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New York City jihad bomber is now recruiting for jihad in prison

Dec 25, 2017 9:15 am By Robert Spencer

Nothing is done with jihadis in prison to try to change their jihadi mindset. To attempt any such thing would have been “Islamophobic.” Instead, the jihadi’s beliefs are reinforced by prison officials who treat the Qur’an with the utmost respect and allow him to pray with other Muslim inmates. Jihadis in prisons even recruit more jihadis, as Ahmed Khan Rahimi is now doing. Why is this tolerated, and tolerated so frequently? Would Nazi prisoners have been given copies of Mein Kampf and been allowed to hold mini-Nuremberg rallies in prison during World War II? Of course they wouldn’t. The difference here is that prison officials assume that the jihadis’ religion had nothing to do with the acts of violence they committed, and so there is no harm done in enabling them to practice their religion and grow more committed to it. This is a false and baseless assumption, and a dangerous one.

“Chelsea bomber is ‘trying to radicalize inmates and has gone on a hunger strike’ after he was convicted in Manhattan attack that injured 30 people,” by Ariel Zilber, Dailymail.com, December 24, 2017 (thanks to David):

Federal prosecutors say the man who was convicted of setting off a bomb in Manhattan that injured 30 people last year has been attempting to radicalize fellow jail inmates.

The government says Ahmad Khan Rahimi gave other inmates access to speeches by Osama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki and materials including bomb-making instructions, The New York Times reports.

Federal prosecutors allege that they found the materials on Rahimi’s laptop. These materials were then used in Rahimi’s trial.

The allegations came in a letter Friday from the office of Acting US Attorney Joon Kim to Judge Richard Berman.

Berman is to sentence Rahimi on January 18 after a jury convicted him in October of all the charges against him.

Jurors in Manhattan found Rahimi guilty of all charges, including counts of using a weapon of mass destruction and bombing a public place.

He was convicted on all eight counts after a short but tense trial in which prosecutors accused his attorneys of using the ‘Al Qaeda playbook.’

The Afghanistan-born man living in Elizabeth, New Jersey, faces a maximum punishment of life in prison.

Prosecutors say the inmates Rahimi shared the materials with included Sajmir Alimehmeti, a Bronx man who has been charged with providing material support to the Islamic State.

Rahimi shared the materials with inmates during Friday prayer sessions at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, the Manhattan jail where inmates are housed while they await trial or sentencing, the federal government alleged.

The letter from Kim’s office to the judge alleged that after employees at the jail learned of Rahimi’s ‘radicalization efforts,’ they searched his personal property and found an address book with names and inmate numbers of other suspected terrorists, including Muhanad Mahmoud Al Farekh and Maalik Alim Jones.

Al Farekh, a native of Texas, was convicted in 2009 of helping to plot an attack on a US military base in Afghanistan.

Jones, a native of Maryland, pleaded guilty to providing aid to the Shabab terrorist organization in Somalia.

Meanwhile, it was learned on Friday that Rahimi wrote a letter to the judge saying that he began a hunger strike on December 8….

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  1. CRUSADER says

    Dec 25, 2017 at 9:29 am

    All part and parcel of Da’wah….

    and of course….

    the war (unlike with Nazism) of jihadism is on-going,
    and has been the case for 14 centuries.

    DEUS VULT
    +++++++++

  2. Oliver says

    Dec 25, 2017 at 9:40 am

    Let him starve to death

    • CRUSADER says

      Dec 25, 2017 at 9:43 am

      Indeed.

      Death Penalty is what is called for.

      Immediate dispatch by military court….somehow….as certainly for citizens of US should lose status and thereby get transferred over to military justice ….

    • NobodyUKnow says

      Dec 25, 2017 at 5:08 pm

      That would be cruel.
      He should at least get a ham and cheese sandwich or maybe a BLT.

      • Angus66 says

        Dec 26, 2017 at 12:51 pm

        What I want to know is why does he have a laptop in PRISON?!?!?!

