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Charlotte: Muslim convicted for jihad recruitment on America soil, a “threat we face daily,” says agent

Mar 22, 2018 10:22 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

Had the article below read: “Charlotte man convicted of trying to recruit backers for white supremacist war on US soil,” it would be the headline of every major newspaper. But it is about jihad terror, the biggest threat to free nations today, and so it is not given due attention, despite the alarming news that “Erick Jamal Hendricks represents the significant online ISIS threat that we face daily.”

As evolved as the West is, it has not learned the lessons of history: that supremacism that is ignored, allowed to fester, and not allowed to be criticized (such as Islamic jihad activity), metastasizes to cause the worst harm to humanity.

Note also that “Hendricks was part of a group responsible for a thwarted terrorist attack in Garland, Texas,” at the “First Annual Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest.” Robert Spencer was co-organizer of this event. The shocking involvement of the FBI, with “an FBI agent was right there, following behind the jihadis, whom he had encouraged to ‘tear up Texas,’” is described HERE in an article about a follow-up lawsuit.

More on this story. “Charlotte man convicted of trying of recruit backers for terrorism on US soil,” by Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, March 21, 2018:

Erick Jamal Hendricks, 37, of Charlotte, was convicted this week of conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization.

His sentencing has yet to be scheduled, officials said.

The trial was held in Akron, Ohio, where government prosecutors successfully painted a picture of Hendricks as the driving force behind a proposed ISIS sleeper cell on American soil.

“Erick Jamal Hendricks represents the significant online ISIS threat that we face daily: A US citizen that becomes radicalized online and attempts to recruit and train individuals to commit jihad, all while on American soil,” said Special Agent in Charge Stephen Anthony. “The FBI is pleased that Hendricks was stopped before he was successful and now will spend a significant amount of time behind bars.”

Hendricks moved to Charlotte from Columbia, South Carolina, in July of 2016 and was arrested at his home on Aug. 4 of the same year as part of a complex government investigation that included FBI operatives.

His mother told the Observer in 2016 that her son was “patriotic,” and was facing trumped-up charges because he is a converted Muslim.

Federal prosecutors and the FBI tell a different story, of an Arkansas native who spent months in 2015 trying to recruit ISIS sympathizers through social media to train and unleash terrorist attacks in the United Sates for ISIS.

Authorities say he was unaware that he was often communicating with an FBI operative, bureau informants and an admitted ISIS sympathizer who was arrested in Ohio after he illegally bought an assault rifle.

The latter was a man identified as Amir Al-Ghazi, who was arrested in Ohio in June 2015, after attempting to purchase an AK-47 assault rifle and ammunition from an undercover law enforcement officer. Al-Ghazi had pledged allegiance to ISIS in social media and made statements expressing interest in conducting attacks in the U.S, prosecutors said.

Hendricks had contacted Al-Ghazi over social media to recruit him months earlier. Al-Ghazi said Hendricks tested his religious knowledge and commitment, inquiring about his willingness to commit “jihad,” to die as a “martyr” and his desire to enter “jannah” (paradise).

Al-Ghazi said he believed that Hendricks was part of a group responsible for a thwarted terrorist attack in Garland, Texas, prosecutors said. On April 23, 2015, Hendricks used social media to contact Elton Simpson, who, along with Nadir Hamid Soofi, was inspired by ISIS and launched the attack on the “First Annual Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest” in Garland…..

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Filed Under: Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), United States Tagged With: Akron, Charlotte, Erick Jamal Hendricks, Garland, Ohio


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  1. jihad3tracker says

    Mar 22, 2018 at 10:44 am

    AN EMAIL PATH TO THE WRITER OF THAT CHARLOTTE-OBSERVER ARTICLE IS GIVEN IN A BLUE HOTLINK AT THE TOP OF IT.

    I often recommend providing such journalists with names of websites with extensive arrays of history and context about Islam. But this time, because he might be busy with assignments, let me shift over to the “brilliant” — as Robert accurately wrote — Dr. David Wood and two of his brief videos:

    “THE JIHAD TRIANGLE” and “THREE QUESTIONS FOR MODERATE MUSLIMS”.

    If only 10% of us reading this JW post take a couple of minutes to contact Mr. Price, with the suggestion to watch David’s 2 videos, we will be on the way to having a counter-jihad ally in the mainstream internet press.

    Yes, cynics can reply “But you’ll never have enough MSM persons to make any real difference!”, I may agree. But there is no way to claim such an assertion with certainty.

