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Florida: Muslim stole AK-47, scouted out sniper locations, had ISIS literature

Mar 8, 2018 11:37 am By Robert Spencer

Yet another convert to Islam gets the idea that his new religion calls him to commit treason and mass murder. Authorities continue to have no interest whatsoever in this frequently recurring phenomenon.

By the way, is opposition to Jonathan Beese, a blonde white guy, “racist”?

“FBI: Man scouted downtown Ocala building as potential sniper’s nest,” by Myrt Price and Jason Kelly, WFTV, March 6, 2018 (thanks to G.):

OCALA, Fla. – The FBI said an Ocala man whom they have spent two years monitoring scouted out a downtown Ocala location to use for a potential sniper attack.

Jonathan Beese was on the FBI’s radar after his mother said she found Islamic State group references in his bedroom.

Officials said Beese sought to acquire guns, and when he couldn’t afford them, he stole them.

Investigators said Beese researched terrorist attacks and went to the top of the Ocala National Bank building to scout it out as a possible sniper’s nest.

Court documents said that while Beese was there, he took pictures and sent a Facebook message to his girlfriend.

“I found a good spot up here for a sniper’s nest,” Beese said in the message, according to documents. “Could lock everything from the Square to 14th and another few blocks down.”

Beese was arrested in 2017 after investigators said he and his girlfriend, Kristen Sparks, broke into the trunk of her father’s car and stole guns, including an AK-47.

When Beese’s mother discovered Islam-related items here in their 45th Avenue home, she reported it to deputies.

Investigators said she discovered a copy of the Quran, prayer beads and a Muslim robe.

Beese’s mother also discovered writings on his computer referring to ISIS and indications that he was researching travel to Sudan,” documents said.

The FBI said it searched through the suspect’s computer and discovered Beese had read articles and searched for items related to Islamic extremism and lone-wolf terrorism….

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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: Jonathan Beese, Kristen Sparks


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  1. Lebel says

    Mar 8, 2018 at 12:15 pm

    Converting to Islam will not turn you into an IS member.

    The problem is jihadi salafism, not Islam in my opinion. Are you sure that the two are interchangeable Mr. Spencer?

    • John spielman says

      Mar 8, 2018 at 12:32 pm

      well no matter what sect of islam is present at the time – EVENTUALLY all islam morphs into the most violent and repressive one as Indonesia Malaysia Pakistan are all experiencing – and that is due to one thing only- that islam ALLOWS even encourages violence in the name of allah to be used to subdue unbelievers and keep believers in line!

    • StellaSaidSo says

      Mar 8, 2018 at 12:33 pm

      The problem is Islam, lebel. If there were no Islam, there would be no jihad. Imagine – 1400 years without hordes of mentally-challenged marauding Muslims! How peaceful the world might have been!

      Every vile thing the jihadis do has scriptural support.

    • MFritz says

      Mar 8, 2018 at 1:00 pm

      It doesn’t matter to WHAT they convert, but WHY they convert. The reason behind the conversion is always most important!

      Is it a hood rat in jail, some basement dweller who wants to feel entitled or a naive young woman who loves her muslim bf too much etc. pp.

      There’s always a REASON and it will ALWAYS determine what comes afterward.

      • Ashley says

        Mar 8, 2018 at 1:33 pm

        Good question, MFritz.

        I have NO evidence to back up my opinion but this is what I think. Islam is controversial and young folks are drawn to controversy like a moth to a flame. Islam is chock full of interesting quirks…jihad, pedophilia, rape, halal foods, hijabs, honor killings, beheadings… blah, blah, blah. Young people are drawn to that shit. Rolling Stone Magazine saw fit to paste a glamorous picture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on their cover…what does THAT say to young folks?

        Islam is akin to a drug that kids will likely experiment with…

        Just my take.

        • LeftisruiningCanada says

          Mar 8, 2018 at 1:47 pm

          Good points.

          islam also parrots a lot of talking points and idea that are popular on the Left, which is itself usually attractive to younger people.

          Combined with the supernatural elements of islam, i have a feeling that it is able to satisfy, at least on the surface for a while, some of our most deeply longed for needs.

          To bad that both of these sources are poison.

