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Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Meet Five Lethal American Converts to Islam

Mar 22, 2017 10:45 am By Robert Spencer

Why don’t Christian converts find terror in their new religion? My latest in PJ Media:

John Georgelas, the Texas-born son of a U.S. Air Force doctor and grandson of a World War II veteran, now calls himself Yahya Abu Hassan. He has reportedly just become one of the top leaders of the Islamic State (ISIS).

Georgelas is not by any means the only convert to Islam to have gotten the idea that his new religion, though touted as peaceful by almost all American authorities, actually commands him to commit treason and mass murder. Those authorities remain resolutely uncurious as to why so many converts to Islam seem to ignore the peaceful teachings of the Qur’an that are so patently obvious to learned imams such as Pope Francis, John Kerry, and George W. Bush.

Those peaceful teachings also elude Joshua Cummings, another convert to Islam. On January 30, he murdered Denver Regional Transportation District security guard Scott Von Lanken. Cummings explained:

I give my bay’ah (pledge) to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and I am committed to being a soldier for the Islamic State. … [However,] on the night in question, what I did do, I didn’t do that for the Islamic State. I did that purely and solely for the pleasure of Allah.

He didn’t explain where he got the idea that Allah would be pleased by the murder of a Denver security guard. Perhaps he was inspired by the Qur’an’s exhortations regarding unbelievers: “[K]ill them wherever you find them” (2:191, 4:89, and 9:5).

Not long after that, a convert to Islam in Kansas City named Robert Lorenzo Hester, Jr. (who called himself Ali Talib Muhammad and Rami Talib) planned a jihad massacre on President’s Day involving coordinated attacks on buses, trains, and a train station. He told contacts he thought were accomplices but who were actually FBI informants that President’s Day was “going to be a good day for Muslims worldwide” and that it was “good to help strike back at the true terrorist.” U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri Tammy Dickinson said of Ali Talib Muhammad:

[He] believed he was part of an ISIS-sponsored terrorist attack that would result in the deaths and injuries of many innocent victims.

While the plot was foiled, the questions remained: where did this convert learn about Islam? From whom? How many other American converts were taught by the same people? Where are they now? Generally media reports about jihad plotters tell us that they were “radicalized on the Internet.” These reports never explain why the supposedly peaceful Islam that these Muslims presumably learned at the local mosque was unable to withstand the appeal of the allegedly twisted and hijacked online version.

The same questions could be asked about 27-year-old Garrett Grimsley of Cary, North Carolina, who several weeks ago was charged with threatening non-Muslims. In February, Grimsley posted a warning online: “Don’t go to Cary tomorrow.”

He explained to a friend:

For too long the kuffar [non-Muslims] have spit in our faces and trampled our rights. This cannot continue. I cannot speak of anything. Say your dua [prayers], sleep, and watch the news tomorrow. It will only be the beginning …

These were not empty words. According to WTVD:

[A] search of Grimsley’s apartment by the FBI, SBI, and the Cary Police Department revealed an AK-47 assault rifle, four 30-round magazines, and approximately 340 rounds of 7.62 millimeter ammunition.

Clearly Grimsley meant business, as did Emanuel Lutchman, another convert to Islam who plotted to attack patrons at Merchants Grill in Rochester, New York, with a machete. When he was recently sentenced to twenty years in prison, he screamed out in court:

There’s going to be more of us … You think because I’m going to be incarcerated there aren’t going to be more of us that rise up?

Lutchman had previously made a video in which he said:

The blood that you spill of the Muslim overseas, we gonna spill the blood of the kuffar.

There are so many other lethal converts to Islam, some of them quite high-profile: John Walker Lindh, the “Marin County Mujahid,” was discovered fighting alongside the Taliban and al-Qaeda against American troops in Afghanistan; and Adam Gadahn, the self-described “revolting geek of mass proportions,” rose high in the ranks of al-Qaeda until he was liquidated in a U.S. drone strike….

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  1. Thought_Weaver says

    Mar 22, 2017 at 11:34 am

    The next time you hear the wailing kindly try and record it along with video too if possible. Share it on every frigging social media. As many in this forum has said before that ‘information will be the death of Islam’. Be sure to leave a link in JW too. Best of luck.

  2. John A. Marre says

    Mar 22, 2017 at 11:39 am

    Anyone who converts to Islam has ipso facto repudiated his American citizenship, and consequently must be deported and kept out of the country. Islam advocates the violent overthrow of the US government, and is incompatible with the US Constitution.

