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U.S. District Judge: “Everyone talks about Brussels or Paris having cells. We have a cell here in Minneapolis.”

Nov 21, 2016 10:04 am By Robert Spencer

“Everyone talks about Brussels or Paris having cells. We have a cell here in Minneapolis.” Davis said that “six to 10” jihad supporters had attended previous hearings and noted that “some defendants gave them signals.” Two defendants, Mohamed Farah and Abdirahman Daud, “flashed index fingers pointed upward as they faced the gallery on their way out, an apparent symbol of ‘tawhid’ that symbolizes an Islamic concept of ‘oneness of God’ but is also a popular symbol used by ISIL supporters.”

What was happening was clear to anyone who is informed, but so few people are. Kudos to Judge Davis for telling it like it is.

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“Terrorist cell is alive in Minneapolis, U.S. judge in ISIL case says,” by Stephen Montemayor, Star Tribune, November 19, 2016:

In sentencing nine young Somali-Minnesotans on terror conspiracy charges this week, U.S. District Judge Michael Davis closed a chapter in the federal government’s long, extraordinary investigation of ISIL recruitment in Minnesota.

But the full story is far from over.

In nine hearings over three days before a courtroom packed with the families of the young men who sought to give their lives to ISIL, Davis repeatedly underlined a clear message: There is a terrorist cell in Minneapolis and it is still alive today.

Each day, Davis sought to extract acknowledgment from the young men that they were “terrorists,” and left no doubt as to his thoughts on whether they were simply misguided youths.

“Everyone talks about Brussels or Paris having cells,” Davis said one day, then, raising his voice: “We have a cell here in Minneapolis.”

Saying the Minnesota public had “danced around” the issue, Davis described the cell’s size as being between nine to 20, including those sentenced last week and others killed abroad.

Later in the week, he raised eyebrows in the courtroom by telling one defendant that he noted “six to 10” supporters who attended previous hearings and insisted that “some defendants gave them signals.”

“I know they’re out there,” Davis said. “The community knows they’re out there.”

Federal prosecutors seemed to share Davis’ conviction. In an unusual development on Wednesday, they asked that two defendants, Mohamed Farah and Abdirahman Daud, be returned to the courtroom after their hearings were finished. Prosecutors said both men flashed index fingers pointed upward as they faced the gallery on their way out, an apparent symbol of “tawhid” that symbolizes an Islamic concept of “oneness of God” but is also a popular symbol used by ISIL supporters.…

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  1. john spielman says

    Nov 21, 2016 at 10:10 am

    it’s NOT the public that has been ‘dancing around” the issue of Islamic terrorist in Minnesota,, it’s the leftist politicians and governor Dayton who allowed this pestilence to flourish the state

    • cs says

      Nov 21, 2016 at 10:23 am

      Because virtue signalling generates votes, and been realist does not. So yeah, that is stupid, because this guys will eventually come back to bite you.

  2. andra says

    Nov 21, 2016 at 10:24 am

    Lucky America. In Germany you would hardly find a judge speaking out the truth.(Wish i was there)

    • eduardo odraude says

      Nov 21, 2016 at 11:29 am

      Never give up.

      • linnte says

        Nov 21, 2016 at 10:20 pm

        Amen Eduardo!

      • gravenimage says

        Nov 21, 2016 at 11:25 pm

        Yes, Andra–fight for your civilized society!

  3. Oliver says

    Nov 21, 2016 at 10:48 am

    When. Before the election Donald Trump said something like that Dayton the governor criticized Mr. Trump for the remarks and said something like the people of Minn. Are good people and not bigots or some such garbage

    • Shmooviyet says

      Nov 21, 2016 at 12:04 pm

      And made clear his opinion of the ‘phobes’ who dare question the numbers of arriving muslim “refugees”: If you don’t like it, LEAVE. No matter your racial background, you’re raycists.
      Elitist heir Dayton is the Dhemmi governor of rabid, mainly white leftists and their precious “pet” immigrants.
      Thank you, Judge Davis, for speaking the truth to the fingers.

    • linnte says

      Nov 21, 2016 at 10:23 pm

      That Governor actually said “You leave my Somalis alone!” I emailed her and asked her if she had ever read Islamic texts, but of course got no return answer.