  3. WPM says

    Dec 25, 2017 at 9:55 am

    Hope he goes to super max prison in Colorado 23 hours a day in solitary confinement cell ,one hour alone in exercise yard .The cells have there own showers on a timer, a little 6 inch by 12 inch window over looking a courtyard.TV on a timer only a few shows allowed to be seen. No internet access ,visitors have to make appointments months in advance they can be denied any visitors by prison officials if the visitors have any connections to any perceive terrorist group . He can hollow his daily hate prays 5 times a day by himself ,eat sh*t and bark at the moon for the rest of his life. He can take Charles Manson old cell I hear they have a vacancy there.

    • Bodega says

      Dec 25, 2017 at 1:15 pm

      So why is he given anyrthing better than solitary in the Colorado super max prison? Did the judge do it? If so the judge should be removed from the bench due to ignorance. I cannot understand why prisons are immune to recruitment…when they are highly susceptible to radical recruitment.

      • WPM says

        Dec 25, 2017 at 9:43 pm

        Because he is awaiting sentencing he is temporally being held in a prison in NYC awaiting his transfer to a federal prison and solitary confinement for life hopefully. It will be either be super max in Colorado or some other federal prison .When he is sentence on Jan. 18,2018 we will see where he goes for how long.

        • WPM says

          Dec 25, 2017 at 10:05 pm

          You are right he should be in solitary confinement now in NYC,NYC is soft on terrorist in jail.

  4. Paul N Silas says

    Dec 25, 2017 at 9:55 am

    Merry Christmas to all

    God’s wrath will take care of this poor deluded soul, and others like him

    Pray for him

  5. PRCS says

    Dec 25, 2017 at 10:20 am

    Who’da thunk it.

  6. PRCS says

    Dec 25, 2017 at 10:23 am

    It’s just a continuation of the Gonzo Gitmo Charade–in which U.S. Military personnel had to don clean, white gloves in order to handle a Gitmo detainee’s taxpayer provided Qur’an.

    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2005/jun/9/20050609-092940-3178r/

  7. Timothy says

    Dec 25, 2017 at 10:40 am

    If officials out of ignorance won’t stop jihadi recruiting, then have infiltration of these jihadi prison groups. Of course that would not happen either for the same reason prison officials don’t see the connection between the jihadis religion and the acts of violence.
    It’s not just prison officials. It goes higher than that.

  8. MFritz says

    Dec 25, 2017 at 11:56 am

    Stop… islam… recruiting… in… prisons.

  9. Sherman D Brown says

    Dec 25, 2017 at 12:03 pm

    Hook him up in prison with Bubbah & Tyrone. He will no longer be anal retental.

  10. Unknown says

    Dec 25, 2017 at 4:53 pm

    Solution: put him on solitary confinement.

  11. Sam says

    Dec 25, 2017 at 7:06 pm

    Hey gıve it to the guy
    He is a true Muslim

  12. gravenimage says

    Dec 25, 2017 at 10:35 pm

    New York City jihad bomber is now recruiting for jihad in prison
    …………………………….

    Yep–years of prison Da’wa.

  13. ontheridge says

    Dec 26, 2017 at 2:29 am

    Put him into a 5 foot by 8 foot cell and never let him out for 95 years. Let him only read books about dogs and pigs and only feed him pork, bacon and ham dishes. Give him water with wine in it to drink and tell him he’ll be buried with pig guts spread on top of him. And tell all the other Muslims that this will be their punishment if they do anything wrong.

  14. WPM says

    Dec 26, 2017 at 4:34 pm

    Super max would do fine it worked for people like Charles Manson solitary 23 hours a day one hour alone in court yard cage. internet visitors need to make appointments months in advance. Visitors can be turn canceled for any reason. You have serial killers there and other associate human garbage cage away from communicating with anyone on the outside world.

  15. sidney penny says

    Dec 27, 2017 at 7:39 am

    “The difference here is that prison officials assume that the jihadis’ religion had nothing to do with the acts of violence they committed, and so there is no harm done in enabling them to practice their religion and grow more committed to it. This is a false and baseless assumption, and a dangerous one.”

    Robert Spencer tells it like it is.

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