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Virginia: Muslim who tried to join U.S. military to imitate Fort Hood jihadi gets 5 years for lying on applications

Jun 5, 2018 12:06 pm By Robert Spencer

In joining the military, Shivam Patel apparently wanted to become another Nidal Malik Hasan, the Muslim U.S. Army Major who murdered 13 people while screaming “Allahu akbar” at Fort Hood in 2009: he expressed “support for Maj. Nidal Hasan, who fatally shot 13 soldiers in 2009 while serving at Fort Hood in Texas, calling the attack ‘completely justified’ as he believed that Hasan died a martyr and he wanted to become one too.”

Actually, Hasan is still alive.

“Virginia man who wanted to join Islamic State gets 5 years for lying to the US Army,” by Scott Daugherty, Virginian-Pilot, June 5, 2018:

A Williamsburg man who traveled to Jordan in a failed attempt to contact a terrorist group and then tried to join the U.S. military was sentenced Monday to five years in prison.

Shivam Patel, 28, also was ordered to pay $4,000 in fines in connection with two counts of making false statements during his military application process….

According to court documents and prosecutors, Patel – who was raised Hindu before converting to Islam several years ago – traveled to China in July 2016 to teach English. While there, he grew displeased with how that country treated Muslims.

His employer arranged for Patel to fly back to Virginia on Aug. 23, 2016, but, instead, Patel traveled to Jordan, where he was arrested a few days later for unspecified reasons. Court documents said Patel told taxi drivers and others in Jordan that he supported the Islamic State.

A search of Patel’s computer showed he researched how to join the Islamic State before he left for China.

Jordanian officials moved to deport Patel, prompting him to return to the United States on Sept. 2, 2016. On his way back to Virginia, he stopped in Detroit, where he started talking with an undercover FBI source about the Islamic State. He explained he went to Jordan in part to find like-minded Muslims. He said he wanted to do something “bigger, better, and more purposeful,” like dying in the cause of Allah….

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  1. duh swami says

    Jun 5, 2018 at 2:21 pm

    He lied on his application and got 5 years…Another Muslim lied on all his applications and became President for 8 years……

    • OldFatBaldSociallyIneptRon says

      Jun 5, 2018 at 4:42 pm

      duh swami, your comment was hysterically brilliant.

    • Richard Jordan says

      Jun 6, 2018 at 4:13 am

      Very true! Excellent comment.

  2. mortimer says

    Jun 5, 2018 at 3:37 pm

    Islamist supremacism can be largely opposed by the application of laws on the books. If we apply those laws, then jihad will appear much more risky and many fewer will take the chance of lengthy jail time. However, while in jail, Islamists should be required to attend counterjihad deprogramming which means showing them the most modern scholarship on the geography and archeology of the Koran and early Islam and the latest textual criticism of the Islamic primary source texts.

  3. Guy Forester says

    Jun 5, 2018 at 5:36 pm

    So, he would like to find like minded others? Good. If he was not born here, upon release from prison, remove his citizenship and send him to Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, or any other third world hell hole we can dump him in. Otherwise, put him in with his pals in Gitmo.

  4. Wellington says

    Jun 5, 2018 at 6:51 pm

    Mendacity and Islam. Perfect together.

  5. pemba says

    Jun 5, 2018 at 9:44 pm

    Just 5 years only, this guy should be in for life.

  6. peter says

    Jun 5, 2018 at 9:54 pm

    I knew another Hindu woman with similar last name who would have orgasm at the thought of mulim marrying many Hindu women .What is wrong with some of these patels.

  7. mach37 says

    Jun 6, 2018 at 1:17 am

    Missing vital information from all internet sources is whether Patel was born in the USA of immigrant parents, or was himself an immigrant. Calling him a “Virginia man” is very incomplete and misleading information, considering his Hindu up-bringing and frequent worldwide travels; he is clearly not what most people would consider to be culturally “American.”

  8. David says

    Jun 6, 2018 at 4:05 am

    So there’s this Muslim and he wants to commit a suicide attack but doesn’t know how, so he goes to his imam for advice the imam says go into the most crowded market you can find and do it. So he goes to a crowded market place pulls out a knife yell allahu Akbar and starts stabbing himself.

    • Giacomo Latta says

      Jun 6, 2018 at 3:14 pm

      Excellent! Keep ’em coming.

  9. Berengaria says

    Jun 6, 2018 at 7:12 pm

    Thank God, this Potential Killer did not get into our US Army, & think how many others Like Shivam are actually ensconced in our Military, Now.
    I don’t care if there is a Push by Recruiters to get Muslims into the Military, this 28 year old male is not General Mattis’s idea of a US Soldier. Patel’s History is Scary & he will only spend a small amount of time in Jail, under the Tutorship of one of the Prison, Strolling Imams.
    Heaven Help Us.

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