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Arkansas: Muslim migrant goes to Yemen, aids al-Qaeda, returns to Arkansas

Aug 12, 2019 9:00 am By Robert Spencer

Bilal al-Rayanni is a walking advertisement for stricter immigration controls. But attempts to implement such controls will continue to be decried as “Islamophobia” by those who want to render the U.S. defenseless against the advancing jihad.

“Arkansas man charged with helping al-Qaida,” Associated Press, August 9, 2019:

A Yemeni national living in Arkansas was charged with providing support to a terrorist organization, the U.S. Department of Justice said Friday.

Bilal al-Rayanni was charged Thursday with supporting al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula between October and December of 2014 while he was in Yemen….

In an interview the day before he was arrested, al-Rayanni told State Department and FBI agents that his father had purchased a U.S. visa from a Yemeni man whose name was Kassem Alawdi. His father then used that visa in 1992 to obtain a U.S. passport for al-Rayani under the name Bilal Kassim Alawdi. He said he didn’t learn his true name until he was between 10 and 12, but has used the false name to obtain and renew passports in 2002 and 2008, as well as the most recent attempt to renew his passport in May.

The Justice Department said al-Rayanni “provided and attempted to provide material support and resources, in the form of personnel (including himself) and services” to the terrorist organization, but did not elaborate. A spokeswoman said the department opened an investigation because of a citizen report….

The Justice Department said al-Rayanni lived in Arkansas before and after he traveled to Yemen in 2014….

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  1. mortimer says

    Aug 12, 2019 at 9:12 am

    Bilal al-Rayanni trained in a terrorist camp in Yemen. Show of hands, please. Who thinks Bilal al-Rayanni will place the American public at risk? Who thinks that Bilal al-Rayanni may be disloyal to the United States and a potential terrorist? Who thinks its not Islamophobia when people like Bilal al-Rayanni want to kill them?

    Some of you raised your hands three times.

    • Keys says

      Aug 12, 2019 at 9:45 am

      Hand and Betsy Ross flag raised !

      This like going to Normandy in 1944 and fighting for the Germans, then coming back to the USA in 1945 !
      Absurd !

    • Mary says

      Aug 12, 2019 at 11:29 am

      Since a phobia is an irrational fear and it is not irrational to fear a cult that wants to murder you, islamaphobia does it exist.

    • mgoldberg says

      Aug 12, 2019 at 11:51 am

      I wonder how many muslims have been convicted of trying to join al queda, the taliban, Isis or any of the other spendid people of Islam who wish to submit us all or kill us. I mean here in the U.S. Does anyone know of a list of them? The notions of what constitutes Islamophobia is indeed a self perception disorder based on denial of simple facts and directing umbrage against all of those who ask the questions as to what Islam says, does and has done.

  2. Mario Alexis Portella says

    Aug 12, 2019 at 9:54 am

    Why was he even allowed back? I’m content that he’s behind bars, but how many more of him are in the US who shouldn’t be in America?

    • CRUSADER says

      Aug 12, 2019 at 7:01 pm

      Many many many sleepers awaiting alarm clocks to ring out….

  3. tim whiteside says

    Aug 12, 2019 at 10:02 am

    WTFU!!! Wake the *^&% up!!!! Islam is a warrior creed posing as a religion. Ban it! Shun it! Oppose it! Destroy it along with all useful idiots who placate it before it destroys the west! Done my homework I am no racist or bigot but a well-read well-informed student of history!

  4. Angemon says

    Aug 12, 2019 at 2:42 pm

    So, how soon will he be deported with extreme prejudice? He is going to be deported, right? RIGHT?!?!?!

    • Renee Luckey says

      Aug 12, 2019 at 10:28 pm

      I believe the esteemed governor of Arkansas has deemed him as not a threat.

  5. gravenimage says

    Aug 12, 2019 at 2:44 pm

    Arkansas: Muslim migrant goes to Yemen, aids al-Qaeda, returns to Arkansas
    ………………

    He never should have been allowed to return.

    At least he is being charged, though–I hope he is deported afterwards.

  6. James Lincoln says

    Aug 12, 2019 at 2:50 pm

    After he spends his FULL jail sentence in either GITMO or ADX Florence -D E P O R T !!!

  7. paul budrunas says

    Aug 12, 2019 at 6:03 pm

    Get this scumbag goat humper out of my country, preferably in a jumbo zip lock baggie.

  8. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Aug 13, 2019 at 5:35 am

    Arkansas: Muslim migrant goes to Yemen, aids al-Qaeda, returns to Arkansas, gets hired as a future asset by Clintons for his expertise in advancing their “Arkancide” narratives worldwide.

  9. CTTV15@Hotmail.com says

    Aug 13, 2019 at 10:12 am

    This IS a GLOBAL problem..

    Funny how most of the whack-jobs of the world are attracted to their not-so-fearless-leader, and ‘the Mohamadans’ – OR – the ANTIFA maniacs..

    …This is the Red-Green Axis, and the barbaric alliance from hell..

    See ‘The Grand Mufti and the unholy alliance with Adolph Hitler and the NAZI’s..

  10. Eric Jones says

    Aug 13, 2019 at 7:00 pm

    I beleive its time for a moratorium on immigration. Its a means by which terrorist use to enter the USA. Brooklyn NYC has a large Yemini community. My experience with them is that they are nice guys. Post 911 we must be more careful. Arkansas. What a surprise! Do you think Bilal knows Dollar Bill Clinton?

    Eric

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