        • Ashley says

          Mar 8, 2018 at 2:50 pm

          Yep. They are ripe for the picking on both sides of the aisle. You’ve got the ones with the “coexist” bumper sticker on their electric cars patronizing McDonald’s today for inverting the golden arches in solidarity with women. You’ve got the ones that just want to mow down pedestrians in the name of Allah to pick up chicks and score some virgins if things don’t pan out.

          Its a mess…

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Mar 8, 2018 at 1:20 pm

      Is the life of mohammad so different from the life of a salafi mujahid, lebel?

    • CRUSADER says

      Mar 8, 2018 at 3:59 pm

      Lebel is saying that a “good” Muslim is one who doesn’t follow Salafism….or Wahhabism…

      Well, now, how correct is that?

      If one is devout as a Muslim, one follows the Islamic Trilogy.

      If one does not do that, one is lapsed in devotion.

      Might as well be an apostate since it is not permissible to pick and choose what to follow in Islam.

      It is all the perfect expression from Allah, mandated to humanity to follow.

      So, either you are a Muslim or you are not. There isn’t an in-between.

      Islam has not gone through any significant “REFORMATION” or as Ayaan Hirsi Ali calls for — “RENOVATION”

      Lebel, read her book “Heretic”, then come back and we can discuss….

      Isn’t it just easier to see the Light, and covert to Christianity?
      Your SOUL won’t regret it.

      +++++++++
      DEUS VULT
      +++++++++

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 8, 2018 at 9:40 pm

      Lebel wrote:

      Converting to Islam will not turn you into an IS member.
      ……………………

      And yet, it so often does. Lebel cannot explain this ‘mystery’, of course.

      More:

      The problem is jihadi salafism, not Islam in my opinion. Are you sure that the two are interchangeable Mr. Spencer?
      ……………………

      There is, of course, no faith called “jihadi salafism”, as Lebel pretends. Nor, obviously, are all Jihadists Salafists.

      All Jihad is waged on the texts and tenets of Islam, and on the model of the “Prophet” Muhammed, who was the original Jihdist and is considered the perfect man for all Muslims to emulate.

      Not eveyone who embraces Islam turns to Jihad–but every Jihadist has embraced Islam.

    • Marcy Watson says

      Mar 8, 2018 at 10:23 pm

      All the death and destructonion called for in the Koran and done by it’s followers is based off the Only Interpretation of Islam. Muhammads (piss be upon him) interpretation! ISIS and Fictional “Modern Muslims” both use the same damn book!

      Sincerely,
      A proud Infidel

  2. Bob Carrillo says

    Mar 8, 2018 at 12:19 pm

    Rhetorical Question:

    Why do you supposed so many of these murderous malcontents are attracted to Islam, and ISIS?

    Could it truly be a 7th century culture of death and world-wide mayhem?

    This world, and this country had better get its’ act together, and right quick.

    “Denial” is not a river in Egypt, as they say. It is dangerous, and it will get a great many more people maimed, raped, and killed..

    • CRUSADER says

      Mar 8, 2018 at 4:01 pm

      An excuse to KILL and RAPE and TORTURE and MAIM.

      Duh !!!

      The Devil is inside them and makes them “do” it.

  3. Keys says

    Mar 8, 2018 at 12:24 pm

    A. Another convert to Christianity texts his girlfriend that he’s found a good spot to set up a sniper’s nest to kill for Jesus.

    B. Another convert to Buddhism texts his girlfriend that he’s found a good spot to set up a sniper’s nest to kill for Buddha.

    C. Another convert to Hindism texts his girlfriend that he’s found a good spot to set up a sniper’s nest to kill for Vishnu.

    D. Another convert to atheism texts his girlfriend that he’s found a good spot to set up a sniper’s nest to kill for mankind.

    E. Another convert to Satanism texts his girlfriend that he’s found a good spot to set up a sniper’s nest to kill for Satan, a deceiver and murderer from the beginning.

    F. Another convert to Islam texts his girlfriend that he’s found a good spot to set up a sniper’s nest to kill for Allah.

    Which of the above is more likely ?

    Ans: E, obviously. And, of course,
    F Islam !

    • John spielman says

      Mar 8, 2018 at 12:34 pm

      true except the Bible tell us that someone allah of islam IS Satan!

    • Savvy Kafir says

      Mar 8, 2018 at 1:28 pm

      Satanists are a pretty goofy bunch, IMO; but we haven’t been seeing a lot of terrorist attacks carried out in the name of Satan — unless you insist on calling Allah “Satan” — but Muslims certainly don’t believe they’re worshipping Satan.

