Where did Kaan Sercan Damlarkaya learn his understanding of Islam? Where did he go to mosque? Is that mosque being attended? Or are such considerations being waved away with the all-purpose bromide that he was “radicalized on the Internet”? If he was, why was the peaceful Islam he supposedly learned in Houston not able to withstand the appeal of the supposedly twisted, hijacked Internet version?
“FBI: Houston teen planned to join ISIS or commit attack in U.S.,” by Robert Downen, Houston Chronicle, December 11, 2017:
An 18-year-old Houston man who told a federal informant he wanted to die in “martyrdom” has been charged with supporting ISIS in a plot authorities said also included planning for a firearms attack in the United States.
Kaan Sercan Damlarkaya, a native-born U.S. citizen, is accused in a criminal complaint of unlawfully distributing instructions for making explosives and trying to provide material support to the terrorist organization, according to court documents unsealed Monday in federal court in Houston.
He is the third Houston-area resident arrested for supporting ISIS in recent years. Last week, Asher Abid Khan, 23, of Spring, pleaded guilty to supporting the group. Another man, Omar Faraj Saeed Al Hardan, 25, is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 18 after pleading guilty last year to an ISIS bomb plot in the Houston area.
Damlarkaya had already tried twice to reach ISIS in Syria, in 2014 and 2015, and had purchased parts to make a homemade AK-47, FBI Special Agent Keith Fogg of the Houston division said in a sworn statement used to obtain an arrest warrant.
Damlarkaya discussed making bombs online and slept with a machete under his pillow, Fogg said.
Damlarkaya had also discussed attacks with Samurai swords or machetes, authorities said, because “not all of us can get a gun or make explosives, but we can afford to buy a $15 knife.”
The Houston teen was arrested Friday, and is being held pending a detention hearing in federal court later this week.
Authorities say Damlarkaya spoke online to undercover FBI agents beginning in August, during which he said he planned to travel overseas to fight for ISIS or commit an attack in the United States. He also asked an FBI source to publish a farewell video for him, should he follow through with an attack in which he died, according to the criminal complaint.
Damlarkaya provided a formula to make a pressure-cooked explosive that contained shrapnel, authorities said, as well as how to build an AK-47 or AR-15 assault rifle so as to avoid detection from law enforcement.
“I want to support the khalifa with my blood,” he said, referring to the leader of the caliphate, according to the complaint.
Authorities say Damlarkaya said he first tried to travel to Syria a few months after the Islamic State announced the creation of a caliphate there in 2014. Damlarkaya then tried again in 2015, authorities said.
After recounting his failures to get to Syria, authorities said Damlarkaya told an FBI source that he hated “living in this world” and wanted to die during an attack so as to “inspire other bros.”…
In the email, authorities say Damlarkaya explained that he “escaped” from an “oppressive place” to Syria, “the best place on earth.”…
“There is no action better than jihad, and no person better than the mujahid,” he wrote, according to the criminal complaint. “If I die, then gardens and rivers await me, and the smiling face of Allah my Creator is what I will see.”
mortimer says
Where did Kaan Sercan Damlarkaya learn his understanding of Islam? From reading the PRIMARY SOURCE TEXTS of Islam, of course!
He mostly learned from the Koran, hadiths, Sira, canonical commentaries of the Islamic ‘CONSENSUS’ and then from Sharia law.
Finally, he learned about the PERSONAL OBLIGATION of JIHAD and its REWARDS from INSPIRING Islamic PREACHERS… such as Anwar Awlaki whose SUNNA- and KORAN-BASED sermons are on the internet.
Kaan Sercan Damlarkaya learned his understanding of Islam from the CANONICAL TEXTS and ORTHODOX TEACHERS of Islam.
“Jihad (struggle) for God’s cause, in spite of its extreme importance and its great significance for the future of this religion, has been NEGLECTED by the ‘ulama (leading Muslim scholars) of this age. They have feigned ignorance of it, but they know that it is the only way to the return and the establishment of the glory of Islam anew. Every Muslim preferred his own favorite ideas and philosophies above the Best Road, which God–Praised and Exalted He is–drew Himself (a road that leads back) to (a state of) Honor for His Servants. There is no doubt that the idols of this world can only be made to disappear through the power of the sword. It is therefore that the Apostle Muhammad said: “I have been sent with the Sword at this hour, so that God alone is worshipped”.
– from ‘The Neglected Duty’ (Al Faridah al Ghaibah) by Muhammad Faraj.
abad says
Deport him and his family.
They do not belong in this country at all.
Westman says
A good place would be the Vatican where, in a re-education program, Pope Francis can demonstrate that the age of miracles has not passed.
Lu says
You CANNOT deport him as he is a natural-born citizen of the USA.You cannot send him to Gitmo either. Designate him as an enemy combatant would be a good start. Even then – he as American citizen has all the rights and privileges our legal system guarantees (pleading the Fifth etc.). Not sure about the treason charge …
All in all – it is VERY difficult to give what he deserves – a serious criminal charge for subverting the country when he was born and whose citizen he is.
Joe says
I’m not sure it is that difficult. George Washington ordered Benedict Arnold to be shot on site.
