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发帖数: 29846 | 1 America’s First Jihad “Deradicalization” Program Fails, Judge Sends ISIS
Recruit From Minneapolis Back To Jail…
Put on your shocked faces.
Via PJM, Patrick Poole:
A terror deradicalization program — established in the “Ground Zero”
of terror recruitment, Minnesota’s Twin Cities — has already failed after
just a few months.
The program was established after a federal court released 19-year-old
terror suspect Abdullahi Yusuf to a halfway house earlier this year. Today,
Yusuf again sits in jail, having violated the terms of his release. […]
Just last week, the Wall Street Journal reported on the program with an
article titled “A Test Case for ‘Deradicalization”
“The path of reform for Abdullahi Yusuf, a U.S. teenager who tried to
become a radical Islamic soldier, passes through writings of Martin Luther
King Jr., readings of the U.S. Constitution and discussions about life and
literature with a fellow Somali-American named Ahmed Amin.
Mr. Yusuf’s attempt to travel to the Middle East last year helped lead
authorities to six Minnesota men who were charged last month in connection
with a plan to join Islamic State abroad. The 19-year-old has become a test
case for whether Americans lured by Islamic extremism can be deradicalized.
A Minnesota judge earlier this year sent Mr. Yusuf to a halfway house,
where he adheres to a tailor-made curriculum aimed at reintegrating him into
American society and his immigrant community here. If the program succeeds,
Mr. Yusuf’s sentence could be reduced — and the approach to his
deradicalization replicated, experts say.
Counterterrorism experts believe it is the first such effort in the U.S.
to try to turn a young person connected to a terror prosecution away from
an extremist Islamist ideology since the advent of groups like al-Shabaab
and Islamic State, or ISIS.”
Apparently, reading Martin Luther King Jr., Richard Wright’s Native Son
, and articles about the experience of Native Americans didn’t sway Yusuf
to keep compliant with the program. The Star-Tribune reports today:
“Abdullahi Yusuf, a Somali-American who pleaded guilty to conspiring to
support terrorists in the Middle East, has been taken into custody for
allegedly violating conditions while living in a St. Paul halfway house,
according to court documents filed Monday.
Yusef, a student at Inver Grove Community College, drew national
attention after a federal judge decided to place him in a halfway house and
provide counseling for him rather than hold him in custody while awaiting
sentencing.” |
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