My latest in PJ Media:
Damon Joseph, a 24-year-old resident of Holland, Ohio, was sentenced Monday to twenty years in prison for a plot to attack a synagogue in Toledo. Joseph is a white man, but he is, no doubt to the disappointment of Biden administration officials, not one of those white supremacist terrorists they keep insisting are the greatest terror threats the nation faces today. Joseph, you see, is a convert to Islam who prefers to be known by the name of Abdullah Ali Yusuf. That is one reason why you almost certainly haven’t heard anything about this case.
According to NBC 24, the newly minted Abdullah Ali Yusuf “was arrested by FBI agents in December 2018 before pleading guilty in May 2021 to attempting to provide material support for the Islamic State terrorist group and attempting to commit a hate crime.” This was not an instance of some loser making incendiary statements without any intention to act: According to , he was arrested “after he grabbed a duffel bag with two disabled semi-automatic rifles from the car of an undercover agent. Following his arrest, he detailed his plans for the attack and ‘his intent to cause mass casualties in support of ISIS,’ according to an affidavit written in December by FBI agent J. Troy Amundson.”
The zealous young convert “shared photographs of guns and knives on social media, as well as pictures originally distributed by ISIS’s media arm.” He also applauded the attack on the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, declaring: “My opinion is the Jews are evil and they get what’s coming to them. I don’t feel bad at all considering what they’re doing in Palestine.” Cleveland.com added that Yusuf “said he admired the shooter and said he could see himself carrying out a similar attack, because authorities in Northwest Ohio ‘wouldn’t even expect it.’”
He was likely right about that, because all the attention of law enforcement officials regarding antisemitism is focused on “white supremacists,” “right-wing extremists,” and neo-Nazis. Islamic antisemitism goes unnoticed not only among law enforcement officials, but largely in Jewish communities as well. Yet it continues to proliferate in the U.S. and Western Europe; good thing authorities in Northwest Ohio got lucky this time.
Yusuf was hoping to maximize his casualties: He “narrowed the target of his attack down to two area synagogues and said he would choose based on the number of people, the time and day.” Or as he himself put it, “Go big or go home.”
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spiro says
I don’t think he converted
He went from nothing to Islam
My opinion for what. It’s worth
peter says
I agree .I think he was after a muslim girl whose parents said that she can marry him only on the condition he becomes a muslim and he did .
gravenimage says
He seems to have wholeheartedly embraced the horrors of Islam–he is not just mouthing the words to marry a girl.
mortimer says
Muslims in the US are the new Jew-hating Nazis … perhaps this is the face of the new WHITE SUPREMACISTS that former CIA head (and globalist-neo-Marxist) John Brennan warned about.
The new American white SUPREMACISTS are actually MUSLIM white SUPREMACISTS and converts to Islam like THIS WHITE MAN … Damon Joseph of Holland, Ohio.
Is Damon Joseph white enough for you, Brennan? He is ‘white’ and a ‘supremacist’, isn’t he Brennan.
Mohammed was identified by his associates as ‘THE WHITE MAN’. Mohammed was the founder of WHITE SUPREMACIST ISLAM.
gregbeetham says
It’s a wonder the keystone cops were able to discover that white supremacist while he was so heavily disguised as a peace loving Muslim that nobody would suspect of doing anything bad.
gravenimage says
‘The Jews Are Evil’: Ohio Man Converts to Islam, Plots Massacre at Synagogue
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Jews are supposedly evil, but plotting mass murder is not. Islamic “morals”.
God, I hate Islam.
Elizabeth Lawson says
No sir! YOU are evil, and in equal,measure, unmitigated trash. With all the opportunities to learn, to have and bring joy into your ( and others) lives – with all the tremendous 21st century opportunities provided to enable losers like you to a more elevated life – you chose to align with filthy murderers? To Afghanistan or North Korea with you. You do not deserve to live with civilized people.
OLD GUY says
I wonder when he found out that Jews were evil? From the looks of him he didn’t even know there were Jewish people until some mosque pointed his hateful heart in that direction.