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Chicago: Man converts to Islam, studies bomb-making, promises jihad massacre “once I get my gun and explosive belt”

Nov 21, 2019 2:00 pm By Robert Spencer

From whom did Thomas Osadzinski learn about Islam? Where did he go to mosque? Is that mosque being investigated? Why not?

“Chicago man accused of helping preserve Islamic State propaganda on social media,” by Jon Seidel, Chicago Sun-Times, November 19, 2019 (thanks to the Geller Report):

Thomas Osadzinski said he couldn’t just “sit in the chair while Muslims are dying,” so he allegedly studied bomb-making and promised he would not be stopped “once I get my gun and explosive belt.”

But the 20-year-old Lake View resident and DePaul University student also studied computer science. And that’s where the feds say he found his calling. Osadzinski allegedly went on to develop what he would call the “highest form of jihad” — a computer program that used social-media bots to save and help disseminate Islamic State propaganda online.

“No more than 10 brothers know how to do this kind of jihad,” Osadzinski allegedly once boasted.

Now Osadzinski is in federal custody, charged in a 38-page criminal complaint with attempting to provide material support and resources to the Islamic State. Also, despite once allegedly claiming, “I will never go to their false man-made court,” Osadzinski found himself Tuesday in the courtroom of U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Cole.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Barry Jonas labeled Osadzinski a risk of flight and a danger to the community. Cole ordered Osadzinski held in federal custody until a detention hearing could be held. The hearing is set for Friday.

Steve Greenberg, Osadzinski’s defense attorney, later insisted his client “is a young man who was acting lawfully.”

“He is not writing code to support ISIS,” Greenberg said in a text message to the Chicago Sun-Times. “While we understand the government has to be vigilant, they have overreached here, and seek to criminalize religious beliefs and free speech.”…

Osadzinski allegedly used social media to seek help with instructions for manufacturing a highly unstable explosive in June 2018. The feds say he believed he was on the “terrorist watch list.” And he once sent someone a series of emojis that authorities took to mean he would commit a car-bomb attack if ever drafted by the U.S. military…

The feds say the document described, in detail, Osadzinski’s plan to use the computer script to “sort, copy, organize, and redistribute large volumes of content from ISIS official media and other pro-ISIS” social media channels.

He allegedly said he wanted to “spread it everywhere.”

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Filed Under: converts to Islam, Featured, Internet jihad, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Jihad in the U.S. Tagged With: Chicago, DePaul University, illinois, Lake View, Thomas Osadzinski


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  1. DHazard says

    Nov 21, 2019 at 3:43 pm

    “While we understand the government has to be vigilant, they have overreached here, and seek to criminalize religious beliefs and free speech”, which is what Shariah does.

  2. Angemon says

    Nov 21, 2019 at 4:45 pm

    Thomas Osadzinski said he couldn’t just “sit in the chair while Muslims are dying,” so he allegedly studied bomb-making and promised he would not be stopped “once I get my gun and explosive belt.”

    So, he’s out to kill other muslims? Because muslims are killing one another – just look, for example, at Yemen.

    But the 20-year-old Lake View resident and DePaul University student also studied computer science. And that’s where the feds say he found his calling.

    Boy, the curriculum changed a lot since I studied it…

    Osadzinski allegedly went on to develop what he would call the “highest form of jihad” — a computer program that used social-media bots to save and help disseminate Islamic State propaganda online.

    “No more than 10 brothers know how to do this kind of jihad,” Osadzinski allegedly once boasted.

    That’s… the opposite of a boast, actually, regardless of what he thinks.

  3. James Lincoln says

    Nov 21, 2019 at 5:03 pm

    Whenever a non-Muslim converts to Islam, NO GOOD can follow…

  4. gravenimage says

    Nov 21, 2019 at 8:06 pm

    Chicago: Man converts to Islam, studies bomb-making, promises jihad massacre “once I get my gun and explosive belt”
    ……………………….

