U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said: “We may never know what drove Maalik Jones to travel to Somalia and pledge allegiance to al Shabaab, a terrorist organization that has vowed to destroy America.”
Yes, it’s a real mystery! Could it have anything to do with his adhering to a religion that thrice commands believers to “kill them wherever you find them” (cf. Qur’an 2:191, 4:89, and 9:5)? Could it be related to his revering as a prophet a man who waged war against those who did not accept his prophetic claim and commanded his followers to murder people who criticized him?
Nah, that couldn’t be it. It’s a religion of peace! Maybe he had a deprived childhood…
“United States Citizen Sentenced to 35 Years for Providing Material Support to Al-Shabaab,” Department of Justice, May 29, 2018:
Maalik Alim Jones, 33, of Baltimore, Maryland, was sentenced today to 35 years in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiring to provide material support to al-Shabaab, a designated foreign terrorist organization based in Somalia, conspiring to receive military training from al-Shabaab, and carrying and using an AK-47 machinegun, rocket-propelled grenades, and other destructive devices in furtherance of his support for al-Shabaab. Jones pleaded guilty on Sept. 8, 2017, to a three-count Superseding Information.
Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers and U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman for the Southern District of New York made the announcement. U.S. District Judge Paul G. Gardephe imposed Jones’s sentence.
“U.S. citizens who travel overseas to fight with a terrorist organization – which is what Jones did – betray our country and pose a serious threat to our national security,” said Assistant Attorney General Demers. “The National Security Division remains committed to committed to identifying and stopping terrorists like Jones, and we will hold them accountable. Credit goes to all those who worked so tirelessly to bring Jones to justice.”
“We may never know what drove Maalik Jones to travel to Somalia and pledge allegiance to al Shabaab, a terrorist organization that has vowed to destroy America,” said U.S. Attorney Berman. “But we do know that with today’s sentence, Jones is no longer a threat to America’s ideals.”…
PABLO says
U.S. Attorney Berman is an embarrassment.
nadir ahmed says
Terrorism is an imitation of the kuffar. It is a proud Judeo Christian tradition.
Thanks,
NA
Robert Spencer debate defeat:
https://youtu.be/ByRHtZBcpBY?t=533
FYI says
Terrorism is an imitation of islam’s “prophet”.It is a proud islamic tradition.
Terrorism is your murderous,false “prophet” muhammed’s boasted speciality and gift to mankind…
In his own words..
“I have been made victorious through TERROR”
bukhari 4:52:220
And muhammed[GWUP..God’s wrath upon him} would know all about terror wouldn’t he:as he was a mass-murderer.
ABU DAWUD 4390
Now a mass-murder like muhammed{GWUP}is a multiple violator of God’s 6th Commandment{a concept of course that is lost on muslims,perfect mo and even allah himself it seems in his “holy” koran”}(Such a man as mohammed with his life of unbridled sinfulness and immoral,commandment-of-God violating wickedness is an ABOMINATION to God.certainly ,muhammed was no True Prophet:as he admitted himself in al tabari 6:111.In fact he admitted to being AGAINST GOD)
But then,alas,the vast majority of muslims lack the wisdom to see that;or that their shadow god allah is NOT The True Biblical God of Moses
And 1,400+ years of murderous savagery in the name of the false god allah with his false “prophet”.
But never let the facts get in the way of the muslim troll:like all muslim trolls,they paint themselves into a corner and are not smart enough to see it…
Shmoovie says
+1
J D S says
Yes all Muslims who reject Jesus the Christ have a special place in hell..That awful Lake of Fire….which I suspect God might be enlarging just to accommodate in them..but In Doing do I also suspect He is shedding tears.
