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Virginia: Muslim gets 20 years for joining ISIS, says they studied Islam for 8 hours every day

Oct 28, 2017 10:33 am By Robert Spencer

“I didn’t agree with their ideology. Our daily life was basically prayer, eating, and learning about the religion for about eight hours.”

Imagine spending all that time studying Islam and yet still misunderstanding its true, peaceful message. We can only hope that learned imams such as Pope Francis and H.R. McMaster will go to Virginia forthwith and explain to Mohamad Jamal Khweis the proper understanding of the Religion of Peace.

“Virginia man Mohamad Jamal Khweis sentenced to 20 years in prison for joining ISIS,” by Justin Carissimo, CBS News, October 27, 2017 (thanks to Lookmann):

A 28-year-old man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after he was convicted of providing material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the Justice Department said Friday.

Mohamad Jamal Khweis from Alexandria, Virginia, was convicted by a federal jury in June. The Justice Department said Khweis left the U.S. in 2015 and eventually crossed into Syria through Turkey late that year.

Khweis spent 2.5 months as a member of ISIS in northern Syria. In 2016, he surrendered to Kurdish forces in northern Iraq and was eventually turned over to U.S. authorities, the department said. …

The department said Khweis used encrypted devices and mobile applications to hide his activity. After joining the militant group, he agreed to be a suicide bomber, prosecutors said….

“I didn’t agree with their ideology,” Khweis said in an interview with Kurdistan24 in 2016. “Our daily life was basically prayer, eating, and learning about the religion for about eight hours.”

Kweis graduated from Alexandria’s Thomas Edison High School in 2007, where friends described him as “one of the guys.”

“He wasn’t someone who was an outcast or something like that — he was one of the guys,” Harrison Weinhold told CBS News in March 2016. “There wasn’t anything that would lead me to believe that this was, like, on the radar, that he was just going to go join ISIS.”

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  1. Keys says

    Oct 28, 2017 at 10:47 am

    I just don’t get it.

    In the US this guy gets 20 years for joining ISIS, yet in a JW post about 2 hours earlier the French give $600,000 in welfare benefits to Islamic State jihadis (and, if I remember correctly other European countries are welcoming them back, as well).

    What can this be other than insanity? Governments being bribed ? What hellishness is this?

    • Nigel GFF says

      Oct 28, 2017 at 1:46 pm

      “…sentenced to 20 years in prison after he was convicted of providing material support…”

      Just how much ‘material support’ are we talking about? > $6000,000, I doubt it.
      Any support deserves time, so how about 600K support?

      • Keys says

        Oct 28, 2017 at 4:11 pm

        Agreed. “Any support deserves time”.

        A $20 donation to ISIS deserves time and surveillance of family, friends, and mosque. Think how much money this is costing Western democracies that allow muslims in, as mentioned in other JW posts today.

    • Rob says

      Oct 29, 2017 at 3:10 am

      “What hellishness” indeed, that’s where we are heading

    • A persecuted Christian says

      Oct 29, 2017 at 7:47 am

      Two reasons why the European leaders and the European system commit this insanity: (1)The European leaders have sold their countries. They do not care about anything except the votes that would keep them in their positions for a few more years. They believe that their vote count will be predominant when leftists and Muslims in their countries vote for them combined.The Muslims’ fertility rate is the highest.
      (2)Some Europeans have turned away from the Judeo-Christian values and happily support islam thus fulfilling their goal of persecuting Christians in an indirect way

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 29, 2017 at 10:59 pm

      Things are–overall–a lot more far gone in France than in the United States, that’s why.

  2. fbijihadidefender says

    Oct 28, 2017 at 11:00 am

    The more time you spend on Quran, the more likely you will become a Jihadist, a mental illness symptom.

  3. eduardo odraude says

    Oct 28, 2017 at 11:03 am

    And people claim ISIS has nothing to do with Islam!

    Muhammad affirms that those who do not follow him will be slaughtered

    On page 222 (326 in the Arabic) of the earliest Muslim biography of Muhammad:

    Abu jahl said to them: “Muhammad alleges that if you follow him you will be kings of the Arabs and the Persians. Then after death you will be raised to gardens like those of the Jordan. But if you do not follow him you will be slaughtered, and when you are raised from the dead you will be burned in the fire of hell.” The apostle [Muhammad] came out to them with a handful of dust saying: “I do say that.”

    • DhimmiNot says

      Oct 28, 2017 at 5:18 pm

      My compliments to you for finding that quotation.
      I also have a printed copy of Guillaume’s translation “The Life of Muhammad”,
      but there is only an abbreviated Index in the book.
      Is there a more comprehensive index available?

