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Many People Who Convert To Islam Becomes Jihadist Terrorist For The Sake Of Allah

#1) Canada: Damian Clairmont, A Canadian Convert To Islam Killed Waging Jihad In Syria:

Damian Clairmont

Damian Clairmont was a 22-year-old man Born in Nova Scotia, Canada! He was raised in the Province of Alberta in the city of Calgary. He was an Atheist (didn’t believe in God) but He recently converted to Islam. As a Muslim, he went in Syria to wage Jihad (which Sunni & Shiite Muslim Kill Each Other) like other Terrorist Jihadist Group called “Rebels” (by our dishonest Politician: “political correctness in the west!”) 

The Global News report is headed by a video with this description: “Above: A 22-year-old man who converted to Islam after dealing with depression and attempting suicide, somehow became radicalized and made his way to fight in Syria where he died fighting with an al-Qaeda-linked group.”

So he was depressed, he was suicidal, and then he found his Islam and turned his life — and went to Syria and got killed waging jihad. Did he convert to Islam and immediately misunderstand it, allowing himself to be “radicalized” by nefarious proselytizing misunderstanders? Yet there is not a single Muslim organization in Canada or anywhere else that is dedicated to keeping converts like Clairmont from falling prey to this understanding of Islam that Muslims in Canada ostensibly reject.

“Calgary man Damian Clairmont reportedly killed fighting in Syria,” by Nick Logan for Global News, January 15 (thanks to Ernie):

A Canadian man who converted to Islam and went to Syria to fight with rebels has reportedly been killed in the civil war-ravaged country.

The death of Nova Scotia-born, Calgary-raised Damian Clairmont, who changed his name to Mustafa al-Gharib, was reported on Wednesday.

He was reportedly fighting with the al-Qaeda-linked Group Jabhat al-Nusra.

According to reports, al-Gharib was killed by the Free Syrian Army, in fighting near Aleppo. There was no clear indication of when exactly he died.

Foreign Minister John Baird acknowledged the reports of al-Gharib”s death to media in Washington D.C. on Wednesday and said “there is probably more than one Canadian fighting with the opposition.” 

#2) FRANCE: French Atheist Nicolas Bons Dies Waging Jihad After Converting to Islam:

Nicolas Bons

Nicolas Bons was raised as an atheist, and he was known for being timid. After he converted to Islam, he became increasingly violent, and he died in a terrorist attack in Syria. Was his violent behavior following his conversion to Islam a mere coincidence?

We live in a time of unparalleled idiocy. Islam commands its adherents to violently subjugate or kill unbelievers (Qur'an 9:29, 9:73, 9:123, etc.). Because some Muslims ignore these commands, we pretend that the commands don't exist. Meanwhile, Muslims who actually follow the commands are busy waging jihad, and the only thing our leaders and the media do in response is praise Islam and condemn critics of Islam. Politicians and the media thus help protect the message of Islam, and this leads to more conversions, which leads to more jihad.

To all those who constantly assure us that Islam is no different from other religions, do you think that Nicolas would have died in such an attack if he had converted to Christianity, or to Mormonism, or to Buddhism?

TOULOUSE, France — When Dominique Bons' timid son stopped smoking overnight and started praying frequently at his home in the southern French city of Toulouse, she alerted the authorities.

They did nothing because Nicolas was not suspected of any crime. One day last year he disappeared. Then Bons was sent a text message saying the 30-year-old had been "martyred" on December 22 driving a truck bomb in the Syrian city of Homs.

He grew up in a middle class suburb to atheist parents but converted to Islam in 2009. Like his younger half-brother who died in Syria months earlier, he joined the al Qaeda splinter group, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

They are among a growing number of people, an estimated 2,000 so far, who have left European states to fight alongside Islamist rebels in Syria to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad. Europe's authorities are struggling to stem the flow.

Bons is angry that her efforts to alert the government to a potential problem were ignored and is also convinced that the strategy of France and other European countries of jailing those caught trying to get to Syria makes the situation worse.

"It's crazy," said Bons, a retired military secretary who has set up a support group for parents of children who have been radicalized. "In jail they will be reinforced in their desire to go back to Syria... It seems like they (the government) are doing whatever they can to ensure that this continues."

In March, three men aged 21 to 26 were arrested at an airport in eastern France. They were sentenced between two and six years for conspiracy to commit terrorist acts.

The population of French prisons is estimated to be up to 70% percent Muslim. Moderate preachers employed by the state are lacking, so a void is filled by untrained imams who preach a Salafist or hardline form of Islam and hatred of the West.

Radical Islamist Mohamed Merah, who killed seven people in and around Toulouse in 2012, is thought to have sharpened some of his ideas during a stint in jail. 

