Nicholas Young is yet another in a long line of converts to Islam who somehow get the idea that their new religion commands them to commit or aid in the committing of treason and mass murder. Yet authorities have never shown even the smallest degree of interest in this recurring phenomenon.
By the way, is opposing Nicholas Young and everything he stands for “racism”?
“Former D.C. area police officer found guilty of trying to back Islamic State,” by Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, December 18, 2017:
A former police officer for the D.C. Metro system was found guilty Monday of trying to help the Islamic State, making him the first law enforcement officer nationwide to be convicted in a terrorism case.
Nicholas Young, a 38-year-old Muslim convert from Alexandria, Va., faces up to 60 years in prison. After only a few hours of deliberation, a jury in federal court in Alexandria found he obstructed justice and offered financial support to a friend he thought had joined the terrorist organization.
In fact, the man was an undercover informant who befriended Young as part of an FBI sting operation….
Young was under scrutiny by the FBI for six of the 13 years he patrolled the public transportation system of the nation’s capital. He used his vacation time to join the civil war in Libya in 2011, leaving the FBI wondering whether he fought with a terrorist group, and watched Islamic State videos while on break. He was commended by one U.S. attorney’s office for his work as a police officer, only to be put under grand jury investigation by another.
He is probably the first person convicted of backing the Islamic State to consider himself a conservative, venerate former congressman Ron Paul, and express interest in joining the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
But the paradox at the heart of the trial was Young’s interest in both Islamic radicalism and Nazism. Young dressed up as an SS officer in World War II reenactments and had a tattoo on his arm celebrating his unit. He also collected literature advocating violent jihad and watched Islamic State videos.
Prosecutors posited that virulent anti-Semitism connected the two seemingly incompatible forms of extremism. A former roommate testified that Young, during a school project that took them to a meeting of white supremacists, told him, “‘Don’t discount the Muslims’ ability to fight against the Jews.’ ” On Young’s computer was evidence that he had researched historical links between Nazis and Muslims. A law enforcement officer who met him while working undercover said Young and his friends often insulted Jewish people.
Young did not testify, but his attorneys argued Nazism was emphasized to obscure the coercive nature of the investigation….
Born and raised in Northern Virginia, Young attended George Mason University, where he participated in ROTC and the Muslim Student Association. He left college without a degree and worked in security before becoming a Metro Transit police officer in 2003.
Although he was critical of American power in the Middle East, Young insisted he never celebrated civilian deaths or encouraged an informant he knew as Mohammed, or “Mo,” to join the Islamic State.
“Follow your conscience,” he told him, according to defense attorneys. “You can change your mind.”
But in online conversations with the informant shown in court, Young did seem to at least excuse terrorist attacks as justifiable responses to what he said were Western provocations.
“All they have to do is be ‘nice,’ like not killing us,” he wrote after a terrorist attack in Paris. “You can’t complain about that knuckle sandwich you were asking for,” he wrote after another.
And when Mo said he was determined to go to Syria, Young gave him advice and then lied to the FBI. He asked about people he had met in Libya and suggested the Islamic State was Syria’s best option.
“The West and its puppet coalition are almost competing with Russia to see who can pummel that country the most,” he wrote. “Everyone needs to join under one banner to repel them.”
Finally, when Mo last summer said Islamic State fighters needed Google Play gift cards so they could correspond with recruits on encrypted messaging applications, Young sent $245 worth….
Linde Barrera says
What a creepy disgusting excuse for a police officer.
gravenimage says
Not just creepy, Linde, but incredibly dangerous.
J D S says
A traitor should be executed….and maybe….just maybe that might be a deterrent.
Jaladhi says
Can you ever trust a Muslim?? No, never!!
gravenimage says
Muslim former D.C. area police officer found guilty of trying to back the IslamState
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How many more Muslims are there in police and security forces? And it looks as though Nicholas Young–I wonder what his Muslim name is–converted to Islam before he joined the metro police. *Did they know* that he was Muslim?
