Here yet again we see a convert to Islam getting the idea that his new religion requires him to commit mass murder of people who do not accept that religion. Despite the fact that we see this again and again, authorities remain resolutely uninterested in the phenomenon of conversion to Islam.
“Boston police captain’s son gets 20 years for Islamic State plot,” by Ray Downs, UPI, September 5, 2018 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Sept. 5 (UPI) — The son of a Boston police captain was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for plotting a terrorist attack for the Islamic State, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.
Alexander Ciccolo, 26, who also went by Ali Al Amriki, pleaded guilty in May to several charges, including attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and attempting to use weapons of mass destruction.
“Make no mistake, Alexander Ciccolo was a committed soldier of [the Islamic State] who wanted to kill innocent people at a United States university with assault rifles and pressure cooker bombs, not an unwitting dupe who didn’t understand the gravity of what he was doing,” Special Agent in Charge Harold Shaw said in a statement. “He repeatedly expressed his desire to engage in acts of violent jihad against our country, and with this sentencing, he will now pay the price for conspiring with a foreign terrorist organization.”
Ciccolo was arrested on July 4, 2015 after he received four firearms from an FBI informant. The informant had been speaking to Ciccolo about carrying out a terrorist attack inspired by the Islamic State, including setting off improvised explosive devices, such as pressure cookers filled with black powder, nails, ball bearings and glass, in places where large numbers of people congregate, like college cafeterias.
Ciccolo was reportedly inspired by the Boston Marathon bombing, in which the suspects used bombs made with pressure cookers.
After his arrest, law enforcement searched Ciccolo’s home and found several partially constructed Molotov cocktails made from shredded Styrofoam soaking in motor oil.
The Justice Department said Ciccolo stated that he used that combination so the exploded device would stick to victims’ skin and make it harder to put out.
The son of a Boston police captain, it was Ciccolo’s father — Robert Ciccolo — who alerted authorities about his son’s activities, which led to the 2015 arrest….
Bill says
Waiting for David Hogg to condemn this! Oh, I forgot, he only condemns violent acts committed by people using firearms and who are not Muslim (even if they use firearms).
Phil Copson says
“….Waiting for David Hogg to condemn this! Oh, I forgot, he only condemns violent acts committed by people using firearms and who are not Muslim….”
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“Look out, boys – there’s a pro-muslim hog in town!” you say…?
And there was me thinking that the story-line after the Broward County deputies ran and hid from a school-shooter was “Hog attacks pigs….” ?
Now, there’s a couple of new things….
Garry says
The religion of peace has changed his life. In years to come he might return to the real world and drop the medieval ideology.
jayell says
Makes a lot of sense. A ‘religion’ concocted as a P.R.-front by a dubious Dark Age criminal to sell himself to the credulous contemporary masses would find support at any time from any similarly gullible person with equally dubious leanings. It probably explains why converts go off the rails, because they’re off the rails to begin with and islam simply validates their insanity. I’ve no doubt that this character’s a lost cause unless someone can find him a good enought therapist.
StellaSaidSo says
+1
Indeed, the ‘recruiters’ deliberately target the vulnerable. Islam was designed by violent, stupid men to appeal to violent, stupid men.
dumbledoresarmy says
But it also appeals to *clever*, evil men. To those who ‘get off’ on tormenting, dominating, and devouring others. To those in love with power. Why else did so many former Nazis convert to Islam?
GMW says
dumbledoresarmy But when was it that they converted. AT what point was it that Hitler himself identified Islam as an ideology he preferred. By understanding was not after, but long before, therefore their genocide of Jews, as would be Islamic.
SJ says
Don’t any of you watchers of Islamic terrorism remember what the terrorists said after 9-11?
Let me remind you. They said ‘ from now on the terror attacks will be made by Americans (they converted) with blond hair and blue eyes’. I never forget certain things like this and it never surprises me what this EVIL IDEOLOGY will do or what they make up or what they make fights about. Funny, but Obama was just like this. A liar and trickster who got away with many, many crimes.
gravenimage says
There have certainly been Western converts to Islam, including Jihadists–but they are, thankfully, still fairly rare.
J D S says
Where have we gone wrong? How many generations back has parents failed their children and themselves……what went wrong ?
