Two Muslim immigrants who lived in Maine were killed fighting for ISIS, and each left a wife and children here on welfare. The second, Adnan Fazeli, was revealed last week by the Portland Press Herald, but how many people realize there was at least one other?
And, are there any more? If so, that information would be kept under wraps as long as possible.
The first was Abdirahmaan Muhumed, aka Abdifatah Ahmed, about whom I wrote in January 2015.
He was born in Somalia, raised in Minnesota, lived in Lewiston, and became a United States citizen in South Portland, Maine.
His Maine wife divorced him because he wanted multiple wives. He was killed in Syria in 2014, and it's worth mentioning that he also worked at the Minneapolis/St. Paul airport. Think about that next time you board a plane.
Last week's Press Herald headline on Fazeli read: "Documents: Freeport man died fighting for Islamic State in Lebanon." Was he a "Freeport man"? By whose definition?
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Two Muslim immigrants who lived in Maine were killed fighting for ISIS, and each left a wife and children here on welfare. The second, Adnan Fazeli, was revealed last week by the Portland Press Herald, but how many people realize there was at least one other?
And, are there any more? If so, that information would be kept under wraps as long as possible.
The first was Abdirahmaan Muhumed, aka Abdifatah Ahmed, about whom I wrote in January 2015.
He was born in Somalia, raised in Minnesota, lived in Lewiston, and became a United States citizen in South Portland, Maine.
His Maine wife divorced him because he wanted multiple wives. He was killed in Syria in 2014, and it's worth mentioning that he also worked at the Minneapolis/St. Paul airport. Think about that next time you board a plane.
Last week's Press Herald headline on Fazeli read: "Documents: Freeport man died fighting for Islamic State in Lebanon." Was he a "Freeport man"? By whose definition?
He was an Iranian who professed, at one time at least, a desire to become American. To be a "Freeport man," one must be an American. Nowhere in the article does it say Fazeli was a citizen. It said he became radicalized in Maine by watching ISIS videos and converting to Wahhabism, which the PPH called an "austere" version of Islam. That's like calling the group an austere version of Christianity.
Wahhabism is radical Islam. It's jihadism calling for the destruction of the west. Maine State Police Detective George Loder said: "Fazeli's change in behavior alienated him from many of his Shia and moderate Sunni friends in the area. However, there were a few local Sunnis who supported his (radical) fervor and treated him with a great deal of respect."
The article said Fazeli was a "refugee" brought to Portland by Catholic Charities in 2009. He was born in Iran and raised a Shia Muslim but "self-identified" as Arab and not "Iranian."
What a suspicious phrase that is.
Was he born Persian, which is a different, majority-ethnic group in Iran? Fazeli also identified as a Sunni Muslim, a branch of Islam which comprises about 9 percent of Iran's population, but he was afraid of being arrested so he "fled" to Syria, a puppet state of Iran where a civil war was raging between Sunnis and Shiites.
How does that make sense? Syria would be the last place to go for "refuge." Was he perhaps interested in joining Sunni terrorists like ISIS and al-Qaeda, which were fighting the Shia in Syria?
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He was an Iranian who professed, at one time at least, a desire to become American. To be a "Freeport man," one must be an American. Nowhere in the article does it say Fazeli was a citizen. It said he became radicalized in Maine by watching ISIS videos and converting to Wahhabism, which the PPH called an "austere" version of Islam. That's like calling the group an austere version of Christianity.
Wahhabism is radical Islam. It's jihadism calling for the destruction of the west. Maine State Police Detective George Loder said: "Fazeli's change in behavior alienated him from many of his Shia and moderate Sunni friends in the area. However, there were a few local Sunnis who supported his (radical) fervor and treated him with a great deal of respect."
The article said Fazeli was a "refugee" brought to Portland by Catholic Charities in 2009. He was born in Iran and raised a Shia Muslim but "self-identified" as Arab and not "Iranian."
What a suspicious phrase that is.
Was he born Persian, which is a different, majority-ethnic group in Iran? Fazeli also identified as a Sunni Muslim, a branch of Islam which comprises about 9 percent of Iran's population, but he was afraid of being arrested so he "fled" to Syria, a puppet state of Iran where a civil war was raging between Sunnis and Shiites.
How does that make sense? Syria would be the last place to go for "refuge." Was he perhaps interested in joining Sunni terrorists like ISIS and al-Qaeda, which were fighting the Shia in Syria?
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