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American convert to Islam is now key Islamic State leader

Dec 27, 2016 7:25 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

John Georgelas was a military brat, a drug enthusiast, a precocious underachiever born in Texas. Now he is a prominent figure within the Islamic State.

Any underachiever can find immediate “glory” as a jihadist: success is guaranteed, with the “rewards” of martyrdom as a goal. The only requirement is to be willing to die for the dark cause.

Note Georgelas’s view on Muslim immigration (hijra):

that the Koran judges harshly those who give up on hijrah: Angels will rip their souls from their mortal bodies and prepare them for judgment by God.

This troubling news about Georgelas, aka Yahya Abu Hassan, will likely be met with little reaction from Western authorities, who remain pinned under the strictures of the “Islamophobia” and victimology narratives.

“The American Leader in the Islamic State”, by Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, December 27, 2016:

At dawn on a warm september morningin 2013, a minivan pulled up to a shattered villa in the town of Azaz, Syria. A long-bearded 29-year-old white man emerged from the building, along with his pregnant British wife and their three children, ages 8, 4, and almost 2. They had been in Syria for only about a month this time. The kids were sick and malnourished. The border they’d crossed from Turkey into Syria was minutes away, but the passage back was no longer safe. They clambered into the minivan, sitting on sheepskins draped on the floor—there were no seats—and the driver took them two hours east through a ravaged landscape, eventually stopping at a place where the family might slip into Turkey undetected.

They disembarked amid a grove of thorny trees. Signs warned of land mines. The border itself was more than an hour’s walk away, through the desert. They’d forgotten to bring water. Tania dragged the puking kids along; Yahya carried a suitcase and a stroller. Midway, Tania had contractions, although she was still several months from her due date. They continued on. At the border itself, while the family squeezed through the barbed wire, a sniper’s bullets kicked up dirt nearby.

Yahya had arranged for a human trafficker to meet them, and when the trafficker’s truck arrived, Yahya pressed a few hundred dollars into the man’s hand. Yahya and Tania had been married for 10 years, but they did not say goodbye. Satisfied that his family would not die, Yahya turned and ran across the border, back into Syria—again under gunfire—without even a wave.

The trafficker drove Tania and the kids a short distance into Turkey, then dropped them by the roadside without food or water and sped off. Tania carried the children and luggage toward the nearest town. The day ended with the intercession of a stranger on a motorcycle, who helped carry their things to a bus station. Tania started to leak amniotic fluid due to the journey, and she spent the next weeks recovering in Istanbul, and then with family in London. Six months pregnant, she weighed 96 pounds.

As his family traveled to London, relieved to have escaped the worst place on Earth, Yahya felt relief of his own—he could now pursue his dreams unencumbered by a wife and children. He felt liberated. He carried visions of the caliphate yet to be declared, and ideas for how to shape it. These thoughts were not idle. Yahya, by then, had a small but influential following, and his calm erudition had won him the respect that his teachers and parents had withheld during his youth. His own destiny seemed to be converging with that of the world’s. It was the best day of his life…..

Yahya earned money by translating fatwas from the salaried religious scholars of the government of Qatar. Ever allergic to human authority, he seethed at the banality of the fatwas and the government clerics’ abject servitude to tyrants.

None of the fatwas ever mentioned what he considered the core imperatives of Islam, stressed by Ibn Hazm a thousand years before, such as the establishment of a caliphate and emigration from lands of disbelief. The scholars relentlessly glorified the Qatari royal family. The fatwas, Yahya claimed, were based not on evidence but on mere opinion.

In Cairo, Yahya met other jihadists and became respected for his scholarly rigor. One person who knew him then describes him as one of the strongest pre-isis pro-caliphate voices, and says the online seminars he conducted in Arabic and English did much to “prepare” Westerners for the declaration of the caliphate that would come a few years later. Musa Cerantonio, who would become his leading Australian disciple, met him digitally.

European jihadists began traveling to Egypt to learn from him. He impressed one sheikh so much that the man declared that it would be sinful for Yahya to expose himself to danger on the battlefield in a conflict like Syria’s or Afghanistan’s. “Your blood is haram,” he said—forbidden to spill.

In his sermons and public statements, Yahya anticipated many of the themes of Islamic State propaganda, including distrust of Islamist movements that compromised their religion by partaking in secular politics. On social media, Tania supported his views, but with each child she bore, her eagerness to join the jihad by then under way in Syria waned. Yahya reminded her that the Koran judges harshly those who give up on hijrah:Angels will rip their souls from their mortal bodies and prepare them for judgment by God. “The angels will say, ‘Was not God’s earth spacious [enough] for you to emigrate in it?’ For those, their refuge is Hell.”….

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Filed Under: American jihadis, converts to Islam, Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), United States Tagged With: hijrah, John Georgelas


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  1. Veka Fitzfrancis says

    Dec 27, 2016 at 7:42 pm

    Tania needs to find a new god, one that will not demand she place herself and her children in harms way, one that will love her for who she is, and quietly leave Islam. If she won’t then she needs to never return to the UK where she will continue to bleed the taxpayer dry and spew such filth.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 27, 2016 at 8:33 pm

      Yes–this creep’s neglect and abandonment of his family speaks volumes.

