[ April 19, 2024 ]
The “deradicalization” programs are failing in Europe as well. This was, of course, utterly predictable. If we are not addressing the ideology behind this war, and that’s what this is — then failure is to be expected. Reading the writings of Martin Luther King Jr.and the U.S. Constitution to cure jihadism is counter intuitive. It might even further incite.
Allah’s law is superior to manmade law.
Manmade law is just that — the creation of fallible, weak, self-interested human beings, whereas Islamic law is the law of the omnipotent, omniscient, all-wise Allah.
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Thus there is no decision, really — Allah’s law must supplant manmade law, and Muslims have to work for this.
And while Muslims in the US condemn the Islamic State, where are they teaching against the ideology that gave rise to it?
Real moderates would have long ago adopted programs in the mosques to teach against and expunge the hate and calls for annihilation in the Qur’an.
This mosque is not unique. According to recent survey, over 80% of the mosques in the US teach, promote and advance jihad. AFDI’s 18-point platform urges:
— AFDI calls for surveillance of mosques and regular inspections of mosques in the U.S. and other non-Muslim nations to look for pro-violence materials. Any mosque advocating jihad or any aspects of Sharia that conflict with Constitutional freedoms and protections should be closed.
— AFDI calls for immediate investigation into foreign mosque funding in the West and for new legislation making foreign funding of mosques in non-Muslim nations illegal.
— AFDI calls for curriculum and Islam-related materials in textbooks and museums to describe the Islamic doctrine and history accurately, including its violent doctrines and 1,400-year war against unbelievers
You can read AFDI’s complete 18-point platform for freedom here.
Minneapolis Terror ‘Deradicalization’ Program Fails After Just Months, ‘Test Case’ Back in Jail,” by Patrick Poole, PJ Media, May 12, 2015: (thanks to Counter Jihad Report)
A terror deradicalization program — established in the “Ground Zero” of terror recruitment, Minnesota’s Twin Cities — has already failed after just a few months.
The program was established after a federal court released 19-year-old terror suspect Abdullahi Yusuf to a halfway house earlier this year. Federal prosecutors opposed Yusuf’s release, but were overruled by the federal judge in the case, Michael J. Davis, the Chief Judge of the District of Minnesota. Today, Yusuf again sits in jail, having violated the terms of his release.
Remarkably, Judge Davis said today in a separate case of six men charged with trying to join the Islamic State that he would be willing to consider “less restrictive options” than detaining the men – just a day after Yusuf’s re-arrest.
Last May, Yusuf was arrested at the Minneapolis airport while on his way to Syria by way of Turkey to join the Islamic State. One of his accomplices, Abdi Nur, did make it to Syria, and he now serves as an effective recruiter for the terror group.
Just last week, the Wall Street Journal reported on the program with an article titled “A Test Case for ‘Deradicalization’“:
The path of reform for Abdullahi Yusuf, a U.S. teenager who tried to become a radical Islamic soldier, passes through writings of Martin Luther King Jr., readings of the U.S. Constitution and discussions about life and literature with a fellow Somali-American named Ahmed Amin.
Mr. Yusuf’s attempt to travel to the Middle East last year helped lead authorities to six Minnesota men who were charged last month in connection with a plan to join Islamic State abroad. The 19-year-old has become a test case for whether Americans lured by Islamic extremism can be deradicalized.
A Minnesota judge earlier this year sent Mr. Yusuf to a halfway house, where he adheres to a tailor-made curriculum aimed at reintegrating him into American society and his immigrant community here. If the program succeeds, Mr. Yusuf’s sentence could be reduced — and the approach to his deradicalization replicated, experts say.
Counterterrorism experts believe it is the first such effort in the U.S. to try to turn a young person connected to a terror prosecution away from an extremist Islamist ideology since the advent of groups like al-Shabaab and Islamic State, or ISIS.
Apparently, reading Martin Luther King Jr., Richard Wright’s Native Son, and articles about the experience of Native Americans didn’t sway Yusuf to keep compliant with the program. The Star-Tribune reports today:
Abdullahi Yusuf, a Somali-American who pleaded guilty to conspiring to support terrorists in the Middle East, has been taken into custody for allegedly violating conditions while living in a St. Paul halfway house, according to court documents filed Monday.
Yusef, a student at Inver Grove Community College, drew national attention after a federal judge decided to place him in a halfway house and provide counseling for him rather than hold him in custody while awaiting sentencing.
Yusuf’s alleged violations were not detailed in court records.
