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Washington Post publishes article by Muslim who “served 13 years in federal prison for terrorism-related charges”

Feb 12, 2018 9:06 am By Robert Spencer

At least they admit it. The bio tag for this Washington Post article (thanks to Darcy) reads: “Ismail Royer is an American convert to Islam and a research and program associate at the Religious Freedom Institute, a D.C. nonprofit organization. He served 13 years in federal prison for terrorism-related charges. Since his release, he has worked in the nonprofit sector developing strategies to promote religious liberty and undermine extremist ideology.”

Which “extremist ideology”? Why not “…to promote religious liberty and undermine the jihad ideology”? Probably because what is meant by “extremist ideology” is “right-wing extremism,” a label often attached to resistance to jihad terror.

Interestingly, the Washington Post bio for Royer doesn’t note that before his incarceration, he worked for Hamas-linked CAIR.

Meanwhile, the title of this piece is “Muslims like me don’t have theological beef with evangelicals. It’s the prejudice against us that’s the problem.” Note that Royer is taking that ever-familiar stance we see again and again, on a drearily regular basis, from Muslim spokesmen: victimhood. Poor, poor Muslims are victimized by everyone else in 1000 ways — as the jihad body count rises ever higher. One would think that any man would be embarrassed to make his living as a professional whiner, but Islamic spokesmen seem to have a never-ending supply of chutzpah and no capacity for embarrassment at all.

And “Muslims like me”? What kind of Muslim is like Ismail Royer? Let’s review what the Post blandly reports as “13 years in federal prison for terrorism-related charges.” From the Investigative Project on Terrorism:

According to a biography posted on IslamOnline.net, Royer began working as a CAIR communication specialist in 1997. According to media reports, he continued to work for CAIR at least through the beginning of October 2001.

When police stopped Royer for a traffic violation in September 2001, they found in his automobile an AK-47-style rifle and 219 rounds of ammunition. He was indicted in June 2003, with 10 others, on a variety of charges stemming from participation in the ongoing jihad in Kashmir. Specifically, the indictment charged that Royer engaged in propaganda work for Lashkar-e-Taiba and “fired at Indian positions in Kashmir.”

Lashkar-e-Taiba was designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization on December 26, 2001. Thus, while news reports indicated he still worked for CAIR, according to a federal indictment, Royer purchased an AK-47 assault rifle and 219 rounds of ammunition, distributed newsletters for a group later designated as a foreign terrorist organization, and fired at Indian targets in Kashmir.

Again, Awad has minimized CAIR’s ties to Royer, noting Royer was also “a former employee of Starbucks Coffee.”

In January 2007, in response to Senator Boxer’s withdrawal of the award to Elkarra, Awad claimed that “CAIR had no knowledge of Royer’s travels and activities before he joined CAIR.”

Additional charges listed in a superseding indictment against Royer and his 10 co-conspirators included conspiracy to levy war against the United States and conspiracy to provide material support to Al Qaeda.

On January 16, 2004, Royer pleaded guilty to weapons and explosives charges and agreed to cooperate fully with the government.

He was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Royer got out early, of course, and now proclaims that he has rejected his previous “extremism.” And so the Washington Post publishes him as if he were a legitimate spokesmen for Muslims in the United States. This is all part of the normalization of Islamic supremacism, of a piece with politicians appearing at Hamas-linked CAIR events (as we have seen recently in Ohio and Illinois).

The Washington Post is trying to condition the public into thinking that someone who used to work for Hamas-linked CAIR and served time in prison for jihad plotting is a perfectly reasonable fellow, while the real “extremists” are the foes of jihad terror. Can you imagine the Washington Post publishing an article by me or anyone else who is defamed by the hard-Left smear machine the Southern Poverty Law Center as an “anti-Muslim extremist”? They wouldn’t be caught dead. But a Muslim who worked for Hamas-linked CAIR and did propaganda work for a jihad terror work? Now, that’s someone who is perfectly within the bounds of reasonable discourse.

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  1. Halal Bacon says

    Feb 12, 2018 at 9:16 am

    why do they never get a normal fricken job? whats the agenda?

    • Andy says

      Feb 12, 2018 at 11:16 am

      George Soros plan to take back control of America!

      • Andy says

        Feb 12, 2018 at 11:19 am

        AntiFa Attack Proud Boys At University Of Washington Free Speech Rally And Lose Yet Again

        • carlos danger says

          Feb 12, 2018 at 5:19 pm

          anti-fa girly boys

        • Mark T says

          Feb 13, 2018 at 7:34 am

          What is happening on our campuses is pretty disturbing, especially the AntiFa assholes. So ignorant.

  2. No Muzzies Here says

    Feb 12, 2018 at 9:30 am

    The Washington Post has chosen to support a terrorist by publishing his words, and paying him for them.

    • J D S says

      Feb 14, 2018 at 12:42 am

      The WP I’d just too widhey-washed to be credible and supporting a convicted felon…shame shame

  3. Terry Gain says

    Feb 12, 2018 at 9:44 am

    This guy strikes me as a pretty normal Muslim convert – prone to engage in Jihad. Not to be trusted.

  4. elee says

    Feb 12, 2018 at 10:10 am

    I hope his PO is watching his financials really closely. Muslim plus NGO money makes me plenty nervous.

