Normally it is a good thing to see a criminal jailed for two decades for heinous crimes, but jihadists are not mere criminals. They are Islamic fighters at war with dar al harb (the unconquered house of war). They do not belong on Western soil.
Trinidad became one of the chief recruitment centers for the Islamic State in the Western Hemisphere at the height of the Islamic State’s expansion in the Levant.
If he is like most jihadists, Emraan Ali will continue his jihad mission in jail. UK jails are particularly notable for this. They have been dubbed “jihadi training camps,” prompting the British government last year to segregate imprisoned jihadists. The same threat applies to any jail where jihadists are present and are allowed to interact freely with other inmates. Imprisoned jihadists engage in dawah, or Islamic proselytizing. “The U.S. prison system is also facing the problem – with Muslim groups acting like gangs, recruiting people and protecting their own, according to former Al Qaeda recruiter and convict Jesse Morton, who is now working at a think tank at George Washington University.”
Recently in New York City, Muslim cleric Abdullah el-Faisal was given 18 years in prison for encouraging violent jihad activity. Abdullah el-Faisal believed “every word in a speech by Osama bin Laden was ‘like a gem,’ and thought images of the coffins of US service members were laughable.”
One can only imagine the threats to citizens of Western countries that will come from jihadists and their newly recruited followers once they are released into the public from jail. They could become hardcore jihadist armies.
To illustrate how dangerous Islamic State jihadists are, years ago, an Iraqi judge said some time ago that he was sentencing Islamic State jihadis from the UK to death in order to protect Britain.
“U.S. citizen gets 20 years for joining Islamic State group,” Associated Press, April 2, 2023:
MIAMI — A U.S. citizen who moved his family to Syria to join the Islamic State terrorist group has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.
Emraan Ali, 55, a U.S. citizen born in Trinidad and Tobago, was sentenced Tuesday in Miami federal court, according to court records. He pleaded guilty in November to conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.
According to court records, Ali moved his family from Trinidad and Tobago to Brazil, and then to Turkey and eventually Syria in March 2015. He falsely told his children that they were going on vacation but actually intended to join IS, prosecutors said.
After arriving in Syria, IS registered Ali and his family, and Ali underwent IS religious and military training with other English speakers, officials said. The training included instruction on the operation of various automatic weapons such as the AK-47 assault rifle and PKC machine gun.
Ali was eventually discharged from combat duty and worked in residential construction for IS in the group’s then-de facto capital of Raqqa, investigators said. Ali also became a merchant and began buying and selling livestock, cars, weapons, weapons accessories and telephones to and from other IS members. Ali also provided money remitting services to other Trinidadian IS fighters in Syria and donated his own money to IS members to support the IS cause….
Linde B. says
It sounds like Muslim cleric 😈 Abdullah
el-Faisal is starved for a sexual relationship in addition to being a sadist. What a creep! And it seems like Muslims who advocate for death and destruction are all starved for a sexual relationship, in addition for the need to hear the Holy Gospel. We Christians need to pray more for these creepy Muslims. +
Keith O says
Really Linde B?
Mudslimes need to hear the gospel? Do you want to have the Koran forced upon you? Thought not, it’s the same for the Koranimals they think they are right and you are wrong.
Your prayers are wasted on them.
Linde B. says
To Keith O- You used the word “civilized” in your comment about nations dealing with ISIS. And I think the Gospel is civilized, so that is why I brought it into my comment. But if anyone says “I do not want to hear the Gospel” I would go to someone else. I respect the idea of free will and obedience to civilized laws.
ConnSCG says
🎯
Linde B. says
To ConnSCG- Thank you kindly.
Keith O says
The minimum mandatory sentence for Jihadists should be term of natural life with hard labour.
No halal food, no special books, no banging their heads on the floor 5 times a day, NOTHING but turning big rocks into little rocks in the harshest environment known to man.
That or they can opt out for the death penalty.
The big problem civilised nations have with dealing with ISIS is that they are civilised nations, with civilised people.