Around the world we see it: people from all kinds of backgrounds convert to Islam and end up plotting treason and mass murder. Yet authorities remain completely incurious about this recurring phenomenon.
“Jewish convert to Islam jailed over plan to join IS,” Times of Israel, February 26, 2018 (thanks to David):
The Nazareth district court on Monday sentenced a Jewish convert to Islam to 38 months in prison for seeking to join the Islamic State terrorist group in Syria.
Valentin Mazlevski, 40, a Belarusian immigrant who moved to Israel in 1996, was the first Jewish-born Israeli to be charged for having IS ties, according to the Shin Bet security service.
He was arrested in February 2017, a few weeks after a failed attempt to fly to Turkey, from where he allegedly planned to cross into Syria to join IS forces.
The court said in its ruling that Mazlevski had “one goal: to join the organization.”
He acted “out of identification with the organization’s ideology,” in the process “violating the law and endangering the state’s security,” it said.
In 2000, while performing compulsory service in the IDF, Mazlevski converted to Islam, after meeting the Arab Israeli Muslim woman who would become his wife and mother of his five children.
Mazlevski, who became interested in IS and frequently viewed its online content in recent years, joined the jihadist group’s internet forums, the Shin Bet said.
In July 2016, security forces warned him against taking part in IS activities, the sentencing read, but Mazlevski paid no heed and contacted terrorists in bids to join IS fighters in Syria, and later, in Sinai.
Both plans failed.
Shin Bet also revealed Monday that it had arrested two Arab Israelis for allegedly planning to carry out shooting attacks at the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem’s Old City or against Jewish or Christian prayer sites.
The two suspects, who were arrested last month, were also charged with failing to report having knowledge of another group of Arab Israeli men who were also planning to carrying out a shooting attack on the Temple Mount in September, similar to one conducted in July that killed two Israel Police officers….
Stacy Girl says
A mind descending to depravity is always drawn to Islam. Like a moth to a flame.
StellaSaidSo says
Spot on, Stacy Girl.
Islam was designed to appeal to the thuggish and the stupid.
alex smythe says
I thought that Jews were supposed to be smart?! Well,obviously not all of them.
infidel says
+ 1 trillion
Mo says
Jewish converts to Islam – Now that’s something that I cannot, for the LIFE of me, comprehend. I can see other groups and individuals who are drawn for whatever reason. But Jews?!
Why would anyone want to convert to any ideology that teaches that they should be wiped off the face of the earth? And not just teaches it, but practices it and evenly openly states it? How does that make the least bit of sense?
Westman says
The volume under the cap and above the ears appears less than a full measure.
Guy Forester says
The article said he was an immigrant from Belarus. He may not have been an observant Jew, but Jewish by heredity only. After growing up in a leftist/socialist system, it is not surprising that he became a radical. If you follow Daniel Greenfield (he has a blog called Sultan Knish) you will find that there are many “Jews” that are actually anti-Israel and very leftist.
Mo says
@ Guy Forester
“He may not have been an observant Jew, but Jewish by heredity only. After growing up in a leftist/socialist system, it is not surprising that he became a radical.”
I suppose so.
” If you follow Daniel Greenfield (he has a blog called Sultan Knish) you will find that there are many “Jews” that are actually anti-Israel and very leftist.”
I have great respect for Daniel. This phenomenon of self hatred (not only Jews, but especially from Jews turning to Islam) is so bizarre to me. And yet it happens quite often.
J D S says
Truly a full fledged,dumb or dumber than dirt, portrait of a stupid jew boy……..
alex smythe says
The late former world chess champ Bobby Fischer had a Jewish mother, and his biological father was likely the Hungarian-Jewish scientist Paul Nemenyi. However, in his final years Fischer became extremely anti-Semitic and completely rejected the Jewish religion. He even demanded that an “Encyclopedia Judaica” or some such publication, remove his name from its list of famous Jews. Check out his interviews with the Filipino chess grandmaster Torres, from when he (Bobby) was in a Japanese prison.
