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Muslim who pleaded guilty to plotting to murder US soldiers in Chicago accepted into college, requests early release

Oct 1, 2016 5:13 am By Robert Spencer

“Masri, who wanted to blow up a busload of American soldiers, is currently in federal prison. However, according to court records he has also been accepted as a student at Harold Washington College in Chicago and is eligible for government tuition aid of almost $6,000. So now, the Masri wants a federal judge to release him early to a halfway house near the college so he can restart his life.”

What could possibly go wrong? “Masri said he wanted to strap on a bomb vest and blow himself up next to a military bus on a Chicago street.” But now he says: “I was never a bad person. I was stupid and delusion [sic] and I made bad choices.” But now he knows Islam is a Religion of Peace and pledges to “work very hard to dissuade young Muslims from extremism, by using my experience.” He even signed his letter “yours truthfully.”

What, indeed, could possibly go wrong?

Oh, and by the way, would Harold Washington College have accepted a Klansman who plotted mass murder but claimed to be reformed?

shaker-masri

“Chicago terrorist asks judge for early release to attend college,” by Chuck Goudie and Ross Weidner, ABC-7 Chicago, September 27, 2016:

Chicago terrorist Shaker Masri wants out of prison early so he can attend college, and the I-Team has obtained a letter he sent to a federal judge where he made his case.

Masri, who wanted to blow up a busload of American soldiers, is currently in federal prison. However, according to court records he has also been accepted as a student at Harold Washington College in Chicago and is eligible for government tuition aid of almost $6,000.

So now, the Masri wants a federal judge to release him early to a halfway house near the college so he can restart his life.

On an undercover tap, Masri said he wanted to strap on a bomb vest and blow himself up next to a military bus on a Chicago street. Authorities intercepted the Gold Coast resident as he was leaving for Somalia to train with radical jihadists.

Masri pleaded guilty and was sentenced in 2012 to nearly ten years in prison.

However, in a personal letter to the judge who sentenced him, Masri claims he has been a model inmate, spending time wisely behind bars. “I was never a bad person,” he said. “I was stupid and delusion [sic] and I made bad choices.”

According to a letter from the college that he also sent to the judge, Masri was accepted as a student in July and even has a student ID number….

Masri also provided a letter from the U.S. education department stating that he may be eligible for a federal Pell Grant of more than $5,800 and other student grants and loans.

Six years ago, Masri’s name was on a different official document. In an al-Qaeda magazine, his name was on a list of U.S. prisoners that the terrorist group wanted released.

Now, the 33-year-old is making an offer of penance, telling the judge that he will “work very hard to dissuade young Muslims from extremism, by using my experience.” his letter signed “yours truthfully.”

Federal Bureau of Prisons records show Masri’s release date as Feb. 2018. He claims to be eligible for early release to a halfway house this coming February and wants to start college classes in March.

As for government student aid, ex-cons from drug cases and sex crimes are not acceptable but apparently convicted terrorists are eligible for federal grants and loans.

In a statement, a Harold Washington College spokesperson said:

“CCC is committed to providing each and every student applicant with an opportunity to obtain an education that will prepare them for success in the next step of their educational and professional careers. As an open access institution committed to preventing discrimination, we do not conduct background checks on our student applicants. The letter included in court documents is CCC’s standard acceptance letter sent to all applicants, and only marks the beginning of the admissions process.”

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Filed Under: academia, American jihadis, Featured, Jihad in the U.S., Useful idiots, willful ignorance Tagged With: Chicago, Harold Washington College, Shaker Masri


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  1. JD says

    Oct 1, 2016 at 5:47 am

    OMG that might be the most untrustworthy face I have ever seen in my entire life.

    • f c king says

      Oct 2, 2016 at 6:38 am

      My thoughts the same.

  2. Praeceptor Maximus says

    Oct 1, 2016 at 5:57 am

    Taqiyyah at its best. He can’t wait to leave jail so he can blow up people to pieces for his religion Islam, the religion of pieces erroneously referred to as the religion of peace.

