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Hawaii: Muslim US soldier swore allegiance to Islamic State, tried to pass documents to it

Jul 10, 2017 8:36 pm By Robert Spencer

Last week the presence of a Muslim such as Ikaika Kang in the U.S. Army would have been held up as evidence that concern about the loyalties of Muslims in the U.S. was sheer “Islamophobia.” Not today.

“FBI: Hawaii soldier swore allegiance to ISIS, tried to pass documents to group,” Hawaii News Now, July 10, 2017:

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – An active duty Hawaii soldier has been arrested for allegedly trying to provide material support and training to the Islamic State terrorist group.

FBI special agents and SWAT arrested Ikaika Erik Kang, 34, on Saturday evening at his Waipahu apartment.

Authorities said they believe Kang was a “lone actor,” and “not associated with others who present a threat to Hawaii.”

“Kang has been under investigation by the U.S. Army and the FBI for over a year,” Honolulu FBI Special Agent in Charge Paul D. Delacourt said. “FBI assets and Army investigative resources were continuously deployed to ensure the public’s safety during the course of this investigation and Kang’s eventual arrest.”

Kang, a 2001 graduate of Kaiser High School, is assigned to the 25th Infantry Division at Schofield Barracks.

His rank was sergeant first class, and he enlisted in December 2001, just months after the 9/11 attacks.

Kang’s father, Clifford, said he’s shocked by the allegations against his son.

“He’s a great kid. He’s not real outgoing, he’s never been, but neither was I,” Kang told Hawaii News Now. “But other than that he’s a great kid, a normal kid who grew up in Waimanalo.”

His father also believes his son may be suffering from PTSD from his tours overseas.

Ikaika Kang was deployed to Iraq in 2010, and served in Afghanistan in 2014, according to his military service record.

He also was a recipient of the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal. He worked as an air traffic control operator with the Army.

A criminal complaint filed in federal court alleges that Kang swore allegiance to ISIS, and attempted to provide military documents and training to the terrorist organization….

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  1. Monty says

    Jul 10, 2017 at 8:47 pm

    Our military (Australia) is trying to recruit Muslims. Yep, the lunatics have taken over the asylum.

    • t. says

      Jul 10, 2017 at 10:34 pm

      Can you pass this news item to your military?

      • Andy says

        Jul 11, 2017 at 10:59 pm

    • mike ryan says

      Jul 11, 2017 at 1:38 am

      He apparently “became interested” in Islam during deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan. He was not born a Muslim.

      • william says

        Jul 11, 2017 at 4:51 am

        HE,, can still be lined up against the wall & shot for treason!! I’ll load the rifles!!

      • gravenimage says

        Jul 11, 2017 at 7:52 pm

        How evil does someone have to be to see the horror of Islam in Jihad zones and become attracted to it?

        This is *far worse* than some idiot stateside who reads Rumi and thinks colorful Hijabs and “cute” and converts.

      • billdeserthills says

        Jul 12, 2017 at 2:23 pm

        The converts to islam seem to be some of the worst offenders, too

    • Telh says

      Jul 11, 2017 at 4:31 am

      Any person or organisation that employs need to revise their thinking.
      These people are a fifth column with no allegiance to anyone except themselves.

    • old white guy says

      Jul 11, 2017 at 8:30 am

      as I have said many times in the past, we will be fighting our own to keep our freedom. This is just one more example and congress is full of enemies who embrace islam.

      • Andy says

        Jul 11, 2017 at 12:37 pm

        • Andy says

          Jul 11, 2017 at 10:11 pm

          My Pleasure t. Glad to help another Patriot.

          Check this video out:

    • Andy says

      Jul 11, 2017 at 12:13 pm

      MOSLEMS SHOULD NOT HAVE ANY POSITIONS OF POWER IN ANY GOVERNMENT WESTERN CIVILIZED COUNTRY. THERE RELIGION WILL ALWAYS COME FIRST INSTEAD OF THE COUNTRY. MOSLEMS WILL NEVER NEVER NEVER INTEGRATE INTO WESTERN SOCIETY.

      ALL TRAITORS OF THE COUNTRY, MILITARY OR CIVILIAN IF FOUND WITHOUT A SHADOW OF A DOUBT TO BE GUILTY SHOULD FACE THE FIRING SQUAD OR BE INCARCERATED.

      GOD BLESS ALL OUR ARMED FORCES, GOD BLESS MEN OF INTEGRITY AND TRUTH WHO WILL NOT BE BRIBED BY CROOKED POLITICIANS WILL NOT TAKE SPECIAL INTEREST MONEY OR DONORS, WILL HAVE A MORAL FIBER AND DO WHAT IS RIGHT FOR THE COUNTRY, THAN WHAT IS WRONG FOR THEMSELF

      .