      The (fictional) Allah might as well be the (fictional) Satan, he’s such a hateful, toxic being. But it’s really only Muslims who tend to be terrorists in any significant numbers in the 21st Century. Islam is the problem. Satanism is a joke.

      • Ashley says

        Mar 8, 2018 at 1:43 pm

        I agree. Satanism is pretty “fringe” and conjures up memories of “Rosemary’s Baby” and “The Exorcist.” I don’t think local libraries will be hosting “Meet Your Satanic Neighbor” events. It would probably ruffle too many feathers.

        But it sure would beat “Meet Your Muslim Neighbor” in my book!

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 8, 2018 at 10:06 pm

        True, Savvy Kafir and Ashley–I know couple of Satanists, and it is more ridiculous than actually evil. Probably the best portrayal of Satanists I’ve seen is on the show Silicon Valley.

        We don’t have to worry about Satanists going on mass murdering rampages–would that that were true of devout Muslims.

    • CRUSADER says

      Mar 8, 2018 at 4:55 pm

      In “American Sniper” the gal did get a call with Chris Kyle atop of a roof while he was ensconced in his sniper nest….

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtZZghMpC_I

      (“American Sniper” Phonecall scene, discussion about a nightgown…)

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqcthD64Srs

      (“American Sniper” — epic combat scenes)

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 8, 2018 at 10:02 pm

      Ha ha

  4. Ashley says

    Mar 8, 2018 at 12:46 pm

    Here’s a little history about these characters…

    Cute, eh?

    http://www.ocala.com/news/20170420/subjects-father-arrested-amid-fbi-terrorism-probe

  5. robert saunders says

    Mar 8, 2018 at 1:21 pm

    Give ’em a fair trial then hang ’em.

  6. LeftisruiningCanada says

    Mar 8, 2018 at 1:21 pm

    Ginger beard.

    just sayin’

    • mummymovie says

      Mar 8, 2018 at 1:26 pm

      Right? I love the question Robert poses above:

      Is opposition to Jonathan Beese “racist”?

      • LeftisruiningCanada says

        Mar 8, 2018 at 1:49 pm

        Probably not. But opposition to islam probably still is!

        • mummymovie says

          Mar 8, 2018 at 3:20 pm

          I’ve a sneaky suspicion that the narrative shapers will give us “racists” a pass on Mr. Beese.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 8, 2018 at 10:14 pm

      Really, Milo was joking about “gingers”. I don’t think redheads are any more apt to convert to Islam than any other braindead Westerners.

      • LeftisruiningCanada says

        Mar 9, 2018 at 12:54 am

        Agreed GI, it’s just a joke here too.

        Anything to draw attention to the evil of a muslim beard

        • dumbledoresarmy says

          Mar 9, 2018 at 4:27 am

          He might have gotten some henna and *dyed* it red… just like Mohammed did.

          Many out-and-out-jihadis have henna-dyed beards.

        • LeftisruiningCanada says

          Mar 9, 2018 at 10:51 am

          good point.

          kinda like the mohammadan equivalent of putting lipstick on a pig.

  7. Guy Forester says

    Mar 8, 2018 at 2:06 pm

    Treat them as non uniformed enemy combatants as we did in WW2. Do a web search about the Nazi saboteurs in WW2 (“Operation Pastorius”).

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Mar 9, 2018 at 4:29 am

      Yes. I think it will have to come to that, if we are to survive.

      Ironically enough, they *are* ‘uniformed’ – the jihad beard (and sometimes other accoutrements, such as the ‘robe’ this bloke’s alarmed mother found) for males, and the hijab in its various permutations, for females.

      Those items should be as much of a ‘red flag’ as the finding of a swastika armband along with a copy of Mein Kampf, in someone’s bedroom drawers, would have been in 1941 in the UK or USA.

  8. CRUSADER says

    Mar 8, 2018 at 3:55 pm

    Jesus hates the Left?

    Jay Boo, say it ain’t so!