Joefelon says
I am so surprised…more lies and deceit from an adherent of a fascist death cult created by a murderer who needed a child to be sexually stimulated. your so called “religion” has advocated terrorism from its inception to use as a means of conquering the world. you people also need to accept the fact that the Jews occupied the Land of Israel over 5000 years ago and fought for their return to the land from the 1940’s until the present day and will never be conquered. muslims do nothing but play the victim while raping and murdering non-believers. no other faith uses violence while being stuck in the dark ages to achieve their nefarious goals as do evil muslims.
nadir ahmed says
there was no terrorism until the take over of Palestine and forced displacement of Muslims. That triggered the war on terror, which lead us to today.
Thanks,
NA
https://youtu.be/ByRHtZBcpBY?t=533
Shmoovie says
Honestly– why would the best people need or want to “imitate” filthy kuffar?
Suggested reading: islamic holy book; anything by Robert Spencer.
gravenimage says
The dishonest nadir ahmed wrote:
Terrorism is an imitation of the kuffar. It is a proud Judeo Christian tradition.
Thanks,
NA
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As FYI notes, the “Prophet” himself said, “I have been made victorious through terror”.
In fact, the Qur’an and Hadith contain little but a compendium of Jihad terror attacks on the unbelievers–and the preaching of same–caravan-raiding, enslavement, rape, and mass murder.
Maalik Jones did nothing that was not on the model of the vicious “Prophet” of Islam, as nadir ahmed well knows.
gravenimage says
More from nadir ahmed:
there was no terrorism until the take over of Palestine and forced displacement of Muslims. That triggered the war on terror, which lead us to today.
Thanks,
NA
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So Muslims brutally conquering large swaths of the world was not terror? Slaughtering and estimated 80 million Hindus was not terror? Slave raids in Africa and Europe were not terror? The Armenian Genocide was not terror?
As Nadit Ahmad would have it, all this was just Muslims being good Muslims. Apart from that, it’s all the fault of the Jews, for daring to live free of Muslim conquest.
WESTPAC Spy says
Your self-serving lies are unimpressive. Terrorism is synonymous with Islam and has been since the start.
“We will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve for what they have associated with Allah of which He had not sent down [any] authority. And their refuge will be the Fire, and wretched is the residence of the wrongdoers. (S3:151)”
“[Remember] when your Lord inspired to the angels, ‘I am with you, so strengthen those who have believed. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieved, so strike [them] upon the necks and strike from them every fingertip.’ (S8:12)”
Sahih al-Bukhari – Book of Fighting for the Cause of Allah (Jihaad) – (122)Chapter: “I have been made victorious…”
” Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said, “I have been sent with the shortest expressions bearing the widest meanings, and I have been made victorious with terror (cast in the hearts of the enemy), and while I was sleeping, the keys of the treasures of the world were brought to me and put in my hand.” Abu Huraira added: Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) has left the world and now you, people, are bringing out those treasures (i.e. the Prophet did not benefit by them).”
I can’t tell you how much contempt I have for you. Nothing is weaker than Islam. Nothing is more pathetic than a Muslim. Your “creed” commands you to commit acts of terror. But if you don’t get away with it you lie through your, teeth, blame everyone and everything except your miserable ideology, and cry and whine like a little girl. Despicable.
gravenimage says
+1
WESTPAC Spy says
Maybe if the Muslims didn’t keep stealing other people’s lands from Morocco to Pakistan and took your worthless selves back to Arabia we wouldn’t have to enjoy forcibly ejecting you from territory that isn’t yours, thief.
J D S says
Palestine only belongs to the Jews…Given to them by The God of Abraham …Palestinians of today are just Bedouin Arabs tent dwellers who have no business trying to steal land from the Jews and creating chaos..
God is watching and waiting. Why does the muslim world not see that God favors the Jews and Gentiles…….It should be plain to see.
Rouge1 says
I thought the scumbag did the room temperature challange. No happy ending here.
mike9a says
U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman is ignoramus!
Joe says
He used exactly the same words as Loretta Lynch as she described the motive behind the Miami massacre. The common thread of Islam must not be mentioned. So “We may never know” that each jihad attack has anything to do with Islam.
CogitoErgoSum says
Here is another case where the man is not dead. JUST ASK HIM why he did what he did. No, you will never know if you don’t want to know. How dumb can you be and still be a U.S. Attorney? The answer would seem to be …. as dumb as a rock.
