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North Carolina Muslim guilty of aiding ISIS, linked to plot to murder Pamela Geller and attendees at free speech event

Mar 21, 2018 9:18 pm By Robert Spencer

The jihadis’ made it clear in their communications with each other that their primary target was Pamela Geller, but they planned to kill as many people as possible at the AFDI/Jihad Watch Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest, of which I was co-organizer and at which I spoke, in Garland, Texas on May 3, 2015. Still not adequately explained is the role of an FBI undercover agent who was communicating with the jihadis and even giving Hendricks details of our security arrangements. The corrupt and clueless FBI is dissembling and stonewalling about that.

“Charlotte man convicted of trying of recruit backers for terrorism on US soil,” by Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, March 21, 2018 (thanks to the Geller Report):

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….

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….

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.

Simpson and Soofi opened fire, wounding a security guard, before Garland police returned fire and killed both Simpson and Soofi.

Al-Ghazi previously pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support to a designated terrorist organization and being a felon in possession of firearms, officials said. He is awaiting sentencing.

Prosecutors say Hendricks’s potential targets included military members whose information had been released by ISIS and the woman who organized the “Draw Prophet Mohammad contest.” He claimed to have 10 members signed up for his group, according court documents and trial testimony….

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  1. Timothy McAlee, Sr. G.eD. says

    Mar 21, 2018 at 10:26 pm

    He needs to be in a Muslim sewar jail, where the Rats are! And Homo Mohammed is entombed!!!

    • mv says

      Mar 21, 2018 at 10:55 pm

      Mo is the inventor of Lesbian sx . He married 8 to watch lesbian sx.

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 25, 2018 at 1:39 am

        What is mv babbling about now? On another thread he claimed that Islam was invented by Jews and the Pope, and that Muslims are just poor ignorant dupes.

    • mv says

      Mar 21, 2018 at 11:46 pm

      • Lydia Church says

        Mar 22, 2018 at 2:42 am

        How many bizarre mutations can a thing undergo???

      • Eric jones says

        Mar 22, 2018 at 3:16 am

        Hey man Oktar seems happy! I am also somewhat of a creationist. Waite until you see my group!

        Eric

        • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

          Mar 22, 2018 at 5:11 pm

          Hey man Oktar seems happy!

          That’s exactly what I thought. This is one happy dude. I’ll join his religious cult if I get to hang out with those bleach blonde Moslimas, the Kittens. Looks like the scowling Ayatollah Khomeini had it wrong, there *is* fun in Islam, or a syncretic version of it at least.

          Btw, I know when a gal has had collagen injections into her lips, not that I object or anything. That’s small potatoes compared to lopping of a clitoris and things like that.

  2. Bezelel says

    Mar 21, 2018 at 11:12 pm

    Tucker Carlson on Fox had the security guard that was wounded at Garland and his lawyer on his show tonight, missed part of it. Planning to email a thank you to Tucker for paying attention and spreading the word.

    • PRCS says

      Mar 22, 2018 at 1:08 am

      He has addressed this before, though not as extensively as he did this evening–with the security guard and his lawyer present. Yes, a thank you to Tucker Carlson.

    • J D S says

      Mar 22, 2018 at 10:13 am

      If all news outlets would just use the JW headlines that we see every day we might see more people being informed and it wouldn’t hurt for politicians th look st Roberts JW news items either…but they probably would be too AFRAID to use the info. What a world we have allowed to evolve.

      • Tom S. says

        Mar 22, 2018 at 1:18 pm

        I am determined that there will be a monument to Robert Spencer and the other key members of the counter-jihad on the national mall.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 25, 2018 at 1:43 am

      Yes–kudos to Tucker Carlson.

  3. Berengaria says

    Mar 22, 2018 at 12:36 am

    Another Black Convert to the Religion of Peace, with his doting MaMa by his side, screeching that her boy was a “Patriot”.
    It’s Unfortunate that the Mother could not be charged with her boy, because it appears that she was aware of his actions. I am quite amazed that the authorities charged this Big Goof Ball at all, the Garland Attack was Not a top priority for LE.

  4. MFritz says

    Mar 22, 2018 at 2:11 am

    And another hood rat who found islam in prison. Prison gives and prison takes.

  5. Ray Jarman says

    Mar 22, 2018 at 3:10 am

    Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller have been designated as hate inspired by the Sothern Poverty Law Center which refuses to list Louis Farrakhan and ANTIFA as hate groups. Had the event sponsors not hired its own security, many innocent people would have been slaughtered just like the French publication Charlie Hebdo personnel. It seems that this was another of the FBI’s screw ups.

  6. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Mar 22, 2018 at 1:00 pm

    The jihadis’ made it clear in their communications with each other that their primary target was Pamela Geller…

    Don’t worry, Pamela, the FBI is on the case.

    But lay low for a while, the world’s greatest police force is busy right now trying to keep the Bloodless Coup alive, turn over the election results and all that. Once integrity-is-undoubted-and-beyond-reproach Bob Mueller comes free, and can turn his talents to your case, just like he did on the Anthrax investigation he ran. Good luck.

  7. Tom S. says

    Mar 22, 2018 at 1:12 pm

    Now the FBI has conspired with a convicted criminal.

  8. gravenimage says

    Mar 25, 2018 at 1:45 am

    North Carolina Muslim guilty of aiding ISIS, linked to plot to murder Pamela Geller and attendees at free speech event
    ……………

    The plot thickens.

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