It is a common tactic on the Left: accuse your target of what you’re actually guilty of doing. It is the Left’s lies about rampant “Islamophobia” in the U.S. that incite violence, not opposition to jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women. But the Left’s lies are ubiquitous, and are the real pandemic these days.
“ISIS fangirl sentenced to 16 years in prison for NYC bomb plot,” by Ben Feuerherd, New York Post, June 16, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
An ISIS-obsessed woman from Queens who considered Osama bin Laden a personal hero was sentenced to more than 16 years in federal prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to a bomb-making charge nearly two years ago.
Before handing down the 198-month sentence, Brooklyn federal Judge Sterling Johnson called defendant Noelle Velentzas the “prime mover” and “brain” behind the plot she hatched with a friend to set off bombs in New York and kill police officers.
“She was the moving force behind this conspiracy,” Sterling added at the remote sentencing hearing.
Velentzas said in brief remarks that she took responsibility for her actions, then ranted about how she was driven to attempt to kill fellow Americans because of Islamophobia and “the sentiment that my religion needs to be defended.”
She added that she’s since learned to build a “higher self” and to not respond to discrimination by building bombs.
“I’m ready to go home and rebuild my life and rebuild my life with my daughter,” she said.
Velentzas was busted in 2015 for conspiring with her roommate, Asia Siddiqui, and a third woman they knew as “Mel” — who was actually an undercover law enforcement agent.
The pair taught each other bomb-making skills and discussed potential targets to attack, including the funeral for NYPD Officer Rafael Ramos, who was assassinated with his partner in Brooklyn soon before Christmas in 2014….
Keith O says
WOW, the gross stupidity of these people is astounding.
“Lets build a bomb and kill a lot of them because they have a phobia about Islam”.
How dare these infidels be scared of us for wanting to kill them.
What do you call 144 Muslim converts in a group?
GROSS STUPIDITY!
Sorry, after my first line I couldn’t resist!
spiro says
That’s good
Gross stupidity
william says
Keith O
I think any woman who voluntarily converts to Islam needs psychiatric evaluation. It does not say if she has a husband, so if not, she has already had a child born in sin (according to sharia)
Do these crazy females ever look into the religion they embrace (the feminists do not seem to either)
Does it occur to these ‘converts’ that killing people because of imagined islamofauxbia(sic). will most likely increase it not decrease it. They are clearly mentally confused. Valentzas is in fact a Greek name, given the experience of the Greeks with Islam that is in itself curious
Donovan Nuera says
A lot of young people don’t know anything about history. When it comes to military history, girls tend to not know a lot. Boys tend to like learning about airplanes, ships, tanks, guns, and other weapons.
Take WWII history as taught in public schools; when I took it in 8th and 11th grade, we BARELY covered or finished it. The only “highlights” were Pearl Harbor, Holocaust, and Hiroshima. Did not cover causes, learn names of battles or campaigns, names of generals or heroes, weapons of war, or geography. I went to a good college around the time a lot of 50th Anniversary commemorations were happening and 98% of students had no clue why these historical events were important (even after passing by large and beautiful memorial markers in our college buildings honoring a lot of alumni who were killed at those actual battles).
Thank God my dad told us about growing up as a boy in the Depression and watching his older brothers march off to war as well as my older brothers and me building model tanks, ships, planes to learn about the war on our own. When our dad took us to airshows to see vintage warbirds, it was a treat. Rarely saw parents bringing daughters.
Unfortunately, this trend of girls not being interested in very important history has led, I believe, to the phenomenon of liberal women, especially in high offices, to succumb to the Marxist kumbaya worldview that the West is “bad” and we need to suck up and bend over to frankly dangerous peoples whose past history of aggression is totally ignored or never understood. Examples of this ignorance abounds with the multiple Swedish politicians and ministers who never mention what their immigration policies have wrought on their own people, Germany’s Merkel , That lady Scottish leader who appointed Hamza as judicial minister, Teresa May, all the Laborites who ignored Rotherham’s Pakistani grooming empire, Hillary (The Smartest Woman in the World) hiring Huma as her top aid and source of Islam
education, Pelosi putting and keeping BroFo Omar on Foreign relations committee, pro-bono female lawyers making out Gitmo prisoners as martyrs , and all these collegevand high school women enthusiastically forcing “Wear a Hijab” Day indoctrination after every hoax “islamophobia” stunt. To these young women, it’s like 9/11 never happened and the atrocities by the Taliban/AQ/ISIS/Fort Hood/Pulse/San Bernadino never happened….. or they were of less importance to what happened on latest fave HBO/Netflix show.