Malcolm (South Afric) says
Well John Kerry said in 4 Sept 2014: “Islam is a Peaceful Religion Based on the Dignity of all Human Beings,”
Third eye says
We all know Kerry is a fool
Granddaddy says
Kerry lives in a different world, that’s for sure. Not that I’m defending him. I’m not. But I remember when he was running against Bush, they reported that he regularly spent $1000 for a haircut. And that was 14 years ago. You have to wonder what it costs him just to eat lunch. If guys like Kerry want to live in their fantasy world, as long as it doesn’t affect me, I don’t care. I think of it more as a symptom of dysfunction. Let them shuttle to Paris for a ten thousand dollar pair of shoes. It’s when they start denying reality, as in “Islam is a religion of peace”, even though they know nothing about Islam (if they did they wouldn’t say such things) and refuse to do their homework, or when they insist that the Obama-Iran deal was a good idea — that’s when we are right to care. I don’t know how the guy got elected Senator, I just know that he did. So there are a lot of people who think like him, or maybe they’re just dupes, I don’t know. But I do know that there’s a lot more like him backstage, and that’s a scary thought.
Ray Jarman says
Kerry is truly a fool and a disgraceful excuse for an American. He does also have one striking thing in common with muhammad; they both married into money which helped them to pursue their aims of evil. Muhammad had Khadija and Kerry has Teresa Heinz. Neither earned their wealth except that muhammad became richer through his slaughtering of caravans carrying goods.
Malcolm (South Afric) says
Liberal politicians clergy, at the expense of those who have met their deaths in the most gruesome manner, at the hands of muslims, have deflected the horrors of Islam, by saying that the broader muslim population are not to blame. To me that statement is pathetic.
Well, no one is saying that, however we do not know who of them, is a potential time bomb, who takes the koran seriously.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/09/28/obama_islam_is_a_religion_that_preaches_peace.html
gravenimage says
I think that Kerry is worse than a fool. He is a traitor, and has been since the Vietnam War.
Granddaddy says
That’s true. The idea that all this carnage and just all around problems is caused by a small group of “extremists” who have hijacked the “religion of peace”, when this almost never happens with any other religion, is not just preposterous but, as you say, displays a very large disconnect with reality and lack of empathy for all those who suffer because of it. It’s hard to wrap one’s mind around not just Kerry but all those who think this way. Kerry is just one of many. They seem to think that it’s not possible that they could be wrong and that anyone who doesn’t agree with them is deranged.
Emilie Green says
“U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said: ‘We may never know . . .'”
Wow, an all-star. Better than Owen Marshall, Perry Mason, all the lawyers from LA Law, The Practice, Boston Legal, even Matlock. Must have been top of his class at law school.
melek-ric says
“We may never know what drove **insert name of Muslim** to carry out **insert Jihad atrocity**”.
Different incident; EXACTLY the same wording. Over and over again. We hear it from heads of law enforcement, prime ministers, senators and every other government apparatchik. Surely by now it’s clear and obvious to anyone with an iota of intelligence that this is part of a Big Lie and coming straight from a script that’s been handed to all of the political leadership in the West.
We MUST get rid of these traitors.
Norger says
We may never know…. That’s what the authorities have said about the St. Cloud mall stabber, the Boston Marathon bombers, the Orlando nightclub shooter, the Fort Hood shooter…. the list goes on and on. It doesn’t even matter if the terrorists claim to be devout Muslims acting in the name of Islam; the authorities will still feign confusion over the terrorist’s “true” motives. We may never know…. Exactly the opposite of what happens when the authorities are looking for cases to dump into the “right wing extremism” bucket; every borderline case gets thrown in because that fits the preferred narrative.
elee says
Kafirs sure are ignorant.
mgoldberg says
“We may never know what drove Maalik to to travel to Somalia and pledge allegiance to Al Shabaab”
What this US attorney actually meant was…” we may never wish to kinow what he told us was his reason for traveling to Somalia to join a Jihadist organization” ” we may never want to understand that Jihad is clear, concise and offers a plan to overthrow our world, to annoint those commanded to do so, with earthly and heavenly reward, justification, and sanctification.” “We may never be able to admit that this is the Jihadist direction from Islam, and applies to all muslims who take the pledge”
Ashley says
“But we do know that with today’s sentence, Jones is no longer a threat to America’s ideals.”