      We must continue to challenge non Muslims to read the Qur’an.

      • Shmooviyet says

        Nov 22, 2016 at 4:25 am

        Yes– as well as challenging the true racist Dayton, on his assumption that all Somalis are muslim and as miserable as he is. I worked with a number who LOVE America, and were so grateful to have had a chance to start afresh here.

  4. DiMu says

    Nov 21, 2016 at 10:51 am

    ‘Minnesota nice’ is the typical surface response here. People are either too scared to say what they think, or they are so indoctrinated with Leftist propaganda, they can’t think. The Star Tribune is a Democrat mouthpiece, as is NPR.

    Listening to snatches of conversations in stores since Trump triumphed, I have been amazed at the endless repetition of the Left narrative as though there is no other way of looking at the world. They are in such a deep sleep, the recent Islamic attack at St Cloud Mall prompted the Somalis to sanctimoniously say they feared retribution. What a joke! Nothing in the local press about the horror of Sharia law!

    Meanwhile, the PC Minneapolis Institute of Art is staging a ‘Muslim in Minnesota – Human Rights event’ where, ‘a panel of multi-disciplinary artists will explore what it means to be Muslim in Minnesota.’ It’s on December 1, at 6.30pm. Perhaps a whole bunch of un-PC people should go and ask what Muslims think it feels like to have one’s head cut off, or be blown up or be considered an inferior infidel?

    Waste of time! Can’t reason with PC idiots or Muslims! Let them have their wank-fest.

    • Oliver says

      Nov 21, 2016 at 10:56 am

      On election day the Minn newspaper had this long story about the outcome. Clinton would win big. Dems take over the Senate. Pick up seats in the House. Win governor races. Etc. Did not get the net free edition next day

  5. toastandmarmalade says

    Nov 21, 2016 at 11:06 am

    Crush Islam in the USA now or you will go the way of the UK which in my opinion will be majority muslim in 50-60 years.

    • G. R. Gunning says

      Nov 21, 2016 at 11:32 am

      The USA could be the last bastion of hope. Hang on to your guns people. In UK we are almost powerless and certainly without weapons. We must crash the EU out of existence to terminate the ridiculous borderless countries concept – it will never work. Meanwhile the lefties, liberals, handwringers, apologists and sympathisers continue marching to their doom, aided and abetted by the Babylon Broadcasting Corporation. You can’t tell them anything – their brains (such as they are) are irreversibly damaged by political correctness. I just hope Mr. Trump can clean up the Augean Stables – Soros, Clintons, Obama and all the thousands of nutters that brought us to this precipice.

      • eduardo odraude says

        Nov 21, 2016 at 2:36 pm

        Not just the U.S. — Eastern Europe will also be a bastion for Western Europe. If Western Europe or parts of it eventually fall to Islam, the Reconquista will be able to emerge from Eastern Europe to recover Western Europe.

        • G. R. Gunning says

          Nov 21, 2016 at 3:54 pm

          I hope you are right. They certainly have more guts than West Europeans, having lived under oppression for decades in the past. Most of my friends in Britain have no idea what is going on. Neither do they seem to care. Heads in sand. Everything is going to be alright. Our politicians won’t let us down. Shades of 1939.

        • Muhammad's Ghost says

          Nov 21, 2016 at 9:32 pm

          While I agree in principle with your sentiments about Eastern Europe, the real risk is that if the U.K. and France fall under Islamic political control, they are permanent members of the UN Security Council. This would shift global power in a historic way. I suspect this is why the enemy has focused on building numbers specifically in UK and France.

        • Dhfhjd says

          Nov 22, 2016 at 1:09 am

          Yes mother Russia the motherload of HIV infections in Europe

      • old white guy says

        Nov 22, 2016 at 8:43 am

        being unable to your enemy means that eventually your enemy will kill you.

    • Angemon says

      Nov 21, 2016 at 1:18 pm

      Not without a fight it won’t.

    • linnte says

      Nov 21, 2016 at 10:29 pm

      I think it will be less than fifty years my friend, when Islam is the majority. If UK allows multiple wives of four, that’s potentially 32 kids for each Muslim man. Or more! What about his concubines? Non Muslims in the UK will have to turn into baby making machines and that’s not going to happen. Potentially in the next 20 years the majority of UK population will be Muslim. And if non Muslim UKers think Islam will be kind to them, they are so deluded!

