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Minnesota: Muslim migrant, former Mayo Clinic researcher, pledged allegiance to ISIS, plotted jihad massacres in US

Mar 20, 2020 5:00 pm By Robert Spencer

What’s that? A doctor? Why, how can that be? Everyone knows that poverty causes terrorism, right?

In reality, the idea that poverty causes terrorism, and that showering Muslim countries with money will end it, has been shown to be false again and again — although it is still a core assumption of U.S. foreign policy.

The New York Times reported in March 2016 that “not long after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001…Alan B. Krueger, the Princeton economist, tested the widespread assumption that poverty was a key factor in the making of a terrorist. Mr. Krueger’s analysis of economic figures, polls, and data on suicide bombers and hate groups found no link between economic distress and terrorism.”

CNS News noted in September 2013 that “according to a Rand Corporation report on counterterrorism, prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense in 2009, ‘Terrorists are not particularly impoverished, uneducated, or afflicted by mental disease. Demographically, their most important characteristic is normalcy (within their environment). Terrorist leaders actually tend to come from relatively privileged backgrounds.’ One of the authors of the RAND report, Darcy Noricks, also found that according to a number of academic studies, ‘Terrorists turn out to be more rather than less educated than the general population.’”

“Pakistani doctor arrested in Minnesota on terrorism charge,” by Amy Forliti, Associated Press, March 19, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

MINNEAPOLIS — A Pakistani doctor and former Mayo Clinic research coordinator was arrested Thursday in Minnesota on a terrorism charge, after prosecutors say he told paid FBI informants that he had pledged his allegiance to the Islamic State group and wanted to carry out lone wolf attacks in the United States.

Muhammad Masood, 28, was arrested at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport on Thursday by FBI agents and was charged with one count of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.

Prosecutors say Masood was in the U.S. on a work visa. They allege that starting in January, Masood made several statements to paid informants — whom he believed were members of the Islamic State group — pledging his allegiance to the group and its leader. He also allegedly expressed his desire to travel to Syria to fight for ISIS and a desire to carry out lone wolf attacks in the U.S.

At one point, Masood messaged an informant “there is so much I wanted to do here .. .lon wulf stuff you know … but I realized I should be on the ground helping brothers sisters kids,” according to an FBI affidavit.

Prosecutors say Masood bought a plane ticket on Feb. 21 to travel from Chicago to Amman, Jordan, and then planned to go to Syria from there. He had planned to leave at the end of March. But on March 16, he had to change his travel plans because Jordan closed its borders due to the coronavirus pandemic. Masood and one of the informants then developed a plan for him to fly from Minneapolis to Los Angeles to meet with that informant, whom Masood believed would help him travel in a cargo ship into Islamic State territory….

Court documents do not name the clinic where Masood worked, but a LinkedIn page for a man with the same name and work history says Masood has worked at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, since February of 2018, first as a research trainee, but has been a clinical research coordinator since May. A profile on researchgate.net says he has done research in cardiology; he was scheduled to present his research for the Mayo Clinic School of Continuous Professional Development in October 2018, according to an online calendar of the event.

Mayo Clinic spokeswoman Ginger Plumbo said Masood formerly worked at the medical center, but “was not employed by Mayo Clinic at the time of his arrest.”…

On Jan. 24, Masood contacted one of the informants on the encrypted platform and said he was a medical doctor with a Pakistani passport and wanted to travel to Syria, Iraq or the northern region of Iran stretching to Afghanistan “to fight on the frontline as well as help the wounded brothers,” the affidavit said.

He explained that he wanted to make the trip because he “hates smiling at the passing kuffar just to not make them suspicios.” The affidavit said kuffar is an Arabic term meaning nonbeliever or non-Muslim. Masood also allegedly told the informant he wanted help getting to the front lines. When the informant said Masood might have to kill people, Masood replied, “i want to kill and get killed … and kill and get killed.”…

Roughly three dozen Minnesotans — mostly men from the state’s large Somali community — have left Minnesota since 2007 to join al-Shabab in Somalia or militant groups in Syria, including the Islamic State group….

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  1. Wellington says

    Mar 20, 2020 at 5:14 pm

    Have twice tried to post a comment. This is my third try. What the hell is going on?

    • Savvy Kafir says

      Mar 20, 2020 at 6:09 pm

      Have you tried contacting Marc, the tech guy who manages the JW site? He helped me once when I was having the same issue.

      • Wellington says

        Mar 20, 2020 at 8:09 pm

        Yes.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 20, 2020 at 7:29 pm

      Wellington, have you heard back from Marc Louis yet?

      • Wellington says

        Mar 20, 2020 at 8:08 pm

        Yes.

        • gravenimage says

          Mar 21, 2020 at 5:36 pm

          Well, this is frustrating. He has always been able to help with the technical problems I have had.