  

#3) UNITED KINGDOM: Jail My Son (Thomas Evans) To Stop Him Dying A Jihadist In Africa: Mother's Plea As Muslim Convert Joins Terror Group:

Thomas Evans

Thomas Evans from Buckinghamshire converted to Islam at aged of 19. He changed his name to Abdul Hakim and lost all interest in his hobbies. He Travelled to Somalia in 2011 to fight alongside terror group al-Shabaab! The Mother Sally Evans, 56, fears he could become a Suicide Bomber As She keeps police informed of his activities when he gets in contact. She'd rather see him behind bars than fighting with terror group.

In a phone conversation with her son that police were made aware of, Mrs Evans asked if he was thinking of becoming a suicide bomber. She told the Sunday Times he replied: ‘If asked, I would, Inshallah [God willing].’

About 50 British jihadists are believed to have gone to Somalia to join Al Shabaab. Hundreds have also travelled to Syria to take part in the civil war, prompting police to urge women to report male relatives planning to go abroad to become terrorists.

Evans attempted to fly to Kenya in February 2011 but was blocked by anti-terrorism police at Heathrow. A few months later he went to Egypt, saying he was planning to study Arabic.

Police later informed his mother he had been trying to enter Kenya. It wasn’t until January 2012 that he phoned and told her he was in Somalia and was prepared to die for his Islamist beliefs.

#4) UNITED STATES: Terry Lee Loewen, A Muslim Convert Plotted Suicide Bombing At Airport for "Allah":

Terry Lee Loewen

Terry Lee Loewen, A 58-year-old airport worker was charged Friday with allegedly planning a suicide bombing at a passenger terminal at the Wichita Mid-Continent Airport in Kansas.

The suspect, Terry Lee Loewen, an avionics technician who lives in Wichita, was arrested earlier in the day as he attempted to use his security pass to drive a vehicle that he thought contained explosives onto the tarmac at the airport, law enforcement officials said at a news conference in Wichita. In fact, the car contained only dummy explosives.

U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said Loewen spent months developing a plan to drive a carload of explosives to the airport terminal and that he was determined to trigger the bomb himself and die in the blast.

Loewen, who is white, became radicalized after reading extremist Islamic material on the Internet, Grissom said.

A criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Wichita charges Loewen with one count of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, one count of attempting to damage property by means of an explosive and one count of attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization. He was scheduled to be arraigned at 3 p.m. local time.

If convicted on all counts, he faces a maximum penalty of life in prison.

Investigators tell NBC News that Loewen had been under scrutiny since August, when he began having an online exchange with someone he thought was a like-minded individual but who turned out to be an FBI employee.

"Let me preface the bottom line by saying I have become 'radicalized' in the strongest sense of the word, and I don't feel Allah wants me any other way," he said in one message, according to the complaint.

At the news conference, Grissom and Michael Kaste, special agent in charge of the FBI office in Kansas City, stressed that the suspect was under constant surveillance and at no time was the public in danger.

Officials say no one else was involved in the plot.

Wichita Mid-Continent Airport, about 7 miles west of downtown Wichita, is the largest and busiest airport in Kansas.

NBC News' Mike Brunker and Mike Kosnar contributed to this report.

#5) United Kingdom: Samantha Lewthwaite, A Muslim Convert Became A Terrorist:

Samantha Lewthwaite is an alleged member of the Somalia-based radical Islamic militant group Al-Shabaab. She has been accused of orchestrating grenade attacks at non-Muslim places of worship, and is believed to have been behind an attack on those watching football in a bar in Mombasa during Euro 2012. In September 2013, there was speculation over her possible involvement in the Westgate shopping mall attack, although other reports cast doubt on this. She has been dubbed the 'White Widow' by the news media, a play on words referencing her ethnicity, the death of her first husband and the practice of referring to Chechen female suicide bombers as 'black widows.'

#6) CANADA: William Plotnikov, A Muslim Convert joined a Terrorist Group: “Caucasian Emirate” and he died fighting Jihad:

William Plotnikov 

William Plotnikov (May 3, 1989 – July 14, 2012) was a Russian Canadian boxer and Canadian citizen who converted to Islam, joined the Islamist insurgent Terrorist Organization "Caucasus Emirate" in the Russian republic of Dagestan and was killed there in combat by Russian government forces. According to unconfirmed media reports, Plotnikov might have been a contact of the Boston Marathon bombings suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev via social media and perhaps when Tsarnaev unsuccessfully attempted to join the insurgency in Dagestan as well, before returning to the United States after Plotnikov was killed.

