U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer said: “Words matter. The most disturbing thing in Alhaggagi is the lack of empathy for others. That is chilling.”
Breyer doesn’t know the source of this lack of empathy for others who are non-Muslim: “Muhammad is the apostle of Allah. Those who follow him are merciful to one another, ruthless to unbelievers” (Qur’an 48:29).
“California ISIS supporter who bragged of bomb plots gets more than 15 years in prison,” by Samuel Chamberlain, Fox News, February 27, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A California man who admitted to setting up social media accounts to support the Islamic State (ISIS) and told an undercover FBI agent that he wanted to attack bars and nightclubs in the Bay Area was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years and eight months behind bars by a federal judge.
Amer Alhaggagi, 23, pleaded guilty in July to one count of attempting to provide services and personnel to ISIS, one count of possessing an identity theft device, one count of unauthorized identity theft and one count of aggravated identity theft. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer ordered Alhaggagi to serve 10 years of supervised release in addition to his prison term.
The Justice Department said in a statement that Alhaggagi admitted to creating Facebook, Twitter and Gmail accounts for two ISIS supporters he met online in the fall of 2016, and created similar accounts for other people that “he believed were ISIS supporters.”
Prosecutors said Alhaggagi posted a series of threats online in which he promised to “redefine terror” and vowed that “the whole Bay Area [gonna] be in flames.” Authorities say one of his plans called for the detonation of a car bomb outside a gay nightclub in San Francisco and the planting of backpack bombs on streets used by emergency vehicles in a bid to kill first responders.
On another occasion, Alhaggagi was driving with an undercover agent when he pointed out bars and clubs in Berkeley “where all the students are.”
“It’s a nice area to attack,” Alhaggagi allegedly told the informant. “It’s like, everybody’s in their own world, just doing their thing. … It’s not hard to target places, because there’s people everywhere. But I was trying to target, you know, like clubs, you know, like dance clubs, bars … stuff like that.”…
Alhaggagi and his attorneys tried to portray the Berkeley High School graduate as an out-of-work, pot-smoking internet “troll” seeking only to provoke and annoy with violent, anti-American claims. Attorney Mary McNamara called the oldest son of Yemeni-born parents a “class clown.” Federal probation officials recommended a four-year prison sentence, and 150 members of Oakland’s Yemeni community signed a letter given to Judge Breyer that urged leniency. The letter said the community was creating an educational program to teach children about online behavior and speech and how to properly respond to online strangers advocating terrorism.
“I find it hard to look and listen to all the horrible things I said to the undercover agent,” Alhaggagi told the court before he was sentenced. “I made myself look like a crazy person.”
However, Breyer rejected the defense’s portrayal of Alhagaggi.
“Words matter,” the judge said. “The most disturbing thing in Alhaggagi is the lack of empathy for others. That is chilling.”
Elizabeth Baklaich says
Now he can help convert more jihadis in prison. I sincerely hope there is a loving prison ministry in place to help him find the light.
CRUSADER says
very slippery soap
J D.S says
15 years and 8 months of being housed, fed, clothed and medicated by the citizenry…I guess he is a citizen of the U.S. so he can’t be deported to anywhere. Government needs to come up with a better way….Maybe let the military could take on this. Try them.ir treason with a military tribunal then smartly executed them with a firing squad….OH NO! Too many DO GOODERS would be screaming foul and marching in the streets.
LILITH QADISHTU says
He needs to be sent to GITMO
K WAGNER says
Right On
eagle669 says
Ship them quietly to China. They know what to do with them..
Lauren Hermann says
I like the way you think, eagle669.
Elizabeth Baklaich says
The Do Gooders in general need a wake up call. Attacks on our citizens and our nation due to any political ideology which stems from groups who have stated they want to destroy the US should be able to be tried for treason. I do not want to pay to house people who hate my country, way of life and freedoms for 15 years, nor do I want to support them while they find weak minded people to convert to help them with their mission.
We need to change how people are given the gift of becoming a citizen and we also need to treat all our citizens equally under the law. I was angry when the Patriot Act was put into place, eroding and destroying freedoms; and again when Obama droned Anwar al-Awlaki, because he was an American citizen and it set a scary precedent, even though I supported the reasoning behind these moves. I have wondered what would have happened if we had brought him back and allowed the circus that followed to shed light on who he really was and the hate he believed and preached. What is the answer if it is not finding a way to change their hearts and educating them so they know that following Allah is a ticket to hell?
