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Virginia: Convert to Islam who discussed joining the Islamic State gets 20 years for obstruction of justice and child porn

Jul 8, 2018 4:49 pm By Robert Spencer

Where did Sean Andrew Duncan get the idea to do all these things? Could these ideas have had anything to do with his new, peaceful religion? Could it be from Islam that he got the idea that murdering non-Muslims was a righteous act (cf. Qur’an 2:191, 4:89, and 9:5)? And that prepubescent children could be objects of erotic interest, in light of the fact that Muhammad, the supreme model of conduct for Muslims, consummated his marriage with the nine-year-old Aisha when he was 54?

“‘I was a poser,’ says young man caught with Islamic State propaganda and child porn,” by Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, July 6, 2018:

When the FBI knocked on his front door in December, Sean Duncan says, he ran out the back carrying a thumb drive full of child pornography. He broke it in half and doused it in cleaning solution.

But in a sign of how strange his criminal case has been, prosecutors say he might be lying in an effort to conceal ties to terrorism or information on the death of his son.

U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema on Friday sentenced Duncan to 20 years in prison and a lifetime of supervision, the maximum allowed under his plea agreement to charges of obstruction of justice and receipt of child pornography.

The FBI was at the 22-year-old’s Sterling, Va., home that December day because of his interest in radical Islam and the Islamic State, not child pornography. He also remains under investigation by authorities in Pennsylvania after the death of his infant son in June 2017, according to court papers.

Prosecutors in federal court in Alexandria said that in the months before his arrest, Duncan was simultaneously looking up child pornography and information on terrorism. In one instance, they said, he took a sexually explicit photograph of an infant relative while changing her diaper.

“I don’t know which is the more serious of the two,” Brinkema said in court Friday — the crimes against children or the interest in terrorism.

“There’s a huge gap in all the information,” she added, because the contents of the thumb drive were never recovered.

In court papers, prosecutors said Duncan was still probably hiding something.

“The investigators believe that he . . . has withheld important information,” assistant U.S. attorneys Colleen Garcia and Gordon Kromberg wrote.

Defense attorneys said Duncan had, on the contrary, been completely forthcoming with law enforcement and has begun confronting untreated mental health problems and trauma.

“Young, lonely and isolated, he was particularly susceptible to . . . the dark underbelly of the Internet,” public defender Elizabeth Mullin said in court.

But his interest “never resulted in any concrete plan to fight or commit a terrorist attack,” she added, and there is no evidence he shared the pornographic photo he took with anyone….

“I was a poser,” Duncan wrote in a letter to the court.

In court Friday, Garcia pointed out that at least one Islamic State recruiter Duncan dealt with was a man, and Duncan repeatedly discussed traveling to Syria….

Prosecutors saw in that same conversation reason to take Duncan seriously as a threat, citing his reference to “referrals” that help people join the Islamic State.

“I’m seeking to change and better myself,” Duncan said in court Friday. “I apologize to everybody I’ve hurt.”

He said he understood now “the kids in the pictures are real” and added, “I also renounce ISIS.”

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  1. Jay says

    Jul 8, 2018 at 5:10 pm

    The electric chair sounds like a better solution! Why should the United States support this pig for
    the rest of his life behind bars, where he will become even more endoctrinated into the radical Muslim religion.
    The USA needs prison reform very badly. When inmates request halal meals and prison officials give in,
    there is something drastically wrong! God bless America and save us from this insanity. ??????????Trump 2020 ??????????

    • J D S says

      Jul 9, 2018 at 10:26 am

      20 years of tax payer food,clothing,shelter and medical..Oh tax payers won’t have to pay that long…Anyone care to guess how long it will be till he is released on parole??

    • KJW says

      Jul 9, 2018 at 11:29 am

      Trump is rather useless in all of this unless Saudi Arabia is dealt with and oil is preventing that. While Iran is considered the biggest state sponsorers of terrorism, KSA is right up there with them grooming and supporting many, no less funding. So does Qatar, UAE, et al. KSA has pushed Arabization and Sunnism more than anyone and some people in those Arabized countries complain about it. As long as the OIC is placated nothing will change.

  2. Ren says

    Jul 8, 2018 at 5:13 pm

    Happy conversion to insanity.

    • john spielman says

      Jul 9, 2018 at 8:46 am

      well islam tends to invite those in society who are criminally minded:
      your liars because muhammed was a liar
      your narcissist because muhammed was the supreme narcissist
      your thieves and robbers because; muhammed was thief and robber
      your mass murderers because; muhammed was a mass murderer
      your sexual perverts because muhammed was sexual pervert
      your pedophiles because muhammed was a pedophile
      your demon possessed because muhammed was demon possessed

      • KJW says

        Jul 9, 2018 at 12:43 pm

        I can see how perverts would like Islam such as those in Islamic countries with no marriage (KSA) or 9 years old plus polygamy, sex slaves which is still happening, obedient wives who must provide sex to their husbands whenever they want it.