  2. mv says

    Mar 22, 2018 at 10:46 am

    I have spoken to a Muslim jihadist he told me “you can kill any Muslim. we respect you. But we can not live under Zionist Saudi kingdom of dogs. They are evil and soon Saudi, mecca and Medina will be destroyed by Allah” .

    • mortimer says

      Mar 22, 2018 at 11:25 am

      mv, please let the authorities know where the jihadist lives. Many Muslims who express support for jihad are mere wannabes and some who are totally silent about jihad are the real thing.

      • mv says

        Mar 22, 2018 at 11:50 am

        80 percentage of Muslim men are not educated, violent and blindly believe Islam. You can see Muslim zones/slums. Even police fear.

      • Sons of Liberty says

        Mar 22, 2018 at 6:46 pm

        Mortimer , a Pew Research poll showed that at least 30% of Muslims in the USA believe that Jihad is acceptable in order to enforce Sharia . This is why it is insane to bring all these so-called refugees from countries like Libya, Yemen, Somalia, Iraq , Syria and Afghanistan because at least 30% will support JIHAD …and from these countries probably an even higher percentage. If the US State Department brought in verified Christians it would be different …but they DON’T ,….95-98% are Muslims. We are importing jihadists pure and simple.

        • mv says

          Mar 22, 2018 at 10:33 pm

          When compare to xtian or Jews life, Muslim men are not educated, living under poverty, living in slums, population is high. If you take an average Muslim family they marry at the age of 18. Then average six children and two wife. who feed them? so at any cost they try to invade others land, steal, jihad attack…..refugees,huge responsibility, mental pressure(koran not allowed suicide)…circumcision is the reason for rape.

          The solution stop false religion Islam , or reform . Then family planing and strict western education.
          Anyway Islam is not good for 21 century.It focus on Muhammad’s 6 century life. May be useful for monkeys in Africa. Even 4000 years back written Hindu texts are more intelligent.
          Koran is pope and Jews written and gave to Muhammad. He was not educated and mentally not developed.

        • gravenimage says

          Mar 25, 2018 at 1:31 am

          Oh, good grief. Is mv–whom I have never seen posting here before–claiming that Islam was invented by the Pope and Jews and that the “Prophet” Muhammed was just a poor, ignorant bystander? What crap.

  3. mv says

    Mar 22, 2018 at 10:56 am

    7 heaven of Islam is 7 climate zone of earth itself. Houris are white women. Jin is mongols(Gog Magog/korea’ refer old maps). Angels are catholic nuns. Take a google map you can see Muslim prayer position and a white horse of Muhammad. The chinavat bridge of Iran steppe was called paradise. Persians know Arab fools very well , but they accepted Islam for trade. Islam is a conspiracy as u can see the conspiracy figure of Muhammad.

  4. No Muzzies Here says

    Mar 22, 2018 at 11:17 am

    Another convert who gives himself freely to an organization that actively kills people who object to their goal of installing the Caliphate throughout the world. The convert is enthusiastic about his new religion, studies it to the extent that his limited intelligence permits him to, and is ready to do whatever his new religion tells him to do.
    Obviously, his new religion is telling him to help those who would murder innocent people. Perhaps the world should take a look at the tenets of this religion that orders people to kill and decide if it is compatible with civilization.

  5. mortimer says

    Mar 22, 2018 at 11:29 am

    Booboo, your “OPINIONS” are not “facts” as you believe. Show some REFERENCES and stop being a lazy wanker.

  6. Guy Forester says

    Mar 22, 2018 at 2:01 pm

    Unfortunately, this has been going on here in the US for decades, yet authorities spend more time in turf wars and now political correctness indoctrination than actually seeking and weeding out the truly dangerous ones.

    I have been following this since the stupid idea of helping the mujahideen in Afghanistan started, and even before that with the “Palestinians” after the 1967 6 day war.

    It will be difficult, but perhaps DJT can make some changes in DC. Unfortunately we have decades of left leaning and subversive elements that are career diplomats or law enforcement.

    If you can find them, try reading “Two Seconds Under the World” (Dwyer, Kocieniewski, Murphy, Tyre, 1994) and “1000 Years for Revenge” (Lance, 2003). I once had a book that went through all of the known terror groups from the 50’s to the 80’s (when I bought it). This has been going on for decades. And, despite ideological differences, you would be amazed at how these groups will work together to accomplish a mission, merely because they hate the West. However, the recent jihad has tended to be less ecumenical and more focused.

  7. gravenimage says

    Mar 25, 2018 at 1:33 am

    Charlotte: Muslim convicted for jihad recruitment on America soil, a “threat we face daily,” says agent
    ……………………

    Yes–this is happening all the time, all over the Western world.

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