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Michigan: Muslim migrant charged with conspiring to join ISIS claims entrapment due to racism and “Islamophobia”

Jun 26, 2020 2:00 pm By Robert Spencer

“Seeing as Mr. Haji is a Black Muslim man who is an immigrant, every precaution must be taken to prevent unconscious bias throughout the jury.”

Indeed. The way things are going, rather than receive a fair trial, he will be ushered to the state capital and made governor.

But as for entrapment, it’s bunk. The clueless and corrupt FBI is much more likely to entrap a “right-wing extremist” than an Islamic jihadi. And if you’re not already inclined to do what the people who is trying to entrap you wants you to do, you won’t fall for it.

“Lansing man charged with conspiring to support Islamic State arguing government entrapped him,” by Megan Banta, Lansing State Journal, June 9, 2020 (thanks to Creeping Sharia):

GRAND RAPIDS – One of the three Lansing men accused of planning to join the Islamic State group is arguing federal investigators entrapped him.

Mohamed Salat Haji’s attorney is arguing a federal judge should dismiss the charges against him, using entrapment and government conduct as a defense.

The motions and exhibits, of which there are more than 50, are sealed because they contain classified information and online or actual names of undercover Federal Bureau of Investigation employees.

Mary Chartier, who is representing Haji, has previously said the men never reached out to ISIS “until the FBI puts a recruiter at their door.”

That created the crime, she said in a brief statement nearly an hour after a January 2019 hearing….

Haji was arrested by members of the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force in January 2019 at Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids.

He was arrested along with Mohamud Abdikadir Muse near the airport’s Transportation Security Administration checkpoint.

Officers had arrested Muse Abdikadir Muse shortly before Haji and Mohamud Muse, after he checked in for a flight that officials called “a series of destinations” on his way to Mogadishu, Somalia, where he intended to join and fight with an Islamic State group.

Both Mohamud Muse and Muse Muse have pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide material support to a designated terrorist organization, specifically to the Islamic State.

The two men are brothers, and Haji is also a relative.

All three men were born in Kenya — Muse Muse in a Somali refugee camp, an FBI agent testified last year — and have lived in Lansing since at least late 2016.

As part of a plea agreement, the Muse brothers acknowledged they had recorded a video pledging loyalty to the Islamic State and planned to travel to Somalia at some point to join the terrorist organization. 

They face up to 20 years in prison, a $250,000 fine and a lifetime of supervision once released. They also may lose their citizenship.

The government will dismiss other charges against the two men. Prosecutors also have agreed not to charge Mohamud Muse’s wife.

The two men have agreed to cooperate with prosecutors and other investigators as they continue to proceed with charges against Haji.

The charges are based on a lengthy FBI investigation using Facebook and undercover agents during which all three defendants pledged allegiance to ISIS in self-recorded videos, FBI Special Agent Paul Dunham said while questioned by Assistant U.S. Attorney Chris O’Connor during the January 2019 hearing.

Unconscious bias

Chartier is asking to show prospective jurors a video about unconscious bias and give them instruction on the issue.

Studies have shown “implicit bias is widely held and large in magnitude,” the brief supporting her request reads.

Results are “troubling” for biases related to this case, the brief reads, because a majority of people show an automatic preference against black people and Arab-Muslims. Haji is both.

“Seeing as Mr. Haji is a Black Muslim man who is an immigrant, every precaution must be taken to prevent unconscious bias throughout the jury,” the brief reads.

Showing the video would help educate potential jurors on unconscious bias, the brief says, and research has shown education is key in making it less likely that biases will impact decision making. Playing the video also would open up jury selection questions to topics covered in the clip.

Prosecutors object to the request, saying the court “should not engage in what remains a social science research experiment on identifying and effectively addressing individual biases.”

They write Haji and his attorneys assume potential jurors will have “all manner of implicit biases towards him because of his race, religion, and nationality” and argue that is its own example of bias….

