Abdullah Ali Yusef, formerly known as Damon Joseph, likely thought that authorities “wouldn’t even expect” his jihad attack on a synagogue because all their attention regarding antisemitism is focused on “right-wing extremists” and neo-Nazis. Islamic antisemitism goes unnoticed not only among law enforcement officials, but largely in Jewish communities as well. Yet it continues to proliferate in the U.S. and Western Europe. Good thing authorities in Northwest Ohio got lucky this time.
“Ohio man indicted, accused of plotting attack on synagogue in support of ISIS,” by Eric Heisig, Cleveland.com, January 29, 2019:
CLEVELAND, Ohio — A Toledo-area man was indicted on federal charges Tuesday, following his arrest in December for what federal authorities said was a plan to carry out a mass shooting at a synagogue in the name of the Islamic State.
Damon Joseph, 21, of Holland is charged with attempting to provide material support to ISIS, attempting to commit a hate crime and possessing firearms in furtherance of a crime a violence.
The FBI arrested him Dec. 7 after he grabbed a duffel bag with two disabled semi-automatic rifles from the car of an undercover agent. Following his arrest, he detailed his plans for the attack and “his intent to cause mass casualties in support of ISIS,” according to an affidavit written in December by FBI agent J. Troy Amundson.
Authorities have not named the synagogue Joseph targeted….
The FBI said Joseph was radicalized and went by the name Abdullah Ali Yusef. He shared photographs of guns and knives on social media, as well a pictures originally distributed by ISIS’s media arm, according to the affidavit. He also produced his own videos, authorities say.
The FBI became aware of his social media postings in May, and an undercover agent started talking with him in September, court filings show.
In October, following a mass shooting in Pittsburgh in which a gunman killed 11 people at the Tree of Life Synagogue, Joseph told the agent that “my opinion is the Jews are evil and they get what’s coming to them,” according to the affidavit.
“I don’t feel bad at all considering what they’re doing in Palestine,” Joseph continued, according to the affidavit.
He said he admired the shooter and said he could see himself carrying out a similar attack, because authorities in Northwest Ohio “wouldn’t even expect it,” the affidavit said.
Joseph said over the next month that he wanted to commit an attack. He said he planned to escape after the attack, not die in martyrdom. He narrowed the target of his attack down to two area synagogues and said he would choose based on the number of people, the time and day, the affidavit said.
“Go big or go home,” Joseph said, according to the affidavit.
Joseph continued to research the attack until his arrest on Dec. 7, according to the affidavit. He wrote down the name and address of the synagogue he planned to attack for an undercover agent and detailed how he wanted the attack to go down, officials said….
Walter Sieruk says
That vicious and scheming jihad -minded Muslim , of this above article ,is again a strong reminder of the wisdom in found in the words of the former US President, William Howard Taft, who in a speech declared “Antisemitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.”
mortimer says
In spite of such obvious anti-Semitic hatred coming from normative Islam, many Christian and Jewish leaders are not paying attention and so they are not drawing attention to the problem. Most of these religious leaders are almost illiterate in the essential Islamic teachings of hatred of kafirs and jihad-warfare against them. As a result of the Pollyanna-ish naivety about Islam, Christian and Jewish leaders are assuming that such jihadists as Abdullah Ali Yusef (aka Damon Joseph) are mentally ill, rather than devout and highly motivated Muslims obeying their duty to subjugate the earth for Allah and to receive eternal sex slaves as their rewards.
J D S says
It seems that the only people who are really paying attention to the antisemitism situation are the Jews in Israel…in fact Israel seems to be the only state that really knows the wiles of islam inside out..Islam….antisemitism…hand in hand….but there are OTHERS hiding in the wings waist by to pounce .
Timothy N Tremblay says
Sad we even allow these TURDS in the country as they are all about Jihad/Taqiyya and g-damned Caliphates which spells “Totalitarian Turds”. Get the hell out while you are able ya’ll deceptive rats., if the crap hits the fan you will be the first on the list to eliminate, get wise and “WALK AWAY” from that Liars Manual.
Gene says
This is what happens when you watch the mainstream media and listen to Democrats; you think that no one will expect a Muslim to commit mass murder on non-Muslims.
Arnold Jackson says
Is that Corey Harrison’s & Chumlee’s love child all grown up?
FYI says
It is always the same with these converts.
1 They discover allah the “best of deceivers” k3:54
2 Convert to islam and adopt the false piety required
3 Adopt the obligatory Arab supremacist name{Al Amriki etc}
4 Feel automatically ENTITLED to be antisemitic,antichristian,misogynistic and murderous:free to
break God’s Commandments as allah teaches in his ‘holy’ koran
5 Feel permitted to HATE as allah MISSED the 2 chief commandments didn’t he?
6 End up a terrorist,dead or in jail
7 Never get the Irony..”the religion of peace”???and Never figure out that allah “the best of deceivers”
is not the Judeo-Christian Biblical God
“They will perish because they did not welcome and love the truth enough to be saved and so God sends the Power of Error to work in them so that they believe what is FALSE”
2 Thessalonians 2 v 10-11
That explains why those who love to hate …so easily convert to islam
George says
Wouldn’t it be great if those who speak for the increasingly irrelevant mainline religions stopped referring to Islam as one of the “three Abrahamic faiths”? Mohammed and his death cult have nothing to do with the historic Judaeo-Christian worldview. This “prophet” was an illiterate nobody who dreamed up a “revelation” that he claimed corrected the “errors” of Hebrew and Christian scriptures and when people wouldn’t convert voluntarily, he went on a murderous rampage. His most ardent and equally illiterate followers today are carrying on his “religion of peace”. Muslims who dare to question and critique the “holy” Quran are targeted for death along with Jews and Christians who refuse to convert, or submit by paying the tax and agreeing to live as second-class citizens.
gravenimage says
Ohio: Muslim plotted jihad massacre at synagogue, said authorities in Northwest Ohio “wouldn’t even expect it”
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This sort of savagery is *exactly* what we should expect from Muslims.
Bill says
This is northwest Ohio, not NY or NJ. He might have received a citizen response that he wouldn’t even have expected.
gravenimage says
I hope so, Bill. Still, glad he was stopped before we had to find out.
Terry Gain says
Unfortunately the media is not interested in what motivated him. They would find the truth uncomfortable.
Nietzsche says
Obviously, Islam attracts the ugliest losers among Western men.
Michael Copeland says
“The FBI said Joseph was radicalized”.
Here is how:
“Instructing ‘Radicalisation'” at Gates of Vienna
https://gatesofvienna.net/2018/01/instructing-radicalisation/
Sam says
How many more of these do we have among the “moderate” muslims in US. I would say hundreds if not thousands.
Brenda says
‘Damon Joseph, 21, of Holland is charged with attempting to provide material support to ISIS, attempting to commit a hate crime and possessing firearms in furtherance of a crime a violence.’
This can’t be true. Islam, the religion of peace and tolerance? Law enforcement must have made a mistake. This person must just be misguided or mental ill. (sarcasm added)