He taught the Koran on weekends to children ages 5 to 16 at the First Hijrah Foundation in the District. Yes, of course, he was a Quran teacher. The devout teacher was following in the path of Muhammad, the “perfect model.”
D.C. Islamic teacher talked sex and extremist propaganda with student, prosecutors say
By Rachel Weiner
A Maryland computer developer shared extremist propaganda with young students at a D.C. Islamic organization while engaging one in sexual conversations, according to prosecutors in Alexandria federal court.
Story continues below advertisementSeitu Kokayi, 29, a District native, is charged only with coercion and enticement of a minor after exchanging sexual messages with a 15-year-girl. But prosecutors highlighted his interest in Islamic extremists while successfully arguing that he should remain incarcerated until his trial in April.
Judge Leonie M. Brinkema said in court Friday her concern over that radical interest was part of why she was keeping Kokayi in jail. She also ruled that statements he made to the FBI after his arrest in August can be used against him at trial.
Kokayi, a married father, had worked as an IT content developer for the University of Maryland University College and taught the Koran on weekends to children ages 5 to 16 at the First Hijrah Foundation in the District, according to court filings. He no longer has either job, the documents state.
According to court documents, he told the FBI he expressed romantic feelings with one 15-year-old girl and began having sexual conversations with her over iPhone FaceTime. It was a “humongous mistake,” he told the agents, and a “bad choice.” Kokayi is accused of sending pornographic video to the girl but not of receiving any in return.
In arguing for his release Friday, Kokayi’s defense attorneys noted that no other alleged victims have been identified. But prosecutors produced evidence that Kokayi had been sharing extremist Islamic propaganda with the 15-year-old and other underage girls, including lectures by the deceased al-Qaeda recruiter Anwar al-Awlaki. He discussed religious martyrdom with one underage girl, according to prosecutors, and sent her a video called “The Role of Muslim Women,” which features female militants with automatic weapons.
Another teacher told FBI agents that Kokayi expressed interest in joining Islamic fighters overseas. A student told them he took students to play paintball in Virginia and insisted she join, saying she should learn to fight because “it could be important someday.” A decade ago, Brinkema oversaw a case involving men who trained for jihad by playing paintball in Virginia.
Kokayi’s mother is married to Abdullah el-Faisal, according to court documents, a Jamaican extremist facing terrorism charges in New York. Defense attorneys said the couple are divorcing and have not spoken to each other in a year, but according to prosecutors, Kokayi sent Faisal’s lectures to students as well.
Kokayi’s case gained national attention after a prosecutor’s copy-and-paste error in a filing inadvertently revealed that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been charged under seal. However, officials say the two cases are not connected.
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Race has noting to do with it…
Repeat after me: ISLAM is NOT a RACE. Repeat. Over and over until it gets into your head. Think of it as a mantra.
I’ll admit I am a little behind in my research, though…I thought “Hijrah” were the Hindu “third sex”. Wait. It almost makes sense, now…
Its a backward sick violent ideology and nothing more you are quite right sir! They have NOTHING to offer they just TAKE. They are EVIL and we need to get rid of them.
Thank you, but please don’t call me “sir”! I WORKED for a living! LOL LOL!
The Navy version is “Don’t call me sir! I’m just as good as you are …”
Trump meanwhile allows Saudi owned Twitter to censor Non-muhammadists.
We need a global government that protects the ethical values of truth, justice, love, American English, friendliness, ecology, human rights, global imperialism, freedom from religion & to atheism, healthy food (see DrAxe.com), cultivation of ecological best quality basics, support for self-realisation & the outlawing of incitement to the unjust Muhammad-law, war & tyranny globally.
Leave it to illegitimate Islam to lie about the illegitimate child, Ishmael the bully, being blessed one by Abraham. Abraham did not bless Ishmael. Instead ……
Gen.17:20
[20] And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.
Ishmael is not part of the Jewish Davidic lineage.
That is the lineage that matters and has God’s ultimate blessing.
Maybe someone who is Jewish here can explain this better….
It’s understandable why Sarah was discouraged. She was old but using Hagar as a surrogate for a son was a big mistake…. It’s easy to see how the women would have had trouble getting along afterwards….
Isaac was blessed by Abraham because he was the legitimate son by them. I do have to wonder why God blessed Ishmael also with a “great nation”. It has been speculated that the nation was the Arab nation. Any thoughts on that?
Isaac means “laughter” and Ishmael means “God listens.”
