Where did Benjamin Alan Carpenter/Abu Hamza learn about Islam? Who taught him? What is taught at his mosque? Are the feds investigating that mosque, and Carpenter’s associates, to see if he was part of a larger jihad cell? Why not? Too busy hunting for “right-wing extremists”?
“Tennessee man accused of helping Islamic State group,” Associated Press, April 6, 2021 (thanks to Ken):
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A Tennessee man held a key role in spreading English-language propaganda for the Islamic State group, federal prosecutors announced Monday.
Benjamin Alan Carpenter, 31, of Knoxville, has been in custody since his March 24 arrest, according to a news release from acting U.S. Attorney Francis M. Hamilton III’s office. A detention hearing was held Monday, but a judge did not immediately decide whether he should be free pending trial.
Carpenter was charged in a federal indictment with attempting to provide material support and resources to ISIS.
Carpenter, also known as Abu Hamza, provided English translations of ISIS media content to a person he believed to be associated with ISIS, prosecutors said. The person was actually a covert FBI employee, officials said[.]
Authorities said Carpenter was the leader of Ahlut-Tawhid Publications, an international organization that disseminates pro-ISIS material in English….
Rob R (Brit stuck in Britainistan) says
Plenty of bored lonely attention seekers in America for ISISlam to pick off and convert.
Especially after they’ve got no Trump to hate on any more.
mortimer says
No, Rob. Converts try HARDER than those who are merely ‘born Muslim’, because CONVERTS learn Islam from BOOKS, rather than anecdotally from their auntie Zara or their uncle Omar.
mortimer says
Benjamin Alan Carpenter got ACCURATE, AUTHORITATIVE information about Islam from BOOKS, recorded sermons and jihadist VIDEOS, rather than from mere TERTIARY sources, such as other lax Muslims.
Rob R (Brit stuck in Britainistan) says
What did your stupid comment have to do with what I wrote?
Do you know where you are?
gravenimage says
Mortimer, your implication that this convert to Islam must not have had contact with any Muslims is really odd.
Kelleigh Nelson says
You are so right…they are easily manipulated, just like all the lemmings in their masks…sometimes even two masks…these people are making themselves sick…
Lion heart says
As a Canadian Christian guy myself originally from Iraq, I wanna say that whenever I see or hear about a western conversation to Islam , I just become more and more convinced that there is no such a thing as moderate Muslims but rather , there are nice Muslims out there until further notice.. meaning until they take Islam seriously and start putting its evil teachings into practice and then they will no longer be peaceful because the problem is embedded in Islam’s core texts abs teachings like the Quran and Hadith which are a hatchery of terrorism , violence and hate towards nonMuslim especially towards Christians & Jews . and to give Just one example when a Belgian convert woman married a Muslim guy from Morocco and they travelled to Iraq where in 2005 she blew herself up on an Iraqi security forces . Islam is a virus that’s far more deadly & dangerous then coronavirus or any other disease in human history .
mortimer says
Where did Benjamin Alan Carpenter get the idea that JIHADISM is an integral, compulsory part of Islam for Muslims?
“Jihad is HOLY FIGHTING in Allah’s Cause with full force of numbers and weaponry. It is given the UTMOST IMPORTANCE in Islam and is one of its PILLARS. By Jihad Islam is established, Allah’s Word is made superior (which means only Allah has the right to be worshiped), and Islam is propagated. By abandoning Jihad Islam is destroyed and Muslims fall into an inferior position; their honor is lost, their lands are stolen, their rule and authority vanish. Jihad is an OBLIGATORY DUTY in Islam on every Muslim. He who tries to escape from this duty, or does not fulfill this duty, dies as a hypocrite.” – footnotes on p.39, ‘The Noble Koran’, published by King Fahd Complex for Publication of the Quran, Madinah, KSA.
Al Azhar University in Egypt endorses the following ‘official, legal definitions’ of Jihad from the ‘Reliance of the Traveller’:
– “Jihad is a communal obligation,” meaning upon the Muslims each year. [Reliance of the Traveller, Book O9.1]
Jihad is something Muslims must do against non-Muslims every year.
– RoT – O9.0: Jihad : (O: Jihad means to war against non-Muslims, and is etymologically derived from the word mujahada signifying warfare to establish the religion.
– RoT – O9.8: The Objectives of Jihad : The caliph (o25) makes war upon Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians…
– RoT – O9.9 : The caliph fights all other peoples until they become Muslim (O: because they are not a people with a Book …
-The caliph (RoT – o25) makes war upon Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians
No Muzzies Here says
New converts to a religion are full of religious fervor and seek to learn everything about their new belief system and find infinite amounts of energy with which they put their new religion into practice.
With one religion in particular, this leads to the phenomenon of the new convert turning into a violent zealot.
gravenimage says
Yep. Funny you don’t find new converts to Christianity or Buddhims doing this…
mortimer says
Benjamin Alan Carpenter is another ANGLO-CELTIC jihadist.
Hold it … tell me again what is the ‘RACE’ of Muslims … !??
gravenimage says
+1
James Lincoln says
I guess I’m behind the times. When I think of Tennessee, I still think of the Nashville Grand Old Opry – and the Knoxville1982 World’s Fair.
Not some whitey muslim convert isis enabler…
gravenimage says
Insanely, this part of the heartland is being overrun with Muslims–both migrants and home-grown like this vicious moron.
gravenimage says
Tennessee: Man converts to Islam, spreads English-language jihad propaganda for the Islamic State
………….
Gee–why does this keep happening? You might almost think that Islam is nto a “religion of peace” after all…
Andrew Blackadder says
The convert to any religion is normally much more devout than those born into the religion, as the convert studies from an outsiders point of view, but just look at the face of that wee lost guy which makes him a classic case of bringing him into the family of islam, a lost cause thats suddenly found his purpose in life and wishes to bring evil upon all who dont believe his nonsense.
A Chinese convert to islam in Malaysia a few years ago was so bloody radical in his new found faith that he decided all those Hindu Gods that grace every Hindu Temple Roof in Malaysia must be taken down as that was against islam… and his new found faith.
Its always the new convert thats the biggest danger… though islam itself is a real danger to the Western world, which makes it rather difficult for me to understand why those Of The left wish to protect them, even the Feminists, as islamic teachings are the EXACT opposite of anything The Left holds near and dear
OLD GUY says
Islam is a draw for the criminal and mentally challenged persons. They feel apart of something bigger and Islam will take advantage of their tendency to hate the society they live in and to be violent towards that end. Islam rewards them both financially and gives them moral support and the blessing of Allah.