More cases of homegrown jihad in North Carolina
Steve Emerson reports on Jewish World Review about some more homegrown jihadists who were arrested and now face trial for their plotting:
Robert Spencer has more about this disturbing case on Human Events, including how the Islamic Center of NC's leaders did nothing on their part to stop the criminals.
Update: and to show how much they care, the mosque connected to the Tarheel terrorists invited a racist speaker to their Friday prayer sermon (Hat tip: The Jawa Report).
A North Carolina man accused of conspiring to commit terrorist acts abroad grew so frustrated at his inability to carry out his plans that he vented about committing attacks in America, an FBI agent testified Tuesday.What really disgusts me about creatures like these is how, if they really are praying to the same godly entity that Judaists and Christians do, they clearly do not recognize what He created life on earth for, which constitutes abuse of the heavens.
Agent Michael Sutton testified during a detention hearing for Daniel Patrick Boyd, Boyd's sons Zakariya and Dylan, and co-defendants Hysen Sherifi, Ziyad Yaghi, Anes Subasic and Mohammad Omar Aly Hassan. The men were arrested last week and charged in a conspiracy to commit terrorist acts abroad. If convicted, each could be sentenced to life in prison.
According to the indictment, Boyd and his son Zakariya, along with Yaghi and Hassan, traveled to Israel in June 2007. The men wanted to die as shahid "that is, as martyrs in furtherance of violent jihad," the indictment alleges. But they came back about a month later, unsuccessful in their attempt to carry out jihad.
A year earlier, the indictment alleges, Boyd tried to get into Gaza "in order to introduce his son to individuals who also believed that violent jihad was a personal obligation on the part of every good Muslim."
During his testimony, Sutton cited comments Boyd made that were recorded by the government or reported by witnesses.
"If I don't leave this country soon," Sutton quoted Boyd saying in one, "I am going to make jihad right here in America."
In another conversation outside a convenience store, Boyd noticed a group of Humvees.
"We should take them out right now," Boyd said. He made a similar comment about a North Carolina state helicopter he saw flying over head, Sutton said a witness told him.
The indictment makes no allegations about any domestic terrorist plot by the defendants. They did buy large amounts of rifles and ammunition and conducted training on private property in Caswell County, N.C. this past June and July.
They also found a fatwa, or religious edict, in Boyd's house saying Muslims have "an individual duty to kill Americans and their allies."
Boyd often made references to jihad, in one recording saying "Allah knows I love jihad."
Robert Spencer has more about this disturbing case on Human Events, including how the Islamic Center of NC's leaders did nothing on their part to stop the criminals.
Update: and to show how much they care, the mosque connected to the Tarheel terrorists invited a racist speaker to their Friday prayer sermon (Hat tip: The Jawa Report).
Labels: islam, jihad, terrorism, United States, war on terror
