My latest in PJ Media:
Everybody knows that “white supremacists” are the biggest terror threat America faces today: Old Joe Biden has told us so, along with Gestapo chief Merrick Garland and the Department of Homeland Security, among others. They wouldn’t lie to us, now, would they? But back in the real world, a threat that the Left has downplayed and denied from the beginning, the global jihad, is still very much with us, even in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Mirsad Hariz Adem Ramic, a good ol’ boy from down there in Bowling Green, was indicted Monday on charges of providing material support to the Islamic State (ISIS). Ramic, who is a dual citizen of the United States and Bosnia, is also charged, according to the Justice Department, “with conspiring to provide material support to ISIS and receiving military type training from ISIS.”
Ramic flew from Bowling Green to Istanbul in 2014, along with two other would-be jihadis; once there, the trio bought tickets to Gaziantep, Turkey, a city near Turkey’s border with Syria. They crossed the border to enter the Islamic State’s domains in Syria. Ramic was to all appearances a convinced, dedicated jihadi: he “attended an ISIS training camp where he received weapons and physical training and fired an AK-47.” He appears to have been deeply involved in the Islamic State’s aggressive activities: “The FBI obtained photographs of Ramic in ISIS territory that depict him wearing camouflage clothing and standing in front of a pickup truck outfitted with an anti-aircraft gun and the ISIS flag. A second photograph of Ramic depicts him holding a rifle.”
Ramic kept in touch with the two friends with whom he had made his journey to ISIS, and would clue them in on his activities. They “discussed, among other things, Ramic’s presence in Raqqa, Syria,” which served as the capital of the Islamic State in the heyday of the short-lived ISIS caliphate in Iraq and Syria. He also told his friends about “his use of an anti-aircraft weapon to shoot at planes.”
At the same time, Ramic demonstrated a keen interest in the theoretical side of his activities with the Islamic State. He and his talked about “jihad, martyrdom and fighting for ISIS.” Secure in the ISIS domains, one of Ramic’s friends got cocky: “sent two e-mails to Western Kentucky University, stating that he had traveled to Syria to join ISIS and expressing his desire that ISIS conquer the United States.”
Since the fall of the ISIS caliphate, Ramic has been in prison in Turkey, but was deported back to the United States, where he is looking at fifty years in prison and a $750,000 fine if he is convicted.
The Justice Department press release about Ramic’s indictment is laconic. It gives no indication of how a young man (Ramic is 31) in Bowling Green, Kentucky, could have come to believe that it would be a great idea to join an internationally feared and despised jihad terror group. This is the question that remains unanswered whenever a Muslim living in the United States decides to join a jihad group or even plot a jihad massacre on American soil.
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mortimer says
Mirsad Hariz Adem Ramic, a Bosnian Muslim, betrayed his new country, burned his American passport and then pledged to destroy the USA.
If Ramic is a dual citizen, there appears to be no need to bring him back to the US, but there must be some very interesting evidence against him if the Attorney General decided to have him face trial on terrorism and other charges. Must have something to do with crimes against humanity and such unspeakable matters.
Eleanor says
Will the USA deport him to Bosnia once his sentence is completed? And cancel his American citizenship?
gravenimage says
They should.
gravenimage says
Kentucky Fried Jihad
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No place is free of Jihadists.
Melc says
The Islamic doctrine is like a sleeping virus that can come to life anytime and like Covid mutate into various forms but at its core it’s a killing virus.
gravenimage says
Good analogy, Melc.
Alfredo says
This Kentucky Fried Brain Jihadi wannabe is one those idiots who believe they’re going to their Muhammadan Paradise where they’ll inherit their 72 virgens for eternal “carnal knowledge” according to that seventh century so-called prophet.
Which prophet? The one who tells his followers that the sun sets in a pool of muddy warm water? That one?
The one who split the moon no no one ever saw when he did it because everybody was asleep? That one?
The one who swindled the wife from his adoptive son, claiming that his god had told him through the angel he borrowed from the Jews had given to him? And his gullible followers would swear that their prophet would never lie to them. Would he? Never!