Roderick MacUalraig says
Ah, Daniel G. One of my favorites. A brilliant writer that deserves much recognition.
eli says
It is highly possible that he was not even Jewish. Many (former) Soviet citizens bought fake passports to pose as Jews in order to come to Israel.
NYgal says
Well, after converting they will become Muslims and be safe and able to kill other Jews. It is identifying with the strong oppressor. If we want to prevent it, we must make Islam weak again.
esther says
there is a very basic and true principle of SCIENCE——anything that CAN happen—
will.
gravenimage says
Jewish converts to Islam are rare–but it does happen.
WPM says
What is it with these redheaded converts ? In England, American ,Northern Europe now Israel it seems the redheaded male is easily turned to Islam?
R Russell says
Did Mohammed not have red hair? I think I read that somewhere so the red haired people are emulating Mohammed.
I also read that the hair of the Paracas Peruvian skulls is also red. These skulls may contain alien, nephilim DNA. Nephilim Paracas skulls with fewer skull bones than humans with red hair just like Mohammed – mmmmmm!
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
Holy Henna! Get a load of the color of that man’s facial hair. This case lends credence to the observation that redheads (at least in the UK) find refuge in Islam. Here Milo explains why:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn09jRnIfD0
StellaSaidSo says
I think Milo might be onto something here…
Seriously, I have heard that the recruiters actively seek out gingers.
Guy Forester says
Some time ago (2-3 years?) ISIS made it a point to try to recruit and train fair haired/fair skinned muslims to take jihad into the EU and US as they would fit in easier. Many muslims from Russian territories and Bosnia fit that description.
Baucent says
A little bit of a generalization. Possibly the color makes them stand out more, but I haven’t heard of widespread conversion to Islam amongst the Irish, for example. There’s been a few.
gravenimage says
Mark Steyne is a redhead and a staunch Anti-Jihadist. This has nothing to do with hair color.
Voytek Gagalka says
Will it be “Islamophobic” as well antisemitic to criticize him for that kind of activity? Don’t call him “Jewish”: he forfeits his “Jewishness” by act of conversion to Islam; doing so is plain racism (the lowest, most crude form of collectivism).
No Muzzies Here says
What comes first? the anger, the hatred and the fanatical love for violence, and then the conversion?
or does the conversion lead to the anger, the hatred and the fanatical love for violence?
WPM says
I think it is a loser magnet ,people who fail in life want to blame anyone or anything for their failing except their own actions. Islam give them an out ,it the Jews fault, Western Governments ,Western Culture ,Christians, they do not want to be held down by personal responsibility .Islam removes personal responsibility it tells you ,you are the best of people, that others {nonbelievers} must submit to your will ,pay you money ,be your slave. There is no love or forgiveness in Islam ,no self examination of your own actions, just scream your prays {cursing the unbeliever in public} proclaim your violent actions are for Allah and your will go to whore heaven when you die. This it is why it is so popular in jail so many violent criminals feel they biggest raw deal they got was to get caught. Islam says you can be violent, steal ,rape, lie, as long as it is done to the right people. It a permit issued to people {be a Moslem} to excuse and promote bad behavior . You get to join the biggest and oldest organization of gang bangers ,kick back your 20 percent of your take to the Mosque ,go to whore haven when you die.
Benedict says
The self-hating Jew is a well known phenomena.
Guy Forester says
He looks like BOZO the clown. Just as bright I see.
brane pilot says
Give the guy a break.
He just wants to be on the winning team.
Kill all the people you want as God smiles down on you.
And the chicks are free.
Where else you going to find a deal like that?
Converting to Islam is a calculated, rational decision for mental deviants.
Probably the only calculated and rational decision of their lives.
Champ says
“And the chicks are free.”
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Look at him, he’s such an ugly toad!!! …and the only way to get a chick to have sex with him is to force her, so islam was a perfect fit for this depraved degenerate. Of course any man practicing islam is an evil degenerate, too. islam sucks m’kay!
