This case is an illustration of the nexus between petty criminality and jihad activity.
“Canadian pleads guilty in U.S. court for funding Islamic State’s activities in Syria,” Canadian Press, December 18, 2021:
An Edmonton man who was extradited to the United States to face charges he helped fund Islamic State terrorism has pleaded guilty in exchange for a 20-year prison sentence.
A statement from the United States Department of Justice says that according to his plea agreement in federal court Friday, Abdullahi Ahmed Abdullahi admitted he provided money to his four cousins, as well as former San Diego resident Douglas McAuthur McCain, to fund their terrorist activities in Syria.
The statement says he also admitted to robbing an Edmonton jewelry store in 2014 to finance the conspirators’ travel from North America to support and join terrorist fighters in Syria.
Abdullahi was indicted in California in March, 2017, and arrested by Canadian authorities in September, 2017.
In June 2019, the Alberta Court of Appeal upheld his extradition and the justice department statement says he was turned over to U.S. authorities later that year.
The statement notes that all four of his cousins and McCain, who was the first known American to die fighting the Islamic State, have since reportedly been killed.
“Terrorist networks can’t survive without people like Abdullahi,” U.S. Attorney Randy Grossman said in the statement….
The statement said the terrorist activities included murder, kidnapping and maiming of persons in Syria.
Additionally, it said Abdullahi admitted that he and others wired and caused money to be wired to third-party intermediaries in Gaziantep, Turkey, not far from the Syrian border, to support fighting and terrorist activity in Syria….
The statement said Douglas’ brother, Marchello McCain, was previously convicted in San Diego federal court and sentenced to 10 years in custody for illegal possession of a cache of firearms and providing false statements to FBI agents regarding his knowledge of the conspiracy, including the involvement of Abdullahi.
Walter Sieruk says
That Muslim who had engaged in theft of a jewelry store to finance the Islam’s violent and deadly jihad was putting into practice the Islamic doctrine of Muruna. Which is the dogma of this religion that doing evil for the cause of Islam is both necessary and good.
Likewise , Muruna is also why some jihad -minded Muslim even take part in drug trafficking to raise money for the jihad against Westerners and the West..
This despicable form rationalization that “The end justifies the means ” idea is so totally wicked that in history the Communists had also taken up that same idea . To do evil ,as murder,,”for the greater good.” As in Marxism a “Worker paradise in a classless stateless society in which everyone works according to his ability and receives according to his needs.”
That is the Communist daydream fantasy and :justification for doing evil.
Likewise, doing evil to finance the murderous jihad to establish a the jihadist daydream and fantasy of a worldwide caliphate is a jihad-minded justification for doing evil.
gravenimage says
Walter Sieruk wrote:
That Muslim who had engaged in theft of a jewelry store to finance the Islam’s violent and deadly jihad was putting into practice the Islamic doctrine of Muruna. Which is the dogma of this religion that doing evil for the cause of Islam is both necessary and good.
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With all respect, Walter, not quite. Robbing Infidels *itself* is sacralized in Islam. This is not considered an evil at all.
The “Prophet” Muhammed pirated, robbed, kidnapped, ransomed, and enslaved Infidels, as well as demanding Jizya from conquered peoples and tribute from threatened ones.
mortimer says
JIhadi Justin Trudeau supports jihadists and they support him.
Violet C says
Absolutely right!
gravenimage says
Muslim from Canada admits to robbing Edmonton jewelry store to finance the Islamic State’s jihad
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Robbing Infidels in order to fund murdering them. All perfectly Islamic.
OLD GUY says
Just who doesn’t want him and his islamic buddies as neighbors? Maybe they could pool their money and purchase a mansion next door to Biden’s instead of sending it to ISIS. Naw that can’t happen there is probably one of those pesky zoning laws against multi-family homes in Biden’s neighborhood. Oh wait the left liberals want to do away with those local zoning laws, starting in Biden’s neighborhood might be a good way to kick off a campaign to promote changing zoning laws. Bet you don’t ever see that happen. Its just our single family neighborhoods that they want changed to allow moving multi-family minorities and migrants into.
Walter Sieruk says
What a terrible fool that Muslim is. For the Bible instructs “Do not sand up for a bad cause”
Ecclesiastes 8:3. [NI.V.]
If he really does feel that supporting ISIS , in any way, is a “good thing that only shows just how deluded he actually is. As the Bible also reads “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil…” Isaiah 5:20.