he had been studying computer science. While he was there last year, defense attorney Elizabeth Mullin said, a journalist in Kosovo claimed Ferizi had gone to Syria to fight with the Islamic State.

“We know that the article . . . worsened Ardit’s health situation,” his mother wrote in a letter to the court.

Van Grack called that explanation a “nonsensical story,” and Mullin agreed.

“It was a completely nonsensical, juvenile response because he was a nonsensical, misguided teenager who really didn’t know what he was doing,” Mullin said.

Ferizi began communicating online with Junaid Hussain, a British Pakistani Islamic State recruiter and hacker killed in a drone strike in August 2015. Before distributing the personal information of U.S. government employees, Ferizi hosted a pro-Islamic State website and argued in favor of the group online.

In the name of the Islamic State Hacking Division, Hussain tweeted out the list along with a statement declaring, “We are in your emails and computer systems, watching and recording your every move, we have your names and addresses, we are in your emails and social media accounts, we are extracting confidential data and passing on your personal information to the soldiers of the khilafah, who soon with the permission of Allah will strike at your necks in your own lands!”

Mullin argued that the “kill list” was merely propaganda, noting that personal and work addresses were not included. “The information [Ferizi] sent . . . could not assist in a specific attack against any individual,” she said.

Brinkema said that “just having your name on a list, knowing that you’ve been identified by a terrorist group,” is “terrorizing,” even if the information does not include specific locations.

Ferizi said in court Friday: “I feel so bad that what I did made people scared. I’m so sorry.” In his letter to the court, he said he had never been loyal to the Islamic State and renounced the group completely. On the contrary, he said, he has always been grateful to the United States for intervening in the war in Kosovo in 1999. Family members said they all feel warmly toward the United States and have several relatives here….

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  1. Linde Barrera says

    Sep 23, 2016 at 6:33 pm

    My sincerest thanks, appreciation and congratulations to Judge Leonie M. Brinkema for having the guts to sentence this creepy Muslim to 20 years jail time. He deserves every day of it.

    • Guest says

      Sep 23, 2016 at 8:30 pm

      20 years is too short in my opinion but he does deserve it

    • ElderlyZionist says

      Sep 24, 2016 at 8:25 am

      Agreed. Well done Judge Brinkema.

    • Scott in PA says

      Sep 24, 2016 at 11:04 am

      Twenty years is way too short. I’d give him 1351 years.

      • eagle says

        Sep 24, 2016 at 12:52 pm

        Yes, yes!!

  2. Nan Barr says

    Sep 23, 2016 at 7:10 pm

    The Albanian KLA still loves the USA/KLA/NATO air force.

    How nice.

    They ADORE the US for all the killing the NATO Air Force did for them so they could STEAL Serbian land, destroy over 150 churches and Monasteries, disappear over 2000 young Serbians and kill them for their organs, then turn Serbian cemeteries into garbage dumps and tossing Serbian remains to the wild dogs. Kosovo= a hell on earth for Christians now.

    How many Serbian Kosovo Christians have tried to hurt the USA/NATO military personnel and their families??

    NONE!

  3. eagle says

    Sep 23, 2016 at 9:03 pm

    This is what you get for allowing this Muslim scum to be in any position in this government.

  4. Angemon says

    Sep 23, 2016 at 9:20 pm

    Ardit Ferizi was angry that he had been falsely accused of joining the Islamic State. The hacker’s response: stealing the personal information of U.S. service members and handing it over to the terrorist group….

    U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema on Friday showed little sympathy for a justification that even Ferizi’s defense attorney called “nonsensical.”

    Can’t wait to see Hillary defending this bastard’s actions and blaming Trump. Or MSM pundits in general. Isn’t that what they tell us? That being suspicious of muslims drives them into the open arms of ISIS? They should be jumping on this story and taking the side of the poor “victim” of anti-muslim “bigotry” that proves their narrative right…

  5. Eric Jones says

    Sep 23, 2016 at 10:38 pm

    Why are so many American server and computer networks hackable? Why are they so easy to get into. Is it because so many American companies outsource their IT work? I think this is food for thought.

    Eric

    • Spartakus says

      Sep 23, 2016 at 11:59 pm

      Exactly! Some kid can just hack them?? They should talk to Netanyahu about security.

  6. Paul Clark says

    Sep 24, 2016 at 12:01 am

    Listen up. Here I go again: Where have all the Christians gone? Have they fled the cross? Remember I am telling you that more Christians need to be involved. This is not meant to insult anyone. I love you and I love my Christian brothers. I want to hate Muslims, but Lord won’t allow it. Pray and God will solve these small technical problems. He created existence. This is problem is minor to Him.

  7. IQ al Rassooli says

    Sep 24, 2016 at 3:36 am

    Can Muslims be Loyal Citizens?
    I would like you all to understand that every single believing or fundamentalist Muhammadan Muslim must follow the two pillars that are the foundations of Sharia: Muhammad’s Quran and Muhammad’s Sunna.

    That Sharia is utterly incompatible with all human freedoms and dignities and hence must never be allowed to take root in any of our democracies.

    The following is a list of questions that each and everyone of you outside the land of Islam (in the territory of the Infidel/ Kuffar peoples) should ask yourselves and your ‘nice’ Muslim neighbor if any believing Muslims in the land of the Unbelievers be good, law abiding, integrated and loyal citizens in our countries?

