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Nineteen U.S.-based Muslims inspired or directed by the Islamic State since 2014

Mar 11, 2017 10:03 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

ISIS has a dedicated  group of Western jihadis based out of Iraq and Syria who specifically focus on encouraging attacks against the U.S. homeland. The group is known to the FBI as “the legion.” It is “the legion,” which preys on U.S. residents who express sympathy for ISIS on social media, by reaching out to them and nurturing their jihadi beliefs.

The Islamic State adheres to a puritanical and violent form of Islam which we are told that Muslims in the U.S. and the West in general reject. Yet it still attracts some Muslims who adhere to the Salafist understanding of Islam. Despite the fact that some Muslims reject Salafism, and leftists frequently deny its appeal to Muslims or even its existence, it remains influential within Islamic communities, even in the U.S.

In some cases, “legion”-affected zealots would express a desire to travel to the core caliphate in Syria, or affiliates in Libya, and the virtual entrepreneurs would redirect them towards plotting attacks at home.

As the response to this threat develops, it is unlikely the world has seen the end of virtual entrepreneurs with the deaths of Legion members and others associated with them.

Those Westerners who fail to see the threat and the need to address “radical Islamic terrorism” persist in thinking that the Muslims who are attracted to the Islamic State actually hold to or respect Western cultural norms.

“How ISIS ‘Virtual Entrepreneurs’ Inspire US Citizens to Carry Out Terror Plots”, by Saagar Enjeti, Daily Caller, March 10, 2017:

Nineteen U.S.-based individuals have been inspired or directed by Islamic State virtual entrepreneurs since 2014, warn two senior members of the George Washington University’s “Program on Extremism” in a new report.

The rise of social media and encrypted communications platforms like Whatsapp, Telegram, and Signal, enable ISIS recruiters from around the globe to communicate directly with U.S.-based would-be terrorists, the report explains.

ISIS has a dedicated group of Western jihadis based out of Iraq and Syria who specifically focus on encouraging attacks against the U.S. homeland. The group is known to the FBI as “the legion.” It is “the legion,” which preys on U.S. residents who express sympathy for ISIS on social media, by reaching out to them and nurturing their jihadi beliefs. The legion’s role is to encourage “their contacts to take on more extreme positions and helping them make connections in real-world foreign fighter networks.”

The group encourages U.S. citizens to plot heinous attacks, including beheading an American soldier in the U.S., bombing a police station, and buying assault weapons to kill as many as many innocent civilians as possible. Each plot involves an ISIS recruiter communicating, guiding, nurturing, and in some cases, sending money to would-be terrorists in the U.S.

In some cases, “legion”-affected zealots would express a desire to travel to the core caliphate in Syria, or affiliates in Libya, and the virtual entrepreneurs would redirect them towards plotting attacks at home. Where it concerned an ISIS-sympathizer based in New York City, an ISIS recruiter told the individual he would vouch for his entry into the caliphate only after he successfully carried out an attack.

“As the response to this threat develops, it is unlikely the world has seen the end of virtual entrepreneurs with the deaths of Legion members and others associated with them,”…….

 

 

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  1. no_one says

    Mar 11, 2017 at 10:16 am

    I believe they also target those who express extreme disgusts towards islam. These people get hacked.

    • Berengaria says

      Mar 11, 2017 at 10:40 am

      Thanks no_one, You can bet your life on the fact that those, who oppose the “RELIGION OF PEACE” have a target, not only on their back, but also in the front. It’s very popular now, in America, to be Pro-MOSLEM, so no stealth hacking is needed.
      All the Marches by LIB & MOSLEM FEMALES ARE done to “MAIN STREAM” ISLAM or RAM ISLAM DOWN OUR THROATS.

      Pray that President Trump does not fall prey to the Loud Voices,SOROS FUNDED STOOGES & CIVIL SERVICE WORKERS, WHO HAVE GONE ROGUE.