  4. St. Manuel II Palaiologos says

    Oct 28, 2017 at 11:31 am

    Good for him. He wasted weeks of his life studying an evil, heinous and heretical religion of the Devil.

  5. mortimer says

    Oct 28, 2017 at 11:54 am

    Western men of influence Pope Francis and Gen. McMaster have NEVER SPENT EIGHT HOURS A DAY STUDYING ISLAM, nor have they read the entire Bukhari (nor do they know what ‘Bukhari’ is) nor have they done a textual study of the Koran, nor have they read the Sira (official biography of Mohammed…nor do they know what ‘Sira’ means) and yet, preposterously, they present themselves on the world stage as SPONTANEOUS EXPERTS.

    Self-declared INSTANT EXPERTS ON ISLAM, who appeal to the prestige and power of their positions to gain a hearing (rather than to ADVANCED PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE OF A COMPLEX SUBJECT) are CLUELESS and CULPABLY NEGLIGENT.

    If you have not done the READING LIST, you automatically get a FAIL GRADE.

    • Keys says

      Oct 28, 2017 at 2:19 pm

      A Fail grade for Western men of influence – indeed there are lots of “Fers” making decisions for the West. Time to get them, and their allie# out.

  6. Walter Sieruk says

    Oct 28, 2017 at 11:58 am

    The many apologists for Islam who in reality are the propagandists for Islam make the statement that is an outright false claim that the Muslims who engage in murderous violence for the advancement of Islam aren’t real Muslim Muslim but “criminals who hijacked the peaceful religion for politic.” First, the “holy book ” of Islam ,the Quran, does strongly instruct in the use of deadly violence for the advancement of Islam . As found in ,for example Surah 2:191, 5:33. 9;111,123. 47;4. Second, that devout Muslim man who joined ISIS came right out and admitted had “Studied Islam for eight hours every day.” That Muslim man is more honest than the many American apologists are about actual essence of Islam.

  7. mortimer says

    Oct 28, 2017 at 12:04 pm

    Mohamad Jamal Khweis from Alexandria, Virginia admitted that ISLAM IS AN IDEOLOGY… that is… a POLITICAL ideology.

    Let that sink in for a moment.

    Mohamad Jamal Khweis learned Islam eight hours a day from one of the top experts on Islam, Caliph al Baghdadi (BA, MA and PhD in Islamic studies). How can there be any ‘misunderstanding’ about Islam when you learn from one of the best Islamic scholars?

    He said, ‘I don’t agree with their ideology.’ Who is he to disagree?

    What makes Mohamad Jamal Khweis from Alexandria, Virginia think that HE UNDERSTANDS ISLAM BETTER than Caliph al-Baghdadi?

    Why is his unaccredited, SPONTANEOUS idea of Islam superior to the STUDIED, LEARNED, ACADEMIC knowledge of Islam of al-Baghdadi. It isn’t.

    Mohamad Jamal Khweis from Alexandria, Virginia is not a graduate Islamic scholar, and yet, preposterously he know MORE ABOUT ISLAM than one of the world’s top Islamic scholars.

    This fallacious idea that ordinary, unlearned Muslims can understand and speak for Islam based on their personal preferences is poppycock base on the silliest modern idea called post-modernism.

  8. LeftisruiningCanada says

    Oct 28, 2017 at 12:07 pm

    Shame he couldn’t go to the UK or maybe Canada, i hear they welcome you back with open arms and also open wallets.

  9. Pete says

    Oct 28, 2017 at 12:11 pm

    8 hours a day studying a death cult doctrine of conquest….not a religion

    • Jayell says

      Oct 30, 2017 at 4:45 pm

      I’ve got a copy of the Qu’ran in English translation. It’s no thicker than your average paperback and if I had the patience and the time to waste I could probably get through most of it within 8 hours. And, considering it has a vocabulary of only about 2,000 words in the original Arabic and repeats itself a lot, I’m not sure that understanding it would pose a huge intellectual task if you can see your way through all the meanderings and contradictions and general idiocies. So how exactly does one usefully spend 8 hours every day on this garbage over any length of time? Might it be a comment on the powers of retention or/and the IQ levels of those involved in this demanding intellectual exercise (sic)? I think the average person would get more benefit from a lifetime studying the ‘Daily Mail’.

  10. PRCS says

    Oct 28, 2017 at 12:23 pm

    “I didn’t agree with their ideology,” Khweis said in an interview with Kurdistan24 in 2016. “Our daily life was basically prayer, eating, and learning about the religion for about eight hours.”

    No, he wasn’t learning about “their radical ideology” or being “radicalized towards violent jihad”.

