“Make ready for them all that you can of force and of warhorses, so that by them you may strike terror in the enemy of Allah and your enemy…” — Qur’an 8:60
“Chicago man convicted of using social media to recruit for ISIS, and try to spread violent jihad,” CBS Chicago, June 27, 2025:
A Chicago man has been convicted of using social media to recruit ISIS operatives and try to spread violent jihad, and encourage people to carry out attacks on behalf of the terrorist group.
Following a bench trial in federal court in Chicago, Ashraf Al Safoo, 41, was convicted of one count of conspiracy to transmit threats in interstate commerce, one count of conspiracy to intentionally access a protected computer without authorization, four counts of intentionally accessing a protected computer without authorization, and four counts of providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization….
Federal prosecutors said he is a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Iraq, and moved to the U.S. in 2008.
He was accused of working with ISIS to various social media accounts to spread propaganda supporting violent jihad and recruit operatives to carry out terrorist attacks for the Islamic State.
Prosecutors said he is a member of Khattab Media Foundation, an internet group that has sworn allegiance to ISIS, and spread propaganda online promoting violent jihad. Images and videos he created in coordination with ISIS allegedly included include images of violence during Christmas, celebrations of terrorist attacks, and mass shootings in the U.S.
In one social media post, Al Safoo allegedly encouraged Khattab members to post pro-ISIS information “to cause confusion and spread terror within the hearts of those who disbelieved.”
“Work hard, brothers, edit the issue into short clips, take the pictures out of it and publish the efforts of your brothers in the pages of the apostates. Participate in the war, and spread terror, the [Islamic] State does not want you to watch it only, rather, it incites you, and if you are unable to, use it to incite others,” Al Safoo allegedly wrote in another post.
According to the charges, one video created by Khattab featured a computer-generated image of a family standing around a Christmas tree, with a castle in the background, before cutting to images of explosions, featuring images of dead and injured children.
The video then cuts to the words “Now listen you dogs of hell. This is a message and more are going to follow. This is just the beginning. Our gifts are now ready,” before showing a Christmas present containing a ticking bomb. The video then cuts to a news clip of a mass shooting; an image of a soldier dressed in black, holding a detonator; then landmarks from various world landmarks; and the soldier detonating a bomb.
In November 2017, Al Safoo allegedly used a social media app to encourage people to help ISIS in any way possible….
mike says
just like Islam rule thru fear
Wellington says
And just like Islam to parasitically use freedom in those nations that have it with the ultimate design of destroying that freedom.
No greater parasite in human history has existed than Islam. Bar none. And NYC is on the point of demonstrating this just a generation after 9/11.
Usually, not always but usually, man is an idiot. What is going on in the West presently, the very civilization that explored parameters of liberty like no other civilization in history ever has, is clearly demonstrating this sad reality.
How pathetic. How stupid. How wrong.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Countries that have freedom encoded into their constitutions & civic senses should allow for a Karl Popper exception – “a society that tolerates all ideas, including intolerant ones, risks being undermined and ultimately destroyed by the intolerant. While tolerance is a virtue, the paradox suggests that unlimited tolerance of intolerance can lead to the end of tolerance itself”. Those freedoms should not apply to people who are intolerant and have an agenda to destroy those freedoms
Under that rule, practice or promotion of islam, communism & nazism should all be proscribed
Tim gallagher says
That’s what I would like to see happen, infidel. I am with that wise man, Karl popper. I would love to see Islam, Nazism and communism banned. With Islam, the problem in our western societies is that too many people seem to want to be just too wonderfully nice and endlessly tolerant. Stupid suicidal virtue signalling. Also a lot of people are just lazy and so remain totally ignorant of Islam’s evil nature. Disaster is up ahead for many societies.
Jusfein says
Non solo vietate,
dovrebbero essere perseguite con le stesse punizioni tipiche della sharia e dell’Islam e senza processo
Occhio per occhio, dente per dente nel modo più feroce possibile, senza pietà.
Greg says
I thought Trump said that his administration quickly got rid of ISIS in Syria and Iraq during the first term. I am confused now.
WPM says
Your confused because this man is in Chicago not Syria ISIS just migrated to the western world France Germany England , ,North America .The progresses running those countries invited them in because everyone outside of the west is a refugee.. No vetting ,open borders ,free stuff ,your hearing date is 4 years after you cross the border under Biden.12 million unvetted people entered America, I do not have the head count for Canada ,or western Europe but it must be high .Contracture to your confusion Trump was not the president between 2020-2024 when we let everyone enter our country if they a a warm body with a sob story ,and Trump does not run Europe or the Middle east with all there problems with terror and open borders.