      • Andy says

        Jul 11, 2017 at 12:27 pm

        The Muslim Invasion of America must be STOPPED. Arrest the traitor

        • Andy says

          Jul 11, 2017 at 12:29 pm

        • t. says

          Jul 11, 2017 at 7:54 pm

          Thanks a lot for the above and below links, Andy.

        • Jacqueleen says

          Jul 17, 2017 at 2:15 pm

          I totally agree and so do many Americans, most afraid to say so. However, if we don’t speak out and elect true patriots, we will find ourselves engulfed in Sharia Law and it will be too late. OUR PAST ELECTIONS HAVE BEEN RIGGED AND WE NEED TO CHANGE THAT IMMEDIATELY…..NO MORE SOROS OWNED VOTING MACHINES….

        • Jacqueleen says

          Jul 17, 2017 at 2:18 pm

          Relative to Obama, I CAN’T STAND TO LOOK AT HIM…..THE DEVIL HIMSELF!!!

        • Jacqueleen says

          Jul 17, 2017 at 2:21 pm

          EVICT THEM ALL….SEND EVERY MUSLIM TO THE MIDDLE EAST AND BAN THEM FROM RE-ENTRY INTO A CIVILIZED NATION. ISOLATION IS THE ONLY WAY TO DEAL WITH OUR ENEMY WHO IS AT WAR WITH THE WORLD …..ISOLATION IS KEY.

  2. Stan Lee says

    Jul 10, 2017 at 8:52 pm

    I cannot envision a U.S. Army soldier, working at his MOS classification as an “Air Traffic Controller” as subject to the perils of a Combat Infantryman. Perhaps he has also served as an infantryman and the news report is not complete. He isv identified vas a Muslim, and if so the question is whether his duty to the Oath of Allegiance sworn at his enlistment, exceeded by his duty to Islam?
    “Good kid” or not, then why Army AND FBI surveillance for a year, continuously?

  3. Mak says

    Jul 10, 2017 at 9:33 pm

    What is it with Hawaii? This is the second major moslem terrorist they are associated with? The first being, of course, Baraq Hussein Obama.

  4. Guy Macher says

    Jul 10, 2017 at 9:35 pm

    Firing squad!

  5. Richie says

    Jul 10, 2017 at 9:41 pm

    Despite his past service, methinks if the charges are proven true the end result will be a court-martial and a dishonorable discharge

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 10, 2017 at 11:32 pm

      Muslims are using our military to get us to train them in techniques to kill us.

      • underbed cat says

        Jul 11, 2017 at 9:35 am

        At the time of 9/11, the information about the “religion of peace”, even though the history was available to many scholars and former leaders, was still regarded as a “religion” without military/ subversive goals, that allowed the politicians who needed to get through elections at the mercy of the left media. The facts were revealed by many who were assigned to figure out the reasons a ally, from the heart of the “religion of peace” would never be seen as a potential problem…or could be following a doctrine unknown. Passing effortlessly as a religion….supported massively by organizations that are created to effectively continue that erroneous conclusion. So as the information became important to understand, more pressure was used to silenced and stop the efforts by the organization that were created to misinform the U.S, government at the highest level, due to another false premise of “diversity unknown is safe” instead of an enemy that effectively penetrated deceived itself into power. So now the terror potential walks the halls of government, hospitals, schools, military, neighborhoods, state governments, city councils…to continue. The young soldier who decided to follow his religion is popping up, as citizens hiding in our freedoms, laws and ignorance. So accidents, errors, mishaps and brings terror to the homeland. They are here, they are active and no one sees them…..hiding among the weeds or sitting in offices. They cannot fight long before they choose to do what terrorist do.

  6. gravenimage says

    Jul 10, 2017 at 9:46 pm

    Hawaii: Muslim US soldier swore allegiance to Islamic State, tried to pass documents to it
    …………………….

    How many of these cases of treason have we seen so far?

  7. PRCS says

    Jul 10, 2017 at 10:05 pm

    Here’s what his Dad actually said in that “I’m shocked” article:

    “Clifford Kang also said his son had converted to Islam, and that while he wasn’t outgoing, neither is he.

    “He told me he’s with the Muslim faith now. I’m a Catholic so I figured well, that’s alright,” Kang said.

    “There’s good teachings of the Muslim faith and the bad. And from time to time when he did live here, he would teach me the Koran. So I listened to him but other than teaching or learning that belief, there was no mention of him going astray.”

    Clifford Kang added that his son is a “great kid.”

    “When I heard this (the allegations against him), I’m just in shock,” he said.

    “He’s not real outgoing, he’s never been. But neither was I, I wasn’t too outgoing and kind of keep to myself. But other than that he’s a great kid, a normal kid who grew up in Waimanalo.”