__________________
Bullshit.
Jones is now in a position to indoctrinate fellow inmates to Islam.
He won’t serve 35 years.
And he won’t be supervised upon release…
Rarely says
I don’t doubt that the vast majority of jihadist activity is because of the directives of the “religion” of islam.
However, I do think that many of the converts are not so much “believers” but rather violent anti-social types (“sociopathic” is a term that comes to mind) who join islam because it not only authorizes their violence but mandates it. approves of it. formalizes it and helps them along with it. Islam gives the powerless power. i.e. islam attracts actual violent loser nut cases. It’s academic, of course, because the end result is the same but I would be especially wary of converts.
Therefore, in a real sense, we may not know Jones’ actual motivation.
I may be completely wrong but I have trouble seeing why anyone in the West would convert to it otherwise.
boakai ngombu says
” … it not only authorizes their violence but mandates it. approves of it. formalizes it and helps them along with it….”.
is also sanctifies it.
the allah god of islam (unknowable; the best of all deceivers), through the SHARIA, blesses the rage and hate its slaves (muslims) display as they despoil, corrupt, ruin, destroy, kiill. the exemplar – muhammad (lately contrived; full of lusts; having no compassion) is the blessed model for the slaves to follow.
gravenimage says
Funny that Infidels are not running off to join the Jihad, then…
WESTPAC Spy says
You are just making excuses for these people. Islam tends to turn people into violent anti-social types. In 2006-2008 time frame the German Interior Ministry and a crime research center conducted a study involving 45000 participants of all religions. All were young men. All religions turned people more peaceful the more knowledgeable and the more devout they became. All but one; you get three guesses, and the first two don’t count.
Only Islam made its adherents more violent. It is unique in that regard, and it doesn’t matter if we’re talking about converts or “westernized” Muslims who simply decide to take their religion more seriously become more violent. The more seriously they take their religion, the more violent they become. Converts become Muslims for many reasons. Usually they don’t know anything about Islam, and they don’t do their due diligence and investigate for themselves. Whoever is doing Dawah (proselytizing to recruit them) simply lies to them, tells them whatever they want to hear, and they join out of ignorance. There’s usually an increase in converts to Islam after terror attacks precisely because “moderate” Muslims and non-Muslim politicians and media types sing Islams praises as a “religion of peace” and and only a bigot and racist Islamophobe would claim otherwise and, I know this is hard to believe, they believe it. Many African Americans join because they don’t know about the 1400 year Islamic slave trade and are easily preyed upon as their recruiters convince them that Christianity is the real religion of slavery (even though the Atlantic slave trade lasted 1000 years less and involved a lot fewer slaves and was not nearly as genocidal as the Islamic slave trade). Again, very few converts know anything about Islam at all. Many are horrified when they find out more about what they’ve gotten themselves into and escape as soon as possible. Others decide to take it seriously.
“Westernized” Muslims who used to be partiers, who drank and ate pork, slept with their girlfriends, smoked pot, often decide that they need to clean up their act and take their religion more seriously. And they often (but ckearly not always) become terrorists as they decide it’s the only way to make up for their past sins. In Islam you only get into paradise if your good deeds outweigh your bad deeds. They worry that they’ve already committed so many bad deeds they can never make up for them. Jihad provides the only guarantee. The Iranian-American kid at UNC chapel hill, Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, who in 2006 tried to run down as many students as possible on campus fit this profile, as have many terrorists here and in Europe. One of the November 2015 Paris suicide bombers, Brahim Abdeslam, formerly owned a bar in the Molenbeek district of Brussels. The kid who attacked the recruiting station and reserve center in Chattanooga was a drug addict who decided he’d never kick his habit, knew enough about Islam to know he was on the fast track to hell, so his only chance of getting into Islamic paradise to was to “kill and be killed” fighting “in the cause of Allah” (S9:111).
