Syrian Refugee Pleads Guilty to Supporting ISIS with Plot to Bomb Pennsylvania Christian Church
A Syrian refugee has pleaded guilty to providing material support to the Islamic State (ISIS), a terrorist organization, in relation to his plot to bomb a Christian church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
On Thursday, 23-year-old Mustafa Mousab Alowemer, who came to the United States in August 2016 as a refugee from Syria, pleaded guilty to one count of providing material support to ISIS when he sought to bomb the Legacy International Worship Center in Pittsburgh sometime in 2019.
“The defendant, motivated by ISIS’s call to violence and hate, plotted a terrorist attack targeting a church in Pittsburgh,” Acting Assistant Attorney General Mark Lesko said in a statement.
According to federal prosecutors, Alowemer was motivated to bomb the Christian church to garner support from other ISIS members within the U.S. Alowemer had hoped that his terrorist attack would rally other ISIS members to commit similar acts of terrorism against American citizens.
In 2019, Breitbart News exclusively reported that at the time of Alowemer’s arrest, he had been seeking to secure a green card from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to permanently remain in the U.S. and eventually be eligible for naturalized American citizenship.
Alowemer first entered the U.S. through the New York port of entry on August 1, 2016 as a refugee from Syria, being granted RE3 status, which indicates he was the child of a refugee. Sometime after, Alowemer wanted to adjust his immigration status to become a lawful permanent resident.
Alowemer’s green card application was pending with USICS at the time of his arrest.
Sentencing for Alowemer is scheduled for January 2022 and he faces a maximum of 20 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, and a lifetime term of supervised release.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
Jet Blue passenger chokes flight attendant, storms cockpit, but most media neglect to mention he shouted ‘Allah!’
A frightening incident took place Wednesday on a Jet Blue flight from Boston to San Juan in which a passenger assaulted a flight attendant, broke free of wrist ties once restrained, and attempted to storm the cockpit, with the door open because a crew member had used the toilet. Although the passenger shouted the name “Allah,” nearly all the media reports that I have been able to find (here, here, and here, for instance) omit that point, and merely state that he was angry about a failed phone call, and imply mental illness was the root cause of the attack.
The Daily Beast’s jihad-sanitized account of the incident at least conveys the overpowering fury of the passenger:
The passenger, a man named Khalil El Dahr, had attempted to make a phone call near the end of the flight and “became angry about the call’s unsuccess.” Roughly 45 minutes before landing, he pulled himself out of his seat and rushed towards the cockpit, yelling in Spanish and Arabic that someone should shoot and kill him.
El Dahr grappled with the flight attendant who attempted to intercept him, punching and kicking him in the chest, and strangling him with the attendant’s tie. It took “six or seven” crew members to restrain the passenger with plastic zip-tie handcuffs, but El Dahr somehow managed to break out of them. Another pair was used, in addition to at least four seat belt extenders (and, according to testimony, the flight attendant’s tie)
The Beast does link to an FBI affidavit that does mention the word the media are desperate to avoid: “The second Jet Blue FA stated that at one point during the incident, they [sic] were able to understand EL DAHR say Allah in a raised tone.”
In the wake of Joe Biden’s surrender to the Taliban jihadists, who have resumed lopping off hands and killing women weaing “immodest” attire, we wouldn’t want Americans to start thinking jihad is a threat to their own safety.
The only honest and complete account that I have been able to find comes from the Boston Herald:
At “one point during the incident, they were able to understand El Dahr said ‘Allah’ in a raised tone,” the agent reports
File photo of Jet Blue plane by Eric Salard CC BY-SA 2.0 license
Hat tip: Pamela Geller
Cotton: Biden’s Afghanistan Withdrawal Brought in Criminals and Measles While Leaving Behind Afghans We Should Have Evacuated
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said that as a result of “Biden’s rushed, disorganized withdrawal. We left behind those who we should have gotten out and we brought with us a lot of people who we have no idea who they are or if they pose any threat to us.” And that this has lead to problems like measles outbreaks and evacuees being charged with sex crimes.
Cotton said, “Well, it’s not apparent what the Biden administration is doing to get them out. And the Biden administration has acknowledged they left behind the vast majority of vetted and approved Afghans who worked with our troops. At the same time, they also evacuated apparently thousands of Afghans about whom we know next to nothing, who maybe had no particular connection to our troops at all. And this has led to all kinds of problems in terms of, look at the measles outbreak that we’ve had at some of these sites where evacuees are being held. Two Afghan evacuees in Wisconsin are now charged with sex crimes, including sex crimes against minors. This is what happens because [of] Joe Biden’s rushed, disorganized withdrawal. We left behind those who we should have gotten out and we brought with us a lot of people who we have no idea who they are or if they pose any threat to us.”
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Ex-Islamic Radical Says Extremists Are Present in Every Swedish Mosque
A former radical Islamic Salafist preacher says that radicalism is present in every Swedish mosque and that Salafism is becoming more and more popular with younger people.
Anas Khalifa, who had been a radical Salafist preacher for around 20 years, was once one of the most prominent radical Muslims in the country but is said to have turned his back on fundamentalist ideology.
According to Khalifa, radicalism has become more and more prevalent in Sweden’s Muslim community. He told broadcaster SVT that there is a Salafist in every mosque in the country.
“They are everywhere online, they have hundreds of thousands of followers. I’m probably the only one who’s not a Salafist who has 60-70,000 followers,” Khalifa said, claiming that he has seen young people born and raised in Sweden who have still become followers of Islamic radicals.
“I have travelled from Boden to Ystad, lectured in associations and mosques for several years, and I have always found someone who is Salafist there,” he said, added that Salafists often also behave as morality police in their communities, telling others what to do.
Problems with so-called morality police have been an issue in some areas of Europe for years, and in 2018 Sweden’s centre-right Moderate Party proposed criminalising anyone caught acting in such a manner.
“They spread hatred against non-Muslims – Christians, Jews. They spread strong prejudices about other groups and minorities, and they sometimes cover that up nicely. They try to explain it and justify it in different ways, but the basic message is this hatred,” Khalifa said.
Khalifa also added that, in the past, he had personally known many of the Swedish nationals who had travelled to the Middle East to join the Islamic State terrorist organisation, saying: “I’ve never sent anyone down, but I haven’t stopped anyone from leaving when I find out… I have blood on my hands.”
Earlier this year in May, Swedish terrorism expert Magnus Ranstorp claimed that Muslim radicals were continuing to recruit and spread their ideology in Sweden.
“It’s basically been a disaster. Especially in the area of prevention, but also in terms of legislation,” Ranstorp said.
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