    Note: dear old Dad is CLUELESS about Islam.

    • Pumbar says

      Jul 10, 2017 at 10:13 pm

      Hmm, I wouldn’t be too sure about being clueless. He must’ve suspected something.

      • PRCS says

        Jul 11, 2017 at 2:01 am

        Maybe so.

        • Pumbar says

          Jul 11, 2017 at 2:28 am

          Given that this lad was obviously fervent enough in his islam to pledge allegiance to IS his father must have had a clue when they were talking.

  8. Vinny Rivera says

    Jul 10, 2017 at 10:07 pm

    Why don’t they use a current picture?… That looks like high school… He enlisted in 2001…

  9. Wellington says

    Jul 10, 2017 at 10:33 pm

    If you’re a good Muslim you can’t be loyal to the American Constitution. If you are a Muslim and loyal to the American Constitution then you are a bad Muslim. The first is nefarious and the second is confused. America needs neither the nefarious nor the confused. Conclusion: All Muslims in America should be suspect, only the reason, one of two, being a variable.

    P.S. There is no third option here.

  10. Rev g says

    Jul 11, 2017 at 2:54 am

    This is no kid, 34 yrs old, 16 yrs of service, a platoon Sgt (e-7). He knew what he was doing.

  11. Michael Copeland says

    Jul 11, 2017 at 3:16 am

    “Authorities …believe Kang was a “lone actor””.
    One down: 1.6 billion to follow.

  12. Brien Doyle says

    Jul 11, 2017 at 3:25 am

    As a soldier this is an executable crime!

  13. Kiel says

    Jul 11, 2017 at 4:25 am

    By this and countless other incidents, it should be clear that Muslims in the Armed Forces is a no go option.

  14. Scorpio says

    Jul 11, 2017 at 5:54 am

    I am British not a-fait with the pledge of allegiance to join the US armed forces, but I suspect it amounts to the UK pledge of allegiance to our armed forces. Any breach of this pledge, to assist an enemy as in this case, is treason (nothing else) and if found guilty then the consequences should mean a very long prison sentence or death; and surely being stripped of his/her US/UK citizenship as automatic.

    In the UK we have scum like this cretin and many have joined ISIS yet at a later date are allowed back to Britain. Why, I ask, are they not striped of their UK citizenship and therefore can never return? Oh I know the UN are of the view that we cannot leave these people stateless but there is no reason why the UK or US should simply descent especially when treason is involved.

    If, Theresa May reads Jihad Watch, perhaps she can explain why Robert Spencer is denied entry to the UK by the above mentioned “cretins” having committed treason, are allowed to return?

    • Anne Smith says

      Jul 11, 2017 at 12:16 pm

      Scorpio, I too am British and simply cannot understand why we allow these dreadful people to come back from ISIS. They have chosen their path, if it makes them stateless that is their problem.

      Our Government is soft to the point of treachery. They are allowing back into the country those people who are dedicated to killing law abiding citizens.

      Anyone who chooses to join ISIS should be refused entry to any civilised country. Let then live and die with ISIS. Why should we pay to keep them in luxury halal jails in UK when they decide they have had enough.

      • Andy says

        Jul 11, 2017 at 3:32 pm

        Anne Smith, Thank you for your article.

        You are absolutely correct! Leave the traitors over there if they decide to leave to fight with ISIS. Stop pandering to these moslems. There is nothing good that comes from bring moslems into any western civilized country.

        They only things moslems bring with them is division, Chaos and destruction into a western civilized nation.

        GOD HELP US!

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 11, 2017 at 8:01 pm

      Muslims using our military is happening all over the West, and is horribly dangerous.

      • Andy says

        Jul 11, 2017 at 10:14 pm

        You can say that again gravenimage. It is like playing Russian Roulette!

  15. Ade says

    Jul 11, 2017 at 6:34 am

    PTSD my arse !

  16. Raspy says

    Jul 11, 2017 at 8:34 am

    Thank you for your service, Mr Kang.

    (sarcasm)

  17. JawsV says

    Jul 11, 2017 at 8:40 am

    The leftist media are omitting that he was a convert to Islam.

    • PRCS says

      Jul 11, 2017 at 10:31 am

      Some have noted it. Barely.