Before midnight of July 13, 2012, a force of Dagestani Mujahideen was ambushed and surrounded at a farm outside Utamysh by Russian Special Forces that had been tipped off by an informant. In an overnight battle, during which the farm was destroyed by artillery fire, at least one Russian serviceman and seven rebel fighters were killed, including two local guerrilla group leaders (the Sergokala group's Islam Magomedov and the Izberbash group's Arsen Magomedov) and William Plotnikov. Insurgency website Kavkaz Center labeled Plotnikov a "shahid" (martyr). According to National Post, he "is believed to be the first Canadian convert to die fighting in the name of jihad." Plotnikov was also the second known Canadian to be killed in the North Caucasus conflict; in 2004, Russian forces said they killed a Canadian citizen named Rudwan Khalil in Chechnya. His father flew to Dagestan and Russian authorities agreed to release his son's body, which he then buried in Utamysh according to local Muslim traditions.

#7) UNITED STATES: A Twenty-year-old Christopher Lee Cornell Converts to Islam was arrested for plotting a deadly Terror Attack on the U.S. Capitol:

Christopher Lee Cornell 

WASHINGTON - The arrest last week of an Ohio man allegedly plotting an ISIS-inspired attack on the U.S. Capitol sent shockwaves across the country.

Christopher Lee Cornell, A twenty-year-old American who's now facing charges for attempting to kill U.S. Government officials. And although he's been labeled a lone wolf, he's definitely not the only terror suspect caught up in an FBI undercover sting.

"I've thought about this a long time," el Khalifi said during the sting. "Listen, I'm going to go it alone. You're not going to go with me. I'm going to put everything on my body and inside a real place. Maybe uh, Capitol or somewhere who … with main people."

It’s a rare, frightening look inside the mind of a would-be suicide bomber, who was ready to strap on a vest with explosives and blow himself up at the U.S. Capitol.  el Khalifi is another lone wolf who was stopped by the FBI.

"The difference here is not just the clear intent to strike us here, but the pursuit of the capability to be able to conduct that attack and I think the tape shows that very well," FBI Assistant Director  Andrew McCabe said.

El Khalifi, an unemployed deejay seeking revenge on the U.S. for its war on terror is convinced god's telling him to kill.

“This is not about happiness. This is about Allah. This is not about, you know, us anymore. It's about Allah," el Khalifi said.

El Khalifi is in hurry. The Moroccan national is living illegally in the U.S. and dealing with assault charges.

"I’m done. I'm done. My work is done in this life," el Khalifi said on the recording.

Another video of el Khalifi shows him in a store buying nails for shrapnel for his body bomb. Later, he brags on the secret recording about the size of the nails, talking about the damage he can do.

"Thick ones, I got, thick ones, not thin ones. The ones that gonna make damage, right,” el Khalifi said.  “Don't be nervous man. Come on, man."

Again, he mentions his target, the U.S. Congress.

"Yeah, I want to go somewhere with those suits, those heads, just them," el Khalifi said.

"The Senators," an undercover agent suggests.

"Exactly. I want those people," el Khalifi said.

Undercover agents drove el Khalfi to a landfill where they tested an explosive for a suicide vest.  Inside the car, undercover agents use a cell phone to show him how easy it is to detonate a bomb.

"You're going to call it, you're going to call it. It's called ‘test’. You just hit 'OK' and get it to dial," an agent said.

The agent gives el Khalifi the phone, and moments later an explosion is heard on the recording.

"I'm not thinking about anything. Nothing. I have my decision. I seen some stuff in my dreams," el Khalifi said. 

And his dream includes shooting anyone who gets in his way. In a hotel room with undercover agents, he practices with a MAC-10.

"You hold the trigger, it's going to keep firing. Hold it tight, man,” the agent said. “Hold it tight. It doesn't take much. You just point, aim, and shoot."

Ready to kill, el Khalifi  drives to a Washington, D.C., garage, puts on what he thinks is a real suicide vest and grabs a loaded  MAC-10. Both are duds provided by the FBI. That’s when agents take him down.

"Individuals who are self-radicalized can exist off the radar as it were for a long time until they are actually ready to act and that's the scenario that causes us the most concern," FBI Assistant Director McCabe said.

After pleading guilty, el Khalifi was sentenced to 30 years in prison. During the trial, he told a judge: “I just want to say that I love Allah.”

#8) UNITED KINGDOM: Khalid Masood (Formerly Called Adrian Ajao), aged 52, a Muslim convert, drives into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge and crashes into Parliament's perimeter. He stabs a police officer before being shot himself:

Khalid Masood, a Muslim convert has now been identified as the man shot dead by police after he ploughed a car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge, killing three people before storming the Parliamentary estate and stabbing Pc Keith Palmer to death. 


Five people died and 50 are injured following a terror attack near the Houses of Parliament on Wednesday.


He was entered onto the birth registry in the Dartford district of Kent as Adrian Russell Elms, in the weeks after he was born on Christmas Day 1964. The future killer used the surnames interchangeably before he converted to Islam and became Masood.

