A Hawaii-based Army soldier was obsessed with videos depicting terrorism beheadings, suicide bombings and other violence and he watched them in his bedroom for hours every day.
His aspirations were allegedly to be a jihad suicide bomber; he is said to have met with Islamic State agents and to have given them classified military information. As is common, his defense argues that he had mental issues — the usual fallback.
This story demonstrates the severity of the predicament the West is in, crawling with enemies who are maneuvering among the populace. Like Ikiaka Kang, they could be meeting and sharing information with jihadist organizations overseas or anywhere.
So far, the most prevalent concerns have been about random jihad terror attacks, but this is only one category of the threat, as Kang demonstrates.
Since free societies are at war against organized jihad terror and jihadist subversion, the first step should be to control Western borders, which Trump and the Visegrad group in Europe are trying to do. After that, the West needs to outlaw the Muslim Brotherhood.
“Soldier accused of terrorism was obsessed with ISIS videos, documents say,” Fox News, January 23, 2018:
HONOLULU – A Hawaii-based Army soldier was obsessed with videos depicting terrorism beheadings, suicide bombings and other violence and he watched them in his bedroom for hours every day, a confidential informant told agents who put a tracking device on the soldier’s car during an investigation that led to an indictment charging him with attempting to support the Islamic State (ISIS) group.
An affidavit supporting the tracking device request and other newly unsealed court documents provide more details about Sgt. 1st Class Ikaika Kang’s alleged fixation with ISIS violence.
Kang told the informant if he became an ISIS member, he would be a suicide bomber and attack Schofield Barracks, a sprawling Army base outside Honolulu, the affidavit said.
The documents were unsealed Monday.
Kang has pleaded not guilty and is being detained without bail.
The indictment and an FBI affidavit filed previously alleged that Kang met with undercover agents he believed were part of ISIS. He allegedly provided them with classified military information, a drone, military equipment and training in combat fighting.
His defense attorney, Birney Bervar, said Tuesday he hadn’t yet seen the unsealed documents. He said previously Kang may suffer from service-related mental health issues that the government was aware of but neglected to treat.
The U.S. government first asked a judge to allow a tracking device on Kang’s Lexus sedan in October 2016 and applied for several extensions after orders granting it expired.
Kang watched the violent videos for four to five hours each day during the week and more on the weekends, the informant told agents in 2016. The informant “remembered feeling sick to his stomach, while Kang laughed and insulted the victims,” an affidavit filed under seal in May 2017 said.
During the first week of September 2016, Kang told the informant “that if he were to do something like shoot up a large gathering, it would be out of his hatred for white people, the wicked and non-Muslims,” the affidavit said.
Kang began researching the Muslim religion in 2014, couldn’t wait to move to the Middle East to “join the cause” and was “only in the military for a paycheck,” the informant said, according to the affidavit.
Agents said in their applications for a tracking device that they needed to monitor him continuously because they feared he would carry out an attack.
Officials with the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade told the FBI they were concerned over their ability to monitor Kang, noting that he was to return from leave on May 25, 2017 — the same day as a change-of-command ceremony, the affidavit said……
PRCS says
Remember that his father was shocked, shocked he said, about this:
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/clip/13481215/father-of-hawaii-soldier-arrested-for-terrorist-ties-im-just-in-shock
kangi_yotaka says
To be fair, this guy was a sergeant first class. He’s 35 and has probably been in the Army since he was 18 or 19, and the article said he only picked up islam in 2014.
I don’t find it strange or disingenuous at all the the father is shocked.
Wouldn’t you be if your adult child, who was normal and introverted, suddenly started spouting jihad?
EnolaGay says
Problem is, the family members are ALL, ALWAYS, shocked and surprised. How many are actually turned in by family or wives? It just seems suspect, especially as we learn more like taquia.
And of course it’s the military’s fault, he is the victim who didn’t get treatment. There just seems to be an over abundance of mental health issues amoungst these followers of a certain religion isn’t there?
PRCS says
The articles which cited his father make it clear the father knew and was concerned–before he was shocked.
Max Publius says
Why Antifa, left Democrats and Islamofascists get along: ” His hatred for white people.”
gravenimage says
I could be wrong, Max, but he looks white in that picture above.
EnolaGay says
Like linda sarsour, as soon as he converted he went from white to a minority.
Edgar Allan says
Outlawing the Muslim Brotherhood is NOT enough. Islam has to be officially recognized as a clear and present danger to democracy. Its adherents, just like those of any other hostile ideology, must be banned from certain sensitive positions that could compromise national security. The list will be long, but it has to be talked about at every opportunity: military, all intelligence services, nuclear industry, power stations and grid, water industry, space industry, aviation, to name just the most obvious categories.
StellaSaidSo says
Agree entirely, Edgar Allen.
It is simply not possible for an observant Muslim to be a loyal citizen of any Western country.
Every category listed has been penetrated by the MB, and more.
