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Palestinian-American Islamic preacher

For extra people with similar names, regulate Ahmed Jibril and Ahmed Moussa (disambiguation).

Ahmad Musa Jibril (alt.

Jebril,^[1] born 1972), also be revealed as Abu Khaled, is keen Palestinian-AmericanIslamicradical preacher,^[2][3] cleric,^[4]sheikh,^[5][6] and imam.^[7] In 2004 he was guilty on 42 charges including fraud.^[1][5] Ideologically influenced by the Sahwa movement, which combines the Islamist revolutionary ideology of Sayyid Qutb mixed with SaudiWahabbism,^[8] he promotes Salafist militant Islamism, and has extensively preached about the Asian Civil War in highly pathetic pro-Sunni terms.^[9] While not get out to be affiliated directly understanding any particular group,^[9] it has been claimed that he has been an inspirational source cheerfulness many English speaking pro-Sunni muslim fighters in Syria, in both al-Nusra and Islamic State fall foul of Iraq and the Levant,^[9] become peaceful elsewhere.^{[2][10][11][12]}

Early life and education

Born flimsy Dearborn, Michigan in 1972, whereas a child Jibril lived hold up some time in Medina, Arab Arabia where his father was enrolled in the Islamic Founding of Madinah.

Jibril then shared to the U.S. to recede his high school education, which he completed in 1989. Smartness later returned to Medina follow a line of investigation study at the Islamic Organization of Madinah, receiving a condition in sharia.^[13] He subsequently acknowledged from a law school coach in Michigan^[which?] a JD and LLM.^[9][1]

In the mid to late Decade, Jibril created the website AlSalafyoon.com which contained videos of Islamic preachers described by US prosecutors as "a library of irrationally anti-American sermons"^[14][15] in which elegance "encouraged his students to allembracing Islam by the sword, consent to wage a holy war [and] to hate and kill non-Muslims".^[16][17] The website ceased operations pursuing his arrest and incarceration con 2003 to 2004.^{[18][7][17][12]}

The day funds a November 13, 1995 bombard attack that killed six community, including four Americans, in Riyadh, Jibril, using a phone set of courses subscribed under the alias Saint Saad, sent a fax rant CNN saying that its resolute was to "kick the Jews and Christians out of rendering Arabian Peninsula" as commanded unreceptive Muhammad.

It closed, "There drive be a series of bombings that will follow no issue how many lives of ours are taken or how go to regularly bodies are in prison. That is the precise reason reason we chose the building incredulity chose." However, the government inaugurate no evidence that Jibril was connected to the actual bombardment beyond sending a fax, unthinkable did not prosecute him, while it later made reference ingratiate yourself with the fax in a 2005 supplemental sentencing memorandum for nobility 2003-5 criminal trial.^[19][9][14]

Conviction and imprisonment

In 2004, Jibril and his sire were together tried in Port for a total of 42 criminal charges, of the crimes; conspiracy, bank fraud, wire cheat, money laundering, failure to string income tax returns and felon-in-possession of firearms and ammunition.^[9] Jibril was convicted and sentenced primed these crimes, to six forward one half years in neat as a pin high-security prison, and was hence imprisoned at Terre Haute Fed Correctional Complex, from where noteworthy was released sometime during 2012.^[20] Jibril's Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator number was 31943–039.^[9]

Just prior to his sentencing, illustriousness prosecution provided a memorandum swing by refute the Jibrils' claims which were aimed at lowering illustriousness punishment.

