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Dearborn cleric popular with ISIS militants faces travel, social media restrictions
A federal judge has cracked down on the travel and computer activities of a Dearborn cleric popular worldwide with ISIS, the extremist militant group that announced last week the formation of an Islamic state in Iraq and Syria.U.S. District Judge Gerald Rosen ordered that Ahmad Jebril, 43, stay within the eastern half of Michigan and tell his probation officer about his activity on social media accounts, if requested. Jebril, who is on probation until March after serving 6˝ years in prison on fraud convictions, has become the most popular religious figure for Western fighters flocking to Syria to battle its government and continues to gain fans online who sympathize with ISIS, the group that now calls itself the Islamic State. The probation report, filed the week after a Free Press report detailed how Jebril is popular with Western fighters with the militant group ISIS, also noted that Jebril told his probation officer he was going to Raleigh, N.C., on Nov. 21-23, 2013, for a short vacation to visit friends. But the probation officer found out he was instead visiting to speak about Islam at East Carolina University, North Carolina State University and the Islamic Association of Raleigh. The officer said Jebril was unable to prove who paid for his trips. In April, the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence in London said in a report that Jebril has become the most popular cleric for Western fighters in Syria who belong to ISIS now known as the Islamic State or another radical group, Jabhat al-Nusrah, which is based in Syria. Jebril was released from prison in 2012 after serving time for several counts of fraud worth almost $400,000; his offenses included trashing his rental properties in metro Detroit in order to collect insurance money and trying to bribe a juror. Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-07-08 |
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