Yet no one at Auburn, or at Southern Union Community College, would have dared ask Nayef Qashou what he thought of jihad and the Islamic State. That would have been “Islamophobic.”
“Terror suspect living in Auburn attended Opelika’s Southern Union Community College,” by Elizabeth White, WRBL, September 19, 2019:
LEE COUNTY, Ala. (WRBL) – Startling news settling over the east Alabama community as a dual Jordanian and United States citizen living in Auburn and attending school in Opelika is arrested in a Federal terrorism probe.
FBI agents took Nayef Qashou into custody on Monday, and he appeared in Montgomery Federal Court later this week after being indicted and charged….
FBI agents allege Qashou lied to FBI agents and destroyed evidence in their terror probe while asserting Qashou allegedly told agents he would execute a U.S. Soldier if the Islamic State Group ordered him to.
In a newly unsealed affidavit, the FBI says Qashou arrived in the U.S. through Atlanta’s airport in 2015 and made his way to Opelika to go to school. The FBI interviewed him more than a dozen times over the past four years before making the arrest this week after he was indicted.
News 3 has learned he lived in Auburn and took general education classes at Southern Union Community College from 2016-2018
The FBI claims he used encrypted phone apps to communicate with suspected terrorists who told him he should carry out an attack in the United States.
“UPDATE: Man arrested in terrorism probe was student at Auburn University,” WRBL, September 20, 2019:
AUBURN AL. (WRBL)– An Alabama man arrested in a terrorism probe was a student at Auburn University. FBI agents took Nayef Qashou into custody on Sept. 16. Qashou appeared in Montgomery Federal Court earlier this week after being indicted and charged with with lying to the FBI and destroying records….
Qashou, a dual Jordanian and United States citizen, was living in Auburn and had previously attended Southern Union Community College from 2016-2018.
Qashou was apprehended as part of a years long terrorism probe in which the FBI says he told agents he would execute a U.S. soldier if ordered to do so by the Islamic State group.
Angemon says
Treason, plain and simple.
shabtaizisel says
How is he a citizen if he just arrived in 2015?
ElderlyZionist says
Could be the child of a US citizen, born in Jordan.
J D S says
How many of these. “sleeprs/islamic addicts” both students and professors, are loose on our college campuses today??? Thanks to our law enforcement officials for catching this “one”
Angemon says
What about a civilian? Did they asked that? I mean, US soldier’s supplies and paychecks don’t materialize out of thin air…
gravenimage says
Notice that there was not any mention that the United States does not recognize dual citizenship–this is quite common these days.
J D S says
Graven…I always thought that when one raised their hand add sword allegiance to the U.S. that ended their citizenship to a foreign nation.
gravenimage says
It should, J D S. Sometimes the other nation still recognizes dual citizenship, but the US does not.
WarEagle82 says
Details matter! For the record, this has NOTHING to do with Auburn University. The jihadi lived in the city of Auburn and attended a community college in Opelika which is about 20 minutes east of Auburn.
Read and correct the grammar in your “headline.” Geez.
WarEagle82 says
Damn, another link said he was enrolled at Auburn as of this fall term. Gotta read the links too. Still the headline is wrong.
Robert Spencer says
Typo. Fixed now. Thanks.
William says
War Eagle!
Arj says
Wrong. He was a student at Auburn University. He was a junior in Business Administration. His name was registered in the Auburn University Student Directory. Also, if you look at the Auburn Reddit, you can find pictures of him and read about what other students thought about him.
paul 316 says
How many like Qashou are in the United States and so many on the left still calling for dismantling of DHS and ICE. When the mullah’s give the nod to violence in the United States I think many are going to wish the wall was built and more vetting efforts were enacted on muslims instead of worrying about being call islamophobic. The world needs to wake up to the wickedness of islam.
gravenimage says
+1
Wellington says
Three points:
1) I am against dual citizenship. It messes up allegiance to the best, not perfect but still the best, of polities that man has been able to develop, i.e., the nation state. Even one who has dual citizenship in two free Western nations is arguably still conflicted. I deprecate this “confliction.” By the age of 21 a person born with dual citizenship should have to choose which nation they are going with. No exceptions. If this seems extreme, I don’t care.
2) ISIS is Islam in its purest form and one knows this or should know it. Mohammed, that psychopathic bastard were he still here, would be proud of ISIS.
3) Best to assume that any Muslim in America is a fifth columnist—either they’re really devout and this is a major problem, or they’re not really devout and this is a problem nonetheless because it is the ideology of choice that matters most and NEVER the fact that many who adhere to an ideology, whether iniquitous (e.g., Islam) or benign (e.g., Christianity), don’t fully implement or wrongfully implement that ideology’s theoretical blueprint. Yes, it’s the ideology that is paramount.
gravenimage says
The US does not recognize dual citizenship–Jordan does, though. I think it is fine to mention dual citizenship if it is salient, as it is in this article. But it should be noted that the US does not recognize such.
gravenimage says
In fact–as you know–people becoming American citizens take this oath:
“I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States…”
Is Nayef Qashou a naturalized American citizen? Likely so–which means that he violated this oath, and was probably lying when he took it.
James Lincoln says
gravenimage,
If a naturalized American citizen violates the oath “that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States” does that make their citizenship invalid?
Can they then be deported?
Any attorneys out there who know the answer?
gravenimage says
I’m no attorney, James–although Wellington is. But there’s this story:
“Trump officials pushing to strip convicted jihad terrorists of citizenship”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/06/trump-officials-pushing-to-strip-convicted-jihad-terrorists-of-citizenship
I believe this would apply to naturalized citizens.
James Lincoln says
Thank you, gravenimage.
Wellington says
gravenimage: Take a look at the 1967 Afroyim v. Rusk Supreme Court decision.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Wellington–I was not familiar with this case, although I should have been.
Of course, plotting the slaughter of Americans is *much* different from voting in a foreign election–especially of an ally. Still, I realize this may not make any difference legally.
Melissa Jennings says
He was probably born here in the U.S. but the child of Jordanian parents – we all know that many mothers find a way to give birth on American soil whether they intend to use them as an anchor baby & stay or not. He may have been raised here, sent back to Jordan to experience what real Islamic life is, he wouldn’t be the first to return from an Islamic country after being radicalized. Islamic hosts or family members or some religious leader convinces them that the only reasons America is so nice, clean, wealthy by comparison is because of heatheness &/or by stealing the resources of their lands & bc we kill their men, women and children for absolutely no other reason than the U.S. is evil.
gravenimage says
Melissa, he was not born here, From the article:
In a newly unsealed affidavit, the FBI says Qashou arrived in the U.S. through Atlanta’s airport in 2015 and made his way to Opelika to go to school.
AP says
I had rather see him executed, before he has a chance to kill any American.
DHazard says
From the point of view of an Islamic scholar, all Muslims living outside so called Muslim lands should always be ready to kill for the defense and expansion of the faith, including children. It should surprise no one that if someone has loyalty to Islam they are automatically in conflict with everybody else. Belief in Islam should disqualify any immigrant from entering a non-Muslim country.