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NC Muslim admits he murdered elderly neighbor and plotted jihad for ISIS, insists “I’m not a bad person”

Jul 19, 2017 12:10 pm By Robert Spencer

Yes, you are.

“During a 10 a.m. court hearing in Burke County held under unusually tight security…”

Apparently authorities were afraid that Sullivan’s coreligionists would strike on his behalf.

“‘I am not a bad person,’ Isis conspirator says in admitting he murdered elderly neighbor,” by Michael Gordon, Charlotte Observer, July 17, 2017:

A 21-year-old Morganton man already sentenced to life in prison for plotting to unleash a terrorist attack in behalf of the Islamic State, pleaded guilty Monday morning to the murder of his elderly neighbor.

During a 10 a.m. court hearing in Burke County held under unusually tight security, Justin Sullivan admitted he shot and killed John Bailey Clark in December 2014 as the 74-year-old recluse slept in his bedroom. Federal court documents say Sullivan stole one of his father’s rifles, slipped into Clark’s home just down the street from his parents’ house, and fired three shots into Clark’s head. Clark’s body was found in a shallow grave beside his house.

Iohn Bailey Clark, 74, was shot three times as he slept in his Morganton bedroom in December 2014. Justin Sullivan, a convicted ISIS conspirator, is expected to plead guilty to the murder of his neighbor on Monday.

In return for the plea, according to Sullivan’s attorney, Victoria Jayne of Hickory, Burke County prosecutors will no longer seek the death penalty against Sullivan, who had been charged with first-degree murder in connection with Clark’s death. District Attorney David Learner had announced he would try the case as a capital crime.

Under the agreement, Superior Court Judge Robert Ervin of Morganton gave Sullivan another life sentence that would go into effect if he is ever released from federal prison on the ISIS-related charges….

Last month, Sullivan became the second convicted ISIS conspirator in the United States to be sentenced to life imprisonment. He pleaded guilty to plotting to unleash an attack in western North Carolina in support of what he described as the “Islamic State of North Carolina.” According to George Washington University’s Program on Extremism, 128 persons have been arrested on ISIS charges in the United States since March 2014.

Federal prosecutors say that in online discussions with an undercover FBI agent, Sullivan said he hoped to kill hundreds in an attack on a concert or club. The federal judge who sentenced Sullivan last month described the plot as “cold and calculating.”

According to Jayne, her client continues to say that Clark’s murder was not part of that wider conspiracy. However, federal court documents say a former jail inmate told officials that Sullivan described the killing to him as “practice.” Jayne says Sullivan still denies ever talking with the inmate.

The murder weapon, a Marlin .22-caliber rifle, was found hidden in the crawl space of the Sullivan home during an FBI search after Sullivan’s June 2015 arrest.

According to Jayne, Sullivan is making the plea because “Justin just wants to get this over with,” before he is assigned a federal prison to begin serving his ISIS sentence.

Monday, Sullivan did not apologize to the members of Clark’s family who were sitting behind the prosecutors. But he did say that he was not “a bad person,” adding that he “didn’t mean for any of this to happen.”….

In the meantime, Sullivan’s plea means his placement into a federal prison can proceed more quickly as will possible treatment for a condition doctors have described as “pre-schizophrenia,” Jayne said.

“He’s sort of anxious at this point of getting into the federal bureau of prisons. He’s very nervous about that,” she said. “He is socially awkward and he is socially immature.”…

Poor victim!

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  1. John C. Barile says

    Jul 19, 2017 at 12:21 pm

    What a psychopath this young creep is! And yet another unstable recruit for jihad in the cause of Allah and his religion. There sure does seem to be a pattern here, and a profile.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 19, 2017 at 9:43 pm

      So true, John.

      And good to see you posting again–I hope you are well.

    • Shane says

      Jul 20, 2017 at 10:10 am

      The doctors said he was pre-schizophrenic, but most schizophrenics do not kill their neighbors. Islam attracts the worst people in the world: rapists, pedophiles, Black racists, criminals, misogynists, and psychopaths. Converts to Islam are much more violent than converts to Christianity or any other of the major religions. Islam is by far the most violent and misogynistic religion in the world today.