      • no_one says

        Mar 11, 2017 at 11:36 am

        I am not pro Islam and I believe I was in a trouble a few years ago, because I liked one of Mr. Spencer’s books. I prayed for President Trump to win and keep praying for him. I don’t like the new health care though and I am not the only one. If Trump approves this Republicans are going to loose in 2018 and 2020.

        • terry says

          Mar 12, 2017 at 7:41 am

          It would seem to be that the political juggernaut plays a good game of ping pong!

  2. Walter Sieruk says

    Mar 11, 2017 at 10:41 am

    Those nineteen Muslims who are based in the USA are as Islamic stooges are directed by the brutal and deadly jihad organization , ISIS, Those US based ISIS /Muslims might even be scheming jihad suicide /homicide attack against America citizens. If so those jihadists in such murderous Islamic terror attacks are only blind fools who are nothing but tools used for ISIS in their mad Islamic quest . Since those jihad attack would occur on American soil it’s thus fitting to site the wisdom of two of America’s Founding Fathers in the following essay
    Concerning the subject of Islamic suicide/homicide – bombers /attackers: They are so thoroughly brainwashed and deluded that they actually think of their murderous actions as “martyrdom operations.” This jihad evil and madness is based on the Koranic doctrine, 9:111. , of a far-fetched and nonsensical doctrine of a sex- filled paradise with many virgins, hours, in it for the use only the jihadist/Muslim male who dies as a “martyr” fighting for the cause of Islam. This weird religious/Islamic teaching is found contained the Koran in 44:56. .55:56. 78:31. This bizarre and odd, irrational Koranic doctrine is not open, to the jihadist, to inquiry, questioning. logic or reason. So this blind unreasoning kind of “faith” in the Koran is a reminder that Thomas Jefferson had written. “Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without a rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes helm from the hand of reason and the mind becomes a wreck.” Likewise, Benjamin Franklin had printed in POOR RICHARD’S ALMANACK something which may apply to this topic. For Mr. Franklin had printed “The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.”

  3. Walter Sieruk says

    Mar 11, 2017 at 10:50 am

    Those nineteen ISIS jihadists who may be scheming evil in America are the ones who we know of . It stands to reason that there is a chance that there may be other jihad- minded Muslims stooges of ISIS are also scheming to engage in a murderous Islamic terror attack in the USA. . Therefore the following should be reiterated .
    As Americans we should and must remember that for the United States to continue as a great power in the world in spite of the current threats of the Islamic terrorism by jihadist /Muslim terrorists who are operatives of ISIS, Al Qaeda and other jihadists of other similar jihad terror entities. Americans then should have Vigilance, Conviction and, of course, Fortitude. As one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence had declared “Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.” and “A conviction that we are right accomplishes half the difficulty of correcting wrong.” Likewise, Mr. Jefferson had also stated “Fortitude…teaches us to meet and surmount difficulties; not to fly from them.” So in other words we , as Americans ,should have learned keep moving on strongly with Vigilance, Conviction and Fortitude.

  4. Angemon says

    Mar 11, 2017 at 1:55 pm

    Nineteen U.S.-based individuals

    Curious wording. How many of them are US citizens?

  5. Oliver says

    Mar 12, 2017 at 4:25 pm

    I doubt that there are 19–probably a great many more.

    as someone with little to hide- while i do not like the idea of government spying, I like the idea of being separated from my head even less.

    I hope that (a) the intelligence agencies are cleaned up and (b)- leakers (like Manning, and others) are treated like the traitors that they are.

    Interesting thing however, regarding WikiLeaks.

    (When Obama was pres) and WikiLeaks was leaking emails damaging to GEORGE BUSH, there was no outcry. (From the Dems or the lame stream media).

    HOWEVER, WHEN EMAILS FROM THE SAUDIS, EXPRESSING CONCERN-NOT ABOUT ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS, BUT IRAN, THEN OBAMA AND THE DEMS WENT WILD.

    And, with the DNC and Podesta and Moog emails- same thing. (Although, with these-I doubt that the Russians are involved- why would they want Trump as pres.- they knew that they could buy Clinton-and she would keep the military weak). There has been NO CLAIM THAT I HAVE SEEN, that the emails and the contents are false or phony.

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