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South Carolina man converts to Islam, plants explosives all over Anderson County

Feb 9, 2019 1:40 pm By Robert Spencer

Yet another convert to Islam gets the idea that his new religion commands him to commit treason and mass murder. Despite the fact that this is a frequently occurring phenomenon, authorities have nowhere shown the slightest degree of interest in studying it.

“Anderson man, who warned of jihad, sentenced to 30 years for using homemade explosives,” by Daniel J. Gross, Anderson Independent Mail, February 8, 2019:

An Anderson man who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State has been sentenced for using weapons of mass destruction after authorities found several homemade explosive devices around Anderson County.

Wesley Dallas Ayers, 27, was sentenced to more than 30 years in federal prison and five years of supervised release after previously pleading guilty, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Friday.

Ayers admitted that he constructed and placed three explosive devices in various parts of Anderson County between Jan. 24, 2018 and Feb. 24, 2018, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Ayers pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in letters and warned of a jihad, according to investigators’ testimony in a federal court hearing before he pleaded guilty.

One of the devices, placed at the intersection of Travis and Martin roads in Anderson County, detonated and injured one person, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

The other two devices were located and intercepted by law enforcement before they caused any harm.

Three hoax devices were also placed around Anderson County that resembled explosives but were not. In some devices, Ayers left notes indicating that more powerful devices were to come, according to the statement.

His arrest came after a month-long investigation with the Federal Bureau of Investigation; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office and various other law enforcement agencies.

Authorities searched Ayers’ property that showed items consistent with the manufacturing of explosive devices.

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  1. Mac-101 says

    Feb 9, 2019 at 1:49 pm

    Obama’s mentor, Bill Ayers, could have taught him, Wesley Dallas Ayers, how to make REAL Bombs and KILL people and end up a tenured professor!

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 9, 2019 at 2:01 pm

      Horrifying but true, Mac.

      ”I don’t regret setting bombs,” Bill Ayers said. ”I feel we didn’t do enough.”

      https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/11/books/no-regrets-for-love-explosives-memoir-sorts-war-protester-talks-life-with.html

      Note that this story–sick irony of ironies–is from September 11, 2001.

      • Mac-101 says

        Feb 9, 2019 at 2:23 pm

        Yup These clowns are truly Evil and Satanically controlled. Sometime if your bored look up the Senate Church Committee of the 1970s! It used to be widely stated that the Government had infiltrated the KKK with 55% of it’s members agents or informants, 25% of the SDS and Weathermen and 15% of the Black Panthers.
        .
        I can not find it now on a quick search. THE GOOGLE 1984 memory HOLE IS EXPANDING AND AN ACCELERATING RATE. But with Obama having 4 or 5 ex radicals as friends and his own background that squeals of Agency development I would NOT be surprised. This would explain these radicals progressing form murder and terror to high positions in Academia.
        .

    • Indiana Tom says

      Feb 10, 2019 at 11:47 am

      You will really get a bang from the Liberals and their buddies.

  2. gravenimage says

    Feb 9, 2019 at 1:54 pm

    South Carolina man converts to Islam, plants explosives all over Anderson County
    ……………………

    How many times have we seen stories like this now, all over the West? Just glad he was stopped this time.

    More:

    Three hoax devices were also placed around Anderson County that resembled explosives but were not. In some devices, Ayers left notes indicating that more powerful devices were to come, according to the statement.
    ……………………

    Even though these devices could not maim or kill, they would certainly scare anyone who found them, as well as the authorities who had to deal with them. This is Quran 8:12 – “I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve”.

    God, I hate Islam.

    • Rufolino says

      Feb 10, 2019 at 5:29 am

      Please learn from the experts: the Pope and the Grand Imam have said “acts of terrorism are due to poverty..”

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 10, 2019 at 2:41 pm

        Yes–this trope is absurd, and easily disproven.

  3. somehistory says

    Feb 9, 2019 at 2:52 pm

    I have close relatives in Anderson County, so am especially glad they found the bombs and that no serious injuries occurred.
    Evil knows no geographic boundaries and wherever ilsam can travel, wherever moslims are, terror is likely.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 10, 2019 at 2:45 pm

      I’m glad he was stopped, Somehistory.

