mdfenton

Posted: Tuesday, July 19, 2016 6:00 am
Amanda Stewart | 0 comments
AmandaStewart
Posted on Jul 19, 2016by Amanda Stewart
This happened a few miles from where I live (near Wash, D.C.). Tell me he isn't Muslim. Tell me they aren't among us ready to do harm. Tell me we should not be concerned.
A Woodbridge man was sentenced July 15 to eight years and six months in federal prison for attempting to support ISIS.
Joseph Hassan Farrokh, 29, was also sentenced to 10 years of supervised release, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s office. He was convicted of attempting to provide material support and resources to a foreign terrorist organization.
According to documents on file at U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Farrokh and Mahmoud Amin Elhassan, 25, also of Woodbridge, conspired to travel from the United States to Syria to join the terror group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
Farrokh planned to travel first, followed by Elhassan, according to the court documents.
“Farrokh and Elhassan spoke in detail about their potential travel, including discussing the different routes each would take to travel to Syria,” prosecutors said in the news release.
Farrokh gave Elhassan $600 for his future travel to Syria and “both men spoke openly with each other about supporting ISIL and supporting violent jihad, with Farrokh saying on October 2, 2015, that he had no patience and wanted to go right away and ‘chop their heads.’,” according to the news release.
The two used apps that they thought were safe from law enforcement detection to discuss their plans and used the Internet to seek out people who they thought could help them get to Syria, prosecutors said.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

I think the better solution would have been to arrange for a military aircraft to overfly Syria and drop them off somewhere towards the center of the country.
--Bob

MtnMan Loc: ID

If true their lawyer sucked. The U.S. has a thing called the Constitution and the first ammendment protects free speech.

There must be more to the story as what is reported does not constitute support.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

This is quite true and it's a document I place next to The Bible in importance. However, we have numerous prisoners in Guantanamo who have not been charged, have no trial dates, etc. The Patriot Act, as distasteful as its consequences may be, was established in an attempt to keep the U.S. protected from terrorists and terrorist acts.

Is it constitutional? A good many people have pointed out that it violates a number of protected rights. Others have argued that it is legal. Better legal minds than mine will have to argue that one. In the mean time, we're protected by, or subject to, the ramifications.
--Bob

davidk2020 Loc: San Diego

It's scare mongering. And if anyone truly does want to go to Syria to get k**led, I won't try to stop you.

mdfenton

http://www.insidenova.com/headlines/man-sentenced-for-attempting-to-travel-to-syria-to-join/article_523506e6-4d56-11e6-b033-2b6bdc7303c6.html

How silly. This isn't a free speech issue.

The point is they join and support ISIS by leaving the US and k*****g in Europe or staying in the US and k*****g here. WAKE UP!

When one doesn't have a rational response and is in denial, he/she says: "scare mongering" or "islamophobic crap" or some such variation

Robert Graybeal Loc: Myrtle Beach

as long as we don't waste a perfectly good parachute.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

Wasting a parachute was not part of the plan, as I envisioned it.
--Bob

davidk2020 Loc: San Diego

And when one has no rational fear but is overcome by alarm, he runs around yelling "THE SKY IS FALLING! THE SKY IS FALLING!"

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

In my scenario the only thing people would be running around yelling is "Farrokh and Elhassan are falling!!! Farrokh and Elhassan are falling!!!"
--Bob

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

mdfenton

Muslims, Christians, and national security ----

CNS News recently reported that according to data released by the State Department Refugee Processing Center in May for example, 499 “Syrian refugees” were admitted into the U.S. “with no Christians among them.” Since October 1, a total of 2,235 Syrian refugees have been resettled in the United States. Of them, 10 (0.44 percent) are Christians” The largest minority group in Syria has always been Christians who account for roughly 10 percent of the population. The percentage of Christians being admitted as refugees into the U.S. is 0.4 percent--less than half of one percent.

Under Obama, more Christians are being k**led than ever before recorded in recent history throughout the Levant. Yet only 0.4 percent of them are being rescued. Instead, Obama is bringing in their persecutors and murderers at a rate of nearly 100 percent. Earlier this year, the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testified before the U.S. Senate that ISIS was “taking advantage of the torrent of migrants [entering Europe] to insert operatives into that flow.”

Despite obviously noted threats, Obama’s accelerated process reduces the amount of time taken for “vetting” the refugees from 18-24 months to three months. The increased processing is not only increasing Sunni Muslim refugees entering the U.S., it’s increasing national security threats to American citizens. The exact opposite of what should be done.

http://constitution.com/may-499-syrian-refugees-entered-u-s-guess-many-christians/