    😉

  9. CRUSADER says

    Mar 8, 2018 at 4:12 pm

    On 8th of August, 1942, six German saboteurs were executed in the District of Columbia Jail by electrocution …

    Nazi Saboteurs Tried to Attack America and It Was a Spectacular …

    https://warisboring.com/nazi-saboteurs-tried-to-attack-america-and-it-was-a-spectacula…

    German spies during World War II hoped the operation would be the perfect mission—an intelligence and sabotage coup that would terrify Americans while destroying essential wartime industry. Instead, Operation Pastorius turned into a fiasco with betrayals, astounding incompetence and blown covers …

    • Marcy Watson says

      Mar 8, 2018 at 10:31 pm

      Now if we could only capture Soros evil Nazi ass!

  10. mortimer says

    Mar 8, 2018 at 5:10 pm

    Jonathan Beese is a Death Cultist. The Death Cult Islam is actually many cults in one:

    – a DEATH CULT, a RAPE CULT, an EXTORTION CULT, a PLUNDER CULT, a CENSORSHIP CULT, a MISOGYNY CULT, a LIE CULT, a PEDOPHILIA CULT, a SADOMASOCHISM CULT, an OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE CULT, a SUPREMACISM CULT, a JEW HATRED CULT, a CHRISTIANOPHOBIA CULT, a MALE CHAUVINIST CULT, an INBREEDING CULT, an OBSCURANTISM CULT, a SUPERSTITION CULT, a PERSONALITY CULT, a CRUELTY TO ANIMALS CULT, a GROUP-THINK CULT, a SUICIDE CULT.

    Wow! 21 cults in one! Where do we sign up? (sarc/off)

  11. Cheer Bear Girl says

    Mar 8, 2018 at 7:25 pm

    I am so sick of the authorities denying Islam’s role in violence.

  12. gravenimage says

    Mar 8, 2018 at 8:53 pm

    Florida: Muslim stole AK-47, scouted out sniper locations, had ISIS literature
    …………………

    Another pious convert to the “religion of peace”, I see…

  13. Marcy Watson says

    Mar 8, 2018 at 10:35 pm

    Did this guy happen to get any of the special, “Defensive” training at his local mosque that the Coward Sheriff Israel provided.

  14. dumbledoresarmy says

    Mar 9, 2018 at 4:11 am

    From the article – “When Beese’s mother discovered Islam-related items here in their 45th Avenue home, she reported it to deputies.

    Investigators said she discovered a copy of the Quran, prayer beads and a Muslim robe.”

    Good on this woman for recognising that her convert-to-Islam son was potentially *dangerous*. Good on her for alerting the authorities.

    And think about this: *all* that is required for someone to Go Jihad, is the Quran.

  15. dumbledoresarmy says

    Mar 9, 2018 at 4:40 am

    People worry when their kids – or their friends, or their workmates, or their classmates – get involved with groups like the Moonies, the Scientologists, or the Hare Krishnas.

    But it’s when someone you know starts hanging around with Muslims – worse still, when that someone announces that they are converting to ISLAM – that all the alarm bells should be ringing at once.

    I wonder, if one were to take the time to go back through the jihadwatch archives, and make a list of *all* the known converts to Islam, of every imaginable religious and non-religious non-Islamic cultural background, and of every imaginable level of education and mental competence of incompetence, and of a wide variety of ethnicities, just how many one would find, by now? All, all of them, in different countries, of different ethnicities, male and female, young and older, some stupid, some clever, some openly criminal before they embraced Islam but others apparently quite normal and nice, but.. all of them, once they joined the Mohamedan Mob, once they started taking Islam fully to heart, setting about.. making plots to KILL people.

    Openly becoming a Muslim should be a decision as roundly-condemned as would be an openly-declared declaration of one’s having joined the Mafia.

    • Giacomo Latta says

      Mar 9, 2018 at 5:48 am

      Why groups that foment activity that is illegal and is not likely to become otherwise, such as beating of women, classifying independent women as slave material, killing fellow Muslims and others because they are not Muslim enough in your book, are not designated as enemies of the state and the people is beyond me. Why does this so-called religion known as Islam not stripped of all benefits that Western society gives it? I am thinking of tax-free status, ability to give tax-deductions, etc.

  16. Giacomo Latta says

    Mar 9, 2018 at 5:42 am

    I am surprised Beese’s mother has not yet been labeled Islamophobicby mainstream media yet. As an aside, this same media has been trying to “ethnify” Muslim groups for some time now. I suppose, as noted by others, that soon Media will be able to treat any criticism of Islam as racism. Note reference to Muslim Rohingya or Muslim just about anything.

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