More:
Young was under scrutiny by the FBI for six of the 13 years he patrolled the public transportation system of the nation’s capital. He used his vacation time to join the civil war in Libya in 2011, leaving the FBI wondering whether he fought with a terrorist group, and watched Islamic State videos while on break…
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So the FBI allowed him to continue to prowl Washington’s public transportation system even after they knew *he was was fighting for the Islamic State*? I realize they were gathering intelligence, but how much risk were they putting the public under?
J D S says
Muslims in law enforcement…military and government. Three of many ways they plan to take over…It’s in the book!
James says
I was beginning to think no-one else had noticed that Islamic jihad logically leads to treason. If the non-Muslim state must be overthrown by violence to become Muslim, how is that not treason ? Treason, incitement to murder, and what looks like sedition cannot be ignored unless the state is willing to allow its authority to become ridiculous, which would be a very bad thing.
Jack Dawkins says
Only 38-years-old, but his Jew-hatred is 1400-years-old.
Frank Anderson says
Jack, I think if you take a look at Jews, God and History and Constantine’s Sword you will see that Jew-hatred goes back well before islam. Jews have always been the “evil other” since Roman times, continuing through until very recently by the Roman Catholic teaching. Look for the phrase, “Allow them to exist, but never to prosper.” Without the “evil” Jews, two thousand years of tyranny would have had to make up or find another “evil other” to contrast their “greatness”. Nobody ever said life is fair. But the truth can really hurt if it is heard.
RichardL says
I DuckDuckGoed the phrase and nothing came up.
If your argument is that Catholicism is anti-Semitic: I think that is totally wrong. Saint John Paul II called the Jews our elder brothers and sisters and reserved the first row of pews for them in St Peter. I believe Catholics are born Jewish until they are baptised. Then they become Catholic Jews.
But now Jews have their own country (it should be much bigger), many of them lose the strength that comes from having to stick together and fight for everything. The State of Israel politicised being Jewish and that is a horrible thing.
The last light is still burning. Happy Hanukkah!
Frank Anderson says
There have been major changes in Roman Catholic teaching since WWII. If you read Constantine’s Sword, which is a history of Christian, particularly Roman Catholic, teaching and practice regarding Jews, written by a Roman Catholic, you will see the phrase uttered in the early days of the Roman Catholic church. As much as I like and use Duckduckgo, there are some things that get missed when assembling a search “engine”. I am not in the habit of “bearing false witness. . .” Thank you for your question.
The Romans and their collaborators killed Jesus. If you compare the teachings of modern Reform Judaism, which I know some things about, with Christian teaching, which I also have some measure of knowledge, I think you will find there are 2 issues that distinguish them: 1) The divinity of a human; 2) The recognition of “sin” as error to be avoided where possible and corrected whenever possible, rather than a cause for never-ending self-punishment for guilt. I think the author of Constantine’s Sword does a worthy job of explaining how and why Roman Catholic views of Jews changed after the Holocaust. It’s a fairly long book; but I think it is well written following ample research and documentation of the author’s analysis. Please take a look at it.
gravenimage says
Richard, you really think that that the civilized and vibrant state of Israel’s existence is a “horrible thing”? Good grief–Israel is a democracy and our only ally in the Middle East.
You are also mistaken in your belief that Jews do not have to fight to defend Israel. They do–constantly. I think that this makes them–and those who support them–stronger, not weaker, for successfully defending Israel’s right to exist.
James says
Pagan anti-Jewish sentiment goes back at least to the 1st century AD. Christianity gave it a new bitterness, but did not invent it. Islam would have been doing a great service if the Koran had rebuked and denounced it, but that, sad to say, is not what happened. The prevalence of anti-Jewish feeling in Islam is at least in part a result of Christian acceptance of the “blood libel” – which was first told, not about the Jews, but about the worshippers of Bacchus in Rome in 186 BC. A similar accusation was made against Christians, and at some stage the same libel came to be attached to the Jews.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senatus_consultum_de_Bacchanalibus
gravenimage says
There has, sadly, been a great deal of antisemitism in many Christian lands historically (although this is not part of Christian scripture).