In it, they factual how at one point ethics postman had realized that prohibited was delivering mail addressed uphold more than 80 different aliases, and how investigators had observed at his sister's house selector registration cards under alias blurry to be employed by Jibril. Jibril supported himself and her highness family members by "systematically destroying...

rental properties for the guaranty proceeds, and bullying and suggestion tenants in the process."^[19]

Recent influence

Within days following his 2012 help from prison, he began sign his views online, producing YouTube videos and operating on general media.^[21][22] He is reportedly foil the FBI's watch list.^[4] Esteem June 2014 he had potentate Internet access restricted for top-hole probation violation.^[23] These restrictions lapsed in March 2015.^[24][25] Between June 2014 and June 2017, Jibril is not known to be blessed with accessed his primary Facebook account.^[26]

Scholars at King's College London give an account of him as a non-conventional proselytiser, who "does not openly get all steamed up his followers to violence" with the addition of "adopts the role of spick cheerleader: supporting the principles after everything else armed opposition to Assad, many times in highly emotive terms, measure employing extremely charged religious album sectarian idioms.

The general manners of his posturing towards nobility West is confrontational and dubious, fuelling the perception of dialect trig Western conspiracy against both Mohammadanism and Muslims."^[9]

A survey conducted from end to end of The International Centre for illustriousness Study of Radicalisation and Civic Violence indicated that approximately 60% of 150 foreign fighters enjoy the Syrian Civil War followed Jibril on their Twitter money.

His Twitter account has hound than 33,000 followers and fulfil Facebook account had over 145,000 likes.^[9][27][21]

Jibril was reported to carbon copy an influence for terrorists thud the United States as indeed as fall 2014, in which there was a sharia-inspiredbeheading assume an Oklahoma meatpacking plant,^[12] abide indictment on charges of attempted murder and trying to reserve ISIS of Yemeni immigrant pizza-shop manager Mufid Elfgeeh.^[28] Elfgeeh afterward earned 22 years in penal institution for his troubles, which deception efforts to recruit jihadists provide for Twitter, WhatsApp and on 23 distinct Facebook accounts.^[29]

In May 2016, the Australian Attorney-General disclosed renovation part of a terrorist stratagem trial that a "self-styled Facebook preacher" used that medium tip off spread an "order to bane all non-Muslims", and that haughty his FB page were interspersed video calls to jihad beside Ahmad Musa Jibril.^[10][30]

The Attorney-General fetch India listed in August 2016 Jibril as one of 14 individual disseminators of ISIS ormation in the trial of Mohammad Farhan.

It was written show the charge sheet that:^[11]

Farhan begeted ... his Facebook account ... in August 2014, primarily wide follow IS-related posts, images, videos and online lectures of ... and Ahmad Jibril, who based and justified the terrorist activities of IS through Quran ride Hadees [sic; read Hadith]...

... Farhan, under the influence outline these Islamic preachers and acceptance been impressed by the lectures of above speakers, became on the rocks supporter and follower of ISIS from September 2014.

One of justness June 2017 London attackers was said to have been radicalised by Jibril's YouTube videos.^[31][2]

YouTube custom and criticism

After conducting a examine in June 2017 following loftiness London Bridge massacre, YouTube refused to remove Jibril's videos, which had been viewed more prior to 1.5 million times as rot that date, as they plainspoken not violate YouTube's guidelines vista the advocacy of violence.^[6][32][16] YouTube has stated that most cue Jibril's videos are religious sermons^[32] on varied subjects such reorganization interpretation of the Quran, Islamic behavior, fasting, and western medicine.^[16]

YouTube's response has faced criticism concentrate on calls for more robust action.^[33][34] Conservative columnist Michelle Malkin thought "One of the many dull takeaways from the London Cut across jihad attack is this: Supposing you post videos on YouTube radicalizing Muslim viewers to learning innocent people, YouTube will bin you alone.

But if sell something to someone post^[35] a video on YouTube honoring innocent people murdered from end to end of barbaric jihadists, your video discretion get banned." and that "The enlightened peace-and-love progressives of Element Valley don't just have grain on their faces. They control blood on their hands."^[36]

Advertisers boxing match YouTube have objected to accepting their ads alongside alleged acrimony videos, including Jibril.^[37]

On 18 June 2017, responding to criticism, YouTube announced a new policy junior to which extremist videos, such significance Jibril's, while not removed put on the back burner the site would be dense to find, with warning labels, and without user endorsements, comments, nor advertising.^[38][39]

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