Way back when….parents went with their children to church and taught their children Christian values at home.
…after such time they sent their children to sunday school and occasionally to church and the parents stayed home and after a time they quit sending their children and even quit teaching Christian values…. but their children still got some religious activity at school…then soon the government said wait a minute….Christianity has removed itself from the home but children are still being indoctrinated in Christianity in our schools so allowing the Supreme Court to make laws instead of just interpreting them then any study of Christianity was removed from the schools saying it was separating church and state per the constitution (which was not what our founders intended by Separation of church and state) So now we arrive st a time when Christian values have been removed from the home and the schools…what next? Oh yes…it must be removed from our government…not remembering that our government was established on Christian values. They removed and are continuing to remove anything Christian from our government..yet they lie by leaving on our currency the words IN GOD WE TRUST, what a sham that is. Our government leaders do not trust in God..if they did God would be leading our government not a bunch of rowdy elected officials who only make a show of having some Godly effort in their proceedings by allowing a prayer by a minister before proceeding with their rowdy outpouring, filling the halls of congress.
There’s plenty of blame to go around…parents…their children….government…Silence…. and a real thorn in the flesh…The MEDIA, mainly the MSM…more than ever the MSM has contributed to our downfall..Yes downfall..How do I know all of this is true? BECAUSE I HAVE LIVED THROUGH IT and most likely by my SILENCE ,like many others, have contributed much…..SILENCE! The word heard around the World!
Dear God please help us because we sure can’t seem to help ourselves
Mary says
Amen
Tricia Stuercke says
Well said. What most GALLS me about our so-called “Civil Servants” – which the Dems especially love to call themselves, as if they’re to be martyrd for us peasants – is that THEY ARE SWORN INTO OFFICE, 1 HAND OVER THEIR HEART, 1 HAND ON THE HOLY BIBLE! THE BLATANT LIE OF MANY AS THEY SAY THOSE SPECIAL, POINTED WORDS OF THE OATH…THINK OF PELOSI, SCHUMER, REID ALL THOSE YEARS, THE CLINTONS, OBAMA…& MOST CLAIM THEY ARE CHRISTIAN, SOME JEWISH, NOW GOD-FORBID MUSLIMS & THE KORAN HAVE BEEN ALLOWED THOUGH ISLAM (SHARIA!) IS AGAINST MOST OF WHAT THIS COUNTRY HOLDS DEAR…I’m surprised, frankly, no Bible has spontaneously combusted yet!
I could go into a raging thesis, but suffice to say I LOVE THIS ONCE-BLESSED COUNTRY OF OURS & THE GOD-GIVEN JUDEO-CHRISTIAN VALUES & ETHICS WE WERE FOUNDED UNDER. MAY GOD, AS HE CLEANSES & CORRECTS THIS SIN-FILLED NATION, PROTECT US FROM THE EVIL ONES AMONG US, & FROM THE JIHADI’S GATHERING & TRAINING IN THE JUAREZ AREA JUST SOUTH OF OUR STILL-WIDE-OPEN BORDER!*
Things will get very much worse, very soon, if prophecy continues to unfold as it has.** Prepare your children. Our Lord did not promise we’d be safe from what’s coming. 2/3 of the world population is prophecied to perish. Prepare your families. Most repeated instruction in the Bible: “BE NOT AFRAID.”
*judicialwatch.com
**The Holy Bible & unfolding prophecies in shoking precision:
revelacionesmarianas.com
gravenimage says
Not all parents are to blame for the actions of their children–nor are all children worse than their parents.
While most children do indeed adhere to the values taught them by their parents, there are some–for good or ill–who go their own way.
gravenimage says
Boston police captain’s son, a convert to Islam, gets 20 years for jihad massacre plot at college
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At least he’s been convicted.
SJ says
Gravenimage, I have been following true crime all my life. I’m sure he will not serve even half of that sentence. In fact, I will be surprised if he serves five years. I am one day going to document some of the criminals and see how long they served. And with today’s looney leftist, they just want to blame the victims and make the criminals the victims. Especially the terrorists.
gravenimage says
Grimly, SJ, you are probably right that he will only serve half his sentence. All I meant is that at least he has been convicted, and not just given a slap on the wrist as we’ve seen in some cases.