But claiming that Islam is antisemitic as some sort of tribute to Christianity is quite mistaken. Islam hates and despises Christianity almost as much as it does Judaism.
Are you unfamiliar with the Muslim saying, “First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people”?
Michael Copeland says
Prosecutors spoke of Nazism and Islam as “seemingly incompatible forms of extremism”.
Prosecutors need to inform themselves of Hitler’s high regard for Islam, of the Bosnian muslim Handschar division of the SS, and of how Jerusalem’s Grand Mufti, Haj Amin al-Husseini, was received and accommodated in Berlin, and had a hand in designing the “Final Solution”.
The two ideologies are extremely compatible:
“Islam’s worldview is very similar to ours”, said Himmler.
gravenimage says
Yes, Michael–these are *completely* compatible.
mortimer says
A devastating quote from Himmler.
RichardL says
Himmler was truly evil: his Posener Reden made clear that he understood evil and pushed for more.
Hitler also praised islam and said that compared to Christianity islam at least had strength and a taste for war:
“The Mohammedan religion too would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?”
gravenimage says
Himmler said he had nothing against Islam because it promises followers “heaven if they fight and are killed in action” and that is was “a very practical religion for soldiers.”
billdeserthills says
Thanks, I’m def using that
mortimer says
IT’S THE IDEOLOGY, STUPID !
Another Anglo-Celtic jihadist eager to commit treason and help the Islamic terrorist in the closed door to the site of the massacre when he can!
How many other Anglo-Celtic jihadi serpents like Nicholas Young are waiting to pounce on unsuspecting Americans?
They are NOT loyal Americans. They are loyal to the supra-national Islamic state which is a delusional state of mind brought on by self-hypnosis. This delusion can be cured, but governments must begin secret counterpropaganda networks to do so.
This is an ideological warfare that our side is not even engaged in. That is why the Muslims will win if we do not begin fighting IDEOLOGICALLY.
RichardL says
I have read that article carefully, and while I would not hire a Muslim to protect the community and find his Nazi veneration creepy, I would find a 60-year sentence as wrong as the 15-year sentence that an anti-islam activist got for breaking a few windows and leaving bacon in a mosque.
The law needs to come down hard on real jihadis, not on couch jihadis. The guy went to Libya and didn’t come back as a terrorist – that should tell us something: the guy is not violent.
I would rather see all members of CAIR, MSA etc go to prison because they are very successful stealth jihadis.
RichardL says
@ Frank Anderson: I have no problem accepting that the Church supported/held terrible positions. I disagree with almost all political statements Francis makes. That is okay for Catholics and I doubt that I would have been a happy Catholic three hundred years ago.
People’s ideas evolve and the question is always where one stops. I also think that we agree that dogma that goes against the most widely accepted versions of the Ten Commandments needs to be discussed.
Frank Anderson says
Richard, I seek wisdom and have been doing so since 1965, at age 15. I have asked questions that made my family and friends, with 1 exception, go ballistic. I have treasured friends from a whole spectrum of Christianity and Judaism. In my comment that started our discussion, I believe I have correctly stated the truth that anti-Judaism was not invented by islam, but was enhanced and almost perfected by the Roman empire and its successors..
In Jews, God and History, the author, Max Dimont, tells among other things, how the Jews, unique among all Roman conquered societies, rebelled 3 times. The Romans killed well in excess of a million plus Jews in the process of ending the revolts. TO ME: ONE possibility is that Saul of Tarsus, who took the name Paul, was a Roman who realized that creating a Christian movement (making lemonade out of lemons) could have the effect of drowning out Judaism (worth considering).