    • Mickey says

      Mar 22, 2017 at 1:01 pm

      Yet our radical politicians on the left seem to think it is what we deserve. For 32 years America has been run by pro-Islamic, anti-American presidents only to create the horrific country of Muslim/Islamists we now see. 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act, a.k.a. the McCarran-Walter Act (An act to revise the laws relating to immigration, naturalization, and nationality; and for other purposes)
      H.R. 13342; Pub.L. 414; 182 Stat. 66.
      82nd Congress; June 27, 1952. The McCarran-Walter Act moved away from excluding immigrants based simply upon country of origin. Instead it focused upon DENYING IMMIGRANTS WHO WERE UNLAWFUL, IMMORAL, DISEASED IN ANY WAY, POLITICALLY RADICAL ETC. AND ACCEPTING THOSE WHO WERE WILLING AND ABLE TO ASSIMILATE INTO THE US ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, AND POLITICAL STRUCTURES, WHICH RESTRUCTURED HOW IMMIGRATION LAW WAS HANDLED. FURTHERMORE, THE MOST NOTABLE EXCLUSIONS WERE ANYONE EVEN REMOTELY ASSOCIATED WITH COMMUNISM WHICH IN THE EARLY DAYS OF THE COLD WAR WAS SEEN AS A SERIOUS THREAT TO OUR DEMOCRACY.

      If we can get Congress to start obeying our Constitution, our Country will be a safer place for our families. We all know the Muslims ARE NOT assimilating. They are polygamists, pedophiles, anarchists, diseased, and are charges of the states they live in. Enough of supporting these people who do not think they should be a part of America. They are only here to take our country and our Constitutional Republic from us and create their own no go zones and Shariah laws and take from our taxpayers by way of welfare. A “public charge” is someone who cannot provide for himself and thus relies on public assistance for a substantial part of his livelihood; it is someone who is a charge, or responsibility, of the public.6 Individuals who are deemed as likely to become charges of the public are excluded from entering the United States. If an immigrant becomes a public charge, he may be deported. With the rise of the welfare state in the United States since the Progressive Era, public assistance has increasingly come through the civil government; however, public aid historically had a heavy private sector, voluntary, charitable aspect.
      As one may see, in an age when the welfare state has grown in the United States, many people have lost sight of the historical role of public charge doctrine. An overview of this long-standing principle of immigration policy is both timely and needed. Public charge doctrine was intended to preserve a flow of qualified, capable immigrants. It is a tool for keeping out or expelling unproductive immigrants who place a drain on society. It is similar to a qualifications or skills test that may be required of prospective immigrants. http://cis.org/PublicChargeDoctrine-AmericanImmigrationPolicy
      Keep in mind this doctrine is only pertaining to legal immigrants and not illegal or refugees. So, legal immigrants get slammed just as the American citizens do. It seems these politicians have only the illegal aliens and refugees’ well being in hand.

      https://www.uscis.gov/news/fact-sheets/public-charge-fact-sheet

    • Angemon says

      Mar 22, 2017 at 2:47 pm

      “Anyone who converts to Islam has ipso facto repudiated his American citizenship, and consequently must be deported and kept out of the country.”

      Just a couple of questions:

      a) What can you tell, from one’s conversion to islam, about what they know of islam?

      b) Where do you suggest one “deport” a native American citizen to? And under which law(s)?

  3. John A. Marre says

    Mar 22, 2017 at 5:36 pm

    New converts are fervent in their practice of their new religion. They how what the religion is really about.

  4. Mahendra Singh says

    Mar 22, 2017 at 8:39 pm

    Thank Gandhoo and Nehroo for that.

  5. frederick King says

    Mar 23, 2017 at 3:34 am

    Looks like a Yahya. Everyone will love him in prison. I think he’ll fall off te wagon, and drink pruno every chance he gets.

  6. FYI says

    Mar 23, 2017 at 7:03 am

    That picture….
    It looks like the product of an unholy union between the Swamp Thing and a mountain goat.
    No wonder he converted to islam:he gets to murder people on behalf of his allah.
    allah has no problem sanctioning murder.
    Unlike allah,Almighty God does not reward evil.

    allah,the adversary of God pretending to be God.

    Of course such a wicked and brutal creature will not escape the justice of Almighty God…

  7. RK says

    Mar 24, 2017 at 11:17 am

    Yes – The questions remains: where did these converts learn about Islam? From whom? How many other American converts were taught by the same people? Where are they now? Media reports about jihad plotters tell us that they were “radicalized on the Internet.” But yet as we are now learning more and more each day, is that the media has their own agenda, twists, and turns when it come to the truth and has not been accurate, and on many occasions down right wrong and/or fake. These reports that they put out never explain why the supposedly peaceful Islam that these Muslims presumably learned at the local mosque was unable to withstand the appeal of the allegedly twisted and hijacked online version. Why is that? Why aren’t they at these mosques unable to stop this so-called hijacking of their so-called peaceful religion? Why aren’t they appalled and making a stand at every mosque against these actions? Why?

  8. Ted says

    Mar 24, 2017 at 1:09 pm

    I wish that ugly Bastard had a Burka on. As a matter of fact the Koran probably says some where all ugly bastards must wear one.

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