      We should tell those fools who believe that Islam is a religion of peace to read these verses from the Koran.
      Koran 8:12 “I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them”

      Koran 9:5 And when the sacred months have passed, then kill the polytheists wherever you find them, and capture them and besiege them and sit in wait for them at every place of ambush.

      Quran 9:29
      Fight those who do not believe in Allah or in the Last Day and who do not consider unlawful what Allah and His Messenger have made unlawful and who do not adopt the religion of truth from those who were given the Scripture – [fight] until they give the jizyah willingly while they are humbled. http://quran.com/9/29-30

  2. mohamonator says

    Jul 19, 2017 at 12:23 pm

    New tag is needed: YAAL (Yet Another Aimless Loser). Another bit of human flotsam that has attached itself to the mohamedan tramp steamer in hopes that it will take him somewhere….anywhere.

    • MasQueNada says

      Jul 19, 2017 at 12:39 pm

      Some YAAL join Islam, some join the Alt-Right and murder random homeless black men. There’s a Bad Moon a-rising.

    • mach37 says

      Jul 20, 2017 at 5:11 am

      Where is ‘survival of the fittest’ when you need it? One of the biggest problems with Liberals is that they refuse to let Mother Nature have her way with the flotsam. In this case the court should not have allowed the plea bargain down to life in prison. The death penalty would be more in line with Nature’s Remedy.

  3. somehistory says

    Jul 19, 2017 at 12:38 pm

    Worse than bad. Evil is the word.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 19, 2017 at 9:47 pm

      True, Somehistory.

  4. Sam says

    Jul 19, 2017 at 1:26 pm

    “He’s sort of anxious at this point of getting into the federal bureau of prisons. He’s very nervous about that,” she said. “He is socially awkward and he is socially immature.”…

    Oh poor thing and his poor family!! We should have put him in an hospital so he could come out soon and kill more of us in the name of Allah. Instead we will pay for his upkeep all his life.

    These poor muslims really have it tough here in USA and I am sick of this cult called Islam and all muslims including the “moderate” ones that I never see do or say anything about their Jihadi friends.

    • Robert Brooks says

      Aug 4, 2017 at 10:30 pm

      So what? The prisons are full of others just like him who are also nervous about being there, socially awkward and socially immature! That’s why they are there!

  5. Richard says

    Jul 19, 2017 at 1:32 pm

    “NC Muslim admits he murdered elderly neighbor and plotted jihad for ISIS, insists “I’m not a bad person””

    Of course he is not. Neither are Bin Laden or the ISIS people. They are just religious people following a vile religion/ ideology.

    • Mike Blackford says

      Jul 19, 2017 at 9:47 pm

      “I’m not a bad person!” Kid…in this country you are judged by your actions, not your words. You deserve a speedy trial followed by a first class firing squad. May Allah be with you!

    • Robert Brooks says

      Aug 4, 2017 at 10:33 pm

      They are all pious, good, obdient mudslimes! Why won’t the rest of America and the world accept this?

  6. Nomomo says

    Jul 19, 2017 at 1:47 pm

    For the criminally-minded, they have discovered that in our politically correct world, being muslim means never having to say you’re sorry. Well, that’s coming to an end very soon.

  7. Richard says

    Jul 19, 2017 at 3:00 pm

    According to Islamic doctrine, the only real “persons” (ie: human beings) are Muslims, with all Kuffar being “the worst of creatures”.Therefore he’s quite correct from an Islamic point of view. He’s a devout Muslim who killed Kuffar and plotted Jihad against Kuffar, ergo he’s a good person. No logical inconsistency within the Islamic world view.

  8. John A. Marre says

    Jul 19, 2017 at 3:25 pm

    He meant “I am not a bad Muslim.”
    He is a bad person.

    • john spielman says

      Jul 19, 2017 at 5:50 pm

      well NOT if he is a muslim, as muslims judge people from the Satanic perspective of islam and the life of their ” perfect man:” -the demon possessed mass murderer thief liar and pedophile pervert muhammed

      so he is a good muslim if he kills unbelievers – he gains browny points to gain entrance into the great drunken whore house that is islam- just too bad he wasn’t killed, then islam says he would gain automatic entrance have perpetual virgins like Helen Thomas Washington reporter

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 19, 2017 at 9:59 pm

      Spot on, John.