  2. joe says

    Mar 20, 2020 at 5:28 pm

    America is being colonized by Muslims through political and population jihad

    • Savvy Kafir says

      Mar 20, 2020 at 6:03 pm

      Yep. Considering that they make up less than 2% of the U.S. population, they are already having a dramatic effect — aided by insane globalists and the PC Islamophiles of the Regressive Left. And the same is true throughout Western Europe, Canada, & Australia.

      Who would have guessed, 20 years ago, that Muslim colonizers & invaders would pose the most urgent existential threat to the U.S., and to the West as a whole? Not me. I was not a savvy kafir. But in recent years, resisting the Islamization of the West has become my top priority — bumping environmental issues and animal rights issues to the #2 and #3 slots.

      If we don’t win this conflict by ridding the West of Muslims — while we still can — Western Civilization will be destroyed in just a few generations. And it will happen on our watch. People from across the political spectrum should be doing all they can to resist this threat. Anyone who values freedom, human rights, animal rights, Western culture, science & reason should play an active role in the counter-jihad.

      • Manuele Lui says

        Mar 21, 2020 at 4:45 am

        I totally concur gentlemen

      • Lauren Hermann says

        Mar 23, 2020 at 4:57 pm

        SK, you are so right! But there are so many people who don’t want to hear anything about islam or muslims. My husband & I have a friend who is super-intelligent with a doctorate in a branch of medical science. And you know what he fears most?? That the US will become a Christian country. Apparently he thinks the Christian evangelicals (mind you, I too find them annoying) are more dangerous than islamic terrorists.

        And to think we could have nipped this in the bud long ago, had we just said “No” to muslim immigration.

  3. James Lincoln says

    Mar 20, 2020 at 5:48 pm

    According to the feature article:

    “Prosecutors say Masood was in the U.S. on a work visa.”

    What kind of work was he supposed to be doing?

    Was this tracked in any way?

  4. elee says

    Mar 20, 2020 at 5:48 pm

    Another Muslim in a position of responsibility in our health-care system. How do you know your pharmacist isnt a jihadi?

    • Savvy Kafir says

      Mar 20, 2020 at 6:24 pm

      My local university-affiliated hospital has become infested with bearded, military-age Muslim men and (to a lesser extent) hijabbed Muslimas, many of them young doctors. The PC geniuses who run the medical center are obviously hiring Muslims in preference to all others. Just a matter of time ’til one of these “peaceful, moderate” Allah junkies decides to take his (or her) religion a little more seriously and start butchering some infidels.

      • elee says

        Mar 20, 2020 at 6:52 pm

        Or poisoning patients.

      • tgusa says

        Mar 20, 2020 at 7:43 pm

        Hi my name is mohammed bin wuntintukilu and I will be your doctor.

  5. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Mar 20, 2020 at 5:52 pm

    Some say there should be no Moslem troops, cops, nurses or doctors in this country, and for obvious reasons. They should stick to preaching or observing.

    Living up here in Minnesota, where the high is 33 Farhenheit today, there is almost no talk about Islam. Some comments are made about Rep Ilhan Omar D-MN, but that seems to be why did we elect a bad Moslem when we could’ve elected a good one.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Mar 20, 2020 at 6:29 pm

      “Personally, I don’t trust one Muslim in our military, [I]f they truly are a devout Muslim, and follow the Quran and the Sunnah, then I feel threatened because they’re commanded to kill me.

      Rep. Rick Womick, Air Force veteran.

      • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

        Mar 21, 2020 at 2:53 pm

        Recall the soldier in southern Iraq just at the start of the war. He was a young black guy who’d converted to Islam a year or two before enlisting. His unit was literally at the front line, with officers (colonels, majors, lieutenants, etc.) were in a protected command tent, the Moslem enlisted man was on the protection detail. So he leaned down, raised the bottom of the tent, and quietly rolled in a live grenade. Boom. Praise Islam, but stay out of our military.

        • James Lincoln says

          Mar 21, 2020 at 3:52 pm

          Alarmed Pig Farmer,

          Yes, this was Hasan K. Akbar a United States Army soldier.

          A premeditated attack in the early morning hours of March 23, 2003, at Camp Pennsylvania, Kuwait, during the start of the United States invasion of Iraq.

        • gravenimage says

          Mar 22, 2020 at 2:40 am

          Yes–a hideous case. There have since been many more.

  6. Michael Copeland says

    Mar 20, 2020 at 6:51 pm

    He wanted so much to kill and be killed,
    To kill, to kill and be killed.
    It’s the guaranteed way to be cleared of sins,
    To kill, to kill and be killed.
    It’s the entry straight into paradise,
    Where every desire is fulfilled,
    But it isn’t enough for just him to be killed,
    It’s filthy kafirs he has to kill,
    This is what’s taught: this is what’s willed,
    To kill, to kill and be killed.

