This troubling report indicates “that Muslims seeking to become mass killers live near the seat of American government.”
Among the nine Muslims from Virginia who were arrested was a police officer and “army soldiers.” All but one are privileged youth who “appeared to have opportunities via public education to become successful Americans but instead were charged with what amounted to a devotion to violent jihad.”
No Muslim is immune to jihad preaching, which can be found in mosques as well as on the Internet — a fact that is too often denied. To call it out is not to declare that every Muslim is a jihadist. Those Muslims who promote the “Islamophobia” victimhood narrative are sheltering and protecting the very mosques many of them attend, that preach jihadist or Islamic supremacist messages. Despite the existence of such mosques, there are still those who are trying to separate radicalism from Islam, and those who present jihadists as victims: note in the article below that “the wave of social media rhetoric against law enforcement has made their counterterrorism role more difficult.”
All peaceful Muslims should be standing with non-Muslims against all jihadist teaching and promotion of Islamic supremacism. They should readily expose hateful and violent messages when they are preached in mosques. They should acknowledge that violent jihadists are invoking Islamic texts to justify their actions and make recruits among peaceful Muslims, and that the normative Islam that is practiced throughout Islamic states has no place in Western free society, and that to maintain their prized freedoms, Western countries need to be guarding their borders.
Only a few Muslims speak these truths, and they are generally unwelcome in mosques. Until Westerners become smart and realize that they are being played for fools, stealth jihadists will continue to work covertly, operating in “the shadows of open society.”
“Islamic State arrests reveal jihadi threat near seat of U.S. government”, by Rowan Scarborough, The Washington Times , December 26, 2016:
Law enforcement agencies have arrested nine Northern Virginia residents on charges of aiding the Islamic State since the terrorist group rose to power in Syria and Iraq in 2014 and launched social media propaganda to attract followers, a government message to police states.
The Northern Virginia Regional Intelligence Center issued profiles of the nine in a Dec. 21 report labeled “law enforcement sensitive.”
Such reports are designed to help state and federal agents recognize trends in the types of individuals who are influenced by the Islamic State’s message and how they communicate across terrorist networks.
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A defense attorney in one of the cases accused police of anti-Muslim bias; his client later pleaded guilty.
Somalis living in Minnesota appear to receive the most press attention in the U.S. for wanting to help or join the Islamic State. The FBI arrested six residents of Somali origin in April after they made arrangements to leave Minnesota for Syria. Last December, a 20-year-old man of Somali origin was arrested on accusations of leading a group of ethnic Somalis attempting to fight for the Islamic State.
The Northern Virginia report shows that Muslims seeking to become mass killers live near the seat of American government.
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Of the nine Northern Virginians who were arrested, all but one were in their teens and early 20s. They included a police officer, a Starbucks barista, Army soldiers, bankers and a cabdriver. Four of the nine graduated from Northern Virginia high schools, one with honors. Two attended Northern Virginia Community College.
In other words, all of them appeared to have opportunities via public education to become successful Americans but instead were charged with what amounted to a devotion to violent jihad.
They are suspected of conducting terrorism planning through Twitter, Facebook, Skype, WhatsApp and other platforms and apps, as well as on prepaid phones.
“Local police are in a particularly difficult situation,” said Robert Maginnis, a retired Army officer and researcher on Islamism who lives in Northern Virginia. “They face a severe challenge by Islamists operating in the shadows of our open society. These mostly young male Muslims become radicalized either by Islamist imams at some of the thousands of mosques across America, at school, or over the ever-present internet sites that spew anti-West, anti-Christian hatred.”
These are the nine profiles, according to the intelligence report obtained by The Washington Times:
• Ali Shukir Amin. He pleaded guilty to providing support to the Islamic State (also known as ISIS, ISIL and Daesh) and was sentenced to 136 months in prison. An honors student at Osbourn Park High School, Amin wrote a pro-Islamic State blog, had a Twitter account with 7,000 tweets and instructed people on how to use bitcoin to hide money transfers and on how to travel to Syria.
• Reza Niknejad. Also an Osbourn Park student who was attending Northern Virginia Community College, Niknejad, aided by Amin, traveled to Syria in 2015. He was charged in absentia.
• Heather Coffman. She pleaded guilty to making a false statement concerning involvement in international terrorism and was sentenced to 54 months in prison. She joined the Army but was discharged after four months, and later worked as a sales clerk. She operated multiple Facebook accounts to promote the Islamic State and shared terrorism contacts with possible recruits.
• Joseph Hassan Farrokh. He pleaded guilty this year to attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State and received 102 months in prison. He provided $600 to a friend to travel to Syria and attempted to be a foreign fighter.
• Mahmound Amin Mohamed Elhassan. He pleaded guilty in October to aiding Farrokh and lying about his involvement in international terrorism. He spoke openly of supporting the Islamic State and its violence. He had attended Northern Virginia Community College and worked for Starbucks.
• Mohamad Jamal Khweis. He was arrested in Turkey on charges of conspiring to help the Islamic State. His trial begins in April. He graduated from Edison High School and worked for two banks and Highgate Hotels. He traveled to Syria in 2015 to become a foreign fighter before having second thoughts and escaping.
• Mohammad Bilor Jalloh. He pleaded guilty in October to trying to help the Islamic State. He had served as a combat engineer in the Virginia National Guard and worked for consulting firms. He met with Islamic State members in Africa and tried to buy firearms to carry out a Fort Hood-style massacre.
• Haris Qatar. He also pleaded guilty to charges of helping the Islamic State. He attended Northern Virginia Community College and worked for Wells Fargo. He created 60 Twitter handles for Islamic State propaganda and stalked residences in Northern Virginia that were on the group’s “kill lists.” He was preparing to make a video encouraging people to carry out “lone wolf” attacks around Washington.