    He was being taught about HIS religion from those in a part of the world who actually practice it “religiously”.

    And handled, in accordance with U.S. law, as a criminal offense.

    Did the crime. Busted. Charged. Tried. Convicted. Sentenced.

  11. Lynn says

    Oct 28, 2017 at 12:29 pm

    If he studied Islam for 8 hours each day, when did he have time to learn how to fire a rifle, behead a captive, rape women, crucify Christians and burn prisoners to death while they were trapped in a cage? Perhaps those activities were included in his Islamic studies.

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Oct 28, 2017 at 1:22 pm

      Didn’t you get a playground break when you were at school? You know, go outside, run around, shoot kaffirs, that kind of thing?

    • Greyhound Fancier says

      Oct 28, 2017 at 2:18 pm

      It probably doesn’t take much training to learn how to wear and detonate a suicide vest.

  12. Lookamann says

    Oct 28, 2017 at 12:43 pm

    ……learned imams such as Pope Francis and H.R. McMaster will go to Virginia forthwith…

    Why Bishop Mcmanus of Worcester is not given that Honor ( of Imam ) , I wonder.

  13. Benedict says

    Oct 28, 2017 at 1:20 pm

    “… peaceful message.” –

    Peace will only come to the whole World when Islam has submitted it. To that end all means are permitted: Violence, terror, lies, deception, rape, looting – all in accordance with the Koran and the famous saying by the prophet Mohammed: I am the way and the lie and the death. Everyone comes to the Devil by me.

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Oct 28, 2017 at 1:24 pm

      Yes, that’s the only way in which islam is a religion of peace. It’s similar to how Communism is also a religion of peace.

  14. Walter Sieruk says

    Oct 28, 2017 at 2:42 pm

    Let’s face it , the ideology of the violent and murderous jihad is based on Theology . That is Koranic theology . As seen in Surah 2:191. 5:33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4.

  15. Voytek Gagalka says

    Oct 28, 2017 at 3:38 pm

    Our “learned imams such as Pope Francis and H.R. McMaster” know full well that what they tell publicly is a lie. Why they say it, then? Because it works! When we see 1 million (or more) march on Washington in condemnation of their lies and demanding their immediate dismissal, we would know that it stopped working. Until then, however…

  16. Blurb1000 says

    Oct 28, 2017 at 6:37 pm

    Go to Virginia?
    Ban them!

  17. utis says

    Oct 28, 2017 at 10:59 pm

    8 hours for prayer, eating, and studying the writings of Chairman Mohammed. What did he do with the rest of the time? Meditation? Not their bag. Practicing beheading, shooting, and inventing disgusting ways kill people? More likely.
    How quickly did he absorb the indoctrination? Are the authorities going to keep islamic indoctrination texts away from him in jail (boo hoo! discrimination!), or are they going to give him 20 years of reading re-reading, and coming out of jail heading ISIS, the Next Generation?

  18. abad says

    Oct 28, 2017 at 11:15 pm

    Yep, 8 hours a day wasted studying the Quran and Hadith, time that should be spent on learning a skill or trade to further benefit society.

    Oh wait, Islam forbids that, doesn’t it. My bad.

  19. FYI says

    Oct 29, 2017 at 10:12 am

    “They studied islam for 8 hours a day”

    Well,that was a pointless exercise because…

    …A more intelligent thing to do,although most likely lost on muslims,would be..

    …to study GOD’S ORIGINAL COMMANDMENTS for 8 minutes at least a day.

    Then to try to actually OBEY THEM…

    ..with the emphasis on the following..

    Thou shalt not kill
    thou shalt not commit adultery
    thou shalt not steal
    thou shalt not bear false witness
    thou shalt not covet…

    So no murdering people,no polygamy,no enslaving women,no taqqiya lying..no matter what the koran or Islamic teachings say,if it does not conform to God’s Original Commandments given to Moses for ALL mankind to obey..then it is WRONG!
    This is God’s Law and it is ABOVE the koran!

    But HOW HARD IS IT FOR MUSLIMS TO FOLLOW GOD’S COMMANDMENTS?

    That’s because allah in his koran twists them to make it acceptable for muslims to break them and muhammed in his life didn’t bother to obey them..

  20. gravenimage says

    Oct 29, 2017 at 10:54 pm

    Virginia: Muslim gets 20 years for joining ISIS, says they studied Islam for 8 hours every day
    ……………….

    If he didn’t agree with ISIS why would he travel halfway around the world to join them? He could have spend eight hours a day studying Islam here, if he had wanted to.

    Glad American authorities say through this, and sent his *ss to prison.

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