    Just another convert to the “religion of peace”…

    More:

    Thomas Osadzinski said he couldn’t just “sit in the chair while Muslims are dying,” so he allegedly studied bomb-making and promised he would not be stopped “once I get my gun and explosive belt.”
    ……………………….

    Talk about projection! This is not about Muslims dying–most of whom are killed by other Muslims–but about his wanting to murder Infidels.

    More:

    Steve Greenberg, Osadzinski’s defense attorney, later insisted his client “is a young man who was acting lawfully.”

    “He is not writing code to support ISIS,” Greenberg said in a text message to the Chicago Sun-Times. “While we understand the government has to be vigilant, they have overreached here, and seek to criminalize religious beliefs and free speech.”…
    ……………………….

    Uh…right. As though this Jihadist’s rights were being violated by not being able to slaughter Infidels…

  5. Lotus says

    Nov 21, 2019 at 11:18 pm

    This lowlife needs the old 1-2-3.

    1. Convict him.
    2. Put him in a prison cell.
    3. Throw away the key:

    Sorted!

  6. Gabriel Rizkallah says

    Nov 21, 2019 at 11:22 pm

    Ho strange that any convert to the religion of peace, the first thing they plan to do,…… is actually to plan a terrorist attack. So much for the religion of peace, compassion and forgiveness.

  7. AvantiBev says

    Nov 22, 2019 at 2:26 am

    I blame my church, the Roman Catholic rite for its post Vat II 50 year destroying the faith not catechizing the young. AND I blame his Polish father for not teaching him his heritage and the bravery of Poles such as King Jan at the Gate of Vienna.

  8. No Muzzies Here says

    Nov 22, 2019 at 9:59 am

    Once again, a new convert studies his new religion and strives to put it all into practice, which includes violence against those who aren’t members of the religion. Perhaps someone should look into the tenets of the religion to see just where you can find those calls to attack non-believers.

    • Dave says

      Nov 22, 2019 at 10:08 am

      Are you trying to say by implication that those calls to kill nonbelievers do noe exist?

      Just wondering, as this is well-documented.

      • underbed cat says

        Nov 23, 2019 at 11:08 am

        Well documented and also well hidden with omission, to push awareness into selective obscurity, promoting melodic sura’s of direct commands a sort of metamorphosis of the actual text of the Quran which is aggressive deceptive warfare of conquest against non beleivers to a stricken victims of hate. Well trained and restrained by sharia laws to expose the easy to understand words of this doctrine in the Quran and backed by ME cash to influence, some of the press, promote misinformation in universities and fund politicians. A simple reading of which exposes the origin of jihad warfare. So truth is now hate speech, but the fearless continue to expose this deception of “peaceful” and the “outreach for harmless -diversity” fib to be known. However the truth is known to cause disruption but the reason is for suppression. Clue 1.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 8, 2020 at 9:06 pm

      Dave, No Muzzies Here is a staunch Anti-Jihadist. He is being sarcastic.

  9. Trick_or_Treat says

    Nov 22, 2019 at 12:20 pm

    Dude sounds about as bright as a box full of rocks.

  10. Giacomo Latta says

    Nov 22, 2019 at 1:41 pm

    shyster: ”they have overreached here, and seek to criminalize religious beliefs”
    Well, then I guess that every new country in the world must be a theocracy. Any new set of rules could mean the criminalization of religious beliefs. What we are living in, shyster, is a democracy where we make our own rules and if centuries-old thinking conflicts with them, then too bad for ancient perspectives. If the years 700 or 0 cannot bend to fit the current year then you too are free to emigrate to a country of your liking, such as Pakistan.

  11. Hugo says

    Nov 22, 2019 at 5:07 pm

    They are all radicalised in mosques reading the Koran and the life of Mohamed.

    • underbed cat says

      Nov 23, 2019 at 11:44 am

      Agree. But very methodical in it’s methods to pretend separation of mosque, quran and Isis or any terror group, necessary for them to keep the secret and put people who where students to run for office…appear likeable and peaceful to get elected. This is a huge danger.

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