      • somehistory says

        Feb 10, 2019 at 5:44 pm

        thank you very much, g. I know we all have loved ones across the country, and even in foreign places about whom we worry.

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 10, 2019 at 10:07 pm

          True–and there is the threat of Jihad almost everywhere.

  4. jedothek says

    Feb 9, 2019 at 3:04 pm

    In response to Robert’s last sentence: though I am a pessimist, I would bet that the FBI and other intelligence agencies are indeed studying Islamic violence, but have been chosen or been instructed not to talk about it . No politician or government agency can possibly be as stupid as his/her/its public pronouncements.

    • underbed cat says

      Feb 10, 2019 at 6:27 pm

      Words matter memo, former administration.,……purge of 9/11 Commission Report another previous administration. Currently the continued denial of the need for a border wall by to secure political party power, denial of the resistance to effect or enforce the laws or change if need be special status visa’s. No discussion denial of the purpose of mosques, denial of deception, denial of trying to form treaties with enemies that do not recognize them for any length of time….denial of the knowledge of sharia laws. Denial of use of lawfare to use law as a weapons to criminalize free speech, the restrictions to use information of intelligence recommended by advisers for the military, public and clergy…..then along comes a President that hints he see’s some problems and all you know what happens. Our President needs all the information he can get from the experts in sharia law and the knowledge of slander laws of sharia that turns information into hate speech and hides an potential activated enemy that looks like a country but is ruled by doctrine and votes in the U.N….to remove free speech and wants our demise. Instructed not to talk about it or prevent it.

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 10, 2019 at 10:10 pm

        Grimly true, underbed cat.

  5. FYI says

    Feb 9, 2019 at 5:47 pm

    “If the Lord is God,
    follow HIM.
    But if baal be your god,
    follow him”
    I Kings 18 v 21

    1 The Judeo-Christian Biblical God{JCB}

    PATH A “If the Lord is God follow Him”

    A Convert to Judaism….
    Subject to God’s Exodus 20 Ten Commandments+ 2 Chief LOVE commandments
    Moral imperative:Obey God’s Commandments and refrain from doing evil.

    A Convert to Christianity…
    Subject to God’s Exodus 20 Ten Commandments+2 Chief LOVE commandments
    Moral imperative:Obey God’s Commandments and refrain from doing evil.

    2 The islamic-koranic allah “the best of deceivers” god{ik}

    PATH B” if baal be your god follow him”

    allah hu baal.

    A Convert to islam..

    Yahoo!This is fantastic!Look what allah’s “perfect” koran says and the example of the “prophet” muhammed’s life.

    As a convert to islam,suddenly I can indulge in polygamy,betray my country,use women as sex slaves,lie to promote islam,murder innocent infidels and in return for a 5 times a day show of false piety and a showy display of pathetic fasting,allah the best of deceivers will reward the devout muslim convert in his carnal paradise.

    Surely allah the “BEST of deceivers” k3:54 wouldn’t be deceiving the new convert to the “religion of peace”,right?

    Commandments?What commandments?And…..the two chief what now??

    the koran teaches:-

    Thou may dishonor your parents/family should they abandon or renounce islam k9:23
    Thou may/shalt kill infidels k2:191
    Thou may commit adultery with an enslaved woman k4:24/k33:50
    Thou may steal from infidels k48:20
    Thou may bear FALSE WITNESS via taqqiya,tawriya,taysin,muruna,kitman,darura
    Thou may covet the infidels goods

    Commandments?What commandments?allah doesn’t subscribe to them.

    Let’s not forget allah the best of deceivers is a False god{1st commandment violation}
    And that pagan kaa’ba{“an offering to be brought to the kaaba”k5:95}…the 2nd commandment violated too.

    How come allah and his “prophet” COMPLETELY MISSED THE COMMANDMENTS?
    Now surely if the ik allah was the SAME as the JCB GOD:but we can see allah is not the JCB God.
    allah clearly DISAGREES with God’s Exodus ten Commandments+NO TWO CHIEF commandments exist in islam.
    No Golden Rule.No Love thy Neighbor in islam!
    In fact,instead of the 2nd chief commandment allah preaches the OPPOSITE in k5 v51
    “Oh ye who believe!Take not the Jews and Christians for friends.They are friends to one another”

    PATH A Jews and Christians are on this..they are in the SAME Biblical fold
    PATH B muslims{though they THINK they are on PATH A}ahead of the queue:in fact they are going in the opposite direction under allah {BIG HINT:”the BEST of deceivers” k3:54}And they don’t even see it!

