Three men from Brooklyn, New York, were arrested on Wednesday and accused of plotting to wage jihad for ISIS. One of the men had offered to kill President Barack Obama if the militants asked him to, authorities said.
Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn identified the men as Abdurasul Juraboev, 24, Akhror Saidakhmetov, 19, and Abror Habibov, 30. Juraboev and Habibov are Uzbek citizens, and Saidakhmetov is a citizen of Kazakhstan, the prosecutors said.
Juraboev and Saidakhmetov plotted to travel to Turkey and then to Syria to wage jihad, and Habibov helped pay for the plan, the prosecutors said. Saidakhmetov was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport as he tried to board a flight to Istanbul.
“Anyone who threatens our citizens and our allies, here or abroad, will face the full force of American justice,” said Loretta Lynch, the top federal prosecutor in Brooklyn. Loretta Lynch carefully maneuvered around the fact the three would be terrorists were Muslims and amazingly she never once admitted the motive for their actions was Islamic jihad. Then again, she is following the marching orders from the examples set by the White House and within liberal politics.
ISIS and their Jihad is not Muslim they claim to be Muslim.
Just like the KKK is not Christian but their original formation was by quoting the bible.
AKA Georgia… ISIS is a practitioner of old Islam. They are true blue fundamentalists. So, they are most definitely Muslim, but not in the sense of the average modern Muslim. Those Muslims have dropped the hard liner positions and evolved into something more moderate. Next, this isn’t a very good comparison, but think of ISIS as the Holy Rollers of Islam. They are 10X more radicalized than what we commonly know as holy rollers in the Christian faith because Christian Holy Rollers would never practice everything in the old Testament. So Dewey, er Georgia, it would be a mistake to think they are not Muslims. They are in the strictest, most original, sense of what Muslim means and that is part of their appeal to some in this faith. But, don’t take my word for it, seek your own sources and talk to some Muslim people, they will agree with me if they are up to speed.
The very beginning of the KKK was mostly benign, but there was always in some degree this racist element and that was there undoing. Consider, they were formed by mostly ex-Confederates right after the civil war. However, many men of that time simply joined the KKK to protect themselves from thugs and marauders because it was time chaos in the South. Eventually the KKK evolved into something more bigoted and cruel and their membership started dropping of sharply. I don’t think ISIS was ever anything except a blight on humanity. ISIS is far, far, far, worse than the KKK was in the worst days.
From History.com: “…. Pulaski, Tennessee, a group of Confederate veterans convenes to form a secret society that they christen the “Ku Klux Klan.” The KKK rapidly grew from a secret social fraternity to a paramilitary force bent on reversing the federal government’s progressive Reconstruction Era-activities in the South, especially policies that elevated the rights of the local African American population.
“The name of the Ku Klux Klan was derived from the Greek word kyklos, meaning “circle,” and the Scottish-Gaelic word “clan,” which was probably chosen for the sake of alliteration. Under a platform of philosophized white racial superiority, the group employed violence as a means of pushing back Reconstruction and its enfranchisement of African Americans. Former Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest was the KKK’s first grand wizard; in 1869, he unsuccessfully tried to disband it after he grew critical of the Klan’s excessive violence.”
First … in the great cosmic scheme of things, and as a practical matter, what would be the likely consequence of three more jihadis in Syria? Chances are easily 50-50 that they’d be dead within a year.
However, this charge of “aiding terrorism” is HIGHLY problematic, as it is very broad and can be construed by the government to mean anything the government chooses it should mean. You could get hauled in for sending monies to a girls’ school in Afghanistan, and I do believe that has happened.
I don’t like it.
And why do you insist that Islamic terrorism is more heinous than any other sort?
Islamic terrorists want to be “more heinous than any other sort” of terrorist…it’s part and parcel of their strategy. Are we supposed to act like their not interested in wiping Israel off the map? Should we just pretend their purpose to overcome, oppress, and rule the world by whatever heinous means they can think of isn’t in their game plan?
Our President called these guys the JV team and a couple of years later they’ve taken control in a large swath of land crossing borders including parts of Iraq, a nation our guys bled and died to free from such tyranny. Our President looks the complete fool for pretending these murderous radical don’t pose a serious threat. America looks weak and ISIS gets its legitimacy from its triumphs over what it sees as a weak, appeasing America.
Whether this group is “more heinous” doesn’t matter as much as the fact that they are here now and now is when we must deal with them. I prefer standing up to them with strength.
Georgia, do go get yourself a copy of The Atlantic. He never uses the word “fundamentalist”, but there is a section toward the end that did make me smile and think fondly of our fellow posters here.