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Texas teen converts to Islam, uses social media to recruit for jihad terror group

Feb 10, 2019 11:00 am By Robert Spencer

Still another example of a convert to Islam getting the crazy idea that his new religion required him to commit treason and mass murder. If these were converts to Christianity, it would be all over the New York Times and CNN, but of course that would never happen anyway.

“New York man on way to Pakistan to join LeT arrested at US airport,” Press Trust of India, February 9, 2019:

A 29-year-old New York City man has been arrested while he was about to catch a flight to Pakistan to join the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), in a dangerous sign that the Pakistan-based terror group, which carried out the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, has expanded its tentacles in the US.

In another instance of growing influence of the LeT in the US and radicalisation of American youths, a teenager in Texas was charged by the FBI with using social media to recruit people on behalf of the terror group and send them to Pakistan for terrorist training….

In the southern state of Texas, 18-year-old Michael Kyle Sewell was charged by the FBI with using social media to recruit people on behalf of the LeT and send them to Pakistan for terrorist training.

The arrest of the New Yorker and the charges against the Texas teenager – who do not appear to be of South Asian origin as has been the case in previous such arrests – has set the alarm bells ringing among the law enforcement agencies in the US.

The arrests have thrown the spotlight on issues of homegrown terrorism and radicalisation of American youths, a situation that authorities have dreaded post Mumbai-terrorist attack.

Based out of Pakistan, the LeT is a UN and US designated global terrorist organisation and has carried out several terrorist attacks inside India, including the Mumbai terrorist attack in 2008 that took the lives of 166 people including several Americans.

“These organisations are using the internet and social media to appeal to the most barbaric impulses in people, and train them to kill,” Sweeney Jr added….

Meanwhile, Sewell, who encouraged and recruited an individual to join the LeT hails from Fort Worth city and met the man.

“Sewell allegedly used social media to recruit and encourage an individual to travel overseas to join a foreign terrorist organization and conspired with that person to provide material support to that organisation,” Demers said.

According to the criminal complaint, Sewell provided the co-conspirator with contact information of an individual he believed could facilitate the travel to Pakistan.

Unbeknownst to Sewell and his partner, the facilitator was an undercover FBI agent, the federal prosecutors said….

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  1. Stop Public Enemy #1 CAIR is Hamas says

    Feb 10, 2019 at 11:25 am

    No hook em for this punk. Shameful subversion to Sharia. Wonder if the Democrat party would have interest in real collusion,corruption and a culpable social media? Damn I was so proud this week finding that public enemy number one CAIR is Hamas national had blocked my @ rodeo rosary twitter account

    • kadok says

      Feb 11, 2019 at 9:45 am

      The democrat party is the collusion and the corruption of Americas youth.

  2. Frank says

    Feb 10, 2019 at 11:35 am

    Imams preaching violence against non-believers, or support for Islamic Terrorist groups operating around the world should be aggressively prosecuted too. The indoctrination does not happen on the internet without supporting efforts by the local Mosques. The Saudi’s have staffed our Mosques with Wahhabi Imams who radicalize our populations.

    • Sons of Liberty says

      Feb 10, 2019 at 3:39 pm

      I agree Frank . Obama stopped the surveillance of these radicalized Mosques and that is dangerous because Islam hides behind the cloak of religion ! Instead it is an evil ideology masquerading as a world religion. What is also concerning is that this evil is being taught in prison !

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 10, 2019 at 3:44 pm

        +1

        • Naildriver says

          Feb 10, 2019 at 6:09 pm

          It was somewhat hopeful to see that the SCOTUS recently denied a Muslim Murderer his Imam’s presence at his execution. Much depends on what this branch of government does; and it’s time they start hearing cases of Islam’s assault upon us, and stand up for the American people.

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 11, 2019 at 10:28 pm

          Yes–I remember that story, Naildriver.