    Say what you like about allah but he is a champion at fooling people:muslims even think he’s God but the name “BEST of deceivers”…is actually an attribution of the name of baal..or satan…

    islam may serve a useful purpose:the smart people leave it and the fools convert to it..

  6. Jay says

    Feb 9, 2019 at 6:09 pm

    Why are we keeping enemy operatives alive in wartime? Obviously he’ll be in a fine mood when he gets out in 15 years or so.

  7. Grace Ngugi says

    Feb 10, 2019 at 6:46 am

    A good citizen needs to make the case to help those caught up. Those who convert them should be asked to explain why their convert exceeds their own zeal for jihad. Something is not right. There’s a big elephant in the room (perhaps the fear of being labelled an Islamophobe?..) Unless those who convert them can swear under oath, that they have not misled a new convert, there are serious stones being left unturned. Authorities and judicial system, please do your jobs more logically!!

  8. Aniko Mattison says

    Feb 10, 2019 at 6:47 am

    I really think that all these converts (meaning Americans and other non-Muslim born people) are a bad seed and have a tendency for violence and they recognize the same traits in the Muslim religion that is extremely violent and it appeals to them. So basically they just use the name of religion to live out their violent evil fantasies.

  9. joanofark06 says

    Feb 10, 2019 at 6:56 am

    As I’ve been archiving everything islam/muslim, since 9/11, this is not the first time we’ve had problems with Americans converting to islam. I have articles, documents, audio, websites, etc….on EVERY state in this country, where muslims and non muslims (americans), are trying to (and succeeding), to kill us, while Trump spends billions of OUR tax dollars trying to make overseas countries, like Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, Syria, and soon, Venezuela, GREAT AGAIN! And so, when I read this article, I went to my files on SC, because I thought I had read this same article before, but about a year ago. Turns out, it was another “young man”, but this time it was not in Anderson, but in York, SC:

    York teen tried to join ISIS, kill American. Case delayed, plot details ‘classified’

    https://www.heraldonline.com/news/local/crime/article197371269.html

    Info on S. Carolina Terror Suspect Too Secret to Hold Trial

    https://clarionproject.org/south-carolina-isis-suspect-classified-information/

    WAIT JUST A MINUTE!! I do have this same article! WHAT THE HECK IS THIS?? The same guy, with the SAME NAME, in the SAME TOWN, as THIS article! BUT, it’s from OCT 29, 2018, from the GellarReport!

    South Carolina: Muslim convert declares jihad, builds and SETS OFF BOMBS using teddy bears, attempts to use weapons of mass destruction

    By Pamela Geller – on October 29, 2018

    https://gellerreport.com/2018/10/carolina-muslim-bomb.html/

    Mr. Spence, could you explain this please??

    • joanofark06 says

      Feb 10, 2019 at 7:58 am

      I’ve looked at both articles more closely, and I believe this one, is the one, where he was actually charged and sentenced.
      Now I’m curious and stumped on these facts:

      01. “placing “three explosive devices in various parts of Anderson County,” between Jan. 24 and Feb. 24, 2018,”

      03. “Ayers was arrested following a month-long investigation… ” (It doesn’t say WHEN he was arrested, but it took the investigators a MONTH, to investigate? After 3 bombs, one detonated, and 3 fake bombs also in the area. All that, and it takes a MONTH, to finally arrest him? That young kid must of been really intelligent to get past the officials THAT long! Gee, I wonder how much more damage he could have done in all that time??

      04. “That is what led Wesley Dallas Ayers to federal court Monday, where he pleaded guilty to multiple charges related to the construction and use of “weapons of mass destruction,” the U.S. Attorney’s office reported.” (from gellerreport.com)
      This was wrote on the 29 of Oct 2018. He’s plead guilty already…admitted building the bombs…one person was injured from one his bombs, and it took till Feb 9, of the NEXT YEAR, to finally hand down the sentence?? You would think that it shouldn’t take THAT long, ESPECIALLY when he admitted everything, AND

      “he pleaded guilty to multiple charges related to the construction and use of “weapons of mass destruction,”

      Weapons of mass destruction!!?? Did the judge give him a bond too, and tell him to come back on his court date?? With that kind of charge, you would think he’d go STRAIGHT to prison, do not pass Go, etc. What leniency!
      This is pretty scary stuff, considering I LIVE in SC!!

