[ April 18, 2024 ]
This is a precedent. There are myriad ISIS cases coming up in America charging Islamic State members, and this was the test. I will be very interested to see what kind of sentence he gets — what Texas does will be an example for the rest of the country. What does conspiring to slaughter Americans on American soil for exercising their First Amendment rights get you? It should get you life in prison. It’s treason and sedition. But no one talks about such things anymore.
“Arizona man linked to Muhammad cartoon contest attack plot convicted,” Associated Press, March 17, 2016:
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A jury on Thursday convicted an Arizona man of conspiring to support Islamic State in one of the first trials in the U.S. involving charges related to the terrorist group.
Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem also was found guilty on other counts stemming from an attack last spring at a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas. Kareem was stoic when the verdict was read.
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Authorities said Kareem bankrolled and motivated two Islamic State followers who were killed in a shootout with police while trying to carry out a rampage at the anti-Islam event in suburban Dallas.
Kareem also was convicted of providing guns used in the May 3 attack. Authorities say he and the two gunmen, Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi, had researched travel to the Middle East to join Islamic State fighters.
It was one of the first times a person was tried in the U.S. on charges related to the group. A trial in New York recently ended with a guilty verdict against a U.S. military veteran charged with attempting to join Islamic State.
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Kareem’s attorney, Daniel Maynard, declined to comment after the verdict. The U.S. attorney’s office, which prosecuted the case, had no immediate comment. Sentencing was set for June 27.
Prosecutors say Kareem hosted Simpson and Soofi at his home to discuss the plot and went target-shooting with them in the Arizona desert.
The 44-year-old moving company owner testified that he had no knowledge beforehand that his friends were going to attack the contest featuring cartoons deemed offensive to Muslims. He insisted that he didn’t even know about the event until after Simpson and Soofi were killed.
It’s unknown whether the attack was inspired by the Islamic State or carried out in response to an order from the group.
Prosecutors said Kareem tried to carry out an insurance scam to fund a conspiracy to support the Islamic State group and attempted to indoctrinate two teenage boys in his neighborhood on radical jihadism.
They also say Kareem, Simpson and Soofi initially wanted to blow up the Arizona stadium where the 2015 Super Bowl was held, but when that plan failed, they set their sights on the cartoon contest.
Kareem told jurors that he evicted Simpson from his home because he believed Simpson was putting tracking devices in his car. He also said he strongly disapproved of Simpson using Kareem’s laptop to watch al-Qaida promotional materials.
Stefan Verdugo, one of Kareem’s former roommates, testified that Kareem wanted to get revenge against people who portrayed the Prophet Muhammad in drawings and had inquired about the types of explosives that would be needed to blow up the stadium….
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33 Comments
8 years ago
“What does conspiring to slaughter Americans on American soil for exercising their First Amendment rights get you?”
I hope a life time in prison! The problem is, he will be some kind of hero to the prisoners since many of them are mooslims! As long as he is in prison I guess who cares!! Let him be a hero in prison; better there than on the outside.
8 years ago
Reply to
mdy616
However, this jihadist should be placed in solitary confinement for life; otherwise he will be in a position to recruit others — perhaps many others.
8 years ago
Reply to
CC
My opinion –that they should be put to death –they are traitors and terrorists and do not find it difficult to kill Kafir.
8 years ago
Reply to
mdy616
40,000 Converts to Islam Per Year in Federal
Prisons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHblGP6iKXs
8 years ago
Off Topic but very important to watch and share. Have to educate the many who are asleep and please continue sharing.
Muslim Brotherhood’s plan & Obama connection exposed
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3-aqSAxdVB8
8 years ago
Toss him in jail and forget about him, another muslim following seventh century hate literature.
8 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Please Mam. No personal human pronouns for its.
Correct this to, “Toss it in jail and forget about it….”
8 years ago
Reply to
Ron Cole
Done, my ignorant error brings shame to my english as a second language teacher. Appropriate penance will be done.
8 years ago
everyone knows what happens to killers in Texas, right?!
8 years ago
Stop using the term “muslims”. That’s what they want us to call them. By letting them define the terms we let them set the rules and we’ll lose.. The English terms for these barbarians are “moslem”,”mussulman”, or “mohammedans”. Also, based on his pretentious sounding fake moslem name and photo, I’ll bet ol’ Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem is just a chip on his shoulder “American” negro named La’ Quantavious Jackson.
8 years ago
Reply to
John Henry Eden
Personally, I prefer to use the term “muzzies”. My understanding is that they hate it.
8 years ago
Reply to
Nipperdoodle
I like the name muzzies too 🙂 And if they hate the name so much the better 🙂 Fcuk um’
8 years ago
Reply to
John Henry Eden
I like moslem and mohammedan but mussulman sounds like they might be muscular 🙂
8 years ago
The 44-year-old moving company owner testified that he had no knowledge beforehand that his friends were going to attack the contest featuring cartoons deemed offensive to Muslims
8 years ago
Of all the legal defenses this guy could use in court, ignorance is the most plausible but is wholly inadequate. Being a federal case, the firearms charges alone should assure it is s very long time before he ever breathes free air again.
8 years ago
This is what they really need besides punishment.
The Kurdistan Brothers – Muslim Converts –
A
brother is born for adversity according to an old proverb and the two brothers
in the following story illustrate the truth of that saying. When the younger one
broke with tradition the older one wanted to break his neck. This is the true
story of Syeed and Kocka, two brothers from Kurdistan who were adversaries until
their minds, and hearts and lives were unshackled.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyTOBZC5Ytw
8 years ago
Was this in Arizona or in Texas? I know the isis attackers lived in Arizona. Not sure if Abdul Malik is being tried in Arizona or Texas…
8 years ago
One should ask the Ku Klux Kair and SPLC about one of THEIR supporters in jail for being a terrorist.
8 years ago
Burn them in pig oil
8 years ago
Reply to
SRN99
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8 years ago
We can NOT clog up our legal system with this filth. WHY are they being treated like common criminals? They are NOT. They are soldiers devoted to wiping as many of us out as possible.
8 years ago
Pamela bags another one. She’s on her way to becoming an ACE JIHAD FIGHTER. Somebody get a medal made up and ready. My mine will contribute the gold. I’m serious about this proposal. Any artisans out there.
8 years ago
Pam, all the people I know use the words “Treason”/Sedition “. The silent majority needs to come out of its coma
8 years ago
Take out the Garbage !
8 years ago
Should be executed under the federal death penalty
8 years ago
But he’s just trying to spread the “Peace” of Islam don’t ya know.