Tricia Stuercke says
Amen to that, & as a Police Chief’s son, he may have a rough go in there. Then again, so many Jihadis & Muslims in our prison system, he may be treated like a rockstar. Hmmm…wonder which it’ll be?
Guy Forester says
He should get a similar treatment as the Nazi saboteurs that landed on Long Island in 1942. His stay should be in Gitmo at the very least, and loss of citizenship upon finishing his term there. Send him to go join his friends in Afcrapistan or similar third world hell hole. He won’t last long there. Dad may have a big basement, but it probably does not extend into the far side of the world.
Rarely says
He is just another misshapen numbskull. I don’t care what happens to him. Hopefully he’ll wake up but it’s unlikely since he will probably get lots of reinforcement in prison.
I do care about his father though. This must have be a terrible ordeal for him. We all owe him a debt of gratitude. My hat is off to him.
Thank you very much.
SJ says
I feel for his father too but I have to believe that his father is relieved because he probably knew the kid was trouble his whole life.
Ren says
Welcome to the prison of islam.
JM says
Excellent comment! Islam is a prison for its adherents.
Berengaria says
Why is Soft-Hearted Boston treating the Muslim Bomber in the style of a City Hero? The Boston Bomber’s Celebrity Status is encouraging other Weak Individuals, like the Captain’s son, to imitate the Terror, caused by the Dried-Up Muslim Runt.
gravenimage says
Where has Boston treated the Boston Marathon Bombers as heroes?
The only ones I seen lauded as heroes are those who ran to help the victims. Have i missed something?
StellaSaidSo says
Maybe you missed the Rolling Stone cover that featured Dzhokhar Tsarnaev…?
SJ says
Hi Stella. Again, I’m sick to death of these LIBERAL FREAKS that do stuff like that. It is so dominate all over. Do magazines, actors, musicians, politicians, sport manufacturers think we will forget
what they’ve done? No way. And I don’t believe many of you will either.
gravenimage says
No, Stella, I did not–in fact, I commented quite extensively on that here at the time.
Rolling Stone is not, however, a Boston publication. It is published out of New York, and is national.
I have never seen anything specifically out of Boston lauding the Boston Bombers. Of course, not being a Boston native, it is not impossible that I have missed something.
elee says
Maybe his father can spearhead an investigation into how he turned into a jihadist. Does he love his son? \Does he mourn the loss of his son? Somebody plied his kid—-dumb, impressionable, crazy, depressed, addled, whatever, but not a born Muslim sociopath—-somebody plied this young man with poison incitements. However dumb or weak or confused or crazy the young man may have been, some Muslim(s) turned him into a weapon that has to be incapacitated, however imperfectly, at great expense to himself and the taxpayer. So if this cop loves his son, if he mourns his son, maybe he will find out who kidnapped his son’s mind and body, and maybe, just maybe, if he fights hard enough, they will pay for taking away his son.
Tricia Stuercke says
THIS IS AMERICA, & I’m actually legitimately worried about my 23yr old son who just started Grad School at Boston University! This is INSANE! I have no other words…just feeling like our beloved country is in very grave trouble. I’ll be praying he doesn’t stay in Boston for a girl or his Residency, but things are already lining up that way after he finished summer semester with a 4.0 & a girl he said is 2nd only to “you, Mom!” Oh boy.
Perri says
Be a few steps ahead of him Tricia. Watch him like a hawk but don’t let him know you’re watching him. Hang in there and hope for the best.
Tricia Stuercke says
Great advice, Perri! Thanks!
Phil Copson says
“….Let’s see how well this skinny punk fares in prison with the big boys….”
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Maybe he’ll have “the courage of his convictions….” ?
Michael Copeland says
Did everyone notice?
The statement of Special Agent in Charge Harold Shaw included the words:
“acts of violent jihad against our country”.
Is this the first time that the word “jihad” has featured in a trial? What happened to “violent extremism”?
This is a very positive development. The truth, like those blades of grass in the concrete, is penetrating the blanket cover imposed by the Obama administration. Remember it was they who scrubbed all mention of Islam and jihad from police instruction material.
This is very encouraging. There will be more of it, as Robert’s book goes into further printings. More and more people, particularly the fact-starved police and judiciary, will become acquainted with the jihad imperative.