      • somehistory says

        Feb 10, 2019 at 7:16 pm

        oanofark06,

        If you knew anything about criminal investigation, you would understand that a “month” isn’t all that long. Some crimes take a whole lot longer. There is evidence to collect, analysis of the evidence, running down the origin of things like wires, parts, materials, etc. for explosive devices; witnesses to track down and interview, follow up on leads, and getting enough evidence or “cause” for search warrants, and arrest warrants, etc.
        A month to do this is not all that long. Just be glad they did their job and caught him.

    • Robert Spencer says

      Feb 10, 2019 at 9:16 am

      Uh, yeah. If you had read both articles, as well as others in the Jihad Watch archives that you missed, you’d see that the articles from last year were about his arrest, and the new one I posted here is about his conviction.

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 10, 2019 at 2:52 pm

        Thank you, Mr. Spencer.

        It is actually common for Jihad Watch to follow up on these stories.

  10. No Muzzies Here says

    Feb 10, 2019 at 8:20 am

    The new convert is on fire with love for his new religion, learns everything he can about it, and strives to put it into practice with his new-found fervor.
    It’s a strange phenomenon that seems to be repeated over and over again: the convert to Islam gets the wild notion that Islam directs him to kill non-believers! How could he possible get that idea? Everybody knows that Islam is a religion of peace, tolerance, love and acceptance.

  11. MarkD says

    Feb 10, 2019 at 10:32 am

    Hmmm, this may be a sneaky legal defense strategy. A psycopath bomber “converts” to Islam so when brought to trial, he’ll be exhonorated so not to invoke islamophobia from CAIR.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 10, 2019 at 2:57 pm

      With respect, Mark, I think you have this backward. I don’t think he became a Muslim because he wanted to bomb innocent people; I think he wanted to bomb innocent people due to the diktats of Islam.

      • MarkD says

        Feb 10, 2019 at 4:31 pm

        I meant it could be a “red herring” conversion to Islam (ie a fake conversion). He can fulfill his bloodlust knowing that the revelation of his conversion will garner support from leftists and CAIR. I presented this as a hypothetical case, whereas this particular is probably a true conversion. Islam is an evil cult and evil people gravitate towards it.

  12. ontheridge says

    Feb 10, 2019 at 12:25 pm

    When people convert to Islam, what happens to their eyes? They seem to turn dark and dead.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 10, 2019 at 2:58 pm

      Spot on. You see these dead “shark eyes” with Muslims all the time.

    • somehistory says

      Feb 10, 2019 at 7:20 pm

      The eyes are the window to the soul. As Jesus said, “IF the light in you is darkness, how great that darkness is.”
      Darkness rather than light is coming from the darkness of their soul due to the evils of islam. satan is the “angel of darkness” and he controls moslims like this guy.

  13. UltraSkeptic says

    Feb 10, 2019 at 6:05 pm

    It seems that the problem’s roots are clear: True belief is a matter of human nature. So it’s vital to move True Believers toward religions more pacific than Islam, as was done with Thuggee – well, it was done by killing all Thuggees. Regrettably, that would also be necessary for many Mohammedans, and especially those converts drawn to the religion as it is presently perceived, though quite likely the reverse will occur, and those most violent and aggressive True Believers will complete the conquest of the world they faltered upon over a millennium ago. They never gave the project up. They just fell behind in developing sufficient resources to facilitate their perceived mission. But now we in the West have provided them with new resources, material and social. So they’ll find that infiltration, combined with periodic violence, succeeds where militancy alone fell short of their final goal.
    Sadly enough, even those Muslims who wish to live in peace, to minimize the less socially tolerant aspects of Islam in their lives, will be forced to submit (the meaning of “Islam”) or be killed along with all the rest of the diverse superstitious humans who adhere to other creeds and of course the perhaps more rational of us who are atheists.
    We’re all doomed to a bleak and anachronistic future, as human experience will once again prove that is not justice which prevails, but power.

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