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 Michael Kyle Sewell were a convert to Christianity who was caught trying to join a Christian terror group, his story would be all over the New York Times and CNN, but of course that would never happen anyway, as there are no Christian terror groups.
“Texas teen gets 20 years in prison for terror-recruiting plot,” by Adam Schrader, New York Post, September 17, 2019 (thanks to Henry):
A Texas teen was sentenced to the maximum 20 years in prison on Monday for recruiting a fellow American to join a blood-thirsty Pakistani terror group.
Michael Kyle Sewell, 18, of Arlington, was busted in February following an FBI investigation in which he exchanged a series of online messages with two undercover operatives who were posing as radical Islamic extremists associated with Lashkar-e-Taiba.
The group, also known as LeT, is based in Pakistan and has been accused of training the terrorists who killed nearly 170 people in Mumbai, India, over four days in November 2008.
In one conversation, Sewell said he wanted to join LeT, but needed several years to get in shape, have Lasik surgery to improve his vision and save money for airfare to Pakistan, court papers say.
Around the same time, Sewell also contacted an unidentified US citizen whose social-media account featured an ISIS flag, court papers say.
During online conversations between Nov. 3 and Nov. 8, 2018, the man “told Sewell that he wanted to go to paradise and be a soldier of God,” court papers say.
When the man said he wanted to join ISIS, Sewell argued against it, saying ISIS “had no territory” and suggesting he join LeT or the Taliban instead, court papers say.
Sewell also gave the man contact information for one of the undercover FBI operatives, who he said “was in Pakistan and could help [him] get to LeT,” court papers say.
During a Nov. 9 online discussion with that operative, Sewell vouched for the recruit, saying his “intentions were pure,” court papers say.
After the operative thanked him, Sewell also agreed to help when the operative said LeT needed “many lions,” court papers say.
On Dec. 19, the man who Sewell recruited told the operative that he’d purchased a ticket to fly from JFK Airport to London on Feb. 7.
Court papers don’t say what happened to the recruit and a spokesperson for the US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas didn’t immediately return an inquiry from The Post.
In addition to Sewell’s recruiting efforts, court papers detail outrageous statements he made on social media in support of Islamic extremism, including saying that he hated American [sic] and that “it was Allah’s will to turn him into a killing machine.”…
Liz says
Christians need to pull their head out of the sand (generally speaking, many here are shouting from the roof tops) and take back our children’s education and develop plans to inoculate our children from hatefilled ideologies.
mortimer says
Yes, it’s the political ‘ideology’ of Islam that creates jihadists like Michael Kyle Sewell and nothing ‘ideology’.
Attacking people for resisting your political supremacism is a political and ideological act.
mortimer says
correction: nothing but the ideology
Tony says
This kid has obvious mental health problems. Sounds like some entrapment of a handicapped kid.
He probably needs supervision but I’m not sure about Federal prison
gravenimage says
“Entrapment”–how many people can be “entrapped” into wanting to join a Jihad terror group and slaughter Infidels? This is something that only pious Muslims want in the first place.
Charles V Eldridge says
I totally agree, Tony. The kid looks like he has mental issues.
Rae-Ann says
He definitely doesn’t look normal but I don’t think it’s a curable illness. Let him be punished for his choices.
James Lincoln says
Any Caucasian in the United States who converts to Islam is looking to have this cult religious ideology provide support and cover for mass violence – until proven otherwise.
In other words, a five alarm fire…
Andrew Jones says
Caucasian or not it’s all the same.
gravenimage says
Yep.
Honest Ali says
You know that the majority of Muslims on the planet are Caucasian right? Muhammad was a Caucasian.
In American 41% of Muslims are Caucasian, 20% are black and 28% are Asian.
ALL Muslims believe in Jihad…
mortimer says
Agree with JL. Alarm bells should ring when a Christian raised with the Golden Rule converts to Islam with its dualist double standards called Al Walaa wal Baraa (‘comradeship and cleansing’). Koran 48.29: “Muhammad is the messenger of Allah; Those with him are VIOLENT (ashiddaa’) against the unbelievers (kufaar), Compassionate amongst themselves.”
Michael Kyle Sewell believes that the 164 jihad verses in the Koran are the duty of every Muslim. He has hardened his heart against the kufaar because Allah’s jihad verses are eternal. In prison, he will likely intensify this intolerant bigotry.
He wants to ‘cleanse’ America of everyone who stands in the way of Islamic supremacism.
Ren says
Islam is insanity and makes people go insane.
The unexpected voice says
Then Just go and live in Syria Afghanistan or Somalia.
Angemon says
Treason, plain and simple – that’s how all American members/wannabes of islamic terror groups should be judged…
mortimer says
Michael Kyle Sewell has apparently read the 164 Jihad Verses in the Koran and believed in them as the duty of every Muslim.
The Koran’s 164 Jihad Verses: K 002:178-179, 190-191, 193-194, 216-218, 244; 003:121-126, 140-143, 146, 152-158, 165-167,169, 172-173, 195; 004:071-072, 074-077, 084, 089-091, 094-095,100-104; 005:033, 035, 082; 008:001, 005, 007, 009-010, 012, 015-017, 039-048,057-060, 065-075; 009:005, 012-014, 016, 019-020, 024-026, 029,036, 038-039, 041, 044, 052, 073, 081, 083,086, 088, 092, 111, 120, 122-123; 016:110; 022:039, 058, 078; 024:053, 055; 025:052; 029:006, 069; 033:015, 018, 020, 023, 025-027, 050; 042:039; 047:004, 020, 035; 048:015-024; 049:015; 059:002, 005-008, 014; 060:009; 061:004, 011, 013; 063:004; 064:014; 066:009; 073:020; 076:008.
gravenimage says
I agree–but I’m not sure he’s much of a reader…
DHazard says
Does you IQ drop before or after you join Islam?
mortimer says
Response to DH: I believe judgement and objectivity drop greatly when a person joins a cult. It’s like falling in love. The lover fails to see the glaring flaws in his beloved.
