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Minnesota: Muslim Migrant Physician Pledges Allegiance to ISIS

Mar 23, 2020 5:00 pm By Robert Spencer

My latest in PJ Media:

Muhammad Masood is a former research coordinator at the Mayo Clinic, and so he could have been spending his time trying to find a cure for coronavirus. Instead, however, he decided to direct his attention to matters that he thought would be more pleasing to Allah. He wrote: “i want to kill and get killed … and kill and get killed,” and now he has been arrested on a terrorism-related charge.

The Associated Press reported Thursday that 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.”

Masood at one point sent a message to one of these informants demonstrating his mastery of the spelling favored on messaging apps today and saying: “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.”

In line with that determination, he “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.”

Masood said that once he reached a jihadi hotspot in Syria, Iraq, or the Afghan border, he wanted to “fight on the frontline as well as help the wounded brothers.” He didn’t want to stay in the United States, he wrote, because he “hates smiling at the passing kuffar [non-Muslims] just to not make them suspicios.” His greatest desire, he said, was to spill blood: “i want to kill and get killed … and kill and get killed.”

That is, of course, just the opposite of what a doctor should be trying to do. It’s also a direct rebuke to the common assumption that people turn to terrorism because they are poor and ill-educated. Physicians are generally affluent and well-educated, so if the mainstream assumptions are correct, the idea of a doctor becoming a terrorist would be nothing less than inconceivable.

Mainstream foreign policy analysts all over Washington, as well as in Ottawa and the capitals of Europe, know – or think they know – that poverty causes terrorism. In reality, however, this idea, and the accompanying assumption 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, at least among what President Trump has just indelibly dubbed the “Deep State Department.”

There is much more. Read the rest here.

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  1. Wellington says

    Mar 23, 2020 at 5:11 pm

    So much for socio-economic deprivation being the cause of terrorism. No, the chief cause is maladroit ideology. Always has been and always will be.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 23, 2020 at 9:01 pm

      Just what I was going to say, Wellington.

      • william carr says

        Mar 24, 2020 at 5:07 am

        Me too! Wellington and Graven. I am convinced that Islam makes Muslims insane (not all of them of course but a significant proportion) Of course it also must be said that other religions make some insane also

        • Lepanto says

          Mar 24, 2020 at 7:24 am

          It is a gross mis-characterization to equivocate islum with any other religion. islum is a cancer on mankind.

      • J D S says

        Mar 24, 2020 at 10:42 am

        Another reason to show that muslims should be thoroughly checked before being hired.
        problem with that: The Muslim brain can’t be checked to know what they are thinking.

    • Thomas Hulting says

      Mar 24, 2020 at 9:57 am

      DUH! Just ask Ilhan Omar! Thank you, District VOTERS!

    • toomanyhobbies says

      Mar 24, 2020 at 9:31 pm

      and he is still here why??? DEPORT HIM NOW!!!

    • Grace says

      Mar 25, 2020 at 2:58 pm

      It’s in their DNA. There is no way they can change. The sooner we accept that for a fact the sooner we can put a stop to the nonsense. Especially Germans and Americans. Both nations have proven the most gullable and in danger.

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 26, 2020 at 12:39 am

        Islam is an ideology–it is not DNA.

  2. James Lincoln says

    Mar 23, 2020 at 6:17 pm

    According to the Associated Press:

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

    Why in the world does the United States have to bring in a Pakistani muslim physician on a work visa?

    https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/pakistani-doctor-arrested-minnesota-terrorism-charge-69697310

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 23, 2020 at 9:09 pm

      Damn good question, James.

      • dhans says

        Mar 23, 2020 at 9:40 pm

        Mayo Clinic has had long standing arrangements with patients from Middle Eastern countries, everyone from Jordanian heads of state, to Saudi princes. The entire downtown of Rochester, MN is pretty much owned by wealthy Saudis. The tallest building in the city is a long term stay hotel right across from a mosque right on Broadway (all Saudi owned). You ask what such people are doing in Rochester Minnesota? Heck, they pretty much own the place. Employees of Mayo Clinic were asked by Human Resources personnel to not even think “bad thoughts” about Islam, lest those thoughts be expressed in some inappropriate manner. If you haven’t figured it out by now, it’s all about money, but certainly not any sort of desire for being on the side of what’s “right”, or what’s best for the rest of Americans. Besides the occasional terrorist, the city is culturally enriched in more ordinary methods as well.

        https://www.co.olmsted.mn.us/sheriff/divisions/lec/hottopics/Pages/incustody.aspx

  3. Aussie Infidel says

    Mar 23, 2020 at 6:35 pm

    Masood’s greatest desire, he said, was to spill blood: “I want to kill and get killed … and kill and get killed.”

    Is this the Islamic version of the Hippocratic Oath?

    “Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties [in exchange] for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah , so they kill and are killed. [It is] a true promise [binding] upon Him in the Torah and the Gospel and the Quran. And who is truer to his covenant than Allah? So rejoice in your transaction which you have contracted. And it is that which is the great attainment.” (Quran 9:111).

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 23, 2020 at 9:18 pm

      There is no Hippocratic Oath in Islam.

