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“American Taliban” John Walker Lindh expresses “cautious support” for the Islamic State (ISIS)

Jun 30, 2017 4:52 pm By Robert Spencer

He should have been charged with treason, since treason is quite obviously what he was engaged in. He was fighting for the Taliban against American troops. But instead, he will be out in two years, with his “cautious support” for ISIS, and will then no doubt he hailed as a hero by the Leftist intelligentsia, and will likely become a key figure of the “Islamophobia” victimhood network.

“American Taliban Returns,” New Indian Express, June 30, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

In October 2001, nearly a month after the 9/11 attacks, the US invaded Afghanistan. The Americans were surprised to discover a 19-year-old countryman fighting for the Taliban

Dubbed the ‘American Taliban’, the bearded teen John Walker Lindh became ‘Detainee 001’ in America’s war on terror. In October 2016, The New York Times carried an op-ed by Paul Theroux urging the then US president Obama to commute his sentence on compassionate grounds. In an earlier op-ed in the same paper, Lindh’s father compared his son’s actions to Ernest Hemingway’s during the Spanish Civil War…

He later moved to Afghanistan to fight for the Taliban’s vision of sharia before being caught in Kunduz. Lindh, Georgelas and the Islamic State Has Yahya Lindh, as he calls himself now, repented? Graeme Wood, who has spoken to Lindh, writes he has “spent his sentence studying Islam”.

Lindh has expressed cautious support for the IS. “More than a decade in prison appeared to have the same effect on Lindh that 34 months in jail were to have on (US-born IS leader) John Georgelas: not a softening of jihadism but a confirmation of it,” writes Wood in The Way of the Strangers

Most sentences for terror-related cases involving US citizens in the post-9/11 era “are ripening into release just now,” the Foreign Policy magazine’s website quotes a lawyer as saying. “Now it will be up to President Trump to decide one of the trickiest legacies of the war on terrorism: how to treat homegrown terrorists after they’ve served their time,” it adds.

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Filed Under: American jihadis, converts to Islam, Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Jihad in prisons Tagged With: John Walker Lindh, Yahya Lindh


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  1. Berengaria says

    Jun 30, 2017 at 5:44 pm

    It Sounds like the whole Darned Lindh Klan is PRO-ISIS! President Trump should make an example out of this TRAITOR! Pray that JIHAD JOHNNY LINDH, Craven Coward, who whined like a Spoiled Brat when he was captured, is not allowed to become a LEFTIST HERO, Like NYC’S PUERTO RICAN TERRORIST!

  2. mgoldberg says

    Jun 30, 2017 at 6:03 pm

    I express cautious support for life in prison for such jihadists, unless they’ve killed in which case I express enthusiastic support for execution.

  3. Mac-101 says

    Jun 30, 2017 at 6:04 pm

    Deport him back to Afghanistan and his ole man. Didn’t this son of a goat herder go to Pakistan to study in a Madras and was the sex tool for the Inman who tired of him and was traded to an Inman in Afghanistan for his pleasure?

  4. gravenimage says

    Jun 30, 2017 at 6:07 pm

    “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh expresses “cautious support” for the Islamic State (ISIS)
    …………………….

    I’m sure everyone wanted to hear from this traitorous thug again…not.

    • John Forbes says

      Jul 1, 2017 at 4:22 am

      Why is this guy being released at all ? This statement alone should get him at least another 10 years !!

  5. Lydia says

    Jun 30, 2017 at 8:14 pm

    Yes, another victim for their album, or their hallway of ‘islamophobia’ victims for sure…
    oh, the poor boy was just so misunderstood…

  6. utis says

    Jun 30, 2017 at 8:41 pm

    Benedict Arnold couldn’t stay in this country. When his time is up, give this roach his street robes and put him on a flight to Syria or Pakistan. Immediately.

  7. John A. Marre says

    Jun 30, 2017 at 9:04 pm

    NYTimes asks Obama to commute the sentence. The NYTimes hates this country and loves militant Islamists who hate this country, and such deserves to be closed, with its entire staff thrown in prison.

    Why is this bastard still alive? He needs to be dead.

    “spent his sentence studying Islam” This means he has learned more about his violent ideology, and is sure to act on it. Why I say he should be dead.

  8. Westman says

    Jun 30, 2017 at 9:50 pm

    How about “Cautious Citizenship” for this seditious scoundrel? One false move and he gets dropped over Iran without US citizenship.

  9. Isabellathecrusader says

    Jun 30, 2017 at 11:22 pm

    Really. How’s that working for him?

  10. ketzel says

    Jul 1, 2017 at 2:00 am

    Prison inmates shouldn’t have their choice of reading material. Why was he allowed to study Islam? He should have been deprogrammed and given his choice of Christianity or nothing. If he is released, he should be monitored closely for the rest of his life. I’d bet that he won’t become part of the Islamophobia racket, but rather, he will become a terrorist. All this time in prison studying Islam hasn’t prepared him to be another scam artist…he is probably the real thing, extremely dangerous.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 1, 2017 at 9:44 pm

      He was already a terrorist.

  11. Paul N Silas says

    Jul 1, 2017 at 4:42 am

    Will probably be Bernie Sander’s running mate in 2020?

  12. Vann Boseman says

    Jul 1, 2017 at 5:22 am

    It is disturbing that being a traitor is no longer taken as seriously as it used to. A primary role of government is to protect its people. This person has taken up arms against the United States. That he lives to give us his opinion and will be released after a couple of years will be seen and noticed by all enemies of the United States. This should not be treated lightly and treating it lightly grounds a far worse precedent than all the harm this one person is likely to cause.

  13. Ric says

    Jul 1, 2017 at 2:11 pm

    Those committing treason today are deemed heroes by the leftist scourge. It surprises me that these traitors are not awarded the Medal of Honor, especially during the seditious tenures of Obama. It is time for President Trump not only to drain the toxic swamp but to alter this warped and perverse ethos, the leftists’ hero worship of treasonous Americans. It is a slap-in-the-face to the courageous men and women who paid the supreme sacrifice so that this Constitutional Republic and its citizenry retained liberty.

  14. Stan Lee says

    Jul 1, 2017 at 2:25 pm

    He has learned the tricks of convict behavior to impress a parole board. He wants “out,” and then the Jihadi fighter from Afghanistan will reemerge. The Muslim Jihadi underground in our country will assure that Walker renews his enthusiasm to Islam. He will be compliant….or else.

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