One might almost suspect there was a connection between Justin Sullivan becoming a Muslim and his becoming a murderer. After all, his holy book thrice says “kill them wherever you find them” (Qur’an 2:191, 4:89, 9:5). Good thing we have learned imams such as Pope Francis and H. R. McMaster and Theresa May to explain to us that it’s really a cuddly Religion of Peace after all.
“Feds confirm ISIS investigations underway in NC,” by Michael Gordon, Charlotte Observer, June 29, 2017:
Shortly after Justin Sullivan was sentenced to life in prison for planning to commit mass murder in support of the Islamic State, U.S. Attorney Jill Rose of Charlotte confirmed that investigations of other suspected ISIS sympathizers continue in North Carolina.
A domestic-terrorism expert told the Observer this week that the North Carolina probes are among some 1,000 active FBI investigations into ISIS-related threats encompassing all 50 states.
One case involves a 29-year-old Waxhaw man accused of lying to the FBI when he denied he told someone he planned to fly to Syria to fight with ISIS while helping others get there to do the same, according to a bill of indictment unsealed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Charlotte.
Alexander Samuel Smith is accused of meeting with someone in Matthews in 2014 whom he thought was an ISIS representative but who was really an FBI confidential source, the indictment said. He offered lower-fare “buddy passes” he said he could get from his girlfriend, who worked at a U.S. airline at the time, court documents show. Smith is charged with two counts of making a false statement to an agency of the United States, according to the indictment.
Keri Farley, the FBI’s assistant special agent in charge of North Carolina, said Sullivan’s arrest saved lives. But she added that “homegrown violent extremists” are becoming harder to stop.
“Identifying a terrorist before an attack happens is one of the most difficult challenges we face,” Farley said during a press conference with Rose after Sullivan’s sentencing. “It’s harder than finding a needle in a haystack; it’s like finding a needle in a stack of needles. But that’s exactly what happened in this case.”
Sullivan still faces a capital murder trial in Burke County in connection with the December 2014 shooting death of John Bailey Clark, an elderly recluse who lived near Sullivan’s parents in Morganton. Newly unsealed photographs from the crime scene show a path of blood leading from the bedroom of Clark’s dilapidated home on Rose Carswell Road and the shallow grave next to the house where his body was found.
According to federal documents, investigators say that after his arrest, Sullivan told a fellow jail inmate that he had killed his 74-year-old neighbor “for practice.”
Prosecutors say Sullivan hoped to kill at a far greater scale. With the help of his home computer and a Casio smartphone, Sullivan plotted directly with Junaid Hussain, a prominent ISIS leader, recruiter and social media expert who was killed during an August 2016 airstrike in Syria. Their goal: to kill up to hundreds of people at a concert or club in North Carolina or Virginia while filming the carnage as an ISIS propaganda tool.
Before sentencing Sullivan, U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger said the planned massacre was similar to the 2016 attack in Orlando, Fla., where a lone gunman killed 49 people.
Sullivan is among the 126 people arrested in the United States over the last three years for ISIS-related acts or conspiracies, according to the Program on Extremism at George Washington University. As with Sullivan, 90 percent of those charged have been male. The average age is 27. Some 45 percent were arrested as they attempted to join ISIS fighters overseas. About 30 percent have been accused of plotting to carry out attacks on U.S. soil….
Interviewed after his son’s June 2015 arrest, Richie Sullivan said his son began acting combatively after he converted to Islam in September 2014. He began referring to his parents and other Americans as “you people,” according to FBI notes made public this week. After showing no interest in guns at any time in his life, the teenager announced on several occasions that he wanted to buy an assault rifle. At one point, Richie Sullivan suspected his son was building a pipe bomb, the FBI document says.
By now, Sullivan had been downloading ISIS execution videos. According to transcripts of his online conversations with an FBI undercover agent, Sullivan seethed at U.S. military reprisals against ISIS in Syria and elsewhere.
Richie Sullivan says he pressed his son to get a job and asked at one point if Justin had considered the military. According to the new document, his son replied, “And what, kill more of us?”
gravenimage says
North Carolina jihad murderer “began acting combatively after he converted to Islam in September 2014”
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This, of course, should surprise no one.
John Lloyd Scharf says
Must be global warming, again.
gravenimage says
🙂
Lydia says
Yes, shocking!