WPM says
Yes this man enter the United States like many Islamic Jihadist under Obama in 2008 8 years before Trump enter the Whitehouse. Obama love Islamic Jihadist he infested much of Americas Midwest with them entering the country between 2008-2016.
Billy says
This is the true nature of Islam. Allah’s hateful Islam, a Terrorist-Criminal Enterprise and a Murderous Cult with its Believers, Terrorists for Allah continually fund, promote, and practice ideological subversion, propaganda, bigotry, discrimination, deceit, mass murder, supremacy, segregation, hatred, incitement to violence, genocide, and terrorism as taught in Islamic Law, Sharia, and in Islam’s Quran(Quran 9:41, 88; 5:35, etc.). Hence, Muslim actions should be legally challenged with a multi-faceted force of Western Laws like Muslims wield against Americans and Westerners via Tax Exempt Organizations, the Media and Hollywood, Foreign Funding, etc. because Islam violates and is incompatible with Western Laws(Quran 9:5,29, 111; 49:15; 60:4 etc.).
Like a Foreign Terrorist Organization(FTO) designated by the USA Secretary of State, Islam functions as a MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATION(MTO) fighting against Non-Muslims and NOT A PEACEFUL religion under Western Law because Islam funds, teaches, and promotes Terrorist Criminal Organizations with Muslims as Terrorists for Allah(Quran 9:5,29, 111; 49:15 etc.).
Allah’s demoniacal Islam, a hateful Antichrist Ideology, is using Western Freedoms and Laws against Non-Muslims to conquer Non-Muslims under Islamic Rule. Non-Muslims should legally designate Islam as a Muslim Terrorist Organization(MTO) where Mosques, Muslim Schools, Islamic Centers, Sharia Courts, and Muslim Organizations are banned because of their incitement of segregation and discrimination to fight back against ISLAMIZATION, Muslim subjugation, and tyrannical violence(Quran 4:65; 9:5,29,111; 60:4; 98:6-7 and more).
Sahih Bukhari 3126 says, “… the Prophet said, He who fights so that Allah’s Word(ie. Islam) should be superior, fights for Allah’s Cause.” Allah in Quran 9:111 says, “Surely Allah has purchased from the believers[Muslims] their souls and their money so that they may have the garden[Heavenly Paradise]. They engage in war for the sake of Allah[ie. Allah’s Cause), so they kill and are killed…”.
Under Islam and Islamic Law, Muslims have the Legal Right and the Quranic Duty to terrorize Non-Muslims because neglecting this QURANIC DUTY is a Crime against tyrannical Allah. Jihad means warfare against Non-Muslims to ESTABLISH ISLAM’S RELIGION AS SUPREME(Quran 3:115, 151; 9:5, 29, 111; Muslim Law Manual: “Reliance of the Traveller”, o9.0 and more).
More specifically, Islam, a terroristic-totalitarian way of life, is a Muslim Terrorist Ideology and Murderous, Criminal Enterprise of: incitement, intolerance, continuous war, discrimination, segregation, supremacy, genocide, polygamy, propaganda, deceit, hatred, sedition, rape, terrorism, and violence against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran(Quran 2:208,216; 4:65, 89,95, 115; 5:14,64; 8:12,39,60, 74; 9:5,21,29,36, 41,49, 73,88, 111,123; 21:92; 49:15; 60:4; 61:9-11; 62:6; 89:14; etc.).
Tony says
Allah is merciful to those Muslims and their Muslim helpers who emigrate and perform jihad against Non-Muslims. Qur’an 8:74 says, “And those who believed and emigrated and performed jihad for the sake of Allah, and those who gave asylum and helped, those are the true believers; they will receive forgiveness and generous provisions.” See also Qur’an 2:218; 4:100; 3:151,195; 8:12,60,72-75; 9:20-22; 29:69; 33:26-27; 47:4-6; 59:2,13.
BTeboe says
Time for denaturalization and deportation after a lengthy prison sentence, preferably at Alligator Alcatraz. You don’t get to come here, lie and pretend to be a US citizens while recruiting others to kill us.
OLD GUY says
“You don’t get to come here, lie and pretend to be a US citizens while recruiting to KILL us.”
That says it all for immigration into any country and should be the first reason to deny entry or deport those that do wish to harm American citizens.
abu taleb says
That is synonim to urging muslims to be terrorists, but it is Islamophobia to say that. So, let us just say that he is urging muslims to ‘spread terror within the hearts of those who disbelieved’,
Afterall, Islam is a religion of peace that allows marrying underage girls, killing for the right reason, having sex with halal females (children included) by force, robbing people fr the glory of Islam, etc. (I won’t be called Islamophobia because I praise Islam, will I?)