U.S. law enforcement officials always want to assume that Islamic jihad terrorists are mentally incompetent. It fits in so much better with their worldview than the prospect which for them is too terrible to contemplate, that they may be motivated by Islamic texts and teachings. “Capitol plot suspect appears competent, using birth name,” by Dan […]
Feds urge limits on phone access of Ohio would-be jihad murderer
Why does this clown have any phone access at all? Would it be “Islamophobic” to ban his phone access altogether? “Feds urge limits on Hamilton Co. terrorism suspect phone access,” WLWT, March 11, 2015: CINCINNATI (AP) —Federal prosecutors Tuesday asked a judge to restrict phone access for a southwest Ohio man accused of plotting to […]
Ohio Muslim says he would have shot Obama, attacked Israeli embassy
An earlier Associated Press story says that he “wanted to be addressed by his Muslim name, Raheel Mahrus Ubaydah, and to have access to a prayer mat and a clock in jail so he could continue his religious practices.” But the headline of this one calls him Christopher Lee Cornell, in keeping with the constant […]
Robert Spencer in PJ Media: 11 Islamophobes Whose Full-Time Job Is to Vilify Islam and Muslims
Over at PJ Media I discuss some hate-mongers Linda Sarsour should focus her organization’s time on confronting. The Arab American Association of New York’s website describes its executive director, Linda Sarsour, as, a working woman, community activist, and mother of three. Ambitious, outspoken and independent, Linda shatters stereotypes of Muslim women while also treasuring her […]
Grand jury indicts Ohio Muslim for jihad plot to bomb U.S. Capitol
“Savir told the magistrate Cornell wanted to be addressed by his Muslim name, Raheel Mahrus Ubaydah, and to have access to a prayer mat and a clock in jail so he could continue his religious practices.” Yet “the FBI said in court documents filed last week that Cornell planned to ‘wage jihad’ by attacking the […]
Robert Spencer in PJ Media: 5 New Signs that the Jihad Against the West Is Just Getting Warmed Up
In PJ Media I discuss some signs that the jihad against the West is just getting started: In a new video, an Islamic State jihadi proclaims: I say to all French people who think that the Islamic State won’t arrive in Europe, with God’s help, we will arrive in Europe. We will expand across all […]
Father of Muslim who plotted to bomb US Capitol says son is “peace-loving momma’s boy” set up by FBI
Here we go again. It is by now a staple of the Leftist/Islamic supremacist narrative that the FBI, to justify its huge counter-terror budget, goes around trumping up jihad terror plots by coaxing impressionable young Muslims into misunderstanding their religion and believing that it enjoins violence against unbelievers. The big problem with this oft-repeated claim […]
Ohio Muslim arrested for Islamic State-inspired plot to bomb U.S. Capitol
“I believe that we should just wage jihad under our own orders and plan attacks and everything. I believe we should meet up and make our own group in alliance with the Islamic State here and plan operations ourselves.” There will be many other young Muslims acting on the same belief. “Ohio Man Arrested for […]