      • carol says

        Nov 23, 2016 at 1:43 am

        And who can support these mini-clans? How will they be able to support themselves? It’s clearly a recipe for destruction.

  6. eduardo odraude says

    Nov 21, 2016 at 11:14 am

    Muhammad says there is to be no punishment for murdering someone who insults him

    For example, in Sunan Abu-Dawud, a canonical hadith collection:

    Book 38, Number 4348:

    Narrated Abdullah Ibn Abbas [a companion of Muhammad]:

    A blind man had a slave-mother [a slave who bore children for him] who used to abuse the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) and disparage him. He [the blind man] forbade her but she did not stop. He rebuked her but she did not give up her habit. One night she began to slander the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) and abuse him. So he [the blind man] took a dagger, placed it on her belly, pressed it, and killed her. A child who came between her legs was smeared with the blood that was there. When the morning came, the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) was informed about it.

    He assembled the people and said: I adjure by Allah the man who has done this action and I adjure him by my right to him that he should stand up. Jumping over the necks of the people and trembling the man stood up.

    He sat before the Prophet (peace be upon him) and said: Apostle of Allah! I am her master; she used to abuse you and disparage you. I forbade her, but she did not stop, and I rebuked her, but she did not abandon her habit. I have two sons like pearls from her, and she was my companion. Last night she began to abuse and disparage you. So I took a dagger, put it on her belly and pressed it till I killed her.

    Thereupon the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: Oh be witness, no retaliation is payable for her blood.

    Another canonical hadith:

    Sunan Abu-Dawud, Book 39, Number 4349:

    Narrated Ali ibn AbuTalib [the fourth caliph, and the son-in-law of Muhammad]:

    A Jewess used to abuse the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) and disparage him. A man strangled her till she died. The Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) declared that no recompense was payable for her blood.

  7. underbed cat says

    Nov 21, 2016 at 11:47 am

    Thank you , Honorable Judge Davis for confirming the” islamic terror cells” in Minneapolis, the factual statement that cells existence is not welcome by those who do not want the public to know. Thank you.

  8. mortimer says

    Nov 21, 2016 at 12:02 pm

    U.S. District Judge Michael Davis is not imagining it. In any city in North America, there are MANY jihadists walking the streets. Some advertise it as clearly as can be, while other blend in. You see them when they recognize one another. They make hand gestures such as the one-figure salute. Until lawyers, judges, police, social workers, psychologists, school teachers and other authorities become sophisticated about Islam and sophisticated at reading the jihad symbols and signs, we will continue to lose the battle against JIHAD.

    • Ashley says

      Nov 21, 2016 at 2:14 pm

      I could not agree more with your comment, Mortimer.

      Kudos to Judge Michael Davis for speaking out. Not sure there are terrorist “cells” per se in every state, but there ARE jihadists ready to heed the call in every state.

      It is the jihadists that “blend in” that particularly alarm me. They are careful not to be overt. Today we have the Dark Net. Communications are easily embedded or otherwise encoded. Social media is a powerful weapon as are disposable cell phones.. “A simple “How is Sam doing today?” posting could be a “signal.”

      The “sloppy” jihadist is on the radar…the savvy jihadist is not. The savvy jihadist will avoid the mosque, adhere to shaving facial hair, denounce Islam among his/her peers, shelf the burka/hijab, indulge in an occasional BLT and beer, and wait for the opportunity…

      In closing, I NEVER underestimate the role of women in this ruse. Jihad Jane. Katherine Russell Tsarnaev. Huma Abedin.

      Spooky shit.

    • linnte says

      Nov 21, 2016 at 10:32 pm

      If one pays careful attention to video of the recent anti-Trump protests, you’ll find many ISIS like scarves worn by these Leftists. Those hounds tooth scarves worn especially by Palestinian Jihadis.

      • gravenimage says

        Nov 21, 2016 at 11:11 pm

        Yes, Linnte–I see those ugly Keffiyehs on rioters here all the time.