        Sahih Bukhari’s Hadith:

        “The Prophet said, ‘A virgin should not be married till she is asked for her consent.’ “O Apostle! How will the virgin express her consent?” He said. ‘By remaining silent.’

        Qur’an 4:27 Allah wishes to accept your repentance, those who follow their lusts wish that you (believers) should deviate tremendously away from the Right Path.”

        Projection? Lust for money, power. sex…Muhammad was a unholy hypocrite which the Hadith repeatedly displays. The Hadith and Sirãju don’t much like Muhammad as they make him look bad a lot, but Muhammadans who emulate him and thinks he’s “the perfect man” get to justify all those bad behaviors, hypocrisy and immorality. Islam/Ishaq, which the other Hadith copies, shows other Muslims being more moral or smarter than Muhammad.

  3. Kunal says

    Jul 8, 2018 at 5:30 pm

    There should be a name for the “brainwashing technique” used by muslims

    • elee says

      Jul 8, 2018 at 5:39 pm

      I think they call it dawa, but the term you used should suffice

  4. Wellington says

    Jul 8, 2018 at 5:31 pm

    Well, when you are a convert to the religion which promises such things as 72 virgins and “pearly boys” in the afterlife, then you are pretty much capable of any perversion or malevolence here on earth.

    With Islam as your guide, anything is possible, no matter how weird, stupid or just plain wrong.

  5. elee says

    Jul 8, 2018 at 5:44 pm

    Well, let’s see, pederasty and violence, he caught the gist of it, didn’t he? Now he goes to the Dawa Hilton at our expense.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 8, 2018 at 8:40 pm

      +1

  6. granddaddy says

    Jul 8, 2018 at 6:08 pm

    Just another friendly neighborhood “moderate” Muslim.

  7. Indiana Tom says

    Jul 8, 2018 at 6:44 pm

    Surprise….yawn.
    http://www.nairaland.com/1086492/ayatollah-khomeinis-book-sex-shias

    • granddaddy says

      Jul 8, 2018 at 9:03 pm

      I clicked on your link. Interesting read. I found The Little Green Book by search. One of the quotes I found interesting was,

      “Their plan is to keep us in our backward state, to preserve our backward state, to preserve our pathetic way of life, so they can exploit the tremendous wealth of our underground resources, of our land, and our manpower.”

      So even the Ayatollah Khomeini recognized that Islam was in a backward state and a pathetic way of life. Very perceptive. And it’s all our fault. It’s because we lust after their oil and their manpower. Another interesting quote was,

      “In three cases, it is absolutely necessary to purify one’s anus with water…” I didn’t know such useful personal hygienic things. Jesus never talks about it.

      Another world shattering revelation,

      “When defecating or urinating, one must squat in such a way as neither to face Mecca nor turn one’s back upon it.” This is why they check everybody’s bathroom to make sure the toilet is facing in the right direction.

      Another was,

      “It is not indispensable to hide one’s genitals with anything in particular; one’s hand is enough.” Who woulda thunk it?

      The Little Green Book is just loaded with great stuff like this. What wisdom! What leadership! It’s just amazing. It’s stuff like that makes me realize just what an unappreciated genius this Ayatollah Khomeini really was. Everyone should read The Little Green Book.

    • Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

      Jul 8, 2018 at 10:05 pm

      Indiana Tom, Thanks for that link, where we read, “Any father marrying [off] his daughter so young [before her first menstruation] will have a permanent place in heaven. [“Tahrirolvasyleh”, fourth edition, Qom, Iran, 1990]”

      So some places in heaven are not permanent? According to what aya or hadith? What happens to you when your lease in heaven runs out?

      • gravenimage says

        Jul 8, 2018 at 10:09 pm

        I guess they run out of Houris and pearly boys to rape…

  8. Maximilian C. Jehuda Ewert says

    Jul 8, 2018 at 7:49 pm

    In the UK people writing about this get arrested on the street and jailed.tommy Robinson did.

  9. gravenimage says

    Jul 8, 2018 at 8:26 pm

    Virginia: Convert to Islam who discussed joining the Islamic State gets 20 years for obstruction of justice and child porn
    ……………………

    More Muslim scum. At least he’ll be out of circulation for awhile.

  10. Max says

    Jul 9, 2018 at 3:39 am

    Radical Islamics have no problem reconciling the killing of fakirs (Us, non-Muslims) and a strong appetite for paedophilia. We constantly read in the media that young girls (13yo) are forced to marry guys that are in their 30’s.

    Behaviour that appals us is considered very acceptable by those of the religion of peace.

  11. Ego sun qui sum says

    Jul 9, 2018 at 10:37 am

    Hopefully it’s in the prison main population none of this protective custody BS.

  12. Giacomo Latta says

    Jul 9, 2018 at 9:56 pm

    Give him credit. Given his inclinations he knew which religion to join to seek reinforcement.

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