  9. St. Manuel II Palaiologos says

    Jul 19, 2017 at 3:41 pm

    According to the Qur’an, he’s a good person. This is why we need a benchmark to judge what is ethical and what isn’t. The secular West and leftist-modernist ideologues fail in this regard, they have no moral standing, just virtue signaling pretending to be such.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 19, 2017 at 10:02 pm

      The idea that the West has no morals is incorrect–you are mistaken in your apparent belief that it is legal to murder an elderly couple here.

      • St. Manuel II Palaiologos says

        Jul 20, 2017 at 12:03 am

        You need to reread what I said. I said the secularists in the West have no morals. The West, if it returned to Christianity, would have the moral highground.

        • gravenimage says

          Jul 20, 2017 at 12:08 am

          Murdering innocent people is illegal for Christians, secularlists, and Muslims–it is not legal for *anyone* to do this.

        • john spielman says

          Jul 20, 2017 at 7:12 am

          you are absolutely correct, St manuel, if people refuse to worship God in Christ voluntarily, they have NO moral basis for ANYTHING they do and many turn to the antichrist ideologies like islam

        • gravenimage says

          Jul 22, 2017 at 12:21 am

          John, while I very much believe that the moral basis of the civilized West is Christian, your idea that Agnostics and Atheists are all immoral and are on the verge of adopting the horrors of Islam is simply incorrect.

          There are lots of Anti-Jihadists here who are Agnostic or Atheist. Are you claiming that Jihad Watch’s Hugh Fitzgerald is apt to “revert” any day now?

  10. Todd says

    Jul 19, 2017 at 4:30 pm

    Yea your just a misunderstood murderer. Great belief system. Evil.

  11. brane pilot says

    Jul 19, 2017 at 5:09 pm

    Of course he is not a bad person.
    He just takes his new religion seriously.

  12. quota raven says

    Jul 19, 2017 at 6:53 pm

    “He is socially awkward and he is socially immature.”…

    Are you kidding me? He is a murderer! “reclusive” old man is the victim. This pos snuck into the 74 yr- old man’s house and shot him dead as he slept. Three times.

    He was just “practicing” for his planned later jihad…that’s his defense. How will the courts view this point of view? That’s the only question I have, given the bizarre decisions that have been reached lately when it comes to Islamists. Here’s a perfect opportunity, but does anyone think they’ll throw the book at him? Make him an example of how NOT to behave in this country?

    Probly (sic) not.

    Cheers!

    quota raven

  13. gravenimage says

    Jul 19, 2017 at 9:40 pm

    NC Muslim admits he murdered elderly neighbor and plotted jihad for ISIS, insists “I’m not a bad person”
    ………………….

    By Muslim standards this is a “good deed” because he murdered Infidels.

    God, I hate Islam.

  14. Eric says

    Jul 19, 2017 at 10:37 pm

    I hope this islamist gets consecutive life sentences!

    Eric

  15. ElderlyZionist says

    Jul 20, 2017 at 6:48 am

    …he “didn’t mean for any of this to happen.”….

    You intentionally and of your own free will broke into a home and shot the owner three times in the head while he slept. Yes, you meant for this to happen. Too bad they won’t hang you.

  16. dumbledoresarmy says

    Jul 20, 2017 at 8:23 am

    I would like to know who dawa-ised him.

    WHO witnessed his shahada?

  17. dumbledoresarmy says

    Jul 20, 2017 at 8:44 am

    I had a look at the article from June 30 that gives some more background on this evil person.

    “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.

    Sullivan converted to Islam in September 2014. He is *now* (in the first half of 2017) described as being 21 years of age, so that indicates that at the time of his conversion, three years ago, he would have been 18; a legal *adult*. Old enough (in Australia) to drink, drive and *vote*, and to marry without having to gain parental consent; I assume the case is similar in the USA.

    He carried out the murder in December.

    Islam is the religion of blood and war.

    I would very much like to know *where* and when this young man first encountered Islam.

