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Chicago: Muslim migrant used social media to recruit jihadis for the Islamic State

Oct 20, 2018 2:13 pm By Robert Spencer

The social media giants were apparently too busy blocking and shadowbanning conservatives to notice.

“Chicago man charged with using social media to recruit operatives for ISIS,” by Sam Charles and Frank Main, Chicago Sun-Times, October 19, 2018 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

A Chicago computer engineer was in federal court Friday afternoon after being charged with using social media to help ISIS recruit operatives, encourage people to carry out terrorist attacks and spread propaganda to support “violent jihad.”

Ashraf Al Safoo, 34, faces one count of conspiracy to provide material support and resources to a foreign terrorist organization, according to federal prosecutors.

Al Safoo — who sported a beard and was escorted by U.S. marshals while wearing an orange jumpsuit — said during a brief court appearance that he has a master’s degree in computer science and has worked in IT for a web development company in River North. By Friday afternoon, his staff bio on the company’s website was removed….

A naturalized citizen, Al Safoo was born in Iraq and moved to Chicago in 2008, according to an FBI agent’s affidavit released Friday….

Federal authorities allege Al Safoo and several unindicted co-conspirators were active members of the Khattab Media Foundation — a propaganda outfit with a “sworn bayat, or an oath of allegiance, to ISIS.”

“Al-Safoo and the [co-conspirators] were working at the direction of and in cooperation with ISIS and ISIS’ media office, created and disseminated ISIS propaganda, recruited for ISIS, encouraged individuals to carry out attacks on behalf of ISIS, and supported violent jihad on behalf of ISIS and ISIS’ media office,” the affidavit reads.

Khattab spreads propaganda across several social media platforms, including Twitter, Facebook, Youtube and one other, which federal authorities decline to identify.

Last March, Al Safoo invited a purported ISIS sympathizer — who was actually an undercover federal officer — to join a Khattab discussion group. The undercover officer found a treasure trove of ISIS propaganda….

Al Safoo is alleged to have taken part in creating and disseminating several pieces of ISIS propaganda.

In December 2017, federal authorities say, Khattab created and published a computer-animated video called “Our gifts are ready,” which depicted families standing around a Christmas tree with a castle — bearing a strong resemblance to “Cinderella Castle” at Walt Disney World — in the background….

“The video cuts to all black with the word ‘Now listen you dogs of hell. This is a message and more are going to follow. This is just the beginning. Our gifts are now ready,’” according to the affidavit. “The video shows a present under the Christmas tree that contains a bomb with a timer ticking down before cutting to a news clip of a mass shooting taking place.”

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Filed Under: Featured, immigration, Internet jihad, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh) Tagged With: Ashraf Al Safoo, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube


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  1. CogitoErgoSum says

    Oct 20, 2018 at 2:26 pm

    Oh man, how I despise the type of beard that guy has. What kind of idiot ever thought that style looked good on a man. Oh, wait……..

    • CogitoErgoSum says

      Oct 20, 2018 at 2:32 pm

      I would have to make an exception for Abraham Lincoln though. In my opinion he’s the only man who could make that style look good ……. but only because he kept it more closely cropped and his face was leaner.

      • Andy says

        Oct 20, 2018 at 3:00 pm

        Moslems should NOT be in ANY Judeo-Christian Lands Period!

        President Trump holds weekend ‘MAGA’ rally in Nevada

    • Keys says

      Oct 21, 2018 at 9:34 pm

      He reminds me of “Wooly Willy”, the magnetic beard children’s toy.
      All he needs is a round, red schnoz.

  2. Berengaria says

    Oct 20, 2018 at 3:56 pm

    The USA has literally thrown open the Doors to allow Muslims with Fake Degrees in Computer Science, to enter the MainStream of America.
    No Verification of their Credentials is ever Challenged, that would be islamophobic. Our Tech Industry is Mobbed with creeps like Al Safoo, who usually do their Recruitment of Terrorists, while “on the job”.
    How Could our US Pro-Islamic Embassies in Muslim “States”, sign off on Millions of Visas for the Enemies of America?

    • Robert McKenna says

      Oct 21, 2018 at 6:22 am

      Now is the time to set an important precedent ! We gave this muslim something more precious than gold or jewels. UNITED STATES CITIZENSHIP !
      Take it back and deport or banish this filthy criminal ! Get him out of here with NONE of the benefits of U.S. citizenship.
      It’s time we stopped giving feather beds, down pillows, and castles to swine !

      • gravenimage says

        Oct 21, 2018 at 8:42 pm

        +1

    • J D S says

      Oct 21, 2018 at 9:29 am

      Stupidity..pure STUPIDITY is the reason do many of these duds get into the U.S. helping Muslims is hurting the U.S. in all instances of immigration. PUT AMERICA FIRST in everything we do.

  3. 11B40 says

    Oct 20, 2018 at 4:10 pm

    Greetings:

    Obviously not the brightest computer engineer in the cubicle.

  4. gravenimage says

    Oct 20, 2018 at 11:57 pm

    Chicago: Muslim migrant used social media to recruit jihadis for the Islamic State
    ……………….

    Yes–social media is too busy banning those who oppose the horrors of Jihad.

    • Bonnie loranger says

      Oct 21, 2018 at 3:33 am

      Totally true gravenimage. And also if you meet people from Iraq lots of them are ingenious. I was ar a party one time at a table with 5 Iraqis men and all of them were ingenious. How is that possible??????

  5. Joe says

    Oct 21, 2018 at 5:09 am

    So he did violate “community service guidelines” of either Twitter, YouTube, or Facebook? Whereas about 20% of my favorite YouTube channels have been banned for suggesting things that were likely true. We have no freedom of speech.

  6. Obbop says

    Oct 21, 2018 at 7:22 am

    Diversity and multiculturalism is a scam being forced upon We, the People!!!

    Traitors within the USA keep forcing these barbarians upon us. There are more arriving daily. How long can we allow this to go on?

  7. Lorraine E Blazich says

    Oct 21, 2018 at 1:16 pm

    It isn’t really difficult for muslims to convert people to their religion/form of government because george soros and his comrades in the far left universities, the communist professors, are working with them. Just a quick look at the brain washed imbeciles on TV with their black face masks, jumping up and down, chanting their cries to overthrow our government and that makes it very clear that they are puppets who are being used by their professors who are working with the muslims to recruit jihadists. These so called brutish antifa rioters are jihadist “wanna bees.” The only thing antifa is missing are rifles but give george soros a little time and he will have them all armed and bused all over our country for his comrades in the corporate media to portray as tomorrows leaders.

  8. J.W.K. says

    Oct 21, 2018 at 9:17 pm

    If you didn’t see that coming, you are either blind, stupid or both , which makes you a left wingnut wackadoodle, also known as a DEMOCRAT.

  9. Shelba says

    Oct 22, 2018 at 11:22 pm

    Deport all muslims that follow sharif law they will never be American, they will always believe in it’s their duty to convert every one to be a muslim or kill them

  10. Dianna says

    Oct 26, 2018 at 3:52 pm

    how many more of these people are in America working to destroy us from within? Help us JESUS! America has got to turn back to Our Lord & Savior JESUS CHRIST! JESUS is the answer to this invasion! Lord help us Almighty God!

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