When Constantine seized Christianity, the Roman Empire was falling apart. This is where Constantine’s Sword tells how the Roman Catholic church, and its Lutheran offshoot, told a hideously false narrative about the trial and murder of Jesus. Under Jewish rules, a unanimous verdict marks an unfair trial. Under Jewish rules, stoning, not crucifixion is the method of execution. Under Deuteronomy 24:16, (paraphrasing, “The father shall not be held for the sins of the son; Nor shall the son be held for the sins of the father,”) a Jewish mob could not confess a crime they did not commit, nor could they condemn all future generations to guilt for their actions. It is so good that changes have been made regarding the relationship of Jews to Christianity. After all, Jesus, whatever else he was, was also a Jew. Some consider him the first well-known Reform Jewish Rabbi, a mere 1800 years or so before the start of the modern Reform movement. Sooner or later we will find the truth if we keep looking..
I write frequently about the wisdom I find in the Meditation on Doubt. It turns out I have excerpted it directly from the Gates of Prayer, page 711, as used in the 1990’s.
“Doubt
MEDITATION
Cherish your doubts, for doubt is the handmaiden of truth. Doubt is the key to the door of knowledge; it is the servant of discovery. A belief which may not be questioned binds us to error, for there is incompleteness and imperfection in every belief.
Doubt is the touchstone of truth; it is an acid which eats away the false.
Let none fear for the truth, that doubt may consume it; for doubt is a testing of belief.
For truth, if it be truth, arises from each testing stronger, more secure. Those who would silence doubt are filled with fear; the house of their spirit is built on shifting sands.
But they that fear not doubt, and know its use, are founded on a rock.
They shall walk in the light of growing knowledge; the work of their hands shall endure.
Therefore, let us not fear doubt, but let us rejoice in its help: It is to the wise as a staff to the blind; doubt is the handmaiden of truth.”
Taking repeated looks at history is to me one way of finding and living the truth, in the process bringing God’s Children together as they should be in this time of confrontation with evil.
RichardL says
Much appreciated!
gravenimage says
Yes–and under Islam one is not supposed to question anything.
Frank Anderson says
After 52 years I still drive people “ballistic” with my questions. I have found my connection and peace with my God, who teaches life, respect of His creations, and peace. Doubt I would fit where questions are not tolerated. Best wishes and sincere Merry Christmas.
Chris Malan says
White westerners who convert to Islam have a screw loose. There are not that many of them, but I remember one of them who had a straight, unblinking stare which made one uneasy. Not that he was aggressive, just clearly strange.
gravenimage says
+1
FYI says
“If the Lord is God,worship Him.
but if baal be god then worship him”
I kings 18 v 21
It is easy for the idiot to find the koranic allah-hubaal,the god of hate,murder and savagery.
It requires intelligence to find the Biblical Lord God,the God of the Commandments(10 and 2 chief ones),the Judeo-Christian God of love.
And it requires Wisdom to know the difference.
The dumb,the violent,the hate-filled morons will easily find allah:making it easier for God to separate the chaff from the wheat.
The wheat follow the Lord God.
The chaff follow allah-hubaal.
jimmyb says
So this muslim, who killed no one, is found guilty, but the muslim in Minnesota that murdered that Australian woman, is free and it has been hushed up. No word on his being sent to the gas chamber for out and out, cold blooded murder. Infidels in government/courts, protecting muslim murderers. What else could it be?
Joanne says
“Prosecutors posited that virulent anti-Semitism connected the two seemingly incompatible forms of extremism.”
Isn’t wapo really left wing? Surprising they were willing to make an unflattering implication about Islam.
Frank Anderson says
Joanne, I suggest the inescapable facts of collaboration between Nazis and muslims before, during and after WWII made wapo do something it usually finds abhorrent, telling the truth. Too many people already know that Adolf Eichmann was talking with muslims in Egypt before the war about halting the flow of Jews into “Palestine”. Then the open and notorious collaboration of the Grand Mufti during the war (including the desire to bring gas chambers into muslim territories), and the service of Hitler’s favorite killer, Otto Skorzeny, training and leading terrorists after the war added up to too much for any attempt at diversion. Any other account that disclaims the affinity of Nazis and muslims would draw outrage, possibly even from people who would like to “look the other way” while their execution is being arranged. “There are none so blind as those who refuse to see.” I don’t see where “implication” is applicable when clear history makes a definite connection.