Muhammad Dakhlalla’s father is an imam in Mississippi. Has what he teaches been investigated? Why not? If he taught his son peaceful, benign Islam, why was that teaching unable to withstand the appeal of the supposedly twisted, hijacked Islam of the Islamic State? “Mississippi man gets 8-years in prison for trying to join terrorist group,” […]
Mississippi: Convert to Islam gets 12 years for plot to join the Islamic State
“Court papers say Young announced her conversion in March 2015 and began wearing a burqa, a garment worn by some Muslim women to cover their face and body. ‘After her conversion, Young distanced herself from family and friends and felt spending time with non-Muslims would be a bad influence,’ prosecutors wrote.” Yet authorities remain resolutely […]
Mississippi: Cheerleader converts to Islam, tries to join the Islamic State, pleads guilty to terror charge
Authorities remain completely and doggedly incurious about the phenomenon of conversion to Islam, and why so many converts to Islam get the idea that their new religion wants them to commit treason and murder. “Mississippi woman who attempted to join ISIS pleads guilty to terror charge,” Fox News, March 30, 2016: She tried to trade […]
Mississippi paper: It would be “ignorant” to be suspicious of jihadi’s mosque
The facts of the case are these: Muhammad Oda Dakhlalla and his wife, Amira al-Amriki, were arrested while trying to travel to the Islamic State. Muhammad’s father, Oda Dakhlalla, is the imam of the Islamic Center of Mississippi in Starkville. Now look at the evidence that the Commercial Dispatch adduces to support its claim that […]
Mississippi: Two Muslims charged with trying to join the Islamic State
Jaelyn Young’s Facebook “Likes” include Yasir Qadhi, an imam whose opposition to the Islamic State has been widely touted recently, along with Hadith of the Day, Quran Explorer, The Ideal Muslimah, and prominent imams such as Yusuf Estes, Abdurraheem Green, Abdullah Hakim Quick, Omar Suleiman, Zakir Naik, Bilal Philips, and others. Why did their teachings […]