Sons of Liberty says
Exactly, Joe ! We can deport his parents because don’t they sign something that says they will support the laws of OUR COUNTRY . Knowing your son is involved in jihad and preparing for it ,…that makes you an accessory before the fact if you don’t report it to law enforcement. We need ALL IMMIGRANTS to sign something that says if you or anyone in your family is EVER involved in any terror plot against the United States ,…YOU WILL BE DEPORTED,…..immediately.
larry says
Send him to my place, I will bleed him.
Champ says
“There is no action better than jihad, and no person better than the mujahid,” he wrote, according to the criminal complaint. “If I die, then gardens and rivers await me, and the smiling face of Allah my Creator is what I will see.”
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Surprise! …allah is SATAN and not the one true God:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_dqHi90rl4
Sons of Liberty says
AMEN ! The Lion of Judah will FIGHT for us and he will be the KING OF KINGS !
James Pierce says
I’m sure there are plenty of people in the nearest prison who would be more than happy to remove the blood from this pipsqueak
M says
Well wikipedia says that 80% of people who “find faith” in prison are finding Islam. Creepy, huh?
LeftisruiningCanada says
finding it the best way to avoid sodomy and violence?
Yes, that is creepy.
James Pierce says
“Syria, the best place on earth”
I’ll bet every cent I’ll ever own for the rest of my life that this is the first time this phrase has ever been used
gravenimage says
Ha ha
Z says
Texas may be a Republican state, but unfortunately the big cities such as Houston are liberal hotbeds.
gravenimage says
“I want to support the khalifa with my blood”: Houston Muslim teen planned jihad massacre in US
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Of course, what this pious Muslim really wanted to do was to support the Caliphate with *other people’s blood*.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Yes. It would be merely very sad if all he wanted was to use his own.
It all sounds a bit too much like sacrifices to the devil for my liking.
I wonder about leftists says
Do you really have terrorists training camps in Texas? This is so hard to believe, what does Trump say about that and your senator? God only helps them, who are doing the most to help themselves. There is no way, that you can sit with your arms folded and wait for God,it does not work that way.
I wish you all the best, if you don’t even speak up, I don’t get it anymore! From the people !!!
Militia Man says
Until Islamism (totalitarian Islam) is accurately declared a subversive terrorist death cult and treated as such the jihadists can hide behind our 1st amendment.
Savvy Kafir says
Yes. We need new laws for dealing with Islam & Muslims in the U.S.
Islam poses a unique threat to our society & our people. If we’re not smart enough to treat it differently, we’re screwed.
Undaunted says
Hey, come on over to where I live, pussy. I’ll be happy to oblige the blood-taking part of your stupid oath. Oh, and there are hundreds of thousands of others like me…
https://www.amazon.com/Six-Actual-Need-Charge-These-Dangerous-ebook/dp/B075Z4PLKC
Mahendra Singh says
These “Soviet” Muslims seem to be ferocious Mussalmans, yet they hoodwink
the countries where they seek immigration into with their European sounding names.
Remember “Tamerlane” Sarnaev and his equally evil baby-face brother ? Few
Europeans will suspect that Tamerlane really is Taimur-Lung (Timur the lame)
a Muslim invader cum buther who massacred hundreds of thousands of Hindus.
utis says
I want to know when Baby-Face Tsarnaev, the Rolling Stone cover-boy is going to get his. He was sentenced to death; kill him. Dragging on the plea process for decades destroys the effectiveness and deterrent power of the death penalty. He sucking up oxygen need by other humans and every time I do my taxes, I remember I’m paying for ….. like him to not have to work at all.
utis says
It’s time this country had a real debate about how to deal with terrorists, who are at war with civilians and native-born citizens who practice treason and sedition. I can’t believe the Founding Fathers intended to let criminals off the hook, especially for attempted mass murder of unarmed people. Our laws were meant to protect the innocent and the unjustly accused, not Mr. Barbecued Belly Ullah or the Panty Bomber who tried to bring down a plane over Detroit a few years ago. Am I right, or am I insane?
Aussie Infidel says
For this pious young creep to imagine that “Syria [is] the best place on Earth”, shows how deeply indoctrinated and brainwashed he is. And that is the heart of the problem – religious and political indoctrination with Islam and its doctrine of jihad and ‘martyrdom for Allah’ – to get to some mythical Paradise with all those virgins. Anyone wanting to support a criminal ideology ‘with his blood’ in this manner, can only be deeply indoctrinated or a psychopath.
Islam is not just a religion, but a subversive political ideology hiding behind a religious smokescreen. There is no ‘perverted or hijacked internet version of Islam’ – its all there in the Quran for every one to read. THE PROBLEM IS ISLAM ITSELF! Islam will only be defeated when our politicians have the common sense to declare it a threat to our national security, and remove it from the ‘protection’ of its religious facade. They should issue a formal declaration of war against this insidious ideology and treat it as THE ENEMY, because whether they like it or not, ISLAM IS AT WAR WITH US!
Norger says
“There is no action better than jihad, and no person better than the mujahid,” he wrote, according to the criminal complaint. “If I die, then gardens and rivers await me, and the smiling face of Allah my Creator is what I will see.”
Where did he get the idea that “there is no action better than jihad,” and that paradise is guaranteed to one who dies a shahid or martyr? This is mainstream Islamic theology, period. Interesting that this finds its way into a criminal complaint in a specific case, but law enforcement and our political leaders generally ignore the “big picture” implications of such an overtly violent and seditious “religious” ideology.