    Theologically – NO. . . Because Muslims submit only to Allah. As you well know by now, Allah is originally only the name of the supreme god of Pagan Arabia among 360 other stone deities- and hence most definitely not the same as the God of Jesus, Moses or Abraham.
    Religiously – NO. . . Because no other religion is accepted under Sharia except Islam (Submission to Allah).
    Al Imran 3: 85 “If anyone desires a religion other than Islam (submission to Allah) never will it be accepted of him…”

    Scripturally – NO. . . Because the Muslim’s allegiance is to Sharia based upon Muhammad’s Quran and Sunna.
    Textually – NO … Because Muhammad’s Quran and Sunna are Hatemongering, Warmongering, Misogynist, Racist & hence most definitely UNGODLY.
    Geographically – NO. . . Because Muslims bow in reverence to Mecca in Arabia, to which they turn in prayer five times a day.
    Socially – NO. . . Because the Muslims’ devotion to Islam forbids them from ever making true friends with Christians or Jews ~

    Al Mai’da 5: 51 “O ye who believe! take not the Jews [Yahood] and the Christians [Nasara] for your friends and protectors: they are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them…”
    Al Tauba 9: 29 “Fight [qatiloo] those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His apostle nor acknowledge the religion of truth [ISLAM] (even if they are) of the People of the Book [Christians & Jews] until they pay the Jizya [onerous Poll Tax] with willing submission and feel themselves humiliated”

    Loyally – NO … Because Muslims’ allegiance is primarily to ALL other Muslims all over the globe.
    Al Mumtahana 60: 1 “O ye who believe! take not My enemies and yours [Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, etc] as friends (or protectors) …
    Al Tahrim 66: 9 “O Prophet! strive hard against the Unbelievers and the Hypocrites [Christians, Jews & other non Muslims] and be firm against them. Their abode is Hell an evil refuge (indeed).
    Ishaq:231 “Muslims are one ummah (community) to the exclusion of all men. Believers are friends of one another to the exclusion of all outsiders.”
    Politically – No. . . Because Muslims must take instructions from their mullahs (spiritual Leaders), who teach them equal opportunity HATRED for ALL those who are not followers of Muhammad
    (currently 80% of humanity called Ummat al Kuffar/ Nation of Infidels comprising all Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, Zoroasterians, Jews, Animists, Agnostics, Atheists, Pagans, etc) .
    Al Anfal 8: 55 “ For the worst of beasts in the sight of Allah are those who reject Him: They will not believe”
    Al Fath 48: 13 “And if any believe not in Allah and His Apostle We have prepared for those who reject Allah a Blazing Fire!

    Domestically – No. . . Because Muslims are instructed by Muhammad’s Quran to marry up to four women and beat and scourge their wives when they disobey them
    Al Nisaa 4:34 “Men are the protectors and maintainers of women because Allah has given the one more (strength) than the other and because they support them from their means. … As to those women on whose part ye fear disloyalty and ill-conduct admonish them; refuse to share their beds; beat them …”
    Legally – No. . . Because Muslims cannot accept the American & European Constitution as binding since they are not from Allah as well as they believe that the Bible has been corrupted and hence is now ungodly.
    Culturally- NO… Because Muslims belong to a culture that prefers Death than Life.
    Ibrahim 14: 3 “Those who love the life of this world more than the Hereafter who hinder (men) from the Path of Allah and seek therein something crooked: they are astray by a long distance”
    Constitutionally – No. . . Because Sharia is the nemesis of Democracy; it does not allow for freedoms of religion, expression or belief.
    Democracy and Islam is an oxymoron; a state of affairs that cannot possibly co-exist. Every Muslim government in the world is dictatorial, autocratic or theocratic.
    Spiritually – No. . . Because the Judeo- Christian tradition believes in a loving fatherly God while Allah is NEVER referred to as Heavenly father, nor is he ever called love in the Quran’s 99 excellent attributes.
    Therefore, after much study, contemplation and deliberation, Europeans and Americans should be very suspicious of ALL MUSLIMS in their midst especially all organizations that call themselves Islamic.
    They obviously cannot be both ‘good’ Muslims and loyal Europeans or Americans.
    Call these shocking revelations or whatever you will, but these are the FACTS based entirely in chapter and verse upon the Muslim scripture.

    IQ al Rassooli
    Kafir & Proud!

  8. TH says

    Sep 24, 2016 at 8:49 am

    Mor mental health issues. If he really were crazy, he wouldn’t be able to reason and hack.

  9. Georg says

    Sep 24, 2016 at 9:46 am

    If someone accuses me of being Chinese, I’m not going to rearrange my life to start speaking it.

  10. dave says

    Sep 24, 2016 at 12:57 pm

    arrogant ISLAMIC losers never believe they will fail or get caught doing evil. they are PERFECT & TRUE followers of their faith. death or prison are the only options for all these TRUE BELIEVERS.

  11. sahani says

    Sep 24, 2016 at 2:02 pm

    Mr Obama and Hillary is making easy for all Islamic Jihadis to kill and destroy the west and USA.
    You bring them here feed them give them funds to educate and make no one displeases them is sure way for early destruction.

    • dave says

      Sep 24, 2016 at 2:43 pm

      yes sir, the communist socialist left wing liberal democrats in he USA, believe in the NEW WORLD ORDER & CHAOS THEORY. do whatever it takes, including relocating ISLAMIC threats. the EU is doing the same thing. all of the EU can not be that stupid. there is a plan in action. suicide by Muslim, is the fashionable thing to do now days.

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