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Minnesota: Self-described “servant of Allah” pleads guilty, says “Yes, I am a terrorist”

Nov 16, 2016 3:30 pm By Robert Spencer

Amid all the questioning he received, Musse was apparently never asked how he got the idea that being a good “servant of Allah” required him to become a terrorist. No one wants to ask that question, because an honest answer to it would be politically inconvenient for the elites and their fantasy narrative about Islam being a religion of peace.

Hanad Musse

“Amid tears and confessions, 3 more ISIL defendants are sentenced to prison,” by Stephen Montemayor and Faiza Mahamud, Star Tribune, November 16, 2016:

Late Tuesday afternoon, closing an emotional day of sentencing in the nation’s biggest ISIL recruiting investigation, Senior U.S. Judge Michael Davis called the parents of defendant Adnan Farah to stand before him in court. Noting that another of their sons faces sentencing in the same case tomorrow, Davis said:

“I wanted you to see me closer and understand that I would never want to be in your place, having two sons that are going to go to prison,” said Davis, who has struggled openly for two days with the fates of the young men before him.

Adnan, he told them, will go to prison for 10 years.

The scene, unfolding in a packed courtroom in Minneapolis, ended the second of three days of sentencing in the terror conspiracy case, a day that saw harsher sentences — 10 years for two defendants, 15 years for a third — for young men who pleaded guilty but refused to cooperate with government prosecutors.

Farah, 20, the last to be sentenced on Tuesday, was arrested in April 2015 when federal agents rounded up six men involved in the scheme in a series of arrests in Minneapolis and San Diego. He had applied for an expedited passport to leave the United States, but his parents confiscated it when it arrived in the mail. Davis reminded Farah’s father that the action saved his son’s life.

“Your children lied to you,” Davis said. “They lied to you about what they believed and what they were about to do.”

Adnan Farah’s attorney, Kenneth Udoibok, made an extraordinary plea of his own during the hearing, noting that he himself was spared recruitment to become a child soldier in Nigeria, a fate that befell six of his friends.

“I understand how easy it is to mislead children,” Udoibok said.

But Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Winter challenged Farah’s statement that he wished someone would have intervened to tell him and his co-conspirators that they were on the wrong path.

“He’s blaming people around him for simply not telling them that joining an organization that beheads people is wrong,” Winter said. “It’s quite stunning.”…

Musse, 21, who once described himself as “a servant of Allah,” eventually pleaded guilty and had asked for 72 months in prison. Federal prosecutors had recommended 15 years.

Addressing the judge in a soft voice and reading from a written statement, Musse said, “It’s been a hard long year for many people.” To his mother, who traveled from Kenya to support him, he added: “I love you and I made a mistake.” Relatives in the courtroom began quietly sobbing.

“I lied to everyone, I tried to deceive everybody,” Musse continued. “I undermined my parents’ existence, I overlooked the position that they had in my life. My way of thinking would lead me to destruction. I was never entrapped nor lured into this crime.”

Like other defendants, Musse listened as Davis pointed out the differences between their cases and other federal crimes, where a good educational record and job history typically predict a successful rehabilitation.

“What you’ve done is you turned us on our head,” Davis said. “You used what we used for predictors of success to deceive us in order to do harm.”

As the hearing came to a close, the judge asked Musse: “Sir, are you a terrorist or not?”

“Yes, I am a terrorist, your honor,” Musse replied….

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  1. David E Munson says

    Nov 16, 2016 at 3:44 pm

    Shop him back to where he can be a jihad.

  2. concerned canadian says

    Nov 16, 2016 at 4:10 pm

    MSM IGNORED

    And they wont ever say it outloud why.

    They know it . We know it.

    But its best to keep silent and gripe about toilet signs

  3. Angemon says

    Nov 16, 2016 at 5:16 pm

    Traitors, all of them.

  4. Wellington says

    Nov 16, 2016 at 5:34 pm

    This pathetic, deficient man has quite the ally from the seventh century Oh yes, he surely does..

    Per Mohammed himself, “I have been made victorious with terror.” {Bukhari Hadith 4.52.220}

  5. gravenimage says

    Nov 16, 2016 at 9:11 pm

    Minnesota: Self-described “servant of Allah” pleads guilty, says “Yes, I am a terrorist”
    …………………..

    Many of these barbaric thugs wear this label proudly. *Ugh*.

