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Ohio: Man converts to Islam, plots jihad massacre at Independence Day parade, scouted other targets

Nov 9, 2019 11:00 am By Robert Spencer

Yet another convert to Islam gets the idea that his new religion commands him to commit treason and mass murder. Why does this keep happening? Why are the clerics of the religion of peace so singularly failing at communicating the peaceful nature of their religion? We don’t see a significant number of converts to Christianity, or any, for that matter, plotting violence in the name of Christ. What makes for the difference?

“Ohio Man Pleads Guilty to Plotting July 4th Attack in Cleveland as Part of Plot to Provide Support to Al Qaeda,” Department of Justice, November 5, 2019:

A Maple Heights man pleaded guilty to crimes related to his plot to launch a terrorist attack in Cleveland on Independence Day….

Demetrius Nathaniel Pitts, aka Abdur Raheem Rafeeq, aka Salah ad-Deen Osama Waleed, 50, pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, threats against the President of the United States and threats against family members of the President of the United States.

According to an affidavit filed in the case, between 2015 and 2017, Pitts expressed anti-American sentiments and expressed a desire to recruit people to kill Americans. The defendant expressed a desire to meet with an al Qaeda “brother” and in June he was introduced to an FBI employee acting in an undercover capacity (UCE), who Pitts believed was such a “brother.”

Pitts and the UCE met in Walton Hills, Ohio, in 2018, where they discussed launching an attack for al Qaeda during the July 4th holiday.

Pitts said: “I’m trying to figure out something that would shake them up on the 4th of July.” He later stated: “What would hit them at their core? Blow up in the, have a bomb blow up in the 4th of July parade.”

Pitts searched Google for a map of downtown Cleveland. After learning the fireworks would be launched from Voinovich Park, Pitts said: “Oh there you go. Oh yeah.” He was also pleased the park was near the U.S. Coast Guard station, the Army Corps of Engineers, and the Celebrezze Federal Building….

On June 26, Pitts contacted the UCE via text message and relayed that he had completed the reconnaissance of the designated spots in downtown Cleveland and that he desired to “destroy the government.”…

On June 27, Pitts met with the CHS and turned over the phone that contained the reconnaissance photos and videos, so they could be provided to the al Qaeda brothers.

Later on June 27, Pitts and the UCE met in Maple Heights then drove to downtown Cleveland, where they discussed the impending July 4th bombing.

“And I’m gonna be downtown when the – when the thing go off. I’m gonna be somewhere cuz I wanna see it go off,” Pitts said.

A search of the phone that Pitts provided to the CHS revealed that he made two videos in which he pledged allegiance. He stated, in part: “We serve Allah . . . We fight our enemies. We destroy them and destroy those who try to oppose…”

The phone also had four videos taken by Pitts that show him walking down East 9th Street in Cleveland, pointing out potential targets such as the , which he said could be taken “off the map.”

On July 1, Pitts met with the UCE in Garfield Heights, Ohio, for Pitts to explain his plan for Philadelphia. Pitts said he planned to travel there to conduct reconnaissance for a future attack in Philadelphia. Pitts stated a truck bomb packed with explosives, such as the one used in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, would be the best way to cause maximum damage.

Pitts was reminded by the UCE that people would die and body parts would by flying around. Pitts responded “I don’t care” and that he had “no regrets,” would be able to “go to sleep” and “I don’t give a (expletive).”

Pitts also pleaded guilty today to threatening to kill the President of the United States and his immediate family members, namely his daughter and son-in-law….

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Filed Under: Al-Qaeda, converts to Islam, Featured, Jihad in the U.S. Tagged With: Abdur Raheem Rafeeq, Demetrius Nathaniel Pitts, Salah ad-Deen Osama Waleed


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  1. Dum Spiro says

    Nov 9, 2019 at 11:02 am

    WWMD?
    Oh.

    You understand too…
    –Spero

  2. Angemon says

    Nov 9, 2019 at 11:16 am

    And a black one at that – twice the fool…

  3. FYI says

    Nov 9, 2019 at 11:18 am

    How easy it is to find allah{“the BEST of deceivers” k3:54}the Arab god of the muslims!

    As usual with the zealous convert there is..

    The adopted {and really silly}Arabic supremacist name.
    {Do you think the Saudi Princes see him as an equal and will be inviting him over for supper?He’s an Abdool…}

    The Irony deficiency{especially among black converts to islam}{muhammed,a WHITE ARAB was the owner,buyer and seller of black AFRICAN slaves {Sahih muslim 3901}
    muhammed{pbuh}:pbuh upon a WHITE ARAB SLAVE SELLER?Seriously?

