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Indiana: Muslim gets 15 years for jihad massacre plot, says “I’m a big teddy bear that got emotional”

Aug 20, 2018 7:45 pm By Robert Spencer

Awwwwww.

“Crown Point man gets 15 years for spreading information in hopes of planning terror attack in U.S.,” by Becky Jacobs, Chicago Tribune, August 20, 2018:

A Crown Point man who shared information about how to create explosives and poisons in hopes of carrying out an attack in the United States was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Marlonn Hicks, 31, wore an orange jail uniform Monday in Hammond’s federal court as his parents watched him be sentenced.

“I’m not a menace to society, your honor,” Hicks said in a statement read by his attorney. “I’m not a terrorist. I’m a big teddy bear that got emotional.”

Hicks pleaded guilty in October 2016 to distributing information regarding the manufacture and use of explosives, with the intent that the information be used for and in furtherance of a crime of violence.

Judge Joseph Van Bokkelen sentenced Hicks Monday to 180 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release.

“This exemplifies the government’s commitment to prevent terrorism,” U.S. Attorney Thomas Kirsch said in a statement. “Rather than mourning the tragic attacks in Orlando, Hicks was inspired to commit a terror attack to kill innocent victims in the United States.”

On June 12, 2016, a gunman killed 49 people and wounded more than 50 others at Pulse nightclub in Florida “resulting in one of the deadliest mass shooting attacks in United States history,” prosecutors said in a sentencing memorandum for Hicks.

“While a stunned nation grieved and vigils were held throughout the country, Marlonn Hicks was inspired,” the memorandum states. “…Five days after the Pulse attack, Hicks proclaimed that given recent events, he wanted to ‘die here’ and ‘do something major … without being caught.’”

“I intended that attack be carried out in the name of ISIL and in support of ISIL,” Hicks admitted in his plea agreement….

Hicks was raised as a Christian, but he began practicing Islam about nine or 10 years, King said. This change was “not motivated by any politics” but instead was in “search for a creed for him to live his life,” King said.

Hicks “embraced it with enthusiasm that is not unusual for the recently converted,” King said. But Hicks was exposed to content about innocent people killed in the Middle East and “some fairly sophisticated propaganda,” King said, which led to the crime committed….

“You live in a world enveloped with hate and that world has eaten you up,” Van Bokkelen said to Hicks.

It may sound corny, but “I believe that love wins,” Van Bokkelen said, and “all you have to do is embrace it.”

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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: Crown Point, Marlonn Hicks


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  1. somehistory says

    Aug 20, 2018 at 8:35 pm

    Sure, One gets “emotional” and that mood just keeps on going and going like the battery bunny until the plan to murder is accomplished.

    it was hatred, not feeling “emotional.” Christianity didn’t make it okay to plan murder, carry it out and avoid getting caught and punished. Psychopaths seek out ways to express their “emotions<' and islam provides the perfect, imperfect way. He has an evil heart, not that of a "teddy bear." More like an angry Grizzly out to kill.

  2. StellaSaidSo says

    Aug 20, 2018 at 8:46 pm

    Indeed. Getting emotional isn’t the problem; being a violent, low IQ, brainwashed fool is the problem.
    Islam is tailor-made for thugs and mugs.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Aug 21, 2018 at 3:59 am

      “And he bought his for two black slaves” – Mohammed’s action as recorded in Islam’s sources.
      These words could be displayed in his devout cell.

  3. gravenimage says

    Aug 20, 2018 at 8:56 pm

    Indiana: Muslim gets 15 years for jihad massacre plot, says “I’m a big teddy bear that got emotional”
    ……………………..

    Usually the worst thing that happens when “big teddy bears” get emotional is that they embarrass their buddies telling them how much they love them–not planning violent terror attacks.

  4. Indiana Tom says

    Aug 20, 2018 at 9:39 pm

    If he attacked Crown Point the mainstream media would never realize it until much later and possibly never report it.

    • Tayloch says

      Aug 20, 2018 at 11:14 pm

      Yup. Just another day in the ‘hood, called Gary, Hammond, and East Chicago.

      The Region. No wonder people are bailing east to Valpo and beyond.

  5. Indiana Tom says

    Aug 20, 2018 at 9:42 pm

    It may sound corny, but “I believe that love wins,” Van Bokkelen said, and “all you have to do is embrace it.”
    Judge is out to lunch on these types.
    I am sure that in prison, the perp will be further indoctrinated on even more radical Islam by the prison Imam.

    • Joe says

      Aug 21, 2018 at 7:17 am

      Love is certainly not terror or Islam. So why did he embrace them rather than love.

  6. Undaunted says

    Aug 21, 2018 at 4:58 am

    Heh. Fuck you, Teddy.

  7. terry says

    Aug 21, 2018 at 8:17 am

    HATE, …. islam’s calling card.

    He traded Love for sickness.

  8. Halal Bacon says

    Aug 21, 2018 at 8:35 am

    Great Movie!

  9. James Lincoln says

    Aug 21, 2018 at 8:58 am

    I would be less concerned about meeting up with a real bear than with this particular Muslim.

  10. iprazhm says

    Aug 21, 2018 at 9:39 am

    Says the muslim terrorist who wouldn’t bat an eye at blowing the body parts off of little children. Filthy lying savage islam.

  11. underbed cat says

    Aug 21, 2018 at 11:03 am

    Indiana has an significant number of mosques. The Quran and sharia law are taught in mosques. I guess those who know read the second sentence understand this situation has nothing to do with race. But they might connect the motivation, lies somewhere between the first sentence and the second. What happened to obscure this information from the public and call it hate speech?

    • Marco says

      Aug 21, 2018 at 6:14 pm

      Inlaws in Indiana and they are completely and utterly ignorant about Islam and insinuate, they would never come right out and say it, that if you don’t think it’s just the best then obviously you are, that worst of all things, a racist. Indiana from my perspective is lala land.

  12. Krishna says

    Aug 21, 2018 at 12:31 pm

    He Must be mad teddy bear

  13. Dawne says

    Aug 21, 2018 at 4:01 pm

    Good strong prison sentence here. Why do we not have this type of sentence given in Britain?

  14. Lydia Church says

    Aug 21, 2018 at 4:25 pm

    If these excuses get any more pathetic!
    Then a white guy can be the abominable snow man and get away with some crap too!

  15. Mary says

    Aug 22, 2018 at 9:14 am

    He was searching for a creed to live is life by so he joins islam to be protected from prosecution for his crimes. Didn’t work this time. Good for the judge for sentencing him.

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