Google ‘Explanatory Memorandum’ for an outline of the MB plan for the conquest of the US. It applies equally to all other Western countries.
PRCS says
The always elusive definition of “observant Muslim” (yet to be made clear) is key.
The argument typically depends upon the degree to which individual Muslims say they’ve submitted; that they’re compliant.
Few, if any individual Indonesian Muslims are complying–fully–with Qur’an and Sunn’ah and refer to Islamic State “fighters”, Taliban, al Qaeda, etc., as “extremists” and terrorists.
And those groups refer to less than fully compliant Muslims as heretics and apostates.
StellaSaidSo says
If they attend mosque, wear hijab, observe Ramadan etc, they are ‘observant’, and it can be assumed that they are in agreement with the basic tenets of Islam, even if they personally do not commit violence against kuffar. Whether their co-religionists consider them heretics or apostates is irrelevant to Edgar Allen’s point, to which I responded Jan 25, 11:42am.
PRCS says
That many don’t attend mosque, comply with dress codes, etc. does not mean they aren’t practicing their very own, personal Islam.
The only thing one can assume about individual Muslims with certainty is that they’ve said the Shahada.
bonnie louise loranger says
I agree with you 100%
Edgar Allan says
NOV 1, 2017 – BERLIN POLICE INSIDER ABOUT “MIGRANT” RECRUITS, ARABS AND TURKS: “THEY AREN’T COLLEAGUES, THEY ARE THE ENEMY. THIS IS THE ENEMY IN OUR OWN RANKS.”
https://vladtepesblog.com/2017/11/01/berlin-police-this-is-the-enemy-in-our-own-ranks/
SEPT 25, 2017 – FRANCE: MUSLIM WHO WAS ON TERROR WATCHLIST ACCEPTED INTO POLICE FORCE
https://www.thelocal.fr/20170925/frenchman-formerly-on-terror-watchlist-slips-through-the-net-to-become-cop
SEPT 1, 2017 – BROOKLYN-BASED MUSLIM: “THEN WE WILL GO TO FBI HEADQUARTERS, KILL THE FBI PEOPLE”. TALKED ABOUT JOINING THE U.S. MILITARY AS AN ISIS SPY
“MAN ARRESTED IN VILLA PARK, CHARGED WITH FUNDRAISING FOR ISIS FIGHTERS”
NOTE DECEIVING CHICAGO TRIBUNE TITLE. NO MENTION OF MUSLIM ANYWHERE. WAS THIS CLASSIFIED AS ISLAMIC TERRORISM? WHO KNOWS.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-islamic-state-terror-arrest-villa-park-met-20170831-story.html
AUG 6, 2017 – GERMANY: MUSLIM MIGRANT SOLDIER DISMISSED, SUPPORTS HAMAS, SAID “F**K THE JEWS”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/08/germany-muslim-migrant-soldier-dismissed-supports-hamas-said-fk-the-jews
Linde Barrera says
Sgt. (Low-class) Kang has a very warped and deviated sex drive, in my opinion, if he can laugh at anyone being beheaded, stoned or set on fire. ? I pray for Islam to be banned everywhere in the western world, and thank you to Edgar Allan for your comments and links. I agree with you 100%.
Indiana Tom says
A Hawaii-based Army soldier was obsessed with videos depicting terrorism beheadings, suicide bombings and other violence and he watched them in his bedroom for hours every day. I imagine he was pleasuring himself in the process.
Jaladhi says
I am not surprised by this report – this is normal Muslim behavior to non-Muslims being killed by them. These people should not be in the Army – no good will come out of it as they are not patriotic to US. Their patriotism is only to ummmah!!
Michael Copeland says
“Personally, I don’t trust one Muslim in our military, …..if they truly are a devout Muslims, and follow the Quran and the Sunnah, then I feel threatened because they’re commanded to kill me.”
Republican State Rep. Rick Womick, U.S. Air Force vet.
MFritz says
The enemy in my country’s uniform. Can we trust “our” soldiers and “our” policemen if they’re infected with – or have been brought up with – this ideology? Never forget, the “Word of Allah” trumps EVERY other oath and every allegiance!
StellaSaidSo says
Exactly. They cannot be loyal citizens of a Western country if they are vowed to destroy it.
Indiana Tom says
Kang began researching the Muslim religion in 2014, couldn’t wait to move to the Middle East to “join the cause” and was “only in the military for a paycheck,” the informant said, according to the affidavit.
The usual procedure for those joining Islam.
Granddaddy says
Yes, the Brotherhood should be banned from the country (they declared war on all non-Muslim countries in 1982) and their leaders should be brought up on charges of conspiracy to overthrow the government. Islam should be officially declared to be what it is, a fascist, totalitarian ideology which has about as much resemblance to religion as the Mafia.
gravenimage says
Keep these thugs out of our military.
And it they have already joined when the convert to Islam, give them a dishonorable discharge.