Despite the violations not being detailed, the video report on Abdullahi’s re-arrest aired on the local CBS affiliate notes Abdullahi’s violations occurred on the same day last month that six other Twin Cities men were arrested for attempting to join the Islamic State.
One additional interesting tidbit is that according to the New York Times, federal prosecutors opposed Yusuf’s release:
Mr. Yusuf, Mr. Nur’s co-defendant, has pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide material support for terrorism and faces a maximum sentence of 15 years. But in an experiment being watched nationally, Judge Michael J. Davis of Federal District Court agreed to a presentence plan to divert Mr. Yusuf to a halfway house with the support of Heartland Democracy, an education nonprofit in Minneapolis. He worked at Best Buy and attended community college until late November, when he was jailed for a time in connection with his attempt to travel to Syria. His supporters are now working with the court to get him back in classes and eventually back in a job.
The idea, said Mary McKinley, executive director of Heartland Democracy, is to gradually reintegrate Mr. Yusuf into the community, and possibly give him a role in countering the radicalization of young people.
“Ideally, Abdullahi will be able to tell his story in a way that is useful to young people who are frustrated and disengaged,” Ms. McKinley said. His lawyer, Jean M. Brandl, said her client was not prepared to speak publicly.
Federal prosecutors opposed giving Mr. Yusuf a break, noting that he had lied to F.B.I. agents at the airport. But Judge Davis, who knows the Somali community well enough to ask about clans and sub-clans, went along with the plan, intended to reduce the chasm between Somalis and law enforcement officials. Parents and friends concerned about a young person drawn to the Islamic State are more likely to call the police, advocates say, if they believe there is an alternative to a long prison sentence.
The Associated Press reports today that during a hearing for the other six men arrested in April accused of trying to join the Islamic State Judge Davis said he is willing to consider “less restrictive options” than holding the men until trial:
Five Minnesota men accused of trying to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State group were ordered Tuesday to remain in custody pending trial, but Chief U.S. District Judge Michael Davis said he’s open to exploring less restrictive options.
The five men are all charged with conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization; four are charged with attempting to provide such support. Their attorneys had appealed orders that the men be held while their cases proceed, arguing their clients weren’t dangerous or a flight risk.
In separate hearings for each man Tuesday, Davis said no set of conditions could reasonably ensure the community’s safety or guarantee that each man would not flee. But he told attorneys to come up with plans that could support their release.
“I’m not rushing into this,” Davis said. “It’s a slow process. But I’m taking a look at each of these defendants individually.”
As the saying goes, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results.”
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17 Comments
8 years ago
They should have taken is green card, passport and all citizenship just before he took the plane and told him, u can leave but can”t come back…..How much 15 years in jail will cost tax payers.
8 years ago
He just needs some electroshock therapy….
8 years ago
Deradicalization will definietely work if it’s done properly. In Britain we’re going to invite vulnerable young men to attend interfaith afternoon tea get-togethers. Then we’ll all sing ‘Kumbaya’ and have a big ecumenical group hug, and everyone will agree that Islam is a religion of peace. Problem solved!
8 years ago
Pam, it’s not “might incite”…it definitely incites.
8 years ago
My impression of this program of de-radicalization is that it fails to deal with the real problems, which many have referred to as the need for Islam to rewrite and reteach its dogma to include the basic concepts of tolerance, respect for life and adoption of the morale equivalent of The Ten Commandments. Since I do not see that happening, we need to approach the frightening prospects of radicalization from another prospective. It appears to me that as long as any group of radicalized followers of Islam are able to recruit potential terrorists thru the social media and the Mosques, no efforts will be successfully available to the non-Muslim world to end the horror of the extreme conduct of the radicalized crazies out there. Since I see no chance that the dogma will ever be re-written, we need to direct our efforts at those armies of radicals who, because they are showing some evidence of prevailing against the non-Muslim world as events presently stand, are able to intice others to adopt there philosophy of murder and mayhem. Simply stated, we need to crush the ISIS and other forces on the battlefield, wherever situated, and the moderate Arab and Muslim world needs to be in the forefront of that effort. The effect of defeating those violent groups would take the air out of their belief system that victory is theirs to claim, and show to their own people that their Allah has not provided them with victories to celebrate. Sadly, I am stating that we must fight their declared war against us with troops and many will be killed or injured. Failure to deal with this mestastisizing cancer will result in more anguish here in the states. I believe we are left with no other choice in dealing with islam as it defines itself today.
