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South Carolina: Muslim pleads guilty to trying to join the Islamic State

Aug 9, 2018 10:55 am By Robert Spencer

He will likely spend some time in prison. When he gets out, will he become a loyal, productive citizen? What do you think? Nothing whatsoever will be done while he is prison to disabuse him of his jihadist sentiments. In fact, he will be given a Qur’an, the book that led him to try to join the Islamic State in the first place. To attempt to change his way of thinking would be “Islamophobic.” If anything, his jihadist sentiments will be reinforced while he is in prison. So most likely when he gets out, he will resume his jihad.

“SC teen who planned to join ISIS changes plea,” by Emily Bohatch, The State, August 8, 2018:

A Lowcountry man who allegedly tried to leave the U.S. to join up with terrorist group ISIS pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday, according to the Department of Justice.

Zakaryia Abdin, 19, of Ladson, appeared in a Charleston court to change his plea for charges of attempting to provide material support to a terrorist organization.

Abdin initially was arrested in March 2017 after he was caught by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force at the Charleston International Airport. He was attempting to board a flight to Jordan in the Middle East.

In Jan. 2017, Abdin opened an account on social media, which he used to try to join ISIS, according to a statement from the Department of Justice. He soon visited a member of the FBI in Mount Pleasant, where he was warned about the FBI’s role in counter-terrorism investigations….

Regardless, Abdin began communicating with a person he believed was a member of ISIS. He had pledged his loyalty to the terrorist organization in 2014, and believed the person he was talking to would help him. Abdin was really communicating with an FBI agent.

During conversations with the covert FBI agent, Abdin said he wanted to fight alongside the organization, adding he was proficient with weapons like AK rifles, SKS rifles and pistols, according to the statement.

In 2015, Abdin was convicted of weapons charges in York County after he allegedly planned to rob a gun store and kill U.S. soldiers, according to the Rock Hill Herald. When he was arrested, he had an ISIS flag in his room, and the 16-year-old had a handgun….

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  1. Hugh Fitzgerald says

    Aug 9, 2018 at 11:01 am

    When he gets out, no non-Muslim in his right mind will hire him.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 9, 2018 at 9:09 pm

      I hope not, Hugh.

  2. mortimer says

    Aug 9, 2018 at 11:12 am

    Zakaryia Abdin is a self-confessed JIHAD TERRORIST. There are probably about 2,000 to 3,000 such JIHAD TERRORIST presently in the US. They are ‘sleepers’ who are preparing and planning and some are all ready to go and are awaiting their orders.

    Typically, Muslims will HELP or even ACCEPT when a RECRUITMENT CALL TO JIHAD is made.

    The non-practicing Muslim friends of the Boston Marathon bombers helped them to conceal the evidence of their bomb preparations!!!

    Even non-practicing Muslims will JOIN the JIHAD WHEN they are ASKED TO AID AND ABET the TERRORISM.

  3. elee says

    Aug 9, 2018 at 12:00 pm

    Great, this POS is sidelined for a short indeterminate interval at great expense. How about some legal liability for whoever pumped his empty head full of all the poison that inspired him? How about some recourse for all the blood and treasure civilization spends taking down all their sleepers, all the “human” weapons they keep deploying on us?

  4. gravenimage says

    Aug 9, 2018 at 9:12 pm

    South Carolina: Muslim pleads guilty to trying to join the Islamic State
    …………………..

    How many more Jihadist thugs like this are there in the US?

  5. J.K. says

    Aug 10, 2018 at 3:29 am

    Where are the parents?

    • Mary says

      Aug 10, 2018 at 11:20 am

      Yes where are they

  6. Brenda says

    Aug 10, 2018 at 12:22 pm

    Anyone, whether you call them jihadists or something else, should forfeit their lives when they have, are planning to murder or help murder people for any reason. The state of their mental health is not a reason to forego their death. Sane people don’t murder or attempt to help other murder people on a mass scale. Terrorists and mass murders offer no redeeming value to society. All they offer is death and destruction. Society has a right to protect itself from rapid dogs by putting them down.

  7. Giacomo Latta says

    Aug 10, 2018 at 12:38 pm

    Has America not declared war on ISIS and its operatives. How does someone with an ISIS flag and convicted of weapons offences get to walk the streets like everybody else?

  8. Rufolino says

    Aug 11, 2018 at 2:32 am

    Why do they all have such cold, hard eyes ?

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