Muslims think that a pirate, polygamist, pedophile, plagiarizer, rapist and slave holder was a hero. They are not being objective about Mohammed. They are in love with a violent, rapacious man. Anyone of those things would make a person considered to be morally deficient today.
gravenimage says
Sane people don’t ignore those kinds of flaws when they fall in love.
This is not exactly like thinking that something like burping in public is cute…
John Hawk says
These jihadi types have a certain look in their eyes — like a walleye on meth.
elee says
+1
Trick_or_Treat says
ABSOLUTELY! (an observation I have posted many times over) …looking at some of their ‘mugshots’, their eyes look like souless dead black holes, or cold black stones.
gravenimage says
Yes–its the dead ‘shark eye’ look.
ntesdorf says
He may not yet be a ‘killing machine’, but Allah has already seen fit to make him into a moron.
tgusa says
Not very bright, out of shape, cant see well, the perfect recruit! The recruiting pool is shallow, very shallow. They are not getting our best. Should have just let him go, he wouldn’t have lasted an hour.
gravenimage says
Very true.
Trick_or_Treat says
True. Looks like he’s had sweet bugger all military training or discipline, and I would not mind betting he’s one of those dickheads who’s such a hopeless marksman that he thinks he needs a semi- automatic or automatic weapon to shoot a rabbit for the pot.
elee says
Bubba goes jihadi!
gravenimage says
Texas: Teen converts to Islam, says he hates America and “it was Allah’s will to turn him into a killing machine”
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“Killing machine”–uh huh…
More:
In one conversation, Sewell said he wanted to join LeT, but needed several years to get in shape, have Lasik surgery to improve his vision and save money for airfare to Pakistan, court papers say.
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Good thing this “brave lion of Islam” was so pathetic…
Buz says
He dosen’t need to shoot. He obviously, could never be Rambo. His handlers would put a suicide vest on this moron, and send him to paradise, along with with an innocent crowd.
gravenimage says
Almost certainly the case, Buz.
tim gallagher says
Over and over again, we see these types of people, lusting to commit hate-filled acts of violence, finding their way to Islam. Islam is the perfect home for those types of people. It will tell them that their vile, hate-filled desires and acts are actually moral. By civilised standards, Islam is so immoral in so many ways.
gravenimage says
Yes–Islam is a creed for violent losers.
tim gallagher says
I agree, gravenimage. No Muzzies Here sums up the difference between Christianity and Islam perfectly, just a couple of comments below this. If I am a Christian (probably the same for Buddhists) I might commit murder, but I will certainly know that the Christian God doesn’t actually approve of my evil acts. I am sometimes puzzled by the people, such as this guy, who I suspect are already full of rage, but go off and join Islam. I don’t get why they join anything. They could just go off and murder people without joining an evil group like Islam. But Islam, with its nasty version of what god is supposed to be like and all its calls for violence, certainly won’t try to turn them into more gentle people.
gravenimage says
Hi Tim. You wrote:
I am sometimes puzzled by the people, such as this guy, who I suspect are already full of rage, but go off and join Islam. I don’t get why they join anything. They could just go off and murder people without joining an evil group like Islam.
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I think there are several reasons for this, Tim. The first is that these thugs want confirmation–they must know that most people consider them violent nutcases, but they are thrilled to find that there is a creed where these murderous fantasies are praised.
Then, guys like this don’t seem capable of much planning. But if they convert to Islam they have a ready made community of Jihadists who can help them plot terror attacks.
Finally, there are the rewards–not just the approval of Jihad thugs, but the promise of endless judgement-free sex in paradise. Somehow I doubt that this guy did much to make himself attractive to the ladies (note here that I don’t mean his turning himself into some kind of hunk; I just mean his acting toward women in any way that was not creepy and off-putting).
tim gallagher says
gravenimage, I think the reasons you give for these types of people joining Islam must be correct. It certainly is a phenomenon that keeps occurring. One thing is for sure, and that is that Islam isn’t going to try to turn these hate-filled, bitter types people around and try to make them more peaceful people. This particular man does seem to have very low intelligence, but his saying that the Muslim version of what god is like wants him to “become a killing machine” says it all.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Tim.
Tom Sawyer says
There is no such thing as a “Christian Terrorist Group”.
The article is biased against Christians, using social engineering to suggest that there are.
gravenimage says
Tom, Robert Spencer is making just that point. If you knew his work–he is himself a devout Christian–then you would not imagine that he is anti-Christian.
No Muzzies Here says
The new convert seeks to fervently practice his new religion, and studies it to find out what it requires him to do. Strangely, all new converts to Islam discover that their new religion requires them to murder non-believers.
Amazing how a convert to Evangelical Christianity just annoys people by going around saying “I’m saved! Oh Jesus!” and spreads his new-found joy without hurting anyone.
PS. This individual is obviously on the intellectual level of a sub-moron so perhaps we should go easy on him.
tim gallagher says
Spot on, No Muzzies Here, about the difference between Christianity and Islam. Probably right about the serious lack of intelligence of this particular guy. Despite that, no doubt, he could have been used by Muslim handlers to kill non-Muslims.
gravenimage says
Good points.
Justin D. Plorable says
I think he was secretly just wanted to meet a nice goat .
Divine says
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gravenimage says
Awful, Divine and dazzleme55. This crushing of freedom of speech on social media is becoming more and more common.