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Home Front: WoT
Mother of teen to IS: 'Leave our children alone!'
2015-01-15
[ARABNEWS] The suburban reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,...
mother of a 19-year-old American facing a terrorist charge for trying to join the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
Death Eaters has accused the group of brainwashing youths into joining their ranks via social media. And she declared, Leave our children alone!

Mohammed Hamzah Khans mother cried softly as she read her statement in a lobby at a Chicago federal courthouse. Minutes earlier, her son had pleaded not guilty
"Wudn't me."
to attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist group. It carries a maximum 15-year prison term.

Zarine Khan, flanked by her husband, Shafi, said her family felt compelled to speak out in the wake of unspeakable acts of horror in Gay Paree last week that killed 17. One gunman reportedly pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group, while two others cited Al-Qaeda.

The venom spewed by these groups and the violence committed by them ... are completely at odds with our Islamic faith, the 41-year-old mother said. She added, We condemn the brainwashing and recruiting of children through the use of social media and the Internet.

Khan, who lived with his parents, was locked away
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
in October at OHare International Airport as he sought to board an international flight in Chicago on the first leg of a plan to sneak into Syria to join Islamic State myrmidons, court documents allege.

Weeks later, prosecutors revealed that Khans 17-year-old sister and 16-year-old brother were also detained at the airport and allegedly also aspired to live under Islamic State control. The younger siblings were interviewed by the FBI but havent been charged. According to court documents, the girl once used the Twitter handle @DeathIsTheeNear to send a favorable tweet about a video of beheadings placing a smiley emoticon in the text. The younger siblings havent been charged.

Investigators later found a three-page letter in Khans bedroom in which he apologized to his parents for leaving so abruptly. But he added he felt obliged to go from disgust with Western society and from anger over US-backed bombing of Islamic State fighters, court filings alleged.

This nation is openly against Islam and Moslems, he wrote.

Khans mother ended her statement before a dozen news hounds and TV cameras by directly addressing the Islamic State group, which she referred to as ISIS, and its leader, His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us...
.

We have a message for ISIS, Mr. Baghdadi and his fellow social media recruiters, she said, raising her voice. Leave our children alone!"
Posted by:Fred

#2  Yeah, well, all three of your kids went out of their way to find the ISJV Prop/Recruit videos.

Its not like the Bun Baker of Baghdad stopped by the house a-courtn'. Why, that would take a 3rd party with something in common...
Posted by: swksvolFF   2015-01-15 13:39  

#1  Because ISIS,ISIL, MB, etc. are so respectful of the imploring's of mothers?
Posted by: Thrusomble Wittlesbach3867   2015-01-15 11:22  

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