Masood had a string of previous convictions for violence and public order offences. We don't know for sure when Elms converted, but in 2004 he married a Pakistani-heritage Muslim woman in Crawley, West Sussex.

This behaviour is entirely consistent with the journey of many converts to Islam: they look for opportunities to live and work in the Islamic world as part of their efforts to fully adopt the faith and way of life.

On Wednesday, Masood left the hotel and later that day carried out his attack.
He has never been convicted of a terrorism offence and the prime minister told Parliament he had not been the subject of any current investigations.
However, Theresa May added that "some years ago" he was "once investigated in relation to concerns about violent extremism".
She went on: "He was a peripheral figure [in that investigation]. The case is historic - he was not part of the current intelligence picture.
"There was no prior intelligence of his intent or of the plot."
The BBC has learnt that the investigation pre-dates the height of the Syria and "Islamic State" crisis. What does it mean that he was a "peripheral figure"?
Here are just some of the possibilities:
• He was an associate or friend of a main suspect who was being monitored in some form - but turned out, at the time, to not apparently have any extremist leanings
• He could have been closer to an inner circle of aspiring extremists - but he personally was not considered to be a risk and so the operation was focused on others
• There could have been more concerning intelligence about his ideology and intent - but there was nothing that could make a criminal charge - and in time he was discounted as a serious threat
• He could, at the highest end, have been arrested in the past as part of an operation and later released without charge
Police have said they are "determined to understand if Masood was a lone actor inspired by terrorist propaganda or if others have encouraged, supported or directed him".
But in a statement released on 25 March, the Met's Deputy Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu added: "We must all accept that there is a possibility we will never understand why he did this. That understanding may have died with him."

#9) UNITED KINGDOM: Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, Both Muslim Converts Ran Down & Killed Lee Rigby, A Soldier:

On the afternoon of 22 May 2013, a British Army soldier, Fusilier Lee Rigby of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, was attacked and killed by Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale near the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, southeast London.

Rigby was off duty and walking along Wellington Street when he was attacked. Adebolajo and Adebowale ran him down with a car, then used knives and a cleaver to stab and hack him to death. The men dragged Rigby's body into the road and remained at the scene until police arrived. They told passers-by that they had killed a soldier to avenge the killing of Muslims by the British armed forces. Unarmed police arrived at the scene nine minutes after an emergency call was received and set up a cordon. Armed police officers arrived five minutes later. The assailants, armed with a cleaver and brandishing a gun, charged at the police, who fired shots that wounded them both. They were apprehended and taken to separate hospitals. Adebolajo and Adebowale are British of Nigerian descent, were raised as Christians, and converted to Islam.

On 19 December 2013, both of the attackers were found guilty of Rigby's murder. On 26 February 2014, they were sentenced to life imprisonment, with Adebolajo given a whole life order and Adebowale ordered to serve at least 45 years. The attack was condemned by political and Muslim leaders in the United Kingdom and in the international press

Adebolajo and Adebowale are British of Nigerian descent, were raised as Christians, and converted to Islam.

What Is Causing These Muslim Men To Become Terrorist?

The answer is clear, the teachings of their Prophet Muhammad in the Qur'an is the sole reason why many Muslims decide to go fight "Jihad" against the kafirs (infidels) for the sake of Allah! 

The Prophet said to his followers:

"Not equal are those believers who sit (at home) and receive no hurt, and those who strive and Fight in the cause of Allah with their goods and their persons. Allah hath granted a grade higher to those who strive and Fight with their goods and persons than to those who sit (at home). Unto all (in Faith) Hath Allah promised good: But those who strive and Fight Hath He distinguished above those who sit (at home) by a special reward." QURAN (4:95) 

This passage below criticizes "peaceful" Muslims who do not join in the violence, letting them know that they are less worthy in Allah's eyes.  It also demolishes the modern myth that "Jihad" doesn't mean holy war in the Quran, but rather a spiritual struggle.  Not only is the Arabic word used in this passage, but it is clearly not referring to anything spiritual, since the physically disabled are given exemption.  (The Hadith reveals the context of the passage to be in response to a blind man's protest that he is unable to engage in Jihad and this is reflected in other translations of the verse). 

"Fighting is prescribed for you, and ye dislike it. But it is possible that ye dislike a thing which is good for you, and that ye love a thing which is bad for you. But Allah knoweth, and ye know not."  Quran 2:216

"Surely Allah has bought of the believers their persons and their property for this, that they shall have the garden; they Fight in Allah's way, so they slay and are slain". Quran 9:111

"Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the Religion of Truth, from among the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued". Quran 9:29

[Remember] when your Lord inspired to the angels, "I am with you, so strengthen those who have believed. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieved so strike [them] upon the necks and strike from them every fingertip." Quran 8:12