I keep thinking that the horrors of what is being done will wake up more people when they see it, but when we have refugee workers hide their own rapes… The useful idiots are the biggest problem from my perspective. I can argue the position of a person about their poisonous ideology with facts using their own source documents, but the do gooders… (and our MSM!)
How do we make them see? We are not fighting out of hate, we are fighting to protect what we love.
mortimer says
LIFESTYLE JIHAD is what Amer Alhaggagi wants to do.
LIFESTYLE JIHAD is an attack on Western culture, on everything that is haram … music, art, dance, jokes, entertainment, alcohol, socializing with the opposite sex.
Islam is incompatible with Western culture … practically 100%.
CRUSADER says
Bars, and now Cars…
Muslim Patrol Cars accepted in NYC: radical force behind Muslim initiative — (Christian Action Network)
Muslim Patrol Cars Precede the Islamization of Cities (Part Two …
https://christianaction.org/those-dreadful-muslim-community-patrol-cars-part-two/
Ashley says
Alhaggagi and his attorneys tried to portray the Berkeley High School graduate as an out-of-work, pot-smoking internet “troll” seeking only to provoke and annoy with violent, anti-American claims. Attorney Mary McNamara called the oldest son of Yemeni-born parents a “class clown.”
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Probably true.
Hope he serves every second of his fifteen year sentence.
Kudos to the judge!
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
“French Shop Withdraws ‘Sports Hijab’ over Boycott”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/03/01/french-shop-withdraws-sports-hijab-over-boycott/
Mirren10 says
Excellent ! Now, if *one* retailer has the sense to listen to public opinion, and realise that mohammedans are not yet a majority in the West therefore kowtowing to them at our expense will cut profits, why the hell can’t everyone else ??!!,
CRUSADER says
“mohammedans” —
indeed, the correct word.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
“French prosecutors want Le Pen tried over tweet”
https://www.france24.com/en/20190301-french-prosecutors-want-le-pen-tried-over-tweet
Arnold Jackson says
In that picture he looks like his buddies should throw him off of a tall building.
Anjuli Pandavar says
If he’d actually carried out his mass murder, would 150 community members be urging the Judge to condemn him? Of course not. And this is why: “Muhammad is the apostle of Allah. Those who follow him are merciful to one another, ruthless to unbelievers” (Qur’an 48:29). Jihad terrorists are not the only followers of Muhammad.
Pam Minnick says
They would be crying about all the backlash they seen.
gravenimage says
California: Muslim spoke of committing jihad massacres at “dance clubs, bars…because there’s people everywhere”
…………………
Glad he’s been sentenced.
This pious Muslim wanted to wage Jihad right in my backyard–Oakland and Berkeley. There has been *very little* coverage of this story here.
mortimer says
Agree with GI. He understands that jihad begins in one’s ‘BACKYARD’ literally. That is because of the Near Enemy Doctrine.
The Near Enemy Doctrine of Islam: the teaching that Muslims should begin jihad by ethnic cleansing their neighborhood to create a base for jihad operations on a wider scale.
Koran 9:123 – “O you who believe! fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness.”
Egyptian jihad theoretician Muhammad abd al-Salam Faraj wrote in “The Neglected Duty” (Al Faridah al Ghaibah) about the necessity of attacking the ‘near enemy’ first in order to create a strong Islamic base from which to attack the ‘far enemy’. (Al Qaeda means ‘the base’.)
Jihadists have theorized about the issue of first attacking the ‘near enemy’ (adou al-qareeb) versus the far enemy (adou al bayeed) in order to remove jahiliyya (non-Islamic thought) and create an Islamic state based on Islamic ideology from which they may attack the ‘far enemy’.
Al Qaeda at first focused on carrying out region jihads, but in 2001 shifted to attacking the US…the ‘far enemy’…then included France, UK, Belgium and Russia.
CRUSADER says
It’s probably what Sayyid Qutb would’ve prognosticated for his Islamist followers from Stanford campus….
https://www.cia.gov/library/abbottabad-compound/3F/3F56ACA473044436B4C1740F65D5C3B6_Sayyid_Qutb_-_The_America_I_Have_Seen.pdf