    • carol says

      Nov 23, 2016 at 1:32 am

      The tawhid is generally a symbol for “There is no God but Allah” and thus it confirms Islam’s MONOTHEISTIC beliefs. The gesture is more sinister with ISIS however in light of the fact that they are uncompromising Salafists, hostile toward all non-fundamentalists. The underlying principle and message they send to each other with this gesture is the aim of destruction of the pluralistic West:

      http://speisa.com/modules/articles/index.php/item.462/the-meaning-of-the-isis-hand-sign.html

  9. Stan Lee says

    Nov 21, 2016 at 12:06 pm

    The Judge was reminding all of the people who point at the EU that Obama, the EU+ One World government advocate, has been working his plan to swell the Muslim population in the USA., regardless of the proven inability to uncover each individual’s records from the prior countries they claim to come from..
    By the covert terrorists having been given “refuge” here, I’m sure they all think they’ve already died and have gone to their paradise. Obviously, they feel secure here, they’re presently a privileged group, virtually protected by the Obama regime. Come the date Jan.20,2017, conditions will be different and improved for the home-grown citizen population. There will be far less gambling with the security of Americans.
    This should bring the IS types out into the open, their plans will have become an urgency to act without delay.
    Judge Davis, in Minnesota, will be even busier and that can be attributed to the Obama regime and its recklessness.

    • carol says

      Nov 23, 2016 at 1:39 am

      I’m sure it’s malice and not recklessness. One satisfaction is that their faces (Obama and Hillary) seem to show the personal cost.

  10. Michael Copeland says

    Nov 21, 2016 at 12:45 pm

    No, these are not “misguided youths”.
    They are doing “exactly what it says in this book” (Allen West).

  11. somehistory says

    Nov 21, 2016 at 4:56 pm

    Solitary confinement where they cannot communicate their evil filthy islam to anyone else.
    The wild beast is about to be done in by Christ. As any wild animal that knows it is in mortal danger fights harder than ever before, the wild beast from satan is trying to take all people down as it goes.

  12. Keys says

    Nov 21, 2016 at 7:03 pm

    Who let all these Somalis in to Minnesota ? When and why?
    They need to all be sent back to Somalia – all of them – unless there are good reasons for yhem bein here.

    Diversity is not a good reason.

  13. JOhn Doe says

    Nov 21, 2016 at 10:03 pm

    What’s Wrong With Minnesota?

    They are Lutherans, Swedes, with a huge guilt of their own prosperity…….
    They must import objects of charity to rescue.
    Sad. Pathetic. UnAmerican.

    • Eric Jones says

      Nov 21, 2016 at 11:08 pm

      Why don’t they just help the poor Americans in Minnesota?

      Eric

      • Pumbar says

        Nov 22, 2016 at 3:23 am

        That’d be waycist and/or nationalistic.

  14. gravenimage says

    Nov 21, 2016 at 11:15 pm

    U.S. District Judge: “Everyone talks about Brussels or Paris having cells. We have a cell here in Minneapolis.”
    ………………………

    Bravo to Judge Michael Davis for telling the truth.

    And kudos to him and the prosecutors for recognizing the Islamic “Tawhid” signal.

    Sharp enough to get it, brave enough to say so! May there be many more like Judge Davis!

  15. Florida Jim says

    Nov 22, 2016 at 10:14 am

    Every mosque everywhere is a potential Jihadi site: Minneapolis, Chicago, Buffalo, Dallas, Southern California, Detroit, Dearborn, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Omaha, St. Louis to name a few. If a jihad broke out anywhere muslims would flock to join and be in paradise with 72 virgins, [odd reward}.Have you heard an Imam they are ignorant, haters spreading hatred worldwide and should be avoided. Keith Ellison, a Minnesota congressman , is someone who should be vetted he is a hater and a liar as most muslims are.
    All it takes is one muslim to begin the jihad.

  16. DFD says

    Nov 22, 2016 at 12:38 pm

    Judge Davis said “…a cell in Minnesota…”

    He must be a rather kind, and perhaps even naive, sort of chap. Try: several cells in Minnesota – and not just there. And I am from Europe. Oh well…..

  17. ron says

    Nov 22, 2016 at 11:03 pm

    were ever theres a mosque or islamic center you can be assured there is a cell. and they are in every state of this union. i seen what looked like a walk though of about 10 to 15 middle eastern young men at around 1am in my neighborhood. wake the hell up ppl.

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