These people don’t turn violent until they start taking Islam more seriously.
CogitoErgoSum says
Or, in other words, from a flies point of view a pile of shit is a natural source of sustenance for little maggots to thrive.
CogitoErgoSum says
Excuse me …. that should be “from a fly’s point of view”. I don’t want to appear to be as dumb as a rock.
Rarely says
A little crude but not a bad analogy. It’s just a tad unfair to the flies and maggots.
CogitoErgoSum says
🙂
Jaladhi says
Do we really care to know what drove Maalik to pledge allegiance to al- shabaab? It is sufficient to know he joined the terrorist group whose sole purpose is to kill non-Muslims and US citizens. Traitor! Lock him up and throw away the keys!!
Jaladhi says
Actually we know what drove him to do this but its the wide eyed liberals in the media, government and academia who bury their heads in the sand and never want to confront the truth about Muslims and Islam!
FYI says
We may never know?
So what motivates the devout muslim to slay the unbelievers wherever he finds them: there must be some place where muslims get the idea to slay the unbelievers wherever they find them..because if you are a devout muslim desirous of slaying the unbelievers wherever you find them,then it would help if there is some scriptural reference that encourages muslims to slay the unbelievers wherever they find them.
Where,oh where, do muslims get the idea to slay the unbelievers wherever they find them?
what{sarc} a great mystery it all is…..
At least it is if you are willing to ignore allah’s command of koran 2:191…….then,yeah,sure..it’s all a complete mystery..
Rarely says
No one is being fooled by the U.S. Attorney not ascribing a motive. The ramifications in openly ascribing the motive to mainstream Islamic teachings and ideology could be very serious indeed.
Rarely says
I suspect that it is far better to say nothing than that “he misinterpreted the teachings of islam — a religion of peace” which another common explanation.
Rarely says
Maybe the A-Gs are trying to be Politically Correct here.
I am reminded of a definition given to “Political Correctness” from a contest at Texas A&M a number of years ago which may be a propos here. It went this way:
“Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
It won.
Maybe it’s time for the authorities to leave PC behind and stop being apologetic to islam. Perhaps this is long overdue.
Voytek Gagalka says
Those who wish to NOT know and who are cowardly AFRAID of knowing, they will never know or admit that they know. The world if full of cowards and those who deliberately (or foolishly) blank out.
gravenimage says
US Attorney: “We may never know what drove Maalik Jones to travel to Somalia and pledge allegiance to al Shabaab”
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Gee, I dunno–might it be…Islam?
Chand says
A Black American Muslim might take to guns, crack and gangs and become a violent criminal.
A Black American Christian might convert to Islam and take to guns, crack and gangs and become a violent criminal.
A Black American Christian might take to guns, crack and gangs and become a violent criminal.
A White Ameircan might convert to Islam and take to guns, drugs and gangs and become a violent criminal.
A White American Christian might take to guns, drugs and gangs and become a violent criminal.
A White American Muslim/Christian might take to jihad and join ISIS/AL qaeda/Al shabab.
A Black American Muslim/Christian might take to jihad………………………etc etc.
One must blame the individual and not a particular religion.
gravenimage says
Chand demands that we ignore the fact that Islam *preaches* violence, and that its founder was a violent warlord. He wants to pretend that members of any faith are just as likely to be violent as any other–despite those 33,000+ Jihad terror attacks just since 9/11.
He even goes to the ludicrous extent of claiming that Christians are as apt to join Jihad terror groups ISIS, AL qaeda, and Al shabab as are Muslims. Doesn’t he realize how ridiculous he sounds?
Sam says
Is it possible that maybe and very very small maybe Islam may have something to do with this?
What will it take liberals for you to open you eyes and ears to Islam?