      • J D S says

        Feb 11, 2019 at 10:59 am

        It seems to me that some NEW laws need to be passed to address the Islamic situation , not only in America, but the west in general …but will that happen? Afraid not simply because Islam falls under the religious freedom we enjoy…Islamist are using our laws against us and I do believe in religious freedoms but Islam is not just a religion it is an ideology with religion and political combined. Our founders we’re smart enough to see that there must be a separation between church and state….Why was America founded in the first place? Those early founders traveled across the ocean to get away from church run governments and worked and FOUGHT to form .a nation that withstood any attempt to return to the system if government that they fled from.
        Today we have a religious group, Islam, that wants to use FORCE AND FEAR to establish the very thing that our forefathers fought, bleed and died to never let happen.
        I just can’t understand why our leaders can’t see what’s happening..what Islamist want to do is written in their constitution, the Koran, and backed up in the hadath so why can’t our leaders see and do something about it…ENFORCE LAWS THAT ARE ALREADY ON THE BOOKS AND MAKE NEW LAWS IF NECESSARY….

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 11, 2019 at 10:30 pm

          J D S, I don’t think we should change our laws for Muslims–we just need to start vigorously enforcing the civilized laws we do have.

  3. Indiana Tom says

    Feb 10, 2019 at 12:12 pm

    Why watch normal people turn into crazed killer Zombies on the Walking Dead TV show, when you can watch the same thing in reality with normal people turning into crazed killer Muslims on the Walking Brain Dead Muslim reality show?

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 10, 2019 at 1:43 pm

      +1

  4. Michael Copeland says

    Feb 10, 2019 at 12:20 pm

    This troublesome “radicalisation’: how does it happen?
    Answer: it is instructed.
    https://gatesofvienna.net/2018/01/instructing-radicalisation/

  5. Agostino Armo Pellegrini says

    Feb 10, 2019 at 12:28 pm

    I think teens are especially vulnerable to the evil seduction of islam. They are young and can be impressionable, they may be confused while struggling to find purpose and direction in life. They may be lonely, resentful, or abused at home. And then some imam or relative or friend comes along and says islam is the answer to all their problems. Or it could be that the teen is just bad all on his/her own and islam is there to pick up all the broken pieces for allah. Whatever the case may be, islam is like a deadly drug they get hooked on and so often it leads to death and suffering for them and others. The left constantly makes excuses for islam by declaring these terrorists and converts as “mentally ill.” But in virtually every case I am familiar with the accused was fully aware of the wrong he/she was doing with their clandestine behavior. A big part of the problem I think is that the left is not willing to admit the truth about islam’s powerful ability to corrupt minds and cause terror. We all know the power tv ads or peer pressure might have on teens, for example, but islamic violence proffered as godly truth seems to get a free pass, amazingly. If humanity didn’t believe in the power of religion to influence minds then we wouldn’t have religion. But obviously it does influence minds for both good and bad. Therefore we should give honest consideration to islam’s negative impact on society and take steps to prevent it, it’s time to stop ignoring islam’s corrupting influence with excuses, lies, and apologies. We must resoundingly condemn the violent teachings within islam and do everything in our power to prevent the spread of its deadly influence, or even better, destroy it. Or we will always live in terror for what islam might do. JW fans know this already, but so many out there don’t.

  6. gravenimage says

    Feb 10, 2019 at 1:44 pm

    Texas teen converts to Islam, uses social media to recruit for jihad terror group
    ………………….

    How many stories have we seen like this now?

    And how many other new converts are doing just the same?

  7. Simon says

    Feb 10, 2019 at 6:53 pm

    Robert,
    I’m an avid reader of this blog. This article is constantly repeating itself with another name in another city. I think it would be a powerful message if you could tally up all such instances, listing names and cities, that have been referenced on this blog over the years. Compile them into one new article, to really punch home how ludicrous it is to suggest there is not a link between their new religion and their new desire to ‘strike terror into the hearts of [their] enemies’.

    • Pumbar says

      Feb 11, 2019 at 12:33 am

      https://www.jihadwatch.org/category/converts-to-islam

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 11, 2019 at 10:32 pm

        Thanks, Pumbar–I was going to post the same link.

  8. TKF says

    Feb 10, 2019 at 10:37 pm

    This is the comment I posted to the Dallas Morning News blog on this story…”Yet another convert to Islam completely misunderstands his religion of peace. Curious how this keeps happening. Problem is, no one is curious why it keeps happening.” CONTENT DISABLED….was the fate of this comment.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 11, 2019 at 10:33 pm

      Disgusting but not surprising, TKF.

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