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Virginia: Muslim arrested, talked of joining the Islamic State and building homemade bombs

Dec 31, 2017 9:31 am By Robert Spencer

Yet another convert to Islam gets the idea that his new religion, which we are always told is peaceful on pain of charges of “Islamophobia,” commands him to commit treason and mass murder. Yet again, authorities don’t care about this recurring phenomenon in any way whatsoever.

“Sterling man arrested in FBI investigation of possible ISIS supporter,” by Patrick Roth, WTOP, December 30, 2017:

WASHINGTON — Court documents say an FBI raid at a home in Sterling, Virginia, on Friday was related to an investigation of a possible ISIS supporter.

Sean Andrew Duncan, who moved to Sterling in June 2017, was arrested for “knowingly altering, destroying, mutilating and concealing tangible objects … with the intent to impede and obstruct” an FBI investigation.

The documents said that when FBI agents knocked on the front door with their search warrant, Duncan ran out of the back door barefoot with “something clenched in his fist.”

Agents yelled at Duncan to stop, but before he did he threw a plastic bag over their heads. The documents say the bag contained a memory chip from a thumb drive that “had been snapped into pieces and placed in a liquid substance that produced frothy white bubbles.”

The FBI had been investigating Duncan for more than a year.

Duncan and his wife attempted to travel to Turkey in February 2016, but were denied entry and sent back to the U.S. Upon returning, they were interviewed by the FBI.

A relative of Duncan also warned the FBI that they feared he had become radicalized because he had voiced approval of westerners being beheaded in the Middle East.

When the FBI searched Twitter in December, they found an account created in November 2015 that linked to Duncan’s phone. The Twitter account had a handle with an Arabic phrase that roughly translated to “The Islamic State.”

An unnamed co-conspirator told the FBI in July that Duncan told her he was interested in joining ISIS and they would share news articles from an ISIS publication. The co-conspirator also told the FBI that Duncan had shared an article about how to build a homemade bomb from an al-Qaida publication.

An undercover FBI agent also reached out to Duncan in August claiming to be the unnamed co-conspirator.

The agent told Duncan about an individual who was attempting to arrange travel to Libya, but was “asking various vetting questions.” When the agent asked Duncan if he and his wife were asked similar questions before they traveled to Syria, Duncan told the agent he never had to deal with vetting by contacts because he “always had referrals.”

In June 2017, the Allegany County police Department searched Duncan’s phone in an unrelated investigation into the death of Duncan’s infant child. During their search, they found numerous internet searches for ISIS-related material, ISIS attacks, weapons, body armor, defense tactics and YouTube videos of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS.

The court documents say that the Allegany County police Department’s search “discovered over 24,000 positive results after searching a list of common counterterrorism terms.”…

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Filed Under: American jihadis, converts to Islam, Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Jihad in the U.S. Tagged With: Sean Andrew Duncan, Sterling, Virginia


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  1. CRUSADER says

    Dec 31, 2017 at 9:42 am

    Sic semper tyrannis

    “thus always to tyrants

    • J D S says

      Jan 1, 2018 at 10:13 am

      One more poor soul that has been hijacked by his own beliefs,undermined by a so called religion that loves murder…The problem is….Their so called religion does not call it murder…..Stupidness in action!

    • Frank J. Verderber says

      Jan 2, 2018 at 7:40 pm

      The guy is not a Tyrant, he is an idiot! What was so bad in his life he needed to contact the dead and mentally deranged via ISIS. These Americans should be a case study. I would love to read their psychological and personal history files.

  2. StellaSaidSo says

    Dec 31, 2017 at 9:53 am

    Another low IQ loser with a taste for thuggery signs on to the world’s most violent criminal gang, and gets caught before he has the chance to go to his reward in the entirely mythical celestial bordello…
    Good work, FBI.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 31, 2017 at 8:13 pm

      Hear, hear, Stella!

  3. CRUSADER says

    Dec 31, 2017 at 9:59 am

    Fidelity

    Bravery

    Integrity

  4. BrilliantIdiot says

    Dec 31, 2017 at 10:00 am

    Thus here is the ‘racial’ component of Islam… take any race, add islamic ideology, and then you get a jihadi.