    • Clara says

      Dec 27, 2016 at 9:11 pm

      she has little chance to change in Britain. She will only get more radical and live odd jihad seekers allowance

      • Anne Smith says

        Dec 28, 2016 at 11:06 am

        Plus she will be leaching off the taxpayer and the NHS.

        Why do we let these people bleed us white?

    • The RationalVoice says

      Dec 28, 2016 at 8:31 am

      The last things she needs is a new “god”” or to be accurate non-existent being. A rational mind and common sense would be more useful to her !!!

  2. Sam says

    Dec 27, 2016 at 8:18 pm

    What an “excellent” muslim!

  3. gravenimage says

    Dec 27, 2016 at 8:29 pm

    American convert to Islam is now key Islamic State leader
    ……………………

    I hope his pathetic *ss gets droned soon.

  4. Wellington says

    Dec 27, 2016 at 11:02 pm

    What a loser. What a creep. Fitting though that he is a very devout convert to the worst religion of all time. May Allah strike me dead tonight if I have erred in this assessment.

    I’ll be back at JW soon. Like tomorrow.

  5. SoCalMike says

    Dec 28, 2016 at 12:18 am

    See ya.
    Wouldn’t wanna be ya.
    There’s a New Sheriff in town and ur smoke.

    Lowlife will probably use his wife and kids as human shields.
    No matter.
    Drone technology is good enough to wait for him to separate from them so they won’t suffer his fate.
    Talk about walking dead.

  6. Tradiguy says

    Dec 28, 2016 at 3:30 am

    Tania has no great brain power I think. She is typical ‘cattle’ – perfect for the dominating, woman using jihadist who cares little or probably nothing for her or her children. The only good to come out of this is that he can’t impregnate her and rear yet another kafir hating Muslim. Tania, I say this to you. Go and find someone who will truly love you for who you are. Someone who will protect you from all danger. Someone who puts you first! The best thing that could happen to him is that he is killed because that is the only way he will find the truth. And when he does, he will realise that his life was a total waste as Satan welcomes him into hell. God is just. Those who plan to destroy his creation will not prosper.

  7. Paul N Silas says

    Dec 28, 2016 at 7:26 am

    What a butthead! I guess ISIS wanted him after he could not get a job flipping burgers.

  8. ermom says

    Dec 28, 2016 at 8:18 am

    IMHO, he is no longer an American. He is now an ‘enemy combatant’.

  9. Bill says

    Dec 28, 2016 at 8:43 am

    This guy is useful to ISIS now, but eventually his fate will be sealed by his fellow Jihadis who will take him out to consolidate power in the hands of the pure believers or others that simply resent him.

  10. SamKent says

    Dec 28, 2016 at 9:20 am

    Really, I see little difference between the mentality of a radical Islamist and a Nazi. Indeed, Hitler stated that he had more in common with Islam than weak-kneed Christianity. Furthermore, there were Islamist military that fought with the Nazis. It is in this light that one may see the connection between the American Liberal and Radical Islam. In fact, liberals refuse to criticize Islam which teachings from the Koran are driving the Islamic terrorists. The Liberal’s favorite attack weapon is “islamophobe.”For myself, whom I feel to be a decent conservation with decent American values, it is astounding to witness the phenomenon of the liberal.

    And coming full circle to this article, we see this madman Georgelas converting to Islam, putting his wife and children in harm’s way, and then abandoning them to enter the gates of hell and hatred. Is just does not make sense!

  11. Florida Jim says

    Dec 28, 2016 at 9:42 am

    With all the hatred spewing from Mosques worldwide why not declare Islam a terrorist religion and ban it from all civil societies? Demanding a Caliphate, Sharia , Jihad for paradise, Taqiyya and beheading enemies is not something any society wants even the Muslims many would leave but Islam promises retribution so , in fear, they remain cowardly.

  12. John A. Marre says

    Dec 28, 2016 at 10:54 am

    Conversion implies rejection of American citizenship, values, and ethics. The act of conversion needs to be followed swiftly with automatic revocation of citizenship, and the right to live on US soil.

  13. Marty says

    Dec 28, 2016 at 11:16 am

    I feel very sorry for the children, & if they could be removed from the parents, I would
    have no hesitation in hoping for execution(using the good offices of a drone), of both
    parents.
    If the children remain with their verminous parents they will be used as killers within
    a few years.
    As it is, sorry kids, but it’s for the best —–

  14. Angemon says

    Dec 28, 2016 at 11:39 am

    A traitor whose only fitting place is in front of a firing squad. And a loser too, as many converts to islam.

  15. Terry says

    Dec 30, 2016 at 7:16 pm

    A question for the author.

    How can one be ” a precocious underachiever” when the definition for precocious is (as per dictionary.com–and, i did mean to post this a few days ago)- “unusually advanced-” or mature in development. Also, prematurely developed.

    Seems to be a contradiction.

    And, i do hope that this garbage gets blown away, and soon.

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