Just about anyone I personally know, friends or most family members have no idea about this. At devout Christian churches and Christian circles most do. They go over both the Old and New Testaments. Of course Jewish people. You clearly understand this and ask a great question. Abraham was the patriarch of the Jewish, Christian and muslim religions. Abraham asked that Ishmael be blessed and the Lord agreed…but he was not the child of the promise. Abraham was born in calculations @ 2033 bc. mohammed was born @570 ad. The test of Abraham I don’t think anyone else could pass
Wow, I hope that what is happening in Germany and Sweden does NOT spread to our country as well.
Islamic sex-slave networks (“gangs) have already been exposed in Nashville, Minnesota, and Colorado. See the internet. It is normative Islam, and counts as Jihad.
They are following their perfect man – Moham-mad. And if you dare expose truth about him they will keel you !
just like the jihadis in Indianapolis are doing http://bit.ly/2rVCN7E
This is happening in our country.
Send him to the UK as they have Muslim pedophile gangs roaming in many cities and he will be welcomed.
Just one example: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jan/14/west-yorkshire-police-arrest-55-men-child-sexual-abuse-investigation?CMP=twt_gu
In the UK they are having a really bad time and by looking at their downfall we should be learning valuable lessons from their mistakes. Those mistakes include taking in many more Muslims, even long after they started having problems. Allowing them to infiltrate every sector of their society, like the armed forces, police and being in politics. Where there are many Muslims holding government seats and authoritative positions in the different branches of their public services. America has made their own catastrophic mistakes in addressing the Islamic Threat. And mistakes are still being made. From big companies to municipal governments support to further the rights and influence in our society of Islam. Sending our problems over to the UK is not the way to deal with such matters. That certainly is not the American Way, to run from our problems. We have our own pedophile gangs and people traffickers operating here. We need to network with our European counterparts and stamp this behavior out, not throw it over into the neighbors backyard.
I am so glad you can see how out of order that comment was. We are meant to be standing together on this problem, and that attitude does not help it just enables the muslims, they rely on that attitude! Infuriate me.
Yes we have a problem with muslim grooming gangs but DO NOT think you have not. Islamville in South Carolina is an all muslim town we have not got any of those and there is also one in the state of N.Y. And Dearborne how about there? not very friendly toward non muslims. If you have a muslims living in a area with non muslims you WILL have child-grooming its called RAPE JIHAD, and by denying you have a problem is just enabling them. Its taken us years to get on top of this problem as the police and services covered it up for so long. I do NOT like the fact you say send him to us as a lot of girls/women have had their lifes ruined by these mutants so NO we do not welcome them quite the opposite. I suggest you get your own house in order as believe me you HAVE a problem, bigger than ours as you have more of them and your allowing them to gather in tribes.
As a retired teacher/coach, this raghead jackwad is in deep trouble. Facing charges for transmission of pornography to a minor and incitement to violence? It will be a good while before he breathes free air again.
As for that crack about firearm proficiency possibly being useful in the future, he forgot to mention the Second Amendment is a two-sided proposition since innocent victims tend to return fire.
Humongous and a ‘bad choice’ but not if it worked out for him, then it would have been another young woman marred for life. What kind of married man sends porn to a 15 year old?
Why do so many of these Muslims, both men and women, that end up in the news over some crime, seem to be or were working at an American University? And most also seem to be teaching Muslim Studies in an American University. This guy above, was teaching at some Muslim Foundation operating in D.C. under the noses of government and law headquarters like the FBI. Teaching Muslim Studies always seems to come with the threat of also teaching Jihad Studies and/or some Sexual wrong doing. These people that follow Islam are not like the common, out of control criminal that is a very small percentage of the law abiding population. Islam is an entire Organization, Culture and Ideology that promotes, participates and rewards criminal, immoral and depraved behavior. It needs to be stamped out like a small piece of paper on fire before it grows and burns the nation down.
Its called infiltrating. Supported by the Left while they recruit. SICK!
Well written and I agree with you 100%! Islam is not now and never has been a religion. It is a cult that imposes a political and social strait jacket on those who are its victims. It must be eradicated.
Anyone catch the name “First Hijrah Foundation.” I believe hijrah is one of the Islamic pillars and means domination through immigration. I believe the Islamic religion is a satanic cult with the sole intent of destroying Christianity and Judaism.
Well done that lady judge. You can bet she will come up against a lot of crap. Over in the UK we have found it is more the women who are prepared to make waves and go on record doing so. This judge needs to be praised.
they are in our schools their hate filled mosques are in our communities in our textbooks in our fashion magazines in our newsfeeds daily in our prisons inciting murderous criminals to join them lately in our miitary in our police force and now in our Congress. our very own suicide in the making.
It is about time that Parents should be charged with child abuse and child neglect if they knowingly and willingly let their children associate with any kind of Muslim no matter how nice they may pretend to be. They have to realize that their children will be in great danger of being ruined for life.
muslim…says it all!!!!!