Where and how exactly was Omer Kuzu “radicalized on American soil”? Is his mosque being investigated to see if it spread jihadi teachings among the Muslims there? Why not?
“Repatriated ISIS Fighter Pleads Guilty to Terror Charge,” Justice Department, September 2, 2020:
A repatriated ISIS fighter has pleaded guilty to a terrorism charge, announced the Department of Justice.
Omer Kuzu – a 23-year-old U.S. citizen captured by the Syrian Democratic Forces and returned to the U.S. by the FBI after a five-year stint handling communications for ISIS – pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiring to provide material support to terrorism….
“This defendant, an American citizen radicalized on American soil, pledged allegiance to a brutal terrorist group and traveled halfway across the world to enact its agenda,” said U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox for the Northern District of Texas. “The United States must do everything we can to prevent and deter this type of radicalization and prioritize prosecution of those that support the terroristic agenda of ISIS. I am gratified Mr. Kuzu faced justice in an American court.”…
In plea papers, Kuzu admits that he and his brother, Yusuf, departed Texas for Istanbul, Turkey on Oct. 16, 2014. They then traveled to Orfa, Turkey, where an “ISIS taxi” picked them up and smuggled them across the border into Syria. They crashed in a series of “waiting houses” before ending up in Mosul, Iraq.
In Mosul, alongside 40 other foreign fighters, the brothers underwent five days of physical and weapons training led by ISIS instructors. They were then sent to Raqqah, Syria, where Kuzu started work at the ISIS telecommunications directorate.
Shortly thereafter, Kuzu admits, he pledged allegiance, or “Bay’ah,” to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and the Islamic Caliphate. He was given a monthly stipend, a Chinese-made AK 47, and an ISIS bride.
Subsequently, Kuzu was sent to the second lines in Kobani, Syria and Hama, Syria, to provide communications support for ISIS fighters on the front lines. He also worked in the Caliphate’s technology center.
In March 2019, Kuzu was captured by the SDF, alongside 1,500 suspected ISIS fighters. He was handed over to FBI custody, returned to American soil, and charged with conspiring to provide material support to ISIS.
In his plea papers, Kuzu admits that he knew ISIS had been designated a foreign terrorist organization (FTO) and engaged in terrorist activities….
Michael Copeland says
“The United States must do everything we can to prevent and deter this type of radicalization…” said U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox for the Northern District of Texas.
Question for the Texas prosecution lawyers:
Is there a difference between “this type of radicalisation” and ordinary normative Islamic teaching?
Can they say what it is?
https://gatesofvienna.net/2019/10/islam-the-learning-curve/
gravenimage says
Good question, Michael.
Keith O says
Hopefully, he will have at least 40 years to think about the error of his ways.
The investigation of the mosques these cretins come out of should be a priority.
Close them down and go through the whole place brick by brick.
Find who is doing the dirty work and then hand them over to Hillary. Tell her they are going to testify against her. Problem solved.
gravenimage says
Texas: Muslim ‘radicalized on American soil’ pleads guilty to terrorism charge for joining ISIS
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He was “radicalized” by orthodox Islam.
alex9234 says
Texas has the largest Muslim population in the US.
John says
The penalty for treason used to be death. that’s when the United States was a strong country.
Sylvia Drummond says
He should not be allowed to stay in America, he is a traitor and should be deported together with his family. Why should they ‘come home’ after doing all they can to destroy their country?
alex9234 says
Texas has the largest Muslim population in the US with nearly 422,000 Muslims. Which is nearly 4X that of Michigan’s Muslim population.
We should be worried about Texas because that’s where America’s next big Muslim problem will be.
Whites are already a minority in Texas. They’ve been outbred and outnumbered by the Hispanics. And it turns out that the Hispanics are one of the largest race groups that are converting to Islam in this country, mainly in the prisons.
People like to complain about how Michigan has a problem with its Muslim population, but Michigan still has a majority white population (80% White according to the 2010 census). That’s a HUGE difference. It could make all the difference in the world, for Michigan’s survival.
Roger N Kulwicki says
When a person signs on with ISIS, they should have their citizenship revoked and left to rot in the country they were captured. We do not need garbage like that in our country.
Art Nickel says
FIRST OF ALL, END REPATRIATION. You join a terrorist group you lose your citizenship.
You come back, instead of putting his ass in prison forever, (1) convict him as a felon and foreign terrorist, (3) remove records of birth, school, driver’s license, etc., (4) take all sources of ID from Facial Recognition to DNA, Fingerprints, etc. (5) strip him of his citizenship and (6) expel him to Iran without any papers.