John A. Marre says
The fact of conversion to Islam is by that very fact a repudiation of one’s American citizenship, and all the benefits and privileges accruing thereto. Deportation must be immediate upon conversion.
Islam is a violent ideology that actively promotes the violent overthrow of the Constitution of the United States.
davej says
Hear hear! Automatic deportation upon conversion is appropriate and fair.
Conversion seems to correlate with a big increase in ambition – unfortunately that ambition is never for anything noble, just for evil deeds and mayhem.
What a screwed up philosophy is Islam, a cancerous tumor on Humanity and everything decent and holy in this world. It can only be described as a transmissible mental illness, not a “religion”.
Sarah says
Needle in a haystack, huh?
I’ll show you how to make it easy. Outlaw Islam. Give those who practice it the choice to ditch it, or emigrate (or go back to) the Islamic nation of their choosing or historical birth. Pay for it to send them, their families and belongings with them. Its worth the cost.
Ban any and all schools, mosque’s, charities, businesses etc that are related in any way whatsoever to Islam. Ban any any and all foreign investment, emigration, trade and communication with the Islamic world and the West.
Leave them the hell alone. Do not buy their resources or products or services. Do not send in troops, no matter what mess they mire themselves in, no more foreign aid. Ban any aid agencies, religions, charities and businesses etc from doing all of the same.
Then, once we’ve drained Islam and its supporters from our lands, once we’ve cut off the cash flow, travel and communication between us all, once we’ve stopped engaging with them in any way, shape or form whatsoever, then use the preexisting legislation and infrastructure already in place, under the current guise of ‘national security’ to monitor for anyone breaking these conditions and to monitor any Westerners’ who are converting to Islam whilst on Western soil.
When you find them, it won’t be a needle in a haystack – it’ll be as obvious as day to spot them. Frankly, I’m all for the DP for the seditious converters – the citizens should not have to pay for automatic life sentences without the possibility of parole for the seditious ones. But – human rights are human rights – and I want my human rights, so I guess its only fair to give them theirs – offer them the choice – the DP or expulsion from the West, never to return under any circumstances, no matter what – and drop them off at the Islamic nation of their choosing
And no, the Islamic world will NOT wind up becoming this all powerful, all encompassing enemy (ala 1984 State against State style shenanigans) that we will need to constantly worry about. Without our aid, our involvement, our assistance and our money buying their oil and other products and services, watch how fast they start to crumble. They cannot even keep healthy, functioning societies as it is now, without either obscene amounts of cash injected into their economies (like the Gulf State’s), or with us accepting a near constant stream of ‘refugees’ from their nation’s in order to reduce the pressure on their societies. Watch what happens when they do not have free access to our scientific, educational, medicinal and engineering innovations. They ride on the back’s of all of us – especially the Jewish.
Without us, without our money, without the benefits that come from trade, communication and travel with us, they will rapidly fall apart. Let them. Let them tear themselves apart. No refugees to be taken from that mess, either. Make them face the consequences of their own actions and turn around and fix their own mess.
Watch how fast they ultimately dump Islam, once they’re all starving to death, dying en masse from violence and completely preventable diseases, once they are forced to face up to the knowledge that their religion is the cause of this.
If they want their beloved Islam so badly – let them have it. Let them have it and rot with it. I’m sick of the rest of the world propping them up with our hard work, investment, innovation and creation, all the while, while they are all braying for our destruction and simply using us for all the benefits that the civilized world offers.
We’ll see how long Sharia Law and Islam itself, keeps the power grid’s working, the hospital’s, science labs, pharmaceutical labs etc staffed with skilled professionals, the water treatment plants maintained, the telecommunications working evenly and smoothly. My bet is, it’ll start falling over within 5 months of expelling every Muslim out of the civilized world and cutting off contact and trade with them all.
They’ll be back to peasant migration before the decade is out, slaughtering each other from the backs’ of horses’ with rough hewn machetes and swords as their weapons.
solange silverman says
This is more evidence to support the fact that certain disturbed people are drawn to cults like Islam, because they give them permission to do what it is that they are already inclined to do.
gravenimage says
True, Solange–this is also why Islam is so popular among violent felons.
peter says
A real muslim is a mudslime,a mudslime ,and a muslime for ever and ever .Amon!