  5. Yogi says

    Dec 31, 2017 at 10:19 am

    I wish Europe could be tougher , unfortunately Europe is dying, they allow to destroy this beautiful Christian continent..

    • RichardL says

      Dec 31, 2017 at 11:48 am

      We are about to emigrate because of that but things are moving: Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary… but we believe there will war.

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 31, 2017 at 8:14 pm

        I wish patriotic citizens would *defend* their civilized societies instead of ceding them to the barbarians.

  6. FYI says

    Dec 31, 2017 at 10:20 am

    Like all those idiotic converts to islam he will need some sort of Arab name.
    Here’s one…

    Jahesh…stupid ass

    Al Jahesh Al Amriki…the American stupid ass

    • Thomas Kimball says

      Dec 31, 2017 at 11:32 am

      Jahesh Asswhad.

  7. mortimer says

    Dec 31, 2017 at 10:24 am

    Western elites and authorities show absolutely NO INTEREST in understanding the POLITICAL IDEOLOGY of Jihadism and how it is implemented according to the canonical rules of Sharia law.

    Western authorities are uninterested in deprogramming the jihadists and turning them as a force to deprogram Muslims generally. The only solution to jihad is to deprogram Muslims right out of Islam.

    • mike9a says

      Dec 31, 2017 at 11:11 am

      Mortimer, I’ve seen you pushing this idea of deprogramming mos, what exactly you have in mind?, how you are envisioning practical algorithm to do so? How one can wake up ones conscience?

    • Mitch says

      Dec 31, 2017 at 12:48 pm

      I agree with your first paragraph, Mortimer.

      But if Western elites and authorities understood the political ideology of jihadism, and were willing to oppose it, there’d be no need to “deprogram” jihadists. The West would keep jihadists defunded, denounced, demoralized, and outside our borders.

      The West is dying of suicide, not murder. If jihadists weren’t available, Leftist at the top would substitute another destructive enemy.

      It’s our elites that must be “deprogrammed” or removed.

      Best wishes.

      • JawsV says

        Jan 1, 2018 at 8:55 am

        The West is also dying due to Jihad mass-murder. Since 9/11.

        • Mitch says

          Jan 1, 2018 at 2:05 pm

          Happy New Year Jaws. I disagree that the West is dying from jihad mass-murder.

          Following the violent jihad of 9/11, commitment to Western ideals of free speech, representative government, and the worth of the individual were strengthened in the hearts of those who love the West.

          But stealth jihadists inspire the West’s internal enemies to increased self-hatred, and give them excuse to self-inflict more wounds, such as limiting free speech. They also cast doubt in the minds of good-intentioned ignoramuses.

          “Those whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.”

          When Western Europe’s autopsy comes in, the Charlie Hebdo murders shouldn’t be listed as a cause of the continent’s death, but listed should be the refusal to broadcast the cartoons onto every western TV following the murders. Not listed: vehicular jihad and mass rape. Listed: importing muslims and cancelling Christmas.

        • JawsV says

          Jan 1, 2018 at 2:31 pm

          West is definitely dying due to all the thousands of monogamous Jews and Christians who won’t be procreating as the Moslems have killed them. Since 9/11. Meanwhile, the polygamous Moslems continue over-breeding. Demographic Jihad.

        • LeftisruiningCanada says

          Jan 1, 2018 at 4:28 pm

          “When Western Europe’s autopsy comes in, the Charlie Hebdo murders shouldn’t be listed as a cause of the continent’s death, but listed should be the refusal to broadcast the cartoons onto every western TV following the murders. Not listed: vehicular jihad and mass rape. Listed: importing muslims and cancelling Christmas.”

          +1
          Let’s not confuse symptoms with the illness. Something is not well in the West. The weakened body and mind is succumbing to various ever present and usually defended against pests.

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Dec 31, 2017 at 2:16 pm

      I’m not sure about the deprogramming thing.