Boston police, in particular, need this awakening. It was they who spectacularly missed the Islamic connection in the Waltham Triple Slaying, even though “It looked like something out of Al Qaeda!”.
Had they connected the dots “there would have been no Tsarnaev jihad bomb, no bodies, no legs blown off, no blood, no injuries, just a happy commemorative family event.”
See “A Triple Unsolved Murder: Unconnected Dots” at Liberty GB site:
https://libertygb.org.uk/news/triple-unsolved-murder-unconnected-dots
Tricia Stuercke says
Wow, thanks for that link, Michael! And BRAVO on the “JIHAD” revelation…thanks for sharing that! It’s definitely NOT OFTEN we see positive shifts, & that is VERY PROMISING! I’ll be hopping over to read about that case, then sending it on to my son who just started Grad School at Boston University after skiing for & graduating Plymouth State in NH. I worried much less about him in Plymouth! He just moved into an apartment by Fenway…silly me, I thought I could “relax” a bit now that he won’t be going 80+ down a mountain!
Thanks again, Michael!
gravenimage says
Good point, Michael. Thank you.
Sam says
We should applaud Robert Ciccolo who alerted authorities of his son, Alexander Ciccolo activities. It must have been hard to incarcerate your own son, moreover, watching your son get a stiff sentence like this. The American society must have had a massive sigh of relief when this hero , a father and an official of the USA gave a way Alexander. Father Ciccolo could differentiate between his love for his son and his love for America. The same cannot be said for Islam. Islamic doctrine teaches that Muslims cannot love non-Muslims. In fact, it teaches love for no one that is why 9\11 was indiscriminate every type of believer was targeted. Robert Ciccolo understood this. Islam in contrast cannot be divine; Allah cannot be a deity because he is full of hate; Alexander internalized this principle. CAIR and ISNA the defenders of terrorist and their activities must now be subjected to greater scrutiny…
gravenimage says
+1
pumbar says
Boston is finished.
gravenimage says
Boston has had one terrible Jihad terror attack, then this foiled plot. There are other places that have been much, much worse.
jacqui says
best comment yet..well said
J.W.K. says
What a surprise
No Muzzies Here says
Again, a convert fully puts into practice the tenets of his new religion. The new member is full of enthusiasm and fervor for his new value system. He has studied it, and knows it better than many members who have been in the religion since childhood.
Since Islam is a religion that dictates the elimination of non-believers, the new convert is ready and willing to carry out the directives he has just learned.
Many people see conversion as a harmless act, much as if a person would convert from Baptist to Lutheran. I know of no cases in which recent converts to Lutheranism have blown up buildings crying “Luther akhbar.”
Mary says
Robert loves his son and his country equally. The outcome may very well help both.
Brenda says
He’s lucky he only got 20 years (of course he will be eligible for parole long before 20 years).
It is, in fact, treasonable to aid the “enemies” of the United States. Enemies are defined very precisely under American treason law. An enemy is a nation or an organization with which the United States is in a declared or open war.
Since he is a ‘committed soldier of the Islamic state’ with which the US is at open war – he is a traitor, committed treason and should have been SHOT!
Tricia Stuercke says
Along those lines, OBAMA gave 150 MILLION of our dollars to Iran, #1 State Sponsor of terrorists! He did it WITHOUT CONGRESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE – LET ALONE PERMISSION, by STEALTH, in an UNMARKED AIRPLANE, by DARK of NIGHT!
A) How did he even get the 150 Million?
B) Why the hell is he not only living his life FREE as can be, but SO ARROGANTLY BLABBING HIS OBNOXIOUS MOUTH IN THAT CONDESCENDING TONE & ABLE TO DO ALL-THINGS SEDDY, SHADY, & SURELY ILLEGAL TO UNDERMINE THIS ELECTION! THE MAN’S A TRAITOR W/MULTIPLE ILLEGAL ACTS BEHIND HIM, ESPECIALLY THAT IRAN MONEY DROP! MADDENING!
Oceanshore says
Which university in Boston?
Tricia Stuercke says
Yes, please…anyone know which university? My son’s at Boston U; lab hours w/the cadavers(ick!) wherever they are; his apt’s by Fenway. Thanks Oceanshore for posing the question & for the “piggyback” ride ?