[ April 18, 2024 ]
“Clearly, there have been a number of incidents here, and some of that is because Boston is really an international city,” said former Boston Police Department commissioner Ed Davis. “It seems to be more than a coincidence,” says one scholar. “But there’s no good answer.”
Yes, there is. The jihadic doctrine that is at the heart of Islam. Investigate the mosque and you will find that answer.The Islamic Society of Boston is a terror hub.
ISB was founded by Abdurahman Alamoudi, a supporter of Hamas and Hezbollah who is currently serving a 23-year prison sentence on terrorism charges.
Story continues below advertisementFBI surveillance documents show that two days before the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks, Suhaib Webb, Imam of ISB’s Boston mosque, joined al-Qaeda operative Anwar Awlaki in headlining a fundraiser on behalf of the Atlanta-based Muslim extremist Jamil al-Amin (formerly H. Rap Brown), who had recently murdered two police officers in Georgia.
And there are a whole lot of terror convicts with ISB ties.
Aafia Siddiqui, who occasionally prayed at ISB’s Cambridge mosque, was arrested in Afghanistan in 2008 while in possession of cyanide canisters and plans to carry out a chemical attack in New York City. Siddiqui subsequently tried to gun down some U.S. military officers and FBI agents, and is now serving an 86-year prison sentence for that offense.
Tarek Mehanna, who worshipped at ISB’s Cambridge mosque, received terrorist training in Yemen and plotted to use automatic weapons to inflict mass casualties in a suburban shopping mall just outside of Boston. In 2012 he was sentenced to 17 years in prison for conspiring to aid al Qaeda.
Jamal Badawi, a former trustee of the Islamic Society of Boston Trust (which owns both ISB mosques), was named as an un-indicted co-conspirator in the 2007 Holy Land Foundation terrorism trial that investigated illegal fundraising efforts which had been made in behalf of Hamas.(….keep reading)
The mosque of the Boston would-be beheader and the Boston jihad bombers, the Islamic Society of Boston, should be shuttered.
“Is there a homegrown terrorism trend in Boston?” Homeland Security Newswire, June 2015
Citing several incidents involving Boston-based terrorists, some ask whether homegrown terrorism might be a trend specific to Boston. “Clearly, there have been a number of incidents here, and some of that is because Boston is really an international city,” said former Boston Police Department commissioner Ed Davis. “It seems to be more than a coincidence,” says one scholar. “But there’s no good answer.”Citing several incidents involving Boston-based terrorists, theBoston Globe has asks in a new editorial whether homegrown terrorism might be a trend specific to Boston.
Shelley Murphy and Peter Schworm write for the paper that outside of the infamous Tsarnaev brothers who set off explosives at the 2013 Boston Marathon, there have been other cases in the region in the past few years, including that of Tarek Mehanna, who translated documents for Al Qaeda from his Sudbury home; Rezwan Ferdaus, who planned to create drone bombs in Ashland; and most recently, a Roslindale man who was tracked by an antiterrorism task force and killed in an altercation last week.
“Clearly, there have been a number of incidents here, and some of that is because Boston is really an international city,” said former Boston Police Department commissioner Ed Davis, who is an international security consultant and a consultant to the Globe. “I don’t want to downplay the fact there have been repeated incidents. I think we have to look closely at it at this point.”
Despite still ranking behind New York City in terms of incidents of violent extremism, the numbers in Boston are high, and none of the cases can be traced to a similar network, according to J. M Berger, the coauthor of ISIS: The State of Terror and the author of Jihad Joe: Americans Who Go to War in the Name of Islam.
“There was a “robust radical presence in the Boston area in the 1990s, when members of the Al Kifah Refugee Center in Brooklyn, New York — which was linked to the 1993 truck-bombing attack at the World Trade Center — moved to Massachusetts and operated an organization that sent fighters and supplies to Bosnia,” he said. “Most of that group’s members were sent to prison or deported.”
Even if there was once a localized radical social network, however, Berger added that the latest cases forego this pattern.
“One of the few indicators of whether someone will become a violent extremist is with whom they associate, whether over the Internet or in person,” Berger said. “If you’re friends with a violent extremist, you are likely to be one.”
James Forest, the director of security studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell’s Center for Terrorism and Security Studies, argued that the cases could not even be linked in a localized manner, so common are much of the characteristics across the country.
“We’ve seen similar kinds of plots in many cities,” he said. “These guys could just have easily been in Chicago, Denver, or Houston.” “The ideology [is what] motivates these kind of attacks, there are no geographical boundaries.”
Forest cited other recent cases in Chicago and Ohio as evidence of a broader trend outside of Boston.
“It seems to be more than a coincidence,” added Lorenzo Vidino, the director of the Program on Extremism at George Washington University’s Center for Cyber and Homeland Security, regarding whether Boston is seeing a great share of terrorism incidents. “But there’s no good answer.”
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14 Comments
8 years ago
I thought “De-Nial” was a river in Egypt?
How daft does the MSM have to be not to put 2 plus 2 and come up with 4?
Sorry, I forgot – The BHO “doublespeakers” at the “Ministry of Truth” are running the investigation…….
8 years ago
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8 years ago
It’s not a “homegrown terror trend” if 90% of the terrorists have a version of Mohammed in their names! Our DHS has it’s head so far up it’s PC ass it can see Uranus.
8 years ago
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8 years ago
Judging from comments it appears as if the ‘ordinary’ citizens get it.
Those in authority are apparently preventing the ‘ordinary’ agents/law enforcement officers from doing their jobs.
Didn’t the pentagon recently voice a similar complaint?
8 years ago
Shut down the mosques ….yea yea I know we have laws but it seems these are the planning centers for terrorist and not “Place of Worship”
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8 years ago
Problems of this nature have been eradicated throughout history.
8 years ago
“the ideology is what motivates these attacks…” Gee, what “ideology” could that be Mr. James Forest?
8 years ago
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