    • Shane says

      Oct 2, 2016 at 11:15 am

      If he has not left Islam and become an apostate, then he may still return to Jihadism. It does not take much to turn a young muslim guy into a Jihadi.

  3. LB says

    Oct 1, 2016 at 6:44 am

    I remember a very similar story recently about a convicted jihadi who “learned the true peaceful faith of islam”, and how he will now “dedicate his life to showing young muslims the right path”, or some taqqiya like that. Leftists gobbled that shit up like it’s the sweetest thing since chocolate, and now he’s a bigshot professor at an American college (Harvard, if I recall correctly), touring the states and rolling in dough.

    What that guy said is nearly identical to the case above, which makes me think that there is someone behind the scenes (CAIR?) instructing convicted jihadis in the ways of taqqiya. And apparantly, it works! Thanks Obama!

    • Custos Custodum says

      Oct 1, 2016 at 5:15 pm

      Leftists gobbled that shit up like it’s the sweetest thing since chocolate, and now he’s a bigshot professor at an American college (Harvard, if I recall correctly), touring the states and rolling in dough.

      Leftists WROTE that stuff for him – probably a 63-year old Leftist lawyer with the pony-tail and the fraying “cool” look.

  4. Islam the religion of killers says

    Oct 1, 2016 at 6:49 am

    Why would any educational institute not have a police check for applicants ?,
    is it right that taxpayers subsidise terrorists,, if this scam works and the applicant succeeds , there will be a deluge of terrorists applying for education just to get out…

    After being radicalised in prison, an easy path out for killers is going to cause lots of mayhem ….. and lots of civilian death …

    just one person killed will be a tragedy

    • Marty says

      Oct 2, 2016 at 6:13 am

      I thought our American friends were a mature democracy with
      sensible secular Christian values.
      I assumed that only the UK & the EU recognised & rewarded
      pure evil as something to be respected, even rewarded.

  5. Jay Boo says

    Oct 1, 2016 at 7:20 am

    Muslims are entitled.
    These carpet kissers are special.
    Who else has more right to kill and molest us than Muslims?

    After all …
    Who else washes, pees and poops in a pious special way?
    Who else prays incantations of hate 5 times a day?
    Allah must be so impressed and like us so much the less.

  6. al norm says

    Oct 1, 2016 at 7:27 am

    All this just tumbles over itself. Each day there is more; celebs supporting Islam, judges giving light sentences, politicians saying it is NOT ALL MUSLIMS, friends saying these are isolated cases of crazy people…. It is a farce. In years to come, if we all are not part of the Caliphate, people will just wonder how stupid were the post WW2 generations. But the best is yet to come. Islam new year on the 3rd Oct. 1438 since Mo ‘n Co moved to Medina. Now ISIS is preparing for the Battle of the Trench version 2. Mosul is getting ready. 300,000 troops, the latest in military equipment and air power against at most 6000 ISIS Jihadis in headbands with ‘technicals’. I am not putting bet on this.
    Truth is definitely stranger than fiction.

  7. Judi says

    Oct 1, 2016 at 8:25 am

    He should write a personal note to Obummer. I’m sure he would order his early release and invite him to the WH.

    • heidi says

      Oct 2, 2016 at 3:35 am

      with obama whispering in his ear sweet things about how what happens to those who insult islam

  8. john spielman says

    Oct 1, 2016 at 8:26 am

    Harold Washington college must be forced to “scrape the bottom of the human barrel” and get the detritus of humanity to fill their student ranks to accept this thing into their college

  9. Paul Clark says

    Oct 1, 2016 at 9:00 am

    No. I cannot believe it. Everything that comes out of Chicago is corrupt : 3,000 dead bodies this year, Obama and his crooked, political friends and now an educated jihadist at the tax payers expense. Jihadist should never be rehabbed. Most will not be anyway. Life or death should be their only option. Then deport their filthy Islamic body to the hell hole which they derived.

