Despite his apparent naivete, he clearly knew what he was joining. Has his mosque been investigated? Have those who converted him to Islam been questioned? Why not?
“Texan who tried to teach English to ISIS in Mosul has been indicted,” by Chad Garland, Stars and Stripes, January 26, 2019:
A Texas man captured in Syria has been indicted on charges that he attempted to provide himself as material support to the Islamic State group, the Justice Department said Friday.
Warren C. Clark, 34, a convert to Islam and former substitute teacher from Sugar Land, Texas, previously admitted to seeking a position teaching English at a university in the Iraqi city of Mosul, which ISIS has occupied for more than three years.
The Texas native was among a group of foreign fighters captured on the battlefield in Syria by U.S.-backed Kurdish forces during a Jan. 5 raid. This week, he was transferred to U.S. law enforcement custody and brought to Houston, where he appeared in federal court, the Justice Department said Friday in a statement. He was indicted by a grand jury and will face a detention hearing next week, the statement said….
If convicted, Clark faces up to 20 years in federal prison and a maximum fine of $250,000.
Since 2011, 14 American adults and seven minors have returned to the U.S. after traveling to Iraq or Syria to join extremist groups…
Clark crossed into Syria from Turkey in June 2015, aware of the group’s reputation for beheadings, he told NBC News earlier this month. He said he wanted to “see what the group was about.” He was drawn to ISIS out of curiosity over its ideology, he said.
Clark claimed he never fought for the group and was detained nearly a dozen times after he refused to take up arms. Each time, he said, he was let go and was not abused. He admitted that he had sought work as a teacher.
“I was living in Mosul at the time and I needed a way to support myself,” he said.
The FBI has said about 300 Americans have left or tried to leave the U.S. to join ISIS….
mortimer says
Warren C. Clark is no doubt naïve … very naïve … about Islam. He has created a glamorous fantasy in his mind of fighting for Allah and living a life of luxury and sensuality in Allah’s porno-paradise, but the reality is different. Foreign-born jihadis were commonly treated by ISIS at best as second-class and at worst as dirt … worthy only of doing menial, dirty or the most dangerous jobs… like walking strap-on bombs over to a target … one time only. Warren C. Clark will not admit that his color is generally DESPISED by the very racist Arabs who jokingly call all black people ‘ABEED’ (slaves).
Hey, Clark, you ever heard of SYSTEMIC RACISM? That’s ISLAM, my dear friend. Islam perpetrated the GREATEST RACIAL HOLOCAUST IN HISTORY AGAINST BLACK AFRICANS … 120 million killed … by ISLAM. Do you want to be a perpetrator, Clark?
mortimer says
I don’t believe that Clark did not participate in jihad. Otherwise, there was no reason to go there. They would have found duties for him to perform and they would have shot him if he refused as a traitor to the caliphate.
FYI says
Should we tell him about his “prophet” muhammed?
The White man who owned and sold black slaves{sahih muslim 3901}
Mr Louis Farrakhan has made some disparaging remarks about White people.Well…
One famous WHITE man was…the prophet of islam
{Sahih Bukhari #63}
From various hadiths,muhammed is revealed to be a..
WHITE man with WHITE hair and a WHITE face
{sahih muslim 6081,6071}
The WORST insult that could be said about muhammed was that he was black{“whoever said the prophet was black is KILLED”}
“The prophet was not black”
Ash Shifa
In islam,ibn ishaq{pg 243}satan,according to Nabtal ibn al Harith is a….black man.
Whitey mohammed and his islamic klansmen with their Arab version of white supremacy.
And this Texas muslim has subscribed to a cult which has as its prophet,
a WHITE owner and seller of black slaves.
Sahih muslim 3901
“And he sold him(i.e another slave) for TWO of the blacks”
muslims,members of the “Religion of Peace” don’t get irony.
Black American converts to islam don’t either:
muhammed was a WHITE trader in black slaves.
mortimer says
Mohammed was WHITEST of PROPHETS and he owned BLACK SLAVES.
Mike Stevens says
On a practical note, despite the fact that he is an extremely dangerous, deluded maniac not fit for society, how much will it cost the American taxpayer to keep him in jail for 20 years? In 20 years how many other dangerous deluded fools will he convert to Islam?
Frank Anderson says
An honest question worthy of praise, both for the insight and its asking. A fair estimate of the total cost of jailing with any measure of security is 100 dollars per day. Unless held away from potential recruits any follower will perform the duty to attract others. What choices exist? Deportation? Release? Mental facility? Whatever choices, all must under US law be not “cruel or unusual”. But there is not one word in the Constitution requiring “effective”. Some questions do not have clear or easy answers. This one may have no answer at all. Please accept compliments for asking. “The first step to solving any problem is to admit a problem exists.”
Mike Stevens says
Excellent analysis. Britain is already a lost cause where the problem is not acknowledged, and should the Democrats win next time around I fear for the US and its future.
Rufolino says
The disinclination, all over the West, to investigate (let alone close down) mosques which produce jihadists, is suicidal.
It is a symbol of the West’s unwillingness to confront the truth about Islam.
Beverly says
Prisons need to be segregated by ideology. Islamist need to be separated from the general population and kept in prisons for them, Gitmo sounds good to me. A lot of radicalization takes place in prison.
gravenimage says
Texas: Muslim who applied to be an English teacher for the Islamic State is indicted
…………………,
*Good*.
sidney penny says
“The FBI has said about 300 Americans have left or tried to leave the U.S. to join ISIS….”
One is bad enough but 300!
Mahendra Singh says
Whether he imparts knowledge or not I do not know,
but he will certainly scare his pupils.