And where, as he grew up in Minnesota, did he get that idea? Does anyone know? Does anyone care? Or is everyone content to let it happen again, for fear of appearing “Islamophobic”?
“Minnesota man who fought for Islamic State group is sentenced to 10 years in prison,” Associated Press, June 13, 2024:
MINNEAPOLIS — A Minnesota man who once fought for the Islamic State group in Syria after becoming radicalized expressed remorse and wept in open court Thursday as he was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.
Abelhamid Al-Madioum, 27, cooperated with federal authorities ahead of Thursday’s hearing, which prosecutors factored into their recommendation for a lower sentence than the statutory maximum of 20 years.
U.S. District Judge Ann Montgomery said among the cases she has presided over in her 40 years on the bench, Al-Madioum’s was “extraordinary.” She cited his confounding path from a loving Minnesota home to one of the world’s most notorious terror organizations and his subsequent collaboration with the government he betrayed.
When Al-Madioum rose to speak before being sentenced, he thanked the U.S. government for giving him another chance. He then turned to address his parents and two young sons, who were rescued from a Syrian orphanage and brought to America with the help of federal authorities.
“I know I put you through so much, and I did with the belief that it was my religious duty,” Al-Madioum said while fighting back tears. “That’s no excuse. My first duty should have been to you.”
Al-Madioum, a naturalized U.S. citizen, was among several Minnesotans suspected of leaving the U.S. to join the Islamic State group, along with thousands of fighters from other countries worldwide. Roughly three dozen people are known to have left Minnesota to join militant groups in Somalia or Syria. In 2016, nine Minnesota men were sentenced on federal charges of conspiring to join IS….
Al-Madioum grew up in the Minneapolis suburb of St. Louis Park in a loving and nonreligious family, the defense memo said. He joined IS because he wanted to help Muslims he believed were being slaughtered by Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime in that country’s civil war. IS recruiters persuaded him “to test his faith and become a real Muslim.”
Al-Madioum was 18 in 2014 when IS recruited him. The college student slipped away from his family on a visit to their native Morocco in 2015. Making his way to Syria, he became a soldier for IS until he was maimed in an explosion in Iraq. His leg was shattered and his arm had to be amputated. Unable to fight, he used his computer skills to serve the group….
GianCarlo MATTA says
an other poor little bastard who misunderstood the quran …
maria says
maybe he is a liar and uses takiyya o be able to continue his jihad.
bagsgroove says
Too bad it wasn’t his time.
tim gallagher says
So you join a religion which tells you to go off and join a bunch of murdering scum of the earth. I think that any decent human being would know that it is an evil, barbaric religion, which is exactly what islam is, and would run away from being part of that religion as fast as possible. Other religions will tell you to be loving and peaceful and strive to reach high ideals .This evil shithead deserves what he gets.
Robert hoyle md says
People are very susceptible to these religious cults (and all.religions are cults). Hell the christians did the same thing for over 1500 years. The inquisition etc. The west has got to wake up.to.thos very dangerous religion. Too many in it are not peaceful at all. That’s how we get Dearborn Michigan and Omar as a congresswoman! Wake up. Take no more Muslims as immigrants and police these radical mosques. Europe is starting to wake up.to the Muslim threat.
tim gallagher says
I agree with you, Robert, about this hate-filled, rotten to the core religious ideology, islam, which has caused so much murderous violence and barbarity for so long now. I am certainly for slamming the door on Muslims as migrants to all our non-Muslim countries. Unfortunately, far too many people have not yet woken up to the evil ideology that islam is, certainly out here in Australia nowhere near enough of the population have woken up to islam’s nature yet.There are so many slow learners around. Yes, as you say, Europe does seem to be waking up to islam’s nature. Of course, the Hungarians, the Poles and a few others have been awake for some time now and won’t take in any Muslims.
maria says
yes he is evil and should be court martialled
ssoldies says
I agree with you totally evil is as evil does.
Burnaby Lad says
no shit sunshine
jerry glenn says
Typical of the Islamic Republic of Minnesota.
simba says
“My first duty should have been to you.” he should publicly denounce muhumad and islam asa , satanic son and doctrine, respectively
OLD GUY says
I’am sure he will convert other prisoners from Islam. Sure he will , he will most likely recruit others to islam while in prison. Our prison system have become too open and casual. They need to be stern and punishment not social gyms.
FYI says
our first duty as infidels is …to ridicule islam
allah:a god that suffers from a lack of omniscience,has one foot and two right hands
has no idea about Science or the religious beliefs of others and thinks he will rule the world
muhammed:the most obvious false prophet in history{even by his own admission}and used to fly around up in the clouds on a female centaur
he is also descibed as being a fat cross dressing midget but that’;’s not important right now
the koran: a plagiarized fraud if there ever was:scientifically,theologically ,historically and logically wrong
Bring on the cartoons..the ridicule
The infidel Empire strikes back
allahuakabacka doodle bug