Donovan Nuera says
In addition… just juxtapose the women today with the women of the greatest generation; the latter worked long and grueling hours in our armaments factories building very complicated planes, vehicles , guns, and ammo (whereas as shipbuilders were still mostly men due to the higher degree of danger in that type of work). Women pilots WASPs ferried thousands of planes across our country to various air bases to free up the men for overseas duties. These great women knew what was at stake if we lost the war. Can you see today’s college women equalling what their grandmas did if they had the same tasks? Even after getting rid of their cellphones, I don’t think they would have lasted a month. (Hipster men would probably do worse!)
Nick says
You can add our prime minister Jacinda Ardern here in New Zealand . She’s a leftie who thinks “they are us”, referring to the muslim victims of the mass shooting terror attack at a mosque. After reading the stuff on this website, I’ve come to realize they most certainly are NOT us.
gravenimage says
william, this “ISIS fangirl” is not some naif who thinks that Islam is “cool” or who likes colorful headscarves or who fell for some Muslim creep. She is herself a Jihadist, whose motives would appear to be the same as that of male Jihadists.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
The Christmassy Noelle says, “I’m ready to go home and rebuild my life and rebuild my life with my daughter,” I’m sure she is. How old will her daughter be after Noelle serves here 198-month (=16.5 year) imprisonment? Fortunately, she can leave her daughter in the capable hands of her rightly-guided husband, who has the not-very-Christmassy name Abu Bakr. “Abu Bakr”? Where have we heard that name before?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Bakr
gravenimage says
Mark, as Robert Spencer says, “what could possibly go wrong?”.
Lavéritétriomphera says
As for all sects, the key question remains, of course, cui Bono?
Donovan Nuera says
But hey, her child can have play dates with Kat Tsarnaev’s daughter!
Alfredo says
Abu Bakr? You heard it before. It’s the name of the first successor (Khalifa),
the same one who said in a moment of candor, which is very rare among the devotees of the Prophet, sic “I cannot trust Allah, not even if I have a foot in Paradise.” He was also the father of Aisha. The wifey cum granddaughter of the founder of “The Religion of Peace.” Come to think of it. If it is so, how come they have been waging war against “Infidels” (Kafirs) and amongst themselves since the very beginning?
Did you know the term Islamophobia, used now to silence legitimate critiques, was invented by the Muslim Brotherhood after 9/11? Yes, indeed!
Now the willfully blind Leftist want to make people believe there’s a pandemia of Islamophobia
rampant in the West.
You’ve got to be down to two neurons, one out, and the other one looking for it; to believe that baloney.
What is really happening in the “peaceful” Islamic world is, it’s open season on Christians and Jews, and anyone for that matter, who doesn’t submit to the will of Allah and his “Apostle” and by extension, the Abdallahs who are commanded to “fight” those who don’t submit to the religion of “Truth”
So much for the so-called
Religion of Peace.
gravenimage says
Woman converts to Islam, plots jihad bombings in New York City because of ‘Islamophobia’
…………….
She planned in mass murdering Infidels because they are scared of Islam. OK…
mortimer says
Response to ‘She planned in mass murdering Infidels because the are scared of Islam.’
Yes, ALLAH commands Muslims to CAST TERROR INTO THE HEARTS OF THE KAFIRS … but Muslims turn around after they have done so, and then, they complain that the dirty KUFAAR are afraid.
What duplicity! We are damned if we are NOT afraid of Islam and then damned for being afraid of jihadism.
Mohammed said that Muslims who do not frighten the Kafirs are ‘RUBBISH’.
– “It is expected that the nations will call other nations to share them against you (Muslims) as the eaters call each other to eat from the food in front of them in a large wooden plate A person asked, Will that happen because of our small number on that day? The Prophet said, No. Your number will be great, but you will be rubbish like the rubbish of flood-water. And certainly Allah will remove from the hearts of enemies the FEAR OF YOU and surely Allah will throw Wahn in your hearts. A person asked, What is Wahn, O Messenger of Allah? The Prophet said, Wahn is to love this world and to hate death.” – Abu Dawud 4284
According to Mohammed, Muslims are required to take violent actions against non-Muslims.
Was Mohammed ‘Islamophobic’ too?
gravenimage says
+1
Terry Gain says
She defended her “religion” by planning to do the type of thing those of us who despise her “religion” expect from its more devout adherents. And this is one of the reasons we hate it. My hatred of this insane ideology is reinforced with every jihad attack. She is guilty of gross stupidity. All by herself.
tim gallagher says
I feel exactly the way you do, Terry. And this woman’s mentality is nuts. As you say, she plans to carry out a murderous, violent act so that non-Muslims will not dislike or hate islam so much. Go figure. They live on another planet. If Muslims became peaceful (never going to happen of course) then this dislike of them, this “Islamophobia”, might disappear.
gravenimage says
Spot on.
Wellington says
Just one more example of why the US, the West, all the earth, would be far better off were every Muslim in the world to wake up tomorrow a devout Christian, Jew, Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh, agnostic, atheist, etc.