  7. FYI says

    Mar 20, 2020 at 6:53 pm

    Of course the Hippocratic Oath WOULD be lost on the ‘holy’ muslim Doctor.

    Besides,his demonic Arab god allah doesn’t subscribe to the Golden Rule:in the koran there is an APARTHEID system…

    The muslim: “The BEST community that hath been raised up for mankind” {koran 3:110}

    The non-muslim: “the WORST of created beings”{koran 98:6}That’s Jews,Christians etc

    masood is{predictably} a pakistani doctor{or what the British call,. to hide the fact that most of these islamic beasts come from that place,an “Asian”}:I hope doc didn’t molest any infidel women.They have a habit of being morally deprived religious hypocrites.

    Jail and then deport these islamic savages.

    • Seth says

      Mar 21, 2020 at 4:00 am

      Islam is a giant anti-Hippocratic Oath: do as much harm as possible (to non-believers).

      The richness and achievement of Ancient Greece vs. the barren, toxic wastelands of Islam…

  8. tgusa says

    Mar 20, 2020 at 7:33 pm

    Search Mayo Clinic Mission and Values
    Teamwork
    Value the contributions of all, blending the skills of individual staff members in unsurpassed collaboration.

    That’s our mission and we are sticking to it. Supposedly smart people seem to be pretty dumb these days.

  9. somehistory says

    Mar 20, 2020 at 7:46 pm

    Hmm. I used to trust the Mayo Clinic when I had medical questions. Obviously, that has to change. Where there is one, there are likely many more. And we all know they lie.

    Will omar go to bat for this would-be murderer? Will she claim he is misunderstood or that he was “entrapped” into saying he wanted to go to the battle field with isis and kill people?

    Thinking about the “medical training” moslims get in pakistan, reminds me of an article from some years ago, written by Mr. Daniel Greenfield. It was about a dentist…with a photo for graphic illustration. Funny, as Mr. Greenfield can make any subject, but scary too when one discovers these people are among us.

  10. gravenimage says

    Mar 20, 2020 at 8:29 pm

    Minnesota: Muslim migrant, former Mayo Clinic researcher, pledged allegiance to ISIS, plotted jihad massacres in US
    ……………

    So much for the idea that it is only poor and ignorant Muslims who turn to Jihad terror.

    • mortimer says

      Mar 21, 2020 at 2:38 am

      A study was done showing 90% of ISIS volunteers came from well-off, stable, educated homes. The young jihadists had good future prospects for employment, but they went to groups that studied the jihad doctrine in the Koran and hadiths and they believed the Koran was divinely inspired.

      If the Koran were seen to be a human document, Muslims would drop out.

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 22, 2020 at 2:43 am

        Spot on, Mortimer. The idea that poverty causes Jihad has been debunked many times.

  11. mortimer says

    Mar 21, 2020 at 2:46 am

    Dr. Masood believes in al Walaa wal Baraa. He is compassionate to Muslims, but VIOLENT (ashidaa) (K.28.49) towards the dirty kufaar and hates them ‘for the sake of Allah’.

    He makes kafirs nervous when they put themselves in the hands of a Muslim doctor. Who can blame them?

    • Michael Copeland says

      Mar 21, 2020 at 4:54 am

      Remember the muslim surgeon who, when operating on kafir women took the opportunity to sterilise them without their knowing. He was featured on JihadWatch not long ago.

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 22, 2020 at 2:43 am

        Yes–horrifying.

  12. Goofy says

    Mar 21, 2020 at 5:22 am

    The Rand Report and individual cases like this should be generally known in the population and especially among law makers. In Sweden all kinds of excuses are found all the time like poverty (they live on the dole instead of working, they are a minority which may feel threatened etc. etc.) and nobody dares to make the obvious connection between what Muslims believe and what they do. That has to change immediately. If that results in Muslims feeling unwelcome or even under suspicion so be it as it is all the consequence of the acts of terrorism performed by their devout Muslim brothers.

  13. Henry Mansfield says

    Mar 21, 2020 at 6:56 am

    I’ve known many an American with Muslim-sounding last names who had the same kind of upbringing as I did, it’s not genetic.
    While I am sensitive to religious sentiment, there needs to be a clear message sent on arrival to Westernized countries, “If you despise our way of life, turn right back around.”

  14. Rooster says

    Mar 21, 2020 at 9:42 am

    Islam is the number one enemy of the world! You are a FOOL to trust a muslim!

  15. OLD GUY says

    Mar 21, 2020 at 10:00 am

    Sounds like a traitor to me!