  18. Irene Brekelmans says

    Jul 11, 2017 at 10:00 am

    Why and how can you possible take muslems in your army, navy, police and governments?
    Are people that dum? Something really crazy/sinister is happening, who made the deal with the muslims?
    In the USA in Europe, Canada Australia, Russia. It can’t be that the whole left is asleep and ignorant,
    and let this happen to their children and grandchildren and leave it for them to fight it out. Something, but I don’t know what is going on and I think we don’t have any idea, or is this all tied in with the new world order? It is not going to happen that we are going back to midevil times, we are not going backward.
    The time has come that everybody has to stop fighting, otherwise we will always be slaves of somebody else and always told what to do , how to do it, when to do it, etc. for the leftists liberals, know it.
    For the Dutch, see the video “”Always Liberal Netherlands”
    What a mess people have created and Linda Sarsour has to go back to her original country. If we would say what she says we would have been picked up and put in jail for starting a civil war in our speech.
    She talks like she owns the USA, incredible and give 10.000.000 to a muslim murderer?
    What has this world come to! May be the leftists got a promised that they will not be beheaded or killed
    or something like that. There must be e big reason for this all. Nothing happens without a reason.
    Does anybody know or has a clou?

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 11, 2017 at 8:02 pm

      He converted to Islam *after* he had gained entrance into the military.

  19. Richard Courtemanche says

    Jul 11, 2017 at 1:30 pm

    With due respect to loyal Westernized Muslims, the disloyalty of many will increasingly become a threat.

  20. Guy Forester says

    Jul 11, 2017 at 3:20 pm

    About 10 years ago, I met an Army/National Guard soldier (SSgt) who is part of the intelligence unit of his outfit. He had just returned from overseas (can’t recall if it was Iraq or Afghan deploy). We met at a training seminar run by a guy that taught firearms, security, and anti-terror topics to LEO and private concerns in a very densely populated region of the left, I mean West coast.

    At break, I asked the SGT his opinion about the reports in the common media regarding numbers of possible terrorists and their active supporters in the US in general. I tossed out a few numbers and gave a range that I had encountered (500-10,000) in my reading. He said in a nonchalant way, that he was part of a unit that had to vet ALL the persons in NG and the army. Now, due to the way he worded it, and with the scope of the discussion, and the fact that he could not get into specifics due to security issues, it was an interesting answer. He was apparently involved in vetting both military and non-military terror related information as it turned out his civilian job was in law enforcement. But this is the basics of the reply:

    First, the course instructor was part of the discussion (it was me, the instructor, and the SGT, not the rest of the class). He said, “It’s nothing, don’t worry about it.”

    Next, the SGT says, “Well, you know the five figure number? That is closer to the number of people we are currently investigating in the military.” You should have seen the face of the course instructor. He was sitting there with his mouth open, looking shocked. I was so surprised by that response that I cannot recall his exact phrasing, but the SGT continued, and basically implied that at that time, we were looking at about 25,000 active terrorists and supporters here in the US that were being investigated.

    By active support, I mean money, living quarters, supplies, food, documents, etc. Kind of like the guy that bought the guns for the San Bernardino couple, as well the family that helped them with cover, direct support, and silence.

    Now, when you include the fact that many gang members also go into the military for training and cover purposes, it is clear that our military has a real problem on its hands. There are not enough of these guys to totally disrupt military operations, but they could sure cause a lot of problems during a war or civil disturbances. I wonder how many of these have been cleared and end up in posts where sensitive info can be obtained and passed on.

    Funny thing, the number of citizens of German, Italian, or Japanese ancestry that committed treasonable acts during WWII could be counted on one hand. We had a boat load of saboteurs from Germany dropped off on Long Island that included a few Americans, but they were active duty German Army. All of that group were executed.

    Clearly, something in the USA has changed.

  21. Carlos Danger says

    Jul 11, 2017 at 6:29 pm

    Enjoy Leavenworth, scumbag. Too bad they will not hang you.

  22. SPC Miller says

    Jul 12, 2017 at 5:19 am

    I would have never guess, in a million years, a senior non-com would do this.

  23. Jacqueleen says

    Jul 17, 2017 at 2:08 pm

    There is no such thing as a peaceful Muslim….How many innocent citizens all over the world must die at the hands of Jihad? The Radical Muslim is openly violent against the infidel but the moderate, so called peaceful Muslim is silently aggressive on a mission (DAWA) to MULTIPLY AND INFILTRATE ALL FACETS OF SOCIETY IN THE COUNTRY THEY HAVE MIGRATED TO. Please wake up to the fact that they will not assimilate into the culture of the country they have decided to take over. Then, please note the many demands that they make shifting our laws to Sharia right in front of our noses. ALL MUSLIMS MUST BE EVICTED AND SENT BACK TO THE MIDDLE EAST, SAUDI ARABIA FOR FINANCING THEM AND YEMEN FOR TRAINING THEM. THEN BANNED FROM ENTRY INTO A CIVILIZED COUNTRY. ISOLATION IS THE WAY OUR LORD HAS CORRECTED THE SINNER AND CIVILIZED COUNTRIES use isolation for the criminal who cannot live within civilization. EVICT THE MUSLIMS BEFORE THEY GROW INTO THE MAJORITY. Meanwhile, pray for the Chrisitan conversion of Muslims and Jews.

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