    The automatic,koranically-sanctioned permission to break the Actual God’s Commandments,be a traitor and a liar, an antisemite,antichristian,misogynistic,terrorist moron

    The entitlement to HATE due to 1}islam’s Doctrine of Hate{al walaa wal baraa}2}allah COMPLETELY MISSING the 2nd chief commandment of Lev 19:18,thus no ‘love thy neighbor’ in islam and islam’s apartheid system of muslims{the Best community} versus non-muslims{the worst of mankind}

    Stay away from this cult of muhammed that masquerades as a religion of peace:do something else.

  4. Goofy says

    Nov 9, 2019 at 11:22 am

    If you want freedom of expression of the religion of peace this is what you get. He indeed understood that much but nobody told him that being black has already destined hom for hell.

  5. Antiislamicman says

    Nov 9, 2019 at 11:28 am

    He’s just following his false book the Koran

  6. FYI says

    Nov 9, 2019 at 11:37 am

    If you are African-American would you please have a look on You Tube..

    acts17apologetics muhammed:the white prophet with Black slaves

    That will shock you!

    Beware of the dawa folk:they will tell you about BILAL but they won’t tell you about castration of African Slaves{or that allah hates music,musical instruments,CURSES Christians for believing in Jesus k9:30 ,teaches women have a “deficiency of the mind” etc}

    Imagine that in islam,there is nothing like a womans Gospel Choir because al lah the Arab god HATES women singing:do you see how idiotic and insane that is?

    “On the day of resurrection allah will pour molten lead into the ears of whoever sits listening to a songstress”
    Reliance of the Traveller Umdat al Salik section r40.1

    The Bible{OT and NT},interestingly enough,is full of music and singing{David playing the Lute,Mary singing a song Luke 1*}

    *By allah’s teaching anyone caught listening to Mary singing would have to be punished:that would be ..GOD,the Actual God….islam’s Arab god is ludicrous!

  7. Stan Lore says

    Nov 9, 2019 at 1:04 pm

    Drop him on top of ISIS. They will show him the appropriate, amount of respect for Americans, even those who pledge allegiance to the terrorist organization. Then, leave him there.

  8. somehistory says

    Nov 9, 2019 at 1:31 pm

    It’s good this creep changed his name because he doesn’t deserve the name Nathaniel. The one is the Bible was chosen by Jesus to be an apostle, and He called him, “A man is whom there is no deceit.”

    islam is full of deceit and its rabid adherents follow that evil way.

    OT: NBC has a report on the moslim from Alabama who says she “deserves” to come back after joining isis and marrying three isis members. She is the one who said moslims should ‘drive-by and spill a lot of blood,’
    in America..
    “AL-ROJ CAMP, Syria — An American-born woman who once urged jihadists in America to “go on drivebys, and spill all of their blood,” says she “regrets every single thing” and believes she should be given the option to return to the United States with her young son.
    “Anyone that believes in God believes that everyone deserves a second chance, no matter how harmful their sins were,” Hoda …”

    Bolder than brass…the line about “everyone that believes in God,” and deciding what those of us who do believe in ..not her fake ‘god,’ but the True god, “believes.” I’d tell her a few things…first of all, I’m not a ‘that’ and second, she doesn’t get to decide what I believe about “second chances.”

  9. gravenimage says

    Nov 10, 2019 at 12:35 am

    Ohio: Man converts to Islam, plots jihad massacre at Independence Day parade, scouted other targets
    ………………..

    How many times have we heard about eager new converts to Islam like this?

  10. FireFox says

    Nov 10, 2019 at 4:18 am

    Do not understand blacks wanting Islam. Mohamad was white – he had black slaves – Islam gathered and sold black africans into slavery – even today eastern moslems have black slaves – does mental deficiency provide the prerequisite to become a moslem?! Islam is so blatantly evil and false too! Unbelievable that the west has invited this eternal enemy of freedom into our midst.

  11. jca reid says

    Nov 11, 2019 at 7:42 am

    One can understand the guy’s hostility to the US. After all, black Americans haven’t really had a fair deal for centuries. However, Islam didn’t & doesn’t treat fairly. Over 125MILLION Black Africans taken into slavery. Males were castrated. Something like 80% didn’t survive the process. Mohammed was a white slaver. Only in 1965 under a UN order did Saudi Arabia “give up” slavery. There’s an App now available in that Kingdom so one can obtain “Domestic Staff”. Basically, Filipino women to be used as sex slaves. Mauritania gave up slavery in the 1980’s. However, there are open slave markets there carrying out their vile trade today, in 2019! People simply don’t want to see or hear the Truth about this evil Desert Nazi Ideology. Psychologically they want to follow Cassius Clay/Mohammed Ali. The trouble with these converts, like Ali, they didn’t learn the actual truth about what Islam actually entails.

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