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Ohio: Muslim pleads guilty to attempt to join the Islamic State, “conduct violent jihad”

Jul 7, 2017 3:45 pm By Robert Spencer

Aron Travis Daniels, who is apparently yet another convert to Islam who has misunderstood his new, peaceful religion, must be a racist, bigoted “Islamophobe.” After all, as everyone knows and as Linda Sarsour would tell him, “jihad” is just about standing up peacefully to tyrants. How did Daniels come to misunderstand jihad so severely, and in exactly the same way that so very many other Muslims have misunderstood it?

“Ohio man pleads guilty to sending $250 in attempt to join Islamic State,” United Press International, July 7, 2017:

July 7 (UPI) — Ohio man Aron Travis Daniels pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support to Islamic State as a result of an undercover FBI sting….

According to the Department of Justice, Daniels, 20, attempted to make contact with people to join Islamic State beginning in September 2015. He sent e-mails to people not named in the FBI’s criminal complaint “seeking assistance in traveling to Syria to conduct violent jihad and expressed a desire to stop the Russian-Iranian ‘onslaught of our people.’”

In some of these emails, Daniels said he would need financial assistance to travel to Syria “to do jihad.”

After three months of occasional emails to people he believed were jihadists, Daniels sent $250 via Western Union to a person in Libya he believed was an intermediary to an Islamic State recruiter.

After sending the money, an undercover FBI informant posing as an Islamic State recruiter came into contact with Daniels. When the informant asked Daniels what he had done to prove his allegiance to Islamic State, Daniels said he sent $250.

In conversations between Daniels and the informant, Daniels asked for advice on how to join Islamic State and how he could get to certain Islamic State-controlled areas….

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  1. John A. Marre says

    Jul 7, 2017 at 5:11 pm

    The ugliness on the face reveals the ugliness, the hatred, the self-loathing and the bitterness inside.

  2. gravenimage says

    Jul 7, 2017 at 5:48 pm

    Ohio: Muslim pleads guilty to attempt to join the Islamic State, “conduct violent jihad”
    …………………..

    Remember just a few years ago when Ohio was the American Heartland?

    • mummymovie says

      Jul 7, 2017 at 6:42 pm

      You need to check out Ann Corcoran’s site.
      It is all very nefarious and mysterious stuff as to why and how these people who hate us keep getting sent -sometimes against their will- over here.
      Sure the population=replacement advocated on left will celebrate that this fellow was born in the U.S., but jihadists are being imported, nurtured and coddled throughout the good ol’ US of A.
      Kind of adds a new twist to the county fairs, and such… Except they don’t go, because ‘fun’ is forbidden in Islam.

      • gravenimage says

        Jul 8, 2017 at 10:33 pm

        mummymovie, your idea that Muslims are being brought to the United States and the rest of the West against their will is mistaken.

  3. mummymovie says

    Jul 7, 2017 at 6:37 pm

    Whether yet another victim of the global outbreak of mental ilness, or not, these people should all be sent to Hawaii.
    Can we introduce legislation of some sort, a bill maybe, to send these people and the throngs of Muslim refugees they’ve been lax on accepting to the Big Island?

  4. Janet says

    Jul 7, 2017 at 8:40 pm

    Thank God this guy was caught!

    Not all Muslims are jihadists, but enough of them fall into that category, so this shows there desperately needs to be reform. Until there is, we can’t take chances with our security. We have to be more strict about letting people in and checking their background info.

    During the Spanish Inquisition, many Christians believed it was their duty to kill non-Christians, but we reformed from that and now Christianity–while not perfect–at least doesn’t have the sky-high level of people who support murder.

    It’s just my opinion, but I do think Islam can reform. We did. Other cultures have moved away from violent teachings. I hope moderate Muslims will be able to bring about reform, though I know jihadists are going to make it as difficult as possible.
    In the meantime, all non-jihadists….Muslims and non-Muslims alike…will have to increase our security and defend ourselves when necessary.

    • Savvy Kafir says

      Jul 8, 2017 at 5:56 pm

      Hatred for non-Muslims is the central theme of the Qur’an. Islam is unique. It cannot be reformed.

  5. The Countess says

    Jul 7, 2017 at 9:17 pm

    Apparently my previous comment got lost in the air.

    The picture cut-line says Franklin county. For anyone interested in the “where” in Ohio, the principle city there is Columbus.

  6. mortimer says

    Jul 8, 2017 at 10:00 am

    Jihad has four main division 1) the sword 2) the tongue 3) the pen 4) money. Most jihad is non-violent, but ALL JIHAD IS DECEITFUL.

    Aron Travis Daniels was caught in deceit as he BETRAYED his country.

  7. R. Louis Engelbrecht says

    Jul 8, 2017 at 2:59 pm

    An animal parable

    A cat tells the mouse i am just playing with you. But the mouse isn’t so easy to be fooled, but with time the cat lures the mose to complacency and really believes that the cat is only playing with it. The cat tells the mouse, you think I will kill and devour you but that is not how we cats are. We just want to play with you mice, we have no intention to kill and devour you. But as soon as that mouse falls for this lie the cat tells it, the cat jumps forward kills and devours it.

    This parable shows how I see the Islam in Europe – to me it is a cat and mouse play. When the Eurpeans and believe the misinterpretation that Islam – taqia – is a religion of peace snd they are fooled by it than the true nature of the Islam show itselfi – and goes for the final attack – and than it will be too late for anyone to interfere and change it.

    This is wrong or right as I see and perceive it

  8. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Jul 8, 2017 at 6:33 pm

    HE CONSPIRED TO COMMIT MASS-MURDER of people he had never met, and who had never done anything to him personally (of fellow muslims, even)!

  9. John Forbes says

    Jul 8, 2017 at 10:05 pm

    Probably the best talk about the Government peddled lies told about ISLAM are described by Douglas Murray ( on YOU TUBE) – type in – what have we learned ~!

  10. FYI says

    Jul 9, 2017 at 6:59 am

    Does he know that his great prophet sold black people as…SLAVES?

    Sahih Muslim 3901

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