Roderick MacUalraig says
LOL
Champ says
Now he serves allah aka satan? Wow what a *traitor* to his Jewish ancestry and the One True God YAHWEH!!!! For shame.
al uzza bint-allaha says
chicken voting for the kfc party..
Chris Malan says
“chicken voting for the kfc party..” That’s a good one.
JEFFREY B says
Did he support Bernie Soviet-Sanders?
Sarah says
I did a double take at that headline. And a third. And fourth.
How dumb does one have to be, to be born Jewish and want to not only convert to Islam – but to take up the mantle of jihad AGAINST the Jewish people?
Extremely low-IQ stupid – in a very cunning and malicious way. I’m utterly unsurprised to see he’s a flaming ginger too, way too many gingers’ have run to embrace Islam for some reason. At least its a recessive gene, maybe that Milo Yiannopolous guy was onto something there, with his theory.
Honestly, this kind of supremely moronic behaviour is akin to a TERF style feminist who was brutally raped and left for dead after being beaten by a pulp; deciding to freely of her own will and choice- marry the man who raped and nearly killed her.
Basicaly, you just can’t make this stuff up.
sidney penny says
Why did the Israelis not let me go and not come back?
Chris Malan says
There are crazy people everywhere. Maybe Chaim had a stroke which knocked out much of what he had upstairs.
MFritz says
Milo said something about gingers being drawn to towards islam. Weird!
LeftisruiningCanada says
Yeah, i remember that too.
gravenimage says
That was a joke.
FYI says
islam : God’s way of separating the wheat from the chaff.
The chaff convert to islam and find the koranic allah;Just look at the converts.
The wheat follow the Biblical God and obey His commandments(..which the koran disagrees with!)
The converts to islam often believe that they are suddenly free to commit treason,murder innocent “infidels” and live according to the koran’s,warped,immoral ,commandment-violating teachings.They believe allah will reward them in paradise for their religious devotion.Jihadists believe allah will give them paradise for murder(unlike God who prohibits homicide and condemns murderers )
“If the Lord is God
follow Him
but if baal be,
follow him”
I kings 18 v 21
The Lord God is the Biblical God.Since allah is neither the Biblical God nor equivalent to the Biblical God,the convert has chosen “that which is not the Lord God”
which is “allah”.
A convert from Judaism or Christianity has made the wrong choice.
Unfortunately they will have to suffer the consequences in this world and certainly in the next.
“They will perish because they did not welcome and love the truth so be saved.
And so God sends the power of error to work in them so that they believe what is false”
2 Thessalonians 2 v 10-12
1.The convert to islam does not LOVE or WELCOME the truth to be saved:the truth is given in the Biblical God- not in the warped koranic allah
By converting to islam they PROVE this fact to God.
2.It is not possible to fool God:God gave us free will.The convert to islam becomes deluded by the power of error so that he believes what is false.God permits this so that the wheat can be separated from the chaff..
Those who welcome and Love His Truth versus the counterfeit god’s “truth”
So if you are a Jew or a Christian you must stay on the Biblical side:
Conversion to islam will not provide any hope of salvation if you convert.
3 if you are a former Jew you must know you have joined a religion that despises the Jews.That is some self-loathing you must have!
If you are a former Christian you can forget about salvation(..you know why).You have also proved yourself to have FAILED in Christianity.Yet the ex-Christian convert-incredibly- will expect their new found god “allah” to save and grant them paradise!That won’t happen because of the choice made.
It is not the case that you can fool God if you are a Jew or Christian by converting to islam:By doing so you are not following the Lord God.
The reason we have the Biblical God versus the islamic allah ?Free will is given to you.
You can Choose God …or… allow the spirit of error to rule you and choose…… allah.
They are NOT the same.
They are NOT equivalent.
Your choice will determine your fate and whether or not you can be saved.
gravenimage says
Israeli Jew converts to Islam, plots to join the Islamic State
……………………….
How could this convert have gotten the religion of peace so very, very wrong? sarc/off