• Nicholas Young. The oldest of the nine at 36, he has been charged with helping the Islamic State but has not faced trial. He graduated from West Potomac High School and worked as a Metro police officer. He is accused of stockpiling weapons at his home. According to authorities, he traveled to Libya and gave advice to Islamic State followers on how to avoid law enforcement monitoring.
Mr. Maginnis, who stays in contact with local police in Virginia, said the wave of social media rhetoric against law enforcement has made their counterterrorism role more difficult…

John W. says
I live in NOVA and know these high schools and the college. It’s so frustrating that more people don’t pay attention and know what is going on. Sure, we hear about terrorist attacks in Western Countries on the “regular’ news but its stuff like this, the behavior of migrants in Europe, attacks in Asian and African countries, etc. that really show the extent of what is going on. We are at war with Islamist thinking, plain and simple. Yet the Oblunder administration is spending its last days slamming Israel. There is no jihad being carried out by Jewish people and no anti Western propaganda being preached in synagogues. Only one ideology is doing this. Thankfully we have an incoming administration that is not willfully blind to these things.
eur says
Today another two in Madrid(Spain) with ak 47.And two more in turkey, two women returning from the kaliphate trying to “return” to Spain. Their names and surnames are not very Hispanic.
Bill says
Poverty and Global Warming are the cause of this. Just ask the Pope, he will explain it all to you.
Ron says
You left off video games. LOL
davej says
None of the details about their education or employment matter because as Muslims jihad and Allah worship outrank all other considerations. Schooling, job training and personal relationships are just what they do while preparing to blow things up.
Angemon says
I.e., “Black Lives Matter” rhetoric – “pigs in a bacon, fry’em like bacon”, “what do we want? dead cops. when do we want it? now”, etc., plus the unending claims that the cops are racists and white supremacists out to kill minorities. Including black nd other minority cops – white supremacists, all of them, apparently…
Les says
Thank Barry Hussein for Black Lies Matter
My Opinion says
If they want to go, let them go…on two conditions…they are stripped of their US citizenship and their family, both immediate and extended, must go, too…never to be allowed to return. If they refuse those terms, immediate deportation, loss of citizenship, for the same. It’s a win-win!
marina says
I agree
Michael Copeland says
Unfortunately “peaceful Muslims” are in no position to stand with non-Muslims “against all jihadist teaching and promotion of Islamic supremacism”. Jihad is “a communal obligation”: supremacism is ordinary basic Islam. To oppose them is to become an apostate, subject to vigilante-murder.
Nor may peaceful muslims “readily expose hateful and violent messages when they are preached in mosques.” These messages are straight out of the Koran. One who denies any verse in the Koran is an apostate, to be killed, vigilante-style and penalty-free, “since it is killing someone who deserves to die”.
Violent jihadists are indeed invoking Islamic texts to justify their actions: those actions are commanded by those texts. That is the big problem which the West refuses to face.
As accurately stated, “normative Islam …has no place in Western free society”.
mortimer says
Christine Williams wrote: “All peaceful Muslims should be standing with non-Muslims against all jihadist teaching and promotion of Islamic supremacism.”
Well, why would Muslims stand against Islamic supremacism? The Koran says that Islam should be superior and prevail, ‘He it is Who sent His Messenger with the guidance and the true religion that He may make it PREVAIL over all the religions.’
A Muslim who is NOT a supremacist has created his OWN PERSONAL VERSION of Islam and no longer follows authentic Islam. Such a Muslim has created a NEW RELIGION that is not Islam and which excludes military jihad.
gravenimage says
All true, Mortimer.
IQ al Rassooli says
Dear Americans, it is VITAL that you realize that one does not need more than two brain cells of logic to understand Muslims & Islam in a nutshell~
Every Muslim is the enemy of every none Muslim Infidel/ Kafir on planet Earth. 80% of current of none Muslim humanity
Every Muslim is a potential Mass Murderer the instant he/ she decides that he/she is NOT Sharia compliant enough
Every Muslim is therefore a hair trigger Time Bomb primed to go off
Only in the WARPED imagination of our elites can one find Moderate Militant Radical or Extremist Muslims because in reality Muslims are Muslims just as Nazis are Nazis and no one ever addressed Nazis as Moderate Militant Radical or Extremist
All other explanations are superfluous and redundant
It is time for every decent human being to go out in the street and declares these TRUTHS in public. No way can the elites arrest and incarcerate free people in their tens of thousands without a REVOLUTION ensuing
IQ al Rassooli
Kafir & Proud!
Debi Brand says
Amen, my Friend, Dr. al-Rassooli, amen.
gravenimage says
Jihadi threat near seat of government: Nine Muslims in Virginia arrested for aiding the Islamic State
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More Jihad in Northern Virginistan–another part of the US that has been increasingly infested with Mohammedans.
Eric Jones says
I am old enouigh to remember the McCarty era. I would hate to see loyalty oaths brought back to America. The current challenge of islam may make loyalty oaths necassary again.
Every muslim entering the USA must sign an oath that they renouce Sharia and accept the USA Constitution as the law of the land.
Eric
whowhat says
Loyalty may prevent some from signing an oath, but it is acceptable to lie for the furtherance of islam…… So……
uran says
just had a thought. if each city state & federal agency offered MONETARY rewards for videos and audios of ANTI AMERICAN, ANTI CHRISTIAN or ANTI MANKIND preaching, from inside the MOSQUES, maybe our law enforcement personal could build more PREVENTATIVE actions, to defeat the IMAMS teachings. worth a try. i could be wrong.