      It’s is almost impossible to reach people who are willingly committed to a particular belief system, particularly when that system paints all outsiders as literally the devil. When the innate human conception of God is involved, and where questioning or leaving the cult endangers that, it’s even less likely to succeed.

      I’m not saying that people never leave cults, because they do. But it’s almost always (it may be always, but i’m not able to state that) that they are already having doubts about their group or it’s teachings. In that case, they pretty much ‘deprogram’ themselves.
      In some cases the cult rejects a person and forces them out. I believe this is the less common exit route.

      In both cases, it takes something drastic to cause, and enable, the person to look at the cult with more objectivity. It takes something unusual to create the necessary distance for this to occur.

      I’m not confident that in most cases someone from outside the cult is going to be able to impose this distance upon someone within the cult. Fear, contempt and hatred for those outside the cult are too fundamentally part of the belief systems of most cults, for outsiders to have anything but a persecution confirmation upon those within.

      The harder you attack cults, the closer they circle their wagons.

    • Ashley says

      Dec 31, 2017 at 3:17 pm

      Mortimer, deprograming Muslims is NOT going to be an effective solution.

      You see, there is this pesky book floating out there…the Quran. The Quran encourages the slaughter of infidels. The Quran encourages jihad. The Quran encourages acts of depravity.

      You would have better luck training a box turtle to run backwards than deprograming a jihadist.

      That said, happy 2018!

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 31, 2017 at 8:17 pm

      Mortimer, when has such “deprogramming” *ever* worked? And–I ask for the umpteenth time–when have pious Muslims ever listened to the “filthy Infidels?

  8. WPM says

    Dec 31, 2017 at 12:38 pm

    I sorry the only deprograming I see working is either deporting ,lock up for life in solitary confinement ,or a 45 cal. slug threw the brain pan. There are millions of these pod people Islamics making every day life a danger to all us normals , and a pain in the ass for us to just do normal travel ever day tasks. The money, time and manpower because some idiots believe they are going to the whorehouse in the sky if they kill normal men women and children for their raving moon god.

    • StellaSaidSo says

      Dec 31, 2017 at 1:17 pm

      I hear you, WPM, I hear you!

  9. Ashley says

    Dec 31, 2017 at 2:16 pm

    https://www.scribd.com/document/368137934/Duncan-Complaint-Package-Executed#from_embed

    It sure appears this “unnamed co-conspirator” and Duncan’s wife were up to their eyeballs in this shit. Were they granted immunity?

    I also discovered in another article that Duncan’s deceased infant son (age 4 months) was named Mohammad.

    Cute.

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Dec 31, 2017 at 2:27 pm

      Nice, i was wondering if this same documentation was available.
      Thanks Ashley, appreciate your efforts in making the primary info easy to get.

      • Ashley says

        Dec 31, 2017 at 2:54 pm

        Glad to assist, LeftisruiningCanada! I do so enjoy hunting down the primary sources.

        I missed the important detail that the “unnamed co-conspirator” is indeed in custody. Good!

        Wishing you and yours the best in 2018!

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 31, 2017 at 8:22 pm

      What happened to the baby?

  10. PRCS says

    Dec 31, 2017 at 7:38 pm

    “Yet again, authorities don’t care about this recurring phenomenon in any way whatsoever.”

    Well, actually, they do.

    They even have names for the phenomenon:

    Radical Islam
    Muslim extremists
    Radical Islamic terrorism

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 31, 2017 at 8:24 pm

      PRCS, Robert Spencer means that they never acknowledge that this is what mainstream Islam teaches.

      • JawsV says

        Jan 1, 2018 at 8:57 am

        Ordinary Islam, as Robert calls it.

  11. gravenimage says

    Dec 31, 2017 at 8:10 pm

    Virginia: Muslim arrested, talked of joining the Islamic State and building homemade bombs

    Yet another convert to Islam gets the idea that his new religion, which we are always told is peaceful on pain of charges of “Islamophobia,” commands him to commit treason and mass murder.
    ………………………………

    This is, of course, exactly the savagery Islam demands of its votaries.

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