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Brooklyn: Man converts to Islam, distributes bomb-making instructions, encourages ISIS to commit massacres in NYC

Aug 12, 2020 2:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Yet another convert to Islam somehow gets the idea that his new religion commands him to wage war against unbelievers. Authorities continue in their total indifference to this frequently recurring phenomenon.

“Brooklyn man pleads guilty to encouraging Islamic State to attack NYC,” by Darryl Coote, UPI, August 11, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Aug. 11 (UPI) — A Brooklyn man who twice pledged allegiance to the Islamic State admitted in a Manhattan federal courtroom that he distributed bomb-making instructions online and encouraged supporters of the militant group to commit terrorist attacks in New York City.

Zachary Clark, 41, pleaded guilty Monday before U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald to one count of attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, the Justice Department announced in a press release.

“As he admitted in court today, Zachary Clark pledged allegiance to [IS] and posted calls for attacks on the public and institutions in New York on encrypted pro-[IS] chatrooms,” Acting U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss for the Southern District of New York. “He also posted detailed instructions for carrying out those violent acts.”

Clark was arrested in late November, and charged with disseminating IS propaganda and encouraging supporters of the militant group designated by the United States as a foreign terrorist organization to commit lone-wolf attacks in New York CIty since at least March 2019.

According to the complaint, Clark attempted to coerce supporters of the group to commit the attacks and distributed IS propaganda through three encrypted chatrooms.

In early August of last year, Clark invited an undercover agent to one of the pro-IS chatrooms where he had posted detailed instructions on how to carry out lone-wolf attacks, including how to select a target, how to conduct pre-operational surveillance and how to avoid attracting law enforcement attention, among other information.

In a second chatroom that had 194 subscribers that Clark owned, he had posted an image of the New York subway system and pages of a book titled “Make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom,” the complaint states.
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And in the third chatroom, he had posted a manual on conducting knife attacks.

“Clark championed his support for [IS], disseminated hate-filled messages via encrypted chatrooms and encouraged like-minded individuals to carry out vicious attacks in the name of jihad,” FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge William F. Sweeney, Jr., said in November following Clark’s arrest.

The Justice Department said that Clark pledged allegiance to IS twice: once in July 2019 to its then-leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and then in October that same year but to its new leader Abu Ibrahim al-Sashemi al-Qurayshi who was promoted to the position following al-Baghdadi’s death….

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Filed Under: American jihadis, converts to Islam, Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Jihad in the U.S. Tagged With: Zachary Clark


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  1. AnnChristine says

    Aug 12, 2020 at 2:44 pm

    He looks just like a dropout from Society——–Islam will take anybody ——-I hope he realises he will be killed if he tries to leave The Islamic Cult!!!

    • Rolf Wittwer says

      Aug 12, 2020 at 6:05 pm

      This ideology, which is bluffing the world to be a “religion of peace”, is partly made for such sick minds – and it should finally be put in place in its aggressive expansion.
      People like this “Brooklyn man” really deserve psychiatric treatment and not a conversion to such an obsessive belief.

    • william carr says

      Aug 14, 2020 at 3:05 am

      He is clearly an idiot who enjoys self mutilation just look at his freaky ears

  2. Brian Hunter says

    Aug 12, 2020 at 2:52 pm

    “Make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom.” A 41 year old man shouldn’t still be living with his mom. The attraction of Islam for personality types like him is that it gives divine sanction to every sociopathic tendency he exhibits in his sorry incel life.

    • J D S says

      Aug 13, 2020 at 10:44 am

      You are right….and…what’s this CONVERT carp ??? Convert from WHAT? People like this are not CONVERTS. They just JOINED ISLAM! because they could not be Christians or any other RELIGION for that matter..oh they could be ATHEISTS suppose, SO. they could convert from atheism to islamism but that’s about one and the same.

      • James Lincoln says

        Aug 13, 2020 at 1:00 pm

        J D S,

        It’s even worse than that.

        muslims believe that non-muslims actually REVERT to islam.

        Go figure…

  3. DearDiary says

    Aug 12, 2020 at 3:05 pm

    I think anarchist types of people would find Islam a good fit, given how thoroughly Islam rejects every ideology but for itself. Islam also encourages hate, fear, confusion, destruction and murder. But for the part about what happens when you decide to move on it’s almost a perfect match.

  4. elee says

    Aug 12, 2020 at 3:16 pm

    Imprison and isolate forever!

    • Crusader 666 says

      Aug 12, 2020 at 4:39 pm

      In a coffin.

  5. RichardL says

    Aug 12, 2020 at 3:21 pm

    it is completely superfluous to point out that this guy is a poster child for the theory that islam and insanity have more in common that the first letter but I just can’t help it

  6. curious says

    Aug 12, 2020 at 3:59 pm

    Pledging allegiance and attempting to provide material support to a foreign “state” that is at war against the USA and killing Americans should be prosecuted as capital treason.

    If he agreed to plead guilty in exchange for a lesser sentence, then the deal should include a one-way ticket to Mecca, on condition that he waive any right to return. If KSA refuses to allow him through border control, then he should be airdropped from a great height.

  7. James Lincoln says

    Aug 12, 2020 at 4:31 pm

    Zachary Clark is of no use to the civilized world, now or in the future.

    He should be dealt with accordingly…

  8. UVG says

    Aug 12, 2020 at 4:41 pm

    I am sure he would have got a reduced sentence if he were a follower of Chuslam.

  9. UVG says

    Aug 12, 2020 at 4:43 pm

    Jihad Commie Nexus in the world is the new address of evil. Watch out world.

  10. abu taleb says

    Aug 12, 2020 at 7:25 pm

    Seems like a lot of converts to Islam are becoming mass murderers (or at least are trying to), while probably there are no similar case for converts to Christianity (or other major religions). Doesn’t that tell something about Islam?

  11. Steve. says

    Aug 12, 2020 at 7:25 pm

    The primitive ear piercing remnants show what a colossal loser this goof was. Total hatred for his culture.

  12. gravenimage says

    Aug 12, 2020 at 8:10 pm

    Brooklyn: Man converts to Islam, distributes bomb-making instructions, encourages ISIS to commit massacres in NYC
    …………………

    Why do so many converts to Islam get this idea? You might almost think this was something Islam teaches…

    • OLD GUY says

      Aug 13, 2020 at 11:23 am

      It’s a cult, gang thing to prove you are worthy of being a member.

  13. Aunty Podes says

    Aug 13, 2020 at 6:27 am

    He used to carry hand-grenades in his ear-lobes but, as he is now a man of peace, he wears a bomb-belt instead.

  14. Giacomo Latta says

    Aug 13, 2020 at 8:57 am

    Leave him be. He’s just pissed because Biden didn’t pick him as a running mate.

  15. James Lincoln says

    Aug 13, 2020 at 9:10 am

    Multiple-choice:

    Which of the following should cause the most concern in a western society?

    a. muslim converts to Christianity.

    b. Christian converts to islam.

    c. Atheist converts to Buddhism.

    d. Agnostic converts to Hinduism.

    e. None of the above.

    • Templer says

      Aug 13, 2020 at 7:43 pm

      A chirstain coverts to islam as they are going from the light to darkness from good to evil and althat goes with it

  16. Templer says

    Aug 13, 2020 at 7:39 pm

    White trash peace off shit should fite in well in Islam like white pededo mo he looks like a wright drop out

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