The burden continues. The burden is Islam. All of it—including the repression one way or another of non-Muslims in majority Muslim lands all the while Muslims in the West enjoy freedoms unimaginable by kuffaars existing in the dar al-Islam.
What a monstrous, hypocritical, self-pitying, violence-prone parasite the Islamic faith is. Sick of it. Utterly.
gravenimage says
So true.
tim gallagher says
Well said, Wellington. It sums up the situation perfectly. I do wish that more people in our societies had also woken up to Islam’s nature and were as fed up with it as people like you and me and gravenimage and the other aware people here at Jihad Watch are. I’m also so sick of islam. Islam is just like some old barbaric leftover from primitive times. Should have gone ages ago.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
Perfectly stated, 100% true.
I’d also include the Amish in there somewhere. Great people, got to know some of them during my travels through Pennsylvania…
tim gallagher says
We don’t have any Amish people in Australia, James, as far as I know, but they seem to be very peaceful people, from what I have seen in movies, etc, which is what makes them decent people. Although I am about as far behind on technology as anyone in the world, I do find the Amish idea of rejecting modern technology pretty weird, but as long as people are peaceful, the opposite of the adherents of Islam, then they are just fine. Islam is primitive in endless ways, such as its treatment of women, child brides, etc, but its fundamental violence makes it something that should not be tolerated at all.
Fred van de Bunt says
Any ISIS adherent has the right to be punished under ISIS laws.
Give ISIS adherents the human rights they give to others, ISIS will disappear in no time.
gravenimage says
Fred, murdering Infidels is perefectly Halal under ISIS laws (really, just Shari’ah law). Murdering Infidels is not punished by ISIS.
abu taleb says
Does any one ever wonder why religion converts who like or even do terror actions are mostly converts to Islam? No need for me to wonder because I know what Islam tells its followers.
gravenimage says
abu taleb, all converts tend to be especially devoted to the tenets of the creeds they convert to. So converts to Christianity are especially devoted to preaching the good news, converts to Judaism are especially scrupulous about keeping Kosher, and converts to Islam are especially intent on murdering unbelievers in Jihad.
And good to see you posting again. Hope you are doing well.
Quazgaa says
You summed it up better than any think tank, gi.
Stay safe.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Quazgaa. You too.
Lavéritétriomphera says
@abu taleb,
List the chapters in the Quran that make you think, if I have understood correctly, this women follows a “distorted” interpretation of Islam.
Lavéritétriomphera says
@abu taleb
As a final touch of authenticity, don’t forget the verses of the Quran which repeal and replace the former ones. You will probably get a better understanding of the motivations of this woman “allegedly” converted to Islam.
Eleanor says
A Muslima named Noelle ?? Her conversion has raised the average IQ of both non-Muslims and Muslims. .
gravenimage says
I’m sure she changed her name when she converted–but probably not legally. So she is being tried under her old Infidel name.
PRCS says
Sentenced for her crime, as U.S. law reigns supreme here.
As with another of today’s JW posts:
Germany: Muslim migrant murders his wife, invokes Sharia in court, says it allows him to punish her
The German court sentenced him, too.
There is hope, I hope.
gravenimage says
Yes–good to hear, PRCS.
Johnny B says
Here in Denmark we had some of these women emigrating – or going back rather – to their beloved ISIS-caliphate years ago. Now that it all collapsed they want to come “home” again and even though many of them are not even Danish citizens the left have been pushing hard to bring them here. Leftists are even more dangerous than these murderous Muslim women.
notnolib says
What happened to freedom of religion? Doesn’t her faith command her to do what she was attempting? How does it differ from a Jew lighting Sabbath candles or a Catholic praying the Rosary?
Allahu’s Snackbar!!
gravenimage says
Grim but spot on!
Giacomo Latta says
Another loser who thinks she can take the law into her own hands because now, as a muslim, the koran says she is a member of the ”best of peoples” group. Hmm, she’s more of a loser than I thought.
ROBERT CARRILLO says
Common tactic indeed.. Accuse your TARGET of exactly what YOU are doing, and then blame them.
When deranged people threaten to blow you up, lob 4,000 rockets at your country, stab you with a blade, burn down your churches (13 Christian Churches burned to the ground in Minnesota since 2012) and synagogues, or run you down with a vehicle (US Capitol Security Officer MURDERED by a Louis Farrakhan follower), PLEASE take them at their words, and openly JUDGE THEM by their actions.
Even the animal kingdom is more humane and civilized..
Can you say Ilhan Omar, and Jaylani Hussein (CAIR-MN) here in Minnesota?
..Then look all around the United States of America for more examples.. ‘Islamophobia’? Really?
mike says
The beating will continue until the mural improves
gravenimage says
Murals are Haram! (I know this is just a minor typo, but I couldn’t help myself. 🙂 )
Quazgaa says
You summed it up better than any think tank, gi.
Stay safe.