  5. MFritz says

    Feb 12, 2018 at 12:07 pm

    The pros from the WaPro. The Washington Propagandist.

  6. RCCA says

    Feb 12, 2018 at 12:54 pm

    The shared antipathy towards recognizing equal rights for gays, held by both devout Muslims as well as devout Christians, is probably not sufficient to overcome all the other objectionable aspects of Islam for those with any serious knowledge of Islam.

    However if LGBT leaders become aware of the push within the organized Muslim community in the US to align with Evangelical Christians, that would be a good development imo. A real wake up call. Surprising that uberleftist Washington Post is spilling the beans.

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Feb 12, 2018 at 11:50 pm

      Drawing any comparison between the views on homosexuality of muslims and Christians is at best rather flawed.

      I support the Biblical view of homosexuality being sinful, but there is not a chance in the world that i’d have anything to do with muslims just because of that.

      Christians don’t want to kill homosexual people and have every example and command to not do so, while muslims will do it and thin they do their gods will, simple as that.

  7. Rob says

    Feb 12, 2018 at 1:14 pm

    He chose to be a “victim”. Stupid is as stupid does.

  8. JawsV says

    Feb 12, 2018 at 2:16 pm

    We’re all “islamophobes” of course. Like we have no right to fear and despise murderous Islam!

  9. gravenimage says

    Feb 12, 2018 at 11:00 pm

    Meanwhile, the title of this piece is “Muslims like me don’t have theological beef with evangelicals. It’s the prejudice against us that’s the problem.”
    …………………………

    Is it “prejudice” against Muslims by evangelical Christians that caused Royer to plot violent Jihad? Somehow I doubt it…

    More:

    Again, Awad has minimized CAIR’s ties to Royer, noting Royer was also “a former employee of Starbucks Coffee.”
    …………………………

    Ah–it was working at Starbucks that caused it. Those Mocha Frappuccinos are pretty damn “radicalizing”…sarc/off

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Feb 13, 2018 at 3:18 am

      it was all the funny looks he got working behind the counter that made him feel victimized as a muslim, no doubt.

      but then, if he served you and was scowling and wearing a beard like in the photo above, some funny looks would not be surprising!

  10. Guy Forester says

    Feb 13, 2018 at 5:06 am

    Religious Freedom Institute? You can’t make this absurdity up. This is like the Twilight Zone on steroids.

    Does India know he is out? Maybe they should put in a request to extradite him. I wonder if Trump would block that or go for it, since we are trying to get cozy with India and distancing ourselves from Pakistan.

  11. FYI says

    Feb 13, 2018 at 7:23 am

    Looks exactly like a convert to islam…..he could do with a better convert name{something like al Jahesh al Amriki,the American ass..}

    And like all converts to islam,completely lacking the wisdom and intelligence to differentiate between God and allah.

    A.
    Once upon a Time,the Real,Actual God spoke through His Spirit of Truth to Moses,His Jewish prophet and gave mankind His Commandments.
    His two Chief commandments are revealed.Judaism is born.

    B.
    Jesus Christ came along with a new,amplified understanding of God:the importance of obeying God’s Commandments is stated and the 2 Chief commandments are emphasised.Christianity is born.God exists for All mankind!

    There was no need for any other messenger or prophet from God.Jesus Christ was the last prophet of God,the last in a line of Jewish prophets:the OT prophecies indicate this(at least for Christians)

    And then in the 7th c AD something interesting happens..

    allah/mo/jibreel appear on the scene with a”holy” book..that rejects and denies EVERYTHING that Jesus Christ said and stood for,curses the Jews and the christians , twists the commandments so that muslims can break them and COMPLETELY MISSES those all-important 2 Chief commandments of GOD..which are found precisely NOWHERE in islam….and this god allah exists only for moslems… since Jews and Christians are despised by allah.

    And this koran is given to muhammed[a mass murderer of Jews Abu Dawud 4390 and slave trader sahih muslim 3901) via jibreel(who is defined as being “the enemy of the Jews”)from allah who curses the Jews(k 9:30)..in a cave with conveniently no witnesses.

    Can you spot the “allah hates the Jews” theme ?

    C
    islam is born

    Anyone can see, that on the basis that Judaism and Christianity agree on the Commandments of God(10 plus 2) there is COHERENCE between A and B.
    There is coherence between{A and B=the Judeo-Christian God}:all the OT prophets for example are fully accepted in the NT.

    And any reasonably intelligent soul can see that..

    There is total INCOHERENCE between {A,B} and C i.e between the Judeo-Christian God of Judaism and Christianity and the islamic koranic allah.

    It is obvious that allah is NOT the Biblical Judeo-Christian God.

    It is not difficult to differentiate between the two…..

    …except for idiots who convert to islam

    “If the Lord is God,
    choose him.
    but if baal be your god,
    then follow him”

    I kings 18 v 21.

    The choice is between the Lord God(the Biblical or Judeo-Christian God) or “something else”…and since allah is NOT the same as the Biblical God,you must accept the consequences if you choose allah over the True God.

    • Jim says

      Feb 13, 2018 at 4:03 pm

      Thanks, you have spoken as written in the True Gospel, let anyone choose their god as they will and in the end on judgement day, they will have their rewards, as is written in the Holy Bible. ? but True.

  12. JawsV says

    Feb 13, 2018 at 7:52 am

    He converted to Islam and became a terrorist. Camel/Carriage.

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