    I want to know whether he was befriended by Muslims, whether face to face or online – campus dawa? Schoolyard dawa? There is no mention of any early criminal record.

    “**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.** (Nota bene – dda).

    ” At one point, Richie Sullivan suspected his son was building a pipe bomb, the FBI document says….”.

    reading the earlier article, there’s this:

    “Law enforcement officers first learned of Sullivan from a 911 call made by his father, Richie Sullivan, in April 2015 **when his son began destroying Buddhas and other religious statues in the family’s home**.

    “When questioned shortly after Clark’s death, Richie Sullivan said he and his wife, Eleanor, were out of town on the night of the killing, failing to mention that his son was alone in the family home at the time.”

    Foolish. He should have gotten the wind up the moment his son even looked like converting to Islam. Did he or his wife make any attempt at all to dissuade their son from so doing? Or were they blinded by the ‘weallworshipthesamegod childrenofAbraham religionsofthebook” interfaith nonsense that is peddled so assiduously, all over the place? If so, one hopes that by now they have woken up.

    ACT for America needs to start thinking about a booklet aimed at non-Muslim parents, or more broadly at families, that have a child (whether under-age or of age) that they have reason to believe is being targeted by Muslim dawa artists, whether at school or on a university campus or in the workplace or, well, anywhere. (Not forgetting ‘marriage jihad’, be the child male or female; are they being lured into a relationship with a luscious Muslimah or oh-so-suave-and-charming Muslim male?). A booklet – and, these days, an instructive video – giving them pointers on how best to try to dissuade their family member from being sucked in; but also, if the worst happens, and the family member *does* ignore the warnings and convert and/ or (where ‘romance’ is involved) marry a Muslim/ Muslimah, what sorts of warning signs to watch out for, and to be prepared to go to the police and other relevant agencies *sooner* rather than later.

  18. dumbledoresarmy says

    Jul 20, 2017 at 8:45 am

    Here’s another question.

    WHAT MOSQUE did Justin Sullivan (and what is his shahada name? has any reporter tried to find this out?) attend?

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 22, 2017 at 12:25 am

      Thanks for the background, DDA. We have heard of a great number of cases just like this.

  19. Mark A says

    Jul 20, 2017 at 12:14 pm

    newsflash for young Sullivan:

    Actually stealing a rifle, using it to shoot a sleeping man in the head three times and then burying his body in a shallow grave does, in fact, make you a bad person.

    As for the last paragraph quoted:

    “He’s sort of anxious at this point of getting into the federal bureau of prisons. He’s very nervous about that,” she said. “He is socially awkward and he is socially immature.”…

    As the Bible says, “reap what you sow” and “sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.”

  20. TheBuffster says

    Jul 21, 2017 at 4:04 am

    “Monday, Sullivan did not apologize to the members of Clark’s family who were sitting behind the prosecutors. But he did say that he was not “a bad person,” adding that he “didn’t mean for any of this to happen.”…”

    He didn’t mean for any of this to happen?

    What the hell does that mean?

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 22, 2017 at 12:26 am

      I means he didn’t intend to get caught.

  21. Gwenie Mugliston says

    Jul 21, 2017 at 6:22 am

    So, 128 people have been arrested on ISIS charges since 2014. That is the total? I think there is something wrong with our system of crime/jihad prevention if only 124 people have been arrested, charged and found guilty and that number doesn’t even include convicted.

    Can’t we find them? After all, there are at least 9 enclaves of Jihadist camps that are in the news. Thousands of Muslims are preparing for or being set up to do jihad here in the USA. Are we just waiting for it to happen? What is the point of that?

    I am beginning to think we Americans are similar to the Europeans with an innate death wish. I find damned few Muslims of note in our history no matter how hard Muslims try to poke themselves into our history. Our history is a combination of white, black and brown people who worked very hard to get educated, to earn money through their diligence, intelligence and effort to support their families and communities. And if a person was bright and inventive, even more was donated to the total effort. Show me a Muslim/Islam state that has achieved anything like the US or what Europe achieved. Now Europe is being destroyed by some kind of death wish.

    Please explain this to me.

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