8 years ago
Reply to
Dennis
‘prospective’ ‘intice’ ‘there’
perspective? incite? their
FYI, Islam CANNOT be re-written, or have any kind of ‘reformation’.
If you read at least some of the Koran you will notice it claims to be
1. The perfect word of Allah
2. Immutable for all times and all peoples
Until you rid yourself of the lunatic Islamist Obama and elect a person of integrity, there is no hope.
8 years ago
Reply to
Jim Fox
Unfortunately we have islamists in the Hitlery camp:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/354351/huma-unmentionables-andrew-c-mccarthy
And we have a Trojan Horse married to a Palestinian muslim as King Maker in the ‘conservative’ camp.
The muslims have both bases covered. We will have muslim dhimmi in the White House no mater which way we vote if we do not get rid of them in the primaries.
8 years ago
Reply to
Gail Combs
link for the conservative camp
http://therightscoop.com/the-real-reason-why-pam-geller-was-not-invited-to-cpac/
8 years ago
Deradicalisation is complete nonsense. One can not “unlearn” something as i explain in more detail here: http://members.ziggo.nl/iiat/DIYToReciteThem.htm One can only learn a better solution but this requires motivation and radical islamists will not have this. They will fake it of course when they have no other option and the soft social workers do not realize what they are up against.
Also the polici makers got it wrong in thinking ISIS and other violent jihadis are recruiting youngsters who are insecure and naive. On the contrary, i think the strong willed , over achievers are the most likely to persue the path of jihad.
ISIS cum suis do not introduce ideas that are foreign or seem strange to jihadi recruits. They do not mislead vulnerable kids as the establishment likes to believe. The basic feelings are there as a result of conditioning by the koran. ISIS only provides the cognitive content that fits well in the already establisched general view of the world.
These kids are not “frustrated and disengaged,” Ms. McKinley, because western society is mean to them. You are mistaking the symptom for the problem. The real problem is islam wich prohibits assimilation.
8 years ago
Are they talking about the movie “Clockwork orange?”
8 years ago
ROUND EM ALL UP BYE BYE we do NOT NEED YOU OR YOUR FALSE EXCUSE FOR A RELIGION IN ORDER TO MURDER . .we have beaten the Nazi’s and you and your “religion” will join them . . .
8 years ago
Failing implies that it was successful at some point. It wasn’t.
8 years ago
how do they think a few months will work? this guy has been tough all his life the evils of islam. give me a break.
8 years ago
The West’s biggest mistake: We don’t understand cultures that have normalized cowardice.
The qualities and attributes we celebrate are totally opposite to what is celebrated in Islam. In Islam, what we would call all of the worst tendencies and choices of men, are celebrated. Lying is holy. Child rape is holy. Slaughtering your own children for your own, selfish “honor”, is holy. In Islam, it is honorable to deceive someone, to get what you want.
We have a hard time recognizing that we are at war with them because they don’t fight within the boundaries of any, civilized World norms. They glorify cowardice, that’s why they sneak and hide in civilian areas, bomb out of playgrounds, hide behind their children, fight by attacking civilians and are too cowardly to attack as a nation or even form their own nation instead of parasitically living off others; they know our countries don’t quite know what to do with individuals who follow no code of honor or rules of war, as recognized by the rest of the civilized World. We can’t quite accept that such a pathetic culture, full of such terrible people with such worthless values, could actually exist.
Yes, these people exist. Yes, they calmly explain how they murdered their children because of “honor”. Or murdered their wives when they wanted new ones. Or left their children behind, at the mercy of ISIS, as they travel for asylum from the very nations they claim to hate, to save their own hides and enjoy our wealth. They are like parodies of bad character. Too mind-numbingly hypocritical and clueless of their own grotesque hypocrisy, to even seem like villians.
Until we admit that they are at war with us but not war in any honorable sense, that we have ever known, we will continue having these evil idiots killing or trying to kill people for drawing cartoons they don’t like. The first step is admitting that yes, these people really are that pathetic. These are not exaggerated reports, at all. The absolute worst of humanity is found in Islam. And Muslims prove it by the minute.
8 years ago
This is the question of the ages : what do you do with a chronically frustrated and disengaged people? like in Minnesota , or Baltimore, or Ferguson…
“Deradicalization” is a complete and utter waste of resources. The only real option is to commence deportations, mass scale. Side note : Malaysia has today announced it will not accept 500 Rohingya muslim boat refugees from Burma. Now Malaysia is a muslim country so what do they know that may be of interest to us? After all, the Rohingya are presented to us as a 100% victim class , beset by bigotry and oppression in their home country.