    • Westman says

      Mar 21, 2020 at 10:48 am

      And seems familiar: “We smile in the face of some people although our hearts curse them.” – Al-Bukhari

  16. Giacomo Latta says

    Mar 21, 2020 at 10:51 am

    “i want to kill and get killed … and kill and get killed.”
    It seems he expects to be reborn the moment he gets killed.
    ”he was scheduled to present his research for the Mayo Clinic School of Continuous Professional Development”
    ”see heart work. stab heart. heart no longer works. end of research”

  17. Donovan Nuera says

    Mar 21, 2020 at 1:57 pm

    Don’t forget the September 1999 beheading murders of Mary Zayam and a 3-year old nephew whose bodies were found in garbage bags in a ditch just outside Rochester (the heads were never found and it took a while to ID the bodies). Their murderer was the Bangladeshi husband Iqbal Ahmed who escaped back home to Bangladesh. (He had come to New York in ’96 on 11-month tourist visa but had gotten a job at the India Gardens restaurant over in MN. )It was a big news story when I was there and there was a hush-hush issue about it as most people knew it was probably related to Islam and Mayo had a very visible Saudi/Jordanian/UAE patient clientele population. King Hussein of Jordan has been recently treated there (and a large part of St. Mary’a hospital floor had been cordoned off as a high security wing) and you could see niqabed women walking all over downtown Rochester by the medical building with large families all day. However, after 9/11, there was a definite drop in these people walking around.

  18. abad says

    Mar 21, 2020 at 2:26 pm

    Deport him back to Pakistan.

    Problem solved.

  19. CTTV15@Hotmail.com says

    Mar 21, 2020 at 2:28 pm

    Rabid animals are better..

    I live in this insane asylum of Minnesota. We are in deep trouble here.

    In fact, given the FACT that hundreds of millions of Minnesota taxpayer dollars have been stolen (Minnesota DHS 139 Program(s) funding) – IN PLAIN SIGHT – for the last dozen or so years, and DELIVERED INTO THE HANDS OF OVERSEAS TERRORIST GROUPS, Minnesota is a festering National Security Problem, to be certain. Our Islamist Attorney General, Keith (aka’s: “X” – “Hakim'” – “Muhammad”) Ellison isn’t working hard at all to stop it either..

    Not Surprised? Me either..

    This guy is just one of thousands just like him squatting in Minnesota, like sleeper cell members.. HE is just a symptom of OUR festering Minnesota problem..

    In this respect, Minnesota is almost lawless now, without a ‘US Constitution’ foundation, and without solid oversight and law enforcement now…

    And if ‘WE The People’ of Minnesota complain, we MAY be subject to their latest piece of brain-dead legislation afoot today (MN HF-3837), and their ‘Hate Speech – Hate Crime Bill’, giving law enforcement status, legitimacy, legal authority, and jurisdiction to file complaints, launch investigations, and terrorize Minnesota citizens, to CAIR Minnesota (Muslim Brotherhood), as the new “Alternative Community Reporting Groups”, they intend to create.

    Think I am kidding? Think again.. This is the 2020 Ellison-Walz-Simon-Jaylani Hussein (CAIR MN), new ‘Modern day Brown-Shirts’ Bill… …The followup to then, US congressman Ellison’s US – H.F. 569 ‘Muslim Blasphemy Bill’ that failed when he was in congress..

    Please keep in mind, that the 9/11 “20th Hijacker’, Zacarias Moussaoui, was caught right here in Minnesota, and is still in prison, serving 6 life sentences at the Colorado Super Max Prison.. ..He had friends here, and you can bet that they are still here.. ..just like this animal..,

    Again.. I live in this insane asylum called Minnesota. We are in deep trouble here.

  20. Donovan Nuera says

    Mar 21, 2020 at 3:03 pm

    Funny that Atty Gen. Ellison was accused of doing something bad to a girlfriend and nothing happened. Except for Laura Loomer trying to confront him at a constituents’ picnic about this, no feminist marches occurred demanding his dropping out of the race ….

  21. manalive says

    Mar 21, 2020 at 8:58 pm

    Excellent work by the enforcement agencies and undercover agents. Lots more similar work to be done in Minnesota and a few other enclaves already existing in USA.

  22. Nietzsche says

    Mar 22, 2020 at 3:55 am

    G-d, how I hate those ugly untrimmed beards. They are an insult to our eyes.

  23. Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says

    Mar 22, 2020 at 10:21 am

    The city of Paterson, New Jersey city council recently approved an ordinance that violates the present noise restrictions in that city. All of the Muslim hate/deceit centers (mosques), can now blast the call to “prayer” (hate), until 10PM seven days s week, 365 days a year. Shame on the feckless city council members for giving into this hateful ideaology. A CAIR representative was very pleased with this outcome. Next. all of the women in the city will have to wear burqas
    so as not to insult the hate-filled muslims.
    The boa’s constrction continues to tighten.

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