      • Phil Copson says

        Mar 24, 2020 at 4:15 am

        In common with Bilal Abdullah and Kafel Ahmed – both of whom were doctors in the UK’s National Health Service, but found this no bar to launching a terrorist attack on Glasgow Airport using a jeep loaded with propane cylinders – Muhammed Masood appears to have sworn the “Hypocritic Oath”.

        Fortunately, although several people were injured in the attack, the only fatality was Kafeel Ahmed himself.

        Truly, as the saying goes: “Physician – heal thyself: Better still – don’t….”

  4. Wellington says

    Mar 23, 2020 at 6:38 pm

    “Is this the Islamic version of the Hippocratic Oath?”

    In brief, yes. And demonstrative of how truly sick Islam really is.

  5. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Mar 23, 2020 at 7:12 pm

    Being from Minnesota, if I may: Our Moslems are better than your Moslems! Neener neener neeneeeer!!! cuz they know what they’re about..

    But, as a matter of courtesy, I hereby extend the offer for you non-Minnesotans to take some for your towns. Take as many as you want.

    • PRCS says

      Mar 24, 2020 at 12:52 pm

      Send ’em to Maine.

  6. gravenimage says

    Mar 23, 2020 at 9:21 pm

    Minnesota: Muslim Migrant Physician Pledges Allegiance to ISIS
    ……………….

    There have been other Jihadist doctors at the Mayo Clinic:

    “Mayo Clinic fires doctor who said female genital mutilation is an “honor” for women”

    https://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/05/mayo-clinic-fires-doctor-who-said-female-genital-mutilation-is-an-honor-for-women

    It was Jihad Watch poster CGW who started the petition who got this Muslim thug ousted.

  7. Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

    Mar 23, 2020 at 9:34 pm

    “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.”

    What route would a cargo ship take to travel from Los Angeles to the Islamic State? Would the ship traverse the Indian Ocean? the Mediterranean Sea?

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 23, 2020 at 9:57 pm

      Mark, are you saying that this Jihadist was irrational?

  8. Clifford Skok says

    Mar 24, 2020 at 1:49 am

    It’s a crazy world. The Democrats want to help the victims of the coronavirus while at the same time support abortion clinics. The Muslims become doctors who are suppose to heal the sick and wounded, yet this Muslim doctor wants to kill and be killed.

    • ItsJo says

      Mar 24, 2020 at 6:03 pm

      Clifford, BEST post of the day….There is NO WAY that any of these people can ACTUALLY assimilate into American Life, as they LIE, and Cannot be trusted…so IOW’s WHY DO WE EVEN ALLOW THEM INTO AMERICA?

      I want that Omar to be REMOVED from our Gov’t, as she has committed a number of crimes and TRASHES Our Republic and OUR POTUS TRUMP. So Omar, along with that Loud Mouth/Hater Talib, NEED TO BE REMOVED FROM OUR GOV’T -as they HATE AMERICA AND OUR PEOPLE…..

      WE NEED TO REMOVE THEM!!

      • DazzleMe says

        Mar 30, 2020 at 2:49 pm

        Absolutely, well said, ItsJo!

  9. OLD GUY says

    Mar 24, 2020 at 7:11 pm

    It amazes me that an intelligent medical Dr. would believe the bullshit that islam preaches. Maybe he became a doctor only because the university was afraid of being accused of islamophobia if they failed him.
    Or he is a plant with a plan to attack the enemy that he has dreamed up. Deport him.

  10. George Peabody says

    Mar 26, 2020 at 9:47 pm

    NOW! Islam is a Terrorist Organization that does NOT deserve Religious Freedom Protection in USA! Muslims ARE TERRORISTS!
    https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/pakistani-doctor-arrested-minnesota-terrorism-charge-69697310
    Muhammad Masood is a former research coordinator at the Mayo Clinic, and so he could have been spending his time trying to find a cure for coronavirus. Instead, however, he decided to direct his attention to matters that he thought would be more pleasing to Allah. He wrote: “i want to kill and get killed … and kill and get killed,” and now he has been arrested on a terrorism-related charge.
    The Associated Press reported Thursday that 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.” He didn’t want to stay in the United States, he wrote, because he “hates smiling at the passing kuffar [non-Muslims] just to not make them suspicios.” His greatest desire, he said, was to spill blood: “i want to kill and get killed … and kill and get killed.” [Islamic version of the Hippocratic Oath? ]
    Socio-economic deprivation is not the cause of terrorism. No, the chief cause is maladroit ideology Islam. Always has been. Deport from USA.
    There is NO WAY that muslims can ACTUALLY assimilate into American Life, as they LIE, and Cannot be trusted. WHY DO WE EVEN ALLOW THEM INTO AMERICA?
    I want that muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar[D]to be REMOVED from our Gov’t, as she has committed a number of crimes and TRASHES Our Republic and OUR POTUS TRUMP. So Omar, along with that Loud Mouth/Hater Talib, NEED TO BE REMOVED FROM OUR GOV’T -as they HATE AMERICA AND OUR PEOPLE….. Deport all muslims from USA. Deny 1st Am Religious protections for Terroriet Organization ISLAM.

    • DazzleMe says

      Mar 30, 2020 at 2:50 pm

      Yes indeed, thank you, George Peabody!

  11. DazzleMe says

    Mar 30, 2020 at 2:46 pm

    Go Home, moslims, we hate you and don’t want you here!

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