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Filed Under: "Islamophobia", claiming victim status, courtroom jihad, FBI, Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh) Tagged With: Lansing, Mary Chartier, michigan, Mohamed Salat Haji, Mohamud Abdikadir Muse, Muse Abdikadir Muse


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  1. PHOENIX says

    Jun 26, 2020 at 2:22 pm

    Victim hood is rampant….he must be so depressed with America, living off welfare, free medical, schooling, housing, job training, freedom of speech, freedom of religion….Let’s do him a favour send him home to live the ‘good life’ without pesky Kafirs to drag him down.

    • elatelatelat says

      Jun 26, 2020 at 2:43 pm

      Right on

    • Holger Jahndel says

      Jun 26, 2020 at 5:35 pm

      Also see Jaya Gopals book “The misery of Islam”. And the articles of the international Gatestone-Institute and James DeMeo from the USA and maybe also Prof. Margrit Kennedy and the Historian Egon Flaig.

  2. Bryce says

    Jun 26, 2020 at 2:36 pm

    When will the government realize there is ZERO benefit to bringing these guys into the country.

    • James Lincoln says

      Jun 26, 2020 at 7:48 pm

      Bryce,

      You’re being much too generous.

      It’s a NEGATIVE…

  3. Jw says

    Jun 26, 2020 at 3:34 pm

    I like that the dudes attorneys actually told them that they thing filed on their behalf is biased itself

  4. Buraq says

    Jun 26, 2020 at 3:45 pm

    Yeah, yeah, black … blah, blah, blah, Muslim….. blah, blah, blah, ……. bias …. blah, blah, blah …. entrapment … blah, blah blah! But hey, just tell me: Did he do it or not? Thank you, case closed! Next!

    But just to cheer everyone up: What do you call a desert warlord who marries a 6 year old girl without asking for a dowry? An unpaidophile!!

    • Holger Jahndel says

      Jun 26, 2020 at 5:35 pm

      Also see Jaya Gopals book “The misery of Islam”. And the articles of the international Gatestone-Institute and James DeMeo from the USA and maybe also Prof. Margrit Kennedy and the Historian Egon Flaig.

  5. Holger Jahndel says

    Jun 26, 2020 at 5:34 pm

    Also see Jaya Gopals book “The misery of Islam”. And the articles of the international Gatestone-Institute and James DeMeo from the USA and maybe also Prof. Margrit Kennedy and the Historian Egon Flaig.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 27, 2020 at 11:02 pm

      These books may be good, but you are just spamming at this point.

  6. Wellington says

    Jun 26, 2020 at 6:49 pm

    Imagine this turkey being in charge of America or, even worse, all of the West.

    I rest my case.

  7. b.a. freeman says

    Jun 26, 2020 at 9:18 pm

    what a f***ing bottom feeder this mary chartier is. i realize that every defendant *must* have representation, and that the defense attorney must do all that he can to defend his client, but to stoop to using arguments originated and used by traitors is really low, and goes far beyond what a defense attorney should do. her rhetoric furthers the destruction of the republic by its racist representation of the jury pool, which is presumably white (otherwise, the defendants skin color presumably wouldn’t matter), and furthers strains the bonds that join us as free people. she would have us all see one another only as black-skinned, or white-skinned, or yellow-skinned, or … which would lead to the dissolution of the body politic.

    mary chartier is a traitor and an enemy of freedom. may God open her eyes to let her see what her lies are doing.

  8. gravenimage says

    Jun 26, 2020 at 9:47 pm

    Michigan: Muslim migrant charged with conspiring to join ISIS claims entrapment due to racism and “Islamophobia”
    ……………..

    So now opposing *ISIS* is supposed to be “racist”?

    Does it matter that many White Muslim also tried to joint the Islamic State? Of course not…

  9. Lilith Wept says

    Jun 28, 2020 at 11:34 pm

    We should just let them go, in fact charter a big cargo plane and ship all,the moslems that want to go to ISIS, but their families also have to go along with them………their whole extended family…..Rid our country of this kind, and then when they all together, we can eliminate them easier. ISIS couldn’t stand against the US if we truly decided to eliminate them.

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