  10. mortimer says

    Oct 1, 2016 at 2:54 pm

    What’s he going to study? Chemistry? Timing devices?

  11. Angemon says

    Oct 1, 2016 at 5:42 pm

    I’m sure his hatred of America will make him a natural fit in the campus of an American university.

  12. Michael Miller says

    Oct 1, 2016 at 9:02 pm

    This criminal should serve the complete sentence imposed. To admit him to a university in this country under a Federal grant is the height of absurdity.

  13. Caliph says

    Oct 1, 2016 at 10:16 pm

    When someone is convicted, and government grants, loans and any other benefit should be recinded.

    In days of old, those who could read and write may have been pardoned for crimes, ( so that they could teach others ) there is no reason to do so in modern times, since no criminal today has any special value to society.

  14. John says

    Oct 2, 2016 at 2:38 am

    One word: “Taqqiya”

  15. linnte says

    Oct 2, 2016 at 3:47 am

    Muslim Students Association are probably visiting him(he is a hero after all), and they probably filled out the forms for him. Filling out College registration form and Grant forms can be confusing. Surely he had help, and who better than junior Muslim Brotherhood students?

  16. Salome says

    Oct 2, 2016 at 4:07 am

    The question is, ‘would you want your daughter going to college with this man?’

    • linnte says

      Oct 2, 2016 at 4:49 am

      Exactly! I wouldn’t want my daughter going to college where ANY Muslims attend.

  17. linnte says

    Oct 2, 2016 at 5:13 am

    OT: the proposed Sterling Heights 20,000 square foot Mosque was shut down by the zoning council!!!!!! In a vote 9-0 YAAAHOOOO! One Muslim woman said “I am very offended by this decision”. Haahahahahaha! No consideration for the Sterling Heights people having to put up with a full Minaret and huge Mosque/Madras though.

  18. Gea says

    Oct 2, 2016 at 6:06 am

    All the scum, comes from Chicago, the current capital of murders in USA: Obama, Sol Alinsky, crooked governess and mayors, and related liars, cheats and murderers…

    this is Muslim terrorist should not be released or should be shipped for a permanent Hajj to Saudi Arabia which pays for terrorism against the Western civilisation.

  19. f c king says

    Oct 2, 2016 at 6:41 am

    A convicted terrorist, an immigrant, can receive a Pell Grant for college, yet a drug user, with a record cannot ? Our country has gone to hell.

    • Louis says

      Oct 2, 2016 at 1:13 pm

      Thank Odumbo for that.

  20. Paul Ashley says

    Oct 2, 2016 at 8:40 am

    And we can totally tell from the way this jihadi writes that he is definitely college material.

    Uh, now that I think about it, he’ll probably fit right in. Maybe even be elected president of the student council.

  21. Florida Jim says

    Oct 2, 2016 at 10:59 am

    Perhaps Obama can use him as an aid? All the immigrant terrorists have avoided going to anywhere democrats rule they are placed where they will turn the election, now or in 2024, to always Democrat and never freedom again.This was the plan in 1965 by Johnson, JFK, Bobby and Ted Kennedy JFK was killed by a Marxist, Oswald, but the plan was in place.

  22. Louis says

    Oct 2, 2016 at 1:09 pm

    Look at his photo, how can he go to college looks like he has a 59 IQ.

    • linnte says

      Oct 2, 2016 at 5:15 pm

      Louis, we can’t tell the contents of the box from the outside. I agree some people are plain ugly on the outside, but that really doesn’t say how smart, good, qualified they are. And I find this specific Muslim repulsive, but his face doesn’t tell me how smart he is. Never underestimate the cunning and intelligence of the enemy!

  23. PATRICK says

    Oct 2, 2016 at 11:40 pm

    I’m cured I tell ya, CURED!

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