  6. PRCS says

    Nov 16, 2016 at 11:15 pm

    Of significant note:

    “Musse acknowledged that he didn’t cooperate with prosecutors, saying he would have lost his community’s support.”

    Get it?

    All the crying, sobbing and posturing by members of “his community”, the sadness and disappointment that the court rejected leniency for he and his fellow jihadists was an act, a cover “the community’s six” act.

    They didn’t want him to cooperate with prosecutors, and one very likely reason is that others of that parasite Muslim community’s true believers would have been on trial with him if he had.

    • Buzz says

      Nov 17, 2016 at 11:39 am

      Keeping in mind that his “community” is none other than congressman keith Ellison muhammads 5th. district, heir apparent to the DNC chair !!!!! What is wrong with the voters of the 5th. district, Minneapolis to keep this islamic POS in office ??? Anyone for a quran ???

      • PRCS says

        Nov 17, 2016 at 12:44 pm

        True.

        He’s still in office because the votes of those who oppose him are cancelled by the votes cast by that district’s Muslims and their useful idiots.

      • Roy C says

        Nov 17, 2016 at 5:42 pm

        A better question is what is wrong with the Democratic party. Keith Ellison is already gaining substantial support to be the next head of the DNC. Instead of tacking back to the center this collectively insane party is moving further left! Is there any doubt remaining now concerning the lunatic left partnering with Islam both here and in Europe. Notice that on Fox few commentators seem willing to condemn this insanity – so fearful that the anti Muslim charge will descend upon them from the rest of the media which pretends to not see any of this. Trump is going to experience a nightmare trying to govern this country. The left never gives up and even now are trying to save the election by gathering enough electors to reject Trump. Remember, most electors are unbound and are not required to vote the will of the voters in their state. George Soros is pouring an ungodly amount of money into this subversive attempt to overthrow the election result. The frightening aspect is that it would be technically legal according to some constitutional lawyers.

  7. Matthieu Baudin says

    Nov 17, 2016 at 3:28 am

    “… Yes, I am a terrorist, your honor,” Musse replied…?

    One the one hand we could let these young fanatics go abroad and hopefully fall in battle, but on the other hand we could keep them locked up at our expense and so prevent them from smashing up the lives of civilians living overseas. What a devilish choice we have to make!

    • A Harris USA says

      Nov 17, 2016 at 11:38 am

      Seems like an easy choice to me, throw them out!!! Boom, gone!! Any liberal numb nuts judge, that let’s these filth walk away needs to be thrown off the bench! These little pig savages will never change!! In jail or out!! Got jihad?? Great, free ride home!! Cheapest solution!!!

  8. underbed cat says

    Nov 17, 2016 at 9:18 am

    Oh the horror of the failure of the presidential polls…or the horror of truth being spoken such hate speech, that in turned ironically caused a type of collective silence to participate when the call came thru, or a poll popped up on the internet, or a pollster knocked yes truth is now hate speech and we were silent until we could cast the ballot. No one was more surprised that the truth prevailed…..but then as they say, it always does and suddenly I found it must be getting out.

    Organizations that removes heads, straps on bombs and professes as part of faith is not tolerant and deception and misinformation suddenly got exposed. Now we just have to inform the Mayors.

  9. 762x51FMJ says

    Nov 17, 2016 at 10:35 am

    I have seen this guy twice, He actually looks happier in the photo.. once at 23xx 26 Ave S.MPLS on a wiring job, I reported it to security because the job was to wire 20 computer Kiosks in a residential home with no other furniture, all red flags were there. . I reported that I felt unsafe inside the home because of the way this dude and about 5 of his friends were staring at me.

    And also up at the gas station, He never smiled, He looked like he wanted to kill me both times, Just staring at me, with dead eyes and a grimace, I could tell he was barely holding back both times. .

    In a defensive posture I carry big sharp screwdrivers in my tool-belt when working, But otherwise a baby Glock is best reached by cutting out the inside of the jacket pocket.

    • A Harris USA says

      Nov 17, 2016 at 11:46 am

      Dear wiring job guy, My son-in-law in St. Louis MO. had a situation. He had a group of Arab men, no women, in an apartment, who called his moving company to move an apt. full of computers, and a few beds a few chairs and were very spooky. He had a bad feeling about the whole thing. This was at the height of Obama reign, and he reported it to FBI. And was told to never mind, they all live that way. Let us pray the directive from the Trump administration this will indeed change!!!

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